Congrats - TIME Magazine voted you "Person of the Year"! What's your acceptance speech?
"This is all Carl's fault."
Stupid hack idea: a local script that pulls currently playing from one of your friends last.fm profiles and updates your IM status with what they're listening to. Have it update in real time for that creepy simulcast effect ("OMIGOD, we're listening to the same stuff"), or have it pull from the friends' playlist archive at random to leech off their coolness ("yeah, I'm into <cool hip band> too") or fake a shared interest for other purposes ("I can't believe we're both into <cool hip band>; we should get together some time").
A Diet Coke, a cigarette, an arched eyebrow, a bit of gossip, a good helping of advice, an inside joke, a copy of the record you have to hear, a pointer to the artist you have to know about, an introduction to the person you must meet, a story you just can't believe.
Leslie Harpold made everyone who knew her better. And we're all in her debt.
An explosion of post-its on super-Beau's desk this weekend.
I finished The Blind Side this weekend, and the only television I watched was football. The Michigan / Ohio State game was all nickel-and-dime offense (IMHO), and the chapters on how Bill Walsh and the Montana-era 49ers changed football were very instructive. Plus, as much as the television would let me I'd be watching the left tackles to see just how big / strong / fast / atheltic they were.
There's so much richness in the book. Malcolm Gladwell wrote this on his blog...
The degree of difficulty on telling the story of Michael Oher was really really high. Trust me. It was. It was all that I could think of when I was reading the book. And if you don't believe me, just try writing an emotionally moving. full-length account of an essentially pathologically shy, inarticulate teenager.
Thanks to Garth's recommendation, I'm now reading The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. So far it's very different from both the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chronicle of Narnia. Which is good.
They were lined up at the metreon this morning...have to assume it's for the new playstation...
in honor of the new paperback edition of infinite jest (via jason), here are the statistically improbably phrases from the book:
improbably deformed, howling fantods, entertainment cartridge, annular fusion, feral hamsters, dawn drills, tough nun, prochain train, professional conversationalist, spontaneous dissemination, new bong, metro boston, tennis academy, red leather coat, appropriation artist, red beanie, addicted man, magnetic video, little rotter, littler kids, technical interview, police lock, veiled girl, sober time, oral narcotics
note to self: re-read this someday.
What's on your Top 5 video games list?
Submitted by mileena.
1) Tempest: all time favorite. When I'm rich and famous I'm going to buy a Tempest arcade machine, since having the wheel is really the only way to play it.
2) That cartridge that Anil stuck in my GameBoy Micro and made me lose three months of my commute. The one with all those little micro three second games that come one after the other? It was awesome.
3) Riven! Grad school was all about Riven. (Is that what it was called? It was the one that was after Myst and had like four-hundred CDs.) It was more engaging than finance and macro.
4) Ms. Pac-Man. The place where my kids get their hair cut has a Ms. Pac-Man game. I catch up on my waka-waka when we're there.
5) The blogosphere! It's a game, right?
Before caterina and i do our schtick for the israel web tour group.
