June 2003
13 posts
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Target Practice
As a vegetarian, I’m against hunting. I’m not too happy about guns in general, but I don’t want to get into that at the moment. The problem with me being against hunting is that the first thing a hunting-advocate will say is that the deer population is too large for them to be able to survive, so allowing hunters to kill them actually helps them. Unless that is just not true, I...
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I find this pretty gross:
Octodogs
Octodogs. Why Octodogs?
> The Octodog brings fun to an ordinary hotdog and meal, watch how many interesting and unique ways children can find to eat Octodogs. Remember to get out the camera! Your photos can be used to win prizes in upcoming Octodog Contests! […] The hotdog is among the top ten items found in many lists concerning choking occurrences...
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Stolen Buttons
I’ve been playing around with the little buttons at the bottom of my left column for a few weeks now. I think they’re about how I want them to look. They’re inspired by the design from Antipixel.com but use some CSS from Notestips.com. I’m resisting the urge to put lots and lots of them up. Right now there are only three or four.
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Vanilla Coke
I think that the Coca-Cola wizards have changed the flavor to Vanilla Coke a little bit since last summer. I can’t decide if I like it better this way.
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Abbreviate
I just read a CNET announcement of Windows Mobile, a new operating system for handhelds and smartphones. After discussing the new version of CE, the author goes on to discuss some new PDAs coming out. At one point, he mentions that one of them “has 64MB of RAM (random access memory).” Now how useful is that parenthetical? If the reader doens’t know what RAM is, is explaining what...
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Thank you TiVo for allowing me to find out that Wet Hot American Summer is on Encore 6/28 at 10:40pm and again on 6/29 at 1:40am. Matt Thomas and I have been trying to find it in stores for over a week now.
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Still Life
I came to a realization just now when I found an article on TechTV about photo-based weblogs¹. The author links to three very cool pages: Slower.net, A Day in the Life, and The Mirror Project. They’re all well-designed pages filled with wonderful images. And that’s when it dawned on me: I don’t really care about still images. I’ve never been interested in museums, and often...
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When Things Just Work
Chris Dahl forwarded this along to me. It’s an astounding short film that British Honda made. No tricks, just a lot of preparation. It comes in at about two minutes long. Amazing. Give it a watch.
Also, I found this little bit of fun on Zeldman today. Just have fun, fly around, get punched by big guys and play guitar with an alien.
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Summer Movie Season
Weekend recap: Finding Nemo - great, The Matrix Reloaded - still great, Old School - still hilarious, The Boondock Saints - amazing (sequel’s on the way!). I’m getting probably a little too excited about The Hulk due to all of the over-promotion and neat color-changing Slurpee cups filled with yummy Mountain Dew Blue Shock. Then I realize that Ang Lee directed it, and I feel a little...
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I’m very much enjoying Enter the Matrix for my new Gamecube. It isn’t all that hard (being that your health replenishes really fast when you’re not getting hit), but I choose to play it at full speed and run straight at the cops while diving through the air in slow motion and blasting shot through the air. Also you can run on walls.
My refurbished TiVo Series 2 came today, but...
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DVR
As Katherine discovered this weekend, Comcast is piloting a TiVo-like Digital Video Recorder (DVR). After digging on their website for a while, she found this page that has lots of info on the service. She called the number and the cable people came the very next day to give them a new box and set up the service. It costs ten dollars a month and seems to be put together pretty well. It isn’t...
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Fear and Loathing in Sunnydale
Katherine returns tonight from the Tiger Cruise. Color me excited.
A package from my dad came yesterday containing a copy of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Dre, being a good pal, mentioned a few weeks ago that she had seen it in the bookstore and almost got it for me, but I told her that my dad had already ordered it so not to bother. (Thanks, anyways,...
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Over-Analysis
Never let someone tell you that you’re over-analyzing a literary work (films, paintings, video games, etc. included). For one, a good author intends every word and reference he writes (and sometimes even alludes to things he doesn’t outwardly know he knows). Secondly, something like this might just come out of it.
Aparently the makers of BMW Films peppered the short movies with lots...