Charlie: So, how’s the wife, kids?
Stan: Oh them.
Charlie: Something wrong?
Stan: Not at all, I just was confirming you meant them.
Charlie: Are you hinting at something?
Stan: Uh, no. Are you? I’m just making sure I can use the pronoun, “them.”
Charlie: … OK. So, how are they?
Stan: GOD, THEM?
Charlie: OK, what’s happening here?
Stan: Sorry the cat stepped on my caps lock key.
Charlie: We’re on the phone.
Stan: Can we talk about gambling yet?
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Shawn is an award winning filmmaker, an occasional comedic podcaster and a web developer.Credits
MorrisonFilm is using a modified Illusion theme by Hello New York.
Them
He was called in to audition for the Peter Criss role but landed Gene Simmons instead.
(Meet my awesome little cat, Freddy.)
Garrett Explains Cocoa Events
| Garrett: | think of events as things that might happen at any moment |
| Shawn: | yeah I get it now |
| Garrett: | but flipping a view is a direct action that always happens immediately |
| Garrett: | so it's not an event in these cases |
| Garrett: | now, to answer your question of "is that not an event"? |
| Garrett: | yes, in the generic sense of the word event |
| Garrett: | just like when i got a huge boner from watching a dog food commercial yesterday |
| Garrett: | that's technically an event |
| Garrett: | but i wouldn't want to fire off a notification about it |
| Shawn: | well, no you wouldn't |
| Shawn: | for a lot of reasons |
| Garrett: | actually, I'm wrong, that WOULD be a case for a notification |
| Garrett: | didAchieveAwkwardBoner |
I would never in a million years buy this, but I thoroughly enjoy staring as this picture and marveling at it’s existence. Perfect.
"Time sure does fly though, it’s crazy, do you realize a baby born on the day we did our first Tonight Show is now a slightly larger baby?"
— Conan O’Brien
Steve Jobs Does Laundry
From The Steve Jobs On Magazine Covers Page that John Gruber linked to the other day I came across this February 1996 Wired interview with Steve Jobs. For some reason I love reading really old articles about technology to see how right or wrong they were about what actually happened. The interview is completely fascinating. Jobs was still at NeXT and the web was brand new. I started quoting the article but found I was quoting everything, so you should just go read it. But here’s a few interesting ones:
I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals. As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups.
On technology improving (or not improving) education:
Lincoln did not have a Web site at the log cabin where his parents home-schooled him, and he turned out pretty interesting.
This surprising bit about school vouchers:
It’s a political problem. The problems are sociopolitical. The problems are unions. You plot the growth of the NEA [National Education Association] and the dropping of SAT scores, and they’re inversely proportional. The problems are unions in the schools. The problem is bureaucracy. I’m one of these people who believes the best thing we could ever do is go to the full voucher system.
On toilet paper:
I like the ones without the tulips.
And then on the last page of the interview, a whole section about Jobs buying a washing machine and how amazing his European washing machine is. Such a very Jobs conversation, yet I can’t quite picture Steve Jobs doing laundry.
70-Minute Video Review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
If you had the misfortune of seeing The Phantom Menace, watch this awesome, bizarre and totally devastating take-down of that crappy film.
Pepper Boy
Bill linked to his three all-time favorite SNL sketches the other day. All great choices but I forgot how good the Pepper Boy sketch was. Perfect escalation, awesome performances and one of those ideas everyone can relate to. So so good.
Burn it down
As the writer, you need to burn down houses. You need to push characters out of their safe places into the big scary world — and make sure they can never get back. Sure, their stated quest might be to get home, but your job is to make sure that wherever they end up is a new and different place.
