April 2010
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Sonar Festival, Barcelona →
I better start practicing my spanish, because I’m going to Barcelona! Pero soy un platano duro… I’m pretty sure that doesn’t make sense, but Olé!
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Goodbye Desktop
If you want to stop anything appearing on your Mac’s Desktop, but want to keep files in the ~/Desktop directory, open Terminal and run the following:
defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool FALSE ; killall Finder
After that you won’t see any icons on your Desktop—no files, no folders, no disks; just the pretty picture.
To reverse the process, run the command again, replacing...
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“Okay, so here’s me. Privileged in basically every way. White, middle-class, cis,...”
– 13 Ways of Looking at Liz Lemon by Tiger Beatdown.
This is a really good read. Especially if you like 30 Rock (like I know you do!) But I wonder; Does it strengthen or completely ruin her point, that when I read this I kinda find her attractive. Easy tiger.
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It's already too late for 100%
That last bit of comedy advice from Thomas was quite popular, so here’s another one I like. Thomas does mostly one-liners. And therefore his advice may be mostly for comedians alike — still it’s something to think about for everyone.
Thomas writes a lot of jokes when he’s developing new material. And I mean a really fucking impressive lot of jokes. This tuesday he showed...
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Two iPads arrived at the office today. I’m writing this on one. It’s hard to keep myself from making love to it. The keyboard is surprisingly nice to use, but for serious typing it needs some sort of stand I guess. “If you want to be serious, take a stand”, they said and I agreed.
I’d enjoy bringing this along with me to the open-mic at Comedy Zoo later tonight....
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Then don't wear a cardigan
As I started out doing stand-up comedy I started to notice that when I wore a cardigan, things seemed to go better. It was as if the audiences bought my character faster and I felt more secure.
I told this to my friend Thomas (who have been doing stand-up for way longer than I) and his advice came instantly. Then next time, don’t wear a cardigan!
Because if you build these rituals in...
“No one’s going to give you a cookie for not buying an iPad so just stop talking...”
– I’ve been thinking exactly what Shawn Morrison has been thinking every time I read a comment by someone who (mistakenly) thinks the iPad will fail, because he’s completely satisfied with his open HTC-whatever and his opinions on NOT wanting an iPad instead of showing us a better...
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