January 2012
Daddy-Kaylee Dinner At Target. Her Choice.
Me: So, why do you like to go to Target for dinner.
Kaylee: I like their pizza.
Me: But you got the mac and cheese.
Kaylee: I know.
Me: ...
“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”
– Jonathan Swif
“An ad should contain the truth and nothing but the truth. The whole truth,...”
– Lee Clow’s Beard (via stuffbyberry)
“I am a lousy copywriter, but I am a good editor. So I go to work editing my own...”
– David Ogilvy
Kindle Book On Hold
I just tried to check the Kindle version of an eBook book out from my library (a very cool feature). It’s on hold.
I can enter my email address (why isn’t it on file since I already had to log in?) and be notified when it’s available to be checked out again. Because it’s on hold.
Let me just say that again: eBook. On hold.
I know the answer is “DRM”. But...
I've Turned My Daughter Into A Skyrim Geek
Ali: [while walking to school] ...and so then Sophia G told me that—
Me: Nirnroot!
Ali: ...
Me: It's a weed, but it looks like Nirnroot.
Ali: [pauses] I don't hear it. [launches right back into her story]
“I see a year filled with adventure and delight. I see a year filled with topless...”
– Ten Sexy Ladies, “2012”
Yep. That about sums up my new year’s resolutions.
“I know a song that gets on everybody’s nerves and it gets on mine.”
– Kaylee, singing.
“The mega fudge cookies are not as mega fudge as you’d think.”
– Ali
“The problem with Malfoy is that he’s Malfoy.”
– Ali
“When did we lose Congress? Not just in terms of losing our respect for just...”
– Seth Godin
Also:
It occurred to me that we learned a lot about what sort of behaviors make for great leaders and careers. The short version: do the opposite.
Then he provides a list of said behaviors. :-)
“I want them to remember that lawmakers and lobbyists who don’t understand the...”
– Erik Martin, reddit general manager, telling us what he thinks you should take away from today’s Internet blackouts. (via newsweek)
Let’s try it a few more ways too:
“I want them to remember that lawmakers and lobbyists who don’t understand healthcare have no business trying to regulate it.”
“I...
Dave Barry’s Year in Review: The 2011 Festival of... →
An annual classic.
As the year wore on, frustration finally boiled over in the form of the Occupy Various Random Spaces movement, wherein people who were sick and tired of a lot of stuff finally got off their butts and started working for meaningful change via direct action in the form of sitting around and forming multiple committees and drumming and not directly issuing any specific demands...
“I like hummus, not haggis.”
– Ali
“Girls at Hogwart’s have to wear ties? That’s just WRONG!”
– Ali