January 2009
55 posts
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Bottom of the Lake - The Builders and the...
M Ward and Lucinda Williams are a great...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-25) →
Johnny Cash (5)
The White Stripes (4)
Tom Waits (4)
Warsaw (4)
David Bowie (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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The Eton Rifles - The Jam.
OMW to the emergency room with a severely asthmatic 4yo. Really, really not fun
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Apple Blossom - The White Stripes.
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New Day Rising - Husker Du. ’80s punk rock...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-18) →
Pavarotti / Sutherland / Horne / Wixell / Ghiaurov / Bonynge (dir.) / National Philharmonic Orchestra (62)
Wolfmother (12)
The Subways (12)
Norah Jones (11)
Narciso Yepes…
“Fox will also get back the $1.5 million it spent developing the movie, and...”
– Fox Wins Battle Over ‘Watchmen’ Adaptation - NYTimes.com
Hmm. $1.5M to “develop” the Watchmen- whatever that means- and multi-millions to litigate it. Reason #9,745 I am happy not to be a litigator.
Watchitsbedtime:
I don’t get why people think its weird that I love (cute) girls with boys haircuts.
“The question for in-house counsel: If a BlackBerry poses dangers for the...”
– Law.com - Business Law Practice Center
This reminds me of a true story about my mother’s former employer. The company tried to fire someone and hit a roadblock because there were positive reviews in the employee’s personnel file. in-house counsel thenceforth decided that no more...
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All Medicated Geniuses - Pretty Girls Make...
“The billable hour makes no sense, not even for lawyers,” Chesler wrote....”
– lawjobs.com Career Center - Has the Billable Hour Met Its Tipping Point?
Yep. This is how I feel about billable time as well. No rewards for efficiency. #twit
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I’m Coming Over - X.
“TP: My Olympic experience was interesting. It was definitely an Olympic...”
– VeloNews | On the road: a Q&A with Taylor Phinney | The Journal of Competitive Cycling.
Good man- being totally candid about his lack of focus. Make a mistake, admit it, learn from it and move on is the best way to approach things, IMO.
“As a report by Craig Moffett of Bernstein Research stated last year, “The notion...”
– The Media Equation - Will Someone Please Invent iTunes for News? - NYTimes.com
The author thinks a big-screen iPod can unlock revenue for news. Good thought. I’d kinda hate to see Apple as the gatekeeper on an iNews application, though.
"Place cookies on the phone without using the...
rafer:
my prediction for 2009 is that someone will figure out how to place cookies on the phone without using the network. ;)
Originally posted as a comment by markslater on A VC using Disqus. Rafer sez: I’m so clueless. This is brilliant and relatively achievable, if the design goal is “better than the carriers.”
—In 2009 I aspire to understand what this means. I understand cookies,...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-11) →
Air (11)
Los Super Seven (10)
Norah Jones (5)
The White Stripes (4)
Nirvana (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Leave You Behind - Sleater Kinney. I hadn’t...
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Eleanor Rigby vs. In My Head - Team 9 (The Beatles...
“Today, trying to reclaim a squatted username on Twitter is a hit-or-miss...”
– How To Twittersquat The Top 100 Brands @ErikJHeels
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Mr. Clean - The Jam. For starting 2009 with a...
Satyam Computer Services, Department of Irony
Satyam Computer Services admitted to massive accounting fraud this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/business/worldbusiness/08satyam.html?hp
I had never heard of this company before so normally I wouldn’t focus on this at all, but irony is another matter altogether. It turns out that Satyam means “truth” in Hindi (I think it’s Hindi). Good one.
#twit
Pro cycling and doping- nothing to see here
Here is a quote from Amaury Sports Organization’s guidelines to journalists on doping stories: “They must be content with the bare minimum, which is only to transmit the official announcements from the federations or anti-doping agencies without digging further.” http://boulderreport.bicycling.com/2009/01/speak-no-evil.html I’m heading off to the pharmacy now. Look for a...
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American Hearts - A.A. Bondy. Still digging...
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El Canoero - Los Super Seven.
“First: price. We work with all the major music companies, and all the...”
– Live Macworld 2009 keynote coverage - gdgt live (via fred-wilson)
Note that DRM-free means (I think) m4a format, which Tumblr doesn’t like. That’s the main reason I will stick with Amazon MP3.
“consider the strange story of Harry Markopolos. Mr. Markopolos is the former...”
– great piece in today’s NY Times from Michael Lewis and David Einhorn
Op-Ed Contributors - The End of the Financial World as We Know It - NYTimes.com
(via fred-wilson)
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“The man on the other end of the line called Rabbi Weisser “Jew boy” and told him...”
– Lessons on Love, From a Rabbi Who Knows Hate and Forgiveness - NYTimes.com
Wow. Amazing story.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-4) →
Butthole Surfers (3)
Frank Sinatra (3)
Killdozer (3)
Jello Biafra with the Melvins (3)
Sonic Youth (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Soul of a Man - Beck. I will turn 40 this year...
“However, I’ve decided that in the future my posts will be more rambling, and...”
– Paul Buchheit after an 8 month break in blogging.
I think the problem is that traditional platforms are too much for most people. They are confusing and odd in many ways. And they put this heavy expectation on the writer to come up with a long form post.
The magic of Tumblr is that it gives you a...
“I once went to a talk by a successful ultra-distance runner. He talked about how...”
– Joe Friel’s Blog: How Should I Train?
“Balance” is a really important concept to me. This is clearly NOT it. The harder part is finding where it IS.
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Tout Les Garcons et le Filles - Francoise Hardy.
