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Today: Music to feed Ari by!



I'm serious. The little dude really seems to like Belle & Sebastian (and similar artists).

D. Knuth and W. Wood, "The Potzrebie system of weights and measures," Mad Magazine, vol. 1, no. 33, pp. 36, June 1957.
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The most mindblowing article I've read this week (yes, moreso than SRFI 71) is an article in Variety. It's about a movie in early development, which means it's likely never to happen, but still. Apparently, Fox Studios has acquired the rights to and is planning to make a movie based on...

...The Sims. The video game. Yes, THAT video game. And ( Read more... )

Allison and I recently got into The Wire. Thank you, Netflix! We've seen all of season 1 and four episodes of season 2. It's remarkable to me that, despite people calling it the best show on TV, it may well be the best show on TV. Some things about that:

( under here, for the benefit of those who haven't seen it. )

last.fm is great. Just punch in your favorite artists, or download a plugin, and it'll give you a "custom radio station" that, because it uses collaborative filtering, is pretty good. I've found that the best work radio station is "similar artists to Animal Collective." (unless I'm feeling aggressive, in which case I pick McLusky.)



Enjoy!

I feel that I have a pretty good handle on the sex industry in this country. I mean, there's not much to understand: men pay women or other men for sex, or to dance provocatively, or whatever. Sometimes women are the clients, but I gather that's relatively rare. There are pimps, who are the exploitative businessmen behind it all, sometimes there ( Read more... )

All right, clearly I'm going to be posting lots of stories about the kid. I don't want to bore anyone, gross anyone out, or clutter anyone's friends page, so I'm creating an opt-in filter to hear kid stories. It won't all be about poop, but I'm calling it the poop filter as a warning: there will be poop ( Read more... )

Ari Alexander Fisher
Born January 2, 2008, 1:48 am
6 pounds, 6 ounces
18 inches


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* Discovery of the day: when the City of Boston declares a snow emergency at 1:30am, the police drive up and down Centre Street broadcasting a recording via megaphone as if the goddamn Red Army were invading ( Read more... )