We lost our first and second games but clobbered the team we played in the third game.
I rolled in Games 2 and 3.
Game 2 opponents were The Gutterfingers. Also a pun involving the butter/gutter thing. And they’re a nice team, too. They were fun to bowl against. I rolled a 103. Not horrible, but not [...]
On Copy Editing – washingtonpost.com
I need to read this when I have more time.
(tags: copyediting WashingtonPost newspapers grammar language )
I Saw Your Nanny-Report Bad Nannies
In this rant about Park Slope nannies, I love the phrase “the secret grease of pungent ethnic food.” It’s like poetry. Albeit weird racist poetry.
(tags: nannies parenting ParkSlope Brooklyn NYC )
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I have a rule. If I don’t know you and you favorite one of my Flickr pix and don’t have any photos available publicly yourself, I BLOCK YOUR ASS. Especially if you have no profile info filled out and/or no contacts. I don’t think it’s in the spirit of the Flickr community. And more important, [...]
Ed calls it “Serious Eats World Headquarters,” but I just prefer “the office,” which I think gives the whole operation more legitimacy. Not that it’s not legit, just that people already think blogging is not real work.
[Serious Eats World Headquarters, on Flickr]
Flickr Next Page Prefetch – Userscripts.orgPrefetches the "Next" page in Flickr to browse photos seamlessly. Works for any page that has a "Next" link in Flickr. Navigating to the Next page without re-rendering the whole page (when "Next" becomes pink).(tags: Flickr:Hacks Flickr greasemonkey )
Flickr Auto PageRemoves the need to paginate in Flickr. [...]
Clone Shot Video Tutorial
How to make composite “multiple exposure” shots in Photoshop. Trying to figure out how I can apply this to pizza-related photos.
(tags: Photoshop photography videos how-to )
Rick-Roll-A-Gram: Send a Rick Roll Singing Telegram
I love how rickrolling has moved from online meme to real-life moneymaking scheme. This is the guy Robyn’s friends hired for [...]
I’ve probably complained about this before, but I just don’t understand why Delicious doesn’t use a tagging protocol similar to Flickr’s.
When I tag on Flickr, I can use multiple words and string them together as one tag using quotation marks, e.g., “New Madrid” will function as a single tag.
On Delicious, tags are “space delimited,” so [...]
David Pogue’s Gadget List of 2008
He recommends a Nikon D80 for dSLR and Canon SD890 (5X optical zoom) or the SD950 for PnS. I’ll have to look into the former two.
(tags: cameras photography technology gear )
How to Be a Good Intern
Seventeen great tips. (Well, maybe more like 15—you could omit Nos. 9 and 11, which [...]
he sings, originally uploaded by raphael_brion.
Robyn’s friends from Norway arranged to have her rickrolled via singing telegram for her birthday. The guy showed up at Serious Eats HQ just a little bit ago. Unfortunately, I am working from home and missed it. Fortunately, Raphael shot video of the craziness, so we all will get to [...]
Seinfeld to shill for MicrosoftSays the "New York Post": "After being mocked mercilessly in Apple's ads, Microsoft is eager to get the last laugh by hiring iconic funnyman Jerry Seinfeld to star in its upcoming ad blitz." The story asks whether Seinfeld will resonate with younger viewers, who know him only from reruns and says [...]