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…
Feb 1st
Maybe she should go with the name Taylor $wift.
Feb 1st
January 2010
Is Lost The Button? →
Shared by Jake 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…
Jan 31st
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….
Jan 31st
About to watch episode 10 of Lost season 1. Realizing I will definitely not make it through the whole season before Tuesday’s premiere.
Jan 31st
A Timeline of the 'Lost' Universe -... →
Shared by Jake 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…
Jan 31st
Obama at the House GOP Retreat →
Shared by Jake “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…
Jan 31st
Metagames and Containers – Sleepover →
Shared by Jake 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…
Jan 31st
Metagames and Containers. It’s a thing you might like reading. http://bit.ly/bY9H4I
Jan 31st
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…
Jan 31st
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Weird scene at Stetson’s. Very weird.
Jan 31st
Pretty sure Google Reader bases its update frequency on the number of readers for each blog. This explains why it updates mine bi-annually.
Jan 31st
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…
Jan 30th
Today I have had brunch, read some of Anathem, bought some wine (from 2007—fancy!), and watched/blogged a bunch of Lost episodes. #radical
Jan 30th
Getting that brunch itch.
Jan 30th
My Friday in @foursquare destinations got better and better: Nooshi -> Mackey’s -> Cafe Japone -> Dahlak -> Ben’s Next Door.
Jan 30th
New strategy: unfollowing anyone who tweets more than 30 times a day. Bye, Ebert—still love your blog!
Jan 30th
IPad vs. Kindle. Who Wins? →
Shared by Jake 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…
Jan 30th
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…
Jan 30th
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…
Jan 30th
Must See TV →
Shared by Jake 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…
Jan 29th
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…
Jan 29th
Watch The First Four Minutes of "Lost"... →
Shared by Jake 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…
Jan 29th
RT @azizansari: Video: What Paul said. Amen. paulscheer: http://bit.ly/czWBol // the bear destroys everything. Amazing.
Jan 29th
Nexus One experiencing nationwide data outage? →
Shared by Jake ~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)…
Jan 29th
Biggest Full Moon of the Year is Tonight →
Shared by Jake 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…
Jan 29th
QUOTE: Men don’t like appliances. We want things t →
Shared by Jake 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…
Jan 29th
Took the blogroll off my blog (also redesigned my blog). Hope nobody’s offended but the blogroll just seems like an anachronism now.
Jan 29th
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…
Jan 29th
Hello World →
hey guys, I have a new blog theme that looks almost exactly like the old one! what do you think?
Jan 29th
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…
Jan 29th
That said, there’s no reason why his vision of future computing must include such restrictive control over our filez.
Jan 29th
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 …
Jan 29th
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.
Jan 29th
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…
Jan 29th
How It's Done: News Reporting →
Shared by Jake Dowdy Kitchen Man is the best. ACCURACY IS EVERYTHING in news reporting. And even more so in making fun of news reporting.
Jan 29th
RT @jasalone: I just became the mayor of American Apparel on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/4owO28 // kill yourself
Jan 29th
Population Surge Leads to Micro-Apartments... →
Shared by Jake 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…
Jan 28th
Bad day for bananafish.
Jan 28th
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
Jan 28th
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…
Jan 28th
Next Stop in D.C.: Birch & Barley and... →
Shared by Jake 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…
Jan 28th
Saw someone with a pin that said “stop greed”. Good luck with that.
Jan 28th
I Just Remembered Chris Matthews Was White →
Shared by Jake 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…
Jan 28th
Entire Lost canon on Hulu →
Shared by Jake 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…
Jan 28th
Elliott.
Jan 28th
Radical: RJD2 samples Elliot Smith in his song “Ghostwriter”: http://bit.ly/aFrjZ9 Who knew? (Elliot Smith song: http://bit.ly/awbfi9).
Jan 28th
RT @dcsportsbog: The Caps could forfeit every game between now and March 6 and still remain in first place.
Jan 28th
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….
Jan 28th
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…
Jan 28th