On the bright side, it’s not two terrible movies.
yahoo is deleting every blog that reblogged that “tumblr is deleting every blog with less than 100 users” post
CEO quoted as saying “I do arbitrary things that make no business sense”
this is really true because i just typed it so reblog it thousands of times
: TUMBLRS ASSEMBLE! →
As many of you know, our friend Rosa Sparks is having a real shit time of it lately. The most recent in a long string of personal upheavals is that the house where she and her daughter live was just robbed, and many of their personal belongings were taken. Rosa is about to start her dream job,…
So it looks like this Yahoo deal is what drove Karp’s decision to lay off Chris Mohney and his staff …?
That seems fairly obvious to me, given the timing of the two events (unless that timing is a coincidence, and I don’t believe in coincidences).
It also seems likely that Mohney himself wasn’t told this, given that: 1. He’s already told Valleywag he was never given a good explanation for for the layoffs and decision to kill Storyboard (“we weren’t told any more about the rationale for the shuttering than has been publicly acknowledged …”) and 2. If you’ve got a big secret deal in the works, it doesn’t really make much sense to entrust that secret to somebody you’re about to fire, does it?
So, here’s my theory of how the two are connected: In the acquisition negotiations, Yahoo insisted on certain balance-sheet requirements, and in order to meet them, Tumblr had to cut some revenue. And the Storyboard staff’s salaries a victim of that requirement.
Congratulations on that “not screwing it up” thing, Marissa! You guys made it almost the whole day!
"Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer became interested in the blogging site a couple of months ago, one of the people familiar with the matter said." →
Sounds like a lot of careful thought and planning went into this.
“‘To Serve Man’ …. It’s a cookbook!”
This computer simulation — showing 13 past Preakness winners racing against 2013 Kentucky Derby champ Orb — is surprisingly entertaining to watch. As fake races go, it’s a damn good fake race. I found myself cheering on the fake winner all the way to the exciting fake finish! (YOU’LL NEVER GUESS WHO WINS.)
My mother loved dandelions. She was fond of saying, “Why are people always trying to kill them? They’re so beautiful!”
I’m not a religious or superstitious person, but I can’t help noticing that, on the first Mother’s Day I’ve spent without my mom in the world, my yard is suddenly overrun with dandelions. Thousands and thousands of them — more than I’ve ever seen before.
Or maybe they’ve been there every spring, and I’m only just noticing them for the first time?
1971: The year that the recreational use of quaaludes took off in the United States.
1971: The year that the “Archie’s TV Funnies” theme song was composed and first broadcast.
Coincidence? I think not.
