February 2009
16 posts
Everything Christopher Hitchens Does Is News →
Especially getting beat up by militants in Beirut for defacing a political poster. Fascinating.
In secret, we ALL scopin' low-fi porn on our... →
Achewood makes me ache good.
"The I.T. Guy" →
So true. But we live to serve. Or, as I prefer to say, our motto is “Who Dares, Wins.” ;-)
“The other thing I always say about Alaskans is, once you make a friend in...”
– Pete Rouse, “Senior Obama adviser with deep Alaska roots”
“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice,...”
– Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut (or Yogi Berra, or Chuck Reid)
: Dow 7,555.63 +3.03 (0.04%)
: how long ago was it that someone published a book titled something like "dow at 30,000"?
: well we were about half way there this time last year
: they are all saying it is going to drop more tomorrow then rally friday
to about here
: just have to wait it out
: I suppose the basic idiot-proof strategy is just to keep saving/investing a portion of income regardless
: that is what I'm doing.
: the more i buy when it is low, the more shares my $$ can get
: I was thinking about it the other day
: i put in the same amount regardless
: so i end up buying more shares
: if it takes 15 years for the economy/market to get back to where we were, and we're buying now, we'll see a pretty big boost
: but for 10 or so of those years, it'll look ugly
: and I'm young enough for it not to matter unless the economy collapses for good and we are all out eating tree bark and planting rocks
: herbertj++ HAHA I'll plant rocks with you anytime
: but YOU have to harvest and peel 'em
“I personally would like to just lock the browser teams from Microsoft, Mozilla,...”
– Eric Meyer, “Wanted: Layout System”
Яolcats →
Better than lolcats! I would click again and again.
"The Sound That Wakes Me at Night, Thinking of It" →
Well, today started kind of ugly but it has now been redeemed by the miracle of good art. Thank you, Slate.
Here’s another one, also from Slate: “Why does Hollywood take our favorite novels and turn them into crap?”
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“We have a burning instinct for life and yet we know, ultimately, that we will...”
– Vaughn at Mind Hacks, in a post about “Love and Immortality”. Maybe those poets aren’t so crazy after all.
Update: serendipitously enough, gods of music shuffling were playing Moby’s “Run On” while I was reading the article and posting this quote. The...
“For being off the grid, without TV, internet, or books, the Amish are...”
– Kevin Kelly, in a fascinating article, “Amish Hackers”. Well worth the read. (H/t to kottke, of course.) Possibly the best critique I’ve ever read of the technophilia of the information age.
As an aside, the article’s opening reference to “luddites” as...
WatchMount Hood, Highway 35 Time Lapse on Vimeo (via Vimeo): “A time lapse shot while waiting for the ski area lights to turn off so I could shoot some star trails.
One 10 second exposure every 20 seconds or so, for a few hours.
Lots going on with the cars driving by, the stars moving, planes though the sky, and even snow cats grooming at the ski area (in the beginning its the wormlike looking...