December 2009
52 posts
November 2009
56 posts
“Life’s way more fun in Never Never Land.”
– Rachelle Delaney
I fixed her birds and she validated my professional life.
Matthew: i just improvised a risotto and it's pretty good
i think i should try out for the next Hell's Kitchen
Greg: he'd still yell at you
Matthew: yeah, but then later he'll compliment my risotto and it will be the compliment my inner child has always been waiting for
cue the heart warming music
not getting kicked off *that* week
UBC, my alma matter / partial employer, has a new...
Bike for Three! (Buck 65 and Greetings from...
The Beatles - “Why Don’t We Do It In...
Watch“Spacious Thoughts” NASA feat. Kool Keith & Tom Waits
Pretty insane
Tom Waits - “I Never Talk to...
Why I love my job #7845301874
Before I do any sort of design work for authors, I like to read as many of their books as possible. I’ve got nine children’s books to bring home this weekend.
If someone had told the child me that I’d be doing this sort of thing as a job, I would have pretended to pay attention until it was socially acceptable to start reading again.
Travis: just put in for my time off
dec 11 is my last day of the year
Matthew: awesomepossum.com!
that's gonna be my new thing
pronounced "awesome possum dot com"
Travis: this has been fun, but i wont be talking to you again
“Is it bad that when I see you in my head you have a mustache?”
– Natalie
blownspeakers:
circumpolarnavigation:
aaronleaf:
Much of downtown Toronto came to a standstill for hours this morning as Toronto Police, animal services and an emergency task force surrounded and Tasered a wayward deer that ran through the financial district.
After running past office towers and Union Station, the deer eventually took refuge on a grassy patch on the east side of a medical...
matt did a poo →
Who says SEO doesn’t matter anymore?
It's not a "good" story, but it's a story
Travis: how are you feeling?
Matthew: better
but ugh... you know when you're sick and get better, you'll sometimes get night sweats?
i got bus sweats this morning
it was so awful
Travis: OMG!
Matthew: 30 minutes of horror, but then i stepped off and felt awesome
Travis: that sounds terrible
Matthew: yeah
and to top it all off, i finally decided to dress appropriately for the weather and wore a warm coat
so i'm standing on the back of the b-line, shvitzing my ass off and looking like i'm dying
at one point, i get that awful "single bead of sweat slowly running down back" feeling
finally grab a seat, tear off the jacket, and accidentally smack the girl next to me REALLY hard in the process
so, so bad
Travis: awkwardness = 3
matthew's pride = -3
Matthew: hahaha
sillygwailo:
Free ideas for Tumblr blogs:
cutiesinrubberboots.tumblr.com and related to that, japanesegirlsinvancouverwearingshortskirtsandfluffybootsinwinter.tumblr.com
djshelpingthelistenerbypointingoutwhenthebeatdrops.tumblr.com
I would follow two of those. Get on it, people.
She's cute when she's tired OR I'm an experienced...
Me: there's a little electric drum set by the bed if you get bored in the middle of the night...
Mom: what?
Me: ...but I don't think there's a headphone jack so maybe turn it down a bit [starts playing and showing her the volume buttons] so things don't get TOO loud...
Mom: leave me alone
“Hanukkah is also the Hebrew acronym for “ח’ נרות והלכה כבית...”
– Wikipedia - “Hanukkah”
Fascinating—I had absolutely no idea.
A very Vancouver moment
I was dumbfounded that the Korean grocery sold fresh basil but not fresh rosemary.
“Pardon my doubts
and my grammar.
But don’t l’amour
echo la mort?”
– George Elliott Clarke, from “The Student’s Tale” (Whylah Falls)
Chatting with the courier (he's right)
Him: I bought "Alice" [Tom Waits record I was listening to last time he came by] the other day
Me: Oh awesome! What do you think?
Him: It's great
the day I bought it I was listening to the Sex Pistols, then put on Tom Waits and thought "you know, my life is pretty good"
Excuse Rolodex →
sillygwailo:
Matthew Gruman: “I made this website because I was amazed that it didn’t already exist. And because of Seinfeld.”
Is it bad form to reblog a quote by me that was (presumably) prompted by my own post directing people to the site from which that quote is quoted?
looking for skid row mp3s...help? →
In high school, I hid my “inappropriate” things in a Skid Row CD case because I figured no one would ever look/want to borrow it.
blownspeakers:
dustinjohnbromley:
bwah hahahaha
Fire on Fire - “Hangman”
Fire On...
Top Chef trolling (Kevin's going to win)
I think Jen’s coming in third after she leaves the show to run away with me and talk about living on the east coast in our mutually *normal* accents. Bryan’s either going to screw up or start getting boring to finish fourth. Then Mike V. loses to Kevin in the finale when he tries deconstructing an already deconstructed dish and gets sucked into a wormhole.
blownspeakers:
But… but…...
Top Chef trolling (Kevin's going to win)
Me: guy fierri is visiting bryan volt's restaurant on diners, drive-ins and dives
the episode is called "Shitty Ganache Swirls of the 21st Century"
Greg: you have a problem
Me: yeah, I think you're right
“In keeping with their name, Canadian hardcore outfit Fucked Up are doing...”
– Fucked Up to Use Polaris Prize Money to Record “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” with Broken Social Scene, Vampire Weekend, No Age, GZA (via)
She's right
Editor: That looks complicated; what are you working on?
Me: Coding
Editor: Coding?
Me: You know, coding [adds jazz hands]
Editor: Coding [with jazz hands]?
Me: Maybe pretend I didn't add the jazz hands
I don't know why I do that... it's not like I have a theatre background
Editor: I like it
Everything is better with jazz hands
stevenf:
We interrupt NaNoDrawMo to bring you an absolutely massive list of Coda resources compiled by MacStories.
I still use Coda almost every day (~2 years now), and I still open it occasionally just ‘cause it’s pretty. If you’re a Mac-based web developer, you should give it a try.
fuckyeahfionaapple:
On the Bound
Tom Waits - Step Right Up
My anti-Vancouver rainy...
“Ajax Me No Questions, I’ll D-H-T-M-L You No Lies”
– This made me laugh *a lot*. Head First makes the best tech books.