August 2008
68 posts
wi-Fi
there is not a single un-passworded wi-fi network in my entire apartment building. there’s one called “get your own dam[sic] connection”, though. And this is the same city that brought us Free the Net…
Rules To Follow When Cell Phones Drop Coverage
oats:
You know when you lose your connection and both sides frantically try to call each other back and cross paths? Richard Wolpert has a new rule: 1. If you initiated the call and it drops, you call the other person back. 2. If you received the call and it drops, you just wait for the call back. Pass it on. (via Joi Ito)
Moved
i’m fully moved in, i’m exhausted, the left shift key on my MacBook won’t capitalize the first row of letters, i just used the term “ghetto fabulous” in an email, and i really love my new apartment.
Honestly in Cell Phone Sales
Matthew: No, you probably don't need 3G access...
Rami: by the way, did anyone tell you that you have a terrific ass?!?
Matthew: "Well it depends... you probably don't need that text package if you only do a dozen a month. By the way, I lost my virginity when I was 9... gross eh?"
Rami: and I really enjoy Golden Showers
Rami: JUST like Ashley McIsaac
Rami: I remember you telling me that
Rami: I learned that term from you
Matthew: really?
Rami: yeah
Matthew: i'm so proud!
Pink Ambulance For Sale →
Mingus Tourette is selling his pink ambulance. Do you live in Edmonton? This is probably too good an offer to pass up.
WatchTravis (getting sucked through the door) and me, sometime last year.
I’ve decided to start following a bunch of fellow Vancouverites. If I started following you, and I know you in real life, let me know ok?
“All things are inherently poetic once we stop taking them for granted.”
– Alan R. Wilson
WORDS OF ADVICE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE : William S.... →
peterwknox:
(via obsessivecompulsive)
This is really excellent. There’s a great version of him reading it on the “Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales” album—available on iTunes.
bakeurfaceoff:
Dear matthewgruman,
What did you think of Greek last night?! Thoughts after seeing the preview of the season at the end? I’m still pretty stoked on the show, but then again, once I like a show I remain loyal so I’m not the best judge.
-Heather
Um… I ended up getting distracted by a CSS bug (it’s now fixed for Safari and IE, but not Firefox… amazing) and...
That 70s Show
Seth Green: I can't believe you got a hold of Darth Vader with the green lightsaber! (comedian-style "girl gun sounds") Pew... pew pew... pew...!
Eric Foreman: What? No, it's ("realistic" lightsaber sounds) ksshhhh kshhhh kkkaaaaa. What a geek!
Starbucks
Barista: Hi!
Me: Hey hey. I'll grab a 12oz dark roast
Barista: ... so you want a half pound of beans?
Me: What? No.. um, tall! I want a tall dark roast.
Barista: Oh, ok... so a house blend?
Me: No... a tall dark roast.
Barista: Oh ok, I don't really know the measurements
Font Finagler →
Every time we get a new computer at the office, I struggle over getting our fonts to work. We’ve had them for ages, so they’re still in the pre-OS X font suitcase format that isn’t supported anymore.
This time around, I tried Font Finagler and it’s worked great. A simple cache cleaning was all I needed to start using Univers again.
Adium 1.3 (7 months in the making) →
gtmcknight:
Includes Facebook chat support!
This is really great—they even seem to have fixed that “logging you out of FB chat when logging into FB.com” bug from the beta.
My Mom is learning about IM, but hasn't yet heard...
Mom: Hi, commercial time. Watching Big Bang Theory. Second week. Hilarious. Commercial over, Must go.
Mom: Hi again, fast, What is Meat Grinder or Madvillain?
Bonk
I finished reading Bonk by Mary Roach a few days ago. It’s a very interesting collection of different studies on sex, compiled into an easy-to-read narrative by Roach. Nothing too spectacular as the majority of WOW! moments are from Kinsey/Masters-Johnson studies, but it’s a fun read and definitely recommended.
The cool part about the book is that I picked it up based on a throw-away...
“Stay where you are… don’t fly off to Edmonton or anything.”
– My friend Leesh is in town and we’re trying to meet up. Apparently, I have the propensity to sporadically fly to Edmonton.
WatchMichael Phelps’s Poor Sportmanship
“We’re like the same person. Her bow is bright pink and mine is...”
“I know my facials are intense.”
– Watching that “find people for Legally Blonde musical” show…
http://matthewgruman.tumblr.com →
I customized a new theme today.
Excuses that don't seem true
I can’t work here today because THE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE DRESSED UP LIKE ANIME CHARACTERS are distracting me.
In related news, there appears to be an anime convention at UBC going on today.
“There has been a problem”
– I’m not very “good” at writing error messages.
“Ben McIntyre, writing in the Times of London a couple of months later, added to...”
– Sex and the semi-colon: The punctuation mark that makes men tremble
I’ll never understand why there is so much anti-semi-colon sentiment.
To the man who makes my coffee:
jonathanmarcus:
duplo:
Today when I ordered my americano and you asked, “Room?” I wanted to laugh and reply, “Coffee Man, you and I both know that I will get room whether I ask for it or not. Let’s not waste time with this silly song and dance about room. Just give me my half-full cup of coffee and I will add water to it at work like I do every day.”
The special phrase is “top it...
Jurassic Period
Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net
Douche.
Mom: What's a douche?
Me: What?!
Mom: You had a post on your blog that said Michael Phelps is a douche.
Me: Uhh, a douche is kinda like an annoying guy.
Mom: Oh, I figured it had to have another meaning.
Me: Yeah...
Mom: Because, you know, douches are a feminine hygiene product.
Four hours of meetings today resulted in a single Word document ~550 words long. Siiiiiiiiigh….
“If it’s still not working after that, we’ve obviously got...”
– I find it easier to explain website problems via metaphor.
“Maybe you’ve got to spend a little less time on porn, and a little more on...”
– The People’s Court
“But, [Steve Jobs] doesn’t call it a “remote undesirable software...”
– Stephen Colbert, via Gizmodo
I’ve just realized that the CanLit ad I made for Geist (#69, page 60, for CanLit Poets) accompanies an opinion piece by George Fetherling, good friend and biographer of our founding editor (1959), George Woodcock.
Dialogue from a Langara student film
Woman #1: You cut your hair.
Woman #2: You cut your wrists.
“One possible explanation for the ‘Chinese’ reference is that it was...”
– Why Shepherd’s Pie is called Pâté Chinois in French, Wikipedia
I was telling a group of people about this last month when this teenager asked me, incredulously, “why do you know that?” I answered “I didn’t know, so I looked it up”, and got a few strange looks.
...
When did the indoor volleyball players get hotter than the beach volleyball players?
“Eilene Sabouran says she came out because she finds that Vancouver doesn’t...”
– About 100 zombies march through Vancouver for bi-annual parade
Coincidence
At my friend Dan’s wedding yesterday, his uncle and I realized that he was my grade 11 substitute high school teacher in Laval, QC (I’m in Vancouver now) about ten years ago. He signed my yearbook “get your bladder checked” because I used to take 45 minute “bathroom breaks” while he was there.
Watching "I Know What You Did Last Summer"
There is no way a hook is that efficient a weapon.
