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Draft 0 (unfinished) Just to make sure there was nothing horribly wrong with the general layout. The photo is of a couple of toy cars, that's been color matched to another photo, then converted to CMYK, then color shifted a couple ways (more yellow, more red) then shifted again, which set some green in the pavement, which I think looks nice. Thanks to AndyB72 for the photo; here's the photo I

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Haunting, and sad, but beautiful; especially so with Ravel's music. Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis, (Mon ami z'il est à la guerre) Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis Ont passé par ici. Le premier était plus bleu que ciel, (Mon ami z'il est à la guerre) Le second était couleur de neige, Le troisième rouge vermeil. Beaux oiselets du Paradis, (Mon ami z'il est à la guerre) Beaux oiselets du Paradis,

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Basic text layout, just to check, and hopefully get any corrections made before any of the other graphics get set around the text. This sort of thing really varies by poster. Sometimes the layout and text are really integral, and sometimes it's very flexible, or anywhere in between. There were only a couple minor changes to the text this time, and no trouble caused. First final draft. There

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These are the finals for the Daily Camera Ad. One color and one black and white. Simple Enough. Steven Isserlis - [Svyati #11] The Hidden Treasure

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Tonight I am empty inside. And the result: Accomplice Short a Crime I like thin soles, to feel the ground, and gusting wind, the howling sound of despair in the air, and cutting frowns; well I'm An accomplice, but there ain't no crime. I like the cold, when it burns my skin, and steals the numbing warmth within, so deep it's seeping, I'm left paper-thin; I'm just An accomplice,

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So I finally got pictures of my room, post painting. The colors came out quite well. The sage green is slightly darker than I anticipated, but still quite nice, and the blue, unfortunately, wasn't available in a quart of flat paint, so I ended up with a quart of Matte, which sounds the same but isn't. Slightly shiny. It's all right in the end. I'll make sure to keep an eye on that next time I

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So it's been a while since I've posted, and two weeks from the event, but I'm finally getting around to putting the pictures that Monica took of the Supper Club just-pre-thanksgiving festival dinner. Appetizers and soup. Pictured, starting left and going clockwise around the table, are Greg, Cassiope, Billy, Faye, Jessie, Alice, Ben, Me, and Grace. You'll notice the motley assortment of dishes

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They post, you decide. Via Boing Boing. Over a year ago on Boing Boing, I linked to this video from a guy who made a propeller-powered vehicle that he claimed could travel downwind faster than the wind. Some people think it was a hoax, and some don't. In Make Vol. 11, Charles Platt made a miniature model of the vehicle and came to the conclusion that there is no such thing as a wind-powered

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Via a post on Boing Boing, Sepideh Saremi [from the parsarts.com blog] has a post up about Colorado-based artist Tom Loughlin. His portraits of Iranians inside Iran are featured in an installation project currently traveling across the US, Pictures of You: Images from Iran. Pars Arts: The photos in Pictures of You are printed on translucent silk. You’ve written that the silk is intended to allow

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The current front-runner for worst holiday music is Marshals. Just thought you'd like to know.

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Irish Session, Sunday nights at Conor O'Neil's. As I was going over the far famed Kerry mountains I met with Captain Farrell and his money he was counting I first produced me pistol, and then drew forth me sabre, Sayin' Stand and deliver, for ye are a bold deceiver! Musha ring dumma do damma da Whack fall the daddy oh Whack fall the daddy oh There's whiskey in the jar! I counted out his money,

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Via Polymeme, an blurb on the New York Times Economix blog about ants and specialization: Adam Smith, in his famous pin factory description, wrote that labor specialization improves productivity. He should have specified which species he was referring to. A new paper finds that ants that specialize are no more productive than ants that don’t. The author, an evolutionary biologist at the

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A Project put together by a couple of German Cartographers, the Atlas of True Names attempts to produce a map of the world, substituting Place Names with glosses based on their etymological roots. It's a very clever idea, but in execution it enshrines some questionable notions of “truth.” The cartographers, Stephan Hormes and his wife Silke Peust, say they were inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien's maps

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I saw Helvetica on Saturday night after eating at Q's for First Bite Boulder, with Greg and Lillian, at his house. It is, as you may have guessed, a film about a typeface; but it's also a documentary about the origin and the attitudes that surround that typeface, both the emergence of modernism in design that gave rise to it, and the subsequent over-use and trivialization of Helvetica. I

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Tonight: Greg, Lillian, and I. Q's. Event: First Bite Boulder (Final Evening, sorry) Verdict: Mixed. For starters, it's a genuinely fancy restaurant, especially for Boulder. If you go, dress appropriately. This, actually, is really a bonus, because there aren't too many places left around here where dressing up really seems like at appropriate thing to do, and there are times (more often,

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It probably helped that I just came back from watching Helvetica with Greg and Lillian, but still, I did pretty well. Sara Newton's Fontastic Quiz Score: 80% (8 out of 10) The average was 57% over the span of 10,033 tries. Bitches! Of course, it was multiple choice, which I tend to be good at, and it had several clues to the answer scattered through the questions, so I'm sort of

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This morning I finished the first semi-draft of the soon-to-be-third movement of my Piano Suite, the Courante (to be followed, theoretically, by a Sarabande, and somewhat later, a Bourée). Semi draft because it's only a sketch, in terms of melody contours and the entire rhythmic layout. The only thing left to fill in are the note values—there's not a single actual pitch in the entire draft! Just

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For all the kids out there, a note on this previous Thursday (and it's 20° temperatures), and additionally a basic maths lesson: Cold + Biking + Asthma Susceptibility = Nearly Drowned Fish. There you go. You're welcome. I totally meant to publish this yesterday, but, with one thing and another… Petrassi, Goffredo - Estri // Solisti dl Teatromusica The Decemberists - [5 Songs #01] Oceanside The

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To: Monica (and everyone else, too) Re: Baroque Tuning While this article doesn't really go into the actual details of how the harpsichord is tuned (in modern historical performances, anyway), it at least talks somewhat about the tuning system—far more than Kozinn's discussion of the actual performance, which, for an alleged classical music review, is somewhat amusing. The latest solution,

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Tonight I managed to write some music for the first time in maybe a year and a half. Five measures of a Courante that will go in the Piano Suite that I didn't think was finished I sketched out, only the actual note values to fill in. Since that's probably a fifth to sixth of what I imagine the movement will end up as, that's a good start. Hopefully I'll plow on with in tomorrow. I'm so out of

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Why are you still here? I thought you were gone? Yeah, Fuck you guys too. Nice to see you, and have a nice life. Stravinsky, Igor - Renard // L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

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via BoingBoing: File under I love the human race: Improv Everywhere welcomes strangers arriving at JFK airport. (Via Laughing Squid) Welcome Back from ImprovEverywhere on Vimeo. Me too. Improv Everywhere makes me happy.

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Some more possible settings of William Carlos Williams: for Ruth or Sarah, perhaps: To A Solitary Disciple Rather notice, mon cher, that the moon is tilted above the point of the steeple than that its color is shell-pink. Rather observe that it is early morning than that the sky is smooth as a turquoise. Rather grasp how the dark converging lines of the steeple meet at the pinnacle—

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So the UChoir concert was last night, and, all-in-all, I think it went pretty well. We did several pieces as well as we'd ever done them, but I couldn't help noticing that it was a very short program (with speaking, clapping, walking about), ending less than an hour after our theoretical start time; it was probably only 40 or so actual minutes of music. As a couple people have mentioned to me,

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Pictured below are some frames that I tried on yesterday. They're expensive. Really expensive. Also, pretty cool. The temples are wood and acetate, layered (that's the clear strip you can see there), and the semi-rims are metal. If I somehow managed to find hundreds of dollars amazingly stashed under my mattress, and could therefore afford these, I would definitely not get the ivory colored

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Williams Carlos Williams, to set for Sorprano and anything but piano, but maybe including piano. From Al Que Quiere!, which I put on WikiSource a while ago (February): [skip to end] Chicory and Daisies. (Jackie?) I. Lift your flowers on bitter stems chickory! Lift them up out of the scorched ground! Bear no foliage but give yourself wholly to that! Strain under them you bitter stems that no

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On a different note, it's actually cold today, for the first time in maybe a month. It's almost like winter arrived, except that it's supposed to get back up to 60 or so in the next couple days; which is a lovely temperature, but isn't winter. We also got our first real snow down here last night. By the time I woke, it was nearly all melted, which shows how much there was. *sigh* The cold needs

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Why me? All right, I do love the internet, but it has an unfortunate tendency to expect everything to be there. Which, when I'm browsing for eyeglass frames, results me in finding a pair that I think is gorgeous and crisply designed, and would probably look quite good on me. If only the frames themselves weren't around $200. And, of course there's the probability that they'll either be too big,

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Man my life is strange. As Maddie pointed out on the way home from supper club, it does seem that I'm constantly around three or four women. It's not true, in the literal sense, but recently it's felt true. My friend Gillian was in town all this week, trying (and succeeding!) to rent her apartment for the next year, and it's been a long time since I've seen her or spent any time with her—since

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Heading home today, I passed a bunch of kids in t-shirts and shorts throwing a baseball around, and it's the middle of November. Something is wrong here, because they weren't actually underdressed; it's actually been that warm so far this winter. In other news, yesterday, or the Tuesday before, after reading some of the New York Times, I keep wondering why so many of the people in this world

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From Democracy Now, a letter read (and here transcribed) from Alice Walker to Barack Obama, passed on by my friend Tobin Shelton: Dear Brother Obama, You have no idea, really, of how profound this moment is for us. Us being the black people of the Southern United States. You think you know, because you are thoughtful, and you have studied our history. But seeing you deliver the torch so many

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I love this photo. Fashion Stylist/Fashion Model, photograph Also, from the same series: David Byrne, photograph There are some decidedly—to put in mildly—uncomfortable photos in this series as well as his work in general; if you look at all of them, be warned. There are also some strange, beautiful, moving, and magically ordinary portraits as well. I was continuing to look through his

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Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, November 10th, 2008:

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Warning: spoilers, but not too many. I'm currently reading Ursula K. Le Guin's City of Illusions,[amazon] a story set in a far-future North America, as part of her Hainish Cycle; Falk, the main character, as human an alien you'll find, perhaps excepting Heinlein's Valentine Michael Smith, traverses much of the continent, from the forests of Appalachia to the plateaus of UtahI think, could be

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New York Times: today; Op-Ed Contributor: Al Gore. I'm still frustrated with the NYTimes' supposed requirement to log in (though with the right link you can get it without being logged in) for some set of articles, which I haven't investigated too closely. Regardless, the entire text of Gore's opinion piece, A Climate for Change: [skip article] The inspiring and transformative choice by the

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Fantastic, affordable, and whimsical paintings by Annie Galvin. They're mixed media, paint and collage on paper, and most are 9″x11″, then(?) framed. I'm tempted to buy one, except that I have no job right now, and I just spent money on dry mounting a poster I got last christmas, and another for my birthday before that. Which means that I'll have some things hanging soon! Yay! It'll almost be

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Last night I hang out with my parents and some of my dad's extended family. One Great Aunt, and Great Uncle my marriage, their daughter, my first cousin once-removed, and her son, Jalen, my second cousin, who really likes questions of "who would beat who" among dinosaurs, icthyoids, fictional monsters, sharks both ancient and modern, and all other manner of pointy, serrated, or otherwise

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An editorial from the New York Times, copied from the International Herald Tribune, because NYTimes.com is saying I need to register to read it online, even though I read it two days ago in an actual paper. So little time, so much damage Here's a sobering reminder: As of Wednesday, George W. Bush still has 76 days left in the White House. And he's not wasting a minute. President Bush's aides

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Today: Got a new chain put on the new bike. $26 Decided to buy bike if I can get it for $120 or $125 instead of $150. Then return the old bike to my mom, because it actually fits her. Then I guess fix it up as a christmas present. Damn does it need it. Stress in choir. Kaptein freaking out and scaring the choir. Discussion of possibly cutting two of our three cool pieces. Supper Club, Jesse

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Last night was a great moment. A victory, and a chance to regain the good will of the world, which we've been sorely lacking recently. But we must, must, must hold Obama to the standards he has claimed for himself and for the United States. We must hold to the idealism that he evoked in us, and that he claimed for himself. We must hold, deep in our hearts, the will to sacrifice some of our

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The Fourth Episode of Spamasterpiece Theater, courtesy of BoingBoingTV and author, PC, and minor internet personality John Hodgman. True tale[s] of romance, adventure, infamy, and low-cost prescription drugs, all culled from the reams of actual, unsolicited emails, received here by us and people like you — what we call SPAM. Today's installment: V1V4 M3X1CO., in which we explore supply

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VOTE. This means you, not me. I just did. I know this will be everywhere, and it's a bandwagon I fully support. Unless you're an idiot. Then don't vote. You'll ruin it for the rest of us. Voting fun fact: Australia enforces compulsory voting, including compulsory enrolment (registration) to vote. Compulsory voting at referendums was introduced in 1915, but compulsory voting for federal

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Go through ballot. All twenty billion parts of it. Apply for jobs. Maybe get a couple posters dry-mounted. Try and find a box in which to keep letters, photos, and other things that I don't know what to do with. Move those things from one storage place to another. Make sure to eat, damnit. Thievery Corporation - [The Richest Man In Babylon #09] Exilio (Exile)

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Listening to another new CD that I bought last week or thereabouts. Because this post is solely about that CD, and to keep me posting, I'm going to stick in in the main body instead of the regular musiclist. Steven Isserlis [cello] - Svyati [music by John Tavener] Svyati // Kiev Chamber Choir This piece in gorgeous. For choir and cello, it is somewhat evocative of Arvo Pärt's Tintinabuli

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Kerry, your text exploded with fixed-width-ness. So I fixed it, here :) Post follows. WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD??? Plato: For the greater good. Aristotle: To fulfill its nature on the other side. Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability. Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but

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There is a lecture in Borges' Selected Non-Fiction entitled Blindness, partially about his experience going blind, and partially about anything else that crosses his mind; two of his statements affected me particularly. The first he uses to evoke the splendor, mystery, and excitement of entering the world of a new language, which I only ever experience singing; my sole experience with actually

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ugh. Parties always remind me of everything that I see wrong with me; my social inability to interact with even medium-sized groups of people; my propensity and low threshold for attraction; and often my standoffishness and difficulty with first impressions; all are magnified and dragged to the forefront of my consciousness when I'm at a party. The pressure to just run away is sometimes

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It matters, it doesn't matter; it's fantastic, it's terrible; I'm happy, I'm upset; I'm lonely, I'm content; it's me, it isn't me; it's you, it's not you; how could you?, how could you not?; expectations, no expectations; resignation, third-person joy; understanding, confusion; anguish, joy; all of these and more are dancing and swirling and fighting and loving within me, and it's my burden to

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Oi, I'm at the Trident, and I was going to write a sizable post about free speech, but instead I find that I'm not nearly as involved with it as I was last night, when I was reading the comments on this post late at night. I'll see what I can dredge up though. Prompted by this photo of a counter-protest of the Westboro Baptist Church, the comments thread at this BoingBoing post has run on

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And, more politics. Via Boing Boing, Anil Dash on Sarah Palin and Language. This is an excellent rhetorical analysis of the fear-mongering and hate-mongering in the Republican campaign, and while I desperately hope that he's overanalyzing Palin's emphasis of code-switching to speak directly to the segment of American society that might be inclined to personally do something about the connection

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Today, women are beautiful. Tomorrow, who knows, but I'll enjoy it while I have this peace of mind. I'm quite amused by the amount of attention that my I ♥ Girl Scout Camp gets. At least I have a good explanation so that it's not quite as creepy as it otherwise might be. I was at the Trident in line to get some more water (they should just put a pitcher out) and caught myself staring at this

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Oh My! What with moving and painting my room, and unpacking, and other things, I totally forgot to make the next Pendulum poster, which was due some time ago, unfortunately. So here's a hurried draft. I do like being able to use the same ID block for each poster though. It gives the poster some consistent weight across them all, and it gives me a nice way to set text up; it naturally structures

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The Third Episode of Spamasterpiece Theater, courtesy of BoingBoingTV and author, PC, and minor internet personality John Hodgman. True tale[s] of romance, adventure, infamy, and low-cost prescription drugs, all culled from the reams of actual, unsolicited emails, received here by us and people like you — what we call SPAM. Today's installment: The Stomatologist, in which we answer a

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a short essay from Selected Non-Fictions, by Jorge Louis Borges: L'Illusion Comique For pears of stupidity and shame, the methods of commercial advertising and of littérature pour concierges were applied to the governing of the Republic. Thus there were two histories: the criminal one, composed of jails, tortures, prostitutions, arsons, and deaths; and the theatrical one, tales and fables

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from Philippe Halsman: Dali Atomicus by Brandon Luhring (January 30, 2002) In 1948 A. F. Bucknell identified portraiture as the most lacking area in the entire realm of photography. He must have been overlooking the renowned work of 42 year-old Philippe Halsman, who created a masterpiece entitled “Dali Atomicus” the same year. … The surreal and hysterical photograph was immediately given a

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At the Trident. On the walk here, I passed by Trattoria on Pearl; there were two parties still eating there, at 9:30 on a Monday, and one of them was three or four people, I do not recall which, eating and drinking and, by all appearances, having a fantastic time; the other party was one older man, with gray hair, sitting in the far corner of the restaurant, and eating and drinking alone. I saw

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I'm pretty sure I need to see this. Also, if you happen to have Comcast (we have (I hear) the most basic of basic cable) on demand, and have noticed an unusual number of 80's ninja movies, Rob Beschizza of Boing Boing Gadgets has provided this handy flowchart, to simplify your ninja-movie-watching time. Of course, he has the flowchart all wrong. Ninja Terminator is not even close to the worst

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So I finished painting today. I'll post pictures no later than a week from now, since I'm waiting on Ruth to come take decent pictures for me. I don't have enough experience to make them look right. It looks good though, I did a pretty good job, and the colors turned out pretty much how I was expecting. The sage green was slightly darker than I was expecting, but I think it'll be fine. The brown

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I think we'll do this in reverse chronological order. First: Gwen Verdon (Fosse), Mexcan Breakfast Beyoncé, Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) Unfortunately, apparently Beyonce has requested that this video (I haven't checked any others) not be embeddable, so you'll have to go over to YouTube to watch the original. I recommend it, if only for the choreography comparison. Never mind,

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So, after having painted other people's rooms and houses for years now, I'm finally taking the first step to actually personalizing my own room: picking out colors. It turns out that this is quite a bit harder than giving opinions on other people's color choices, even when that comes out to something besides why yes, that's a lovely color, did you pick it out yourself? Fortunately I got to do

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My apologies for the somewhat offensive nature of this post, but this lady scares the shit out of me. Reminds me uncannily of a relative of mine, actually. via The Secular Outpost: Voting against your own economic interests is all right because God will take care of you? really? As a commenter there says: God will do what's right? Sure he will, just like he is helping you right now by allowing

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via Design Observer, an interview with Tara Donovan, an artist who until just now I have never heard of, but whose work, from what I've seen in this DO post, is really cool; a kind of minimalistic focus on texture in sculpture: Toothpicks, 2001, Ace Gallery Beverly Hills On October 10, 2008 the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, opened an exhibition spanning a decade of work by Tara

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IT IS WELL KNOWN THAT CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL.

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via BoingBoing: An explanation from the artist, Julian Voss-Andreae: [Angel of the West] was inspired by the striking similarity of the human antibody molecule (the key molecule in our immune system) in proportion and function as well: It has 'arms' that grab on to viruses etc. with hand-like region that are highly variable and fit perfectly for each new intruder. My idea was to use the

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A Personal Dualistic Construction I have discovered recently, or, perhaps, it came as a more striking realization, that not only do I, as most people do, conceive of the world in a dualistic fashion, but I tend to conceive of other people in the same strange fashion. It's not that I think there is a mind that exists outside the body; I don't. It's that sometimes my body seems a stranger to

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HOUSTON — For all the support that the presidential candidates are expressing for renewable energy, alternative energies like wind and solar are facing big new challenges because of the credit freeze and the plunge in oil and natural gas prices. As the above New York Times article goes on to say, the credit crunch caused by the burst of the housing bubble, the ensuing fallout leading to

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Yay! Yesterday morning I, with the help of my brother, moved into my new place with my friend Jeff and my hopefully soon-to-be-friend Sarah. My stuff is still scattered about my room, and will probably remain so for the next little while, or until I decide whether to paint or not. I'd sort of like to, but it'll be somewhat of a hassle, since all the furniture's already in. I can work around that

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What a fantastic idea. If I ever end up with decent wine glasses, and have people over regularly (crosses fingers), this would be perfect, and functional, and awesome besides. Being a nerd is a wonderful thing to be.

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Wee Planets Slideshow Wee Planets Flickr Set by gadl

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Here's an interesting article I found via Polymeme. Thankfully, this article pushes my buttons in the correct fashion by addressing the ridiculousness of the entire clean coal argument that both candidates have been pushing on the debate circuit. I have thought for some time now that the whole thing was ridiculous, and, finally, someone else agrees with me. Even at the Redfish, in Boulder, of

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Oh, and I just got a pair of these the other day at REI, to replace the vanished pair from last season, and they rock, as usual. The Army store in Boulder didn't have any, which is a shame.

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Riding in the silence of the night and the emergent brightness of the Full Moon, is one of the best things about living far from my daily life. The lantern-orange glow of the occasional distant streetlight is contrast enough for her Mate, spirit budding and bosom glowing in Summer's slow retreat, the winter trees disrobing. I will miss this ride every night. I totally had a poem starting in my

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The Debate, Vol. III Full Merits to Bob Schaffer for actually attempting to get the candidates to answer questions, and pointing out the serious problems with both of their budget proposals. Epic Fail to McCain for consistently advocating drilling in environmentally sensitive areas on the continental shelf as part of our energy independence strategy. Just because you keep saying something,

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j/k. Barber, Samuel - [Violin Concerto, Op 14; Souvenirs, Op 38; Piano Concerto, Op 38 #10] Piano Concerto I. Allegro appassionato

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Posted by Minister Cray Pippin Wang, October 13, 2008 7:20 AM This week, on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, BoingBoing Gadgets will be posting as Infomercia, a world of the Super-Conglomerate turned Government, where indiscriminate technological consumerism and promiscuous corporate partnerships have become the backbone of an oppressive, Orwellian dystopia. Background: The Setting Welcome to

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In other news, Randal Munroe's xkcd has made it into the real news, with the following comic manifesting into the interblagz from, well, the interblagz, I guess. YouTube introduced a Audio Preview feature, apparently from a few programmers that read xkcd and thought it was a good and hilarious idea. He has awesome power! Friday, September 26th, 2008 Friday, October 8th, 2008 As a commenter

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It's gray again, and the clouds are lower but not more oppressive. Today you can see the texture in them, like looking up at the surface of the sea. Having the clouds this low really brings Boulder's building height limit into perspective. Everything looks really flat, because you actually have a plane to compare it against. That really needs to go for many reasons; traffic, quality of life,

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My mood today is like the weather: in monotone, somber, and wetyes, I realize this one is slightly circular. That's intentional.. It's been drizzling continuously since I woke up, and the only difference in the sky has been the particular shade of gray it's been, as the sun has risen, traversed, and, now, set. On the plus side, wandering around in Peppercorn for nearly an hour improved my mood.

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The Second Episode of Spamasterpiece Theater, courtesy of BoingBoingTV and author, PC, and minor internet personality John Hodgman. True tale[s] of romance, adventure, infamy, and low-cost prescription drugs, all culled from the reams of actual, unsolicited emails, received here by us and people like you — what we call SPAM.

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Anyone who spent any time during the 80's at all, needs to see this: Awesome remake. Band Montage! From BoingBoing. Aha - Take On Me Various Artists - [Buddha Bar 7 | disc 2: Sarangi #02] Ohm Suaa // Sainkho

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Well, another successful supper club. This is turning into a wonderful event, thankfully. Getting to eat good, home-cooked food on a regular basis is probably less important, really, then getting to hang out and talk to good people every week, and eat and drink and make merry, &c. I was responsible for the menu this time (with a fair bit of assistance). So, without further ado: The Menu

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'nuff said. John Mayer - [Try! #05] Vultures

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not my photo. just a mini-quiche. looked similar though. Tonight I made my first ever pie crust, in preparation for making a Peach/Almond Tart, and, having a bit of extra dough left over, I up and decided to make some mini quiches (because I didn't have the right size pan for a regular one). Now I know what I'm going to do with any extra dough that I might end up with. These are really good.

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I now need this book: An entry that's missing (reading from Amazon's online excerpt) from the current 2001 edition, however, is abat-faim: An obsolete term (meaning literally hunger-killer for the first of the main dishes (but not the first course of a meal) served to appease the guests' hunger. Nowadays hors d'oeuvres and appetizers fulfill this function. What! Shame on you Random House! Not

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From Baking Obsession: I Must try making these sometime. Italian Plum Upside-Down Ricotta Cupcakes These are very Italian cupcakes. The list of the ingredients speaks for this well. There are fresh ricotta cheese and cornmeal, ground pine nuts and Italian prune-plums. The upside-down idea is not an exclusive American invention either. Italians have been flipping their cakes for a long

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from xkcd: (Written after sitting in a car for five hours listening to financial news stories.) ——- Damn these subprime lenders, thought Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, barely keeping his balance on the wobbling skateboard. We can’t afford more debt. He snapped a grappling-hook-tipped quarrel into his crossbow as the skateboard slowed. When the country owes trillions and is asking for more, its

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I never thought I would see the day. Dr. Ralph Stanley, the surviving member of the Stanley Brothers, and one of the few remaining players from the original generation of bluegrass musicians, and a rocking banjo player to boot. The radio spot is below: And here's another quick video of the Stanley Brothers from their heyday. Ralph is on the left on banjo. Unfortunately, I don't have

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I thought it was done, and then I thought it was done, and then I really thought it was done, and now, I don't think we're finished yet. The problem is that, I think, I know that I am happier when I am in a relationship. That, to me, is clear, whatever it may say about me. So here I am, drinking slightly oxidized wine (it was left uncorked and out all night) at three in the afternoon, by myself

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Is it bad that, after watching the Palin/Biden debate, the democratic ticket would seem equally effective if it was Biden/Obama instead of Obama/Biden? Maybe it's just that Sarah Palin isn't a very good debater (She actually seemed fine, not like on every interview I've ever seen, and she didn't fall flat on her face like I had hoped), or maybe it's that Joe Biden didn't, as much, stick to

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Wrote this almost a year ago, and decided that since I forgot the files necessary to get another draft of the pendulum poster out, I'd work on this some; plus, I totally shrugged someone off that I would have liked to talk to, and I'm ticked about that, just because I've been having a rough few days. I shouldn't take it out on people, but all my impulses are conflicting at the moment. It seems

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Some of the most amazing hair I've seen in a long time. It must be photoshopped. (but it's not!) via BoingBoing. I think, though I prefer their super-awesomely-titled follow up, Jesus, Come Inside Me. From one of their fans: I was a big fan back in the 60s, and played that album daily. I couldn't decide which one I liked best: Frances (the cute Faith Tone), Francine (the pudgy Faith Tone), or

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I’d just like to commemorate October 1st, and lament that Lyons’ Festival of the Mabon, ’round equinox time got changed so that it no longer include a céilidh, which was the only reason I had wanted to go. It got changed to a ticketed dinner and concert, instead of a social dance. I'm sure it was fun, but it wasn’t what I wanted to go do. More to the loss of us all.

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The Premiere Episode of Spamasterpiece Theater, courtesy of BoingBoingTV and author, PC, and minor internet personality John Hodgman: True tale[s] of romance, adventure, infamy, and low-cost prescription drugs, all culled from the reams of actual, unsolicited emails, received here by us and people like you — what we call SPAM. My appolgies for the ads and the beginning and end. I don't know if

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I'm definitely developing an inferiority complex by comparing myself to pretty much every one else I actually like or spend time with. No, really. Everyone. That's probably not healthy, but it's what I do. I seem to be devolving into an abstraction, the mere idea of an actual person; I, generally speaking, know what the solution is, but don't either have the courage, energy, or conviction to

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Ok, so I've actually read part of the interview with Katie Couric (the portion that is up on their page for it. And I'm not sure that I can bring myself to watch the whole thing now. Here are the two pieces of the interview. There's a bit of overlap. Not my fault, sorry. :) These, for me, are incredibly damning by themselves. And she motivates the base? What kind of base is it that can watch

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fixie madness → I bike in traffic. I do this because, among other things, I feel that it is safer and because it is usually faster. Safer compared to riding the sidewalk, or a bike path that intersects roads fairly often; faster, because bike paths, when they don't follow a street, tend to meander unexpectedly, serving their prime function as recreational sanctuaries instead of commuting paths.

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Yay BoingBoing! A commenter on the silly and pointless (really, don't bother with the actual content this time) overdubbed debate video with tons of swearing taken from Stanley Kubrick's drill instructor from Full Metal Jacket posted a link to a Sarah Palin quote generator, while mentioning that they were (awkward neutral gender here) looking forward to the VP debates. I'm not. You can find the

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Here's the new poster. As a result of painting all week, I didn't get the email until a couple days ago, and ended up being really busy and tired, so this was kind of on short notice, but that's ok. It's come out well so far. This image is Radiator Building— Night, New York, by Georgia O'Keefe. The image for my poster background is, again, from stock.xchng. I used a skyscraper because the title

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Found in Selected Non-Fiction, an anthology of mostly previously unpublished short essays, capsule biographies, and book and film reviews by Jorge Louis Borges that I bought recently, and am currently working through; from the essay John Wilkins' Analytical Language, translated by Eliot Weinberger: Hopes and utopias aside, perhaps the most lucid words written about language are these by

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There's something ineffably charming about someone (in my case, a girl) sporting a canvas tote with the name of some (any) Public Library emblazoned on the side. Kind of like Reading is Sexy, but more so. Apparently nerds are in again. Yay! Oscar Peterson - [My favorite instrument #08] Little girl blue Sting - [The Soul Cages #04] Why Should I Cry For You

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