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This is my commute this summer

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:39:24 -0500

Thanks to Google’s new bike directions. Seriously. Nine minutes, zero dollars in gas. Amazing.

I put this reminder in my calendar so that I can buy Kathy...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:22:29 -0500

I put this reminder in my calendar so that I can buy Kathy Griffin tickets when they appear on my school’s student portal. Notice three consecutive alarms.

godzillahaiku: 13

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:23:49 -0500

godzillahaiku:

13

Dis r kitteh. (Click through for HQ)

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:33:16 -0500

Dis r kitteh. (Click through for HQ)

stuffhipstershate: Hipster Ghettos in Other Cities Martin: Oh...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:42:50 -0500

stuffhipstershate:

Hipster Ghettos in Other Cities

Martin: Oh man, I was just on the fucking Chinatown bus for, like, four hours. It smelled like pancakes the whole time.

Seamus: Did you go to Philly?

Martin: Naw, man. Boston. My friend lives in Allston and I haven’t seen him since he got back from hopping freighters for the last six months. He had some crazy stories. He fell in love with some Punk chick from Toledo and he’s getting together the capital to build a cabin up in the wilds of who-the-fuck-knows-where, Ohio, for her. Keeps talking about how he’s gonna bust outta Boston, get his tats removed and open a taxidermy studio up in O-ville. He’s livin’ his life, man.

Seamus: Yeah, but, dude. He lives in Boston? I fucking hate Boston. Fucking Freedom Trail my ass…

Martin: Yeah, man. It’s kinda awful. He kept telling me that Allston was, like, the Williamsburg of Boston. But, dude, all I saw were these fucking college kids everywhere, and these terrible sports bars filled with total fucking poseurs with tribal tattoos and surface piercings.

Seamus: Yeah. All my friends who go to art school live there. I guess there’s supposed to be a scene somewhere.

Martin: But, dude, get this. I was on the train and there was — I swear to God — a throng of frat-holes in fucking suits and sunglasses fighting about who was gonna get sexiled that night. Like one dude was seriously gonna cry. It was like the terrible, terrible college experience I never had.

Seamus: Well, that sucks, dude. Let’s go get a drink, wash the Chinatown bus stink away.

Martin: Yeah, if you’re buying. Where?

Seasmus: Matchless?

Martin: Naw, that place is Dante-esque now. The white hats were out in force last Tuesday.

Seamus: OK, the Levee?

Martin: Are you fucking kidding me? Dude, that place is like a halfway home for old weird dudes who still think they can get laid.

Seamus: The Charleston?

Martin: Now you’re just being stupid.

Seamus: Ah, man, I don’t know then. What do you want to do?

Martin: Ah, fuck Williamsburg. Wanna get the next Chinatown bus to Philly?

(Photo)

This post is dedicated to Barbara Geoghegan, who lives in a sweet-ass apartment in Boston and has a super comfortable futon that she graciously offered to one of SHH’s weary creators. Check out her awesome artistic shit here.

I couldn't say it better myself

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:36:46 -0500

nataleiigh:

magicmolly:

It’s crucial not to count your chickens when the temperature hits 60º in early March. There is always one last snow storm. March is the month for perverse weather, and this is a fact which East Coast natives know and California transplants always forget.

charbroiled: terrysdiary: Congratulations to Jeff Bridges for...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:55:07 -0500

charbroiled:

terrysdiary:

Congratulations to Jeff Bridges for winning an Academy Award…the Dude Abides!!

Dreamboat. What a great man!

Nerd fail.

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:24:35 -0500

Today Valve officially announced that Steam and a number of Source-engine titles are coming to the Mac. Not only that, they said it would be ready in April. Like, in three weeks.

My only question is: how did this completely blindside us? Porting a huge library games from Direct3D (which is Windows-only) to OpenGL (widely regarded as the inferior/less mature framework) represents probably four or five years of effort by literally hundreds of people. Admittedly some of the work was already done because the Wii and PS3 use OGL, but still…

How did we not hear about this?

How was the entire high-tech media so distracted by iPad rumors, and Nexus One rumors, and Crunchpad controversy, and Apple vs. Google controversy, and a bunch of other silly things which ultimately ended up making at most a “meh” impact on the market and on our daily lives…

And we didn’t hear a single whisper about this? This, which probably required lots of co-operation between Valve and Apple and the other studios who use Source engine to make games that are sold on steam? Thousands of people, thousands of man hours, several locations around the world… and not a single leak to the mainstream high tech media?

Apple has a thing or two to learn from Valve about secrecy, I’d say.

What motivates me to keep working...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:32:00 -0500

What motivates me to keep working...

godzillahaiku: 4

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:05:22 -0500

godzillahaiku:

4

buzzandersen: Social Software Narcissism/Utility Graph (via...

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:44:19 -0500

buzzandersen:

Social Software Narcissism/Utility Graph

(via ztaylor)

Drawn by Brad O’Neill for his post “Is There a Magic Zone of Narcissistic Utility?” This seems like a pretty reasonable unified field theory of social software to me. In my opinion, for example, Twitter has come to achieve a near perfect balance of the two axes, while Foursquare is going to have to shift themselves further to the right on the utility axis if they’re going to grow and have an appeal that outlasts the narcissistic appeal of their game mechanics.

autostream: The Lexus… that isn’t very Lexus-ish. Also, I want...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:13:28 -0500

autostream:

The Lexus… that isn’t very Lexus-ish.

Also, I want one of these. Only $330,000.

"Seriously, if you’re shopping for an SSD and don’t know the name SandForce yet,..."

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:12:37 -0500

“Seriously, if you’re shopping for an SSD and don’t know the name SandForce yet, you’re not doing it right.”

- Engadget. Today, I put pen to paper and committed to an internship at SandForce this summer. Iiiiiii’m excited!

fuckyeahcomputerscience: condombyproduct: 9gag: Sergey Brin’s...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:10:54 -0500

fuckyeahcomputerscience:

condombyproduct:

9gag:

Sergey Brin’s Online Resume

autostream: The Audi R8 is undeniably one of the most beautiful...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:43:20 -0500

autostream:

The Audi R8 is undeniably one of the most beautiful cars of our time.

"We need to re-think how we compute. Less is more. Pick a standard such as HTML5 and stick to it. No..."

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:29:36 -0500

“We need to re-think how we compute. Less is more. Pick a standard such as HTML5 and stick to it. No plugins. (Beyond page-agnostic browser functionality add-ons like Ad-Block Plus.) No background services, no download managers, no web-extending formats. If a stock browser less than three years old can’t render it, it isn’t the web. If it isn’t the web, we don’t code for it. JPG, PNG, and a handful of standardized other formats can be direct linked-to.”

- PsychoSlashDot

Sadly, as long as the marketing goons want their interactive/animated advertising, this will never happen.

midoriw: So we’re in Disneyland… Behold my dorky company...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:46:44 -0500

midoriw:

So we’re in Disneyland…

Behold my dorky company today.

Saw my first A380 “in person” today. Here’s M...

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:49:00 -0500

Saw my first A380 “in person” today. Here’s M overlooking LAX.

A beach, clear skies, and airplanes taking off into the sunset....

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:30:54 -0500

A beach, clear skies, and airplanes taking off into the sunset. Glorious.

Yup.

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:59:44 -0500

Yup.