Juicy Tidbits

Tue Aug 19

I laughed out loud when I tried this. Funny. system is down

Mon Aug 18

system is down

Phelps’ Miracle Finish - Phelps Frame-By-Frame - Photos - SI.com

Wed Aug 13

Milk On Face | LOLympics

Identifying Wood | LOLympics

Mon Aug 11

“ Curiosity is the most important trait. Curious people want to learn new things and appreciate other people’s work. If you want to know how curious someone is, just ask them the last (non-work related) thing they learned. On hiring via
The Devver Blog » Jason Fried (of 37signals) on building great companies and products

“ 37signals doesn’t work on anything more than a week. They often just solve a quarter of a bug. Morale is killed by people working on big problems that never get solved.
The Devver Blog » Jason Fried (of 37signals) on building great companies and products

So true it hurts. I laugh and cry at the same time when I see this.

Best moment of the Olympics thus far. It was so amazing to see Lezak overtake the France anchor to earn gold for the US.

NBCOlympics.com - Lezak storms back as U.S. wins relay

Sat Aug 9

“ when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create. _why via Projectionist: A tumblelog

watch the whole thing. very funny. via jarin udom’s tumblelog

Tue Aug 5

“ I’m here to play a game, not to be made a fool.

michelle, contestant on big brother 10.

Uh…afraid not lady.

Mon Jul 28

“

For example, I learned from the website that the woman I had seen in the headset taking orders was officially called an expediter—but the job title is something of a red herring, according to the collective wisdom of the Starbucks staff members chatting on the site.

Expediters are not really there to see to it that a customer’s order is filled more quickly, they believe. Rather, expediters exist solely to prevent people in line from giving up and wandering off, maybe to go to the Dunkin’ Donuts around the corner. Once a customer places an order, the logic goes, he or she feels an ethical obligation to wait for it to be filled, no matter how long the process takes. Expediters are there to lock in that order as soon as possible.

Joel Spolsky, August 2008 Inc. magazine, pg. 67, referring to the person in the headset taking orders from customers waiting in line

“ An individual has not started living until he can rise above
the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the
broader concerns of all humanity. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“ Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to
experience the world in the way they have been told to. Alan Keightley