Words for the wise from the mouth of a fool.
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Saturday, July 12, 2003
"Bruce the Duck quacked so hard
That he propelled himself backwards and up onto dry land.
"For those of you taking notes,
This is a fine practical example of Newton's First Law of Motion,
Which clearly states that for every action
There is an equal and opposite reaction.
"But no matter how quickly Bruce tried to waddle away
He couldn't escape Seymore the Wolf,
Who was wearing his best pair of tennis shoes."
Weird Al's Peter and the Wolf comes up in my MP3 shuffle, my late-night writing stops for twenty-seven minutes and fifty-five seconds. Cause and effect.
I slept in late, walked to a diner for lunch, took some pictures, solved a few plot holes, wandered through Art Fair on the Square...
It was a good day.
You should have been there.
Update: See, you crow like that and you're just asking life to humble you. I apologize to those whom I rained pizza upon earlier this evening. Sigh.
Wake up, everyone! Wake up! It might be the middle of the night, but there's a new Frontalot track! Grab the kids and spin the amp to 11!
Now it's time for a little braggadocio
While I swing my arms like Ralph Macchio...
I think I still like "Nerdcore Hiphop" and "Which MC Was That?" better, but "Braggadocio" fights it out for a solid (and respectable, dagnabit) third place in my heart among Frontalot's growing collection of demo tracks. Note that Front didn't use any samples on the new track--he's cutting from whole cloth now, kids.
In related news, word on the street is that an MC Hawking album with Professor Hawking's official blessing is on the way later this year. So at long last we'll all be able to stop listening to our bootlegs of "Entropy" and "QuakeMaster". No new tracks on the MCH site in the last few months, but there are some fun images.
(If nerdcore rap falls outside your tastes, perhaps you might check out the Whygodwhy Lounge for kfan's always fantastic collection of covers. Free music for everyone!)
Friday, July 11, 2003
Via Gizmodo, supercool USB drives in a wristwatch. They're even affordable enough that I might get one when my current bargain bin watch gives up the ghost.
Fans of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay will be excited to hear that The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, penned by Michael Chabon and illustrated by a rotating crew of artists starting with Howard Chaykin, will be arriving in comic shops this December.
If you happen to have too much money, you could always buy me dinner. But if you want to blow your extra cash on something for yourself, why not buy one of the $20,000 180 Computer Monitors for sale at Hammacher Schlemmer? To be honest, I'm not sure I want one of those more than I want, say, a pair of extra-rugged flatpanel monitors. But boy, it'd be fun to play with for a while.
(Thanks to Trabbold for the link!)
A piece on textbook writing that has a fair share of good advice for writers in general:
Rule #7: Accept reviews with stoic dispassion and gratitude.
Rule #8: Smash your hand only into soft objects.
(via A&L Daily)
Thursday, July 10, 2003
In a terrific prank, a giant metal cube in Manhattan's Astor Place is converted into a gigantic Rubik's Cube (via Gawker.) Don't miss checking out the group's other pranks.
For more prankish reading check out the Chad prank and the other shenanigans over at Cockeyed, as well as the classic MIT Gallery of Hacks.
Not enough cows, but a lot of fun stuff.
Heh. This OD post somehow attracted the attention of the military today, as the post received a number of hits from the mysterious NIPR.mil domain.
I consider myself duly chastised, and will do the dishes this evening. Honest. (via the Making Light sidebar)
Looking at gorgeous space photography like today's APOD of dust storms on Mars once again reminds me why it's a good thing my cable provider doesn't carry NASA TV--I'd just sit there in front of the TV watching live images from orbit until someone reminded me to bathe.
Did you know Kevin back in high school? Are you still mad at him like so many other people? Well Kevin has something to say to you. (via PCJM)
Wednesday, July 09, 2003
If idiocy were inversely proportional to volume, it’d be an awfully quiet world.
But then, maybe I just had a bad evening.
Via Lessig, a terrific Columbia Workshop radio play from the 1930s about characters from famous pieces of literature being emancipated from their authors and entering the public domain.
At long last Bezzy has posted the first draft of his "Anatomy of Games" to Antifactory. Any ludologists or game theorists in the audience should go read it and give him some feedback.
From the Technology You Wish Were True Dept.:
A Korean cel phone company is offering a downloadable service that they claim "generates anti-mosquito sound waves to control mosquitoes within a range of one meter." (via Gizmodo)
Tuesday, July 08, 2003
Earlier today I stumbled across the website of the Bob Barker Company, "America's Leading Detention Supplier". Browsing around in their online catalog, you can find everything from unbreakable mirriors and "tamper evident" dental floss to flame-resistant matresses and the Vancell.
Interesting offerings in the Recreations and Games section are Judge for Yourself and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? I'd be willing to bet that these games mean slightly different things to prison inmates than they do to the average player. Unless everyone was using razors with eight weak points, I'd stay far away from any sort of heated debates with jailhouse lawyers.
Updated so you can check out the TranZport Hood, which I had somehow previously missed ("The fast, easy and inexpensive way to protect you and your fellow officers from possible illnesses and the uncomfortable feeling of being spit on!")
Monday, July 07, 2003
You thought your copy of the new Harry Potter book was big? The Braille version--hand folded, hand-collated, and hand-stapled--is thirteen volumes long.
(via Bookslut, where I also found a link to a Guardian article where writers recommend summer reading. The best opening line belongs to Jeffrey Archer: "Now that I am the library orderly at Hollesley Bay prison, I have a lot more time on my hands.")
Drinking bird never stops drinking!
(Yeah, yeah--I've made this same post before. But darnitall, that link is broken now, and it still makes me laugh. Call it a classic rerun on a busy day.)
Today is proving busier than I thought, so no time to write up the weekend yet. But enjoy this montage hastily constructed from weekend visuals. (Wow--it's been a while since I posted one of these.) Click on the image for a larger version.
Sunday, July 06, 2003
I'm back. Pictures and travelogue shortly.
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