14 Sep 09
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While You Wait for the Others // Grizzly Bear feat. Michael McDonald

MM’s vocals really add depth to this track. Love love love love eet.

04 Sep 09
There, I fixed it.

There, I fixed it.

02 Sep 09
IE6 Update Notice

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For as much as I preach that our job is to support the browsers our clients are using, this screen is a well designed, gentle reminder to IE6 users that the site they are viewing is not the full experience they could be having if they upgraded.

This.

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01 Sep 09
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Pale September // Fiona Apple

pale september
i wore the time like a dress that year
the autumn days swung soft around me
like cotton on my skin

26 Aug 09
A for Annoying

What the hell has happened to MLIA? What once used to be a funny commentary of everyday life and ordinary experiences has degraded into repetitious banality. 8 out of 10 published submissions on MLIA deal with one of the following:

  • Harry Potter allusion or reference - “Today, I walked into a room and said lumos …”; “Today, I saw someone who looks like Ron Weasley, called him by name and he turned around …”; “Today, blah blah blah Harry Potter …”
  • Forts
  • Laughing/giggling at the “irony”
  • Doing something age inappropriate
  • Where’s Waldo
  • Something happened that “made my day/year/month/life”
  • Sending “I love you” texts to random numbers (although this has sort of phased out)

Really, the list goes on and on. A case can be made that the rampant rehashing of these and similar stories is what makes them average in the first place. But there is a thin line between prevalence and mediocrity. Commonality does not necessarily make something average.