On typing in all caps
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
Some say typing in all caps is the refuge of the elderly and those who don’t know any better. They’re right. It’s great fun to pretend you’re old and you don’t know any better.
Archive for the 'Joe' category
On internet nastiness
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Long quote here froma good article about what gets rewarded online and what that results in:
You simply can’t have a system which rewards nastiness over niceness and which offers no consequences for those who commit cowardly anonymous attacks and then act surprised when people don’t know where to draw the line. And if it carries [...]
I wish I knew the source of this awesome photo of a…
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
…. snail riding a baby turtle came from,
because then I would link to it.
UPDATE: Robin (in the comments below) found the source. Plus, you can buy it. Go and buy this awesome photo here, and see more great photos by that photographer (he’s from Tunisia) here.
John Wenzel wrote a book about indie comedy.
Sunday, November 30th, 2008
John Wenzel wrote a book about indie comedy. It was published this month. I started reading the book this week, and I noticed that Mr. Wenzel likes to put funny or not-so-funny asides in the last sentence of paragraphs. Mr. Wenzel writes about music for The Denver Post. The book, Mock Stars: Indie Comedy [...]
My awesome list of links is now on twitter.
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
I keep a collection (now more than 150 strong) of links to things I think are awesome. These links are the best of the random stuff I run across on the internet. Now you can follow my list of awesome links on twitter. If you don’t have twitter and do have a web feed reader, [...]
The OC Register has a great slideshow of fire photos
Sunday, November 16th, 2008
This is one of my favorites, it’s of a rabbit that was saved from the fire:
See the whole slideshow of fire photos from the OC Register here.
One note: The way their slideshow is laid out makes it really easy to accidentally click on the ads. Be careful.
Some songs I might play after I get done with all the election-work stuff
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Inspired by Matt Waite, and the two-cd mix I made before the 2004 elections (one mix for if Bush one, and one for if Kerry), this is the list of five songs I might play when I get home from work tomorrow night.
The Beach Boys – Lets go away for a while
The Mountain Goats – [...]
God Hates Signs
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon,
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
bacon. I’ve been using that word a lot this week. This month. Yeah, really, this year. This week the new band I’m in, The Bacon Lobby, released our first song and music video. It’s called Bacon Man, and it’s about Obama. Sometimes we call it Obama Bacon Man. It goes “O–bama bacon man, make it [...]
The game I’m playing with the debates tonight: Heard-Word Poetry
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
This is how it works: The goal is to make poems. With the words you hear from the debates.
The rules are simple: You can’t take a word that was said later and put it before a word that was said earlier. That’s the only rule. Pick and choose your words like a poet. Have [...]
