December 2008
25 posts
AGH! Weird people would use Twitter msgs like that as dropping a hint for presents. FRIENDS: DO NOT CONSTRUE SAID TWEET AS HINT. Thank you.
New Andrew Bird album releases on my birthday. Very nice coincidence.
So long, San Diego. Best vacation ever. (weird)
Would rather stand in the long line at the concession stand than listen to the cranked-to-11 pre-movie ads/infotainment. And I abhor lines.
Dear Colin Meloy: Sorry, but you’re wrong. “Dracula’s Daughter” is an awesome song.
Xmas feast = consumed, family = gathered, thanks = given. Tryptophan has made sleeping logs of everyone, so back to work on the website! :)
Man. Am I lucky.
Battles - Atlas
“Mirrored” came out a long time ago, but I haven’t stopped listening to it, and I just found this AWESOME video, so, yeah.
Write off my MWSF badge cost and move my flight to June? Was planning on WWDC ‘09 anyway … .
Project Management Lingo Bingo →
Play along at home I mean work
Love how the word “discography” in one’s vocabulary no longer connotes “dude w/ a lot of records” but “dude who wields a BitTorrent client”.
It’s officially <0 deg F in Denver. Went out to move car (a 1-2 min. operation) and nearly lost my fingers. Rethinking my weather strategy.
Caffeine Addiction (n.) : 1. when the contents of your espresso machine’s drip tray look *almost* good enough to drink.
Extending the hackathon to all hours in an attempt to test a prototype in the Rockies before I head home to the desert next week.
heatofthemoment.asia →
Might be the best “single serving site” I have ever seen.
North Face! The competitors are getting bigger and bigger … @marston says to toss ‘bows. Toss them indeed.
the making of: Costco →
Via Kottke, some excellent prose on Costco’s consumer vortex:
So we go to Costco for lunch and formula Friday, my dad, the kids and I, and it’s a flatscreen frenzy. Like Rodney King-grade looting frenzy; every cart has a flatscreen and a bale of toilet paper, and I’m like, I have a flatscreen I don’t even watch, and yet I want another one. I couldn’t fit that box in...
Um. Something tells me that this video game doesn’t have the Sigur Ros soundtrack its commercial does. Also: WTF?