Comments on: Geek Fu #13 http://www.geekfuactiongrip.com/2005/03/06/geek-fu-13/ Mur and Jason discuss geek things, take live requests from Twitter, and support Open Media. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:53:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Websnark.com http://www.geekfuactiongrip.com/2005/03/06/geek-fu-13/#comment-214 Websnark.com Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:32:46 +0000 http://www.geekfuactiongrip.com/2005/03/06/geek-fu-13/#comment-214 <strong>Podcasts Ahoy!</strong> So there's a couple of podcasts I've taken to listening to that I think you, the Snarkoleptics, would be interested in. The first, Geek Fu Action Grip, is actually done by a friend of mine named Mur Lafferty. Mur's extremely... Podcasts Ahoy!
So there’s a couple of podcasts I’ve taken to listening to that I think you, the Snarkoleptics, would be interested in. The first, Geek Fu Action Grip, is actually done by a friend of mine named Mur Lafferty. Mur’s extremely…

]]> By: Herbert http://www.geekfuactiongrip.com/2005/03/06/geek-fu-13/#comment-190 Herbert Mon, 07 Mar 2005 13:37:06 +0000 http://www.geekfuactiongrip.com/2005/03/06/geek-fu-13/#comment-190 Hey Mur, loved you essay. Would love to hear more about how life changes when you get a child :) Hey Mur, loved you essay. Would love to hear more about how life changes when you get a child :)

]]> By: Andrew http://www.geekfuactiongrip.com/2005/03/06/geek-fu-13/#comment-189 Andrew Mon, 07 Mar 2005 00:58:23 +0000 http://www.geekfuactiongrip.com/2005/03/06/geek-fu-13/#comment-189 My i-tunes is set up alphabetically, so the song following Geek Fu is "Give Your Momma One Smile (Don't Cry)." By coincidence (and the world is entirely random and coincidental, we know that)(that's why one day I walked on a subway car with only one person on it, and it was my old girlfriend, from my mid-west high school). The 2/27/05 New York Times is a Sunday paper, and the Sunday paper always carries a separate magazine called the Book Review, and the Book Review always has a column toward the back called TBR: Inside the List with a couple of paragraphs of comments from an editor of the Book Review on one or two books, and on 2/27, reviewing an "addiction memoir" called "Smashed", by Koren Zailckas, the editor Dwight Garner included these thoughts: "... finally got sober at 22. Not a pretty story, but not a Belushi-level meltdown , either. Zailckas's failure to flame out in a more spectacular fashion has bugged some critics. ... Zailckas got her $150,000 book deal, I suspect, because she is often a terrific writer..." As I read this review your podcasts came to mind. Friend Mur, so your nose wasn't broke, and you get embarassed when you finish reading your essays to us. You're a terrific writer, so please stop saying, "anyway" or otherwise apologizing, OK? apologies for any sense of the critical Andrew New York City --------- footnotes: (a) Give Your Momma One Smile (Madeleine Peyroux) from the Starbucks "Sweethearts 2005" CD. My next song is "Harbor" by Vienna Teng, which has nothing to do with anything, as far as I can know. (b) the full article (still at no cost): http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9505E3DD103AF934A15751C0A9639C8B63 My i-tunes is set up alphabetically, so the song following Geek Fu is “Give Your Momma One Smile (Don’t Cry).” By coincidence (and the world is entirely random and coincidental, we know that)(that’s why one day I walked on a subway car with only one person on it, and it was my old girlfriend, from my mid-west high school).

The 2/27/05 New York Times is a Sunday paper, and the Sunday paper always carries a separate magazine called the Book Review, and the Book Review always has a column toward the back called TBR: Inside the List with a couple of paragraphs of comments from an editor of the Book Review on one or two books, and on 2/27, reviewing an “addiction memoir” called “Smashed”, by Koren Zailckas, the editor Dwight Garner included these thoughts: “… finally got sober at 22. Not a pretty story, but not a Belushi-level meltdown , either. Zailckas’s failure to flame out in a more spectacular fashion has bugged some critics. … Zailckas got her $150,000 book deal, I suspect, because she is often a terrific writer…”

As I read this review your podcasts came to mind. Friend Mur, so your nose wasn’t broke, and you get embarassed when you finish reading your essays to us. You’re a terrific writer, so please stop saying, “anyway” or otherwise apologizing, OK?

apologies for any sense of the critical
Andrew
New York City

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footnotes:
(a) Give Your Momma One Smile (Madeleine Peyroux) from the Starbucks “Sweethearts 2005″ CD. My next song is “Harbor” by Vienna Teng, which has nothing to do with anything, as far as I can know.
(b) the full article (still at no cost):
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9505E3DD103AF934A15751C0A9639C8B63

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