December 2010
30 posts
Me: “Let’s have a 2-person reading group.” Lori: “Let’s have a reading group where you read a book and I have a cocktail.”
“Access to information is far less important, politically, than access to conversation.” @cshirky in Foreign Affairs http://fam.ag/egZFc6
RT @ian_crowther: ngrammers - remember that your searches are case sensitive: compare http://bit.ly/hWKM2v to http://bit.ly/fJdH72
In paying for my pinboard account, I discovered it was made by someone who I know only via my delicious network!
Wrapped up a great semester at ITP tonight. Students really pulled out the stops on final projects-you can see some at the show this wkend!
Many thanks to guest critics @ritajking @josholalia and @jomc in my ITP “For Reals” class yesterday!
Why does it take 8 hours to assemble a 20 min talk?
“You are a real New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.”
.@oolah @adamgreenfield that’s from @colsonwhitehead’s Colossus of NY. @sevensixfive & @fitnr tell path to shut it.
How is it possible that I do not have a single remotely professional photo of myself, or, even remotely adult?
Lit mag Ramshackle Review #2 is up, including some of my Municipal Archive pieces http://ramshacklereview.blogspot.com/
Both amazon and now google ebooks store need to get better at telling the dif bt fiction and nonfiction in their search returns.
oh wow, this is truly wonderful. want. RT @gearfuse Hope is the thing with feathers—and Twitter http://bit.ly/ifTS0v
I am at the office wishing I was allowed to use Freedom and turn off the Internet so I can get some work done. Ether equivalent of AWOL.
You people who called me brilliant, you are awesome.
Have you funded an already overfunded kickstarter project? Which one/s, and why? I am stress-testing some theories.
I have approved the copyedits and added the acknowledgments. Now how long do I have to wait before someone calls me brilliant?
#giftsforwouldbegeeks want 2 give a blinky LED gift? ask Mike @ MakerBot Store real nice, if it’s not busy, he’ll help u assemble from a kit
#giftsforwouldbegeeks @dustynrobots wrote a great book called Making Things Move, which will teach you to do so http://ow.ly/3k17f
No wonder I missed the train. I had 666 followers at the time. Thank you, whoever fixed that!
Looking 4 a book I was halfway through awhile ago & got distracted from; instead, keep finding stashes of books I bought & haven’t read yet.
it’s @kiostark no S, @r_nash, silly editor! #followreader
Cool, someone is tweeting as @felixfeneon w/ the texts in French! For English, see my and @naveen’s @novelsin3lines from luc sante’s transl.
www.cablegateroulette.com “Inside many a foreign service officer lurks a frustrated novelist” geniusness from @alexismadrigal & @theatlantic
in a cab →
On the radio, there’s some talk show banter going on. A new study says men who kiss their wives every morning live five years longer than the ones who don’t.
The driver says to me, “I’d kiss my…
re: Metamorphosis at BAM. I am duh. I thought it was the other Warren Ellis.
Watching a man daven through a conference call. Unreligiously.
A girl walks into a secret bar…
Wow! RT @debcha Spacelog.org: Searchable, linkable, historic NASA transcripts.
You know what feels good? Writing the acknowledgments.