August 2008
My iTunes keeps bouncing back and forth from early Beatles to Nine Inch Nails. I don’t know exactly what my laptop is trying to communicate but I think it’s either “I want to fuck you like an animal back in the USSR” or “I want to hold your perfect drug.”
What, exactly, does one do with a computer that’s either obviously severely depressed or hitting on...
Email of the day
frangry:
Yeah. There’s only way to know for sure, but I think it would be a good idea if you kissed me.
This reminds me of one of my favorite xkcd comics of all time
“I have a fairly specific idea of what the first 15 pages of the screenplay will...”
– Aaron Sorkin (via rore)
For some reason, this quote makes me feel so much better about the way that I write. Generally I’m just along for the ride, taking notes.
Joe Biden
The addition of Joe Biden to the ticket actually makes me less interested in voting for Obama. I disagree very strongly with a lot of his positions, esp concerning technology and technological progress. His taking claim for writing a good portion of the Patriot Act never sat well with me either.
I’m not saying that it’s an automatic no-vote for me, just that it means I’m not...
For what it's worth observation
rebloggingrebloggingjulia:
This is nothing more than a personal observation but I think if I had to spend an hour having some beers with one of the candidates, all politics aside, it would be McCain. He obviously has some stories, both war & some inside the Senate stuff, that would make the time fly. Obama just strikes me as “that guy” who would be checking his Blackberry every 5 minutes while...
I Want To Be Your Friend
ronen-v:
- Who are you
- What do you make (don’t be embarrassed)
- What activity makes you feel ‘yourself’
- Where did you come from
- Where are you going
- On what are you unwilling to compromise
- What are you looking for
- I wonder that myself often. Sometimes I’m me, other times I’m who I believe I’m “supposed” to be. Expectations are a bitch.
-...
Analog Meets Its Match in Red Digital Cinema's... →
Watchteamtigerawesome:
cuanimation:
Oh, hello nightmare. I missed you.
Wait til about :23 seconds for full on creepiness.
SWEET FUCKING CHRIST NO!. SHUT IT OFF SHUT IT OFF SHUT IT OFF
WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?!
Should you once again feel the desire to secede,... →
This is insane and awesome →
“This is a guy who lived in one house for five and a half years — in prison.”
– McCain Spokesman’s Retort: Obama Lives in “a Frickin’ Mansion” (via mikehudack)
It’s like they are literally unable to speak to the press without mentioning that McCain was a POW. Was there some Presidential signing statement that I’m unaware of that dictates that any and all comments...
“I wrote yesterday about my friend Brian Conley detained by the Chinese...”
– Angus McIntyre (via mikehudack) The internet provides the best medium in all of history for two types of things: the completely superfluous and the vitally important. This is the latter. Brian has dedicated a large portion of his life to (and indeed put it on the line for) those important stories,...
When reading a really good, really philosophical and life-challenging book, I find myself drawn implicitly towards making notes, highlighting passages and scribbling down thoughts in the margins. I cannot help it.
On the other side of the “how dare you deface that book” coin, I also love used books with the same. It’s like a commentary track on a DVD, but from another reader....
“Two elderly Chinese women have been sentenced to a year of “re-education through...”
– Two Women Sentenced to ‘Re-education’ in China - NYTimes.com (via mikehudack)
Why does “re-education” sound so much like something out of 1984?
Do want! The most powerful diesel engine in the... →
Does anyone have some REALLY big wheels I can, uh, borrow?
I really don’t know why everyone’s making a big deal out of the Bigfoot just being a rubber costume; has no one heard of Occam’s Razor? It would have been news if it had been real, not because it’s fake! It didn’t even have a possibility of being real and I should have never even heard of the story in the first place!
“What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with...”
– Rob Gordon in “High Fidelity”, Nick Hornby (via annarchy) (via unicornology) (via soupsoup) (via rebloggingrebloggingjulia)
Ice Cream Sandwich Builder →
theloveyturtle:
I think I’d go there everyday. That sounds amazing.
joannasoon:
Currently eating a cookie from my Diddy dozen. I need to get ice cream.
My favorite combo: white chocolate macadamia nut + oatmeal raisin walnut + vanilla bean ice cream. Yum!
This is one of the best things about living in LA. Seriously.
No more meetings at Starbucks
mikehudack:
From now on all meetings over coffee will take place at charming independent cafes and bookstores. No exceptions.
For a thousand different reasons, I agree with this statement wholeheartedly.
Do subatomic particles have free will? →
mikehudack:
theresistance:
poursoi:
Human free will might seem like the squishiest of philosophical subjects, way beyond the realm of mathematical demonstration. But two highly regarded Princeton mathematicians, John Conway and Simon Kochen, claim to have proven that if humans have even the tiniest amount of free will, then atoms themselves must also behave unpredictably.
Which is exactly why...
Things I hope are coming to tumblr
zacharyr:
spytap:
I really don’t follow that many people, but many of them are tumbling (Word? Yes? No? Moving on…) a couple times a day. Now unless I’ve constantly got tumblr open and am refreshing twice an hour, this creates quite the backlog of entries for me to sort through whenever I get around to checking it out.
Now I know this isn’t an issue unique to Tumblr, I have the same thing...
“You know what I can feel coming in the air tonight? It.”
– A coworker.
A federal judge says the University of California... →
Well yeah…that’s pretty much how it should be. If you want religious credit for religious course, that’s fine. Don’t ask for science credit though. It’s not descrimination, or a “secular agenda” it’s just plain common sense.
Things I hope are coming to tumblr
I really don’t follow that many people, but many of them are tumbling (Word? Yes? No? Moving on…) a couple times a day. Now unless I’ve constantly got tumblr open and am refreshing twice an hour, this creates quite the backlog of entries for me to sort through whenever I get around to checking it out.
Now I know this isn’t an issue unique to Tumblr, I have the same thing...
Yesterday's dose of irony
People using Twitter to complain about software outages.
Is Content King Again? →
(Via NewTeeVee) I claim it always has been, but what do I know?
There has been (and always will be) a novelty period in any new entertainment or technological medium, however I firmly believe that especially when dealing with an inherently “free to the user” business model, the content better be as good as it can be. You’ve got a lot of competition (the entire rest of the...
The Power of Audience →
(Via TechCrunch) An interesting examination of audience understanding and expectations using Twitter as the main example.
ill trade you my swords...
deleteyourself:
Just when you thought hipsters weren’t dangerous…
“I’ll trade you my swords for a fixed gear bike” (via alexxxxa)
I’ll just reblog what I twittered a few days ago: “Fixed gear bicycles: Because 150 years of engineering and development should totally be disregarded…if you’re a douchebag.”