August 2008
35 posts
July 2008
86 posts
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I went to Babagannouj today for a tasty gyro, and when I went to pay the credit card machine was offline. I don’t often carry any cash, and today was no exception, so I was prepaired to find lunch elsewhere. What happened next surprised me: the owner said
“just pay me back some other time.” He didn’t ask for my name and number, or even write down what I had—he just...
WatchBatman Needs to Tone it Down (via maniacalrage)
Swimming -- Week of 7/21
A little late with this one, but better late than never. I think a big problem I’m having is not eating enough
Stats for 7/21-7/25:
Yards Swam — 5100
Laps Swam — 102
Days Swam — 5/5
Little Victory — 500m set without any rest
July Weight-Loss to Date — 15lbs
On the Election and 'Tard Checks
As mud-slinging and ad hominem attacks start pouring in from the campaign trail I’m reminded of one thing I hate about elections: stupid people.
Take some things recently coming out of the McCain camp directed towards Obama’s alleged apathy towards troops—just because he missed one of his many military stops on his foreign tour. Or take the multitude of backwoods voters who...
How to "Design" a $45 T-Shirt in 10min
Today we’re going to learn how to be a t-shirt designer. First step is to download a bunch of premade vectors. You can find these on various stock vector sites, or in various free places like Vecteezy. You don’t need to know how to, you know, make graphics or anything—you just need to know how to randomly splatter them all over shit.
Open up your favorite image editing...
The Balcony is Closed →
Really interesting piece by Roger Ebert about his 33 year old TV show, and what it was like to make it big.
WatchCouldn’t be more excited for this movie, oddly enough.
byroglyphics-gallery →
Probably some of the most interesting mixed-media work I’ve seen this year.
“I don’t know that people in Missouri are going to like seeing tens of...”
– McCain Aide on Obama’s oversea popularity. Yeah, having the rest of the world not hate us would really suck. Of all things to spin? Strange indeed.
On Ledger's Joker
I saw The Dark Knight last Sunday and loved it. Don’t worry no spoilers here, and I’m not going to tell you it was the masterpiece I feel Wall-E is (still need to rave about that), but one thing really stood out in this movie despite the massive hype surrounding it: Ledger’s Joker.
Coming into this movie I wanted him to nail it so badly. After such a storied young career...
“The iPhone shortage may be good news for Sprint, which launched the...”
– Sprint Connection. Yep, the more iPhone customers AT&T signs up, the better it gets for Sprint (via gruber).
“Dark Knight is so good it’s painful. The world just drips and I’m still covered...”
– Shawn Morrison, regarding The Dark Knight
WatchMy absolute favorite application on the iPhone—control your iTunes wirelessly through your phone. Great party trick too.
Swimming -- Week of 7/14
I know a lot of you could care less, but I’m keeping a log of my swimming workouts online mainly to keep me accountable and track my progress.
Stats for 7/14-7/18:
Meters Swam — 5375m
Laps Swam — 107.5
Days Swam — 5/5
Little Victory — 200m sets on Thursday
July Weight-Loss to Date — 15lbs
Swimming trunks stolen — 1 (to their credit I did...
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Act One →
Doogie Howser in an awesome evil villain musical extravaganza—with that hot redhead from The Guild. It should go without saying, but this is fiercely great.
“Don’t want to find yourself alone at thrity-five, spending half what you...”
– “A Lull in Traffic” by The Gloria Record
On iPhone Hating
I know it’s fashionable to hate on Apple, but some of the arguments I’ve seen from even respectable sources has me reeling.
“The iPhone is expensive”
And other smartphones arent? I really don’t understand this argument since data plans are expensive, phones are expensive, and if this type of functionality is important to you’ll be shelling out money whether...
justwatchthesky.com →
Simmy’s back!! And he wants to show you some good new music and awesome typography.
Really Good Mac and Cheese
So the macaroni and cheese I threw together last night turned out really good (at least rave reviews from Matt and Meg), so I though I’d share the recipe:
Ingredients:
0.5 cup of butter
0.5 cup of flour
half an onion, minced
1lb of elbow macaroni
0.5lb of Velveeta cheese
0.5 cup of sharp cheddar cheese
0.5 cup of monterey jack cheese
0.5 cup of muenster cheese
panko breadcrumbs to...
WatchWhoopsie.
“But if you make something shitty I’m going to choke you.”
– Matt, on the repercussions of my mac and cheese recipe tonight.
Rockband 2 Song List
Yes this will be the biggest post ever, but this is some good stuffs.
2000s
AFI — Girl’s Not Grey
Avenged Sevenfold — Almost Easy
Beck — E-Pro
Disturbed — Down with the Sickness
The Donnas — New Kid in School
Dream Theater — Panic Attack
Guns N’ Roses— Shackler’s Revenge
Interpol — PDA
Jimmy Eat World — The Middle
Lacuna Coil — Our...