Today in Twitter 2008-05-15

Category: Ephemera| May 15th, 2008
  • I find it particularly charming that the reference shot from Arrington’s interview of Sarah Lacy is her behind: http://is.gd/gUX #

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Not FORTRAN. Not RATFOR. Not, even, assembly language.

Category: Funny| May 15th, 2008

I feel duty-bound to describe,
as best I can through the generation gap,
how a Real Programmer wrote code.
I’ll call him Mel..

Ed Nather, The Story of Mel

Made better if you imagine it being told by Sam Shepard as the cowboy narrator in “The Big Lebowski.”

Today in Twitter 2008-05-14

Category: Ephemera| May 14th, 2008

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Today in Twitter 2008-05-13

Category: Ephemera| May 13th, 2008
  • What got me to break Twitter silence? Return of Taco Bell to downtown. http://icanhaz.com/tbell …but Del Taco would’ve been better. #

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When Buster met the Sox

Category: Funny, TV| May 13th, 2008


The kids’ TV series “Arthur” is produced in Boston, so could you blame them for having a little team pride following the breaking of the curse?

“Ministry begins its long goodbye”

Category: Music| May 12th, 2008

the melancholia of this night with Ministry came from the fact that the 49-year-old Jourgensen, the only constant through the band’s nearly three-decade history, did not use his advertised farewell jaunt to take stock of his many accomplishments and musical evolutions.

- Jim DeRogatis in the Sun-Times on Thursday.  Al apparently did not lean on the classics much last weekend.

The Margarita King Approves

Category: Ephemera, Funny| May 9th, 2008


Thumbs up, soldier.  [P.S. Check out that watch!]

Electro Selectro

Category: Ephemera| May 5th, 2008

One stop for all your late-70s-early-80s technology magazine ad needs. I remember seeing a lot of these ads when they were originally printed and dreaming of the days when I might have, for example, The World’s First Pocket TV. Did any of us dare to dream of the iPod Touch back then? Portable radios were as big as the Lasonic boomboxes are now, but not in the ironic Lasonic bigger-is-better way — they had to be that big to contain all the transistors. Amirite?

Today in Twitter 2008-05-04

Category: Ephemera| May 4th, 2008
  • Great Lakes Myth gig much more attended than face book event would have you believe. #
  • I think I just saw the (ECW) Sandman by the bar. Boy is he in for a surprise, they only serve beer in glasses here. #
  • Half the people around us sang along with Toto’s "Africa." I hope he has "Sailing" in his crate, he might just tear the roof off this su … #
  • The band played it on. The band got down like a magic kiss. The crowd roared like a lion. Rock over A2, rock on Chicago. #
  • @zaren About a day for me *vaccinated*. #

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Today in Twitter 2008-04-30

Category: Ephemera| April 30th, 2008
  • @ninavizz stop following me home #

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