Obeastiality (Jakob Lodwick's tumblr)

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I am Jakob Lodwick, founder of Vimeo.

This site is on Tumblr, the blog service for busy people.

I maintain this site for people who are interested in my personal and professional life. It is not intended for a wider audience, though anyone is welcome to read it or write about it.

You can email me at [my first name dot my last name] @gmail. If I don't know you in real life, I would appreciate an attached photo.

Here are some of my friends who have good tumblogs:

Andrea Allen
Andrew Pile
Dalas verdugo
David Karp
Eric Lodwick
Josh Mohrer
Marco Arment
Buy Viagra Online
Patrick Moberg
Reggie Watts
William Cotton

I'm not listing friends with regular blogs, because there is a difference. A tumblog is so easy that the author usually posts little private mental details. Regular blogs are usually too thought-out to give you an intimate connection to the person.

Oct
9th

Tue

Another day, another Diller.

Oct
8th

Mon

9pm cab ride home from work. Some guys are still there. Big upgrade coming tomorrow.

Julia Allison: This... did not go as planned.
Jakob Lodwick: Whose plans were they?
Julia Allison: [walks out]

I'm keeping a file of all of Maxim film critic Pete Hammond's bombastic reviews of bad movies. This week he called The Heartbreak Kid, "An outrageously hilarious and RAUNCHY comedy that creates so many huge - and we mean humungous - laughs you will probably have to see it more than once just to catch all the dialogue." Whenever you see an ad for a bad movie that quotes a critic, keep an eye on the reviewers. It's almost always Pete Hammond.

— Jeff Rubin

Insulting.

Hearst Castle (Wikipedia) I want to see it.

Some people on the Internet make comments that I am heinously ugly, even disfigured. This has had a positive effect on me. For years I had struggled with a conflict. I would observe a man telling a woman, You are the most beautiful girl in the world. And I thought, that is insane, she knows she is not THE most beautiful girl, why does she delude herself? But now I think I get it: in her mind, it is reasonable that he likes her so much that he truly sees her as the most beautiful girl in the world.

Because each convert is another person you can hang out sober with

William Cotton: Whenever I've taken time off from drinking, I've found that if I don't tell anyone and get things like ginger ale when I'm out, I don't get pressured or annoyed by my tipsy cohorts
Jakob Lodwick: Yeah, but then you don't get support from other non-drinkers, nor do you convert anyone else
William Cotton: Why would I care if other people drink or not?

Tumblman!

Oct
7th

Sun

"Social Capitalism"

AATW blogged an op-ed piece from the Washington Post called 5 Myths About Sick Old Europe. Here is an excerpt from #4, which addresses claims that Europe is a welfare state:

Europe's economy and social system are two halves of a well-designed "social capitalism" -- an ingenious framework in which the economy finances the social system to support families and employees in an age of globalized capitalism that threatens to turn us all into internationally disposable workers. Europeans' social system contributes to their prosperity, rather than detracting from it, and even the continent's conservative political leaders agree that it is the best way.

I am not very experienced with political analysis, so I will take it easy here. I feel that this writing is manipulative, and presents abstract conclusions without defining the basis in reality. For example, what does it mean that "the economy finances the social system"? Does 'the social system' mean 'socialist programs'? And what, exactly, is meant by saying their system "contributes to their prosperity, rather than detracting from it" -- is the author implying that Europe's socialist programs are worse than America's? Which ones, and why?

What I am most eager to know is what an "internationally disposable worker" looks like. I will email this link to the author, Steven Hill, and maybe we can have a discussion.

Good article explaining StumbleUpon (nytimes)

If you don't understand StumbleUpon, I recommend this article. Here is an excerpt:

That is one reason Mr. Camp is confident that StumbleUpon, or some other discovery service, will become a Web-wide hit over the next few years, as people increasingly shift their consumption of media to online from offline. “People aren’t going to stop channel surfing just because they don’t have a TV and they have laptops instead,” he said.

Btw, if you're going to tumblog a link, maybe you could include the reason? I find myself rarely clicking people's tumblogged links if there isn't some editorial guidance.

Murk Zunkerberg

Julia Allison: Did you delete your facebook profile in protest?
Jakob Lodwick: not protest, I just don't want to deal with the hassle anymore.

ReSScue me

At least ten times in my life, I have gone through this process:

Started using an RSS feed reader
Read every article that pops up
Added a new feed or two every week
Gotten tired of keeping up with all the feeds and abandoned it wholesale

Currently, I don't use any RSS reader; I've reverted to checking my bookmarks. I think this is a problem that needs to be solved! The solution would probably involve some sort of prioritization scheme; it would accept the premise that you don't need to see every damn thing that gets posted to one of your feeds.

Excerpt of email from Rachel Sklar that Julia forwarded me regarding my Saul Williams quote

But tell him the man in question is Victor Hugo:

Let's see if I can remember it in the original French - nope I can't. But it's something like "You can resist the invasion of armies; you can't resist an idea whose time has come."

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