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Choose Your Own Adventure, visualized.

patrick — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:38:02 +0000

cyoa.

Everytime I see CYOA as an acronym, I think of teaching i312. Man, I miss that.

Rhythmic wires to hypnotize

patrick — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:56:13 +0000

A Google Image Search for “core memory” returns page after page of patterny awesomeness. Just sayin.

Documentation of Complete Publications in PDF form

patrick — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:58:02 +0000

Great random archive at public collectors. Lots of art, design, and punk rock stuff. Many fully scanned works, like the sweet Dome Book below, as well as some more disembodied art projects.

Documentation of Complete Publications in PDF form.

via ManyStuff.org

Cool workspace evolution graphic

patrick — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:43:44 +0000

Evolution of Office Spaces Reflects Changing Attitudes Toward Work.

Graph paper napkins

patrick — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:03:53 +0000

For the Trei in all of us..

iTunes as a card catalog.

patrick — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:49:25 +0000

Tim Schwartz – Card Catalog. via info aesthetics.

That syncopated boogie-boo

patrick — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:22:12 +0000

A bunch of early 20th Century cylinder recordings are now available from the Belfer Audio Archive at SU, including this one:
boo.

2 Universities’ Plagiarism Policies Look a Lot Alike – Chronicle.com

patrick — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:46:29 +0000

oops.

No more google notebook

patrick — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:36:50 +0000

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.

Jimmy V; Joe Jackson; some news.

patrick — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:56:31 +0000

Kelly and I headed to Madison Square Garden last night to see both Davidson and UT win their games in the Jimmy V classic. Both games were great (especially Stephen Curry’s last few minutes against West Virginia) and got me excited for our next couple of months. UT played Villanova, who seemed to really lose their way in the last 10 minutes of the game. The crowd was mostly rowdy Nova fans, many of whom were incredibly drunk– I saw more fighting in the crowd than at any other sporting event (or rock show!) than I’ve ever been to. Our section of Texas Exes was pelted with ice and drinks as we ended the game with “The Eyes Of Texas,” and I can’t say I didn’t enjoy it a little bit when a bigger Texas fan dropped one of the worst offending Villanova idiots on his head in a particularly vicious altercation. This is, I guess, why beer is only sold at off-campus NCAA events. Ugh.

I just hope that the behavior of the Villanova fans is not typical of the Big East– we’ll be at a lot of BE conference games, hopefully, once we move to our new home in Syracuse next month. That’s right, we’re moving: I accepted a job at Syracuse University right before Thanksgiving. I’m really looking forward to it, and we’re heading up there this weekend to find an initial place to stay. I’ll start in early January.

Somewhat unrelatedly, on my way to the Garden to meet Kelly last night, I listened to this week’s The Moth podcast, which featured my hero Joe Jackson telling a story about his early days playing in pubs (a bit of the story is also in his great memoir, A Cure for Gravity). Thanks to J for making sure I didn’t miss it! I bring this up, because I keep meaning to post my top 10 or so albums for 2008… Joe’s Rain is definitely on that list.