Mark Sudduth and Jesse Bass of Hurricanetrack.com set up an anemometer and other weather equipment on the Outer Banks of North Carolina Thursday. A Nightline crew is accompanying the team, which has monitored major hurricanes from the field for more than a decade, through the target zone as Hurricane Earl approaches. We’ll have some incredible shots from the front lines — watch tonight at 11:35 p.m. for the latest. And click HERE for full ABC News coverage of the storm.
Today in service-y on Tumblr.
Capital New York has a nice feature right now called “The Last Song of Summer,” defined as “the songs you want to hear during the last set of the last party of the season, or while you watch the sun go down on the final balmy day.” This is mine, “Outro With Bees,” by Neko Case.
The whole song is perfect, but there’ s a moment in here when it switches from stereo to mono and becomes every last, late-night drive home I ever took through Kansas in August; the smell of burnt earth and freshly-harvested field corn, and the sound of distant thunder.
Submit your song here, or simply tag your post ‘summer outro’.
Indeed, Palin had something of a fixation on the handling of her undergarments, and insisted, when hotel maids did her laundry, that only campaign aides be allowed to touch those particular articles.
From the Vanity Fair sidebar on Palin’s spending habits during the campaign. And I thought I’ve had nightmare bosses. (via cmonstah)
To be fair, I’m pretty sure it was because she wears grizzly bear underwear.
You Know How There Are Some Relationships Where One Person Thinks You're Dating and the Other Can't Quite Remember Your Name?
Dear Craig Bierko:
This is kind of like that. Still, we have to admit that we feel a little responsible here, because honestly, we had no idea. Mainly because, well, you just haven’t spent enough time with us! And you’ve been so quiet, and not in that darkly mysterious manner that is intriguing because it’s slightly dangerous and even a little bit sexy, but more like a shy, quiet stare that is maybe making us a bit uncomfortable.
But it doesn’t have to be this way! We can totally be friends, even if we can’t promise we’ll ever be ready to take it to the next level. Maybe let’s just start with a few posts, and see how it goes from there, OK? Or even email, mark@tumblr.com
Love, T
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, freezing up in her opening statement for last night’s gubernatorial debate. (h/t: Politico)
This is painful. Also, I kinda love that she was still able to gather herself enough to end with “I ask for your vote.”
President Obama goes country. John Hockenberry, the host of The Takeaway, thought the President’s recent speech sounded like lyrics to a country song. So he set the words to music by Emmylou Harris. Nice.
This is amazing. And we can not wait for the Obama/Emmylou duet.
Marc LaFountain
Community Director
Richmond, VirginiaMarc gets email. A lot of email.
As Community Director, Marc manages Tumblr’s entire support infrastructure. From tackling general community issues to solving technical support requests, he’s personally read and responded to thousands upon thousands of email messages regarding browser cookies, forgotten passwords, and more.
Yet, Marc wants to emphasize that he is, in fact, an actual human being. You see, a common misconception he encounters is that he’s a fake persona we created to make Support more personable. Emails addressed to “Whoever Really Reads This” and “Marc, Yeah Right” are a surprisingly regular occurrence.
But after a rigorous interrogation and full-body scan, we can attest to him being a real human who is pleased to help with any of your Tumblr needs.
“One of the nice things about support work is the immediacy of the results. Someone couldn’t log into Tumblr and now they can. Someone wasn’t sure how to do something, and now they know,” he says.
As for the future, Marc is orchestrating the expansion of Tumblr’s Support team to better serve our community as it grows over the coming months and years. We just passed 100k total customer service requests in our internal support system today. Here’s to 200k!
Personal data
He has a lovely wife named Francisca and two sometimes-lovely cats named Zora and Gracie.Favorite support email
“How harmful is it swallow a small amount of nail polish remover?”Fun fact
Marc was Tumblr’s third employee, hired after two emails and a phone call insisting he could respond to support emails faster than David. He was right.
Support is one of those things that is hard to do right, and very easy to do wrong; we’re so lucky to have a guy who does it right.
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This seems important.
This seems terrifying.
In Which It Is Revealed that I Am Profoundly Ignorant of My Previous Profession’s History
What we’d like to be doing right now.
Wait—what is this? Scribner’s used to sell their catalog? For $.25?
Oh, for God’s sake:
What we’d like to be doing right now.
Wait—what is this? Scribner’s used to sell their catalog? For $.25?
