February 2009
111 posts
Old Jews Telling Jokes →
samreich:
I visit this site when I miss my grandparents.
January 2009
94 posts
Marianne Faithful (ft. Nick Cave) - "The Crane... →
“Putin’s withering reply to Dell: “We don’t need help. We are...”
– Gizmodo
I used to be in a shitty band
Making coffee this morning, I heard a faint song coming from my laptop. I could only hear the drums, but I thought it was awful.
Turns out it was the one and only demo from the poor-decision metal/techno band I formed when I was 19. We did the one demo (really awful) before I realized that I was in a metal/techno band and broke it up.
Watchtylerriewer:
The look… on this dog’s face… just made me cry with laughter. (via Kevin at work today)
I thought I saw Magneto today...
They’re filming parts of X-Men Origins: Wolverine next to my office, and I saw a tall white haired main exiting the hair and makeup trailer to a crowd of screaming fans. Then I checked IMDB and found out that Ian McKellen isn’t even in the movie. So I saw whichever main character has white hair during a scene with very fake-looking tanks.
“Hey, so I need to ask your advice about.. math. And you’re the only person...”
– Message on my phone when I got home from my job at a literary journal under the Arts faculty that I started working at as an Arts student. It led to a discussion of weight:volume metrics for various gases.
New Canadian Literature Website →
In lieu of the silly personal post I deleted…
I went live with the new Canadian Literature website yesterday. Lots of good stuff!
TV on the Radio - Golden Age (Guitar chords/tab) →
My tab for TV on the Radio’s “Golden Age.”
Wolverine!
THAT’s why the Buchanan Tower looks like an internment camp! Apparently there’s a scene where someone jumps off a tower (full of academics) in the middle of a forest (university campus).
Excuse Rolodex →
Reposting for bored-at-work traffic. I needed to tell someone on the weekend that I didn’t want to work with them, and couldn’t think of a good excuse. Amazingly, there wasn’t a Seinfeld-esque Excuse Rolodex, so I made one.
Please visit and suggest a few excuses. Thanks!
PS. Big thanks to the weekend’s rebloggers, and to Kurt for the first submissions!
TV on the Radio cover Bowie's Heroes...and it, not... →
blownspeakers:
(via areminder)
I think it’s worth noting that this is a benefit for War Child, so if you steal it from the internet, you might want to flip them a tenner or something. Also worth noting that this is awesome, but it may be a different kind of crime against humanity to let Hot Chip cover Joy Division and Lily Allen cover the Clash.
3-Day Novel Contest Winners Announced →
The winners and honourable mentions are up. None of the manuscripts I judged made it, which is probably a good thing. I read one about a “detective” who was always hired to solve cases in an alternate dimension that he accessed through the Googol Café. His contact was named Godot. The plot was that a musician in this alternate dimension was searching for “the hat of epic metal...
Beach House at Richard's
It was an alright show. The left front speaker and stage monitors kept going out so things were a bit rough, and I don’t understand why a band would bring a live drummer and not make the songs more live-friendly (I spend the show in perpetual “ok, there’s going to be a drum fill and the song’s going to be epic… oh wait, the song’s over”), but the vocals...
Aaron: Good morning, Mr. Gruman! And how are you to...
Me: [interrupting] It's the not the morning anymore, and you do a really poor telemarketer impression, Aaron.
Excuse Rolodex →
I found myself needing excuses and was amazed that this site didn’t exist. So I made it.
Please visit/participate.
Movies that are not meant to be watched with your...
(via everyone)
David Cronenberg’s Crash. Also a poor choice for a double date…
v1100110:
Please reblog this if the first draft of your designs are embarrassingly terrible. I’d be happy to know I’m not alone on the matter.
Maybe a little in need of emotional support… just a little.
They’re supposed to be terrible—mine are, anyway. Otherwise you’ve got nothing to improve.
Our assistant is a movie buff. I am not
Me: Oh! I watched Hackers on the weekend!
Her: I've never heard of that one
Me: Really? It came out in like, 1995... all about hacking
Her: Nope, don't know it
Me: It's awesome! Johnny Lee Miller, one of Angelina Jolie's first movie credits, rollerblades EVERYWHERE... it was the perfect movie for a 14 year old me. I was just getting into computers and blah blah blah ridiculous 3-D GUIs blah blah blah gratuitous Angelina Jolie nudity blah blah blah but they referred to it as a 28.8 baud modem, and NOT k-baud... CONTINUITY ERROR! HAHA! blah blah blah everyone acted like James Spader in Less Than Zero blah blah blah everyone is attractive. Have you EVER seen an attractive hacker? blah blah blah SO GOOD!
Her: Do you have the DVD?
Me: Yeah, but I'm never lending it to you. I'd feel so guilty if you actually wasted an hour and a half of your life watching it. I love it, but it's really a horrible movie.
“I sent this letter to as many media venues as possible… if you think...”
– From a press release I just got. Not the best way to get a someone with a psych degree to pay attention…
⌘C ⌘V Character →
mattmcinerney:
All the commonly used special characters that you may not remember the keyboard code for in one click.
Highly recommended, especially for the “as HTML” function. I have it loaded as a “Clip” (⌘ - and bring it to a workable size, then right click in Safari and use “Open in Dashboard…”) on my Dashboard—super useful.
“I write poetry because it is the clearest and most direct expression of how I...”
– Saul Williams
All kinds of great Saul Williams stuff today. Download a copy of The Government in honour of today’s inauguration, and head over to NGH_WHT - Dead Emcee Scrolls with The Arditti Quartet for some crazy audio versions of his book, The Dead Emcee Scrolls.
I just sent someone this link:...
Banning Books in Canada? →
Apparently the Toronto public school board is “reviewing” Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale for “objectionable content.” Go Canada…
“You usually go to a web page to seek information, not to have someone’s...”
– my friend, Scotty
This is just a quick function I made for page contextualization:
function where($here)
{
if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == $here)
{
echo '_on';
}
}
But in my mind, there’s a little robot (3-4 inches tall, aluminum, square-ish) wandering around asking “Where am I? I have to go Here. What? I’m already Here? Quick, draw a circle on the ground!”
“Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s...”
– Jeffrey Zeldman
“Why did the chicken cross the Mobius Strip? To get to the other… um… never mind…”
– (via nuugen)
