February 2010
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[myname].com v. [myname].tumblr.com
Quick question, Tumblr Hive:
For the longest time, I’ve been hosting my Tumblr blogging account (jasonpermenter.tumblr.com) elsewhere with a custom domain name (jasonpermenter dot com). Am I right in assuming that if I click the button and revert back to using “jasonpermenter.tumblr.com” in my Tumblr settings, all the previous external (incoming) links, reblogs, &c,...
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On Open Letter to Every Broadcaster at the BBC...
Despite what seems to be an entrenched convention in your organization for the past couple of years, the American president Barack Obama has a first name that is simply and straightforwardly pronounced “buh-RAHHK”. It’s not, as you continue to say day after day after day, “BAAH-rack”. It’s not. It isn’t. No no, don’t try to look hurt. It won’t...
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– baileygenine
I received this Nyquil-induced SMS from Bailey at oh, say, about 3 a.m. a few months ago. She had no recollection.
earthquake
11:49 a.m. San Francisco, lasted about 6 seconds. No more than a II on the Mercali Scale.
SHUT UP I WAS A VOLCANOLOGIST.
UPDATE: “The magnitude 3.8 event occurred 10 km (6 miles) ENE of Milpitas, CA.” (37.478N, 121.794W). Sweet.
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GROCERY DELIVERY.
Some say ‘the light bulb’, others say ‘airplanes’. Some might mention ‘Gutenberg’s printing press’ or suggest ‘indoor plumbing’. I happen to believe the greatest human invention is when grocery stores deliver straight to your door. (Sorry, ‘penicillin’!)
But: here I sit, staring at a store’s website with a million choices...
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