August 2010
Kanye West - Monster (Feat. Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Bon...
Shorty
Jamie: T-Pain is crowdsourcing a logo for him on crowdSPRING for a whopping $500
Dan: that's a fair price as long as you can use a vocoder to render the logo
itsthisforthat.com →
Wait, what does your startup do?
“The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
– William James
In New York? Need your piano tuned? →
I know just the guy…
“When approaching the art of conch-playing, ambivalence is your worst enemy.”
– Emily
talenmoe asked: Where do you find out about the music you post here? Im a bit of an outsider to the electro world. But i love almost all the stuff you post here...
“Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you...”
– Samuel Johnson
Dee Edwards - Why Can’t There Be Love...
L'esprit de l'escalier →
L’esprit de l’escalier (staircase wit) is thinking of a clever comeback when it is too late. The phrase can be used to describe a riposte to an insult or any witty remark that comes to mind too late to be useful.
Antoine Dodson & The Gregory Brothers - Bed...
Ask a Real Musician: 5 Classic Metal Singers →
New York voice teacher Claudia Friedlander provides a classical analysis of these singers.
“Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.”
– Thornton Wilder
Nico - These Days (Shinichi Osawa Edit)
Almost
Leah: whatcha doinnnn?
Jamie: settlers of catan
Jamie: and singing get up kids
Leah: ...what?
Jamie: it's a board game
Leah: oh
Leah: is that that game where you can die of dysterny or whatever?
Shower-curtain effect →
In physics, the shower-curtain effect is the phenomenon in which a shower curtain gets blown inward with a running shower.
Lupe Fiasco - Go To Sleep
Can’t wait for...
“Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied,...”
– Jimmy Breslin
List of Helicopter Prison Escapes →
One of the best Wikipedia articles I’ve ever seen, I love the little graphic that indicates if the escape was successful or not.
Manly Realizations
Andrew: but the only thing that matters is... are they hot?
Andrew: assuming they are old enough... of course
Jamie: very astute question
Jamie: i'd say they're a 5 or a 6
Jamie: they'd be like
Jamie: the hottest girls at the renaissance fair
Andrew: i'm not sure what to think but i can picture exactly what you mean
“No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of...”
– Michael Pritchard
At 104, Mysterious Heiress is Alone Now →
Relatives are kept away. Only her accountant and attorney visit. Who protects Huguette Clark, with 3 empty homes and no heirs?
1 in 5 Americans still think Obama is a Muslim →
That’s 20%, an increase since he was elected.
My Cash Cab Rant
Jamie: my apartment building isn't air conditioned
Jamie: except for the roof
Jamie: where there's this "lounge" like area
Stefani: well of course. hahahahaha
Jamie: with wifi and the discovery channel on 24/7 on a tv up there
Stefani: what a fancy apartment
Jamie: so i've seen like
Jamie: 50 million episodes of cash cab
Jamie: why is this show even on the discovery channel
Jamie: show me some lions in africa or something cool
Stefani: seriously! i mena cash cab is cool if you want to bank some trivia answers, but i want to discover things that i couldn't learn by watching Jeopardy
Jamie: at least jeopardy is hard!
Jamie: cash cab gives them like a paragraph from wikipedia and then has them fill in the blank
Stefani: its true. cash cab is like the reality tv of quiz shows.
Jamie: Originally the Flavian Amphitheatre, it's the elliptical amphitheatre in the center of the city of Rome, Italy. It is considered one of the greatest works of Roman architecture and Roman engineering.
Jamie: HURR... THE COLOSSEUM?
Jamie: then the host does some unfunny quip that somehow ties in with the answer
Jamie: YOU ANSWERED LIKE A GLADIATOR, COLOSSEUM IS CORRECT
How to Level a Girlfriend →
Basic walk-through on getting a girlfriend to Level 80
“Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.”
– Bill Cosby
The Key To Happiness? →
Spending your money on experiences rather than possessions
F/Offended/Arizona
Jamie: asl?
Emily: I used to think that meant "asshole" and got really offended :-[
Radioactive Boars On The Loose In Germany →
One of the more interesting interviews I’ve heard in a while.
Cat Dictators
Kacie: i have a new pet to obsess over
Kacie: my cat Atticus
Kacie: he plays fetch
Kacie: it's amazing
Kacie: catticus
Kacie: attikittycus
Jamie: aw catticus
Jamie: i have a whole list of good cat names somewhere on my computer
Jamie: (who doesn't?)
Kacie: LOL
Kacie: right?
Jamie: Chairman Meow
Jamie: Cleocatra
Jamie: Bing Clawsby
Jamie: Fidel Catstro
Jamie: Cat Guevara
Jamie: Meow Zedong
Jamie: Adolf Kitler
Jamie: Vladimir Purrtin
Jamie: Nikitty Khruschev
Jamie: Pope John Paw
Kacie: lol this is amazing
Jamie: Kim Jong Meow
Jamie: Benito Meowsolini
Jamie: Meowcolm X
Kacie: i thought I was clever with Catticus and meowza
Jamie: Raspurrin
Jamie: Leon Trotskitty
Kacie: im dying
Kacie: dying at these names
Kacie: maybe i need to think of some
Jamie: i think i'm running out
Jamie: Napawléon Bonaparte
Kacie: Joan of...meow
Kacie: no no no
Kacie: Joan of meowArc?
Kacie: no no no
Jamie: Whiskerton Churchill
Kacie: Princess Clawanna?
Kacie: no no no
Jamie: Meowsama Bin Laden
Kacie: that's your worst one
Kacie: Rudy giuliclawni
Kacie: hey i got one!
Kacie: barack o clawma
Kacie: ok gotta get away from claws
Kacie: hmmmm
Kacie: julia clawberts?
Kacie: ok seriously done
Kacie: Hilary Clawnton
Kacie: dammit
Kacie: George meow
Kacie: and George Meow the II
Kacie: Clawndaleeze Rice
Kacie: Sarah Purrlin
