I was listening to some of the tracks while downloading the torrent, and I realized that I've had What to Watch When the War Is on TV on my playlist for a while. I don't remember where I found it, but I'm glad I found the rest of the album. I'm definitely going to have to spend some time listening and reading the book.
posted to MetaFilter by finrod at 7:39 PM on March 20, 2008

As a wannabe cartoonist, watching these videos makes me want to kill myself sometimes.

I used to use a light grey to do a rough sketch to get all the placements and posing right before going over it in black. Then a few months ago, I saw another Meredith Gran video which inspired to try blue for the sketch, and ended up liking it a lot better. I think effword is right about the contrast between the colors.

Here's an interesting history of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by finrod at 10:25 PM on March 14, 2008

I've actually been trying to figure out how to do this in Windows for a while. This is the script I use to sort pictures into folders by date on an Ubuntu Linux system, but I haven't found a similar way to get photos and read EXIF data from the command line in Windows. I can try to see if I can get it to work through Cygwin, but ideally it would be a lot easier than that.
posted to Ask Metafilter by finrod at 10:32 PM on January 12, 2008

If anyone wants postcards from SoCal, email's in the profile.
posted to MetaFilter by finrod at 3:32 PM on December 19, 2007

These are great. I'm an American studying abroad in London, and I think the tube announcements are going to be one of the things that stick with me the most. (Yeah, I smile going home every day when I hear Cockfosters.)
posted to MetaFilter by finrod at 2:07 AM on November 27, 2007

Dresden Codak has beautiful art. I really want to buy a print of the Summer Dream Job strip.
posted to MetaFilter by finrod at 5:42 AM on November 23, 2007