May 2012
1 post
3 tags
April 2012
2 posts
March 2012
1 post
Worse than getting a mortgage
Someone help.
Part of the education budget bill for New York State for 2012-13:
THE GAP ELIMINATION ADJUSTMENT RESTORATION AMOUNT FOR THE TWO THOUSAND TWELVE—TWO THOUSAND THIRTEEN SCHOOL YEAR FOR A SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL BE COMPUTED BASED ON DATA ON FILE WITH THE COMMISSIONER AND IN THE DATABASE USED BY THE COMMISSIONER TO PRODUCE AN UPDATED ELECTRONIC DATA FILE IN SUPPORT OF THE...
February 2012
1 post
January 2012
5 posts
7 tags
3 tags
Brother: Nevermind nbd
Me: OKICYP
Brother: THAGTIA CMWYGB
Me: what does that mean?
Brother: Thanks Have A Great Time In Albany. Call me when you get back
Me: Could you read what mine said?
Brother: I thought it just said ok, I see you pee
Me: Haha yes
Brother: But u r inconsistent, u used a Y for You and a C for see
Me: LOL I KNOW I REALIZED THAT AFTER I SENT IT
Me: look now i'm like dad descending into all caps
Me: IWSYWIGB. TYCTMC. DW.
Brother: I will see you when I get back. Tomorrow you can take mom's car. Don't worry?
Brother: Was I close
Me: Omg you are amazing
October 2011
2 posts
5 tags
September 2011
2 posts
Textbook Example
Me: David Vargas Lopez
David Horn: Quiero comprar cassettes de Gloria Estefan y Miami Sound Machine.
Me: ¡No busca!
5 tags
August 2011
2 posts
Flooded and Closed Roads in New Jersey from Irene
As of right now — 11:24 p.m. NJST
Source: New Jersey State Police
Atlantic
US 30 Eastbound, West of US 9, (MM51.5), Absecon City, all lanes closed and detoured - Police department activity
US 322 Both Directions, West of CR 614/Cologne Av, (MM48.9), Hamilton Twp, 1 lane may be closed - Flooding
US 322 Westbound, Leipzig Av, (MM49.8), Hamilton Twp, all lanes closed and detoured -...
July 2011
1 post
transmulation
My brother asked me why a quote in this “story” sounded so, well, messed up:
President of Warner Bros. Pictures, Dan Fellman said, “We conclude the faithfulness of Harry Potter fans as well as assimilate that they have been watchful 10 years for this moment. We can’t wait for to uncover them the movie, that you hold delivers upon each level, so you have been putting the movie out upon...
April 2011
2 posts
March 2011
2 posts
Dinner prep
Dan Fleisher: I'm still thinking meatballs
Me: Yum
Dan: Do we have garlic onions spaghetti???
Me: I will look
Dan: Wine? Breadcrums? Parmesan cheese?
Me: no to all of the above
Dan: Are you kidding me
Me: no i am not. we have nothing.
Me: OK we have parmesan. We always have parmesan.
November 2010
2 posts
“Finish, because you have no other f-ing choice.”
– Shelly Banjo
“I love the old masters. I don’t care for anybody modern. That’s practically a...”
– Jack Levine
October 2010
1 post
Grandma Doris: I don't remember if I told you this, but last week in the New York Times, in the obituaries, there was an obituary for Doris Fleisher.
Me: Did you die?
Grandma Doris: No, I don't think so.
September 2010
3 posts
Great, I am an upbeat, educated Grandpa.
lisafleisher.com is probably written by a male somewhere between 51-65 years old. The writing style is academic and happy most of the time.
spiers:
doree:
Obviously I can’t resist any amateur attempts at writing style analysis but this was sort of hilarious:
doree.tumblr.com is probably written by a female somewhere between 18-25 years old. The writing style is personal and happy most of...
Me on The Brian Lehrer Show
Because you missed it on WNYC.
Who Made It to the Top? Aug. 26
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August 2010
0 posts
Accidentally in Rhinebeck
Took what I thought would be a shortcut to my grandma’s house on Friday and landed in Rhinebeck, where Chelsea Clinton and Marc Guy-Who’s-Marrying-Chelsea got married. Never knew where the place was.
Didn’t even know where I was, until I started to see signs congratulating the couple.
July 2010
2 posts
“From the beginning of our joy ride with legalized gambling, there was a worry...”
– States Hooked on Gambling for Revenue, By Peter Applebome, The New York Times
June 2010
2 posts
“They did not give out allowances, which they viewed as a parental version of a...”
– Few rules, no curfew: The Pauls’ libertarianism began at home - NYT
May 2010
1 post
5 tags
April 2010
2 posts
“The current leadership model, it’s not it’s not that there is...”
– Youngme Moon, Havard Business School professor, on non-generic leadership, on the Brian Lehrer Show
me: Graves disease: worst disease name ever?
Dan: strumpfs disease is worse
me: what are the symptoms
and what's the prognosis?
Dan: it makes you
incurably handsome
the prognosis is poor
me: what are the effects?
Dan: i don' tknow
shutup
i have work to do
me: I see
it makes you stupid and petulant
Dan: i hate you
February 2010
1 post
Definitive. Authoritative. Comprehensive.
(this post and this blog are none of those things. nonetheless: )
Gawker Media just bought Cityfile. For all the details on that you can go here, here (read the comments) and here. (Besides Gawker itself, which just has its own memos.) The key line in all of this:
Cityfile’s 2,000-plus profiles of New York notables will be the centerpiece of our new topic and people pages.
That means...
January 2010
1 post
5 tags
NYT Pay Plan and Why It's A Good Idea
The people who are huge Times readers/fans will pay - and yes, the web design IS worth paying for because it helps you understand and get to information, especially on or through topics pages. People are interested in a certain topic, story or genre are going to keep coming back.
Beyond that, one thing this does, whether Times execs realize it or not, is this plan gets readers conditioned to...
December 2009
3 posts
David: hey do you want anything from Dushanbe
me: yes
a small child
David: okay but it'll have to be carry on-size
me: baby's fine
David: k cool
Public borrowing and debt
Chris Edwards at the Cato Institute argues that governments should limit borrowing and get rid of state and local defined-benefit pension plans as a way of curbing corruption.
My (now) colleague John Reitmeyer of the Star-Ledger/Record Statehouse Bureau details the recent history of the use of debt in New Jersey, writing that the state has increased borrowing 700 percent over the past two...
October 2009
2 posts
Postcard From My Dad
From: Dad
Date: Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:30 AM
Subject: credit cards passwords etc
To: Lisa, Dan
I think you should have a photo copy of the front and back of your credit cards
I think you should email yourself a list of user names and passwords
to all accoubnts
I GUESS I AM SENILE BUT I TEND TO FORGET PASSWORDS FOR ACCOUNTS I DONT USE OFTEN
BECAUSE SOME REQUIRE MIX...
Mike: i mailed it to you
me: that will take forever
probably until monday at least
Mike: E
MAILED
September 2009
6 posts
Low appraisals a Major Problem (clearly)
So major, The New York Times has run at least three stories in the past five weeks about the same thing.
The latest installation, printed this weekend, explains the issue like this:
Real estate agents, mortgage brokers and appraisers all say that the low-ball appraisal has become increasingly common in today’s unsettled market. The problem is even more pronounced when homeowners are hoping to...
How to get e-mail during a Gmail outage
Before Gmail fails again, set up a system to retrieve your gmail via IMAP/POP - or, to us non-techies, on your phone.
In the middle of a pleasantly readable/understandable breakdown of yesterday’s outage, this sentence explained why my mail kept coming to my Sidekick: IMAP/POP access and mail processing continued to work normally because these requests don’t use the same routers.
Also...
“I don’t know if we can make the definitive case that most newspaper purchasers...”
– Judy Sims
“A large percentage of online readers are content to read someone else’s analysis...”
– Judy Sims
Mike: hi
sup
me: life is restored
Mike: i dont understand.
me: gmail
Mike: oh
was that a nationwide problem
me: HELLO, YES.
August 2009
4 posts
ICYMI: Newspapers suck at surviving
Everybody’s talking about (or linking to at least) the latest analysis of the failure of newspapers to be competent. This time, it’s by Bill Wyman, former arts editor of NPR and Salon.com, with a self-professed “too long” piece about “the heart of the collapse of daily journalism.”
He makes a few points my own top editor said to us a few days ago, and which...
It was hilarious, but too vulgar.
me: holy crap i can't put that in my status message
Mike: haha its too long
me: no
it's too vulgar
Mike: there you go
put it on your blog
its about time i make an appearance