Monthly Archive for January, 2009
I’ve been really surprised by how much the children I know– friends, particular nieces– all below the age of 8 use the word “actually” constatntly and with confidence. Language Log gives you more than you ever wanted to know about actually.
One of the oddest statistics in the nation belongs to Syracuse forward/center Arinze Onuaku. He leads the nation in field-goal percentage, but that hasn’t translated to success from the line. Onuaku entered Wednesday’s game with St. John’s shooting twice as well from the floor .706 as he was from the foul line .353.
via Rivals.com College Basketball – Washington’s Thomas emerges to power Huskies.
I must see pictures of this place.
The Dude who made muxtape muxtaped yr flickr. See: activitystory.
via MeFi.
…is how I was singing The Cure’s Fire In Cairo in the shower this morning, for some reason.
I’m really loving this deluxe edition of the Three Imaginary Boys album (which came out forever ago), I think it has jumped ahead of Head on the Door as my favorite Cure album. The extras on the 2-disc set are pretty good, but mainly I’m just happy about how crisp it all sounds… much better than my flimsy old Austrailian vinyl copy.
Dig those dancing Boston teens.
NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell
Kelly and I recently re-watched Summer of Sam, which I hadn’t seen since I before I ever moved to New York. That was a strange phase for Spike Lee, but a pretty good movie, I think, if a little too abrasive. Anyway, that plus watching Swingtown on Netflix has me once again devouring the 70s. Excited to see the P5 linked to this this morning. Great graphics. The Blackout clip is the must-see:
RIP Google notebook. I don’t know what I’m going to do with out you. I guess Have to try Zoho or something.
Official Google Notebook Blog: Stopping development on Google Notebook.
Amazon.com: Revol Pill PI001 Black and White Espresso Cups with Silicone Ring: Home & Garden.
Would go nicely with the stovetop Espresso maker I just bought with the Starbucks cards I got for leaving my old job.
Just sayin’. Let’s not overreact. We have a solid team.
Making some changes around here, narrow style. That second column was bumming me out. I made a page for all of that stuff, which I’m working on, and then I gotta redo the tumblr version of this CSS. Then all will be normal in Activitystory land.
More movies to report (still trying to think of a good way to score and post these):
My Kid Could Paint that (Amir Bar-Lev, 2007)
The Astronaut Farmer (Michael Polish, 2006)
Resident Evil: Extinction (Russell Mulcahy, 2008)
Heading to the Liverpool Public Library for more today.
In keeping with last year’s resolution to begin enjoying olives (which I accomplished!), this year, I’m planning to learn which olives I like, rather than just blindly trying them all. Also, Kelly and I have started that hundred pushups challenge, since we are both upper-body weaklings.
My three other resolutions: prune my RSS feeds down to about 200, collect everyone’s correct contact information, and keep track of all the books I read and movies I watch. As for the last one, here’s the list so far:
The Zenith Angle by Bruce Sterling.
If… (Lindsay Anderson, 1968)
The Luzhin Defence (Marlene Gorris, 2000)
Bobby (Emilio Estevez) Sucked!
Generation Kill (the 2008 Simon/Burns HBO Series)