- General Stuff
- Florida’s Tim Tebow routinely rejects all kinds of sex requests.
- We had dinner at The Bazaar on Saturday night. It was tragically expensive — and I’m not really a “foodie” — but I can appreciate art. The LA Times review is spot-on.
- I love these vintage sexist ads.
- Yes, you must pick one.
- Why should underdogs take more chances?
- Cameron’s dad’s house is for sale!
- If I’m going to own 70% of GM, why have my last five cars been Mercedes, Toyota, BMW, Toyota, Toyota? Oh, right. Because they don’t suck.
- Here’s how to seduce a friend who has a boyfriend and otherwise wouldn’t sleep with you. (via Kottke)
- I love that canyoucopyrightatweet.com is copyrighted.
- Techie Stuff
- There is an excellent 30-minute screencast on using WordPress as a CMS at css-tricks.com.
- SimplePie makes displaying RSS in WordPress a breeze.
- Good systems send email as HTML and plain text.
- Hashed passwords are good, but randomly salted hashed ones are better.
- Custom taxonomies in WordPress 2.8
- Here’s how to configure a killer WordPress testing environment locally.
Posts tagged “Los Angeles”
A Tremendous Number of T-Shirts
On dealing with voracious consumerism
- General Stuff
- Real Life Twitter!
- “Puke in My Mouth” (video response to “Jizz in My Pants”)
- Chart your life with daytum.
- Days with My Father will surely bring a tear to your eye.
2024-01-14: This link is now dead.
- But a bunch of puppies as Agent Smith attacking a kitty as Neo will make you smile …
- Government Once Again Gets In the Way as Jack Bauer Fights to Save America
- Creepy LA
- Techie Stuff
- CrossLoop for Mac means that I can now (easily) help my mom with her Windows issues.
#FridayFive: Favorite Los Angeles Street Names
View the Friday Five from May 1st, 2009
Cynthia’s Restaurant 3
A quick restaurant review
Eloise at Hotel Cafe
In which I go to a show
The Douche Hat
The chapeau pictured here has become pathetically popular in Los Angeles lately. For a year or so we referred to it as The K-Fed, but now we just call it The Douche Hat. (This should not be considered a compliment.) Even K-Fed hardly ever is seen in public donning it these days, it’s become so
Eloise: Los Angeles Music
There’s a woman in my office who also happens to be the lead singer of Eloise. If you happen to be in Los Angeles and you get a chance to catch a show, you really should. I haven’t been able to see them live yet, but I have several of their songs in heavy iTunes
Goodbye, Jay Leno
I just saw a commercial for “the last month” of Jay on The Tonight Show. This really, really bothers me. I feel simultaneously like I am losing a close friend and as if he just took over for Johnny a few months ago. It’s like I’m just now getting used to him and I’ve known
Caitlin Crosby at The Hotel Cafe, LA
In which I see a new act