I do have the Color so, yeah, still screwed. I do sometimes regret the Nook because of missing out on a few things like this, but otoh I love it because it worked out perfectly for me by being sort of a midpoint between a reader and a table - i.e. I can still access the internet and use apps with it.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
or you can go work in the printing press where they actually MAKE the new yorker and read it really quickly as it comes down the line
this option actually EARNS you money
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
aw nook color reminds me of game boy color /lolyoung
― MODS DID 10/11 (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
I had a game boy color and a game boy pocket and a game boy advance and a DS boy nintendo really got a lot of money out of me
― dayo, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
I only ever had the original Game Boy. Played the shit out of some Mario Golf on that thing.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
my ipad screen is all cracked up top from where i dropped iti
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― loads of personality, loved to chase chickens (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
anybody read that (long) piece on art pope and the influence of money in north carolina state politics?
― MODS DID 10/11 (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
i think i almost finished it and then got distracted. iirc it was v depressing? i maybe mentioned it upthread bc i needed to repeat the line about "mucho taxo adios senor!" that was up on a shopped poster of a dem opponent.
― the contemporary jazz guitar gettin mad liberated (schlump), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 23:55 (twelve years ago) link
i read it -- was kind of curious what aero thought of it
fucken tar heels amirite
― mookieproof, Thursday, 27 October 2011 00:09 (twelve years ago) link
noticed him popping up in the news a bunch after that. was very happy to see that most of the wake county school board members he was backing were recently voted out:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-carmichael/populist-backlash-crushes_b_1006307.html
― Moreno, Thursday, 27 October 2011 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
you seem to be a few weeks behind too, what's your excuse?
Most of my (dwindling) free time reading has been focused (or focussed, going by TNY's style guide (blah)) on catching up on ASOIAF, which means I'm piling up my issues in my room. Also, I think my delivery is now a full week behind -- the one with the Wall Street fat cats occupying Wall Street on the cover only arrived on Monday.
Yeah, finished that last week (hah), imo vital companion piece to her article on the Kochs. But yeah, maddeningly depressing -- Pope is supposed to be wonkish and well-lettered, yet he can't resist throwing around indisputable falsities and fallacies (lol Republicans).
― hounds heidegger (Leee), Thursday, 27 October 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
favorite part of the art pope one was where he's saying he's not an heir, he just happened to buy out his dad's equity at the company after working there for his whole adult life. clearly something anybody who was as smart and hard working as he was could have done.
― circles, Thursday, 27 October 2011 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
i thought the short lethem piece this week was really strong
― Mordy, Thursday, 3 November 2011 03:35 (twelve years ago) link
some historical dynamite in this planned parenthood piece
did anyone read the mindy kaling thing serialised a few weeks back, btw? i'm kinda behind & need an endorsement before tracking down & uncrumpling whichever issue it was in
― Abattoir Educator / Slaughterman (schlump), Monday, 7 November 2011 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
it was a shouts and murmurs, right? i remember enjoying it but it was pretty light and i don't remember anything about it today
― Mordy, Monday, 7 November 2011 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
idk, i just saw her on the daily show & realised i'd missed an issue. i'm really behind though generally, i shamefully couldn't motivate myself to engage with the money issue, which is deeply shallow of me & apparently meant i missed out on that article about maybe an indian guy, i forget
― Abattoir Educator / Slaughterman (schlump), Monday, 7 November 2011 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
the money issue was great! from it i'd recommend, if memory serves, the article you mentioned, the bitcoin piece, the piece on keynes, and (i think) atul gawande's piece on coaching
― MODS DID 10/11 (k3vin k.), Monday, 7 November 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
ty man. am going away for a couple of weeks & will pack a couple to catchup, will def make a concerted effort with it. the bitcoin one sounded amusing.
the pp article i mentioned before is good, btw; better historically then on the present (which it depicts as a kind of doubly partisan gridlock, which i don't think is totally accurate). i kinda "met" c3cil3 r1chard5 once, she talked to a bunch of us in ny, she was v inspirational
― Abattoir Educator / Slaughterman (schlump), Monday, 7 November 2011 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
the bitcoin piece was really really good
― Mordy, Monday, 7 November 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
kaling is super light just in general. her ny piece was wafer thin.i'll also cosign on the money issue, it was fucking great front to back. The cattle broker! Bitcoin! The Carolinian powerbroker!
― herbie mann on some gully shit (forksclovetofu), Monday, 7 November 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
well boy is my face red
― Abattoir Educator / Slaughterman (schlump), Monday, 7 November 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
Loving Elif Batuman's article on Turkey; it's all over the place but I love her storytelling.
― daschund derrida (Leee), Monday, 7 November 2011 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
― MODS DID 10/11 (k3vin k.), Monday, November 7, 2011 11:00 AM (9 hours ago)
and duh didn't this one have the art pope story too?!
― MODS DID 10/11 (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 01:13 (twelve years ago) link
still have not seen the inside of my mailbox in 3 weeks btw
fwiw, the money issue also had the taylor swift piece!
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
ha, I must've put a dent in it if it had the Art Pope & Taylor Swift, both of which I read. I've straightened out some crumpled issues I was carrying around for awhile, anyway - kinda ashamed I haven't read the recent Batuman piece - so am all set.
― Abattoir Educator / Slaughterman (schlump), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
also nb taylor swift's mom is weird
kinda makes me mad to think how much gladwell got paid to write that jobs piece
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:18 (twelve years ago) link
i thought the mindy kaling excerpt was about exactly as funny as youd expect it to be which is at least 100x funnier than almost anything else printed in shouts & murmurs this year
― so solaris (Lamp), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:34 (twelve years ago) link
No wai I read something really funny in shouts n murmurs a while ago, don't recall what it was
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:36 (twelve years ago) link
im p sure that was my twitter you reading, you were confused because my profile pic is me wearing a monocle
― so solaris (Lamp), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:38 (twelve years ago) link
Oh right my b
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
shouts + murmurs more like hooch + turner amirite?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
idrk what that means
― Mordy, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:43 (twelve years ago) link
dirk, what that means?
http://jocksandstilettojill.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Dirk-Nowitzki1.jpg
― MODS DID 10/11 (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:45 (twelve years ago) link
http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/19000/19019/dirk_19019_md.gif
― Mordy, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
The New Dirker
― herbie mann on some gully shit (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 07:19 (twelve years ago) link
mindy kaling new yorker piece ruled fuiud
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 07:21 (twelve years ago) link
why are people pretending mindy kaling is funny is what i wanna knowshe's cute and seems nice but she's really not funny except in a loose kind of hipster nora ephron way which is nagl imo
― herbie mann on some gully shit (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 07:24 (twelve years ago) link
i am seriously going to kill you
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 07:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.the3rdfloormovie.com/app2/img/593x385xS/scet/photos/22/6291/017_NUP_141812_2334.jpgcome at me bro
― herbie mann on some gully shit (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 07:35 (twelve years ago) link
horseshoe you are arguing with someone who is well known to have the worst sense of humor on this board
― max, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 12:55 (twelve years ago) link
Truly, my lack of respect for a writer on that effervescent gem that is the post carrell office speaks volumes to my deeply flawed humo(u)r
― herbie mann on some gully shit (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
nov. 14 issue has two really good long articles (planned parenthood + murder/DNA/court martial stories) but the sasha frere-jones piece on the fall was annoyingly simplified/condescending. i know he has to write to his audience but he keeps talking about how mark e. smith writes nonsense lyrics - even if i don't know what he's singing about, i'd never assume it's intended to be nonsense.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
I'm always impressed when people decipher them. It's all got meaning, even if I'm not smart enough to parse it.
And the Mindy piece was very funny.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
food issue!
― just sayin, Monday, 14 November 2011 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
The Mike Bloomberg snowstorm diary was pretty funny:
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2011/01/17/110117sh_shouts_kenney?currentPage=all
― o. nate, Monday, 14 November 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
food issue not looking terribly appetizing (...) - i really want to read last week's issue once (1) my mail situation is sorted out and (2) my tests are over
― MODS DID 10/11 (k3vin k.), Monday, 14 November 2011 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
i'm not done with the food issue yet but so far the article about apples was kinda interesting and i'm a sucker for calvin trillin pieces, even when they're totally unfocused. the ones about trying to recreate medieval meals and foraging were pretty dumb.
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 14 November 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
The review of the George Kennan bio is terrific.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 November 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link