May 2009
30 posts
“It Must Be A Camel” by Frank Zappa,...
Me: You know, when a lady stars six of your tweets she's obligated to give it up. It's like the third-date rule.
Wife: I don't know, I've starred @sween six times and I'm not ready to sleep with him.
Me: He's Canadian. They're on the metric system.
“Choosing friends based on proximity to your house is much odder than choosing...”
– @redrabbit: In defense of the tweetup This.
sniffyjenkins:
For thedza.
Apparently I say...
Twitter Tees
(WARNING: the following post is embarrassingly self-serving. Please forgive.)
So I decided it’s about time I started profiting from this internet-smartass gig, and since Twitshirt is a no-go, I signed up with Threadless.
Unfortunately, they don’t make it possible to see or vote on more than five of any user’s submitted tweets. They fixed it! So here’s my list of...
Twitshirt Responds
In response to my letter of ten days ago, I received this email from Twitshirt Services:
Thanks for your inquiry. We are not trying to be different in our Terms of Service. The terms on our site were provided to us by our legal team. We do have plans to revisit the terms so that they not only address the legality of the site, but also are written in layman’s terms so as to not scare off...
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I figured it out, guys
Find the woman who laughs the loudest at you when you do dumb stuff.
Marry that gorgeous creature.
I don’t know what this sickness is called
but it started with “Hey, if I buy wireless headphones I can listen to Jon Stewart while I do the dishes,” took a left turn through “★★ Nice use of multitouch, but I can’t hear my podcasts while I’m playing,” and I’m afraid it’s going to wind up with me face down in a puddle of Firefox tabs, CPU pegged, Refresh button in each hand, waiting for the...
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This Is Just To Say Yo
I have put some plums in your icebox
so you can have plums while you eat plums for breakfast
Forgive me but I heard you like plums dawg
Twitter Doesn’t Owe You Anything
Yesterday, Twitter made another in an ongoing series of ill-advised changes to their user experience, this one having to do with conversations. They cited user confusion as justification. In other words, it was All For Your Own Good.
Chaos erupted.
Twitter responded by explaining that No, We Meant Our Own Good, Because Writing Code Is Hard and no one fell for it. (How can just showing everything...
Solved?
strutting:
Tumblarity seems to be calculated for a recent period, maybe something even more reblogged that you did just expired. Chill, cousin.
delgrosso:
I posted seven times today.
Original text posts, original photos, a couple of reblogs, and even an audio post.
One of my posts was reblogged eleven times and was “liked” 53 times.
And yet my so-called “Tumblarity” has plummedted by 138...
Thoughts on Tumblarity
I emailed support@tumblr.com this morning. The following (slightly edited) is what I wrote.
I’ve been Tumbling for a week now. I just took a day off from posting stuff, and apparently that cost me almost half of my Tumblarity points.
How can this possibly mean anything? I post something, I get five or ten points. Someone follows me, I get three points (maybe). “Likes” seem to...
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I keep getting Tumblarity and Tumblality confused.
Remind me: which one is reblogged bunny photos per kilogram of Zooey Deschanel?
Open letter to Twitshirt
I’ve been rather vocal on Twitter about the abysmal terms of service Twitshirt expects authors to agree to. So I thought I’d try to get some answers. This is what I sent today, using their contact form:
First of all, kudos for switching to opt-in. It was the right thing to do. But what is going on with your terms of service?
They’re the most ridiculous terms I’ve ever...
Phone Call to the 14th Century: forty-three...
HELLO.
So I’m here now. That happened.
It’s all @lonelysandwich’s fault. He wrote this incredibly kind thing about me a few weeks ago, and I immediately resolved to get one of these Tumblrs as soon as they went on sale so I could give him a vigorous thanking. So before I start being funny—okay, mildly amusing—in long-form, I need to say a few things.
Adam Lisagor is the nicest guy in...