November 2010
1 post
There is a bathroom located in this cafe. Please take a few moments now to locate the bathroom. In some cases, the bathroom may be behind you. If you are seated next to the bathroom, we will ask you to keep track of whether the bathroom is occupied in the event that someone else tries to open the door. If you do not wish to perform these functions, please do not ask anyone to be reseated because...
September 2010
1 post
I'm almost 2 years late to this meme
…but that doesn’t make it less fabulous.
Apparently, Microsoft made a product called Songsmith, which is supposed to provide musical backing to sung lyrics. The promotional video was even more cringe worthy than the Windows 7 launch party videos.
It actually does the job pretty well, but the musical quality is, well, designed by Microsoft. Here are some of my favorite Songsmith...
August 2010
2 posts
"I want to know everything about her..."
In movies involving a bad guy who is some kind of intelligence agent, there is always a scene in NSA headquarters where the boss tells a technician to enhance a photo of our protagonist. Doing so reveals the face of the protagonist’s girlfriend. The boss barks to his number 2 a list of minutiae that he needs to know about the woman by tomorrow.
Tomorrow, I want to know everything about...
June 2010
1 post
Toasters
Why are toasters the quintessential non-sentient mechanical object?
April 2010
3 posts
Vocal Vowels: Exploratorium Exhibit. Hollow... →
This is all much more psychologically comfortable.
WTF USPS
It has just occurred to me how weird the US Postal Service is. It can’t get more analog, can it?
Lookit, if I want to send you a letter, I can type it up, put it in an envelope, then write your name and address on the envelope. I just write it on there with my hand. Then, I stick it in a box on the street! Eventually, it makes its way to a post office where a person reads the envelope with...
March 2010
2 posts
February 2010
4 posts
BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: DO PEOPLE HECKLE? →
A really interesting documentary on heckling in Britain.
Don’t piss on my boots and tell me it’s sociolinguistics.
January 2010
6 posts
“baked BUTT brunches!”
– unknown
WatchOh Snap!
December 2009
8 posts
Let's Enhance Montage - CollegeHumor video →
Do you have an enhancer that can bitmap?
WatchLooks like even taboo deformation can’t halt cot-caught!
3 Thoughts on Kanye
I think Kanye is a little slow in the head-piece, but everything he does is very hot.
Case in point: His sampling of Daft Punk for “Stronger” gets me really pumped when walking to school / writing a paper.
However, “You should be honored by my lateness / That I would even show up to this fake shit” is not an ok sentiment to have in your sub-conscious when walking to...
The Worst Fake Accents in Movie History - Movies -... →
Worth it
November 2009
1 post
October 2009
3 posts
WatchAbsolutely disgusting
September 2009
8 posts
WatchIf you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against The struggle between “for” and “against” is the mind’s worst disease
This is why everyone hates a scientist.
For my sanity
Saturday and Sunday mornings I leisure read. I sit in my coffee shop, eat a bagel, drink a coffee, watch people shopping at the farmer’s market, and read a book.
F.Y.I. Herman Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game followed by Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is a very interesting sequence.
farther~father
Tom Magliozzi: ...and further-
Ray Magliozzi: Or farther!
Tom: Or farther. Further father!
Ray: Further father!
it was beautiful
“The utility function is the epicycle of social science.”
– Strong words from Andrew Gelman
August 2009
4 posts
A Musical Trail
I took a stream of consciousness-like journey through a few different pieces of music today, and it was pretty enjoyable so I figured I’d post it here.
It began with me asking this question on facebook:
What is this spanish song with few words, men singing in close harmony, slow guitar and bongo that is ubiquitous in coffee shops?
One of my musically inclined friends identified it as...
Advice
Here is some catch-all advice passed down to me by my mother, and her mother before her:
Tape a quarter to it, and hit it with a bible.
It don’t get much more down to earth than that. This’ll cure all that ails you.
I love this song
But not necessarilly this video edit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZDl2xRK_r8
Lyrics to Slow Show : Standing at the punch table swallowing punch can’t pay attention to the sound of anyone a little more stupid, a little more scared every minute more unprepared I made a mistake in my life today everything I love gets lost in drawers I want to start over, I want to be winning way out...
July 2009
10 posts
“Give me two fire breathing whores! Any day of the week!”
– Billy Connolly on suicide bombers and their virgins
overreaction
I don’t know anything really about the incident with Prof. Gates, the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard. Apparently he was arrested at his house, and it looks likely to be an incident of gross racial profiling.
Then the president made a comment, which upset people, then he made this clarification:
I continue to believe, based on...
“Isn’t evidence just a white male supremacist concept anyway?”
– Richard Dawkins on a post-modernist’s outlook.