Jason Cosper

Author: Jason Cosper

  • Please Advise

    Since I work primarily in support, I read a lot of email day in and day out. After a while you start to pick up patterns. One day, my coworker Mike P. started to notice that an awful lot of folks finished their emails with the phrase “Please advise.” So much so that he started to keep a tally with a red sharpie and a piece of printer paper behind his desk.

    Every time somebody in the office would get a message that contained the terse ending, we’d holler a “Please advise!” in the direction of his desk and he’d get to tallying. Mind you, this is a guy who knows perl and has access to our internal database. He could write a script to keep a running tally if he wanted to — but it’s just more fun for us to do it this way.

    So in the interest of flogging a dead horse, I’ve gone ahead and crafted the “please advise” shirt. The plan is to wear it into work at semi-regular intervals for a good laugh every now and again. Well, at least until it stops being funny. I guess I’ll have to string it out if I want it to have any staying power.

    Now I just have to figure out what to do with all of these left over letters…

  • Shall We Play A Game?

    I’m running up on the Yay Area at the end of the month to see LCD Soundsystem — as well as a few friends — and I’d really like to put my name in the hat for a round of Faceball if at all possible. My inner masochist thinks it’d be worth making the trip to Flickr HQ for.

    So what do you say, Flickrdoodles?

  • What Ever Happened To…

    underbunny? Back in the early days of Flickr her photos gave folks these wonderfully haunting peeks inside the world of undertaking. And even tho I didn’t realize that she hadn’t posted anything since November of 2005 until just a few minutes ago, seeing her name on my contact list made me feel like throwing that question out there…

    So, does anyone have an idea of where she went?

  • Keeping It Casual

    Oh Ask MeFi, you’re such a treasure trove of good advice sometimes…

    Here is how you tell if a woman that you meet likes to give casual blowjobs.

    Step 1. Look down. Is there a woman there? If so, move on to step 2.

    Step 2. Is this a casual situation? For example, are there more than 12 people around you? If so, are they wearing flip-flops? Is the amount of time that you have known this woman more likely to be tallied in days, minutes or seconds? If it is minutes or seconds, move on to step 3.

    Step 3. You are a casual blowee. You have determined that you have met a lady who likes to give casual blowjobs. She may also be a fabulous person and/or like to have long-term relationships, but you will have to ask her about that when her mouth isn’t full.

    It may be a bit crass for some of y’all — and I’m sorry if you think it was — but it was still funny enough for me to want to share it.

  • Gimme Some Ear Candy

    At first, I had a real hard time shelling out $9.99 for for 15 minutes worth of content — but now that I’ve done so, I’m really glad I picked up Ze Frank‘s The Songs from iTunes. It’s a collection of 21 Ze classics such as Where The Fuck Do Ideas Come From? and Anti-intellectualism in much better quality than the versions I ripped for myself from the original videos.

    So if you’re a fan, get to buying this. If you aren’t, don’t. And if you don’t know what I’m going on about, go watch The Show. Seriously, you’ll thank me later.

  • Hobo With A Shotgun

    I’m not sure why this trailer is showing in the Canadian release of Grindhouse and not the US one, but I’m happy to see it up on YouTube at the very least.

  • March Madness

    Yeah, that’s seriously my cell bill from the last month.

    Thanks to Twitter — and more importantly, my Twitter friends at SXSW, BarCampLA and eTech — I recieved a whopping 2185 texts to my phone this last billing cycle. That’s kind of a lot, isn’t it?

    Anyhow, I’m really glad that T-Mobile gives me an unlimited text plan as part of my Sidekick services. I’m pretty sure that I’d be turning off notifications right now if they didn’t…

  • Apple And EMI Drop DRM

    The best part (to me at least) about Apple and EMI’s DRM free deal is the news that full album prices are still going to stay the same. That is to say that the price will remain around the $9.99 mark — but your purchase will apparently net you the DRM free 256 kbps AAC versions of the tracks.

    Now I don’t know about you, but that gives me loads more incentive to start buying full albums thru iTunes. Well, you know, so long as I like most of the tracks on an album. That’s still going to be a big deal for me. Still, this whole announcement is a step in the right direction for online music.

  • BarCamp LA 3 Next Weekend!

    Heads up! The 3rd installment of BarCamp LA is coming up next weekend (March 24th & 25th, 2007) at Little Radio Warehouse in Downtown LA. For those folks who’ve never been to a BarCamp before, it’s a completely free conference (with meals, snacks and beer) where the schedule is open for the attendees to give presentaions on topics they are passionate about. Want to talk about Microformats or web frameworks? Great! Is teaching folks yoga or how to mod their Wii more your speed? That’s totally awesome too!

    As with most 2 day BarCamp type events, everyone’s encouraged to stay overnight — so bring your sleeping bag and your laptop — if they’re so inclined. If they do, they’re in for a geekfest that’s guaranteed to last until the wee hours of the morning at the very least.

    So if you’re going to be in the LA area that weekend, I’d really love to see you there. Feel free to sign up on the wiki and throw your name on the list at Upcoming.

  • Making Change

    Life’s been this wonderfully weird flurry of events (both expected and unexpected) for a little while now. Quite a few changes have been happening behind the scenes, but I don’t quite feel like sharing them right now. It just doesn’t seem like the right time or place to do so.

    So what’s the use of me posting then? Well, I just wanted to tell the people who care enough to read this site that I’m in kind of a transitionary period right now. And I don’t know where it’s going to take me, but I’m excited to find out. I guess I’ll just know when I get there…