Ftrain, by Paul Ford
February 2020
Don't think of it as voting for Sanders, think of it as...
Don't think of it as voting for Sanders, think of it as doing a co-op shift for America.
➛Will I be safe? Yes. Absolutely. Totally safe. We'd tell...
Will I be safe?
Yes. Absolutely. Totally safe. We'd tell you otherwise.
HIDE
➛Yes. Absolutely. Totally safe. We'd tell you otherwise.
HIDE
The NYC pandemic page has an accordion content module that...
The NYC pandemic page has an accordion content module that makes it look like it's urgently telling me to HIDE.
OBVIOUSLY I will vote for whatever festering boil the...
OBVIOUSLY I will vote for whatever festering boil the Democrats yield up for lancing. Whatever face-sucking monster they nominate, I'll let it feast on my youngborn and offer no protest or resistance as it mulches my loved ones into paste to fertilize the flaming earth.
➛The Spine Doctors
Glimmer, a new publication from @Glitch, was a...
Glimmer, a new publication from @Glitch, was a Glitch/@Postlight collaboration. It looks great, the design is truly fluid and built around the content, and it's stood up on really solid tech. It tells important stories about making tech and making culture. glitch.com/...
➛i looked at this code today "chunk for chunk in chunks if...
i looked at this code today
"chunk for chunk in chunks if chunk"
and realized that computers have ruined my whole brain
➛"chunk for chunk in chunks if chunk"
and realized that computers have ruined my whole brain
Say what you will about magazines but "the declining ad...
Say what you will about magazines but "the declining ad market and mismanagement compounded by our editor's addiction challenges led us to shutter the brand" at least makes sense compared to "we made a bad call when we pivoted to three second videos called Sqooblies"
➛I thought I was someone who embraced change and then I got...
I thought I was someone who embraced change and then I got a new keyboard.
➛If what happened to the web is any guide, by 2030 there...
If what happened to the web is any guide, by 2030 there will be five big podcasts and all the hosts will somehow be complicit in genocide.
➛(from @WIRED enjoy)
Movies have trained my children to believe that before...
Movies have trained my children to believe that before anything cool can happen at least one parent must die.
➛Still thinking about Sonic. About how you can become so...
Still thinking about Sonic. About how you can become so defined by one trait (fastness) that you become dangerous to everyone around you. You keep saying, “gotta go fast” because recovering from the trauma of seeing your owl mother killed by echidna is slow, slow work.
➛It'll be weird when the Amazon package arrives from...
It'll be weird when the Amazon package arrives from overseas and Jeff Bezos realizes he actually spent $10 billion on Glabal Worming.
➛It was really something the way that the plot would...
It was really something the way that the plot would repeatedly call for Sonic to go fast. The children never tired of it. And at the end I got to say those most parental of all words, “I love that you loved it.”
➛Nature is inspiring.
Taking the kids for a walk through Central Park and then...
Taking the kids for a walk through Central Park and then maybe the Zoo and the Met Breuer. Every weekend we do something that would be for other people a most cherished lifetime memory, but basically because my kids know if they don't whine about it they can have french fries.
➛I love on here where you're just trundling along having...
I love on here where you're just trundling along having your political opinions validated and someone who works at the library goes IF YOU WEAR A SWEATER TWICE WITHOUT WASHING IT YOU'RE SUBHUMAN SHIT AND MUST BE EXTERMINATED and you feel like garbage for days.
➛I just wondered for a long while why there isn't a language...
I just wondered for a long while why there isn't a language optimized around writing little shell commands that can be linked via Unix pipes and then I realized it's C.
➛Late at the office writing a proposal...third proposal of...
Late at the office writing a proposal...third proposal of the week...looks like it's time for another episode of...Noun Project After Dark.
Parasite? Please. With amazing corporations like Amazon and...
Parasite? Please. With amazing corporations like Amazon and Netflix making such great content they should have given the Oscar to a “pair of sites” instead! #sponsored
➛My son just asked for our cats' pronouns.
My son just asked for our cats' pronouns.
➛Truly inspiring to visit Brooklyn in person to see the Tomb...
Entering the make the steel cut oatmeal for the week/tidy...
Entering the make the steel cut oatmeal for the week/tidy the kitchen/start the laundry phase of death.
➛I really did expect to be in a barbershop quartet by now.
I really did expect to be in a barbershop quartet by now.
➛After seeing people talk about the Pepsi branding guide I...
After seeing people talk about the Pepsi branding guide I decided to read Peter Arnell's book, SHIFT. This is from page 2, describing how he eats 50 oranges a day.
My son chose Prince for his Black History Month report,...
My wife special-ordered an Irish snack she grew up eating...
My wife special-ordered an Irish snack she grew up eating (in Chicago). It is dried seaweed with...barnacles? It tastes like the ocean's diaper and has the same mouth feel. She calls it something like kheyahnik and is so happy about it. It has the texture of hair.
I don't know if it's possible to improve on the pure and...
I don't know if it's possible to improve on the pure and wholesome quality of the 1976 Cricket Magazine Letterbox.
