May 2009
68 posts
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to...”
– e.e. cummings. (via inkless-pen)
LA flight manifest
-Some old folks with way too much money who did way too many drugs when they were younger
-Some people entirely absorbed in the self-importance field emanating from their Blackberries
-Some summery-looking “model slash actress” types with “different” hair.
-Your average aspiring singer/songwriter dude - not like I saw that exact tshirt, hat, and jacket last I was at...
Invert the phase variance
Just got millimeter-wave scanned by airport security. I swear the device is straight out of Star Trek.
Of course in the secure area you can’t take pictures. Oha well.
“Mr. Hufnagl asked me how I’ve changed in the year since I’ve left...”
– Anonymous
Totally feel you on that one.
“Here’s a nice car analogy for those of us in New England — consider...”
– Wrath0fb0b on Slashdot
Bitterness To Be Classified As a Mental Illness →
So my insurance is about to get more expensive.
Dead Space
Midori Wada: i need my baby to send after creepy crawlies.
Ben Englert: don't worry
Ben Englert: your baby will take on entire stricken starships full of creepy crawlies with just a little plasma cutter
“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good,...”
– Howard Aiken
“It’s disingenuous, or at the very least, naive, to suggest that legalizing...”
– Lena Chen
Stay strong, folks. Stay strong and take comfort in those of us who love and accept you exactly as you are.
“Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female...”
– Alfred Kinsey
So, you're in love with one of your friends, →
but she has a boyfriend and probably wouldn’t have sex with you anyway.
Via Dan King. Brilliant.
“In order to discover who you are, first learn who everybody else is;...”
“Tweet and FB are making blogging obsolete! I have literally been Facebooking...”
– Rob Walker - Your content or your life? (via catbird)
In an age of transparency, your life is your content. Make sure it’s interesting.
Dearly beloved
We gather here to say our goodbyes.
After searching for it for more than twice the time allowed by their policy, UPS has finally given up looking for the rackmount case of recording gear I shipped home from Boston almost a month ago. Today I submitted proof of value documentation so they can cut me a check from insurance and I can buy new stuff.
This will be the first time that I buy recording...
“Today, I was hanging out with a few of my friends, including an old...”
– FML
(How I wish I could have been on either side of that conversation. Because I would. I so would.)
And I know, I know
You like the way you feel...
“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that...”
– Lorraine Hansberry (via kari-shma) (via inkless-pen)
“The pizza theorem: If the thickness of a pizza is a, and its radius is z, then...”
– Unknown
Pwned.
Ben Englert: are my facts all straight?
H.W. Thuglas: oh yes sir, as straight as your wardrobe
My Favorite Movie →
Saw a bumper sticker
Bearing a quote I have seen many, many times.
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
You know what? I’ve been trying, and I can conclusively report that it doesn’t work. People are incredibly resistant to change, and when you represent or embody it, they become resistant to you.
Repo sequel? →
Yes plz?
I also hear they’re working on more Dr. Horrible. Yay!
At the Apple store
On the new unibody 17” Macbook Pro. The screen is extraordinarily gorgeously high-def. I hear there’s even a way to install a Blu-ray drive…
Somebody stop me.
langer:
Aristotle assumed all bodies to naturally be at rest. Aristotle also never rode the New York City subway.
In Boston the subways are like some awkward, post-surgical graft on the city that never quite took. Travelers assume an entirely different posture once boarded: conversation halts, and every passenger—even when in the company of friends—assumes a state of isolation. It’s as if city...
Who hasn't experienced this?
Hardy Douglas: more accurately, i don't know shit about her
Ben Englert: contact high, you forgot everything?
Hardy Douglas: no, contact almost-contact-with-a-really-hot-girl-who-shows-all-the-signs-of-being-into-me
Hardy Douglas: high
Judi Dench and Fergie... →
in the same movie! Sweet!
This might come close to Repo’s Paris Hilton + Sarah Brightman status.
“We’re spooning side by side. We’re utensil-drawering.”
– Molly Newman
Want a few of these →
Just to play around with.
The stupid Soulja Boy song that, unfortunately,...
“MobileDevice: _MobileDeviceConnect_locked: This is not the droid you’re looking...”
– 5/12/09 20:04:25 [0x0-0x15015].com.apple.iTunesHelper
(While updating my iPhone OS.)
(via rsesek)
Hey Apple
Did you know that a feature such as Time Machine is only useful to me if my computer doesn’t slow to an unusable crawl while the process is running “in the background”.
Spotted:
License plate on an Acura RSX (not an NSX, but close) turning into the Apple parking lot this morning: “WWSJD”.
Oh my god I am so excited to work there next year.
COCOA IS MY GIRLFRIEND →
I was searching around for an example of a particularly nasty CoreVideo frame filtering mechanism for work… and found this site. Given my penchant for overdrawn analogies, I particularly enjoyed their “about” page.
A burn RE: Apple stuff.
Ben Englert: you should get one.
Ben Englert: they're cool.
Midori Wada: you should really work in sales, not engineering
The new Trek film...
-Was very mainstream-friendly - perhaps not the direction we’re accustomed to seeing the franchise take, but probably the only one which will allow it to survive.
-Is probably in the top 5 movies ever if you measure purely based on “references per minute” - not just to other Trek films but to Star Wars, Lost, etc…
-Could have stated the original series theme much earlier...
The Twenty Worst Things A Person Can Say →
axinomancy:
“2. ‘You’d look much better if you smiled.’ Translation: Contrary to what you believe, your facial expression, and indeed your brain, are not your own property. While they are in the ‘public sphere’ you have a duty to your fellow citizens to maintain a facial expression that they would like to see. Also, I know that my opinion of your appearance is an issue very close to your...
“Smart people talk about ideas. Common people talk about things. Mediocre people...”
– Jules Romains. (via inkless-pen)
