We acquired some new technology after the launch of our iphone app. (at Fancy Hands)
Today we released the Fancy Hands iPhone app!
It’s incredible. Everyone came to together to get this right. Very psyched.
Of the 19 albums to sell more than 900,000 in a single week, Timberlake holds three slots.
— Timberlake’s ‘20/20’ Album Sells 968K in 1st Week - NYTimes.com
The very first scene from The Wire.
Christ knows I quote it enough that it’s worth a relink.
As David Simon now famously said:
[The Wire is] really about the American city, and about how we live together. It’s about how institutions have an effect on individuals. Whether one is a cop, a longshoreman, a drug dealer, a politician, a judge or a lawyer, all are ultimately compromised and must contend with whatever institution they are committed to.
I spend most of my day in Emacs, which is the only text editor ever invented.
— Ted Roden, Vim lover. (via soxiam)
(via soxiam)
Francis and the Lights - If They Don’t Come Tomorrow
I search for this song about once a week. Trying to find out when I’ll be able to buy a legit (non-youtube) version. Finally, an answer:
There’s a house up here in Washington Heights, off 162nd [Street] and Edgecombe Avenue, called the Morris-Jumel Mansion. The house was George Washington’s impromptu headquarters as he and his men ran for their lives from the 32,000 British troops storming Manhattan during the American Revolution. Years later, after the war was won, it was the site of Washington’s first cabinet meeting as President. Around this dining table, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson began catching beef, their arguments slowly coalescing into the two-party debates we continue to have today. In later years, it would become the home of prostitute-turned-socialite-turned-widow Eliza Jumel—the rumor is she allowed her husband to bleed to death, inheriting his fortune—and her second husband, former Vice President and famous Hamilton-murderer Aaron Burr. Their marriage lasted a year in this home, during which Burr spent a lot of her money and bounced. Why is New York City the greatest city in the world? Because this is the partial story of just one random block in Washington Heights. Imagine the hundreds of thousands of stories that happened on the very street on which you may be reading this. We are the topmost layer of the most exciting city in the world, and just by living here and surviving, our story becomes a New York story. What’s better than that?
— Lin-Manuel Miranda, playwright - Why notable New Yorkers think NYC is the greatest city
U.S Secretary of State John Kerry said that the ex-Chicago Bulls player ”was a great basketball player, and as a diplomat, he was a great basketball player.
Chances of winning are pun in a million.
If there is a locked door in your home and there is even a remote possibility that the person you’re currently dating is behind that door and could be immediately killed by the bullets you fire at the door, try not to fire a gun directly at that door.
— The Onion’s Tips For Not Accidentally Murdering Your Girlfriend
I don’t have a trophy room. Some of them go up in my office, which I think is an appropriate place to intimidate businesspeople. Which is my aim in life.
Jordan is 50 tomorrow. Which apparently means I’m going to read 50K words on him this weekend.
Just watched my first episode of house of cards. I’m suddenly very excited for arrested development.
