Jason Cosper

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  • Downtown’s Secret Community Pool

    Today, the coworkers decided to celebrate the birth of our country a day early by grabbing a quick lunch by the pool at The Standard and taking a post nosh dip.

    Apparently, all you need to do to swim in the rooftop pool is buy a drink or grab a bite to eat. Had I known this, I’d have tried pulling that little scam off much sooner.

    Some hipster girl let us know that she makes it over to The Standard a few times a week despite working at the Bonaventure because it’s not too crowded on the weekdays. Good to know.

    With that being said, mojitos run about $13 — and beers are only slightly less expensive — so you might want to take that into consideration.

    Still, it’s a fun way to kill an afternoon. You should go try it sometime…

  • Shuffling Around

    Sorry about the bit of downtime this morning and afternoon, folks! I’ve been trying to spread the hosting for my domains across a few users and I managed to take down my site in the process. Apparently I forgot about the quirks involved in running WordPress under mod_php. D’oh!

    Things are back up now tho — PHP as CGI FTW! — so no worries.

  • Go Team Venture!

    When I realized my brand new Guild of Calamitous Intent tee from AstroBase Go! had a decent sized hole where one shouldn’t be, I decided to mail them about it. Fabric imperfections happen from time to time — especially on American Apparel tees.  After a little back and forth with Venture Bros. series creator Jackson Publick — mostly to send photographic evidence that the hole existed — I ended up getting this reply:

    We’re happy to send you a replacement shirt which contains only the necessary number of holes to qualify as a shirt.

    Hah!  Good one!  Well played, Mr. Publick…

  • Drama Llama

    I really wish Boing Boing would say something about what is going on with erasing every mention of Violet Blue from their site.  Blog feuds — if that’s what this even is — are fucking retarded and I seriously thought the team over there was better than that.

    I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Violet a few years ago and I’ve hung out with Cory, Xeni and Mark a number of times.  From what I know, they’re all pretty reasonable folks.  So if there’s a beef, please squash it.  And put the posts mentioning Violet back or at least explain what’s going on.  Your readers would really appreciate it.

    Update: Boing Boing has addressed what is going on.

  • Macbook Air vs. Girl Talk

    As far as I’m concerned, this video is absolute genius.  Of course, I might be a bit partial due to the fact that I’m totally in love with the new Girl Talk album — but that’s really beside the point.

  • Vern Fonk

    I find that one word sums these commercials up better than anything else: Shipoopi!

  • Planning A Jailbreak

    Now that it’s a given that I’m buying a 3G iPhone, I need to figure out how to use a jailbroken first gen iPhone to pull traffic data for my TomTom One.  It might take a little work tho as Google’s not turning up any solid results.

    Anyone on the LazyWeb have any ideas?

    P.S. It might be a wise idea to buy .Mac at Amazon (for $69.99) in the next few days if you don’t already have it. That way, when MobileMe replaces .Mac you’ll have saved $30 on your first year of service.

  • Bad Gas

    It’s gas prices like these (spotted last night on the corner of Cahuenga and Franklin in Hollywood) that make me really glad that I take the Red Line to work.

    It should be noted that I filled up on Monday in northernmost Orange County for $4.13 for regular — so this station is likely gouging a bit due to its proximity to the freeway and tourist spots — but that doesn’t really matter. This sign feels like a fairly decent indicator of what’s to come.

    Now if you’ll excuse me, it looks like it’s time to go price out a bicycle…

  • Embrace The Dork Side

    Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.

    Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

  • Rebel Without A Pause

    Dear iTunes,

    Just because I have a habit of deleting podcasts from my library before I sync my phone doesn’t mean that I’m not listening to them anymore. So please don’t go and stop updating their feeds for me. I hate having to manually tell you that I want to keep listening to the shows that I love. I understand that you’re trying to be helpful and everything, but it’d be best if you’d just cut it the fuck out.

    Love,
    Jason