Aug
25
The plain bagel - alone
Left behind by its lonesome
Like that rapture book
chrishitchcock.com
Not really sure what this site is about. Links get posted here, maybe some pictures. Maybe some original content every once in a while.
Aug
22
“I’m gonna write a letter to my true love
I’m gonna sign my name
Like a patient on a table
I wanna walk again gonna move through the pain”
I’m gonna sign my name
Like a patient on a table
I wanna walk again gonna move through the pain”
— Arcade Fire, We Used To Wait.
If you haven’t picked up The Suburbs yet, you should.
Aug
20
The start-up from hell
Working as a co-op in a tool & die factory through college exposed me to the world of machining. If I didn’t take that position (I almost didn’t since it didn’t sound exciting to 18 year-old me), I can’t imagine how I ever would have been exposed to that world. I’m glad I did. CNC machining involves a whole set of processes and constraints that I find interesting.
This story by Jacques Mattheij is both a cautionary tale of working at a start-up and a behind the scenes look at how a company built a low-priced CNC lathe in the late 1980s.
I enjoyed this quote from the end of the article:
… in spite of the idiotic situations the lesson that I took home from it (besides the obvious business ones, they helped me a lot in later years) was that no matter how tricky a technical problem there is always a solution, even if you’re working on the wrong platform in a crazily constrained environment
(via Hacker News)
Phew, I’m glad they cleared that up…
(image from The Daily Dish)
Aug
18
“What I’d like you to do is to reflect upon the sudden controversy over the construction of a mosque and community center near Ground Zero. Forget about the merits of the issue. Is it good for your agenda that this is suddenly the most controversial matter in America? Doesn’t it worry you when the public conversation shifts into culture war territory, where right-of-center politicians can garner votes and support without having to address the issues you ostensibly care about most”
Conor Friedersdorf, in a piece directed at Republican Voters.
Aug
13
“Why do we do it? Why do millions of us sit in front of these screens hitting the refresh button on news, tweets and status updates so we can inhale and regurgitate the latest news, quotes and updates on topics that have little or no connection to us? Why do we volunteer to spend our time in the same way as assembly-line journalists who are being jack-hammered into a state of frantic fatigue? What good does this leg-tapping, red-eyed web obession do for us?”
Tweetage Wasteland
Aug
6
I saw him doing this while I was mowing the lawn, but he stopped as soon as I pulled my phone out. It took about two minutes before he started biting at the butterfly again. I did a quick edit in iMovie on my iPhone to shorten this up.
Aug
4
This kanyewestnewyorkertweets meme makes me think of the old Seinfeld episode “The Cartoon” where Elaine is stumped by a New Yorker cartoon and ends up getting to make her own.
Jul
23
PBR + NPR
Jul
19
“When we have concerts [at Third Man Records headquarters in Nashville], we don’t allow people to film and take photos. That’s not about not letting people have a memento, that’s about: how sick are you of watching people in the crowd not looking at the stage? They’re watching a tiny little TV screen in their hand instead of watching what’s really going on in life.”
Jack White in an interview with Spinner Canada
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