A dumping ground for miscellany; the amusing, the thought-provoking, the otherwise memorable.
Via DF: Some really quite slick Halloween-themed icons available as a freeware download at Iconfactory. Some examples: (image taken from their promo page) The Cthulu-esque “sea monster” and the zombie are my personal favorites. Well-executed, these are.
And then it became clear to me: Depression Era folks and kids that grew up as part of the Video Game generation have at least this much in common: they pick up and save everything because you never know when you’re going to need it 1. Though whether you need it to patch the hole […]
The Gibson I understand. The Vermont Atlas? Makes perfect sense. But the TMNT action figures?
Just a brief figure to illustrate Comcast’s on-going craptacularness: So yeah. Even without getting into the specifics (i.e., price & download speeds) we can see the areas of discrepancy that might cause an educated consumer to be … well, rather alarmed. Burlington Telecom: if you’re listening: hurry up with the wiring in my neighborhood.
In response to me calling someone smart: I’m not smart, just not terribly stupid.
From a friend: It’s a weird world where my trolling through Facebook looking for people that I got drunk with over the previous weekend could not only be characterized as, “work,” but was specifically condoned by my boss.
Thinking thoughts (from a self-inflicted homework assignment): We have come all the way from attempts at great literal fidelity to the author’s style, to high-level translations of flavor. Now if this happens already in the first sentence, can you imagine how it must go on in the rest of the book? What about the point […]
teh m00se is out of surgery. and doing well. eating “adult foods” like popsicles, she reports. we all like good news. Flickr seems to be down and seems to have been for hours. which (among other things) means that you’re probably not reading this until well after it’s been published 1. we all hate bad […]