August 2008
26 posts
TripIt →
I forgot to mention TripIt months ago. It’s one of my favorite travel services. Forward all of your trip intinerary emails to plans@tripit.com and it compiles one pretty little comprenhensive itinerary to print out or access online.
Not for hire - Alaska's Sarah Palin (password... →
In Monocle’s first issue back in March 2007 they published an interview with Palin who was just a year into her governorship. Back then Rudy Giuliani was dropping hints that he’d like her to be his running mate. Of course, she deflected the rumor saying, “I think it is so far in outer space, the possibility that he would ever want a hockey mum from Wasilla to be his running mate,...
Oops
I removed a hundred Twitter followers by mistake. Sorry.
TextMarks: Make information accessible from any... →
Txt whereiszach to 41411 and it will do as you ask, plus serve you some crappy ads.
Courtney told me about it. She uses it to trade her contact information instead of handing out business cards.
What Could Make Someone Want to Leave New York and... →
We’re going to see many more articles like this in the next few years. While the housing market remains relatively stable in NYC, prices elsewhere are plummeting. Simultaneously, more and more of us have jobs that aren’t tethered to physical locations.
How much longer will people hold out in expensive megametropolises when affordable and fulfilling lifestyles exist elsewhere?
Says...
Outside Lands
William, I love your recap of the show — especially the conclusion with signal strength searchers. How quickly it was lost on Us.
williamcotton:
8:00 pm - 10:00pm: …
A band that is truly of my times. A band that reflects upon thoughts and feelings that most of us only can catch slight glimpses of. Thoughts and feelings that normally remain shrouded in the shadowy peripheals of our life.
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Learned two new SF-exclusive concepts last night
1. The phrase Vesting in Peace, which means you work for stable company increasing in value, and you’re doing as little as possible until your stock options are worth something — just enough to be percevied as functional, but never to the point of exertion.
2. The Black Sock Coverup. Ever make the mistake of wearing your Rainbows to a shoes-required club or restaurant? Apparently, San...
Chad Johnson Finds Genius Way Around Fines →
Love this story.
I heard from an employee close to the deal that the Mormon church’s genealogy business made an unsolicited bid to acquire Facebook.
While maintaining the country’s largest ancestral database, they certainly have a motive to control this generation’s biographical data, and they certainly have the cash to do it. In 1996, Time Magazine estimated the church’s annual revenues...
I decided to dust off my Twitter account while I'm... →
“Michael Phelps is boring on land.”
– Leslie C.
“Good engineers know what to build 20 years from now, great engineers know what...”
Adium Beta supports Facebook Chat. →
No more buddy list managing.
Great NYC music imports in SF this week
On Monday, Nico Muhly and Sam Amidon at Swedish Hall (tickets). And Thursday, a night before Radiohead opens the Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival, Johnny Greenwood’s latest orchestra compostion will be performed at the San Francisco debut of the Wordless Music Series, one of my favorites back home (tickets).
I’ll be at both.
Flaws
My sophomore year of college I competed for a scholarship that would cover half of my tuition and guarantee me a high-paying summer internship for the next three years in my choice of nearly any major American city. I was one of three finalists and word got back that the Director of the Foundation would come meet me a for personal interview. It was the first of only two interview experiences...
David Byrne and Brian Eno - Strange Overtones
The Geopolitics Of China →
Great read during Olympics commercial breaks. via Matt Lehrer.
Nick Gray: are you watching the Opening Ceremony
Me: yep. who are you rooting for? Georgia or Russia?
Nick Gray: Georgia!!!! go Dawgs
Learning the ropes
Wilson: What part of the city are you in?
Me: I don't even know. Alamo Sqaure. Is that Pac Heights?
Wilson: NOPA/Western Addition. Also, Full House/Uncle Jesse Land
Me: Which term will make me sound cool when conversing with SFers?
Wilson: just be sure to call it "Frisco"
Me: for real?
Wilson: no, not for real. don't do that at all
