From my friend Jeremy:
So a artsy-hipster fixed gear rider girl whom I know tangentially from mass stopped me outside kroeber today and gave me a flyer for her website, saying I should “send in a pic.”
I guess that’s a compliment…
The website? http://www.thefge.com
And what’s there? Naked male hipsters on bikes.
Are you a woman who rides a hot track bike or a sexy singlespeed? Are you sick of catcalls and being “objectified” while riding your bike or because you ride a bike? Has someone ever said “I can see your kitty cat” while riding your bike in a skirt and being clearly covered up? Well fear no more. This site is dedicated to girls who love biker boys and are sick of all this s**t. Time to strike back.
We are currently accepting photos of men in their undies or commando (if you insist) riding some sweet wheels. Sorry, only fixie and SS photos will be posted. Please see the Submission Information page if you would like to submit photos.
Words fail me.
“This brings a smile right to my face!” says The Girl, whose words obviously didn’t fail her.
I’d post a picture, but I see they’ve got the “twenty-something in boxer-briefs with a beer belly on a fixie” category pretty well nailed down. Plus they’ve got fancy bikes, and mine’s more like a crazed, postapocalyptic warrior bike. A bit like this guy.
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Christine Davis, author of Ultimate Tag Warrior, has released a new version which fixes the minor problems I had with it, and adds tag unions and intersections, in a minor version release (2.8→2.8.1), no less. I have no idea what kind of feature transcendance would necessitate a shift to 3.0. ;-)
Cheers, Christine!
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From Slacker Manager: Authenticity at work:
Authenticity gets a lot of play these days. Seems like everyone talks about it, especially in terms of blogging. “Good bloggers gotta be authentic–gotta have an authentic voice.” I don’t dispute the truth there, but I think the concept of authenticity is getting diluted.
The way I see authenticity coming into play as a Slacker@Work is pretty simple and it plays well with that last definition. Authenticity says “this is me, who are you?“. Authenticity is neither passive, nor aggressive. It seems like a lot of what gets passed off as authenticity these days is more along the lines of “this is me and if you don’t like it, screw you.“
I realize that I’m tipping my “college boy” hand here, but I’m reminded of Adorno’s critique of authenticity: that the idea of authenticity cannot be communicated without a reference to ideology, thus perpetuating said ideology.
I know that in order to process my inbox, I need some external motivation, and that knowing is authentic. It would be inauthentic for me to say, “well, I just a have schedule of cleaning my inbox and only I know when I need to do it” rather than acknowledging my actual external motivation. Being an authentic manager then, is both knowing yourself and acknowledging your motivations.
I’m going to get super geeky here. This brings to mind not so much “authenticity” as Giddens’ location of self-reflexivity as central to the modern project of personality. Authenticity assumes an objective connection to the essential nature of a thing, and that any distance between appearance and essence is due to ignorance or duplicity. Giddens’ reflexivity is less an analysis of an objective condition–the ontological seperation of experience from truth–but rather a state of introspective mindfulness about internet and external influences.
The difference is that, given the question “Why am I doing this?”, Slacker Manager suggests that we can and should know the answer, while Giddens would say that the answer is not meaningful but the process of asking is illuminating.
As you were.
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I defy you to make sense of this:
wicked sweet devil teapot!
Update:
New domain name! http://www.wickedsweetdevilteapot.com/
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Merlin’s wonderfully useful post on writing decent emails should be printed on the side of every monitor made.
This isn’t the place to practice your stand-up act. Keep it pithy, and assume that no one will ever read more than the first sentence of anything you write. Making that first sentence strong and clear is easily the best way to interest your recipient in the second sentence and beyond.
As the blogosphere reaches some sort of pajama-clad singularity, it’s likely that this will begin to affect the way in which people write blog entries, too. I’ll leave it at that.
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