Plannin’ On It

FormSpring Question

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:26:40 -0600

If you were a goat, what kind of goat would you be?

I don’t understand the question. Clearly I am a goat. Have you not been paying attention? Honestly, is anybody screening these submissions?

Ok, ok. I’ve always been particularly fond of the goats that climb trees. It’s not a particular breed of goat, I don’t think. It’s just that, in the absence of mountains, goats will climb anything that will hold their weight. There’s a life lesson there, I think, but since few things can hold my weight, I’m not sure what it is.

Thank you, anonymous person, for the question. Anybody else?

Who, me?

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:35:22 -0600

hurtling:

Excerpts from an otherwise glowing performance evaluation:

“… I’d like to see Rommie take a more positive attitude.”

“As a newsroom leader, Rommie needs to stay upbeat and find ways to make positive change happen.”

“Everybody likes and respects Rommie … but he is perceived by many to be extremely negative, and it’s bad for the morale of the team.”

Seriously, I try really hard to be positive and constructive at work, but I guess I’ve just always been a glass-is-half-run-by-incompetent-idiots kind of guy.

Anyone in the news industry with a positive attitude should be fired immediately for knowing nothing about the news industry.

We all have 18 million ways to contact each other

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:29:43 -0600

So of course we need FormSpring forms now. Of course.

Fine, here’s mine. Hit me.

ronbailey: everythinginthesky: What Earth would look like,...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:15:30 -0600

ronbailey:

everythinginthesky:

What Earth would look like, and what we’d see in the sky, if it had rings like Saturn.

I think the sociological and historical issues would be even more interesting to theorise: how would we have changed our thinking on the sky? How much more quickly would our navigational abilities evolved? Would we have ‘landed’ on the rings first? Would I still want to ‘go large’ with my Happy Meal? Science can only speculate.

I just realized that I use the word “awesome” far too easily.

Dammit, now I can’t think about anything except how much I wish we had rings.

Stupid not-ring-having planet.

My Tumblr App Challenge

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:46:11 -0600

wordishness:

I will pay the princely sum of $10 to a developer who comes up with a Tumblr app that does not suck.

Anybody else want to throw in?

Features must include reading, liking, and reblogging posts; ability to post new content, including scheduling posts; and not sucking.

Let’s get something better than this POS “official” app that Tumblr should be embarrassed by.

I’d write a Tumblr app and let you keep your ten bucks if Tumblr had a Dashboard API. As it stands now, the only option is the iPhone Dashboard, which in my opinion sucks. It limits you to a web view of the Dashboard — you can’t write an iPhone native UI for it. That’s the reason reblogging is so bad.

Tumblr Gear gets around this by scraping the dashboard for the data. I assume they’ve got a proxy server that handles the actual parsing, otherwise they’d have to release a new version every time Tumblr’s HTML code changed. Regardless, it’s a hack.

I complain about this whenever the Tumblr app is mentioned because it’s so frustrating. I believe you would see a surge in decent Tumblr apps on the App Store if there were a Dashboard API. I know I’d try my hand at writing one.

Apparently I’ve finally told enough Arrington jokes to...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:01:22 -0600

Apparently I’ve finally told enough Arrington jokes to unlock the Calacanis level up.

Yay?

What are your favorite recipes?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:24:40 -0600

funsizebytes:

So I’d like to hear you favorite recipe(s). They don’t have to be super fancy, anything above “This is how you make PB&J” is welcome :-)

Angela and I love to cook, and we’ve tried just about everything from fancy French dishes to ramen stir-fry. Here’s a couple of our favorites:

Smoky Shrimp Jambalaya
Blackened Chicken — This is the dish I made for her when I proposed, and it’s the reason she married me.¹

Both of those recipes are on our semi-private recipe blog. Feel free to poke around to see if there’s anything else you like.

¹ There may have been other reasons, but I’m giving all the credit to the chicken.

redcloud: portorock: Israel Kamakawiwo’Ole - Somewhere Over...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:02:44 -0600

redcloud:

portorock:

Israel Kamakawiwo’Ole - Somewhere Over The Rainbow

I love this song, and it always makes me happy when I play it. Have a beautiful day, guys.

Israel Kamakawiwo’Ole, the Eric Prydz of Hawai’i.

This is one of the three songs I want played at my funeral.

And yes, it’s because they played it on ER when Dr. Green died.

Am I wrong?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:04:30 -0600

Am I wrong?

Thanks to Alina I finally got the business cards I’ve...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:28:00 -0600

Thanks to Alina I finally got the business cards I’ve always wanted.

It’s my own personal rebellion against a networking tool (heh) that I dislike. Seriously, trading contact information on paper? What are we, Neanderthals?

Update — Tumblr seems to have made a crappy photo crappier. In case you can’t make it out, here’s what it says:

smartgoat
Just Google it.

mayjah: dalasverdugo: My tumblarity peaked around 700 and now...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:44:39 -0600

mayjah:

dalasverdugo:

My tumblarity peaked around 700 and now seems to be receding. I’m pretty sure it was this old post of mine that suddenly started getting reblogged that caused it.

Know why? You had your Lucky umbrella set to GOAT STUN. Just sayin …

Somebody comes at me with an umbrella I do the same thing.

mayafish: Wow, really? Thanks to twitter’s awesome new retweet...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:39:25 -0600

mayafish:

Wow, really?

Thanks to twitter’s awesome new retweet feature* I got to see this gem from some jerk I don’t follow in my timeline.

For the record, people’s jokes on twitter are often the only thing keeping me from throwing myself off a bridge. And I follow hardly anyone who uses it for business. No one does it right, and it all tends to just look like spam. Plus, if I’m not in your industry, I probably don’t care about your business tweets.

Also: HEY DOUCHEBAG. SORRY MY CAREER IS SUFFERING BECAUSE OF THIS BULLSHIT ECONOMY AND THAT I DON’T HAVE ANY “BUSINESS TWEETS” WORTH READING.

*Not really awesome.

Looks like a fictional account to me. Look at who he’s following and some of his other tweet’s.

Twitter Avatar of the Week

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:27:32 -0600

funsizebytes:

I posted on The Twitter:

I don’t understand how he can get straight “A”s in school but still doesn’t know how to blow his nose.

@minnwilbanks answered:

@tj common sense and book smarts are totally different things!! Lol not all of us can have both!

which is a very good point. However what caught my attention was her bio (You may remember that I wrote a little geeky shell script which emails me my Twitter “mentions”) and includes the person’s bio and other information.

Her bio read:

i am NOT a pornbot,that IS me in my pic, i tweet quite a lot, and i have a lil boy named Hendrix who i love to pieces!!

At which point I took a closer look at her avatar:

(If for some reason that doesn’t appear, or you’d like a full-sized version, you can find it here.)

You know, I’ve seen a lot of distinctive avatars on Twitter, but this one may be the most… memorable.

By the way, she lists her location as “NorthWest Indiana”

Paging @YHF!

Effective immediately I am starting a competition called “Twitter Avatar of the Week” which will be like Favrd/Favstar except that it will be once a week, and it will be voted on by me, and there will be only one winner, and it will be about pictures instead of words.

Other than that, it will be completely the same.

So far @minnwilbanks is winning.

Oh, I think the real winner here is lil Hendrix, don’t you?

redcloud: iainwith2is: sonicocean: BABY GOAT! I want to...

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:50:04 -0600

redcloud:

iainwith2is:

sonicocean:

BABY GOAT!

I want to take you home and have you eat all the worn out towels and socks with holes so we don’t have to make more garbage… you can also hang out in my backyard and eat the weeds.

Much cuter than a lawnmower.

I always love pictures of kids.

ladawn: caseofwhine: Every Saturday, there is a farmer’s...

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:39:28 -0600

ladawn:

caseofwhine:

Every Saturday, there is a farmer’s market held near the pier in Daytona Beach. The weather is almost always beautiful, the ocean air is like aromatherapy, the avocados are big as your head, and I can load up my car with freshest of everything without spending a fortune.

Yesterday, however, I was easily - I mean easily - suckered into a purchase by a woman selling what she called “Moroccan Oil” for your hair. Some of you may have heard of this magical potion before…I had not. All I knew was, she had about 7 feet of beautiful hair. I wanted that. I wanted to sit around with my own 7 feet of beautiful, long, silky Moroccan hair and eat head-sized avocados.

I did research this morning. As it turns out, the main ingredient of my mysterious hair elixir is “argan oil” which, according to Wikipedia, was traditionally harvested and processed from the undigested argan pits from an argan tree found in the waste of goats.

I couldn’t wait to tell you.

So, if something around here smells like goat ass, it’s probably me.

The one with the silky hair.

Reblog for TREE GOATS. My favorite animals ever.

ARB, I think you know why.

Look at this one with 3D glasses on to get a sense of what my...

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:44:57 -0600

Look at this one with 3D glasses on to get a sense of what my day’s been like.

Ok, I’m done. Back to work.

Hemi & I find your Movember Moustache laughable.

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:43:40 -0600

Hemi & I find your Movember Moustache laughable.

Kitten & I are shocked by what we see on the Internet...

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:39:01 -0600

Kitten & I are shocked by what we see on the Internet tonight.

This is the cat that crawled out of my engine about a month ago. We’re still trying to find him a home. There’s just no way we can keep him, what with the baby, two cats, and two dogs we already have. No way at all.

His name’s Hemi.

jonathaneunice: (via laurenmaynard :...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:16 -0600

jonathaneunice:

(via laurenmaynard : smashingmagazine.com)

Confession time: The way you all feel about clowns? That’s how I feel about ladybugs. I hate those damn things. One year, when I was a kid, we had an infestation of them. They were everywhere: walls, ceilings, cabinets, toys. They’d fly around your head as you walked through a room, and — I kid you not — the little buggers would bite. The only good thing about them was the satisfying thunk they made when sucked up by a vacuum cleaner.

So, yeah, I hate ladybugs.

Victim In Fatal Car Accident Tragically Not Glenn Beck Get out...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:42:43 -0600

Victim In Fatal Car Accident Tragically Not Glenn Beck

Get out of my head, The Onion.