tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32020902153477047832024-03-04T23:42:34.376-05:00Stuff Worth Sharing. Or Not.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3202090215347704783.post-29986532043350256122011-06-07T13:36:00.000-04:002011-06-07T13:36:03.745-04:00New York Pizza<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">One of the most enjoyable diatribes on New York City pizza that could ever be. This monologue should be used as an audition! Jon Stewart, you are a genius.<br />
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<div style="background-color: black; width: 520px;"><div style="padding: 4px;"><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" base="." flashvars="" height="288" src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:388039" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="512"></embed><br />
<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 4px; padding: 4px; text-align: left;"><b><a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-june-1-2011/me-lover-s-pizza-with-crazy-broad">The Daily Show - Me Lover's Pizza With Crazy Broad</a></b><br />
Tags: <a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/">Daily Show Full Episodes</a>,<a href="http://www.indecisionforever.com/">Political Humor & Satire Blog</a>,<a href="http://www.facebook.com/thedailyshow">The Daily Show on Facebook</a></div></div></div><br />
Thanks to <a href="http://www.danentin.com/">Dan</a> for sharing!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3202090215347704783.post-58880982801064465872011-06-02T17:46:00.000-04:002011-06-02T17:46:54.528-04:00Skills<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">As the URL of this blog indicates, I consider myself to be Really Good at the Internet. Also, I am pretty bad at keeping up with this blog. Seeming contradiction here. No real conclusion here, just an observation.<br />
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But sometimes things are just too cool not to share - so cool that I feel that if I don't record it somewhere, somehow share it, I will be doing a disservice to my loyal cadre of readers, if when I say "cadre" you understand "group of 3 people who I tell when I've posted on this blog." So without naming names, I hope you enjoy this, <a href="http://maddybloch.blogspot.com/">Maddy</a>, <a href="http://greenroomliving.blogspot.com/">Jules</a> and <a href="http://www.nynp.biz/freatures/6394-the-big-fix-will-state-follow-citys-lead">Erica</a>. (Oops.)<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://idealbookshelf.typepad.com/"><img border="0" height="255" src="http://idealbookshelf.typepad.com/.a/6a0133ec7ffa51970b013480be8e9f970c-700wi" width="400" /></a></div><b>Google Books</b><br />
<b></b>Ever wonder what's sitting on your bookshelf? Wish you could glance across the spines and remember if your edition of The Phantom Tollbooth is the one with the "appreciation" by Maurice Sendak or the introduction by Michael Chabon*? Enter <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCgQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2F&ei=fPvnTaChD4bk0QGawdSRCw&usg=AFQjCNH3qiQ9AEUidRBw8iXF9KhxcVL0_Q&sig2=YVZueIns2ITC4chlIsgMsQ">Google Books</a>, with which I have only just begun experimenting. I'm entering all the books I own...I can then scroll through them anywhere I log into Google. I can also make wish lists (useful, though my <a href="http://amzn.com/w/3B5T0M91ZT0JG">Amazon.com Wish List</a> is more comprehensive); create a "favorites" shelf; and store my eBooks. This started with my desire to compile a list of all the cookbooks I owned, and search their indices collectively for a recipe rather than paging through each one. (As I wrote that last sentence, I realized that I would thus be removing myself from the tactile experience of interacting with my books, which makes me a little sad, and reminds me of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/magazine/the-twitter-trap.html?_r=1&ref=magazine">this article in the Times magazine</a> about just that, sort of.)<br />
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ANYWAY! Here's my Google Bookshelf. What kind of uses can you think up?<br />
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<a href="http://books.google.com/books?uid=102641429786333885552&source=gbs_lp_bookshelf_list">Julia's Google Library</a><br />
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Oh, and by the way, re: the delightful image at the top of this post... Do check out <a href="http://www.20x200.com/artists/jane-mount.html">these prints</a> by <a href="http://www.janemount.com/art/about.php">Jane Mount</a>: the Ideal Bookshelf series. I discovered them on <a href="http://www.20x200.com/">20x200</a>, a website I'm currently calling a "favorite," even though I was recently made to feel guilty about doing so by an artist who claims that he and his fellow creators-of-art are getting, quite literally, shortchanged in the transaction. Still. More art in my life + a conversation about the nature of getting art into my life = worthy of mention somewhere (right, readers 1, 2 & 3?!!).<br />
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*Trick question! The edition of The Phantom Tollbooth with Michael Chabon's introduction has yet to be released; but check out an excerpt, and a lovely tribute to Juster's masterpiece and its joyful (if a bit nerdy) toying with the English language, <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/apr/21/michael-chabon-phantom-tollbooth-wonder-words/">over here at the New York Review of Books</a>.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3202090215347704783.post-34618234045927672362011-02-01T14:04:00.000-05:002011-02-01T14:08:33.875-05:00Grooveshark<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">One of the great new things that was invented along with the internet is music. It's typically a bunch of notes strung together to sound good, and it's totally rad. I've been checking it out lately and I really think it's going to catch on. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://listen.grooveshark.com/"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPTMG15L8j5aDJs5JvmVOEPyUbUQzRZbR0eaoKUMtIuAAf8T1k7POSaTmfOAcZquWsPWIYsX4hSdI2PpMCOW4sm7mB32FqkrOaNyM6MND_pFbcakZOvehjMiXBFfrai5b4QcZRpJbDP4QL/s400/grooveshark.jpg" width="355" /></a></div>Seriously, though, the internet has totally revolutionized the way we entertain ourselves, though I'm not yet convinced we've found the best way to appreciate music. So, I use a careful combination of what's out there to keep my ears happy. It's a mix between Pandora, YouTube, iTunes, and my latest discovery: <b><a href="http://listen.grooveshark.com/">Grooveshark</a></b>. Unlike Pandora, you can type the name of a song into Grooveshark and actually listen to it. You can also make and save playlists, save songs and/or artists as favorites, listen to "radio" stations based on genre and, my favorite touch, see what your fellow sharks are hunting out there in the vast waters of musicality [Sidenote: my username is julesjr1. Add me and let's share some jams!]. Such did my dear friend Jesse discover the sweet sounds of Jorge Drexler. Grooveshark told me he'd been listening, and using the power of <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCUQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techsmith.com%2Fjing%2F&ei=ClpITYaID8P-8AbN1ojwBg&usg=AFQjCNFq72OEvdk4rSf93aJMrgjr2PX8Rg&sig2=m5R6u5igOeSuzhTqdmcbGQ">Jing</a> (more free software that I love. I'll tell you about it later), I captured our interchange on the very topic. Groovy, no?<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3202090215347704783.post-19749245594180109562011-01-26T17:56:00.000-05:002011-01-26T17:56:51.119-05:00Say "Whiskey"!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">That's what they say instead of "cheese" in Argentina, to make you smile (or at least look like your smiling) in a photo.<br />
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And this is the can of whiskey (yes, 8 shots worth) that is now, <a href="http://eater.com/archives/2011/01/17/scotch-whiskey-in-a-can-contains-eight-shots-of-whiskey.php">apparently</a>, available in South America: <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I missed the whole Four Loko craze in New York this summer, so I wouldn't know what to look for if I came across the odd shady bodega, but I think getting my hands on a can of this stuff will make me a contraband A-lister. Cheers!</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.thxthxthx.com/"><img border="0" height="223" src="http://thxthxthx.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/thx_452.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3202090215347704783.post-39760758231361595152010-12-08T11:41:00.001-05:002010-12-08T11:44:53.089-05:00The joy of musicWatch til the end:<br />
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Re-send incoming emails to yourself on a specified date -<br />
Maximize efficiency!<br />
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<a href="http://www.baydin.com/boomerang4gmail/"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Boomerang for GMail </span></span></b></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3202090215347704783.post-20289408720317486662010-11-12T22:39:00.000-05:002010-11-12T22:39:06.214-05:00E-CardsI know, I know. E-Cards are a huge pain. No one likes clicking through to the link. The animations are terrible, not to mention the music. <br />
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But these are making me laugh out loud, and I just had to share. WARNING! Most of the cards on this site are explicit and/or in poor taste...you've been warned.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://cdn.someecards.com/someecards/filestorage/concerned-hotness-flirting-ecard-someecards.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="222" src="http://cdn.someecards.com/someecards/filestorage/concerned-hotness-flirting-ecard-someecards.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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More <a href="http://www.someecards.com/flirting-cards/most-sent-today">here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3202090215347704783.post-73893832727437290462010-11-04T13:24:00.000-04:002010-11-04T13:27:25.706-04:00This makes me laugh every timeRicky Gervais' 2 cents on the moral of the famous Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme:<br />
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Today, Joy of Baking's Conversions & Equivalencies page made that task just a wee bit easier:<br />
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<a href="http://www.joyofbaking.com/ConversionsEquivalencies.html">http://www.joyofbaking.com/ConversionsEquivalencies.html</a><br />
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Thank you! Now if I could only invent counterspace...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3202090215347704783.post-65101623512787538402010-10-10T16:15:00.000-04:002010-10-10T16:15:29.482-04:00Open CultureI came across this website, which looks just plain awesome:<br />
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<a href="http://www.openculture.com/">http://www.openculture.com/</a><br />
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And then I started thinking about how I got there. And I realized:<br />
1. I posted, on facebook, a photo of my sister after having completed the marathon.<br />
2. A friend commented, on facebook...so I looked at her profile. She had<br />
3. Posted a video, on facebook, of Grover (yeah, from Sesame Street), apparently promoting the word 'on.'<br />
4. I was confused. I had to go to YouTube to read the comments, because this video made no sense to me.<br />
5. A couple pages of comments in, I realized Grover was parodying the Old Spice man! Genius! So of course, I<br />
6. Started watching the Old Spice commericals. They are hilarious. Am I the last person to realize he was making videos PERSONALLY responding to Tweets? I watched his response to Ellen DeGeneres and laughed out loud.<br />
7. I clicked on a related video...Old Spice Man's response to Alyssa Milano...then I realized, there were several responses to Alyssa Milano! As it turns out, they had quite the interchange. So I,<br />
8. Hopped over to AM's Twitter feed to see if this was recent or if there were any other interesting tidbits. She linked to a video of Johnny Depp reading Hunter S. Thomspon letters. That was on Open Culture.<br />
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Thanks, interwebs!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3202090215347704783.post-38562742935002125622010-10-08T12:16:00.000-04:002010-10-08T12:26:17.284-04:00LunfardoThe translation of <em>lunfardo</em> is slang, but it is so, so much more. It's part of what makes Argentine spanish so appealing, and so confusing. I've heard it comes from tango...<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunfardo">Wikipedia says</a> it comes from outlaws*...<br />
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Wherever it comes from, I love it. And for the most part, my Argentine friends enjoy explaining to me what their colorful turns of phrase mean. But every so often I like to surprise them with some lunfardo of my own, and so I turn to this website: <br />
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<a href="http://argentineslang.wordpress.com/"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>http://argentineslang.wordpress.com/</strong></span></a><br />
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<em>Graciela al autor, quien seguramente es un groso!</em><br />
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*Michael Scott from The Office has a valid and, in my opinion, hilarious point re: Wikipedia. <em>Tal cual</em>, Michael Scott:<br />
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#s 89-91 are a particularly apt stretch of stuffs:<br />
#92: Sending back food<br />
#91: Gchat<br />
#90: Taking the year off<br />
#89: BrunchingUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3202090215347704783.post-88736814375342555762010-10-02T21:57:00.000-04:002010-10-04T11:21:39.258-04:00To life!Thank you for sharing, dad!<br />
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<object height="385" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KgZ4ZTTfKO8?fs=1&hl=es_ES"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KgZ4ZTTfKO8?fs=1&hl=es_ES" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3202090215347704783.post-73586871579255745682010-09-29T18:27:00.000-04:002010-09-29T18:27:04.598-04:00something beautiful to strive forSuch was the subject of an email from Theo on August 6, 2010. A one-line intro and then the poem:<br />
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<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Icon, By Mark Osaki</span></span> </blockquote><blockquote><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Once, in a great while<br />
you will see a sign<br />
and invest in it everything<br />
out of the simple faith<br />
it is meant for you<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"> </span></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">You will surrender<br />
all you’ve been taught<br />
to the purity of its direction<br />
and stand perfectly still<br />
knowing nothing more is beyond it<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"> </span></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This is how they will find you:<br />
unable to break away, peering<br />
steadfast from the threshold<br />
starved be certainty<br />
blessed forever and unobserved</div></blockquote>Indeed.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3202090215347704783.post-8337302481910148862010-09-29T18:24:00.000-04:002010-09-29T18:24:24.569-04:00This is just so I have a recordof all the stuff I, and others, find on the great global world wide interwebs. Some of it's worth sharing, and some of it's not. But I'mma just go ahead and put it here on this here blog. Kay?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0