Burial: “Untrue” by Warren Ellis “I’m on the twelfth listen, and I still don’t feel like I’ve nailed what this album is. Because I don’t think Burial set out to make a funeral for soul music. But none of these lush R&B voices are alive.” (tags: music todo) Tackle Any Issue With a List of […]
Perfect late-fall hiking day. Cold (but felt “brisk” rather than cold) and extremely clear. A touch of ice on the trail and some snow dusted hither and yon. About as good a fall hiking day as you could ask for. Stowe Pinnacle isn’t a terribly long hike but it is pretty steep; and the view […]
InterviewUp “Job Interview Questions and Answers” (tags: interview work todo) The Interoperation by Bruce Sterling (via B^2 and Beyond the Beyond) (tags: fiction scifi todo) Google SketchUp (for Dummies) via B^2: a series of YouTube videos that explain how to use it (tags: design google sketchup tutorial video todo)
Star makers via Cosmos magazine: “What does it mean for a civilization to be a million years old?” (tags: biology energy future science space research essay todo) Creepiest. Riot Masks. Ever. via Danger Room (via Pete): Hello Kitty meets Half Life meets Revenge of the Sith? (tags: surreal)
It’s a knock-down, drag-out fight. MG and me. We are arguing. What is getting done? What isn’t getting done? How fast? What takes priority? Who takes priority? We have the same goals, we just disagree on how to get there. Fists are thrown, jaws are dislocated.
Wooster Collective: Seen On A Draw Bridge in Amsterdam via kapowee (aka zappowbang) — funny stuff (tags: art culture design environment todo)
action therapy your lolbladerunner dream of broken glass “Search Term Haiku” is a series wherein I examine this site’s log files and construct one or more haiku poems from search terms and phrases that led visitors to the site. Where possible, I attempt to keep the search phrases intact. However, as these are haiku poems, […]
Well, November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo, that is to say). Had a hell of a time of it last year 1– made it to 50,688 words in 25 days with what really did resemble a complete story by the end of it all. Still haven’t revisited that story as I’d planned to… but […]
Image Is Everything via Jettison Canopy (via DF): very thorough-looking comparison of 3 new-on-the-scene graphics editors for the Mac. (TO DO: Compare/contrast w/ your own notes on Pixelmator and Acorn; then check out DrawIt) (tags: graphics software Acorn Pixelmator essay todo) GCALDaemon via Justin: a way to sync up iCal and the gCal. Could be […]
Back at the beginning of October, I decided to take the plunge and “switch” from using iCal more/less exclusively for my calendaring to using the web-based Google Calendar more/less exclusively. The reasons for the switch (even as just an experiment) were myriad and had built up slowly over a period of about two years. The […]