Colorado License Plate of the Day
December 9th, 2009
Saw this car parked in front of Denver’s city/county building. Plus one bajillion clever points.
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thread, pocket, pants
November 23rd, 2009
pocket my pocket my pants didn't fit
it's the end the end you're over and your thread ends here. punk.
my pants my pants didn't tell
didn't know like cloth they dye like yes they pocket all the zippers you've got left. punk.
don't fit: do fit: metal doesn't care.
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the wind
November 23rd, 2009
No piece of paper for the weak it's not yours
it's here shut up shut up shut and fold it
eight times over in half it won't help
the wind it takes all yr gold away.
No piece of paper for the weak but for the wind yes there is plenty. Piles. More than you. More than the 1648 version of you, whoever that was.
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My sister’s on blogspot, writing about comics and serendipity.
November 17th, 2009
That’s the name of her blog: Comics and Serendipity. She does all of the artwork on the blog.
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I’m posting on tumblr now: freejoe76.tumblr.com
October 18th, 2009
Tumblr’s easy to post quick-hit pics and links on, and it’s more social than this lonely wordpress install. I’ll still update Joe Write on the super-occasional basis, I just wanted to let you know.
Catch my stuff on tumblr here.
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Holy shit, digital cameras are storing a truckload of data in their EXIF information.
October 11th, 2009
I never knew.
From this photo:
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Auto Rotate: None
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Music!
October 7th, 2009
Yesterday two bands I love released new albums: The Dutchess & The Duke with their second album, Sunset / Sunrise, and the Black Heart Procession with their sixth album, Six.
It’s too bad the BHP isn’t playing Colorado on their tour, but hey, Dutchess and the Duke are. Yup.
Also, hey, you can listen to one of the new tracks from Dutchess & the Duke on my blip.fm profile here.
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Ken Otterbourg’s post about race, reporting, and why there’s no National White Theatre Festival in the U.S.
August 13th, 2009
I used to work for the Winston-Salem Journal, and I still tune in every once in a while to the blog its managing editor Ken Otterbourg writes. Ken wrote about the newspaper’s coverage of the National Black Theatre Festival, and the feedback he gets from the town.
He wrote this paragraph, which handles gracefully the issue I see some people have difficulty with (most of whom are commenters on The Denver Post’s articles):
One of the issues is of course terminology, its the National BLACK Theatre Festival. And so one caller asked when we were going to cover the National WHITE Theatre Festival and wouldn’t people be up in arms if such an event existed. But of course, such events exist. They’re just not labeled as such. And we do cover them. The labeling along racial and ethnic lines is part of minority groups—racial, ethnic, religious—banding together to tell the majority that they exist. Majority groups don’t have to label. They’re implied.
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On success, and the Colorado Rockies’ nine-game winning streak
June 13th, 2009
Denver Post sports columnist Dave Krieger (catch Krieger on twitter here) juiced out a good quote on the Colorado Rockies’ season, and what’s different now, from Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki:
“The biggest thing for me is the mood on the field has changed,” Tulowitzki said. “Early on in the season, we were expecting bad things to happen. Now we’re expecting good things to happen. We’re waiting for the big pitch, we’re waiting for the big hit, and we’re getting it. Whereas before, we were thinking out there, ‘What’s going to happen? What’s going to go wrong? How are we going to blow this lead?’ “
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Taking care of @ColoradoTweets
May 28th, 2009
Today the COTweeters group-tweet list (where anyone can send their tweets to the group, and the whole group gets them) succumbed to spam-bots. It had been getting worse and worse in the past four weeks.
The bot-spammers are now winning over on COTweets, so I went and created a new Colorado group-tweet list, ColoradoTweets, that works in much the same way, but has a few more rules that should help keep it from turning into a noisy ugly hot mess.
To break it down:
- Only tweets that *start* with (as opposed to contain) @ColoradoTweets will be published. This fixes one of COTweeters’ weaknesses.
- Any tweet with “RT” in it, or “Follow Friday” (and variants) will be ignored.
- If @ColoradoTweets isn’t following you, you can tweet to it, but those tweets won’t be broadcast to the group until @ColoradoTweets follows you.
- Abusing the list with repetitive, promotional tweets, is a sure ticket to a blocking.
The goal here is to have a list that takes the pulse of Colorado folk on twitter, that can help people who have questions about something Colorado, and is interesting. Thoughts? Post ‘em here.
-Joe
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