March 2010
37 posts
"RED" →
I went to see this last week. It was undeniably moving.
How we do things here....
ashellray: this is either going to be really good or really bad
sunnyca7: what?
ashellray: well i just threw a girl literally in off the streett
ashellray: to do my entire itinerary for DC
sunnyca7: hahahahahaha
ashellray: do you think she thinks i'm crazy
sunnyca7: yes but thats ok
ashellray: is her name kayla
ashellray: or kelsey?
sunnyca7: kelsey
ashellray: you sure?
sunnyca7: lol yes
ashellray: are you sure you're sure bec i'm going to say it now
ashellray: OUTLOUD
sunnyca7: i am SURE
ashellray: good dude this is just what they (NYU kids) need
ashellray: to dive in
ashellray: like you walk in gofg doors
ashellray: you be put to work
ashellray: just wait until later this afternoon when i compare us
ashellray: to rolfko
ashellray: you just wait
sunnyca7: to what?
sunnyca7: oh
sunnyca7: rothko?
ashellray: whatever that artist is
ashellray: yeah
“Don’t write a business plan; start building something with no capital and see if...”
– Dave McClure Keeps it Real on Boston Startup Panels | bostinnovation.com (via brooksjordan)
Fortune Favors The Bold: catbird: ... The quality... →
catbird:
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The quality of the metric (poor) is mitigated by the ease of collecting the data. Too bad it really is a Web 1.0 thing that everyone is still leaning on so heavily.
Does Facebook Connect help solve this problem? On top of being an Internet-wide identity service, it also can help…
This makes me so happy. Brian Van finally contributes something substantial to my...
The End Of The End...(but not really) →
What’s in store? The waking-from-winter-slumber kids at nightlife blog Guest of a Guest tracked down MacPherson, who explains: “We bought it and I plan on doing it and we will run it as is this season and reopen it as the new, improved Crow’s Nest next season.”
I love “the waking-from-winter-slumber kids” part. Oh Lock.
“The infinite is possible if we just keep following the good.”
– my sister.
Real Ben Folds Does Piano Improv Chatroulette -... →
skidder: Pretty awesome.
One day my kids will ask me what my life was like before them and I will point them to this and explain that march 2010 was a big deal at least. This Health Care Reform plan passed on the same weekend that Ben Folds Five played the piano to a man on a toilet over the web for a crowd of thousands.
And that, I will say, is the way things were.
“Listen, the way you do it is over, and you better get with it.”
– Dottie Herman, CEO of Prudential Douglas Elliman Realthy talking to her brokers
great piece on Lock too
Town Crier - Lockhart Steele - The Optimist’s Blogger - NYTimes.com
(via fred-wilson)
Looking good, Lock, looking good.
“Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have...”
– Bill Bryson. I miss seeing static.
“Planted like a mature oak along an old Indian footpath that became the Bowery,...”
– The Long Story of the Building at 104-106 Bowery.
Survivor: Intern
ashellray: dude diong thesse two sitesi s liek making my brain
ashellray: go insane
ashellray: too much going on with people
nervebilly: thank god chiara is back soon
ashellray: i just had 3 interns working on the same event
ashellray: (whoops)
ashellray: i dont know how to tell them
nervebilly: hahaha
ashellray: like there are three saks in dash
ashellray: ((((
ashellray: eek
nervebilly: you could make it like survivor: intern
nervebilly: all work on the same post
nervebilly: whoever has the best, gets published
ashellray: ha
“I have no context for it, but it looked like he was doing a rhetorical analysis...”
– David Foster Wallace had a heavily marked-up copy of Mary Higgins Clark’s Where Are The Children? (via) (via katiebakes)
I dont know how i feel about this. Shocked?
The Steven Rojas Channel On Women.
Installation art: And!
Installation art: Im Djing on Friday!
Installation art: you should
ashellray: err fridays are my nights in
Installation art: a. come
Installation art: b. dance
ashellray: i'll talk it over with simko
Installation art: c. drink shots
Installation art: d. hold me
ashellray: its tough to get us away from lifetime on fri.
Installation art: FROM WHAT?!
Installation art: tell me thats not some chick tv thing
ashellray: lifetime. television for women
Installation art: how about i show you the Steven Rojas channel. Televison on women
“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold,...”
– C. Dickens (via caryrandolph) (via minilaarni)
GofG Los Angeles..
While we wait for our editor to live out the remainder of her “2 weeks” at her old job, I’m just going to basically repost Ned Hepburn’s Tumblr mmmmkay?
“If you don’t want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well...”
– — Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius)
“Maybe the hardest part of leadership—be it leading a company, a family, a...”
– The Monster In Your Head (via fred-wilson)
"At Last - The Full Story Of How Facebook Was... →
Something tells me this is just the beginning. I will say this: money can’t buy you happiness or freedom. At the end of the day integrity, dignity, and all of those good traits to describe a just man can not be bought, sold or negotiated.
Stephanie Wei Gets An Article In Sports...
And I have to say that I am BEAMING with pride for her. Congrats Steph, this is well deserved. Your hard work is paying off and I am so happy for you!
stephaniewei:
From my profile on Moore in this week’s Sports Illustrated:
“When combined with the fact that they were this week unveiled as the...”
– The Independent today in a story titled “Is there anything the Winklevoss Twins can’t do?” LOL. I love the style of press pieces from the UK. It’s so…superlative in nature.
