Posted in Photography (mine) on Oct 25th, 2008
I went to check out a bunch of spiders at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum. I was hoping there’d be a bit more variety/color, and I kind of wish I hadn’t just sold my macro lens, but you can see a few spider pictures. It was kind of a fun Halloween type of thing [...]
Posted in Other Media on Oct 24th, 2008
For the past 11 months, I’ve been listening to The Sound of Young America podcasts. Today, I finally made my way to the end of their back-catalog of archived episodes. That’s 256 episodes in 11 months. Assuming 30 minutes per episode that’s more than 128 hours, and that’s a pretty conservative estimate since many of [...]
Posted in Other Media on Oct 22nd, 2008
John Hodgman’s talk at TED, A brief digression on matters of lost time, is brilliantly funny. I didn’t even realize it until I had watched the video, but I have got to find myself a young, female Dune fan who will abduct me and fly me away to a sex pyramid.
Posted in General on Oct 20th, 2008
Jump ahead to 2:30 in this skateboard video. That is crazy.