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Faster Roger! Write! Write!
And don't miss the Austin Chronicle's Marrit Ingman.
Some random opening lines:
Hollywood sure loves to teach magnificent bastards the true meaning of Christmas, and The Family Man is this week's lesson, sweeter than an intravenous glycogen drip and roughly as invasive.
Napoleon Dynamite (Heder) is a teenage dork. Not a hey-let’s-put-glasses-on-Rachael-Leigh-Cook kind of teenage dork, but a unicorn-lovin’, lip-balmin’... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by nonmyopicdave
at 12:39 PM on April 2, 2008
MeFi post:
Freedom's just another word for never getting paid
The members of Prehensile Monkey Tailed Skink (Bulb Records 7" is out of print) went on to form The Monkey Power Trio which has a few hours of free MP3s on their site. I should say "our site" as this is a complete and utter self-link that I'm hoping is kosher.
We just finished doing interviews and providing outtakes for an upcoming 4 hour special on KFJC, which appears to stream even more music of this ilk if it strikes your fancy.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by nonmyopicdave
at 5:12 PM on March 25, 2008
MeFi post:
A road is a road is a road
It's like having a bunch of kids all lost in London, but with a walkie talkie. You can broadcast the same 'word' to all of them, and if they follow it, they all end up in Leicester Square at exactly the same time. Spooky.
Mornington Crescent!
posted to MetaFilter by nonmyopicdave
at 9:20 AM on March 21, 2008
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Bike boxes in Portland Intersections
I wonder if there will have to be some marketing so that people understand what the "bike box" is for and how to use them.
Yes. A friend of mine in marketing was hired by the city to do it. We knocked around a few ideas the other day. "Think: out of the box" was the obvious slogan. Got a better one? Post it and I'll pass it along.
posted to MetaFilter by nonmyopicdave
at 10:57 PM on January 11, 2008
MeFi post:
The tall blond gal with one great song.
Barbara Mandrell may be a great steel picker, but she's certainly not playing live in that second link.
posted to MetaFilter by nonmyopicdave
at 5:51 AM on June 5, 2007
Uh, nonmyopicdave, all due respect, but you need to get your eyes checked
Is "myopicdave" taken? You're right. The sync must've been off or something. Maybe Youtube wasn't fully awake yet. This morning it looked totally faked to me.
...and nice post. I'm enjoying the Dusty stuff!
posted to MetaFilter by nonmyopicdave
at 9:50 AM on June 5, 2007
MeFi post:
The Elegant Spork
Every mythic hero normally has an equally mythic weapon. Zeus had his thunderbolts. Thor had his hammer, Mjolnir. King Arthur had his Excalibur. Frodo and Bilbo had their Sting. Rhydderch Hael had his Dyrnwyn. King Kong had his bananas…you get the idea. It's time for you to join the ranks of the heroes and heroines of lore as you wield your own legendary weapon in your battle against a very powerful foe: hunger.
posted to MetaFilter by nonmyopicdave
at 9:58 AM on May 7, 2007
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"Pregnant in America." Oh, my.
His wife pregnant, first-time filmmaker Steve Buonaugurio sets out to create a film that will expose the underside of the U.S. childbirth industry and help end its neglectful exploitation of pregnancy and birth.
"Hmm... 'underbelly' is a distracting pun here in our serious and dramatic message. Hand me the thesaurus, would ya?"
posted to MetaFilter by nonmyopicdave
at 9:33 AM on May 5, 2007
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Did it matter, like really matter?
It matters.
The other day I was walking in the park and there was a solo tenor sax player playing. As I approached across a long field, I started to get pissed off. He was practicing. Bepop. Starting and stopping lines. Meandering around scales. At that point it became noise pollution and I considered him extremely rude to be subjecting us all to this.
Did he relaly think people liked hearing him jack around (off) on his instrument!? For god's... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by nonmyopicdave
at 3:54 PM on April 7, 2007
MeFi post:
Raymond Scott dot com
I rediscovered him (first discovery was Sat. AM cartoons!) a few years ago. My band used his tunes as break music at parties and weddings we'd play. I'm a pro jazz musician and I'd say I never play a gig of any length without quoting something from Raymond Scott in a solo somewhere. My child- and adult-hood experiences of his music have permantently etched his stuff in my brain.
posted to MetaFilter by nonmyopicdave
at 11:05 AM on March 10, 2007
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Impossible Watch?
My take on it is that the image has an Escher-thing going on.
The furthest element out of the page is the second hand, right? Then the minute hand. Then the hour hand. Then the striped platform in the middle. Go to 7:30. Here you have a striped platform at the same level. Keep going and you slide down the bevel to the 'face' level.
So you're hanging out at the face level on the 8 and you look due north and say, "hey, I want to check out that... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by nonmyopicdave
at 11:54 PM on November 14, 2006
Paris Hilton and WoWgmr72 have it. In those images, it appears to me that the face simply has a graphic design that suggests an impossible geometry.
Sorry Randi. Next!
posted to MetaFilter by nonmyopicdave
at 9:18 AM on November 15, 2006
MeFi post:
Fire In the Hole
I couldn't see the video, but the audio was great.
Why do I like those damn Steely Dan songs so much!?
posted to MetaFilter by nonmyopicdave
at 9:49 PM on October 24, 2006
MeFi post:
end of an era
One tip: Don't send Christgau your CD to review, then call him up at home and ask if he listened to it yet.
He'll tell you he was a warehouse full of CDs he never listens to and then hang up on you.
posted to MetaFilter by nonmyopicdave
at 7:34 AM on September 2, 2006
MeFi post:
Tap Extravaganza
While touring with a swing band during the 90's revival I met and played for one of the Nicholas brothers. What do you say to the guy!? I just said something like, "Thanks for all of the great work."
posted to MetaFilter by nonmyopicdave
at 11:46 PM on August 21, 2006
MeFi post:
A giant girl
The vocal sample in the music is from the intro to "It Amazes Me" as performed by Blossom Dearie. It makes it extra creepy hear that tune warped like that.
posted to MetaFilter by nonmyopicdave
at 8:21 PM on June 25, 2006
MeFi post:
Thank God for .net & .org
While on paternity leave I'm taking the time to teach myself how to build a web app. I decided to build a gift registry system since I threw up a makeshift one before our baby was born and it worked great. I've been playing the domain name brainstorming game for a few weeks now. It's tough. The best I have so far is a play on a word I made up for someone who loves gifts: "giftophile". Since you create a "file" with your gift requests, I made it "giftofile.com". I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by nonmyopicdave
at 5:30 PM on April 14, 2006
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OMG PONIES!!!
OK. So, like, you set up 48 terrariums, 3 groups of 16 each that contain different animals, 1 of which in each group contains a kitten (with its legs amputated so it can't jump out--OK, maybe you leave one leg on so it can move around a little so as not to be static and a target for a probabalistic binary image match) and you have a web cam on each animal. Every log-in triggers a web cam shot of all of the animals and the user has to pick out the 3 legged kittens in 3 successive 4x4 grids. That... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by nonmyopicdave
at 4:20 PM on April 7, 2006
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I won't grow up and you can't MAKE me!
This hits pretty close to home for me. Everything but the gear and designer stuff. I buy my jeans for $2.99 at Value Village.
I'm 36. Don't shave. I have nothing but jeans and t-shirts in my dresser and closet. I play basketball 3 times a week for a few hours at noon during the weekdays. Ski or snowboard whenever. I played in a band full time for most of my twenties. Now I'm a freelance techie. Have a 5 week old son with whom I have attended the local Mommy Matinee... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by nonmyopicdave
at 6:55 PM on March 28, 2006
MeFi post:
Claude A Allen
$5000 in theft? What about the human trafficking charge he should face according to the NYT article writers John Files and Robert Pear. The man traded his wife and some cash for a house!
County records show that Mr. Allen bought his home in October 2005 for $958,300, along with his wife, Jannese.
posted to MetaFilter by nonmyopicdave
at 12:52 PM on March 11, 2006
MeFi post:
faster - a flickr game
I won without looking at a single image!
(It's hackable)
Someone else figured this out and played a few perfect scoring games with the name "YouAllSuck". I named myself as follows and YAS dropped out after a few rounds of my name showing up on top next to his or hers.
I'm off now, and the cheater has gone away. So go ahead kids, it's safe to play for now.
posted to MetaFilter by nonmyopicdave
at 8:15 PM on January 25, 2006
Scottreynen,
I posted the pic above noting that I had hacked the game. I didn't know the creator of the site was here in the thread, but I'm glad you are so I can give you props for the concept and the execution. I looked over your code, of course, to be able to grab the answer in advance. Nice programming and a great game!
Dave
posted to MetaFilter by nonmyopicdave
at 5:40 PM on January 26, 2006
MeFi post:
Bed Design Kills
95% of _________ is about making someone else (clients, your boss) richer... and making a little bit of scratch for yourself along the way.
boy, that sounds jaded... but it's true, and I'm pretty comfortable with it. I just get uncomfortable about all the gladhanding that goes on.
I'm putting that on a t-shirt. I'll make millions! Cusack, whip me up a layout with an everyman/underachiver font and the hippest indie/slacker colors!
posted to MetaFilter by nonmyopicdave
at 5:57 PM on October 25, 2005
MeFi post:
live mash-ups
If you're in or around Portland, OR, USA, you can hear live mash-ups every Wednesday at Dante's by these guys:
http://www.stormlarge.com/ (NSFW)
The lead singer has some amazing pipes.
Disclaimer: I subbed on bass with them last night.
posted to MetaFilter by nonmyopicdave
at 4:31 PM on May 20, 2005
