June 2008
45 posts
Howlies - Aluminum Baseball Bat
My brother found this band when he was in Atlanta for the weekend.
The progression of an improvisational song. ...
Using clouds to predict the weather. →
Being able to predict the weather by observing cloud formations is a skill that is somewhat lost on us modern humans. Most of us can easily look at a cloud and see the unicorn or ice cream cones, but very few of us can look at clouds and see the approaching cold front. Fortunately, being able to predict the weather is easier than one may think.
Requiem for a Day Off
This guy reworked scenes from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and added the score from Requiem for a Dream.
Don't talk to cops
I found a short videotaped lecture on the 5th Amendment, from James Duane. Duane studied at Harvard Law and now teaches at Regent University Law.
The lecture, called “Don’t Talk To Cops,” is brief but comprehensive, and it applies to everyone whether they are guilty or innocent of a crime. The moment you say anything you make yourself vulnerable to someone else’s memory...
I was doing research into an event Ticketmaster is carrying in Alberta and I noticed something interesting. It’s a self-guided home and garden tour, and there’s a ‘no shoe policy’ at all of the six homes in the tour.
It’s funny how people without a no shoe policy can’t rationalize those with one, and vice versa. (Catch the pun?)
For me, taking off shoes is...
“Oh no, I don’t read the blogs – you couldn’t pay me to read the blogs. I don’t want to know what people who can’t even afford to eat in my restaurant, let alone know how to cook have to say about me…”
-Lisa Fernandes, a contestant on season 4 of Bravo’s Top Chef
I don’t watch much tv but I’ve been downloading the torrents of Top Chef...
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In May I needed antibiotics for a bad cough. When I brought the prescription home from the Walgreens pharmacy and didn’t recognize the name of the generic drug on the bottle, I called the pharmacist expecting an apology for the mixup. But it turned out he had called my doctor, without notifying me before or after, to switch the prescription because I’m “allergic to...
I thought it would be a fun exercise to turn a...
http://en.wikipedia.../Dyatlov_pass_accident →
The Dyatlov Pass Accident refers to an incident that resulted in the death of nine ski hikers in the northern Ural mountains. The incident happened on the night of February 2, 1959.
“The mysterious circumstances of the hikers’ deaths have inspired much speculation. Investigations of the deaths suggest that the hikers tore open their tent from within, departing barefoot in heavy...
Pentagram 07, a short film by Hillman Curtis →
This famous design studio is a good example of how an organization can harbor creativity in the face of growth by becoming an organic platform. From what I can tell, Pentagram is a type of post-bureaucracy in which even the partners are designers.
Of all the companies I’ve worked for, the structure closest to this belonged to a $70 million revenue pharmacy. The lack of oversight might be...
There goes his letter of recommendation.
And here’s an angle from one of the heroic citizen journalists you see in the back.
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Being Sicilian, this is a really difficult confession for me.
There have only been two restaurants that have served me a meatball marinara sub I enjoyed (or even found acceptable)…. And both of them are chains.
The first is Subway. Great meatballs on honeyoat bread with provolone, a little spinach, green peppers, cucumbers, carrots, parmesan and oregano. The ingredient that makes me...
A good parent thinks of everything, I guess
Me: She’s smoking a cigarette with a baby in the car.
Loren: Well how else is she going to give the baby cancer?
Making impromptu music with friends. Perry on...
Watchpostscripted june 4, 4pm Orlando is notorious for daily thunderstorms every June. (June, 2005 rainfall accounted for almost 30 percent of the entire year’s. It was 15 inches, and the median of all other months was 2.6”.) I love it because it’s not the type of dismal weather NY has. It’s sudden and violent — usually a 30 minute surge that’s too quick to allow...
WatchSpace Shuttle Endeavour night launch
We had a great view of the launchpad from the cape, on the shore of Banana River. 2:28am on March 11, 2008
