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| 10:35 pm - I want this poster. |
| 10:14 am - Self-Righteousness |
| 02:37 pm - Dead Baby Jokes |
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uncelestial. I was mildly amused up until the third frame, at which point I honestly couldn't stop laughing.| 12:05 pm - When nerds fly. |
audiguy sent me this first person account of a guy who accidentally dropped his iPod in the toilet on an airplane, causing the entire flight to be rerouted and searched. Oops.This reminds me of something I saw a few years ago, before September 11th. There was a huge hold up at the metal detector; it ended up taking about thirty minutes to make it through. At the front there was a crowd of police, security officers and customs officials. This was before they had the onsite screening rooms, so you could see everything.
Anyway, the commotion was centered around this guy that was the total poster boy for nerd stereotypes. He was trying to bring on the plane a suitcase full of computer parts. Every nerd has a box of this stuff at home; old couplers, random cables, a few odd sticks of RAM, various boards, possibly a soldering iron - but to the untrained eye it could easily be mistaken for a bomb. I can't even imagine the rundown you'd get for something like that today.
Only somewhat related: When I was a kid, I used to love playing scavenger hunts and would organize one for every excuse I could find for a party. My favorite place to go for scavenger hunts was the airport. This is before they required a ticket to get into the terminals (remember that?). So I'd go to the airport ahead of time with my pockets full of random trinkets like magnets, hooks, tubes/fuses, etc and hide them all around the airport. Sometimes these scavenger hunts would be augmented with challenge/response phrases that I'd either give to random strangers who were on long layovers or to friends of my parents who agreed to help. And then twenty minutes later you'd have twenty or so kids let loose on the airport tearing the place apart looking for these trinkets and harassing passengers.
I guess I'll never be doing that again - ha.
| 06:06 pm - Regional variances in cost of death |
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| 01:32 pm - Europe as the liberal holy land |
crescimento happened to beat me to it in his post "Screw you Europe". So, instead of recreating the wheel, I've just left a lengthy comment there and am providing this entry as a reference for those of you who have something to say about the topic.As an aside, for those of you who don't know my politics: I tend to be fairly liberal in some areas. The term "liberal", however, has become synonymous with ignorance to me; it's very similar to how I might be reluctant to call myself a "Christian" if I believed in God.
| 01:13 pm |
I essentially agree with every one of
monoecious's points on this topic so instead of restating them I'm just going to plagiarize her response:- first thought: this could be exactly what people looking for gender equality or gender neutrality would NOT want.
second thought: they should just offer two classes and let the students choose rather than assigning them by sex.
third thought: the cynic in me thinks that even if they let the students choose, the classes would still acquire an association with gender, like shop and home-ec used to be. sigh.
| 06:26 pm - All sorts of fucked up. |
So, instead, I'm allowing her to first cross out three terms of her choice, excluding the word "not" (although I retain the right to a one-time veto).
| 03:13 am - Letting Go of Roe |
langston].| 07:38 pm - Photography |
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jacknack's blog]On a more personal note, I'm not sure why, but I've barely picked up my camera in the last month -- and it's been months since I've taken a photo that I'd consider valuable for anything outside of documenting various parties/locations on Flickr.
| 11:30 am - "The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion" |
skiplogic).| 03:54 pm - Twentieth Century Castles |
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| 03:51 pm - I think it's time |
| 10:44 pm - Brilliant. |
audiguy). File under "why didn't I think of this?".| 04:43 am - David Lynch on Cats and Earth |
Last year, I posted a quote by David Lynch from his interview on the Eraserhead DVD. Reading it, though, doesn't quite do it justice; you really need to hear it as he tells the story.
[Watch video excerpt]
The video clip is five minutes long (thank you to
sarevilo for grabbing it off the DVD). It's actually compiled from two parts of the interview with about twenty minutes in between; at some point he just starts talking about this damned cat again, which is really amusing. Katie did a great job editing it, though, so you won't get that full experience. If you're short on time, just advance the timeline bar to the last quarter of the video; that's the best part.The interview is incredible and if you like David Lynch I highly recommend that you rent the DVD, even if you don't want to watch Eraserhead, just for the hour and a half of him talking about film school, the AFI, the making of Eraser Head, dead cats and whatever else pops in his mind. It's totally worth watching even if you didn't enjoy the movie (it's not my favorite of his by any means) or have never watched it.
Semi-related: ourmedia.org is a neat service by archive.org that provides free media hosting. Also, while iMovie and Windows Movie Maker are pretty handy, you can also download Avid Free DV which is a light version of Avid's digital video software and more feature rich than either Microsoft or Apple's offerings (very cool).