Hi LJ! I finally found something that's long-form enough for me to post on you, rather than twitter.  You feel like an old pair of gloves; I slip you right on and it's like I never threw you in the garbage in the hopes that the evidence wouldn't be found ( Read more... )

For those that don't see my twitter feed, Klaus the Baron von Spunkmeyer as Che Guevara.


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Ever wonder what it meant when Pandora said it chose a song for you because of it's, "Subtle use of Vocal Harmony," or the "Major Key Tonality?"  Now you can find out!  They have a really good music theory podcast.  Some interesting ones:
Gypsy Jazz, Reggae Ska Rocksteady and Dub, Drums Pt. II: Swing and Shuffle, Dissonance.

Secondly, I apologize for ( Read more... )

8 Months late, as per usual.  "lechaz"

We just got out of Xanadu at the La Jolla Playhouse. If you were to produce the living embodiment of camp, it would look exactly like this show. Favorite line:

"My three daughters!"

"The Sirens!"

"They never call."

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The Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme came up at dinner tonight.  I happen to be fairly well versed on the subject, mostly because I listen to NPR's Planet Money podcast.  If anyone is at all interested in how this guy lost 50 billion dollars in stakeholder value, I'd really recommend listening to this episode, and this one.  Your first clue as to how an ( Read more... )

If I were in the Lucha Libre, I would be a heel called El Snoozador.

I just finished Anathem by Neal Stephenson.  It's quite the book.  I still enjoyed Crypronomicon more, but this is right up there.  It's highly packed, if that makes sense, and breaks off occasionally for a mathematical proof of one kind or another (thoughtfully footnoted and included at the end, rather than in the main text) but the slow start ( Read more... )

I heard about this from an NPR story about the founders. (They're Israeli and Palestinian and do business over the walls via video-conferencing, etc.) It's the "Global Hosted Operating SysTem." Basically, this company will set up a VM for you that runs in a browser window. Press F11, and you've got a full-screen computing environment hosted ( Read more... )

Anyone ever heard of this? It's a technique whereby you deliberately blur out the region around the object of focus, making average-sized and big objects appear small. Here's a video of a monster truck rally, that you'd be excused for thinking was a Robot Chicken episode.

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Metal Heart from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.