February 2012
1 post
January 2012
5 posts
A Message to Women From a Man: You Are Not "Crazy"... →
caro:
From last year, worth reading:
A remark intended to shut you down like, “Calm down, you’re overreacting,” after you just addressed someone else’s bad behavior, is emotional manipulation, pure and simple. And this is the sort of emotional manipulation that feeds an epidemic in our country, an epidemic that defines women as crazy, irrational, overly sensitive, unhinged. This epidemic...
December 2011
4 posts
September 2011
1 post
Tonight,
had wine + hor d’oeuvres with an ex-Olympian-turned-product-designer. His words:
1) Women are often better designers than men because they have more patience.
2) Make a lot of mistakes, but don’t make the same mistake twice.
August 2011
1 post
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
2 posts
May 2011
10 posts
“I get the The New York Times and Los Angeles Times thrown at my door every...”
– Aaron Sorkin (via soupsoup)
Sounds about right.
Me: Do you know what a hashtag is?
Hausmate: A stoned grandmother?
Me: No, not a hash hag. A hashtag.
Hausmate: I'm pretty sure it's some kind of food.
The Information Sage →
Edward Tufte occupies a revered and solitary place in the world of graphic design. Over the last three decades, he has become a kind of oracle in the growing field of data visualization—the practice of taking the sprawling, messy universe of information that makes up the quantitative backbone of everyday life and turning it into an understandable story. His four books on the subject have sold...
“Part of loving Los Angeles is differentiating between the bizarre and the...”
– Los Angeles-based actor and writer Tess Lynch. (via latimes)
April 2011
10 posts
Internet Lets a Criminal Past Catch Up Quicker →
I WAS TOTALLY A CALSO COUNSELOR WITH THIS WOMAN AT BERKELEY!!
California State Controller's Office: Local... →
latimes:
“A California park district general manager earned over $300,000 in total compensation in 2009, according to data released Tuesday by the state controller,” reports Sam Allen. “His compensation was published Tuesday along with those of thousands of other special district employees as a part of an ambitious database project led by state Controller John Chiang. The database, which was...
“You know the old adage that the customer’s always right? Well, I kind of think...”
– Charlie Trotter
March 2011
20 posts
The Futureheads’ Hounds of Love
1 tag
Soup: New York Times Paywall Announcement →
soupsoup:
Dear New York Times Reader, Today marks a significant transition for The New York Times as we introduce digital subscriptions. It’s an important step that we hope you will see as an investment in The Times, one that will strengthen our ability to provide high-quality journalism to readers around…
LA Marathon
latimes:
A 26.1 mile bike ride from downtown to Santa Monica? That’s downhill, right?
reblogged via jiachi:
The LA Marathon is this Sunday. Which means the streets will be closed off to vehicular traffic for 26.1 miles starting Sunday morning. Which means cyclists can ride the entire 26.1 miles from downtown LA to Santa Monica, without traffic or stop lights. Only once a year.
Tang’s...
“I wish I remember the last emergency interruption my mom made so that I could...”
– Michael K.
Matt Langer: Dollar Votes & The New Attention... →
langer:
My stepdad is an economist—or was, at least, before abandoning his post at the OMB when Reagan took over from Carter and asked his budget nerds to figure out how to reduce taxes and increase defense spending and balance the budget all at the same time and my stepdad was all “LOL WUT.” And…
“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of...”
– Marilyn Monroe
instant validation for irrationally bitchy women everywhere.
