whoa: How to Fold a Shirt #
driving back from the outer banks this summer, i happened upon this american life on npr doing a piece about hamlet. they began by playing snippets of lines from various performances around the country. ira glass wondered how any of…
so i’m heading to california tomorrow to do some work on the project that previously sent me to kazakhstan, cambodia, and tanzania. this time i’m going to be working on a set of health and policy indicators for west africa,…
just sitting on my bed in my hotel room. exhausted! made up for missing happy hour by having an excellent dinner at the very posh, very swank slanted door in san francisco. tried two different unfiltered belgium beers. had pork…
oh my god, the debate last night was SO awesome. my friend casey lives in berkeley in a house with 5 other people, all of whom brought friends over to watch the debate and drink beer. after working all day,…
the alarm clock plug had fallen out of the outlet. i got up, opened the windows. the light coming in is getting yellower as the colors of the leaves change. i was surprised last spring how much darker my bedroom…
i pressed snooze many times. it seemed like the alarm was going off every 5 minutes. i got up around 10am and showered. i brought my cd player upstairs to listen to the modest mouse cd while i shaved. i…
Motivation for a Database It seems like a good idea from the start. Take data that’s getting out of control in a massive Word document (or documents) and put it in a database like Microsoft Access. The advantages being the…
pilot mountain in my side view mirror update: i’ve posted more pictures of my trip to pilot mountain.
Drove to Pilot Mountain north of Winston Salem (about 1.5hrs from Carrboro) to do some hiking and take some pictures. approaching pilot mountain from US-52
gator (sausage) on a stick (marinated beef) shish kabob (country-fried) pork chop on a stick! it’s nc state fair time again, and i wish i had brought my camera. i’ve gone at least twice before this year. it’s really a…
My brothers didn’t have trouble in finding their direction and I am lost beyond belief. oh katie. i understand how hopeless things feel. but the truth is i had just as hard a time as you are. surely mom and…
seems like just a bit ago i was racing through the office getting last minute things done while a halloween party was happening around me. children in costumes, small dogs in costumes, even phill in a costume (with fangs). and…
theresa and i arrived in accra last night after a longish flight from london. there were no jetways getting off the airplane, so i got a strong whiff of the air, which is warm and smokey, almost pungent. i spent…
whoa: How to Fold a Shirt #
funny: lesbian dating #
hehe: don’t change horsemen… #
quote of the day (from a few days ago actually): but now you just sense some faint movement and feel a pair of giant black eyes watching you out of the gloom #
damn! too funny: Prose Before Hos #
great photo: Mount St. Helens belches more steam #
people are dropping like flies. evhead: Next? #
quote of the day: In the tyranny of physical space, an audience too thinly spread is the same as no audience at all #
hella neat: Skinning Gmail with a Custom Stylesheet #
quote of the day (or the power of boingboing to make change): For Snap to assert that it can own how you can link to them — despite the fact that this is nonsensical in both law and practice — displays such an imponderable depth of contempt and ignorance for the Web’s norms that it is truly unforgivable. #
wow, beautiful: graffiti/stencil art-esque video about american foreign policy #
score another point for the creative commons: pravin sathe of solidhang uses a picture i took in cambodia for a charity christmas card for War Child with the band Buddahead #
music: so loving Modest Mouse right now #
whoa: conference bike? (thanks ellie!) #
here comes google: Google Desktop #
recently installed: BitTorrent #
quote skewered analogy of the day: I mean really, it’s just like taking a CD from a record store without paying for it… except that the record store owner is dead… and well, the store is really the compendium of human knowledge.. and the CD is part of our collective cultural history. Whatever. Theft is Theft, right? #
linux’s penguin dethroned by firefox’s red panda for all-time cuteness #
new project: EditPlus Wiki #
meticulous: styling html form controls #
oh dear: vibrator cell phone ad #
another funny ad: she’s got hairy nipples… #
i’m laughing out loud: You can’t say “nipple” in the newspaper #
hehe: technology of the book (WMV) #
just what i was looking for! an electoral college map presented as a cartogram #
hmm… $30 to see my name in a full page firefox ad in the NY Times (i’m considering…) #
god i love popular culture: Bush’s iBulge #
blog tagline i wish i had: SELECT * FROM random_thoughts ORDER BY date DESC #
i approve: I Heart the Internets #
quote of the day: [the curse] has been reduced to just so much human imagining by a scruffy lot of players who care more about their hair than history #
more red sox quotes: Few pro sports franchises lose in the way the Red Sox have lost over the years…the Red Sox tease, tease, tease… and then lose. They fight and struggle and war… and then lose. They seem to somehow do the maximum damage possible to your heart. #
legos seem to be re-entering the cultural landscape: Lego Mindstorms #
in the news: conversation about the effect of TV on people’s lives (like it isn’t obvious) prompted by TV-B-Gone #
who is this hunter s thompson? what an amazing article: Fear and Loathing, Campaign 2004 #
QUOTE OF THE YEAR!!! It is telling that this president has received the endorsement of member of the axis of evil #
commentary on collaboration fostered by creative commons: Another Simple Creative Commons Example #
oh scarlett. In Good Company #
cart-o-gram-o-licious: 2004 Poll Watcher (thanks robin!) #
creative commons: my photo of the US Capitol Building used in German Wikipedia article (top right), Kapitol (Washington) #
new word/technology: Podcasting #
quote of the day? I did not run them down, I scared them a little #
funny url of the day: www.godhatesfigs.com #
hella cool:rabbit ambulance patch #
awesome: dremel pumpkin carving kit #
like photomosaics, but better: Domino Artwork #
red sox quote of the day: They’ll never be led by a starting pitcher who gets his ankle stapled together like he’s some kind of medical experiment #