March 28, 2013
(Nu-Who Season 5and 6 Spoilers)
Plays background noise like a coffeeshop or a park.
Today's Photo:
Veep
The Watchathon Continues
Friday, March 29, 2013
Beep! Beep! You And The Crew! Holla!
March 27, 2013
Two different dinner parties tonight, and there are no photos.
Ironically, one party looked through disney photo albums.
I thought other people would take photos and I could just grab them online. Maybe they were thinking the same thing about me.
Oops.
Also Macdrifter
Today's Photo:
Grand Master Flash and The Furious Five
Birthday Party!
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Game of Meows
March 26, 2013
Solving Rubik's Cube While Juggling
Today's Photo:
Finished Game of Thrones Season One.
This show is dark.
It's hard to watch.
Good people get killed and bad people always win.
No good deed goes unpunished.
The theme song makes me happy!
This show is dark.
It's hard to watch.
Good people get killed and bad people always win.
No good deed goes unpunished.
The theme song makes me happy!
WATCHATHON!!!
March 25, 2013
Watchathon Week PlanGame of Thrones
Girls
Veep
The Americans
Archer
Justified
Radical Face - Doorways
Ve
The Americans
Archer
Justified
Radical Face - Doorways
Today's Photo:
Monday, March 25, 2013
Minimalism
A Pep Talk From Kid President
Jimmy Fallon covers Mario Kart Love Song
Sigur Ros on Fallon
Portlandia
Parenting Books
It's An Art Project
Jimmy Fallon covers Mario Kart Love Song
Sigur Ros on Fallon
Portlandia
Parenting Books
It's An Art Project
Today's Photos:
There are many things in my apartment I never use.
Clothes are the worst offenders.
I only wear a fraction of what's in my closet.
Why was I hanging on to these T-shirts?
There are many things in my apartment I never use.
Clothes are the worst offenders.
I only wear a fraction of what's in my closet.
Why was I hanging on to these T-shirts?
Everything streams off the web, but I have a wall of DVDs.
My aspirational cookbook collection pales in comparison to the restaurants only a few blocks away.
The extra space created by my purging never seems to fill with new stuff.
Eventually I'll have a laptop, Playstation, smartphone, and a kindle.
That might be all I need.
Sounders and Karaoke
March 23, 2013
Is This A Karaoke Jam?Mo Money Mo Problems
Today's Photos:
At The Dray
and Yen Wor Garden
Ragsnowrok
March 22, 2013
Ducktails Remastered
Today's Photo:
Kids think snow is the best thing ever.
They can't focus on anything else if flakes are falling.
This morning, they were right.
The snow was amazing.
We "worked" in the hallway until it stopped 30 minutes later.
We've even exhausted all the apocalypse snow jokes.
You try making a snow pun about Ragnarok.
Brackets and Plants
March 21, 2013
#2 in the IMS pool with 75% of the teams in the Sweet Sixteen.
I can' believe I went with Gonzaga.
Their medium is "choking" the same way others work with watercolors or clay.
True artists.
Little Shop of Horrors
I've been listening to this all week.
Ashman and Menken wrote "Little Shop", which is why Disney hired them for everything.
("Little Mermaid", "Beauty and the Beast", and "Aladdin")
Zoms and Action Figures
March 20, 2013
Best Zombies mission so far.
My two handlers sent me to a mall to get action figures, D&D books and comics.
It's almost like they know the kinds of people that will run using a zombie game.
I know it's early in the season, but I'm the leader in home runs.
Why this matters to me, I really don't know.
Why this matters to me, I really don't know.
Friday, March 22, 2013
Epic Win
March 19, 2013
On the NBA's new analytic cameras.
10 Best They Might Be Giants Songs
They have a much deeper catalog than I thought.
They have a much deeper catalog than I thought.
Today's Photos:
Epic Win is a glorified to-do list.
You make a character and assign every task a point value and an experience track. As you complete the things you wanted to do anyway, you get experience points, gold and treasure.
It's way more fun than it has any right to be.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
My Face Feels Naked
March 18, 2013
Kacey Musgrave - Merry Go Round
Four times over the previous two years, Leutz tried to break the all-time Q*bert high score of 33,273,520, a record set three decades earlier by a Canadian named Rob Gerhardt, who, oddly enough, can't even remember doing it. Four times, Leutz failed. He was derailed by a lack of sleep, by a lapse in basic motor skills, by all the things that you might imagine would interrupt a three-day marathon of anything at all, let alone a task that requires a deep reserve of hand-eye coordination. He was also stymied by at least one hazard he could not have foreseen: After 36 hours of gameplay in one go-round, his friend Ed, the guy everybody calls Ed the Human Kill Screen, tried to be helpful by unplugging a noisy machine nearby, and in so doing accidentally bumped the Q*bert plug out of its socket.
Those failed attempts left Leutz numb and frustrated, but he found he could not stop himself from trying again. And so on Valentine's Day, at 11:52 in the morning, he sat down on a stool at the Q*bert machine at a suburban New Jersey arcade owned by a punk-rock musician who goes by the name of Richie Knucklez. This time, Leutz had researched sleep patterns on the Internet, studying something called the Uberman schedule (during past marathons, when he rested on an air mattress in the center of the arcade, Richie Knucklez stood over him and watched his rapid-eye movement to measure the quality of his sleep). He did not pull back on his diet or fast leading up to it, as he had done in the past, for voiding-related reasons. When he got hungry in the evening, he ate a roast beef sandwich, and he used no caffeinated stimulants other than tea from the deli next door. He played for 16 straight hours, building up 600 additional Q*berts, and then he ducked under aRoller Disco pinball machine, set his iPhone alarm for 30 minutes in the future, laid his nest of hair on a pillow, and took a nap.
Today's Photo:
It took a few passes with the scissors and two different razors to finally tame the beast.
Sounders v. Timbers - The Rivalry Continues
March 16, 2013
Great place in Greenwood.
Neptune Coffee
The neighborhood coffee place I wish every neighborhood could have.
Today's Photos:Sounders
ECS: No Equal
March 15, 2013
Great article about server cluster management systems at Google and Twitter.
I understood 10 words in this article
Today's Photo:
In preparation for the Portland Timbers match.
Once More With Feeling
March 14, 2013
Including the tumbleweed mine destroyer.
Movie about the Chiean revolution. Looks good, but it's not showing in Seattle.
I keep meaning to watch both of these webseries.
Today's Photos:
Buffy - Once More With Feeling
I love musicals.
Gone Girl
March 13, 2013
Xfinity Watchathon Week - Free HBO
March 25-31
Carly Rae Jepsen and Nine Inch Nails
Video Game Easter Eggs
Today's Photo:
A great read.
It kept twisting and turning until the very end.
Every chapter alternates between the perspective of a guy and a girl. And the shifting narrator adds layers to the mystery.
It's one of those cases where the medium of a book is essential to the story.
I hope they don't try to make a movie.
March 25-31
Carly Rae Jepsen and Nine Inch Nails
Video Game Easter Eggs
Today's Photo:
It kept twisting and turning until the very end.
Every chapter alternates between the perspective of a guy and a girl. And the shifting narrator adds layers to the mystery.
It's one of those cases where the medium of a book is essential to the story.
I hope they don't try to make a movie.
Monday, March 18, 2013
Sounders Comeback Against Tigres
March 12, 2013
30 for 30 Shorts: Holy Grail: The T206 Honus Wagner
Punk taught us to rebel against authority until "authority" included everything: piano lessons, fire insurance, leather shoes, and, ultimately, growing up. Punk taught us to have contempt for every institution, except Fugazi, until contempt and suspicion were the first and only reactions we had to everything. Good news was embarrassing, success was shameful, and a happy childhood an unthinkable transgression. These personality disorders were just punk in practice.
Five Points Bans Google Glass
Today's Photo:
Sounders vs Tigres
Deadspin Reacts
Five Points Bans Google Glass
Today's Photo:
Sounders vs Tigres
Free T-Shirt
March 11, 2013
Percy Harvin Trade Reaction
SOBER, RATIONAL ANALYSIS: The Seahawks just acquired the best running wideout in pro football. Prior to Adrian Peterson's second-half explosion this season, you could argue that Harvin was Minnesota's most valuable player. He catches everything. He never goes down on first contact like other wideouts. You can line him up virtually anywhere on the field, which makes him doubly valuable when paired with quarterback Russell Wilson, who is gifted as both a pocket passer and a running quarterback operating out of the Pistol. If you have Wilson lined up in the Pistol with Harvin behind him, defenses are basically fucked. Harvin can be a downfield threat AND he can be Darren Sproles AND he can be used as a second emergency penis if Fred Smoot is in a bind. He's extremely versatile. Seattle was already a favorite to win the NFC next year. With Harvin, they assume front-runner status.
Rhye - The Fall
Today's Photo:
SOBER, RATIONAL ANALYSIS: The Seahawks just acquired the best running wideout in pro football. Prior to Adrian Peterson's second-half explosion this season, you could argue that Harvin was Minnesota's most valuable player. He catches everything. He never goes down on first contact like other wideouts. You can line him up virtually anywhere on the field, which makes him doubly valuable when paired with quarterback Russell Wilson, who is gifted as both a pocket passer and a running quarterback operating out of the Pistol. If you have Wilson lined up in the Pistol with Harvin behind him, defenses are basically fucked. Harvin can be a downfield threat AND he can be Darren Sproles AND he can be used as a second emergency penis if Fred Smoot is in a bind. He's extremely versatile. Seattle was already a favorite to win the NFC next year. With Harvin, they assume front-runner status.
Rhye - The Fall
Today's Photo:
I'll probably never wear this.
But it's nice, and it was free.
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Tomb Raider: A Survivor Is Born
March 10, 2013
Tomb Raider
Uncharted 4: Arkham Island
Reviews here.
I rented this from Redbox. Put the game in my PS3. And didn't stop until the final credits. I think that's a glowing endorsement of the game. That it's so good, I couldn't put it down. But it might be an indictment of my obsessive nature.
Muddy Golf
March 9, 2013
Wheels Ontario - Kroll Show
Wheels Ontario - Kroll Show
This is DeGrassi.
But that's not the worst part. No, the worst part is, the game you just paid $60 for, the game you may love, is not your game to own. You see, when a game requires an "always-on" connection, and stores data on EA's servers – that means EA owns your game. If EA decides to shut the servers down five years down the road? Tough luck. Hope you played all the SimCity you'll ever want to play, because it's gone now. No going back to nostalgic old favorites; no showing your children an amazing time with a game that influenced your life; no reliving those memories.
So I say to EA, and any other publisher thinking like EA – stop with the "always-on" bull----. Yes, you're going to lose some sales to piracy, and yes, it sucks. The solution isn't to f--- over the people who actually want to play the game. The solution isn't to treat the customer like a prisoner you're graciously offering the opportunity to lease your game. The solution is to make a good game, and then people will tell their friends about it, and then those friends will buy the game and YOU WILL MAKE MASSIVE PILES OF MONEY AND NOT INDUCE RAGE ANEURYSMS IN YOUR CUSTOMER BASE.
Because believe me, I'm not shy about letting people know when to avoid a game that's not worth playing. And right now, SimCity is not worth playing.
Amateur night is coming up.
We don’t dream of performing in front of six people. But, as the old saying goes, “Everybody starts somewhere.” And nobody starts in Madison Square Garden. People start in dive bars and little clubs, in living rooms, on sidewalks. In open mics and talent shows. The dream is an audience of 10,000 people; the reality is an audience of 10. We hear and see a lot about the former, not so much about the latter.
Is this a real myth?
Today's Photos:
Looks beautiful.
Why is the hole underwater?
Mud puddles are not supposed to be part of golf.
SMUSH Happy Hour
March 8, 2013
"I'm Better At Life Than You"
The Room - iPad Game
Telltale Games Making "Fables" Game
Seattle Science Festival Volunteers
Trainings start in May.
Telltale Games Making "Fables" Game
Seattle Science Festival Volunteers
Trainings start in May.
The Mini-Golf Apocalypse returns.
Today's Photo:
A week ago, someone suggested I put out an email.
We picked a date and time.
Everyone was invited.
40 people showed up.
Bonds were formed.
Camaraderie ensued.
"Someone Must Have Stole It"
March 7, 2013
I understand the impulse.
I understand the impulse.
When a kid is backed into a corner, and is worried they are going to get in trouble. They will lie.
It seems natural.
When they don't get a corrected test back the next day, they say to me "Hey, you lost my test!".
All the tests move a grand total of six and a half feet while they are in my possession.
There's nowhere for me to lose it.
But the blame comes so thick and fast. Teacher must have lost it. Teacher must have lied and there never was a quiz. This other kid must have stole it.
"MUST have"! Flesh out that scenario where someone is backed into a corner and has no choice but to steal your test, because your middle school math test is that important.
You've already burned the bridge where this might be a honest mistake.
So, it's too little too late when you come back a week later and sheepishly say "Oh, I found it in my backpack. Oops."
Now I like you less.
This same thing played out today with diabetes medicine. "One of the coaches left it on the bus, or somebody stole my personalized diabetes medication". Turns out she left it in our locker room.
Today's Photo:
This could be a first round playoff matchup.
Get excited now.
When they don't get a corrected test back the next day, they say to me "Hey, you lost my test!".
All the tests move a grand total of six and a half feet while they are in my possession.
There's nowhere for me to lose it.
But the blame comes so thick and fast. Teacher must have lost it. Teacher must have lied and there never was a quiz. This other kid must have stole it.
"MUST have"! Flesh out that scenario where someone is backed into a corner and has no choice but to steal your test, because your middle school math test is that important.
You've already burned the bridge where this might be a honest mistake.
So, it's too little too late when you come back a week later and sheepishly say "Oh, I found it in my backpack. Oops."
Now I like you less.
This same thing played out today with diabetes medicine. "One of the coaches left it on the bus, or somebody stole my personalized diabetes medication". Turns out she left it in our locker room.
Today's Photo:
Get excited now.
Monday, March 11, 2013
Wreck It! Fix It! Wreck It! Fix It!
March 6, 2013
Today's Photo:
Wreck It, Wreck-It Ralph
I was so excited for this movie to come out.
I'm so glad it was as good as I wanted it to be.
I watched it three times in a row tonight.
The guys that wrote this song are the same guys that did "Pac-Man Fever"
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