Walgreens remains one of the few national retailers with the vision to offer both greeting cards and public executions.
kung fu grippe
a personal weblog,
or “blog,”
by Merlin Mann
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2010-01-22
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4.1625 lbs.
Mmmm…manuscript formatting.
It’s like stuffing a giant pair of tubesocks down your writer pants.
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Me too, Marco. Me too.
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![Twitter Blog: The Power of Suggestions
[Now] we let users browse into the areas they are interested in and choose who they want to follow from these lists.
Like kashrut, the food pyramid, and the directions for cooking ramen, I’m more often recommended than followed.
Which — honestly — is an honor and a slam that I accept with equal gusto.
Kinda made my day, actually.](http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwnxqr9pyg1qz4rlzo1_500.png)
Twitter Blog: The Power of Suggestions
[Now] we let users browse into the areas they are interested in and choose who they want to follow from these lists.
Like kashrut, the food pyramid, and the directions for cooking ramen, I’m more often recommended than followed.
Which — honestly — is an honor and a slam that I accept with equal gusto.
Kinda made my day, actually.
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The Office of Johnny Cash, c.1960 | Source
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2010-01-21
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The Blues Brothers - “Fine Dining” (1980)
It’s still funny.
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“Hey, take me seriously.”
CHARLIE ROSE: Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is here. He
s chairman of the Kingdom Holding Company, the Saudi investment firm with billions invested across the globe. "Forbes" ranks him as one of the worlds 25 wealthiest people. “Time” magazine once dubbed him the “Arabian Warren Buffett.”And a straight up pimp.
Transcript excerpt:
PRINCE ALWALEED: How much for the little girl? How much for the women?
CHARLIE ROSE: What?
PRINCE ALWALEED: Your women. I want to buy your women. The little girl, your daughters… sell them to me. Sell me your children. -
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In case that last thing seemed too cryptic:
- Woo, everybody look at me: I wrote a bunch of pages. Whee.
- MultiMarkdown. Dig it.
Seriously. If you’re not at least trying MultiMarkdown for writing stuff? Damn. Dude. Try it.
Personally, it’s changed my game — it’s how I think now. Can’t imagine writing more than a paragraph in anything that doesn’t do MMD.
Seamlessly integrated with TextMate (and, much later in my version of The Process, Scrivener), MultiMarkdown is the no-look Quicksilver of BS-free writing.
Viz: Check out Fletcher’s sample document to see how this becomes this. Gold.
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Sometimes it’s fun to respond to YouTube comments.
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A MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin) is “a plot element that catches the viewers’ attention or drives the plot of a work of fiction.”
Sometimes, the specific nature of the MacGuffin is not important to the plot such that anything that serves as a motivation serves its purpose. The MacGuffin can sometimes be ambiguous, completely undefined, generic or left open to interpretation.
Y’know how, at first, Psycho seems like it’s going to be a heist movie about Janet Leigh’s embezzling then going on the lam? Yeah. That.
Hitch was the master of the MacGuffin:
