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Starbucks isn’t all bad. Really.
Friday, July 18th, 2008
It’s always been fashionable to hate Starbucks, and lord knows I’ve done enough of it myself, but the news that they’re closing 600 stores and laying off 12,000 people actually makes me me somewhat melancholy. While I’m usually against monopolies, I think that in addition to the obvious bad they’ve done, they’ve also done [...]
I guess it’s time to confess.
Friday, July 11th, 2008I waited. I guess this makes me an Apple fanboy. I’ve always held disdain for people who stood in line for hours, waiting for the latest gadget that they could just go and get the next day with minimal fuss. Today, however, irrationality won out and I waited in line for my wonderful, beautiful, iPhone [...]
iPhone 2.0 Firmware
Thursday, July 10th, 2008I woke up this morning to discover that the iPhone 2.0 firmware was released. I could finally use the app store and play with ActiveSync. Here’s a list of random thoughts that have gone through my mind while playing with the new release and poking around the app store.
Seriously, most of this stuff still doesn’t [...]
I really don’t do a whole lot.
Monday, March 24th, 2008It’s kind of sad to talk to someone you haven’t seen for a few weeks and all you really have to talk about is all the times you’ve been drunk since you last saw them.
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
At what dollar figure does a whore become an escort? Is there a whore->hooker->prostitute->call-girl->escort continuum somewhere? Anyone have a wikipedia link?
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Does anyone else remember when Gatorade actually used to try to taste like recognizable flavors instead of just “blue” and “purple”?
NY Philharmonic arrives in N. Korea – CNN.com
Monday, February 25th, 2008NY Philharmonic arrives in N. Korea – CNN.com
So the US has a full economic embargo on Cuba, in an attempt to drive the nation into poverty, but the NY Philharmonic is free to travel to North Korea, which by all accounts is much more totalitarian and evil? Am I the only one who thinks that’s [...]
I rode the trolley home today…
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008Why is it that the sorts of people who talk to you on public transit are exactly the sorts of people who really shouldn’t be talking to you on public transit?
The boboification of Andrew
Saturday, December 29th, 2007Thanks to my friend Snitty I learned a new term this week: Bobo.
From Wikipedia:
Bobos are noted for avoiding indulging in high acts of conspicuous consumption in favor of spending the greatest amount possible on the “necessities”. Brooks argues that they feel guilty consuming in the way typical of the so-called “greed era” of the 1980s [...]
