jkottke's blog Vox 2007-07-09T04:16:14Z jkottke http://jkottke.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00bf76cd589558ce/ Odd jobs tag:vox.com,2007-05-15:asset-6a00bf76cd589558ce00cd972a17a84cd5 2007-05-15T15:43:05Z 2007-07-09T04:16:14Z jkottke http://jkottke.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom [Note: I posted an excerpt of this on kottke.org, but didn't want to include the rest of it, so here's the whole thing.] Heather Armstrong, on meeting her new neighbors and having to explain what she does for a living: Over the last few weeks se...

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]]> My Vox is being spammed tag:vox.com,2006-11-13:asset-6a00bf76cd589558ce00cdf39ea846cb8f 2006-11-13T15:15:46Z 2006-11-24T16:40:17Z jkottke http://jkottke.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Vox-spam

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]]> How to delegate tag:vox.com,2006-08-28:asset-6a00bf76cd589558ce00c22523cb23549d 2006-08-28T20:03:57Z 2006-10-03T01:21:49Z jkottke http://jkottke.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I just saw a man walking a dog -- a terrier of some sort -- that was in turn walking two other dogs. One of the other two dogs, a beagle, would slow down periodically and the terrier, who was holding the two dogs' leashes in his mouth, would yank...

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]]> QotD: Can you hear me now? tag:vox.com,2006-08-01:asset-6a00bf76cd589558ce00c2251f4bcaf219 2006-08-01T23:46:55Z 2006-09-15T16:03:34Z jkottke http://jkottke.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom What's your cell phone's ringtone? What made you pick it? The Super Mario Bros theme song. Because someday I will be sitting next to Shigeru Miyamoto on the bus, my phone will ring, and he will wink at me.

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]]> Digital Photo Relics tag:vox.com,2006-07-07:asset-6a00bf76cd589558ce00c2251c8fad549d 2006-07-07T21:11:54Z 2006-08-01T03:27:13Z jkottke http://jkottke.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Michael Sippey

What's the oldest digital camera photo you have on your computer? When is it from? Let's see it! Great question. Here's the one from the oldest group I can find on my hard drive: This is a photo of Michael Sippey taken on June 27, 1998 at a bar ...

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]]> Making a bad situation much, much worse tag:vox.com,2006-06-28:asset-6a00bf76cd589558ce00c2251c5423f219 2006-06-28T19:20:21Z 2006-07-07T20:58:14Z jkottke http://jkottke.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom On the way back from lunch, David and I witnessed a car accident. We were crossing 23rd Street when we saw a taxi creep around the traffic stopped at the light and into the lane going the opposite way. As I was commenting to David, "huh, what's t...

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]]> People say I look like... tag:vox.com,2006-06-26:asset-6a00bf76cd589558ce00c2251c45098fdb 2006-06-26T19:08:21Z 2006-08-02T00:23:22Z jkottke http://jkottke.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom myheritage.com tells me I look most like Geena Davis. And after that, Pete Sampras and Ernest Hemingway. I think that fecking thing is busted.

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]]> I pity these fools tag:vox.com,2006-06-22:asset-6a00bf76cd589558ce00c2251c2e95f219 2006-06-22T13:14:09Z 2006-12-01T01:27:34Z jkottke http://jkottke.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Mr T Stylin

I dare you to watch this video all the way through.

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]]> I've got $10,000 and an hour tag:vox.com,2006-06-21:asset-6a00bf76cd589558ce00c2251c27b18fdb 2006-06-21T21:18:48Z 2006-06-21T22:25:45Z jkottke http://jkottke.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Either 50,000 fried pork dumplings from Dumpling House in Chinatown or this 61" Plasma HDTV and 2500 fried pork dumplings from Dumpling House.

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]]> Reading makes me hungry tag:vox.com,2006-06-16:asset-6a00bf76cd589558ce00c2251cfe9a8e1d 2006-06-16T21:47:42Z 2007-02-08T06:10:03Z jkottke http://jkottke.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Compose-books Hamburger_button

The books icon looks like a hamburger. A White Castle hamburger to be precise.

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