May 2011
I'm conducting coffee shop buddy tryouts.
If you are a regular buddy who wants to be a coffee shop buddy, or not a buddy at all who would like to be considered as a potential buddy of the coffee shop variety, shoot an email to joncrowley+coffee@gmail.com explaining why you are worth spending time with*.
*yes, even those of you who are already my friends. I’m ridiculous, you knew this already.
Hey Tumblrites, stop trying to turn Spotlight into...
By which I mean, stop whining about not being one of the cool kids.
attention industry: the (potential) tragedy of... →
attentionindustry:
In a recent post, I argued that Twitter wasn’t a social network; it is a communications platform. That the minds behind Twitter didn’t understand that their initial actions were moving them away from network or destination status, or didn’t care, is quickly becoming the tragedy. Twitter is making…
Reblogging my own post, after correcting an obvious spelling error in...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-22) →
Childish Gambino (41)
Danger Mouse (26)
Moby (16)
Blur (16)
Adele (14)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
What should Apple buy with their billions? A... →
wilwheaton:
There is only one thing that could be totally game-changing for Apple’s main business, iOS devices, at this point: total freedom from the carriers. The only way to ensure this is for Apple to create its own carrier. A carrier that serves iOS devices with an always-on data connection that allows them to take advantage of their features in a way that the current carrier system never...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-15) →
Arctic Monkeys (22)
The Lonely Island (19)
Kanye West (17)
Cee-Lo (14)
Pharoahe Monch (13)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Publicity and the Culture of Celebritization →
A small but powerful realization.
The attitude is becoming better known than the ideas.
This wasn’t entirely unexpected. The ideas are complex. The attitude is relatively simple to understand, and even easier to misunderstand.
The decision to avoid reining myself in, and be polarizing wasn’t a hard one. I firmly believe that something that cannot be disliked intensely, cannot be deeply appreciated.
All of that...
attention industry: _____ is not a social network. →
attentionindustry:
I got in a small debate on Twitter when I said I didn’t like LinkedIn, specifically because I thought marketing itself as a social network was disingenuous.
We could get into a deeper debate on that, and I did, repeatedly. I think LinkedIn has some social features, but it’s laser focus on…
Sometimes semantics are important.
5 ways to maximize your cognitive potential →
Nights in.
I’d forgotten how much it can mean to stay home and just be.
To just absorb and relax and learn. Rather than exert myself to build connections, I’m focusing again on building myself. It’s been too long.
I don’t do split focus well enough. Either full bore network development, or fully committed to self-expansion.
Time to learn more about me.
Wonderful Things Day →
BoingBoing day is win.
Testing
I bought myself an android phone, mostly out of curiosity.
So, I’m in download and test mode today.
So apparently Cancer was cured last week, but no... →
doinwork:
Cananda 1 Cancer 0
This is kinda a big fucking deal. Reading the initial article, “cured” is a bit hasty, but this is huge.
The Trinity Orchestra Covers Daft Punk →
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Do I seriously need to wait until monday for the...
Life is so HARD.
ROI on Homes is Zilch Over Past 35 Years →
emergentfutures:
Even though the real rate of return of the U.S. national house price index was 1.3% from 1975 to 2009, the real rate of return on a typical home was below zero (–0.575%) over that period. That’s assuming a 2.5% annual depreciation rate, a 1.5%property-tax rate, a 7% mortgage interest rate, and a 25%marginal income tax rate, according to Wenli Li and Fang Yang, writing in...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-8) →
Beastie Boys (28)
OutKast (27)
Lupe Fiasco (24)
Daft Punk (22)
Adele (19)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-1) →
Childish Gambino (46)
J Dilla (34)
Blur (28)
Fall Out Boy (27)
Lupe Fiasco (20)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Things that are considered cute in your early 20's...
nedhepburn:
heavy drinking.
sending drunk text messages.
telling people you love them over drunk text messages.
generally acting like a puppy over drunk text messages.
generally acting like a drunk puppy who just learned how to walk on its hind legs and pay for drinks at a bar.
gnawing obsession with tv soap opera The OC (but I’m still concerned! Did Sandy ever tell Kiki about the kiss? Did...
Kirk Here… →
“Apartheid is a crime against humanity. Israel has deprived millions of...”
– Nelson Mandela (via fuckyeahmarxismleninism)
Always reblog. If Nelson Mandela says it’s apartheid, it’s probably apartheid.
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vruz: I think he has seen apartheid up close, he can probably tell it when he sees it.
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“There’s a lot of booze in this martini that is made of pure booze.”
This is going to be one of those nights I regret having smartphone access, methinks.
On not knowing what to do:
My current plan is to drink all of the alcohol I have in the house (not that much), go to bed, and try again tomorrow.
That’s all I’ve got.
On the complexity of voting.
Is voting more identity dependent than financial transactions or banking?
I ask because you can only vote in person, while you can complete nearly any financial transaction online with an existing account.
Voter turnout is reaching an all time low. The obvious solution would be to make voting easier.
And my assumption for why that hasn’t happened, is that making voting easier removes the...
