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fincher speaks
I’m old enough to remember when there was only one photograph of David Fincher on the internet, and maybe one interview. Now he’s everywhere. Via Defamer, here’s a transcript of a talk he gave at a BFI Screening in England somewhere, where he gets surprisingly frank about lots of interesting stuff. My favorite bits: MS: Talking [...]
In: amusing, random internet awesomeness
amusing
I just read 18 pages of Nick Douglas‘ tumblr blog. Do I call it a “tumblr blog” or just a “tumblr”. Maybe it’s in the tumblr FAQ, or they’ll tell me once I start my own tumblr (blog). Anyway. it’s funny, and you should add it to your bookmarks, or favorite it, or follow him, [...]
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on foodies
From Eater: ON ‘FOODIES’ — “For me, the word is a warning that says, ‘Hey, I’m not any fun to have a meal with.’ I’m all for people enjoying the hell out of food, but not if it means they have to give themselves a title to lord over ‘non-foodies.’..I like the olden days when [...]
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next nurblecast
Almost ready and going to rock.
In: music musings, nurblecast, random internet awesomeness
progress pt. 2
After initial enthusiasm, I’ve actually become quite annoyed with Movable Type. Complex things are possible, like making online photo galleries. Easy things, like adding a twitter badge, seem prohibitively difficult. Plus, if I wanted to mess around with Unix permissions all day, I’d become a system administrator. I just want to write useless shit that [...]
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progress
I’m in the process of moving this whole shebang to Movable Type, partly because I’m a giant nerd, but also because it just seems better. After spending the better part of my christmas break installing an MT-based photo gallery on the girlfriend’s family website, I came away somewhat impressed; there’s a lot of cool shit [...]
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nerd slave
Merry Christmas, everybody. Somehow I got roped into making a family photo album for the girlfriend, so now I’m spending a lovely Christmas evening in bed with a pair of laptops learning Movable Type on the fly and trying to figure out why we can’t just use flickr like everybody else. Oh, and if you’ve [...]
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macaroni and cheese of champions
Just came back from a dinner party at which I served an objectively awesome tray of Mac ‘n’ Cheese. I have to say, and this is not ego talking, I did everything right, starting with lowering expectations by announcing weeks ago that I don’t really cook, which is technically true, but ignores the fact that [...]
In: politics, random internet awesomeness
oil floor
Interesting. Oil is back down to $45 a barrel. Weird. I’d assumed that there had been a drop, but I had no idea it was that sharp or deep. The repercussions of such a drop-off are also surprising. Suck it, Iran.
In: politics, random internet awesomeness
Not to seem ungrateful…
So this is fun. I sent my laptop in to be cured of a known issue with its graphics card, and doing so left me computerless for just slightly more than a week. Curiously, when I got it back (just now), not only was it shiny and clean, and seemingly fixed, it also felt the [...]
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