February 2012
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Feb 13th
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Feb 2nd
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January 2012
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Jan 26th
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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...
Jan 15th
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 ...
Jan 11th
Check out this guy's belly tat →
It says “comrades,” right?
Jan 11th
Zole Games: Every day I'm Crystalin' →
zolegames: 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...
Jan 11th
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Jan 11th
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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”.
Jan 11th
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Amadou & Mariam f/ Santigold, "Dougou Badia" →
This is exactly as cool as you’d expect it to be.
Jan 11th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 7th
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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,...
Jan 7th
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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...
Jan 1st
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...
Jan 1st
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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...
Jan 1st
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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...
Jan 1st
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...
Dec 26th
Me > RT @Chip_Buck: Rosenthal > Olney »»» Heyman— Jason Wojciechowski (@jlwoj) December8, 2011 Testing Twitter’s new embed code. This is pretty damn cool.
Dec 8th
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...
Dec 7th
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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
Dec 3rd
November 2011
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Nov 9th
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Nov 8th
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Nov 7th
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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…
Nov 4th
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ListenMaffew Ragazino & Action Bronson, Jordan vs....
Nov 4th
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October 2011
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Demon's Souls
zolegames: Is this a joke?
Oct 28th
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Oct 24th
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Oct 24th
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Oct 24th
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Oct 24th
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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…
Oct 23rd
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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.
Oct 19th
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Judge Stephen M. Reasoner. No, seriously. →
Oct 17th
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
Oct 17th
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Oct 13th
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Oct 13th
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Oct 12th
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Oct 11th
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ListenI’ve been listening to free Google Music...
Oct 11th
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Oct 7th
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Oct 7th
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Oct 7th
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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...
Oct 7th
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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.”).
Oct 6th
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Oct 5th
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