February 2012
4 posts
economic/jerk indicator
lindsayrobertson:
If I’ve learned anything from an impulsive Craig’s List search RSS feed I forgot to delete three months ago, it’s that everyone in the NY Metro area thinks they can charge full retail price minus $50 for a 2-year-old Crate and Barrel Petrie sofa with stains on it. And that all of these unbelievably confident people appear to be male.
Passive Anestness
The Nest is supposed to “learn” how to heat your house. But how can it when you and your partner constantly log in to your shared Nest account to change the thermostat schedule - radically (without telling each other)?
January 2012
6 posts
“With only 5% of its liquidity, Apple could spark a complete resurgence to...”
– Interesting take from Brad over at The Next Web. Click through for an attempt at breaking down the numbers. What are the odds of Apple actually considering this?
MG?
How Apple Can Solve a PR Nightmare
(via david-noel)
It’s funny, Emma and I were JUST talking about this. But I do think a lot of...
My parents were out to brunch (?!) with their friends and my mom iMessaged me a photo of her dessert. And yes, she does have an Instagram account. #65yearoldhipster
Binary Thinking Update →
Someone just released the thing I was asking for at CES in my last post!
Binary Thinking
[I don’t know why I’m jotting down my thoughts on this ideal little gadget, but if it exists, please let me know! I just haven’t been able to find anything like it out there.]
THE FUTURE IS NOW.
Back in 1999 I made a PowerPoint presentation (lollollz) about Home Automation for the “Technology + Its Humanistic Implications” (also lollollz) grad school class I took as...
December 2011
11 posts
the others
My last name is relatively rare in the world of Mc’s. (It actually means “son of the black hearted” in Irish. Sounds like me, right?)
So somehow my sister got included on an email discussion about another family’s upcoming Christmas that included an email address of a [sharedfirstinitial][sharedlastname]@gmail.com.
She asked to be removed from the list, but they’ve...
I wrote a post about throwing up and you didn’t have to read about it.
I have never told my friends in real life about this Tumblr. (Why would I? It’s not like it’s my livejournal or diaryland of yore. Those were consistently updated with real thoughts and feelings.) And only like 5 people who I really know have Tumblrs and I followed them and they followed me back.
What I’m saying is, barely anyone reads this and there was no reason to create...
I love A/B testing in MailChimp. It’d be great if they did A/B/C testing.
Robert Spychala: Installing The Nest The Hard Way →
robspychala:
Why the hard way? Well, if you’re gonna bring the dry wall cement and paint out, you might as well do a couple things!
Last week we got the Nest and I decided we would need to paint the area where the previous thermostat was. You can do without this if you choose to use some of the braces that…
Robert installed the Nest! As well as a tremendously regrettable dimmer that...
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Now that I’m pregnant and over the really debilitating morning sickness I had (“morning sickness” is a misleadingly tepid phrase; throwing up 3 times a day, throughout the day! and not being able to leave my house was incisively awful), I’m pretty sure I need to start a Tumblr that documents all the food (so much more than I used to eat how is that possible) I’m...
November 2011
7 posts
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If you've been thinking about the 99.9%...
this is an excellent article to read. I had time to kill in the airport so I bought a hard copy of Foreign Affairs (one of the most balanced publications that covers domestic issues, ironically), but if you don’t have access to the entire journal, you can buy a PDF of the article here for $2.95.
October 2011
2 posts
sunday as saturday; winter as fall
Drinking tea and watching Downton Abbey (Season 2, pirated; thank you Edith!) in bed; peeking at the snow between episodes; pondering making a fire this afternoon; wondering if I should leave the house to get ingredients for Pumpkin Bread Pudding with Caramel Sauce, which I shall bring to a horror movie fest I’m attending tomorrow.
September 2011
2 posts
August 2011
7 posts
Wow, the town I grew up skiing in in New York is totally wrecked by Irene.
I haven’t told my parents yet (they still have a place up there) because their basement is flooded and they have no electricity. And they are only 15 miles from Greenpoint.
Feeling pretty grateful we fared well here in the city.
“The equilibrium or balance, so to speak, between his intellectual faculties and animal propensities, seems to have been destroyed. He is fitful, irreverent, indulging at times in the grossest profanity…, manifesting but little deference for his fellows, impatient of restraint or advice when it conflicts with his desires, at times pertinaciously obstinate, yet capricious and...
Just deleted a self-righteous post about the hurricane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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faxin' and relaxin'
Applying for a mortgage has seen me faxing something every week, if not multiple times a day. HelloFax has made this process so much less painless. You can save a digital signature (that you write with your mouse; mine looks like a 3-year-old attempted a John Hancock) and insert it along with basic texts and fonts.
You can then email or, of course, fax your fax.
best Long Island beach →
In my opinion, anyway. And I have opinions about LI beaches. (I love them.)
July 2011
5 posts
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June 2011
7 posts
http://www.meetup.com/North-Brooklyn-Breakfast-Club... →
Come to tomorrow’s North Brooklyn Breakfast Club at Enid’s. Ten dollars* gets you a lovely breakfast buffet, and we have Bnter, Skillshare and LetsClique all presenting. It’s all very casual and everyone who attends is nice and friendly and interesting. Every single one of them! Including you. 9:30am.
*All proceeds go to cover the cost of Enid’s food + staff.
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My father’s law partner helped me with a contract (for licensing Jauntsetter content) and addressed me as “Doothy” in the email.
Wildfire
Looks like a cool product and I wanted to try it to help a really amazing giveaway I’m doing get more exposure outside my subscriber base. Unfortunately, they demand data sharing up to a white labeled level. I will not share my readers’ email addresses (or let them completely scrape readers’ FB profiles for their own benefit). White labeled campaigns start at 5k for 3 months. Too...
psa
Update: I have gotten some concerned emails re: the last post and stitches. I’m sorry, I realize now that this post is way too vague and possibly dramatic on that point. They were planned stitches! From a surgeon because I had some mole biopsies that came back abnormal.
I suppose this is as good a time as any to remind you to make an appointment with your dermatologist if you haven’t...