Rose, Attempt No. 1
Half a blink is a wink, but two winks is not necessarily a blink. #
Elin and Zachary Cat
« And I can recall our caravel
A little wicker beetle shell
With four fine masts and lateen sails
Its bearings on Cair Paravel »
—Joanna Newsom from Bridges and Balloons on The Milk-Eyed Mender.
Today's hedonism level: 0.02 Caligulas and falling. #
Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox is a movie about...Dr. Bronner! Wth?
In the last five years, rather than developing new hobbies, I've been rotating through my established ones. Is that stagnation or matur ... #
bowman@subbuteo ~ % units -t 2438 units, 71 prefixes, 32 nonlinear units You have: 20 lbs You want: kg 9.0718474 You have: 20 lbs You want: stones 1.4285714 You have: 20 lbs You want: tons 0.01 You have: 20 lbs You want: ounces 320 You have: 20 lbs You want: resolutions Unknown unit 'resolutions'
The answer is 1.0, as in one New Year’s resolution down.
Maine winter
Early Lambs
Fujimoto's Escher steps origami pattern. Almost looks doable for mere mortals like me.
The most amazing renditon of Kawasaki's rose I've ever seen. The origami people on flickr make me feel silly with their awesomeness.
« You are what what you eat eats too. »
—Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food
Photos from perfectlymadebirds . Amusing.
The flying dreams stopped after the last faint spark of hope was squeezed out of me by this job. #
@CalebXanadu: But only Loki rolls the double Gygax, before adjourning to the drawing room for a snifter of brandy. #
There ought to be a word (not "regret") for the sudden, sinking realization that all of your current misfortune is all you own damn fault. #
finger bowman
The shocking results:
[snip...] Project: Become a leading expert of Roquefort cheeses. Plan: Attain a hedonism level of 0.70 Caligulas.
twitter is the new finger (a bedtime story for little hackers)
(Rated: +3, Good) Second Shift, Season Two, Episode Seven Just when I thought the whole thing had come to a grinding halt and we had another Claybourne or Hayward Sanitarium on our hands, it’s back with original music and some great tavern scenes. Hooray!
For CFS sufferers: Pride is that glimmer of your formerly healthy self driving you to destruction; sometimes it masquerades as hope. #
Sorry for flooding the metavore. :( #
(Rated: +4, Great)Dogs in the Vineyard
So apparently while I wasn’t looking story-games grew up and got all serious and good. This is an amazing game. And, yeah, I know I’m pretty late coming to this party.
I would like to participate in a biathlon consisting of snowshoeing and crossbow shooting. #
Hezbollah Tofu is on a mission to "veganize" Anthony Bourdain recipes (via Post Punk Kitchen). Hilarious.
Julie Collins Rousseau -- seems like the natural successor to Edward Gorey, but even better (via Drawn.ca).
If your pee is red, do not panic before recalling the last time you ate beets. If that time is more than two days ago, go ahead and panic. #
Puerto Rico
Eat Wild, "your source for safe, healthy, natural and nutritious grass-fed beef, lamb, goats, bison, poultry, pork, dairy and other wild edibles."
« Gary Gygax died last week and the universe did not collapse. This surprises me a little bit, because he built it. »
—Adam Rogers in the New York Times
origami via blender, python and randomness by luis de bethencourt on flickr.
Productivity is what happens when procrastination fails you. #
Yoga is the process of identifying all of the atrophying components of your body and making them hurt. #
AIM
- eclipsic: Oh, but wait, I forgot you were a Luddite.
- mazirian: Right, I use an old typewriter to type these messages onto letters, which I send by pneumatic tube to a parrot that reads them aloud, whereupon speech recognition software digitizes and sends them to you via AIM.
- eclipsic: So you’re not only a Luddite, but a direct descendant of Rube Goldberg, too?
San Juan
Ticket to Ride: Märklin Edition
AIM
- mazirian: [Gary Gygax died this morning.]
- eclipsic: NO WAY!
- eclipsic: seriously?
- mazirian: Yeah.
- eclipsic: He finally botched that “get up in the morning” roll
Realization: The exercise of self-restraint can be its own reward. #
#!/bin/bash gnuplot << EOF set terminal png small size 290,200 \ xffffff x000000 x404040 x0000ff set output "weight.png" set autoscale set xtic auto set ytic auto set title "New Year's Resolution." set key off set xlabel "Ordinal Date" set ylabel "Weight (lbs.)" set xdata time set timefmt "%Y-%m-%d" set format x "%j" set yrange [150:200] set xrange ["2008-02-06":"2008-04-30"] plot "~/tmp/weightplot/weight.dat" using 1:2 with lines EOF mv ~/tmp/weightplot/weight.png ~/www/mazirian.com/htdocs/files/
Click through to see the shocking results …
The Charms of Wikipedia, wherein Nicholson Baker makes reference to 'Ultraman' and the 'power reverter ray.'
Carcassonne: Hunters and Gatherers
Amazon.com's Digital Downloads now supports linux. Yay! Finally. Too bad it's a blob though.
Realization (obvious): Garnering the respect of your children has very little to do with giving them what they ask for. #
« Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. »
—Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food