February 2012
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January 2012
13 posts
Reading queue, revision 6
As much for my purposes, so I don’t forget what I was supposed to read, as for sharing:
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (finally, geez)
David Foster Wallace’s essay about the porn convention
Miriam Pawel, The Union of Their Dreams
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
Mark Millar, 1985
Hector Tobar, The Barbarian Nurseries
Steve Babson, The Unfinished Struggle
Craig...
Reading queue, revision 5
As much for my purposes, so I don’t forget what I was supposed to read, as for sharing:
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (75%)
David Foster Wallace’s essay about the porn convention
Miriam Pawel, The Union of Their Dreams
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
Mark Millar, 1985
Hector Tobar, The Barbarian Nurseries
Steve Babson, The Unfinished Struggle
Craig Thompson, Habibi
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Check out this guy's belly tat →
It says “comrades,” right?
Zole Games: Every day I'm Crystalin' →
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I planned on playing a bunch of video games while I was home on vacation, but what I mainly ended up playing was SNK’s sort of Zelda-like Crystalis. If you haven’t played it, it’s definitely worth checking out. If nothing else, the setting is unique: it’s post-apocalyptic but cartoony and…
Auto-freaking Crystalis reblog. Might be my favorite game ever. Some little shithead...
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The Dø, Both Ways Open Jaws →
I’m not sure if that album title is English, and I don’t know how to make that character in their name, but I do like the singer’s “elfin coo”.
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Amadou & Mariam f/ Santigold, "Dougou Badia" →
This is exactly as cool as you’d expect it to be.
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Reading queue, revision 4
As much for my purposes, so I don’t forget what I was supposed to read, as for sharing:
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (started, 60%)
Miriam Pawel, The Union of Their Dreams
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
Mark Millar, 1985
Hector Tobar, The Barbarian Nurseries
Steve Babson, The Unfinished Struggle
Craig Thompson, Habibi
George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
Kathy Peiss,...
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Favorite music, 2011
I’ve already done my TV and movies lists, so music is the obvious one I’m missing.
Songs and albums are mixed in together. (A lot of songs this year — I think that reflects not so much what was available as the fact that I downloaded a lot more free singles than I usually do.) No order.
If I haven’t listed your favorite album, it’s probably because I didn’t...
Reading queue (update 3)
As much for my purposes, so I don’t forget what I was supposed to read, as for sharing:
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (started, 55%)
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
Mark Millar, 1985
Hector Tobar, The Barbarian Nurseries
Steve Babson, The Unfinished Struggle
Craig Thompson, Habibi
George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements
Julia Wertz, Drinking...
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TV, 2011, ranked
Since I watched way more television this year than I did movies, it seems fair to make a parallel list: shows I watched this year, ranked, with season(s) and episodes watched noted. Many of the shows are new, but a few are catalog titles. I’m mixing those in anyway. This list is highly approximate. (Duh.)
Breaking Bad (S2-4, 35 eps)
Justified (S2, 13 eps)
Archer (S2-3, 16 eps)
Downton...
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Movies, 2011
Since it seems clear that I won’t be watching a movie tonight, here are the 2011 movies I saw this year, ranked. I’m sorry I only saw 16 17 (I forgot Moneyball!). I’ll do better next year.
The Descendants
Contagion
Win Win
Warrior
Drive
Bridesmaids
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Moneyball
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Sweet Little Lies
The Lincoln Lawyer
J. Edgar
Harry Potter...
December 2011
6 posts
Reading queue (update 2)
Almost as much for my purposes, so I don’t forget what I was supposed to read, as for sharing:
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (started, 40%)
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
Hector Tobar, The Barbarian Nurseries
Steve Babson, The Unfinished Struggle
Craig Thompson, Habibi
George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements
Julia Wertz, Drinking At the...
Me > RT @Chip_Buck: Rosenthal > Olney »»» Heyman— Jason Wojciechowski (@jlwoj) December8, 2011
Testing Twitter’s new embed code.
This is pretty damn cool.
Reading queue (update 1)
Almost as much for my purposes, so I don’t forget what I was supposed to read, as for sharing:
Jim Thompson, Pop. 1280 (started, 30%)
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (started, 20%)
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
Hector Tobar, The Barbarian Nurseries
Steve Babson, The Unfinished Struggle
George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements
[Random book from...
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Reading queue
Almost as much for my purposes, so I don’t forget what I was supposed to read, as for sharing:
Jim Thompson, Pop. 1280 (started, 30%)
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (started, 20%)
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
Hector Tobar, The Barbarian Nurseries
Steve Babson, The Unfinished Struggle
November 2011
5 posts
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another one of my brains: GUI notifications from... →
anotheroneofmybrains:
In Ubuntu, there’s notify-send. I used this for a tea timer earlier: ( sleep 10m && notify-send -t 5000 'Tea time!' ) & ; disown
This will pop up those nifty transparent Growl-like notifications on your desktop. They are designed to be somewhat unobtrusive, though, and don’t allow much if any…
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October 2011
27 posts
Demon's Souls
zolegames:
Is this a joke?
Bethlehem Says: You Don't Matter. →
bethlehemshoals:
I’m not really concerned with who first started humoring the voice of the fan, or why. We all started as fans; presumably, most of us working somewhere in the business still are. However, it has absolutely no place in this lockout. The knee-jerk reaction to cancelations, of which there will be…
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The inner workings of a baseball clubhouse are, I imagine, probably very much...
– Matthew Kory, What Will It Take To Move Beyond 2011?, Over the Monster, October 19, 2011.
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Judge Stephen M. Reasoner. No, seriously. →
13 Years Later And Still Nope
baseballjunk:
Fox baseball announcer Joe Buck still has a way to go to match his father, Hall of Fame broadcaster Jack Buck, in the tell-it-like-it-is department, but he’s getting there.
- Sports Illustrated August 24, 1998
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The mere mention of Equatorial Guinea around the State Department usually is...
– George Gedda, ‘Heart of Darkness’ or a Challenge? : Africa: Equatorial Guinea has a wretched reputation around the State Department. ‘You will go to America as a corpse,’ the U.S. ambassador was warned., AP, October 10, 1993, Link. I found it because I read United States...
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Zole Games: Drop Red Dead Gorgeous →
zolegames:
RDR is a bit light on rewards, though — despite my side-mission-completing instinct, I eventually decided it wasn’t worth it to spend time picking flowers. (Which gives you points on the Fame meter. Really? “Did you hear about John Marston? He picked some desert sage. Five pieces, they say.”).
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