September 2007
tiffehr: @KuraFire Happy Birthday! So your quarter-life crisis will be moving to the States, or have you scheduled something else? (via Twitter / tiffehr)
tiffehr: @chipd Did you do the Ferris Bueller look-down while up in Sears tower? (via Twitter / tiffehr)
tiffehr: “Coming up next is Kevin Costner in——” *click!* TV power off. (via Twitter / tiffehr)
Sep 30, 2007: Klaxons
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 30TH
MONQUI PRESENTS
KLAXONS
$15.00 ADV / $17.00 DOS & AT THE DOOR
DOORS AT 8PM - ALL AGES
TICKETS ON SALE SATURDAY AUGUST 4TH AT 10AM.
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tiffehr: A bit creeped out that “Silence of the Lambs” on TNT resumed in *exactly* the same spot as when I shut off the TV yesterday. Exact same. (via Twitter / tiffehr)
It came from the conference room…
I’m writing my next PayScale story, and I need anecdotes about your worst workplace meeting ever! I’ve been in meetings where someone fell asleep (OK, it was me), the person who called the meeting had no idea why we were all there, the meeting went on so long we all had to work overtime to get our daily to-do lists done…but that’s nothing new. What nightmares have you experienced in the conference...
Drinking Hard Or Hardly Drinking?
Special thanks to Lori Barrett for the nice mention in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal. The other night I was having a beer and watching the Cubs stagger towards the playoffs. It suddenly occurred to me that I had never posted songs about drinking. Now I have. Bruce Lash “Alabama Song” (comp. Kurt Weill) This piano-jazz arrangement of the old classic is a refreshing change from...
tiffehr: Epic gay karaoke at the Crescent. Why don’t I live in this dive bar?! (via Twitter / tiffehr)
McDonalds Billboard
Not sure wha the deal is here or what “YASS” means but, this billboard for McDonalds is hillarious. “My Ass Opens at 6am”
Found at: AdLand
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tiffehr: Mix-a-lot should judge everything in Seattle. (via Twitter / tiffehr)
tiffehr: All Seattle is lining Fremont street. This is amazing. Evisently The City was itching for a Soapbox derby. Go figure. (via Twitter / tiffehr)
tiffehr: Slowest bus toward Fremont to date. 45th & 50th both backed up into the U District…prolly due to Soapbex derby, which I’m missing. (via Twitter / tiffehr)
tiffehr: Having seen @jcroft out on the town, I can vouch for the fact he had a shirt on most of the time in which we were in the same joint (10min). (via Twitter / tiffehr)
tiffehr: Phone dying in the middle of a Twitterable evening. Shit. Gerald Levert FTW. (via Twitter / tiffehr)
tiffehr: At Owl & Thistle, listening to pro bartenders go through the economics of their regulars. *In*teresting stuff. (via Twitter / tiffehr)
tiffehr: “Oh does they.” Rallying up some energy after a mostly massage-oriented physical therapy session that about put me to sleep. (via Twitter / tiffehr)
Words to live by, Russian billionaire edition
“If you say ‘ah’, and put your finger into the mouth of some animal, you have to be sure you can pull it out again,” [Russian billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov] said.
Via Reuters.
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“Boxer “Sugar” Shane Mosley is alleged to have used BALCO designer...”
– I was wondering when boxing would be tied to BALCO. ESPN Boxing
Dungeon Family - Crooked Booty
I blame the gospel riff for wishing this song was played in church. (via Songs picked by tiffehr)
tiffehr: @katy I want a picture of Baby James in a hot-dog costume. Can’t wait for post-Halloween, now. (via Twitter / tiffehr)
tiffehr: Rallying up some stuff to do this weekend *besides* working on my house. (via Twitter / tiffehr)
“Not Unpleasant” is Not Enough
An article in the New York Times the other day discusses a study that suggests that there are differences between men and women in how pleasant or unpleasant they find certain normal everyday activities. Apparently, for example, men find spending time with their parents far more pleasant then women do, while men disproportionally dislike home repair work (so much for the handyman husband!). What...
tiffehr: @jcroft You’ll stop saying “weather permitting” soon enough. The weather’s never really permitting except 3 weeks in August. (via Twitter / tiffehr)
Mark Simonson Studio: Frutiger Talk
Absolutely fucking great PDF to be found after the jump, a must read for designophiles (via Tiffehr’s shared items in Google Reader)
Pix Plz
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tiffehr: Pilates and PT is limited when you’re nursing an injury. But my hamstrings need the stretch attention—I can play “Freebird” on the bastards. (via Twitter / tiffehr)
Oct 6, 2007: Archaeology Day
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Oct 5, 2007: The Saturday Knights
The Saturday Knights featuresuspence, Barfly, Tilson and Brian Weber.
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Q gotta be kidding
Last Friday’s New York Times had an article about QVC, described as “the leading home shopping network”. QVC is one of those boring abbreviation names—it stands for “Quality, Value, Convenience”. Apparently QVC wants to jazz up its image with a rebranding of sorts, and has a new ad campaign prominently featuring the letter Q. The Times quoted Jeff Charney, QVC’s chief marketing officer: “We’d...
“Hi, Hope you are fine. Enjoy the fall. Jackie”
– My mom, via e-mail. “Bevity is the source of wit and/or forgetting who you’re writing to.”
Rare but it happens: Today's McSweeney's lists... →
tiffehr: Both dissappointed & relieved that hydrocodone, much like other opiates, has no strong effect on me. Calling doc for something stronger. (via Twitter / tiffehr)
Jim Cramer says don’t buy now…except for Seattle.
On the Today show yesterday, Jim Cramer from Mad Money told Meredith Viera ”Don’t you dare buy now…you will lose money”. This enraged Realtor Associations across the country who have blasted back that this is a “buyer’s market” and have demanded to NBC that Cramer correct his statements.
Cramer discusses slumping homes market This morning on CNBC Squak on the Street, Cramer was asked if he...
Loved Ones Recall Local Man's Cowardly Battle With... →
A tribute recommended to me by my brother, the empathetic bastard.
tiffehr: Trying to sit very, very still…though I did cash in my hydrocodone prescription, which is waiting out my pain threshold in the kitchen. (via Twitter / tiffehr)
tiffehr: @jcroft Dude, you couldn’t spell my name if you had to. And I would box if I were you. I’ll bet you’d be an inside-range terror. (via Twitter / tiffehr)
tiffehr: @jcroft What, you bowing out of my hypothetical boxing tournament? I’d be ref’ing, not competing. (via Twitter / tiffehr)
tiffehr: @jcroft There’s already a good-sized clamoring. I kinda feel like making people box for ‘em, if I don’t actually follow my doctor’s advice. (via Twitter / tiffehr)
Oct 15, 2007: Seattle Lunch 2.0 @ Widemile
Of course the usual Lunch 2.0 style get together, some yummy Northwest Cuisine (in the works), and to top that cool of a lunch off….. Ian Lurie of Portent Interactive & Robert Bergquist of Widemile will give us the real run down on how to get people engaged on our sites…. so bring your 80hr homegrown project or 80k seed funded project and get some free tips on how to make a bigger...
Nov 9, 2007: Seattle Lunch 2.0 @ Google
Yeah!! Google is going to host one of our Seattle Lunch 2.0 events!! Of course they are on the eastside (and other eastsiders are encouraged to host)….
We will get to hear from John Blackburn a Software Engineer at Google who is part of the Webmaster Tools team, helping
webmasters to improve their traffic by understanding how their sites perform. He’ll be talking about none other...
“10. Blinking images.
Sometimes you just want to read the content of a web-site...”
– Smashing Magazine doesn’t like our ads. Well I don’t like their delayed image loading in my reader! So there. 10 Usability Nightmares You Should Be Aware Of
Oct 12, 2007: thingamajiggr
Thingamajiggr, a unique event co-hosted by O’Reilly Radar and Waggle Labs celebrating Seattle’s tech scene with great people, innovative technology, and grooving DJs. Tickets are $15 and available at http://thingamajiggr.com
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tiffehr: My topical anasthesia is wearing off. “Smarting” should be the middle value on the 1-to-10 likert scales of pain. Eh -> Smarting -> … (via Twitter / tiffehr)
Chart Junk in the New York Times
By Nat Torkington
Checking out the New York Times’s infographic on the housing bubble, I thought “wow! Look at how much prices climbed!”. Then I read the fine print and realized they’ve completely distorted the vertical scale to make the increase look enormous.
The Y-axis is the house price. 100=the 1987 price of a house, so if in 1992 the line of the graph is at...
tiffehr: Enjoying the concept of a prescription for vicodin, but too paranoid of the druggy feeling to have it filled. (via Twitter / tiffehr)
Sep 29, 2007: Friends of The Seattle Public...
More than 250,000 books, CDs, DVDs, records, videos, sheet music, art prints and posters will sell for bargain prices at the 2007 Friends of The Seattle Public Library Fall Book Sale, scheduled for Sept. 28-30.
Paperbacks will sell for 50 cents and oversized paperbacks will sell for 75 cents. Most hardback books will sell for $1. There will be a section of “better books” priced...
Che Mens Magazine
Agency: Duval Guillaume, Antwerp, Belgium
Client contact: Tatjana Vandeplas
Account Director: Patrick Clymans
Creative Directors: Geoffrey Hantson, Dirk Domen
Art Director: Sebastien De Valck
Copywriter: Kristof Snels
Photographer: Koen De Muynck
Found at: AdsoftheWorld
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