January 2012
1 post
“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.”
August 2011
2 posts
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...
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
July 2011
6 posts
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...
June 2011
5 posts
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.
May 2011
3 posts
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.
September 2010
2 posts
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...
August 2010
5 posts
“Another 20 reps”
– Dan Savage’s advice to a woman who orgasms while using the arm machines at the gym.
NY Times: 36 Hours in Boston →
I hope this doesn’t ruin my favorite spots with overcrowding.
“This is what happens when you go through four years of college and don’t...”
– The Last Phychiatrist on the uninspiring Gen Y.
“These people aren’t builders, they’re hustlers. And hustlers don’t have the...”
– AdGrok on why New York will never be Silicon Valley.
July 2010
14 posts
Popular Android App Steals User Data, Sends it to... →
WatchFlorida 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.
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...
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.
Final Cut Pro Shortcutter →
An amazing blog that details some of the amazing hidden functionality of my favorite editor.
You try listening to this for eight hours a day.
...
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)
“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.
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?
June 2010
16 posts
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.
“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.
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.
It’s a Makers Mark and Kazuo Ishiguru kind of night.
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...
NYTimes on Soccer Pansies →
“Initial reports seem to indicate it was a crime of passion, but Miss MacFarlane...”
– The Blackwater Ledger as seen in Red Dead Redemption
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.
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.”
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