May 2011
3 posts
I have been watching, How to Train your Dragon recently, because it’s on HBO all the time and it’s awesome. And I was really starting to get bugged by the fact that the dragon in the movie looked… familiar. AND NOW I KNOW WHY. This website also has lots of other awesome/terrible discoveries. I particularly like this one:
Blue Valentine was not my choice. Granted, it seemed like a better idea than Never Say Never. However, it seemed like kind of a downer of a movie, even just from the description, in which the phrase “doomed marriage” came up front and center. The movie follows two timelines, one tracing the initial love story, and the other its eventual disintegration. The story is fairly simple, and...
The inherent appeal of tumblr over a standard blog. Every so often, I just want to post a song link or something, and tumblr is way better for that than blogger. Facebook would actually be the ideal venue for everything, except the audience is too big. I don’t actually want everyone on facebook to see everything that I put down. And I don’t really want to manage a list of 500-600...
March 2009
3 posts
The following link goes to a page with audio clips of Bill O’Reilly reading from his (assumedly) craptastic novel, Those Who Trespass. Here’s the Village Voice’s synthesis of the plot: The murderer, Shannon Michaels, is pursued by an O’Reilly-esque cop, Tommy O’Malley. These two Irish-Americans share their author’s tough-talk, lust for power, and (alleged!)...
People are understandably upset about the AIG bonuses - if a handful of guys bring down one of the largest companies in the world, they really shouldn’t be getting $1+MM paychecks. Fine, that’s settled, let’s move on. The NYTimes reports that Eliot Spitzer has now cautiously weighed in on the subject, pointing out that the flap about bonuses is peanuts relative to the fact that...
And I really don’t miss it. As I may have mentioned before, television has been a time-sucking blight on my life for far too long. Anything that I’d want to watch on TV, I can get on the Internet if I really want to see it. Without having it around as a passive alternative to seeing friends, I’m actually feeling phenomenally better about life in general. Eat it TWC!
February 2009
2 posts
Lee dropped the axe on Saturday. It took about fifteen minutes, and three years were over. Her friends showed up after that and I had to go, so there wasn’t much discussion. I knew this was coming for months and I’ve been bracing for it as best as possible. But it still feels like a piece of me’s been ripped out.
NB: Halfway through writing this, I realized that this is the most boring post that has ever been written. There’s really no reason to read it, unless you just want to know what’s going on with me. It’s recently come to my attention that some people were worried that I’d lost my job. That’s my fault, since I haven’t really updated this sucker since I posted...
January 2009
4 posts
Steven Pinker isn’t an English Professor, but rather a highly regarded cognitive scientist. Even so, I really hope that his latest Op-Ed is right. Here are the money quotes: Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual....
Fascinating article in the NYTimes today about some findings in the newest issue of Nature about the science of love. I’ll let you read the article yourself, but in a nutshell, it talks about a study on prairie voles, one of the few mammals with the same level of monogamous tendencies as humans. Here’s the money paragraph: When a female prairie vole’s brain is artificially infused with...
So, word on the street is that the hammer will fall on Thursday. And by word on the street, I mean that the head of North America just e-mailed everyone in North America and told them that they had to be in the office on Thursday, with no explanation. Particularly interesting is that we just have to be in the office, we don’t have to attend any meetings or anything. There were a lot of...
I realize this is late, but just bear with me. 2008 is over and we’re now moving into 2009. If I believed that there was any significance there, I would probably be very excited about this change. 2008 was the year where I learned about failure and rejection, a lesson that I’ve been steadily ducking for the whole 27 years of my existence. Because let’s face it, being rejected...
November 2008
8 posts
Another weekend, another day in the office. Here’s a quick picture to lighten up my day. Another weekend, another day in the office.
Neon shines through smoky eyes tonight It’s 2 am - I’m drunk again it’s heavy on my mind I could never love again so much as I love you Where you end where I begin is like a river going through Take my heart, my eyes ‘cause I need them no more If never again they fall upon the one I so adore Excuse me please one more drink Could you make it strong cause I don’t need to think She broke my...
Hat tip to Arthur
For the last month, I’ve been in a pretty bad place. I’ve been working pretty much non-stop on my applications and have also had a ton of job-related work to do. For various other reasons, I’ve also been lonelier and sadder than I’ve been in about three or four years. Tonight has been a most excellent reprieve. I went to a converted comedy club/bar called Comix tonight,...
Why [XXX] did not vote for Obama →
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Vote - Chris Stamey and Yo La...
Douglas MacKinnon, former press secretary for Bob Dole, is concerned that the media is in the tank for the left. Under the recent headline “Why McCain Is Getting Hosed in the Press,” Politico editors John F. Harris and Jim Vandehei opined: OK, let’s just get this over with: Yes, in the closing weeks of this election, John McCain and Sarah Palin are getting hosed in the press, and at Politico....
April 2008
1 post
“The effect can scarcely be described, so weird, and so beautiful it is. The era...”
– -NYTimes, on the lighting of the first 3000 electric incandescent lamps on Pearl Street, New York, September 4, 1882. (via rach)
F1 boss Max Mosley has ... →
If you thought Eliot Spitzer was bad, you may not want to read this.
March 2008
12 posts
Been a while since I posted anything, apologies....
Women, Want a Healthy Marriage? Marry Man Uglier... →
Radiohead - Bodysnatchers I’ve stubbornly...
Fact Check on NAFTAgate →
Padded lamposts for texting idiots being tested in... →
Band of Horses - No one’s gonna love you
“Categories of these phenomena and their study, like Heuristics, Framing and...”
– Going Private
The Mermen - Run, don’t walk An older song,...
Bon Iver - Skinny Love Found this band going...
Read A Book →
February 2008
10 posts
Shrine of the Mall Ninja →
Barry Louis Pollisar - All I Want Is You This is...
Bloc Party - This Modern Love (Remix) I’m...
From the NYTimes: About 45 tons of fish have washed up dead along 200 miles of beach on the outlying Penghu Islands after an unusual cold snap. News reports said 10 times as many dead fish were still in the water. Link
Lupe Fiasco - Go Go Gadget Flow I’ve...
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Stars of the Lid
Been listening to their album for a bit. Verdict: Beautiful perhaps, but otherwise really boring. They sound like Boards of Canada without drums. One sustained note after another. I guess ambient just isn’t my thing.
Chris Anderson on Free Economies →
First post on Tumblr. Here’s a song from...