A legend died last night. It's getting buried under significantly less important news.

The NY Times wrote a very nice obituary. I could quote parts of it here, but they did such a nice job, it's better to just read the whole thing ( Read more... )

here is my analysis of this whole stupid smith business, from only ever reading CNN headlines and not any actual reporting. I didn't want to waste the time reading stories, but you can't avoid the headlines, and for some reason I found myself trying to figure out why it's so damn important to require 'round the clock reporting. (I can't wait for ( Read more... )

Hey I'm flying to San Fransisco in a couple of hours ( Read more... )

As I sit here slugging back my large cup of IntelligentsiA, served black, I'd like to bring you the adventures of Mr. Coffee Nerves. A mascot and ad campaign lost to the Orphange of Cast-Off Mascots. Lost just like the maids Kwik and Eezy. Although, personally I would think two maids with those names could get quite a bit of attention today in a ( Read more... )

These are incredible videos. Trailers for fictitious movies that are the antithesis of the movies they are cut from.

The Shining, but happy:
http://www.ps260.com/molly/SHINING%20FINAL.mov

The preacher of Brokeback Mountain:
http://www.ps260.com/molly/BROKEBACK%20WIP%2013.mov

The fast and the curious??:
http://www.ps260.com/molly/FURIOUS%20FINAL ( Read more... )

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, but I didn't imagine it would really be possible to have yourself mummified.

Hey, I have a lot of DVDs I want to watch - well 2 tv series (what's the plural of series?) actually, Firefly and Mission Impossible (season 1 - of the real TV show, not those bull shit movies they produced that happen to have the same name but otherwise nothing in common with Mission Impossible ( Read more... )

Does anyone know where my combination lock is? I need to go to the gym and can't find it... I remember a couple weeks ago seeing it somewhere it "didn't belong", but now I can't remember where that was...

Well, Mayor Daley got elected again, for the 6th time! beating his father's record of 5 times. If he's a crook, well, he's our crook ( Read more... )

I just heard about Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" and it sounds really good, I'd like to see it.

I also recently heard about "Cargo Cults". What an interesting phenenomenon. I immediately made the analogy to cargo cult programming, but sigh, as with most of my ideas that I really like, the term had been coined long before I thought of it.