September 2009
5 posts
The Death of Bunny Munroe →
(via stolte-sawa)
August 2009
8 posts
July 2009
4 posts
June 2009
30 posts
“Why are you picking on the Post Office? For 44 cents, someone comes to your...”
– Jon Stewart, pointing out to House minority leader John Boehner that perhaps the United States Postal Service is a bad example of government mismanagement, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
This just about sums up my view of the Post Office - say what you will about government mismanagement but...
WatchShot this on my new Canon HF20 camcorder. It’s encoded as an .mp4, with a target bitrate of 6 and a max of 9. 30 seconds came out to just about 22mb.
It’s just me talking about taking a video of myself, complete with completely forgetting what specs I was shooting with.
Mamet on Story and Structure
kurafire:
texburgher:
“What you’re talking about is what the illiterate call the ‘back story.’ You don’t need it. Remember that the model of the drama is the dirty joke. This joke begins: ‘A traveling salesman stops at a farmer’s door’ -it does not begin: ‘Who would think that the two most disparate occupations of agriculture and salesmanship would one day be indissolubly united in our oral...
Actual Book Titles
Have you walked into a bookstore lately? It seems the best seller lists are all populated with books whose titles follow a specific formula, which looks like this:
The + [‘Cultural’ Name or Place] + [Word Implying Cataclysmic Secret]
The textbook example is, of course, “The DaVinci Code” - and I can only assume that everyone is copying his book’s success. But...
“And let’s face it: Our culture has lost the ability to usefully disagree. Most...”
– Jay Heinrichs in “How to Teach a Child to Argue” (via delayprocrastinate)
Good Things About Today:
Final Fantasy XIV announced. It’s an MMORPG which seems to continue in the world of FFXI. It arrives world-wide next year. Woot.
Listened to Nature by Flotation Walls. I’ve liked the songs before, but this was the first time I took in the album as a whole - and it’s wonderful, the track order gives new meanings to different songs, the album as a whole is a picture of a human...
program_163_FlotationWalls.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object) →
Flotation Walls featured on a local radio program. Interview and some songs.
Canon Electronics →
Remind me not to work for Canon.
May 2009
24 posts
Watchstreeter:
Luigi Snaps
I had this idea a long time ago, I think around the same time I did Bowser’s Suggestion box (which became Bowser’s Minions in video form). I needed help writing this and who better to share the pen with than Jeff Rubin? NOBODY, that’s who. Anyway, hope you like it and, if you do, mind tossing a digg our way?
Watchtuneage:
Regina Spektor - “Dance Anthem of the 80’s”
Off her latest album, Far, out June 23rd.