Duncan has a rich imagination. He’s always naming his toys fun names. He’s playing with cousin Ben’s rubber snakes and named both of them: Degas and Nuno. I’ll google the names later.
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Here’s the completed shed, or at least as complete as it’ll get until the roof is done and I can convince one of my truck drivin’ friends to haul me some 5/8-minus. Yay! Bloody brilliant! Star Wars: Retold by someone who has never seen it. Shed, big enough to banish a young boy in case he needs it. I couldn’t resist. When asked if I wanted to see this book in a Kindle edition, I had to say “yes”. “We’ve had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren’t going to lay off people, that we’d taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place — [...] StateStats: Allows one to enter search terms and see which demographics correlate. Fascinating. 10 Lesser-Known Saints: St. Thomas of the Superfluous Ear Hair St. Jchn the Bpptist, patron of cheap designer knockoffs St. Jackie of the Indeterminate Gender St. Street of the Easily Mistaken Directions Sts. Tommy K and the Badger of the Hott 93.5 Morning Madhouse St. Lucifer the Going Through A Phase To Annoy His Parents [...] Wow. William Tell. At least it didn’t end up like William S. Burroughs’ wife. via Dark Roasted Blend: Bullet Proof Wife I’d never thought of it before, but the silhouette on the Wyoming license plate of a bronco rider is actually based on a real person. Albert “Stubby” Farlow (1886-1953) was born with short legs, but made his mark as a bronco rider, at least long enough to get his image plastered on every Wyoman’s car. [...]
Confession of an economic hit man via Cowboy Books
Best. Dessert. Evar. I can’t decide if they’re being serious or seriously ironic, but this recipe appeared in a cookbook that Jill’s mom had on her shelf. Someone seriously sat down and created this dessert, took a picture of it, and published it for real in a book of banana recipes.I can’t even imagine [...] PaperForms Acoustic Wall Tile I want to do up my office in this. There are some other designs there on their site, but I like this best. On his part, my father could never believe in something as comic as an ephemeral old man who lives on a cloud and whom — after a brief burst of creative creationism in his early twenties — has been spending the last six thousand years of his early retirement kookily obsessing about where and how [...] Jakey lost his second tooth today, so the tooth fairy is going to visit tonight. If I stay up late I may see her, too! I’ll get pix. Jakey’s very own endorsement for the Seattle Storm. wall-e : The script from Wall-E. I follow along while I watch, it helps because I don’t understand robot-speak. The Effects of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and other docs at Truman Library. I wish this had an OCR’ed version of the text… I’m mostly off work this Thanksgiving week, and as is the tradition around these parts, most of the rest of the company is off, too. Either for real or “Working From Home”, as opposed to, say, “Living at Work”. But I digress… This week is project week. I built a kitty escape hatch so the [...] Pictures of Numbers : A great reference for how to display information in ways that are intuitively obvious to the viewer. Clean, concise visualization is a treat.
marco: daisymay: kate-elizabeth: YES. YES. YES. !!!!! YEAH! Thank you America, you done well!! Oh yeah!!!! That acceptance speech was gold. What a brilliant man! What may not be readily apparent, is these are the original actors who did the original “Wassup”. Awesome! What qualifies a given director as an artist? http://www.artfagcity.com/2008/10/09/8-top-music-videos-made-by-artists-the-classics/ http://www.andrewgrant.org/2008/03/30/how-to-sync-an-iphone-with-two-or-more-computers.html Vote Obama : McCain lacks the character and temperament to be president. And Palin is simply a disgrace. – By Christopher Hitchens – Slate Magazine Create an Inspirational Vector Political Poster just like Shepard Fairey. [ Do you realize how many different ways there are to spell Shepard? ] Physical Security Maxims: Apropos, considering the work I’m doing on the network infrastructure.
Laser Wash Permanently Closed Funny sign I passed by today. Of course it begs the question as to what happened to require them to close the laser wash permanently. Did it freak out and slice off someone’s hand? Who’d have turned a laser up that high? And how the heck did it ever get [...] Umbrella Today? : Here. You can check it yourself and then you can txt me if I need an umbrella. What Your Global Neighbors Are Buying – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com : This is a series of charts worthy of Tufte.
Bridge complete! Standing on the bridge are the directors, organizers, and instructors, from left to right: Alexandra Morosco; Nathen Blackwell; Russ Beardsley; Peter Attila Andrusko; Patrick McAfee; John Fisher; Scott Hackney; Keith Phillips; David P. Miller; Sabah al Dhaher; RIch Hestekind; Bobby Watt. The arch barrel approaches completeness
Stone Bridge This is one of the projects we’re working on at Stonefest’08. This will be a drystone bridge with a four foot arch. The stones leading up to the bridge are a limestone and a dream to work with. The stones in the arch are utter crap: they split lengthwise when you don’t [...]
THIS was Punky Brewster? [via Dwyer & Michaels :: 2Dorks.com] This thing arrived in a Happy Meal(tm) today. Are you kidding me that no one thought this was a little too throbbing gristle for McD’s? DFL : Ya gotta love the DFL list. Even moreso that the people keep trying. I mean, if I got ALL THE WAY to the Olympics, I wouldn’t give up no matter how badly I was doing. That’s the true Olympic spirit.
Double-Taker (Snout) This thing is so cute, I want to have one. SongMeanings : Finally, someone put this together. Now I can know who Howard the Duck was hanging with when he stayed. 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony : I watched the opening ceremony on TV, but my reception was lousy… the pics here do a great job of getting up close and detailed views into the ceremony. I hope they publish more. Wow! He just went from kid to teenager.  2008.08.04 07:22 |  Uncategorized |  Arrested Development (2009) : Back from the dead? I spent the day with my mother today, which meant a lot of walking the boys to and from camp, preschool, daycare, and naps, and in between browsing the local farmers market. It was there that I spied these massive berries — Williamettes, I was told — that were tasty and cheap. Since that morning [...]
MobileMe Loses Contacts If you use MobileMe, stay away from the contacts app in the web interface. I mean, you could probably look up a contact or two in there, but don’t use it to do anything serious, like, edit. You run the risk of losing all your edits and even entire contacts, too. [...] Srsly, why are programmers so lazy? If you’re coding up a web site that is collecting credit card numbers, why does your expiration date dropdown include the years 2003-2007? You’re not going to accept anything that’s earlier than this year, so why put it there? If Judge Judy was around in the 70′s would we have seen Sid opposite? Some years ago – never mind how long precisely – having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. Apple has a lot of work to get MobileMe working as advertised. Little, if anything, works as flawlessly and quickly as their video overview would have you believe. MailRarely, if ever, syncs the state of the messages. I read messages on my iPhone, but the read status doesn’t get to the mac. The web app [...]
Now that is Subtle! Moreso than the “Pointers and Setters” I recall from Le Pissoir Publique at the Double Hex.
Jake just took another art step today (after having drawn 3D last month). He drew shadows coming off of real objects. This is even without the benefit of sun to help. This one is the lawnmower. Normally I’d consider this “cheating”, but I imagine there are some applications for this that just aren’t possible with normal (manual) carving. At $1899 it brings CNC into the realm of possibility for the average joe… but like anything that makes it easy for the average joe to get into areas that were normally [...] from Shouts and Murmurs, by Simon Rich, who also has a whole book out called “Free-Range Chickens”
The Rolling Bridge and other Heatherwick Designs I read about this in the New Yorker, and was so interested in the description that I had to look for an actual photo of it. And so… True, true. http://msftextrememakeover.blogspot.com/2008/06/eight-years-of-wrongness.html marco sez: It’s 93 degrees outside. I’m comfortably sitting inside, with air conditioning, drinking hot coffee from the roaster downstairs. I love my life. So that’s where the hot is. It’s sure not in Seattle. 50 degree days are the norm lately, peaking around 60. I suppose it’s the global warming and all, weather starts [...] Sync iPhone with Google : Wowee. Just in time for Mobile Me. Using Truecrypt to Encrypt Your Entire Hard Drive : Now that Customs is hot on getting access to computers that go across borders, this is a fun and flexible way to crypt your entire disk. Steganography for Dummies : Given my line of work now, things like this are of more than a passing interest. The ECC Blog : Every now and then TradeMark G shows up in my inbox, and he’s always interesting. Nice hair, Mark! Benjamin Bratt For Terahertz Computing Hackintosh : Now if Apple would stop being such pussies about other hardware platforms, we could see Windows and OSX compete on merits alone. jakoblodwick: It seems like most Tumblr users are Mac people. But there must be some PC/Windows Tumblrs out there. If you are a Windows user, can you explain why in a reblog? … In my case, [...] I soon enjoyed being a computer user without needing to be a computer expert anymore. Not [...] Surgical Necessity? Instead of a knee surgery this woman instead got installed a prosthetic anus. Wait, what? Photoshop Disasters : Hilarious, in some cases. How not to photoshop things. It’s the best thing since, well, I don’t know what they had before this… Puzzlin’ Evidence : Here’s a fun “Olla Podrida PLEXUS Puzzle”. Our rescue cat, Spike, has grown from a skinny, scrawny little runt into a massive tabby/tiger that can nearly suffocate me when she crawls onto my chest while I’m laying down. In the winter, she’s taken to growing an extra belly that flops from side to side whenever she runs… it’s quite mesmerizing, really, to [...] If Osama’s only 6 degrees away, why can’t we find him? TagCrowd : Saving off this little nugget so I can tagcrowd my next test spec. Surprise Scrabble Gram : If you’re having trouble decoding, start with ‘B’
I’ve mentioned Scotch a few times, and figured now I’d throw this link to the Caol Ila Distillery up here. This scotch is unique in my mind because it’s got a really peaty, earthy aroma, but the taste is clean and fresh, almost disappearing as soon as it hits my mouth. Compare and contrast [...] Darwin on the Origin of Species : The Atlantic finally opened its archives, and this gem really stood out for me for a number of reasons: 1) it’s a primary source, being the immediate reaction to Darwin’s work in the time and mindset of the people of the day, and 2) it’s so well written [...] The whole family, with Bear. Taj and Lola the Wonder Poodle: Family : Hey, I think I know these people! Free Programming Tips are Worth Every Penny. : Awesome thoughts about coding that everyone should read, at least, everyone that codes. And tests. |
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