The Tell-Tale R: Archive

Brunch art

Taken at Pond House Cafe

Apr 16th

3 tags

Apr 13th

3 tags

Northampton Floodgate

Apr 12th

2 notes

4 tags

You'd Figure These Guys would be Anti-Red Tape,... →

I know it’s Mother Jones, but seriously—what’s one to think of businesses/organizations that claim to be laissez faire and then run crying to the courts when someone get uncomfortably close to their trademark? Live by the free market, die by the free market. No excuses, play like a champion.

Apr 12th

6 notes

3 tags

Apr 11th

Nightlife

It’s a lot less interesting when the world is full of girls you’re not allowed to make out with.

Apr 9th

1 note

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“You have a dog, and I have a cat. We agree that they are each worth a billion...”

– An unspecified fund manager in Michael Lewis’ outstanding piece “Wall Street on the Tundra”. Well worth a read/re-read in the current news cycle.

Apr 8th

12 notes

8 tags

Watch

Beer commercials have been in decline since the late 80s, probably because The Simspons really took the genre as far as it could go.

Apr 3rd

7 notes

Is it just me, or is America's Most Trusted news...

Apr 1st

5 tags

“Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably are aware that we...”

– A recent email. If the author had been auditioning, I would have stood up and said “Thanks—seen enough. We’ll let you know.”

Mar 31st

18 notes

3 tags

Eastern Iowa Airport (CID) in miniature.

Mar 30th

3 tags

Double Macchiato

Taken at Java House

Mar 29th

3 tags

Mar 28th

1 note

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Today We Spell Irony "J-e-s-u-s" →

I mean, every argument against sports fandom can also be made against religion. They are both essentially forms of worship. Except, of course, that the Duke Blue Devils basketball team is an empirically verifiable entity, and that crowd support can be shown to have a positive effect on its performance.

Mar 27th

2 notes

4 tags

Mar 26th

29 notes

#magichat #Friday

Mar 26th

4 tags

Elmo tells it like it is.

Mar 20th

18 notes

4 tags

Reblog if you are a Lazy Updater

Mar 15th

17 notes

6 tags

Mar 9th

5 tags

IE6 Countdown →

While I appreciate the effort, this thing should be at negative two years and counting, now.

Mar 7th

4 tags

Spammers Get Topical

Mar 6th

4 tags

Mar 2nd

1 note

7 tags

Mar 1st

5 tags

Feb 28th

76 notes

6 tags

Feb 28th

5 tags

Proper Subaru parking technique (note the tracks)

Feb 25th

2 notes

4 tags

Finally got my Bad Decision license renewed

Feb 23rd

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“Some students at Tripoli’s Academy of Graduate Studies were offered free...”

– CNN

Feb 22nd

3 tags

Presidents' Day burrito lunch with @amygrove

Feb 21st

5 tags

Feb 20th

5 tags

A lunch ride's worth a thousand words

Feb 18th

1 note

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Feb 15th

3 tags

Great Gatsby Finally Out for NES →

Feb 14th

6 tags

Crushstation gave it all for the home crowd, but...

Feb 14th

2 notes

5 tags

The Most Misleading URLs on the Internet

My distaste for the spammy, SEO-friendly pages of content farms is well-documented. But as far as misleading URL formation, instant-art photo site Instagr.am is as bad an offender as anyone. Some examples: http://instagr.am/p/PorN/ http://instagr.am/p/TITs/ http://instagr.am/p/bOOb/ http://instagr.am/p/bLOw/ http://instagr.am/p/tIT/ http://instagr.am/p/Cum/ http://instagr.am/p/Dick/ Of...

Feb 10th

6 notes

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Winter Lunch

Taken at Woodstar Cafe

Feb 9th

6 tags

“One commentator opined that Google still works, it’s never been perfect, and you...”

– Roger Hilsop If the spam is recognizable “from a mile away”, it shouldn’t be too big a lift to sift it out then, right? Or is the real problem here here that link farms bringing in fat stacks of cash through Google AdSense are too profitable for the search engine giant to cull...

Feb 7th

5 tags

Using some classic New England corn to take 4...

Taken at Winding Trails

Feb 5th

6 tags

Complete Double-Laptop! What does it mean?

(it means my Parallels license hasn’t come through yet.)

Feb 4th

6 notes

5 tags

Hey, I Broke a Story! (kinda) →

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta blogger.

Feb 4th

1 note

5 tags

“Of course. The elevator blows. If I’m riding alone I can get about 30 in before...”

– @jonshea, on whether or not he still does push-ups to get amped for the bike ride home.

Feb 1st

7 tags

XC Skiing in Connecticut

Taken at Winding Trails

Jan 30th

12 notes

6 tags

Skiing in Connecticut!

Taken at Ski Sundown

Jan 29th

4 tags

Gah!

Viewed the source code of a Google Docs-generated HTML spreadsheet today. I was expecting to find a nice, simple table. I got nuked by a massive, nasty-looking, single-line stylesheet. (to be fair, the actual table code below this is decently clean.)

Jan 28th

3 notes

6 tags

More Reason to Take it Easy on the Big Numbers →

Less about Internet and more about business in general, but another argument against slavish devotion to metrics. The general point is that solid leadership requires, well, solid leadership.

Jan 27th

5 tags

Conundrum

For all the talk that smartphones and tablets are the devices of the future, all I can think about while using them is how much I’d rather be on a real computer.

Jan 23rd

6 tags