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The new candidates look normal enough on the outside, apart from being dressed inappropriately for their age. But then they open their mouths and this nonsense comes out, the same nonsense spoken on grownup Apprentice. They are exactly the same, just smaller, bonsai tossers. And it makes you wonder what’s happened in their lives to make them like this. Should social services be concerned?
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But it’s time to acknowledge that I’ve become a character in a Wes Anderson movie. I wear white tennis sneakers from the ’70s. I listen to ambient music. I have dinner parties where I serve Spanish rosé and this softer version of mozzarella that has a lovely, almost liquid center that you can only get at the Italian import store. I do yoga, and I get excited when it’s ramp season. Sometimes I’d really like to punch myself in the face.
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In a thousand Starbucks in a thousand towns, MacBook Airs open in front of them, those damn Moleskine notebooks to one side, a coffee made mostly of adjectives on the other and a screenplay to which not one line has been added since last October on the screen, inept men will contemplate the unthinkable horror of having to pretend they’re a scriptwriter by cracking open a corporate-drone Dell and wonder how they’re going to pick up girls then (ignoring the fact that their sleek Air isn’t helping them pick up girls now.)
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The company issued a press release last night, announcing that it was “deeply concerned” that the implicit association is causing “significant damage to our image,” as shallow, materialistic people willing to spend unseemly amounts on ugly T-shirts in a desperate attempt to fit in and/or cling to an ideal of youth is hardly the clientele they want at Abercrombie & Fitch.
Jul. 18, 2011 at 11:23pm with 74 notes
Reblogged from americandrink
American Drink: An American Tales
If you’re not picturing some twisted fisheyed scene out of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas⎯a Kimono’ed Albert barricaded in a hotel bathroom with a shotgun and a pit bull, and myself, eyebrows singed-off, feverishly scrubbing blood stains out of a rented clown suit⎯then you haven’t been reading American Drink very long.
Jul. 12, 2011 at 5:11pm with 4 notes
Reblogged from dailyvim
Open The Current Directory
You probably can come up with other creative ways to use
%:p:h
I put this into my .vimrc
autocmd BufEnter * cd %:p:h
That way, Vim automatically changes to the directory of whatever buffer I have open.
Makes it very easy to use :e to open files in the same directory etc.
(Source: vim.wikia.com)
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The overabundance of cheap storage on hard disks means that it is no longer economical to even decide whether to remember or forget. “Forgetting – the three seconds it takes to choose – has become too expensive for people to use,
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You’ll like this: tea has not actually been taken yet. They’ll take it as scheduled at 1610, despite the fact that it’s raining, has been for ages and will be for a whole lot longer. Tea seems to have taken on the the powers of omniscience I mistakenly credited to those clouds earlier, an eerie, sentient being that somehow controls everything else around it. You can picture the weary Chris Tremlett reaching for a sandwich in the England dressing room, only to be admonished with a furious, “NO!” from a blazered official. “NOT UNTIL TEN PAST, YOU IDIOT…
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Playing Garden cricket circa 1985, I hit my brothers uppish delivery into the road, the road being the A4, a passing double decker bus kindly rebounds the ball off a top window back into the garden. My brother catches the ball in the follow through stride from his delivery. Out/Not Out – the debate continues.
