January 2012
5 posts
“IN THE EVENT OF MOON DISASTER:
Fate has ordained that the men who went to the...”
– Doomsday Speeches: If D-Day and the Moon Landing Had Failed - Dominic Tierney - National - The Atlantic
or
Richard Nixon Thinks Aloud
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December 2011
4 posts
$20 for all the pump chili you can eat (drink?) →
Amazon seems to have the entire Long Winters discography on sale right now for under $20 bucks.
That’s a fuckin’ steal
feelin’ like the happy genius of my household today. Not in the naked mirror dancing way myself, exactly, but feeling William Carlos Williams here for sure.
November 2011
1 post
whathappened:
ethosophical:
In the two and a...
October 2011
1 post
Watchdansai:
It’s Regatta weekend! Last year I made this short video thing to test out the video capabilities of the iPhone. It’s no The Social Network tilt-shifted regatta scene, but I think it turned out okay for something I didn’t plan on making.
Major high-school flashbacks there. I was never on the crew team or anything, but the sheer Cambridge-ness of this whole video really struck a chord
September 2011
2 posts
A brief moment of tech nerdery
I just wanted to jot this down so I could look at it in like four months and smugly pat myself on the back at how smart it was (or, like any good pundit, stuff it down the memory hole and move on if I am totally off).
Nerds and the tech press are going to go apeshit about the Kindle Fire, in stupid articles that use the phrase “iPad killer” way too much.
Meanwhile, the real story...
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About 5 seconds into this clip from Hypercritical...
August 2011
4 posts
“We’re dealing with a kinder, gentler Jay-Z now— but he really...”
– ?uestlove, giving all of us nerds the fantasy that we could go up to Jay-Z and be like “Is there a chance the track could bend?” and he’d be all like “Not on your life, my Hindu friend!” and then we’d maybe high-five.
July 2011
13 posts
Apparently, I have hipster “saw that before...
Fun Fact: I removed my birthday from my facebook profile in a spasm of “I care about privacy or whatever” but now that it is my birthday, in a spasm of neediness I put it back so people would be notified and could send me the facebook spam I don’t really want.
I seriously have all the personality disorders.
“Please, it’s been very hot the past few days so if you have someone...”
– A public service announcement, apparently from WIJR (Ironic Juxtaposition Radio)
“There are some amusing things in Linux which are hard to discover because they...”
– Compose key magic « Cyberborean Chronicles
Odds I hung out in Carnegie Mellon linux computer clusters with this man at some point: 5 to 1.
putthison:
LD NBF! OMG!
But what brand of cape should I wear?
Josh Caterer of Smoking Popes covers “Ask” by The Smiths on Tim’s deck
Summer! The Smiths! Smoking Popes! Extremely Pleasant!
an ample of awesome
merlin:
Collective nouns for birds
God damn. Dozens of terrible poems from my second year of college—just waiting to happen.
So great. Where to begin?
a venue of vultures
an unkindness of ravens
a congregation of plovers
a tidings of magpies
a siege of bitterns
a clattering of choughs
a covert of coots
a trip of dotterel
a clattering of jackdaws
In...
McMorrissey
Jameel: Late Night, Happy Meal
David Stern: hee
David Stern: Pretty Grills Make Graves
Jameel: Ha!
Jameel: McDonaldland Is Not the World
David Stern: hee
David Stern: Where the president, is is never purple, nugget or fry
Jameel: *fucking dies*
David Stern: shamrock shake blood, regular shake heart
Jameel: NICE!
David Stern: Heaven Knows I'm Lovin' It™ Now
Jameel: The First of the Gang to Fry
David Stern: Sweet and Tender McMuffin
Jameel: The More You Ignore Your Blood Pressure, the Higher It Gets
David Stern: I Have Forgiven Grimace
Jameel: That's solid.
Jameel: Hamburglar On Fire
David Stern: ha!
Often, my friend Jameel and I warm up in the mornings by making stupid themed puns about Morrissey to each other over IM
June 2011
8 posts
For comparison, the original and awesome...
The Roots & Weird Al Yankovic - Madvillian... →
The amount of excitement audible here is going to make me smile all damn day.
Any ol’ dorkus can jump around in the ocean, but it takes a dorkus with a liberal arts degree to yell “HERACLITUS” each time they get hit by a wave.
May 2011
8 posts
1 tag
RIP Summer Driving Playlist 09 - 10
It’s mid-May and there are occasional days with sunny bits in between the endless rain that is a Pittsburgh Spring (also fall and the warmer parts of winter and fuck, most of summer too, but still…SUMMER!), and that means it’s finally time for me to come up with a new Summer Driving Playlist.
This means, of course, that I need to lay SUMMER PLAYLIST ‘09 - ‘10 to...
Watchjoeblubaugh:
Oh man, do I love Stefon sketches.
I think the only thing that current SNL is really great at is absurdist list comedy.
On the other hand, they are really, really great at absurdist list comedy right now.
Van Morrison - Domino
Might be time to start...
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Back to Archetypes
Yesterday, my co-developer and fellow Back to Work fan Matt informed me that he and another friend of his have started analyzing conversational and professional relationships in terms of who is the Merlin and who is the Dan Benjamin.
I’m still not entirely sure what this means1, but congratulations to Merlin and Dan on ascending from being people to I guess some sort of nigh-Jungian...
April 2011
6 posts
Important Steely Dan Questions
Okay, people, I need to ask you an IMPORTANT STEELY DAN QUESTION
(well no, I need to finish up some work, I am asking you an important Steely Dan question).
I have, through random accretion over the years, precisely five Steely Dan songs on my hard drive
(I know, Aja, Countdown to Ecstacy, etc. I should have more songs, but I have five, that is just how it is right now)
The reason I...
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Built to Spill - Preview
Hat tip to Elisabeth,...
“I was looking around for something else. If I was a more emo teenager, I might...”
– Glen Weldon on Talking Heads, Pop Culture Happy Hour via (The A.V. Club).
HELLO GLEN WELDON, ARE YOU ME?
Dear Rogue Amoeba
So, I’ve been using LineIn and SoundSource (check ‘em out if you don’t know!) to pass through MLB AtBat audio to my iMac speakers, and they’ve been great.
Is there somewhere on the website where I can file a bug for these fucking Red Sox though?
Eeeeesh.