Jason Cosper

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  • One More Time At Trader Vic’s

    Trader Vics

    My friend Soren pointed me towards the sad news that the Beverly Hills Trader Vic’s — the oldest Trader Vic’s in continuous operation — may very well be be closing its doors on May 1st. If this is true, I think drinks are in order on Tuesday night. Anyone in?

    Update: Humuhumu checks in with an update in my comments:

    Stay tuned… a commenter on my blog reports that last night was the last night, meaning that this morning’s meeting is all about final paychecks. Still waiting on confirmation, but it doesn’t look good.

    Thanks Humuhumu! Here’s to hoping that I didn’t miss the final night…

  • Flagpole Sitta

    Having a sort of meh hump day? This lip dub of Flagpole Sitta should brighten things up for you a little bit. It’s honestly one of the better lip dubs I’ve seen in a while.

    After showing it to a few coworkers, some of us are plotting our own crazy awesome DreamHost lip dub in response. I’m not sure if it can live up to this one, but I do know that we’d end up have a lot of fun trying.

  • Experimental Jet Set

    For somebody who spends most of his free time jockeying a laptop, I’ve actually got a semi-busy social week ahead of me:

    • Tomorrow night is April’s BarCamp LA Geek Dinner at Shakey’s in Hollywood. While I’m not so much of a fan of Shakey’s grub, I’m really looking forward to hanging out with the BarCampers again.
    • Friday brings the Helvetica screening at USC. I managed to pick up a ticket when they were announced — and it would seem that I have to pay $25 at the door as I didn’t have to pay anything when I RSVP’ed. Part of me is debating going to the Laguna Beach screening instead tho. Tickets are still available for the 9PM show and they’re only $15 via PayPal. Decisions, decisions…
    • Sunday morning, I hop a flight to Oakland for a well deserved micro-vacation in San Francisco. It’s really more of a weekend trip than a vacation, but I’m going to be doing my fair share of relaxing. My Monday afternoon is spoken for — I’m supposed to be getting lunch with Andy (and hopefully Leonard) on the Yahoo! campus — but if you’re up for hanging out, drop me a direct message on Twitter (or an IM for that matter). I’ll try to squeeze in some face time with as many folks as I can before I see LCD Soundsystem with Frazier on Monday night and fly home for work early Tuesday morning.

    See? That’s a busy week for the likes of me — but I’m looking forward to it…

  • Make Internet TV

    If you’ve ever had the idea for a show or video blog bouncing around your head and you didn’t quite know where to start, you might want to take a look at Make Internet TV. The gang over at The Participatory Culture Foundation have done a really great job getting a nuts and bolts how-to guide together. Seriously, it’s enough to make me want to set aside a weekend to start a video blog.

    I’ll admit tho, I’m really not sure who would want to watch the ideas making the rounds in my brainpan. Then again, even the stupidest videos on YouTube have at least a couple views… *shrug*

  • Vagina Power

    Speaking of coworkers, my boy Nick P. sent me this little public access nugget over internal IM the other day. You should really know that it’s quite dirty for a lot of work and some home environments — if the title “vagina power” didn’t already tip you off, that is — but it is still very hilarious. You should definitely watch it when you have a minute.

    Just to get you prepared for the greatness inside, I’ve got a few choice Alexyss Tylor quotes scraped together for y’all to enjoy…

    “She insane. Her mind ain’t good because the penis done ejaculated all in her brain.”

    “If you want to earn your man, you got to learn your man.”

    “With a penis all up in your vagina man, you don’t have no defenses.”

    See? It’s totally magical! How could you not want to look now?

    Update: Alexyss Tylor has a MySpace! Thanks for the add!

  • 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.