David Speers

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Thu, 13 May 2010 23:59:33 -0400

"Sometimes, you love being in That Situation"

Mon, 03 May 2010 08:21:04 -0400

“Sometimes, you love being in That Situation”

- - Phillies outfielder Shane Victorino after hitting a Grand Slam off of the Mets’ star two-time AL Cy Young Award winner Johan Santana on May 2nd. Holding a 5-3 lead in the fourth, Santana missed on a full-count pitch to Phillies aging pitcher Jamie Moyer with two out, forcing in a run. Victorino followed with his second career grand slam and Utley went deep two batters later. Nine straight batters reached in the inning.

Yep, that’s right Shane. While the international embarrassment out of New Jersey calls himself The Situation, the habitually self-destructing one out of Queens will always be known as That Situation.

PSL Outsourcing Symposium 4/20

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:28:00 -0400

A brief introduction to outsourcing and ‘Automated Automations’ online, including ODesk, Mechanical Turk, ELance etc.

You can view and download the slide in this video here or follow along below.

Making outsourcing work for you (or getting other people to do your work)

Steve Welch Blog: What is the Right Question?

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:19:46 -0500

Steve Welch Blog: What is the Right Question?:

The following is one of a series of blog post that were written while I was in China in the spring of 2009 as part of my Eisenhower Fellowship. If you have interest in China’s culture I think you will enjoy this series.

What is the Right Question?

Who?

A question that leads to a…

Some things just don’t need captions.

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:00:00 -0500

Some things just don’t need captions.

nevver: What’s under your Mask?

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:03:58 -0500

nevver:

What’s under your Mask?

The unintended effects of Enzyte, the once daily tablet for...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:21:34 -0500

The unintended effects of Enzyte, the once daily tablet for natural male enhancement.

Dear Brooke

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:42:12 -0500

A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.

-Junot Diaz

I believe it’s more like 99.6%.

Sandwich Diplomacy: The real reason Al Queda hates America.

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:26:10 -0400

They’ve never had a Primo’s Hoagie! Maybe the State Department should use Unbreaded as a field manual.

“All of Human Kind has one thing in common … the sandwich. I believe that all anyone wants in this life is to sit in peace and eat a sandwich. And who am I to say that my delicious Italian Sub is better than it’s Stone Mt (Georgia) equivalent? Which is why I will have a Carp Po’ Boy w/ extra Chuckle (Pig Taint).” - Liz Lemon

Amen Lemon, Amen.

When is PG too much?

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:45:52 -0400

Today I was notified by my alma-mater Penn State that it is hosting a contest for free football tickets on Facebook. Hey, free is free and I have a really great story I wanted to share so I indulged in their transparent ‘online marketing’ stunt.

The rules state:

Just go to the Penn State Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pennstate and post your most memorable Penn State football moment.

And that’s exactly what I did. Here’s what I submitted:

At the Indiana home game in 2002 I was sitting in the student section frothing in what I would call a typical level ‘yellow’ rage when one of the Indiana’s defensive backs got hurt bad enough to stop the game. While the rest of the 100…,000+ stadium sat in respective silence as the medics tended to the obviously injured athlete I went into the ‘red’ zone. This monster I mutate into must be part shark because sensing there was blood on the field, literal and figurative, got me so worked up I went into a frenzy. With a deafeningly silent stadium praying, reflecting or sending general good vibes to the visiting student I stood on top of my seat and screamed “WHAT’S THE MATTER, DID YA HURT YOUR VAGINA?” Until that moment I had never really seen ‘utter disgust’ in a person’s face, especially not directed at me, but after that moment of ‘fan-turrets’ I turned around to see the entire student section shaking their heads in disbelief. From somewhere in the sea of white I heard “Dude, too muc”.

Then I went back and re-read the contest:

Just go to the Penn State Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pennstate and post your most memorable Penn State football moment. Keep it “G-rated” and sober, please. (Inappropriate posts will be disqualified and deleted.)

Whoops … well that’s OK surely the mere mention of the word “Vagina” isn’t enough to bump my entry into the PG ratings and out of the contest, right? PSU, the number one party school in the United States, couldn’t possibly be offended by the only word to ryhme with ‘angina’ could they? Wrong. Five minutes later it was taken down. I guess that’s what I get for not joining the stupid Alumni Group.

Shimkonis' Philadelphia Series

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:37:56 -0400

Title:

My Philadelphia

Artist:

Seth Shimkonis

Desciption:

With Rocky-esque iconography Seth captures a cinematic narrative that is less cliche as it is true to the blue-collar city of sanctioned violence that is Philly. Please check out Seth’s new project that gives Orphans in Peru the oppurtunity to create art with donated digtial cameras.

drew: leslienice: by Kat Von D. <3.

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:22:05 -0400

drew:

leslienice:

by Kat Von D.

<3.

bauldoff: From his Netherlands studio, Peter Jansen creates...

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:00:00 -0400

bauldoff:

From his Netherlands studio, Peter Jansen creates beautiful sculptures of human movements in space and time.

(via notcot)

Sometimes I wish I Did Drugs . . .

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:02:06 -0400

Sometimes I wish I did drugs … ya know the fun kind that makes you move like you kind of have cerebral palsy … ya know the fun kind of cerebral palsy that makes you sing like it’s only you and God alive and then goes away when the drugs wear off.

Yeah, sometimes I wish I did those kind of drugs.

The Intervention Note Michael Jackson Never Read

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:02:00 -0400

We who are
your closest friends
feel the time
has come to tell you
that every Thursday
we have been meeting,
as a group,
to devise ways
to keep you
in perpetual uncertainty
frustration
discontent and
torture
by neither loving you
as much as you want
nor cutting you adrift.
Your analyst is
in on it,
plus your boyfriend
and your ex-husband;
and we have pledged
to disappoint you
as long as you need us.
In announcing our
association
we realize we have
placed in your hands
a possible antidote
against uncertainty
indeed against ourselves.
But since our Thursday nights have brought us
to a community
of purpose
rare in itself
with you as
the natural center,
we feel hopeful you
will continue to make unreasonable
demands for affection
if not as a consequence
of your disastrous personality
then for the good of the collective.

We Who Are Your Closest Friends
by Phillip Lopate

"We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is..."

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:35:43 -0400

“We are half-hearted creatures,
fooling about with drink and sex and
ambition when infinite joy is offered us,
like an ignorant child who wants to go on
making mud pies in a slum because he
cannot imagine what is meant by the offer
of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily
pleased.”

- -The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis

Preached originally as a sermon in the
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford,
on June 8, 1942.

Is Philly's own Story Slam the most genuine form of entertainment? . . .

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:31:00 -0400

I think so :-)

“Ladies, I know I will never know the pain of childbirth, but until you’ve had your ovaries sucked out of your body and impaled by a sledgehammer you will never know the pain of running into a mailbox balls first”

Original Obama poster series installed at The Last Drop Cafe in...

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:55:24 -0400

Original Obama poster series installed at The Last Drop Cafe in Center City Philadelphia.

How to be an effective dissident in 9 simple steps.

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:52:00 -0400

Optional: Communication with exiles

Why do I Need a Therapist When Sesame St is on Hulu?

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:18:38 -0500

Hulu opens the Sesame St vault while Obama tries to restore confidence in America. Coincidence? Like your ‘skinny’ profile picture on E-harmoney, it’s all part of the plan.