January 2012
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“Sir, can I borrow a dollar?” He took half a glance at her, “no.” She immediately lit her pipe and took a hit. Reminds me of the time I saw a guy begging outside a dispensary. “Really? You couldn’t walk half a block so that we can pretend you’ll spend it more wisely.”
Jan 24th
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August 2011
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Online
I have been crazy busy between moving & work, but I have a few important updates. I was on a few episodes of ScruffyThinking — a podcast about people that are passionate about stuff — check it out on iTunes. I designed the scruffy S logo, and I’m really honored to be invited to discuss stuff with people that are a lot smarter than me. It’s been getting ★★★★★ reviews, so I am very happy...
Aug 25th
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Check out Road2DF.com →
They’re taking a road trip from Chicago to San Francisco to chat about Dreamforce ’11 and get Eventley. There’s a lot of excitement around Force platform, and this year the band will be Metallica. I am not joking. Metallica. Who was it that played at WWDC this year? Whatever. Check out Road2DF.com
Aug 4th
July 2011
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Jul 20th
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San Francisco: Two Months
On July 10th, I had been living in San Francisco for two months. It’s been a whirlwind of activity and I’ve barely started catching up. I have never been happier about a life choice than moving here.   The Move Boston and San Francisco are my two favorite cities in the world. I chose to move to San Francisco about two years ago during a visit to the city in January. It was 60° and sunny. Enough...
Jul 13th
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Jul 2nd
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June 2011
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Google+
I never felt more like a commodity than the twenty minutes I just spent on Google+. It’s ad-bait plus data mining. Seriously, Google+ brings that feeling that everything you’re doing online is being watched by HAL 9000 from dismissive paranoia to front-of-mind reality. Now, please excuse me while I use Glims to change my search engine to Duck Duck Go.
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May 2011
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May 30th
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I’m Back on Tumblr
My Tumblr vacation is over because I want to keep my friends and family up to date with my life now that I’ve moved to San Francisco. As such, my Tumblr is now linked to Facebook. I promise to use this power for good, not evil.
May 29th
September 2010
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Tumblr Vacation →
This “diary” site was always an experiment. I like you and I will still likely follow you on Tumblr, but I’m going to take a break from posting anything new here. The type of things I did post here will more likely be on my actual site, michaelcritz.com. Which is a great place to learn a bit about who I am, what I do, and how I feel about things. Whereas Tumblr was a place for me to share goofy...
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August 2010
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Aug 24th
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“Another 20 reps”
– Dan Savage’s advice to a woman who orgasms while using the arm machines at the gym.
Aug 19th
NY Times: 36 Hours in Boston →
I hope this doesn’t ruin my favorite spots with overcrowding.
Aug 8th
“This is what happens when you go through four years of college and don’t...”
– The Last Phychiatrist on the uninspiring Gen Y.
Aug 3rd
“These people aren’t builders, they’re hustlers. And hustlers don’t have the...”
– AdGrok on why New York will never be Silicon Valley.
Aug 3rd
July 2010
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Jul 30th
Popular Android App Steals User Data, Sends it to... →
Jul 29th
WatchWatch
Florida State University abstinence promoting video game cost the Federal Government $434,000. I have a better idea. $434,000 is roughly 29,000 subscriptions to World of Warcraft.
Jul 29th
Marco.org: iMac or Mac Pro? →
I have a Mac Pro and Tiff has a 24” iMac. Both were purchased in early 2008. We both have high demands… Now that both of our computers are nearly three years old, mine’s still doing fine for the foreseeable future (although I’ll put an SSD in it soon), but we’re ready to throw Tiff’s out the window. The entire studio just had to upgrade their 36 month old MacBook Pros. My 2008 Mac Pro is...
Jul 28th
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Jul 28th
No More Junk Mail →
SFGate.com’s Dollars and Sense column this week has a good guide on how to decrease your phone & snail mail spam.
Jul 17th
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Final Cut Pro Shortcutter →
An amazing blog that details some of the amazing hidden functionality of my favorite editor.
Jul 12th
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ListenYou try listening to this for eight hours a day. ...
Jul 8th
Newsweek 1995: The Internet? Bah! →
“Hype alert: Why cyberspace isn’t, and will never be, nirvana” Fifteen years later (has it really been that long?) the article comes to the right conclusion despite making all the wrong assumptions. (via)
Jul 6th
“When people, particularly younger people, wanted to build a start-up, and they...”
– Bob Muglia, the president of Microsoft’s business software group. NYtimes I had never thought of it that way, but it’s true. If you’re about to create a new product the capital investment in Microsoft is a negative.
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What do you think?
If you were a TSA agent would you give “secondary screening” to a middle age white man wearing a Rush Limbaugh T-shirt?
Jul 1st
June 2010
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Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines... →
“Don’t just take my word for it,” Mortensen added. “Try reading a newspaper or watching the news sometime.” The Onion nails modern conservative thinking.
Jun 30th
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Jun 28th
“Have you ever walked on the Moon? No? Then why don’t you just shut the fuck up.”
– Vanity Fair on what it’s like talking to Buzz Aldrin, American Hero.
Jun 26th
If you camp out at the Apple store to wait for a phone, you’re a sucker. If I walk in the door a day later and tell you I got it the first day, you’re still a sucker.
Jun 24th
It’s a Makers Mark and Kazuo Ishiguru kind of night.
Jun 22nd
Miss MacFarlane
Earlier, I posted a funny bit taken from a newspaper in Red Dead Redemption. I lovingly nickname the game Grand Theft Cattle because it bears a strong resemblance to Rockstar Games’ other famous title. This is a good thing. Like Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption’s female roles are varied and complex. Just like real-life women. There are whores, yes. But the protagonist also runs into workaday...
Jun 21st
NYTimes on Soccer Pansies →
Jun 21st
“Initial reports seem to indicate it was a crime of passion, but Miss MacFarlane...”
– The Blackwater Ledger as seen in Red Dead Redemption
Jun 20th
Soccer
If soccer really wants to catch on in America then players need to stop rolling around on the ground and crying like a baby every time they get tackled.
Jun 18th
Rent A White Guy →
“We sat in the office swatting flies and reading magazines, purportedly high-level employees of a U.S. company that, I later discovered, didn’t really exist.” Via Hacker News
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