Author: Joey deVilla

In all the goings-on of the past few days, I’ve neglected to point to this statement by Benedict Evans, a venture capitalist at Andreessen Horowitz (often shortened to a16z), who’ve invested in the seed and Series A rounds for Soylent, the liquid “staple meal” meant for people too busy doing important things and making the world a better place to eat solid food. He posted it in a tweet, which I’m illustrating below:

“Soylent does not replace the meal you spend an hour cooking,” he writes:

“…it replaces this:”

I dunno; I’m still leaning towards the Vienna sausages. And I’m not the only one.

If you want to see a person’s true character, just pay attention to what they do and say when thwarted, frustrated, or disappointed. Case in point: Here’s a strange excerpt from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s dissent on today’s 5-4 ruling in favor of marriage equality:

One would think Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage. Ask the nearest hippie. Expression, sure enough, is a freedom, but anyone in a long-lasting marriage will attest that that happy state constricts, rather than expands, what one can prudently say.

It’s douchey to get in a cheap shot at your spouse in conversation. To do it in writing is serious douchebaggery. But to diss the Missus out of spite because now people you think of as inferior have to be treated like equals in a government document that will be preserved, discussed, and likely be cited in future legal arguments and law classes? That takes a doucheLORD.

You might think that the good judge may have some ‘splainin’ to do when he gets home tonight, but it’s more likely that he’ll just go all Cotton Hill and say “If you got more feelin’s to express, get in the kitchen and put ’em in a bundt cake.”

There’s the standard comma, the oxford comma, the Walken comma, and of course, the Shatner comma:

Thanks to Brett Savory for the find!

Of the four Supreme Court justices who dissented from today’s historic ruling on same-sex marriage, the writings by Justice Antonin Scalia are the most striking. As Slate puts it, they’re “the most measured and respectful” (mind you, the bar’s pretty low when you’ve got Clarence Thomas on the team) and somehow, “the goofiest”. The line from his dissent caught my notice:

“I assume that those who cling to old beliefs will be able to whisper their thoughts in the recesses of their homes, but if they repeat those views in public, they will risk being labeled as bigots and treated as such by governments, employers, and schools.”

Seriously, Mr. Scalia, that’s what’s supposed to happen to bigots.

I love this T-shirt design:

Click the t-shirt design to see the source.

It combines this Sonic Youth album cover…

…and this classic bit from The Simpsons:

In the spirit of Throwback Thursday, here’s Sonic Youth’s Goo in its entirety!

This appeared on my LinkedIn feed this morning:

Commenter’s name redacted because everyone deserves a shot at online redemption.

In the end, the only reason LinkedIn has stayed a social networking site for professionals is that its users treat it as such. There’s lots of room for funny (or attempting-to-be-funny) replies in discussions on LinkedIn, but once the trolling begins, we lose a valuable forum for making those connections that make business possible.

(And seriously, trolling the Cancer Society? Ballsy! Good luck!)

This article also appears in Global Nerdy.

Pictured above is the cast of Bend It Like Beckham: The Musical wishing England luck in the Women’s FIFA World Cup with a cheer and a banner that’s in very desperate need of a comma.

(In case you were wondering, the phrase “come on” is used in the UK in the same way we in North America use “let’s go” to cheer someone on.)

Here’s the tweet from which it came, which also features a video:

Now for a special message for #ENG from the West End cast of @BendItMusical… COME ON ENGLAND! #lionesses https://t.co/AyDAtqtfBl

— BBC Three (@bbcthree) June 22, 2015

Here’s the banner, fully (ahem) extended and ah, unwrinkled:

Remember, people: punctuation is important!

Blast from the (recent) past!

It’s been only a year since I last posted an article titled For the want of a comma. Clearly, we’ve learned nothing.