Adventures in Jeffland

Clients From Hell: Client: We won’t be paying. We didn’t use your material.Me: You...

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:28:21 -0400

Clients From Hell: Client: We won’t be paying. We didn’t use your material.Me: You...:

Client: We won’t be paying. We didn’t use your material.

Me: You didn’t? I saw the brochure today, it is exactly what I designed for you.

Client: No, it isn’t. You sent us a PDF of the document. We did not print the PDF, we took a screen capture of it and pasted it into Word. That’s what we…

Community Inclusion: Apps and the ICI

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:57:18 -0500

Community Inclusion: Apps and the ICI:

This is me. I wrote this.

communityinclusion:

By Jeff Coburn - Web Services Manager

“We should make an iPhone app for our project. Can you do that for us?”

“How easy would it be to make this site into an Android app?”

The web services team has been getting those questions a lot. And rightly so—people are seeing the power of having a…

An Interview with Rob Delaney.

Mon, 23 May 2011 23:31:34 -0400

the-humourdor:

Rob Delaney has been described “as the funniest man on twitter” - which is actually a pretty big statement these days. What’s more impressive is that he’s as funny on stage as he is behind a keyboard. Delaney is an active player on both the LA & New York comedy circuit, and in addition to the aforementioned Twitter, he also writes a weekly column for Vice magazine about comedy’n’stuff, and is touring his new show “Naked and Bloody”. What separates him from the huge number of faceless aspiring comedians (other than his success) is the fact that he is straight up about comedy, he knows it, and as a result he’s naturally funny. Go watch a video, but read this interview first!

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slapclapper: Luther: Season 2

Tue, 10 May 2011 08:27:01 -0400

slapclapper:

Luther: Season 2

biorhythmist: wilwheaton: I’m a big chocolate slut. Me have a...

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:16:35 -0400

biorhythmist:

wilwheaton:

I’m a big chocolate slut.

Me have a wooden… face.

merlin: Louis CK - On Turning 40 No, you just DO that now....

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:39:59 -0400

merlin:

Louis CK - On Turning 40

No, you just DO that now. That’s just a new thing you do…until you and your shitty ankle both die.

slapclapper: nbaoffseason: After The Fab 5 documentary aired...

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:04:45 -0400

slapclapper:

nbaoffseason:

After The Fab 5 documentary aired last week there has been an emerging dialogue on the webz about the Fab 5’s opinions on Duke players, specifically Jalen Rose who calls Grant Hill an Uncle Tom.

Jalen Rose in the documentary:

“I hated everything I felt Duke stood for … I was bitter that I had a professional athlete that was my father that I didn’t know; I resented that more so then I resented him (Grant Hill).”
“I thought Christian Laettner was an overrated BLEEP. I really did. Until I actually got out on the floor with him and realized he had game.”

Plenty more quotes like that to be found. In response Grant Hill wrote an Op-Ed in The New York Times sports blog that takes umbrage with Rose. He quite rightly points out that Jalen’s ‘Uncle Tom’ comment further confuse an already out-of-date slur to mean black kids who have the benefit of a two-parent household. As if authentically black requires certain sociological conditions.

There is no worse label to heap on a black person than Uncle Tom; I’d take 10 white people calling me “nigger” over it any day of the week. So Grant Hill has every right to complain. Even if his complaints fall shortsighted of the original context.

Because for those of us not named Grant Hill who watched The Fab 5 documentary, Rose’s opinions on Duke - as well as those of Jimmy King, Juwan Howard and Ray Jackson - were clearly stated in the past tense. As in, ‘18-year old me thought this way.’ Do we also assume Rose has the exact same opinion on traveling Europe as he did in 1992?

Rose’s failure, or the failure of the filmmaker, may have been not enough distinction; something explicit, and not defensive like Rose’s tweet on the matter after the fact.

The Fab 5’s opinions on race and privilege as teenagers were wrongheaded, but also indicative of the time. There was nothing “post-racial” about the 1990’s - Rodney King, Orenthal J, the onset of gangsta rap - clear divisions were being made in and outside of the black community.

So cut the Fab 5 some slack for allowing themselves to be candid in front of cameras. Their honesty, warts and all, is exactly what made the film so compelling in the first place. The shortest distance between human beings and a good story is the truth.

[Hate mail to SlapClap]

I wrote something semi-serious. It won’t ever happen again.

SeoulBrother: "Nigger"

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:22:01 -0500

SeoulBrother: "Nigger":

seoulbrother:

It’s that time of year again where we discuss the word “nigger.” Seems like it was just yesterday when Oprah popularized the daytime-TV-safe “n-word”—I’m surprised that it didn’t make Word of the Year, but then again, I’m not. No matter how much you try to sugarcoat it, “nigger” makes people…

Wonderful. Hat tip @a_hudson.

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:46:08 -0500

Wonderful. Hat tip @a_hudson.

This will never not be funny to me.

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:49:26 -0500

This will never not be funny to me.

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: God Texts the 10 Commandments.

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:55:18 -0400

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: God Texts the 10 Commandments.

Us Now on Vimeo

Wed, 20 May 2009 18:07:23 -0400

Us Now on Vimeo

Louis CK in Time | Maximum Fun

Wed, 06 May 2009 10:01:50 -0400

Louis CK in Time | Maximum Fun

MEAT CARDS: Business Cards Made From MEAT AND LASERS

Mon, 04 May 2009 14:26:37 -0400

MEAT CARDS: Business Cards Made From MEAT AND LASERS

ze's page :: zefrank.com: try and try again :: baby squirrel video

Fri, 01 May 2009 15:55:20 -0400

ze's page :: zefrank.com: try and try again :: baby squirrel video

lonelysandwich: “Transcendent Man” (2009) trailer I don’t read...

Fri, 01 May 2009 12:06:55 -0400

lonelysandwich:

“Transcendent Man” (2009) trailer

I don’t read much. But I’ve read what Ray Kurzweil has to say about our future and it’s changed the way I live and behave. The Singularity is as close to a religious doctrine as I’m willing to follow. Partly because it’s smart, partly because it’s hopeful, but mostly because it’s fun.

I expect this movie will challenge many assumptions not only about the world but Tony Robbins’ jawline as well.

via kottke.org

Police in Denmark hug bicyclists without helmets, then give them helmets - Boing Boing

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:20:30 -0400

Police in Denmark hug bicyclists without helmets, then give them helmets - Boing Boing

Delivering on Change

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:15:11 -0400

Delivering on Change

27K39.jpg (JPEG Image, 640x480 pixels)

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:18:31 -0400

27K39.jpg (JPEG Image, 640x480 pixels)

blackblueyestheme: Tumblr. - The Documentary on Vimeo (via...

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:40:08 -0400

blackblueyestheme:

Tumblr. - The Documentary on Vimeo (via Vimeo)