The Movie Review: ‘The Happening’ Rather than write a conventional review explaining why you should or shouldn’t see The Happening (trust me, you shouldn’t), I’m offering an alternative: A dozen and a half of the most mind-bendingly ridiculous elements of the film, which will enable you to marvel at its anti-genius without sacrificing (and I […]
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Bad Form, Old Boy
TRAIL BLAZERS Blog | The Dallas Morning News At the Republican state convention, a booth hosted by Republicanmarket was selling a pin Saturday that says: If Obama is President will we still call it the White House. There were other pins that weren’t necessarily conveying the positive, inclusive, united front that has been portrayed during […]
Trustafarianism
Art students on the future of money – Boing Boing The article this links to is pretty good, but it was the title that hit me with the giggles. ‘Cause if you want to know about the future of money, art students are totally the people to ask. What? “Art students on the future of […]
AC's gone out here
The AC’s gone out where I am. I can’t get it to come on. If you’ve ever been to Vegas, you’ll understand my horror. The high today, according to my Google Weather widget thingy, is 108º. That’s 42º Celsius, by the way. It feels like an oven in here. I’m going to take a cold […]
Dreams, Seen By Man-Made Machines
I’ve been writing my first algorithmic music composition tool in Processing. It’s not terribly complex, though it has stretched my understanding of Java a bit, which is nice. Basically, it loads an array of the steps of a scale — for example, a minor scale is [0,2,3,5,7,8,10,12] steps from the root note. Then you feed […]
Good Food For Total Retards: Metrosexual Ground Beef Stroganoff
Beef stroganoff is one of those foods most often made by sad, single people or suburban housewives with too little free time for cooking. I myself am a sad, single person, but I’ve figured out a slight variation on the traditional Middle American stroganoff that is completely tasty, easy as hell to make, and only […]
RIP Stan Winston
Effects guru Stan Winston dies of cancer at 62 – Yahoo! News Oh, man. Stan Winston was one of my few real heroes when I was a kid — his work on Terminator and Aliens and T2 and Jurassic Park was a lot of the reason I got into movie FX and, later, computer graphics […]
BTW
For various reasons, I’m staying somewhere right now where I don’t have Internet access, barring the occasional access to some neighbor’s wifi. I’m at the Coffee Bean during the day, though, so I’m getting online. Just don’t expect to get in touch with me via e-mail at night and expect the usual quick response. I’m […]
My del.icio.us tags, wordlized
Made with Jonathan Feinberg’s Wordle. Awesomely cool. I’d like to make a poster of this.
Korg Nano Controllers: October?
This site has more news on the Korg Nano music controllers I mentioned a couple of days ago. Apparently they’re scheduled for October 2008. It says they’re going to be £59 for the Nanokontrol and Nanopad and £49 for the Nanokey. I’m hoping they’ll be the same amount in Yanqui dollars — $120 and $100 […]