April 2008
things learned from mental detox week. →
on bill cosby's 'black man problem'
(this is about the article on bill cosby and black conservatism in the latest issue of the atlantic, linked here) this is a perfect reminder to me of why politics aren’t left vs right, or democrats vs republicans, of liberals vs conservatives. politics are moderates vs extremists, and many of the issues facing the black community are directly related to this problem. the community is...
urban security suit - awesome. →
"Less" is better
jakoblodwick: I agree with some of the aims of the Green movement, but not the overall goal of prioritizing the health of the Earth while disingenuously ignoring the importance of human health & happiness. I think the word “Less” gets the point across with less convolution, and, if held as a value, would result in the achievement of many Green values anyway. i completely agree with this. and...
kanye west is the new madonna.
no, seriously. and i love kanye, and don’t really care much madonna. but look at it this way. madonna is talented, but more at reinvention and ‘innovation’ than as a musical artist. madonna is relevant because she’s made a career of striving to be relevant, day in, day out, for her entire career. reinvention is her business. and business (probably until recently) has...
The Aleph →
yeah, i’d like one of those.
clay shirky on the cognitive surplus →
his book ‘Here comes everybody’ would make an excellent last minute birthday gift. and yeah, this is one of the most important things you’ll read this month. click it.
deepr: I’m done. That’s it? 4 years of insanity and it’s all over just like that. Wow. Feels weird. …. I want/am going to do another film. R. congratulations, deep. you busted your ass for a lot longer than four years, and it shows. rock on.
the broken gentleman.: who cares: social media and... →
a response to anyone who asks why i bother blogging, or twittering, or tumbling, with the understanding that i am not widely read.
gah. i just accidentally deleted a massive text post. it boils down to ‘i had a really great weekend. and i’m addicted to twitter.’
“In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get...”
– An Uplifting Comment by Woody Allen » House of Naked
Creative Index →
this will probably prove useful at some point, to many / all of us.
indieWIRE: FIRST PERSON | Jeremy Walker on... →
oh this is good. this is so good. this is so good that it kinda makes me reconsider my approach to ‘traditional’ media PR (i.e., not SMR, which i’ve blogged about before)
Searchme Visual Search - Beta - rev. 1.3 →
coverflow search. hot.
i think twitter is pulling me away from tumblr. but no worries, tumbler will still get the majority of my links and images. so, keep reading this if you would rather avoid the one sentence bursts of bitterness.
xkcd - mistranslations →
wow. great.
Twitter / brokengentleman →
so. i’m trying out twitter. let’s see how this plays out.
After using Tumblr semi-regularly now for awhile,...
jakoblodwick: catbird: How could I not love this? this is really, really accurate, depressingly.
broken gentleman.: time and space bias, dead and... →
Wherein Deep freaks out about something he...
deepr: REALLY???? REALLLY???? REEAAAALLLLLYYYY????? GAHHH! WHY??! STUPID! no. is this in reference to HIMYM?
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Muslim call to adopt... →
to be clear, this would be just as crazy if any other religion did it.
thoughts on death.
crowley.: yeah, i learned a lot going through that
Randeep: i bet
crowley.: sucked, but it had to happen. and that, my friend, is why every few months i take a minute and remind you that you are important to me.
Randeep: yeah
Randeep: thanks
crowley.: no need
Randeep: and likewise
crowley.: i'm doing it for me than for you.
crowley.: regret sucks. so i plan ahead, to avoid it.
Randeep: yeah
Randeep: fair enough
crowley.: see, i'm a selfish prick
Randeep: dawkins was right.
wherein i'm an ass, and don't feel bad about it.
for the last month, i’ve been a complete tight ass about what i eat. long story short, i cut out most processed foods, most dairy, desserts and candy, most fats, and switched to smaller portions of meat, starchy stuff, etc. it sucked for about two weeks. now it’s just kinda become how i eat. when i started i weighed 197.5 pounds. at last check, i was at 178.5. this, in a somewhat...
gimme gimme burst culture.
deepr: A new Robin Sparkles song is uncovered tomorrow. wow. i liked how i met your mother more when i didn’t know too much about each upcoming episode.
everything to learn.
i’m more than slightly excited by the sheer volume of stuff i have left to learn, relating to the new job. that, and the idea of a normal-person, two day weekend, and notably more money, are wonderful things. i’m still amazed at how quickly money goes. two or three nights on the town and suddenly i’m trying to figure out where hundreds of dollars went. i should eat something, i...
Obama Has Jay-Z on His IPod and The Moves To Prove... →
there was a time when i tumbled excessively.
that time was obviously not a busy one.
Dear Douchebags...
scubed: If you drive small cars you don’t have the right to flip off people in SUVs because you think their high beams are on. Little joy: 1. people who flip me off or high beam me to tell me my high beams are on 2. Me, actually flicking on my high beams and almost blinding them. 3. Them, realizing that my original headlights are pretty much high beams and the wrath that I...
Juno.
deepr:So I went out and bought Juno today during my well deserved break, and was pleasantly surprised to find a bonus included in the disc. Disc one is the movie with a crapload of features, the package comes with a t-shirt, but most interesting of all to me (and this is apparently going to be a regular thing with Fox releases I think…at least with the masterpiece that was “Live Free and Die...
commuting!
today i drove to work for the first time (in 8 months), mostly because i had to drop my father off (he’s flying to NY on business). it’s amazing how much less stressful, and how much faster, the whole ordeal was, even ignoring the fact that i didn’t take the highway. and the lot near my office is only 8 bucks a day, when i spend the equivalent of 10 a day on public transit. so,...
arena is a surprisingly good magazine.
pdf mags.
i read a lot of pdf magazines. the text, more often than not, is arranged in vertical columns, with pages usually coming in a format that requires scrolling up, or down, to read the entirely of a column. this is probably fine for people with large monitors. but i find a large number of the people who read pdf magazines are working in a mobile setting. and i would wager a larger number have...
muxtape: The top two feature requests right now are M4A/AAC support and scrobbling for Last.fm. Both are coming, but there’s a couple smaller things I’d like to implement first (which you’ll be seeing soon.) AAC support is going to take a little while because it *just* got added into Flash and the way it deals with those files is much different than regular MP3s, and the library I’m using now...
the ruins.
the idea of sentient plants just further reassures me that vegetarians are monsters too. also, watching digital plants display highly developed predatory tactics is more terrifying than expected. the ruins was very much a campy horror movie, but, in the end, the content itself was more amusing than the conversation we had about whether the guy in the movie was the greater, or lesser ashmore twin...
theme change again. because, well, the other one varied wildly in different browsers.
i am never buying another nokia product. my kingdom for an iphone.
Vanilla Ice charged with battery on wife, booked... →
this only matters because vanilla ice has a pet wallaroo - which i assume is half wallaby, and half kangaroo.
is it sad that i have a hard time finding four stories i’ve written that i’m willing to share?
Things I would like for my birthday:
1. Black oxford shoes (10.5)
2. A carry on bag / professional looking day-to-day bag
3. A thigh length informal coat that still looks good (g-star trench?)
4. Books
5. Vinyl toys (when in doubt, kidrobot)
6. Black or Grey (but possibly patterned) nike dunks (size 10.5)
7. Newsboy hat
8. Subscription to: Vman, Monocle, 10Men, Theme, Wired, etc...
should i get on twitter?
whiteviolet: “The only thing that can can save the US from Barack’s idealistic vision of national unity, love, and reconciliation, is more fear.” - Professor Heise i’ve decided that posting about Obama is to tumblr, what complaining about suburban ennui is to livejournal. we all do it when nothing else interesting is going on.
holy crap, actual mobile social networking. →
this is how i feel today.
not hating, just saying: White People who try to... →