Paul Straw lives in Sonora, California with his wife, Charlene. He enjoys making pixel art and other things that go on the internet. On occasion, he even likes how those things turn out (but usually not).Tumblr (3.0; @paulstraw)http://blog.paulstraw.com/<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lys10cDvGr1qarz4qo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://nickkreiss.tumblr.com/post/16925942838/theres-always-money-in-the-banana-stand">nickkreiss</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>there’s always money in the banana stand.</p> </blockquote>http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/16927808023http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/16927808023Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:28:46 -0800<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx5y6dWZOH1qzn56po1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Meta</p>http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/15175906184http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/15175906184Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:56:37 -0800meta<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx5xzdAAgx1qzn56po1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Meta</p>http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/15175799140http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/15175799140Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:52:00 -0800metathis is a post about another post about a post that was automatically posted to another place where i post things<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx5xvkbitu1qzn56po1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Meta</p>http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/15175739299http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/15175739299Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:50:07 -0800meta<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx1ttn533p1qz4fnpo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://nostrich.tumblr.com/post/15063175533">nostrich</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/12/31/tumblr-suggests-that-you-to-stop-using-the-popular-missing-e-chrome-extension/">Tumblr Suggests That You Stop Using Chrome Extension</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Third-party extensions and hacks are a part of the web, perhaps Tumblr should focus on building new features or its own official “app store” instead of whining about support and server issues.</p> </blockquote> <p>The Missing e Chrome extension — and it’s an extension, not a “hack” — has quarter of a million installs just on Chrome, and all of those people just got forced to give up either some useful and clearly in-demand features or their right to support. This post on TNW is pretty harsh, but the apparent aggressiveness they’re treating <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bcjbagclppcgdbpobcpoojdjdmcjhpid">Missing e</a> with suggests a weird lack of interest in what Tumblr’s users actually want. As far as I can tell, they have no interest in implementing any of its features — and all anyone ever has is assumptions since Tumblr continues to refuse to engage its community publicly (and I thought it was great that Tumblr chose to activate this at around 5pm EST on a Friday, way to bury the backlash).</p> <p>Objecting to the extension I can understand — it uses some pretty weird and definitely unsupported methods to do what it does — but forcing its users to give up support (and I bet there’s no way to opt back in) is pretty shitty. This is what support teams are <em>for</em>; how hard is it to send a canned email to the effect of “sorry, this is probably caused by an extension”? (They have no qualms with sending useless canned responses for every other issue you might have.) If developers were really encouraged to build off the platform, Tumblr wouldn’t be forcing users to give up their use of support for using third-party extensions. You’re either willing to provide support or you’re not. Tumblr, it seems, would rather not.</p> </blockquote>http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/15064116635http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/15064116635Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:15:21 -0800<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwv4cgVqgf1qz5urdo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://inky.tumblr.com/post/14859535358">inky</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/nrtsn/siri_fail/">reddit</a>: “This is how the machines win.”</p> </blockquote>http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/14868498241http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/14868498241Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:33:37 -0800“You tend to get told that the world is the way it is, but life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact… and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.”<br/><br/> - <em><p>Steve Jobs</p> <p>(H/T <a href="http://dcurt.is/2011/11/26/the-way-it-is/">Dustin Curtis</a>)</p></em>http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/13363375173http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/13363375173Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:01:11 -0800<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/8623084" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/13354138583/green-blue-grey-eyes">merlin</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>From <a href="http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/323848950/please-dont-let-me-hit-the-ground-featuring-an">Jan 8, 2010</a>:</p> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/323848950/please-dont-let-me-hit-the-ground-featuring-an">merlin</a>:</p> <blockquote> <h3>Please don’t let me hit the ground</h3> <p>Featuring an <em>extremely</em> rare public performance of my critically-acclaimed “Ian Curtis Move.”</p> </blockquote> <p>That’s me again this morning. Now <em>45</em>.</p> </blockquote> <p>I’m thankful for Merlin Mann.</p>http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/13363293653http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/13363293653Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:59:23 -0800<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls91t5f2fQ1qbtsvoo1_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls91t5f2fQ1qbtsvoo2_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls91t5f2fQ1qbtsvoo3_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls91t5f2fQ1qbtsvoo4_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://crushedglass.tumblr.com/post/13093162477/forever-an-auto-reblog">crushedglass</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>forever an auto-reblog</p> </blockquote>http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/13208817048http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/13208817048Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:05:19 -0800<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/eQOJbLTRWfM?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><a href="http://maxsilvestri.tumblr.com/post/12645972688/um-lets-all-quit-comedy-because-apparently-liam">maxsilvestri</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Um, let’s all quit comedy because apparently Liam Neeson is already the best at it. Incredible.</p> <p>(This is a clip from that new Ricky Gervais/Warwick Davis show.)</p> </blockquote>http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/12664104263http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/12664104263Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:25:42 -0800<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu1lpd5OgT1qzn56po1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>“Dude. They don’t mention Ron Paul in this _whole_ Newsweek!”</p>http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/12244982011http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/12244982011Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:56:01 -0700Herman Cain? He's the other black man they're putting against obama<a href="http://liberalsarecool.com/post/12038874711/house-gops-job-creating-spending-cuts-destroyed">Liberals Are Cool: House GOP's "Job Creating" Spending Cuts Destroyed 370,000 Jobs</a>: <blockquote> <p>House Re­pub­li­cans took the gov­ern­ment to the brink of shut­down last spring by de­mand­ing across-the-board bud­get cuts to many vital pro­grams. In­stead of fo­cus­ing on job cre­ation, as Amer­i­cans wanted them to, the GOP turned its at­ten­tion to slash­ing funds for pro­grams that…</p> </blockquote>http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/12039768432http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/12039768432Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:54:48 -0700“The use of that last phrase, “style over substance” has always been, as Oscar Wilde observed, a marvellous and instant indicator of a fool. For those who perceive a separation between the two have either not lived, thought, read or experienced the world with any degree of insight, imagination or connective intelligence.”<br/><br/> - <em><p><a href="http://www.stephenfry.com/2011/10/06/steve-jobs/single-page/">Stephen Fry</a></p> <p>(H/T <a href="http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/10/25/fry">John Gruber</a>)</p></em>http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/11924572907http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/11924572907Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:55:00 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnb0sogxXB1qzy416o1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/11494049864http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/11494049864Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:27:08 -0700<a href="http://www.offthechartsblog.org/the-2009-recovery-act-%E2%80%94-even-better-in-preventing-poverty-than-we-thought/">New Census data show Recovery Act kept 6 million people out of poverty in 2009</a>: <p><a href="http://jaison96.tumblr.com/post/11449801139">jaison96</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>We previously described the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) as one of the “most effective pieces of anti-poverty legislation in decades,” saying its temporary expansion of the safety net kept 4.5 million people out of poverty in 2009. Actually, the impact was greater than we thought.</p> </blockquote>http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/11463665285http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/11463665285Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:10:00 -0700too bad socialism quoteunquote doesn't work<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt0ivgllCk1qe6vsbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://liberalsarecool.tumblr.com/post/11400514641">liberalsarecool</a>:</p> <blockquote> <blockquote> <h3>The Most Effective Protest Sign Ever</h3> <p>A chart! A government-cited, statistic-based chart.</p> </blockquote> <p>The difference between the spike in the 90s and the 00s was that under <strong>Clinton</strong> we balanced the budget and created a surplus with the added wealth, whereas, under <strong>Bush</strong>, we created the wealth by borrowing massively and creating historic deficits.</p> </blockquote>http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/11403164135http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/11403164135Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:28:30 -0700“People sometimes have goals in life. Steve Jobs exceeded every goal he set himself.”<br/><br/> - <em>Steve Wozniak</em>http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/11095333604http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/11095333604Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:29:19 -0700“No! We’re getting to that park. That was my goal for today; to get to that park.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://allthingsd.com/20111005/the-steve-jobs-i-knew/">Steven Paul Jobs</a>, shortly after his 2009 liver transplant.</em>http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/11093762320http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/11093762320Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:31:01 -0700Steven Paul Jobs<p>Until today, I’ve never been sad about the death of someone I didn’t personally know. Steve Jobs was a brilliant man. Without him, personal computing as we know it wouldn’t exist.</p> <p>Your work changed my life. Thanks, Steve.</p>http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/11093352306http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/11093352306Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:07:00 -0700Steven Paul Jobs<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsmrhkHRx41qzn56po1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/11093286970http://blog.paulstraw.com/post/11093286970Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:03:20 -0700Steven Paul Jobs