How to Annoy Me with Your Email

Archive for April 18, 2012

DCDan | April 18, 2012

How to Annoy Me with Your Email

I’ve had an email account for almost twenty years and I’m a software developer by day, as such I get a lot of email. Over the years I’ve developed a system of sorting and have a bunch of folders that handle a lot of annoyances that might fill up my inbox.

I don't do Inbox Zero

I also switch jobs every couple of years which means I don’t have the same level of rules and organization for work email. In fact my current 9 to 5 limits me to 500mb of email (yes I realize that 1994 called and they want their harddrive back). This means that I have to manually scan each email that arrives in my inbox. Here are a few things that will make me flip off my monitor and mock you behind your back.
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Category: bad at life, DCDan, Frustration, Rant | Tags: bad, common, courtesy, email, guidelines, rant, sense, wrong

DCDan | April 18, 2012

Song of the Week

A.G., as in Showbiz and A.G., as in a member of the Diggin’ in the Crates Crew (D.I.T.C) tells you what he can do because he wanna.

Warning contains the lyrics:
“I’ll double date by myself if I wanna”

(Produced by Jake One)

Category: DCDan, Hip Hop, music, Song of the Week | Tags: A.G., crates, crew, D.I.T.C, diggin, i, if, in, jake, one, Showbiz, the, wanna

thos | April 18, 2012

Weapon of Mass Instruction Art Car

Sometimes people have crazy ideas. Sometimes people have lots of drive. Rarely someone has both. When I come across things like this I actually start to believe we can, as individuals or as a group, really change lives and make living livable. Awesome.

From MakeZine.com-

“Raul Lemesoff, an Argentine art-car artist, has taken a 1979 Ford Falcon that used to belong to the Argentine armed forces and turned into a ‘Weapon of Mass Instruction.’ Armed with 900 or so books Lemesoff travels the streets of Buenos Aires and beyond offering free books to all. He sees his ‘Weapon of Mass Instruction’ as a “contribution to peace through literature.”

(From Raul Lemesoff Flickr)

(From LaughingSquid.com)

Category: Art, politics, Thos, Uncategorized | Tags: argentina, armed, art, books, car, destruction, forces, free, inspiration, instruction, lemesoff, life, literature, mass, of, raul, recycled, repurposed, street, weapon, weapon of mass instruction

thos | April 17, 2012

Tuesday Forecast

Here’s some possible gems, in the very least some releases I’m curious enough to give a listen to.

Category: music, Thos | Tags: 2, 3.5, awe, battles, dreams, dross, ernio, exorcist, galaxy, glop, green ball, hawthorne, headhunters, heretic, II, jel, jonz, lushlife, morricone, music, myriad, naturale, new, now, of, part, plateau, portishead, quakers, releases, sound, soundtrack, stones, sunspot, theesatisfaction, throw, track, vision

thos | April 16, 2012

Tumblr Find of the Day

Pure awesomeness. I want this. I want to make love under the stars in this. Pizza and a sleeping bag combined in one beacon of shining light of genius. USA! http://www.tumblr.com/blog/commonfolkcollective

More from this artist at their Etsy page, B Fiber and Craft Emporium.

I strongly encourage reader submissions of themselves in the watermelon bikini.

Category: Art, Thos, Uncategorized | Tags: amazing, awesome, b fiber, bag, baked, bean, bikini, butter, chair, common, craft, emporium, folk, need, pizza, potato, sheets, sleeping, syrup, tumblr, waffle, want, watermelon

thos | April 13, 2012

NinjaSonik- New EP

Common Folk brethren NinjaSonik just recently dropped a new EP, No Swords or Masks, on Decon records-

“Reverend McFly and Telli Gramz turn a keen ear to this record, incorporating production from David Sisko, Soundwaave, and Plain Pat among others. Lyrically, the duo has never been sharper- though subject matter primarily touches on women, partying, and partying with women- proficient wordplay and cadence align them with the best hip-hop spitters. Verses from Mr. Starcity, Ifsonive, Daniel Merriweather, Shyvonne & Johnny on The Rocks (of Rocky Business) seal the deal.”

It’s always good to see friends progress and have good things happen. Oh, and if you don’t know, GO SEE THESE CAVE MAN SAVS LIVE.