February 2009
81 posts
January 2009
99 posts
The Price Is Wi-ght
Configuring a wireless network is actually just a lot of waiting and guessing. I’d be willing to bet that winners of The Price Is Right would be just as good setting up a network.
Cable PSA on Spike Feresten
Encounters at the End of the World
ckck:
If you only see one of this year’s Oscar-nominated documentaries, make sure it’s Werner Herzog’s wonderful film Encounters at the End of the World and not the wildly overrated and much hyped (as well as probable Oscar winner next month) Man on Wire. Herzog brings his unique sensibility, humor and narrating accent to the end of the world, Antarctica, where he in his own way captures its...
My God it's hot...
cardinalcave:
Hi everybody! It’s BRUTALLY hot in Melbourne today (like 115 degrees), but considering it was (or is) freezing back home, I can’t really complain. Australia has once again treated the Cardinals very well…two nights here in Melbourne to come, then on to New Zealand. Life is good, everyone’s happy…let’s go rock, B
And this is when you realize there is probably nothing greater in...
If the universe was found to be finite or infinite, either discovery would be...
– Christopher Hitchens (via) (via peterbaker)
We wanted to let you know that we recently had to pull down the Death Cab for...
– Youtube removes Death Cab For Cutie’s own music videos.
posting this because I used the text box to...
pork lo mein
fried rice
eggroll
hunan chicken and shrimp
fried rice
crab rangoon
It has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things - some celebrated...
– Barrack Obama, Inaugural Address
I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe and somebody...
– Richard Gere
2002 Foot in Mouth Award (Wikipedia)
Sean: just bought a man's chair
Sean: its brown. and bit more classy
Peter: have you sat and pondered yet?
Sean: i sat when i purchased it
Sean: didnt speak for three mins
Peter: no words
Sean: just thoughts
Sean: there were two chairs
Sean: one had a recliner
Sean: i shook my head
Peter: indeed
Sean: i want my feet planted firmly on the floor
Peter: only the proletariat need to recline
Peter: it's a form of submission
Halp wanted
Can someone with a PC laptop and/or a CRT monitor test something for me? It’ll take like a minute.
peter@yeahdu.de
Thank you.
Things I Don't Understand And Definitely Am Not...
thingsidontunderstandand:
My dream job, at one point, was to be a secretary at Saturday Night Live. Not on the show. In the office.
Today they had dived together to swim and Wynand had climbed back first. As he...
– Ayn Rand. The Fountainhead. (630)
Tumblr Theme Extras
kate-elizabeth:
petervidani:
This theme I’m working on has most of the bells and whistles included that I wouldn’t normally care about. Tags and reblog notes, for example, are things I don’t think really matter on the average tumblelog. Not for the way I blog, anyway.
Commenting goes beyond that, though. It’s not integrated into Tumblr, for good reason, and the alternatives are...
Adam Savage on Obsession (video) →
Adam Savage, Mythbusters co-host, tells a couple stories of his obsessions and why it’s the process and not the result he’s after.
Tumblr Theme Extras
This theme I’m working on has most of the bells and whistles included that I wouldn’t normally care about. Tags and reblog notes, for example, are things I don’t think really matter on the average tumblelog. Not for the way I blog, anyway.
Commenting goes beyond that, though. It’s not integrated into Tumblr, for good reason, and the alternatives are such colossal piles...
The group writes software this good because that’s how good it has to be....
– They Write the Right Stuff via GMSTR
Sort of dwarfs my CSS.
In Darfur, many people reportedly name their newborn children George Bush.
– Countries that will miss George Bush
Save Broadway - SNL