The online fonds

Lifeblock Rules

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:26:43 -0400

I recently installed Leechblock on Firefox so that I may better stay Highly Focused at all times and I am totally digging it. I’ve got it set so that Monday-Friday I get 10 minutes per hour on tumblr, livejournal, google reader, flickr, goodreads, facebook and twitter TOGETHER. Thumbs up.

But now with less internet time to distract me from the pain of life, I’m noticing all these other situations in my life that I wish I could apply Leechblock rules to. E.g.:

No more than 5 minutes/night spent lying awake unable to sleep because I’m obsessing over stupid awkward shit from grades K-12

Only 1 minute/week to Google people I’m not friends with any more

Only 3 minutes/week for eating dairy

At any given restaurant, no more than 3 minutes to look at a menu and decide what I want to eat

Only allowed to walk down the candy aisle at Walgreen’s once/month

No thinking about turning around and going through the drive-thru for the 5 minutes after I drive past a Dunkin Donuts

What else.

I've been asking variations on these two questions lately

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:08:35 -0400

Can you ever stop loving someone?

What happens when the passing of time doesn’t make it better but makes it worse?

This being a grown-up stuff is hard shit.

Stuff White People Like: #81 Graduate School

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:50:32 -0400

Stuff White People Like: #81 Graduate School: I’d like to point out that my grad degree is professionally oriented and I hate academia. But you can make fun of me anyway.

From the best of Craigslist... just frakking frak me, already.

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:06:01 -0400

From the best of Craigslist... just frakking frak me, already.

Part I

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:08:00 -0400

Everyone has lenses through which they view the world. This is the first installment of pieces of culture that have stuck with me and remained vital to my understanding of what it is to be human. I want to make a kind of database of the “essential culture” of my friends and myself, so if you have some, e-mail me. I want to collect and document this as a project over the summer.

- “Under Pressure” by Queen and David Bowie

- Guernica by Pablo Picasso

- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

- The Last Question by Isaac Asmiov

- The complete filmography of Stanley Kubrick

- almost every mythology of all cultures that I come across

"So it turns out that you don’t have to be dead to be a ghost. “Oooooh,” he said...."

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:20:15 -0500

“So it turns out that you don’t have to be dead to be a ghost. “Oooooh,” he said. He rattled some chains. “Oooooh.””

- Gillan - Hauntings

We Feel Fine / by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:57:00 -0500

We Feel Fine / by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar

Ahappy

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:47:56 -0500

Ahappy

"My name is Bret Gillan. I am completely invulnerable. I use this power to become a star of..."

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:33:34 -0500

“My name is Bret Gillan. I am completely invulnerable. I use this power to become a star of television and movies. One of my greatest stunts is being dropped into the Grand Canyon from a helicopter.”

- Gillan - If I had a superpower

"An economist returns to visit her old school. She’s interested in the current exam questions..."

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:07:47 -0500

““An economist returns to visit her old school. She’s interested in the current exam questions and asks her old professor to show her some. To her surprise, they are exactly the same questions that she answered 10 years ago. When she asks the professor about this, he says: ‘The questions are always the same. Only the answers change!’” The professor’s reply should be your guiding meditation in the coming week, Virgo. Your most enduring uncertainties are inviting you to seek new solutions. Questions that have tormented and tantalized you for a long time will respond revealingly to your fresh probes.”

- Free Will Astrology : Virgo Horoscope

Photo

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:25:22 -0500

"Wild Turkey opened with familiar crowd pleaser “Wow, That Shit Is Harsh,” before..."

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:31:50 -0500

“Wild Turkey opened with familiar crowd pleaser “Wow, That Shit Is Harsh,” before segueing into the usual set list of “Woo Hoo!,” “Damn, I Am Duh-Runk,” “I Love You, Man,” and “Woo Hoo, Motherfuckers!” Unfortunately, the band chose this time to bring out some new material, and the crowd’s disappointment was difficult to conceal.”

- Alex Balk
(I was totally reminded by Maura just now on the awesomeness of Mr. Balk. I am forgetful sometimes.)

6-alarm fire: torontoist

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:22:00 -0500

6-alarm fire: torontoist

electric sheep

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:38:00 -0500

I am convinced my iPod is sort of sentient or the musical algorithms that Apple is using for ‘random’ is not as random as you’d think.

how else can my iPod read my mind some days? It’s insane.

Self censorship

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:36:50 -0500

There is nowhere I can write online and feel completely comfortable, including here.

I see kids in libraries in their teens, happily posting on Beebo or Facebook or whatever catches their fancy. And all I can think is kid you know that’s forever right? Please please please don’t use your real name.

Even nameless blogs aren’t entirely unknown.

If I were at all academically minded (totally not) I would do some kind of thesis on the concept of privacy with 13-18 year olds. It fascinates me that they seemingly overwhelmingly are aware but just don’t care that much.

Whereas you’ll have to pry my Moleskine from my cold dead hands.

It smells like God's vagina.

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:44:58 -0500

Paul found this. Awesome.

M.I.A. “Paper Planes”

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:01:19 -0500

M.I.A. “Paper Planes”

You can’t watch this if you’re a BSG fan without...

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:39:51 -0500

You can’t watch this if you’re a BSG fan without shrieking with glee. Well, at least I can’t.

Teaser, but read it all

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:06:36 -0500

kfan:

In all seriousity, is there a worse holiday than Valentine’s Day… I was trying to book a hotel room for a client who’s coming to town tonight, and every single hotel room in town is totally booked up. How gross is that. I would hate to work in guest services on February 15th, that’s all I can say about that.

Otis Redding - I’ve Been Loving You Too Long

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:01:13 -0500

Otis Redding - I’ve Been Loving You Too Long