May 2011
1 post
“It’s like students trying to cram a four year undergrad degree program...”
– On New Yorkers and their (insane?) thirst for a hectic life.
November 2009
1 post
A simile free to a good home
sharingtime:
It’s like Anne Boleyn complaining about the pimple on her face after she got beheaded.
October 2009
2 posts
Watching friends play a physically aggressive...
dalas: This game combines two of my least favorite things: running and being scared.
Mike: It's like a horror movie!
I listened to a bunch of archived episodes of a radio show last month, then called in to the show and got on the air. It was like watching a DVD box set of Seinfeld, then calling Jerry’s apartment during an episode, and seeing him answer.
August 2009
2 posts
Signing up Vimeo support email addresses to your email newsletter is like calling your bank’s customer service line to brag about the new album you just dropped. STOP IT PLEASE.
“Our health care system is something like an old and slowly sinking cruise ship....”
– The Mahablog (via azspot)
July 2009
1 post
“Kind of like if you hit a note on the piano and then just kept adding notes.”
– Explaining how I write my nonsense tweets to someone.
June 2009
2 posts
IE max-width javascript expression hack
soxiam:
it’s like having angry sex with a $2 hooker at a truck stop.
andrew_: "iPhone users angry over AT&T's pricing policy for the new iPhone 3G S have taken their campaign to Twitter, where more than 4,400 have added their names to an instant petition."
andrew_: 5,000 additional users have dug a large hole and are yelling into it
May 2009
2 posts
carlos: php is like having no opposable thumbs...
April 2009
5 posts
Chatting about Twitter
dalas verdugo: I feel like I'm sitting at a table, and people are talking
dalas verdugo: and I'm like "here's a joke!"
dalas verdugo: and they stare at me in silence, then go back to talking
dalas verdugo: NO FUN
dalas verdugo: why post there, when I can post on Tumblr and some people might acknowledge that what I just said was not totally worthless?
“Zac Efron is like Tom Cruise 2: The Cruisening.”
– watching Letterman
“Windows feels like having to use a fax machine.”
– Peter Serafinowicz
“It’s like displaying a work of art and then talking about what...”
– Andrew Pile on why discussing the individual components of the Vimeo interface does not convey the actual user experience.
“Imagine you are raking leaves in your yard. You get halfway done removing the...”
– Explaining to someone why it takes time to remove videos that violate our guidelines, and why being able to find bad videos on our site doesn’t mean we’re not working to remove them.
March 2009
7 posts
“It’s like saying we’re not committed to giving out ice cream just because we...”
– 37 Signals on Get Satisfaction’s tactic of claiming that companies who don’t participate on their site don’t care about customers.
“I hate flying across the country to NYC and then spending forever in the transit...”
– On NYC
“It’s like spying on a mafia gathering.”
– On the experience of two hour phone conferences where I spend most of the time squinting and trying to discern what people are saying through a haze of static.
“It’s like giving your child an XBOX 360.”
– On being excited to launch a new feature. In reference to those videos of kids getting video games for Christmas.
“It’s like a car manufacturer deciding to run the tailpipe back into the...”
– On a website that superimposes YouTube comments on top of the video.
“It’s like your boss coming to your house on the weekend.”
– When our general manager started following me on Tumblr. I didn’t actually care.
“It’s like having hospital patients at a playground.”
– On having community forums mixed in with help forums.