I am trying to clear my name. A building: square, central courtyard cut-out, offices along the sides and stairwells at the corners. I’m here with a small crew? You all wait outside while I try and clear my name. An interview? An interrogation? Some simple misunderstanding? The office is empty when I go inside. Do […]
Narrator/point-of-view: third person, detached. Like 40s detective noir or some awful late 90s independent cinema. I’m involved but not central, hardly pivotal. Nate (from Six Feed Under) has moved on to some private detective’s agency on the coast of Florida. He’s investigating some shady real estate deals there. Something is seriously wrong; all of the […]
Free to choose? via Economist.com (via /.): “Liberalism and neurology” – – what does neuroscience tell us about free will? (tags: essay neuroscience todo research) Federal Subsidies Turn Farms Into Big Business (tags: environment food todo)
Perhaps we’ll get a few posts from the road but tomorrow morning A. & I are out for a holiday road trip. A few parting shots before we jam out, however: Get your holiday/2006-year-in-revue retrospective mix at Synaptic Clog. (Yes, I am a cross-posting whore.) Careful with your bottle-opening methods: You know what they say […]
The dentist is very concerned about the state of my bottom teeth. He won’t tell me what’s wrong but he does explain that they’re in very bad shape. He’s afraid that he needs to pull them. From the bottom left incisor through the next four choppers. It’s going to be quite a procedure. He sends […]
Web 2.0 how-to design style guide The design elements and philosophies that have become associated with “Web 2.0” — what works and what doesn’t (and why/not). (Reading assignment?) (tags: webdesign essay todo)
HappyCodr (indirectly via HiveLogic) a Ruby on Rails Showcase (tags: Ruby Rails web) Moving Through Matter with Buckaroo Banzai via /.: an essay on the physics behind (within?) the film Buckaroo Bonzai… (tags: film geek scifi science essay)
An almost high school hallway but it never ends, doorways on all sides. I’m too old for these childish games but just the same, I’m trying to fit in with this half-dozen or so of The Cool Kids. We’re all laughing and I think we’re laughing together but they’re laughing at me. Like I’m The […]
Some amusing haiku movie reviews (such as this and these) helped your narrator here bring home a brand new camera from the company holiday party this year. Huzzah! Now (after I was just beginning to master the old one) to learn how to use it… (How am I doing so far?) Also, because we went […]
Making PNG image transparency work in Internet Explorer via 24th Floor (via command_tab): A good (and succinct) redux on how to get PNG’s alpha working properly in Internet Explorer. (tags: IE hack CSS png graphics tutorial) Audacity Free Audio Editor and Recorder (tags: opensource Mac OSX audio software music todo Audacity) Defining the Centipede Bruce […]