Rest in Peace, ODB

Every now and again I poke my head around here (being livejournal), see what people I once knew have to say these days, and happily browse off knowing that I'm not missing anything.

It's nice to hang out with real people again.

Are in order to Mr. and Mrs. Will and Lea Serwetman. mazel tov!

I’ve learned a lot from this. In the Brave New (Often Anonymous) Internet age, the furor ends being about the furor, not the stupid thing you said. Lines are drawn! Camps are formed! People rally to their standard bearers, and drag out the old saw: I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend your right to say it, particularly if I secretly ( Read more... )

1. What did you do in 2003 that you'd never done before ( Read more... )

boingboing.net editor Mark Frauenfeld packed up and moved to Rarotonga. He's documenting it for posterity. Maybe I've been traipsing far too deep into the escapist traveliterature of Moitessier's The Long Way, Tom Neale's An Island to Oneself and Kon-Tiki, but lately all this stuff has become pretty fucking trite. Maybe it's just my friends list, ( Read more... )

Despite booting a few easy technical questions (i.e., describe some differences between C++ and Java), the guys at Decision Architects were sufficiently impressed with my managementspeak to bring me in for a full-scale interview next week. The german-cut Boss suit will be pressed (ha ha) into service again, and given it's service record, that's not ( Read more... )

You need to diversify your bonds n***a! (needs realbastard)

lllllllllllllllet's get ready to rumbllllllllllllllllllllllllllllle

The Beach Boys and Barry White (with Love Unlimited). As the authors of this bizarre chemical marriage point out, there's really no excuse why this works. Check out the backing harmonies during Barry's vocals. I never thought I'd hear the Beach Boys on disco.

And then there's ( Read more... )

adrianconte has a fairly insightful post about libertarian boys vs. girls. hober and I were discussing just the other day what a tremendously bad idea it is for objectivists to get together ( Read more... )