Friday, July 22, 2011

Day 284 - An Argument Against Editing

July 18, 2011

This post of "A Year in 3,059 Photos" struck me for three reasons:
1) That's a ton of photos.
2) There seem to be 10 photos for every event.
3) Several of the photos are completely mundane.
  
There are pictures of ketchup bottles, trees, and lots of pets. But after watching the slide show, I feel like I know this person pretty well.  So maybe every picture doesn't have to be great, because when it's combined with 3,058 other pictures, you get the whole story.

So these are photos that didn't fit other places:









This is fun.  Maybe I'll take photo dumps more often. 
(There HAS to be a better way to say that.)

Linkage:


Not meant as a joke.  One man’s moving account of how humanity connected is God.




From NPR
Playing Friday at Capitol Hill Block Party
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Day 283 - Japan out U.S.'s us (The U.S.)

July 17

It was a fun ride I didn't know about three weeks ago.  Couldn't be a better story than Japan's team.  They didn't have enough electricity to practice a few months ago, now they're winning it all.  Glad you all could join me on the USWNT bandwagon.  Now get off, you're using all the armrests.  Come back next summer for the Olympics.  
Or will you have forgotten about "your new favorite team" by them?

Speaking of bandwagons, I received an invitation to Spotify.  I'm not really sure why it's different than other free music services out there, but people seem to think it is.  Hey, it's big in Europe.  
What more do you need to know?

Linkage:
From NPR
It kind of sounds like a joke, like this should be playing in New Orleans Square at Disneyland, but he's for real (and he's kind of catchy).

Oh, so these guys actually do a ton of work and we probably shouldn't give them crap considering the enormity of what we ask them to do?  Right.

His podcast (Star Talk Radio) with Jon Stewart is solid as well.  “Carbon is the slut of the periodic table.  It bonds with everything from every direction.  From the top, from the sides, from below.  Carbon doesn’t care.”



From Business Week


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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Day 282 - Brian Mullen Did Not Make The Trip


July 16. 2011
The Rapids did not bring Brian Mullen, who injured Steve Zakuani a few months ago.  
Probably safer for him, but a strange precedent to set. 

New food truck: Fusion on the Run

Coconut Ginger Chicken Banh Mi Sandwich


Linkage:


Video for “Go Outside”
Featuring the Jonestown.  Not a band, I think it's the Kool-aid people.  So...that's one choice you could make.  Is that weird?
And a different kind of video from MTV Super Video

Is the Fastest Human Already Alive?
From Grantland

Starters Guide For Google+
From Huff Post
Is this going to be a thing?

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Day 281 - Deck Demolition

July 15, 2011
Today we turned this...

into this.
It took way longer than I expected, but I think that's how these things go.

Linkage:


From Grantland

From Grantland



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Day 280 - HP7P2: It All Ends

July 14, 2011
The line outside the theater for the midnight showings.  This is four hours before the movie started.  There were 8 midnight showings that were all sold out.  Luckily, we avoided the craziness by hitting a double feature.  We saw HP7P1 at 9:00, which was way better than waiting in this mess.
Yes, those are special Harry Potter 3D Glasses.
And a new badge. 

Linkage:
Harry Potter Recap
Seven Harry Potter movies in under seven minutes.
It really seems like more happened in the books…

Disses from the world of Harry Potter
"Yo Momma so fat, her patronus is a cake!"

From Damon Lindelof

From Deadspin
Drew Magary is crass. But you knew that, right?

From Paste
A playlist for each of the four houses of Hogwarts.

The answer appears to be no.

They’ll just let anyone in these days.
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Day 279 - Swingers vs. Sunshine

July 13, 2011
The Sun makes softball more difficult.
Hey, at least we're winning now.

Linkage:

My Drunk Kitchen
From Boing Boing
This lady is making "cookies" while downing two bottles of wine.  I really hope this is real.

Dirk Nowitzki Basketball Camp
Bill Hayder and Seth Meyers teach you how to play like Dirk.

Dog Doogity
Using Blackstreet’s “No Digity” to help dog owners pick up poop.

Panda Bear Live

From NPR
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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Day 278 - West Seattle Adventures

July 12, 2011
Music themed bar with a nice happy hour menu.
They also have rock and roll trivia on Tuesdays at 8pm.  Tempting.
Place wasn't really hopping at 4:00pm on a Tuesday.  As would be expected.

Packed house at Easy Street.  The whole cafe was jammed with fans.
We even overflowed onto the street.

Celtic Swell Trivia
A foursquare check in led to the creation of trivia super team "Flatulence".
My, that's a magnificent looking trophy.
Trivia Win!!
Really odd mix of questions.  Toughest category was easily "The L Word" all about the tv series I've never watched.  The "Disney Duets" category contained erroneous information, because the song "If I Never Knew You" is not in the original Pocahontas movie and in the broadway play.  And one of the best questions I've seen: "If you take all the currency that features assassinated presidents, and added up the values on each piece (includes paper or coin up to $1000), how much money would you have?

Linkage:


Fan made production. It's free, funny, and more Harry Potter.  Also, they clearly love HP, so it comes from a good place.
At least make it to Act 1 Part 3 where every character is in the great hall.

 Seattle Hip Hop REPRESENT!!

Free HD video of several shows in and around Austin.  The entire city of Austin is probably cooler than I’ll ever be.  I’ve never even heard of some of these bands.

Whatwhatwhat!?!?


A: $505.51
McKinley = $500
Lincoln = $5.00
Kennedy = $0.50
Lincoln = $0.01
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Day 277 - Delicate Sleep Cycle

July 11, 2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
(or, as Justin calls it HP7P2) is a long movie.
Probably close to three hours.  Which is great.  
Except that means a midnight showing will let out at 3:00am
Say what you want, but I need to prepare for that.

TBTL Live
So my favorite imaginary radio program broadcasts live at high deuce (2:00pm)
You can listen to the show and chat with other people listening to the show. 
Yeah, it feels weird.  It's kind of a throwback.  Like using my AOL dialup connection to chat on the crazy new interwebs.
Don't judge.  
I thought this was a judgement free zone.

Linkage:
Kenny Powers as the K-Swiss CEO
Danny McBride from Eastbound and Down as the new CEO of K-Swiss.  Reminds me of Terry Tate. 

Alan Dershowitz on the Casey Anthony Trial
From Wall Street Journal
 He's a better legal mind than you or me.
His opinion is probably well supported.

Cults In Concert
From NPR
"Go Outside" is a jam.

Stories from the Surgeon who Worked on Kennedy and Oswald
He worked on both of them. 
 He should be more famous.
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Day 276 - Ballard Seafoodfest

July 10, 2011
USA 2 - Brazil 2
(5-3)
Wow.
Sounders 3 - Timbers 2
Double Wow.
Celebratory Seafood at:
Seafood Wrap 
a.k.a Shove The Sea In A Flimsy Tortilla
(It was really good)
Crabcakes
Is there anyone who doesn't like crabcakes?
My love for community events is well established.  
Great alt-country, rock, Americana band from Ellensburg.
(That description is from their website).
But seriously, they have some game.
Watch the first video on this page
And Snoose Junction has one of the best pinball machines.
Stewart was the MVP

Linkage:

Judah Friedlander (Frank from “30 Rock”) has ideas about how to improve soccer.  Ok.

From Grantland

I love that he calls it Qwest Field and has to catch himself.  
Just start calling it "The Clink".
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Day 275 - Not Shoe Glue. SUPER Glue.

July 9, 2011

Horrible Bosses
If you laugh at the trailer, you'll laugh at the movie.  And they do make the point that being sexually harassed by Jennifer Aniston is not quite the same as dealing with the other two bosses.

In other news, I fixed my shoe with super glue.  
To be honest, it was just a little bit terrifying.  
Super glue is permanent and very sticky.  
What if some of it got on me?
Shoe fixed.  
Nerves shaken but fingers still separate.
Overall? Win.

Linkage:


An awesome listing of whatever is going on in the city.  
No, seriously, you need to bookmark this.

From The Stranger

From Roger Ebert
Totally nerfing the classics.

From Deadspin

Look at All These Science Blogs
From Boing Boing
The Scientific American Blogs are the main point of the article, but I didn't know about the other ones either.
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Day 274 - Do I Have Homework Now?

July 8, 2011
So I might have to read this textbook this summer. I'm actually confident I don't have to read it, but I think it might be a good idea if I re familiarize myself with science.  It's been a while.  We were so close for so long.  And then we just kind of drifted apart.  And now we might be back together.  There's just so much to process.  
Science is making a lot of promises right now.
This news was kind of unexpected and may have led to some Chateau St. Michelle, 

Linkage:
CNN cut all the Space Shuttle launches into one video.

100 Great Things About America
from CNN Money

Rob Delaney Jumps Off The Manhattan Bridge
The story is in the title. 

Save the James Webb Space Telescope
From Wired
 We have already spent a ton of money on this, and now we're thinking of bailing out and learning nothing.  Hubble seems like a pretty convincing argument for funding discovery. So is this argument.
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My Summer at an Indian Call Center



Call-center employees gain their financial independence at the risk of an identity crisis. A BPO salary is contingent on the worker's ability to de-Indianize: to adopt a Western name and accent and, to some extent, attitude. Aping Western culture has long been fashionable; in the call-center classroom, it's company policy. Agents know that their jobs only exist because of the low value the world market ascribes to Indian labor. The more they embrace the logic of global capitalism, the more they must confront the notion that they are worth less.

At the end of each training day, the Qualis would drop me back at the Toyota showroom. From there I would walk down a narrow, unpaved lane and turn onto an even narrower alley, just wide enough (I learned the hard way) for a human to squeeze past a cow.
Like most BPO agents from out of town, I rented a room in a workers' hostel. For the equivalent of $80 per month, I got a nine-by-six cell—a plywood double bed, a ceiling fan, and two windows covered in newspaper—plus two hot meals a day
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Saturday, July 9, 2011

Day 273 - Reunite Pangea

July 7, 2011
Burke Museum Trivia

Our team totally rocked this thing.  
Tough quiz, requiring us to tap our deep knowledge reserves about, dendrochonology, Korean side dishes, and famous scientists (pictured below).
Name the nerds below.
(Answers after the Linkage)


Linkage:
Harry Potter Cartoons
Lucy Knisley made these amazing Harry Potter Cartoons.  OMGryffindor!!
Seriously, let the page load.  So worth it.

The Medium Chill
From Grist
By David Roberts
The medium chill involves what economists call satisficing: abandoning the quest for the ideal in favor of the good-enough. It means stepping off the aspirational treadmill, foregoing some material opportunities and accepting some material constraints in exchange for more time to spend on relationships and experiences.



It turns out, though, that satisficing doesn't come easy to us human beings. We have an extremely hard time saying, "okay, this is good enough." Why?


Michael Bay Storyboards the Great Gatsby
I would watch this movie right now.

Wax On, F*ck Off, with Ralph Machio
Trailer for his big comeback.  Because, as a nation, we only care about trainwrecks.

Michigan State University Egyptology Class Online
This is so next level.

Jessica Lea Mayfield on World Café (NPR)

Answers
In rows, from top left to bottom right.
1) Dr. Sheldon Cooper
2) Dr. Bunson Honeydew and Beaker
3) Dr. Horrible
4) Terri Irwin
5) Neil deGrasse Tyson
6) Mr. Wizard
7) Dr. Ellie Saddler (Laura Dern)

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