I had a programming task yesterday where I had to methodically and patiently read code for two hours just to determine where to change a single line. When it worked I felt like Mike Ehrmantraut.
In 1989 you could still get laughs from imaginary school shootings in heart-warming family comedies. Parenthood is set in St. Louis but that’s the Century Tower at UF. www.youtube.com/watch
There’s a question I’d like to ask Glenn Kessler: Have you considered becoming a journalist?
The FedEx driver who blasts his radio just delivered this song from my senior year to my entire neighborhood. Makes me want to head to Confetti’s on Greenville Avenue and make the bartender mad by ordering Long Island Iced Teas. 🎵 www.youtube.com/watch
There’s a techblogger who regularly declares that writing on the web isn’t about making money. The fact he can afford to think this because he’s wealthy never enters his awareness.
Every time a Wimbledon match goes to a deciding tiebreaker I want a live reaction shot of John Isner and Nicolas Mahut.
A drive through Los Angeles in the 1940s. www.youtube.com/watch
Cheering for Cam Norrie because us grayhairs gotta stick together. #wimbledon
“Have you ever gone into like a supermarket and just started berating someone scanning the groceries? No. So why do they do it when I’m at Wimbledon?” – Nick Kyrgios, who has no idea how much restaurant and supermarket workers are abused these days by customers
Serena’s match just passed 3 hours. She looks as sweaty and disheveled as Rafa Nadal at the start of a match.
If you like to work with some noise in the background, WatchESPN has some livestreamed rain at Wimbledon. www.espn.com/watch/pla…
One of the perks of watching a random movie from 1967 to 2013 is knowing there’s a Roger Ebert review waiting for you afterwards. 🍿 www.rogerebert.com/reviews/u…
If you read news stories about Christie Smythe three times she follows you. And I don’t mean on Twitter.
Telling people to vote isn’t enough when they always voted for you and this still happened.
Just got one of these and if it’s not fun I’ll be giving @waxy a piece of my mind.
St. Augustine has bus stops with no covered awnings or benches. Saw an older woman at one today wilting in the 90 degree heat as she sat precariously on a tumped-over shopping cart next to a drainage ditch.
I’ve reviewed Captain Wu: Starship Nameless #1 for the #SPSFC finals. It’s a jaunty tale of hard-luck space smugglers led by a pit-fighting space captain in her 60s who took the wrong delivery job. file770.com/review-ca… 📖
Elizabeth Weil’s New York magazine cover story reads like she’s the godparent of the high school boy cancelled for sharing nude photos of his girlfriend. She keeps grouping him with kids who were ostracized for doing nothing wrong even though he clearly and quite horribly did.
Elizabeth Weil’s New York magazine cover story reads like she’s the godparent of the high school boy cancelled for sharing nude photos of his girlfriend. She keeps grouping him with kids who were ostracized for doing nothing wrong even though he clearly and quite horribly did. The perspective of his victim barely appears in Weil’s narrative.
A megabillionaire wakes up every morning able to devote transformative millions and focused attention towards any problem facing the world. And he says nah, I’d rather be an edgelord on Twitter.
Parking is so tough near the University of Florida there are car stacking robots.
If you’d like to be a judge in the next #SPSFC, let me know. I am forming a crack team of commandos whose very particular set of skills is to read self-published science fiction novels until their Kindle thumb is completely jacked. 📚
The local FedEx driver cranks up the music full blast and loves trumpeters. Here’s what he delivered today. 🎵 www.youtube.com/watch
Coin sounds really good in concert at #govball tonight on Sirius XM. I saw them open for Young the Giant in St. Augustine in the Before Times and didn’t know who they were. I’d go see them headline now. 🎵
An air conditioner making strange bubbling sounds reminded me of an old computer-is-thinking sound effect. I couldn’t place it but kept thinking about the CBS In the News segments during Saturday morning cartoons. Eureka! 📺 www.youtube.com/watch