November 2009
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Whew
For the first time in a month the Gators didn’t have me worried the whole game.
Plus we got to beat one of my favorite teams to beat.
Let’s hope Oregon can pull out the win against SoCal.
Chomp!
October 2009
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Sort by MAGIC
The Google Reader team added a new feature last week that allows you to sort feed items “by magic.”
It’s the only way I’ve been browsing my “All Items” feed for the past week, it’s phenomenal. It ranks items you’ll like based on your previous “likes” and items you’ve shared. It’ll get more accurate over time, too. I...
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“Breakfast, you should eat alone. Lunch, you should share with a friend. ...”
– Irina A. Dumitrescu
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Two Ghostland's in one October
We’re going to try to see Ghostland tonight in Orlando at the House of Blues. They’re playing as part of the “SoCo underCOVER” tour, where bands theoretically play all covers (we’ve read otherwise).
The show is free if you’ve signed up ahead of time. Just showing this special text message I’ve received at the door should get me in. We’ll see how...
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Dental work
Last week was my first trip to the dentist in who-knows-how-long, probably like 6 or 7 years, maybe more. I fear trips to that office like nothing else, even though I know it’s never as bad as my subconscious brain makes it out to be.
The cleaning wasn’t bad. X-rays revealed that I had three normal cavities and one gi-normous one that the doc thought would need a root canal (!).
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Amon Tobin - The Clean Up
Fun track from his...
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2D Boy » Pay-What-You-Want Birthday Sale Results →
For the first birthday of World of Goo, 2D Boy put the game on sale with one of them “name your own price” deals.
The results were interesting. They made a lot of money for a year old game, and they deserve all of it.
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James Cameron and “Avatar” →
The New Yorker profiles James Cameron.
I love what the man has done for cinematic technique and process, but I don’t think he’s the God of Cinema that many would have you believe.
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!!! - Bend Over Beethoven
These guys can write a...
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Mad about Mad Men →
Benjamin Schwarz has some very reasonable bones to pick with Mad Men.
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A Game of Thrones
I purchased a copy of George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones sometime back in college, upon recommendation from my dad, who had recently devoured the whole series. It sat there on my shelf for the previous 5 or 6 years, and a number of times I’d picked it up, read the first 20-30 pages, and put it down. Maybe I wasn’t ready for a big fantasy series, but mostly I just...
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Google Building Maker →
Google has released a fancy new online drawing tool for digitizing in 3D buildings for Google Earth.
You pick from a preset group of locations and it loads in oblique aerial photos (so you can see the shapes of the buildings and pull their 2D footprints into three dimensions.
(Demo video)
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Grizzly Bear - Knife (Girl Talk Remix)
Mashing...
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Austin City Limits 2009
We attended the Austin City Limits Music Festival a couple weeks ago. A fantastic weekend all-around. Austin is a lot of fun, the friends we have there are great hosts and a lot of fun, and the mudfest on Sunday sealed its unforgettable status.
(Here are some more videos recorded with our Flip Mino camera)
Here’s the list, in order of appearance, of artists we watched:
Medeski,...
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Dirty Harry opening title sequence →
I love this movie.
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Grandpa Carl’s Flying House: Up and Howl's Moving... →
Part of A House Next Door’s Pixar Week, Jonathan Pacheco finds similarities between Pixar’s Up and Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle:
“Many similarities between the two stick out to anyone with a pair of eyes. Each film features a spectacular traveling domicile that houses an old, old, protagonist. Beyond the protagonist, Up’s principal characters and their designs...
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Ghostland Observatory - The Band Marches On.
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