Last month I got an email from Jonathan Berger, whom I had met briefly at NY Tech Meetup several months back. He just launched an online vintage marketplace called Market Publique and wanted to spread the news (I’ve already bought two items from it and it’s actually pretty rad). I get a lot of emails [...]
Entries from May 12th, 2009
This email is bloggable
May 12th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Blogging, Pleasure
Tags:Blogging·Innovation·Pleasure
A blogger’s worst nightmare
May 11th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Blogging, Branding, Pain
When you hit Save Draft and you get this message: WordPress Failure Notice: Your attempt to edit this post has failed. Please try again. Luckily for me, when I hit the Back button I discovered that WordPress had auto-saved the draft and none of my edits were lost. Still, perhaps they should consider using a [...]
Photo of the day: Elvis had cheap gas
May 11th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Design, Photography
Elvis’s Automobile Museum at Graceland is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. More than 50 vintage cars in absolutely pristine condition. If you ever find yourself in Memphis, the cars and the house are not to be missed. Among the cars was this old Tokheim gas pump from what must have been the [...]
Tags:Design·History·Photography
Photo of the day: No breastfeeding
May 8th, 2009 · 35 Comments · Humor, Photography
Mike Dizon and I went out for lunch around New Work City one day. We walked past Pepe Rosso, a pasta take-out joint on Sullivan St. that Mike insists is the best around. So I poked my head in to take a look, and saw this sign hanging in the entrance: No breastfeeding in Pepe [...]
Tags:Humor·Photography
Photo of the day: Bottom loading instructions
May 7th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Pain, Photography
While at Graceland, I came upon a truck with operating instructions posted on the side. These might be the most confusing instructions I’ve ever seen. I’m well aware that I’m not the intended audience for this, but there’s so much jargon and such poor grammar that I can’t imagine anyone can understand what this is [...]
