Lunch pasta

May 18, 2008
  • Obama stylewatch: he wears Burberry suits, apparently. Dude, if you’re going to skip the J. Press route, why not go all out and rock Dior Homme?
  • Paul Graham: I have a second computer for using the internet because I’m addicted to it yet need it for work, like an alcoholic wine critic. I used to have a separate account that was just for the web I’d flip over to with OS X’s fast user switching - it became too onerous, but I still think it’s kind of a good idea.
  • GasLight frequency spectrum visualizer for iTunes - simple but pretty and it runs fast.
  • I just added Douglas Wolk’s Reading Comics to my Amazon wishlist and noticed that it’s available for Kindle download for $10. If I had a Kindle, I surely would have just downloaded it. I get why people aren’t into Amazon’s whole closed hardware DRM can’t-lend-it-to-a-friend-or-resell-it thing but I actually thing the social good of not using paper and burning fuel for delivery outweighs that. So bring me a refreshed Kindle for $300 and I’m sold.
  • Can anyone ID this chair? I’m way into it:
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Takashi Murakami “Mr. Wink”

May 17, 2008

FINALLY MINE. I had a chance to buy a small Murakami painting in 2000 for $800; turning that down was the worst financial mistake of my life. I understand if you dislike him or aren’t into the factory aspect or whatever, but art is personal and I’ve always liked this piece in particular. Click to enlarge!

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Acquisitions tomorrow

May 16, 2008
  • Hey, should I buy a house in Queens?
  • Awesome Fallout 3 concept art, via BoingBoing Gadgets. I’ve posted about Fallout before - it’s one of my most anticipated PS3 titles - but now there’s this whole steampunk thread which seems to be growing in popularity since 1974 or whenever The Difference Engine came out (okay, 1990). My take: steampunk is total reactionary bullshit. But Fallout is still going to be rad.
  • I’m totally buying one of these utilikeys.
  • Poem: Sweeney among the Nightingales.
  • Song: Sebastien Tellier, Look. We talked about Eurovision already. This is a solid album. I think there’s an Air connection?
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Go get married if you’ve been waiting, right?

May 15, 2008
  • Unaired 30 Rock pilot with Rachel Dratch as Jenna, torrent. I just love television so much.
  • Insane auction results from Sotheby’s - Takashi Murakami’s My Lonesome Cowboy sold for FIFTEEN POINT ONE MILLION DOLLARS. It’s part of an EDITION! What the fuck, anonymous bidder?!
  • Song: John Otway & The Wild Will Barrett, Really Free. Kind of like a Buzzcocks song sung by an older Sid from Skins with a little noodle-y wah-wah-wah tossed in.

  • Destroy the binary
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Custom

May 15, 2008
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Not much

May 13, 2008
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Quickly

May 12, 2008
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It’s already morning

May 10, 2008
  • Totally fun story of the week: an interview with the staff of Yujin’s planning department. Yujin is a Japanese company that makes toys in little plastic bubbles you get out of vending machines (in Japan).
  • Song of the day: Daliah Lavi, Vielleicht schon Morgen, the source vocal for Jürgen Paape’s So Weit Wie Noch Nie, which you know from Erlend Oye’s deathless DJ Kicks volume. (Sendspace link via ILM)
  • Amazing video from 1997 of Kaws putting up the bus shelter pieces that made him famous - he replaced the MTA locks with his own! (via SlamXhype)
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Finally finished my polish, with mah partner

May 8, 2008
  • Slow internet news day plus I’m running on not much sleep and shitty Chinese food. Emynd’s “Rock Creek Park” remix is keeping me going, however - COP THAT BOUNCE
  • Speaking of music, crazy sampling potential in tonight’s Grey’s Anatomy. I’m going to sample the shit out of that episode. (You don’t like my lifestyle, fuck you)
  • Movies: War, Inc…I don’t know, man. Either too much Brazil or not nearly enough. Mark Leyner co-wrote, interestingly.
  • Video games: I still don’t have GTA4 - tomorrow, tomorrow - but is it sad that I know the most open, immersive environment ever created is only going to be a warm-up for the time commitment I’m going to make to Etrian Odyssey II? Etrian Odyssey 1 was like…learning a real-world trade. Like instead of playing that game, I could have acquired the entire skill set of an apprentice lithographer or shoemaker or something. It was totally worth it, no regrets.
  • Dream kitchen:

    “Alis, can you pass me that amphora of water?”
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Quiet day

May 7, 2008

Words cannot express how much I’m looking forward to the Mother 3 translation

maybe a screenshot will do it

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She’s Got Claws

May 6, 2008
  • As I write this, Obama has North Carolina and Indiana is still up for grabs. Dude, NOVEMBER. NOVEMBER.
  • Olinda update: How the design evolved
  • You know you’re in the nerdy part of town when…
  • If you’re looking for a free online eBay sniping tool, I hear Blazing Bid is solid. The founder frequents a message board I read. Ciao bene, eSnipe!
  • Song of the day: The Monks (Nice Legs, Shame About Her Face) & John Ford, I Can Do Anything You Like, a superficially racist…disco…dub…fiesta. If only all novelty songs were so bugged out. If you are very hip you may have previously downloaded this from Dream Chimney.
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Bad luck

May 5, 2008
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