Fact:
The more you try to make it clear that you’re not up for anything creepy, the more you’ll probably come across as creepy.
Subject: making Craigslist ads to offer free photos.
In my perfect world, AndrewAndrew review everything. It’s a shame their radio show isn’t put out as a podcast- I think it would be incredibly popular (among great people).
AndrewAndrew Dinner Theater reviews Phantom Killer now playing at the Abingdon Theater in New York City
Truly a government campaign that knows and doesn’t talk down to its citizenry.
Official Multnomah County (Portland) flu vaccine promotion.
Andrew W.K. - “Ready to Die” (2:55)
Not from the song, but a quote- case and emphasis as original,
“Why are you pretending that today doesn’t matter? Do not ignore it! IT MATTERS! What are we trying to prove? These are the actual DAYS OF OUR LIVES! YOU ARE LIVING YOUR LIFE TODAY! Everything you are doing, saying, and thinking! This is not a temporary time that we can mess around with! This is the whole thing! What are you going to do with it? What are you going to do in this crucial moment? This is serious! This is no exaggeration! It sounds dramatic and extreme? THIS IS EXTREME!!! This is THE day! This is TODAY! We have never been given today before! We hold it all in our hands! Go find a calendar and look at the date - whatever day it is, realize this: this day will never come again! There will never be another one of today! It is a one shot deal! What are you doing with it? What are you doing with your life? What are you doing TO your life? Imagine what other people would do with your life! Why do we waste our energy on stupid problems that mean nothing? Why do we waste it? Imagine what someone would give if they could live just one day in your life! How are you treating your life? Do even more! Take your starting point and push past it! Find something that is really hard and that you don’t think you’ll ever be able to accomplish - better yet, find something that will benefit more things and people than just you, and devote yourself to it! And don’t give up!”
93 days.
I just got off the phone with Andrew WK
It was everything. When there’s some person who inspires others and you say “I really appreciate what you do!” you don’t expect to hear “I know you, and liked your work so much that I shared it with others, let me get your mailing address” (obvious paraphrasing).
To quote the phrase we all used after last year’s MaxFunCon- It happened. And we were there.
I love the fact that this happened.
doug:
I’m not kidding. Here’s proof. The call was real, I answered.
I thanked him for coming to town back in June, and told him I took photos. He asked if there was an address for the photos I put up- when I told him the flickr handle, he knew who Douglas Dollars was and thanked me. Apparently my photos are likely in a book of sheet music that he’s mailing me next week, and the photos might possibly be in the new album but he couldn’t remember (I’ll find out when the album arrives in late February), and a couple magazines. Awesome!
I thanked him for staying strong with the recent troubles he’s had to deal with, and thanked him again for being a part of MaxFunCon.
p.s.: HAVE FUN, PARTY, NEVER LET DOWN, NEVER LET UP
- I have no idea when it was written.
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There was a point in January 2001 where I left Edmonton in the middle of the night without telling a single person, to move to the west coast. Everything in that letter would have been 100% applicable.
- I very well might have written Andrew W.K. in high school. I was a big fan. She is Beautiful put a lot into focus in those days.
- I just found that note tonight.
Right now it’s a mixed feeling of ‘creepy’ and whatever ‘destiny’ is. All up in here.
Sage Francis - “Underground For Dummies” (4:14)
This was a great part of the winter around 2007. Sage Francis, laying down his career in rap. (So far.)
All the live-long day
- Helped re-launch two small sites
- Found a fantastic mailing list provider that doesn’t get in the way
- Started laundry
- Got the Criterion release of Hunger ten days early
- About to make a soup
Rudy Vallée, scandalmaker and corruptor of women and girls. (A cocksmith.)
RIDDLE ME THIS:
- Would you tell someone their grandfather died (six months ago) if the living person purposely avoided contact with the now-deceased?
- What if the situation were the same but the deceased was the person’s father?
My thoughts: It’s not my place to alert someone of something they didn’t ask for/purposely avoided, despite their genetic connection.
I DEMAND (and appreciate) YOUR THOUGHTS
Tumblr let me take answers?
An example sample of "professional" development
Here is some login form code from a developer I’m sure gets paid $60-70,000 yearly by this company.
function validate(text1,text2,text3,text4)
{
if (text1==text2 && text3==text4)
load(‘success.htm’);
else
{
load(‘failure.htm’);
}
}
As ever, ‘seniority’ doesn’t count what you’ve learned or how you apply it, only the number of years keeping a chair warm and finding ways to ‘play it safe.’ The example above is from a man who took three days to complete the famous 5 Minute Wordpress install, and did so without consequence.
When he was asked why he did what had, he said because “they didn’t really need a login.” Also known as “I’m too lazy a developer to spend two hours doing this in a proper way that protects our partners, so I’ll just add a single javascript function and spend the next two hours taking cigarette breaks.”
For those who don’t do web work at all: Imagine going to a secret clubhouse- the doorman says “What’s the password?” and you don’t have it. You could keep guessing and he’d keep denying you, but at the same time he’s also more than willing to let you look at his clipboard where in large letters it’s written “THE PASSWORD IS ABC123 AND THERE’S ALSO NO SECURITY AT THE SIDE DOOR.”
There are a few ways that what he did is offensive to those who make a living from the web and creating for it, but the part that bothers me is that this is the sort of thing that someone learns on their first day of basic web scripting and shouldn’t need to steal from a free site 5+ years into a job. He didn’t even put effort into stealing it- that page is literally the first Google result when searching “javascript login script.”
Marc Maron in the latest episode of his WTF podcast, on the subject of it being perfectly legal to exchange money for sexual acts if you’re filming it. If you don’t film it, it’s prostitution.
Of course, we all know this, it just sometimes re-rattles my brains when I remember that this is the nature of the legal system and then think “Seriously, what the fuck?”
I just got off the phone with Andrew WK
I’m not kidding. Here’s proof. The call was real, I answered.
I thanked him for coming to town back in June, and told him I took photos. He asked if there was an address for the photos I put up- when I told him the flickr handle, he knew who Douglas Dollars was and thanked me. Apparently my photos are likely in a book of sheet music that he’s mailing me next week, the photos might possibly be in the new album but he couldn’t remember (I’ll find out when the album arrives in late February), and a couple magazines. Awesome!
I thanked him for staying strong with the recent troubles he’s had to deal with, and thanked him again for being a part of MaxFunCon.
p.s.: HAVE FUN, PARTY, NEVER LET DOWN, NEVER LET UP
