February 2010
Lost: Episodes 12-14 →
You know what’s up:
Episode 12 (Whatever the Case May Be) Kate wanders around in the jungle. She thinks she’s getting followed. She throws a rock. It’s Sawyer! He was following her hoping she’d…
Maybe she should go with the name Taylor $wift.
January 2010
Is Lost The Button? →
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That frustration doesn’t go away, but by the end of the 3rd season they start answering some questions (and introducing plenty more, of course). And they do throw viewers a bone…
Lost: Episodes 9-11. →
More Lost stuff coming up:
Episode 9 (Solitary) These bullet points are getting a bit long. I may skip some stuff from now on. FYI.
Sayid sits on the beach looking at pictures of his lady….
About to watch episode 10 of Lost season 1. Realizing I will definitely not make it through the whole season before Tuesday’s premiere.
A Timeline of the 'Lost' Universe -... →
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Oh boy! An interactive feature on Lost!
Because “Lost,” which begins its final season on Feb. 2, can get awfully confusing, we’ve arranged some major events of the show’s first five…
Obama at the House GOP Retreat →
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“I debated policy with Mike Pence once and the guy is a stone-cold idiot.” That’s a certified burn.
I only caught the tail end of it, but just now Barack Obama made an appearance…
Metagames and Containers – Sleepover →
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This is an interesting read. It’s basically about how we measure our achievements in various activities not just based on the predefined goals but also based on goals that we define…
Metagames and Containers. It’s a thing you might like reading. http://bit.ly/bY9H4I
Project Alpha 06 →
As promised, here we have another cut off of Jaydiohead: “No Karma”. This one mixes “Karma Police“, off of the great OK Computer, with “No Hook“, off of the not-so-great American…
Weird scene at Stetson’s. Very weird.
Pretty sure Google Reader bases its update frequency on the number of readers for each blog. This explains why it updates mine bi-annually.
Lost: Episodes 6-8 →
More Lost spoilers and sarcastic observations after the jump:
Episode 6 (House of the Rising Sun) Hmm, I wonder what this episode will be about! Kate asks about Jack’s tattoo, he…
Today I have had brunch, read some of Anathem, bought some wine (from 2007—fancy!), and watched/blogged a bunch of Lost episodes. #radical
Getting that brunch itch.
My Friday in @foursquare destinations got better and better: Nooshi -> Mackey’s -> Cafe Japone -> Dahlak -> Ben’s Next Door.
New strategy: unfollowing anyone who tweets more than 30 times a day. Bye, Ebert—still love your blog!
IPad vs. Kindle. Who Wins? →
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Here is what I think will happen: the Kindle will end up being sold for $120.
Steve Jobs said Wednesday that while Amazon has gone a great job with the Kindle, Apple plans to…
Lost: Episodes 3-5 →
Bullet points on episodes 3-5 of Lost, Season 1, coming up after the jump (yes, spoilers).
Episode 3 (Tabula Rasa)
Sawyer’s got the nicknames going already. Freckles, Abdul, some other ones…
Project Alpha 05 →
Yesterday we looked at a Kanye/Radiohead mashup. Today we reach the next link in the chain: Radiohead/Jay-Z. This song (and tomorrow’s as well) comes from the Jaydiohead album, which is exactly…
Must See TV →
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26 minutes in, I’m enjoying this.
Haven’t been posting because I’ve been watching Obama at the House GOP retreat. I don’t know what to say yet, because I’m not done watching. I…
Tinkerer’s Sunset →
When DVD Jon was arrested after breaking the CSS encryption algorithm, he was charged with “unauthorized computer trespassing.” That led his lawyers to ask the obvious question, “On whose…
Watch The First Four Minutes of "Lost"... →
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Not watching this. Not happy that there are already spoilers 5 days before the premiere. The world is a jerk.
Buckle your seatbelts, because the first four minutes of the new…
RT @azizansari: Video: What Paul said. Amen. paulscheer: http://bit.ly/czWBol // the bear destroys everything. Amazing.
Nexus One experiencing nationwide data outage? →
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~sticking with Verizon~
Well, Happy Friday to you, too! We’ve been inundated with tips from perturbed Nexus One users across the country (and even in Puerto Rico)…
Biggest Full Moon of the Year is Tonight →
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Big deal. Pandora has a bunch of bigger moons all the time.
Image of 2008 Perigee Moon by philliefan99
This post might be pointless if the sky doesn’t clear up, but…
QUOTE: Men don’t like appliances. We want things t →
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Now this is complete nonsense.
Men don’t like appliances. We want things that can do lots of different things, that we can tweak and fiddle with, and then argue with each other…
Took the blogroll off my blog (also redesigned my blog). Hope nobody’s offended but the blogroll just seems like an anachronism now.
I need to talk to you about computers. I’ve been... →
I need to talk to you about computers. I’ve been on a veritable roller-coaster of “how I feel” about the iPad announcement, and trying not to write about it until I had at least an inkling of what…
Hello World →
hey guys, I have a new blog theme that looks almost exactly like the old one! what do you think?
Lost: Pilot →
I hear that Season 6 of Lost is going to circle back to a lot of stuff that happened in Season 1. To prepare for this, therefore, I plan to watch some (all?) of those episodes before the premiere…
That said, there’s no reason why his vision of future computing must include such restrictive control over our filez.
RT @bradweikel: just learned that Firefox doesn’t support H.264 b/c of $5m licensing fee. WTF? Some rich techie should buy out the paten …
I’m persuaded by @stevenf’s blog post that those of us discomfited by the iPad are dinosaurs: http://bit.ly/cukfUN We’ll get over it.
Project Alpha 04 →
All right, folks, now that the preliminaries are out of the way, we can get to the business of listening to some good music. The next song is a mashup of a Radiohead song and a Kanye West song…
How It's Done: News Reporting →
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Dowdy Kitchen Man is the best.
ACCURACY IS EVERYTHING in news reporting. And even more so in making fun of news reporting.
RT @jasalone: I just became the mayor of American Apparel on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/4owO28 // kill yourself
Population Surge Leads to Micro-Apartments... →
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Sounds awesome.
We’ve seen it in sf books and movies before — the urban dystopia where living space has shrunk to almost nothing to house a teeming humanity. Now it seems to be…
Bad day for bananafish.
Best thing about BGR: if you ask for your burger medium rare you will actually get a medium rare burger. Actually, mine was rare. #bacteria
The Problem with the Apple iPad →
Yesterday, Steve Jobs worked his charm, attempting to wow the world with the Apple iPad, a new, super-slim computer he touted as the missing link between iPhones and laptops. It’s an undeniably…
Next Stop in D.C.: Birch & Barley and... →
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Good writeup; awkward photo of Greg.
[Flickr: Daquella manera] Birch & Barley and its upstairs beer-centric bar, Churchkey, opened near Logan Circle just last fall…
Saw someone with a pin that said “stop greed”. Good luck with that.
I Just Remembered Chris Matthews Was White →
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This is a really great, insightful post. I wonder if it misinterprets Matthews a bit, however (note: I haven’t read Matthews’s clarification yet). Not sure I can explain what I…
Entire Lost canon on Hulu →
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I’m thinking about rewatching a few season 1 episodes over the weekend.
All 101 episodes of Lost are available on Hulu right now (US only). The season premiere is in 5…
Elliott.
Radical: RJD2 samples Elliot Smith in his song “Ghostwriter”: http://bit.ly/aFrjZ9 Who knew? (Elliot Smith song: http://bit.ly/awbfi9).
RT @dcsportsbog: The Caps could forfeit every game between now and March 6 and still remain in first place.
Netflix CEO Answers Analyst Questions During... →
During the Netflix Q4 earnings webcast, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings answered questions from the analysts:
When asked about the iPhone:
We haven’t yet done or submitted an iPhone application….
Project Alpha 03 →
Okay, now we’ve had a mashup and a remix. It’s time to explore the magical world of the cover song. Now, there are two ways to completely screw up a cover—one way is to do a version that…