January 2010
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New Year's resolutions
Track expenses; maintain a budget; spend less overall.
Get out of the house at least once a weekend.
Meet more people, find them interesting.
Read more books, perhaps one a month.
Write more.
Floss, use sunscreen, and take my vitamins.
Exercise six times a week (ha, ha).
Post tweets with proper capitalization.
Graduate with a clean slate (i.e., finish old work).
Produce substantial...
December 2009
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“It’s about this guy who sells buckets, but before he dies he wants to do...”
– Nine-year-old brother Max, summarizing The Bucket List, a movie which he has not actually seen. I have to give him credit because he has pieced together the plot details pretty well.
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"UPular Remix," by Pogo →
I could listen to this all day—it gets twice as good at 1:28.
See also: “Alice” (YouTube video gone for now).
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Watch“rotating kitchen,” by Zeger Reyers
At first I thought this was going to be a fancy re-configurable kitchen space, similar to the Prada Transformer art/film/fashion pavilion by Miuccia Prada & Rem Koolhaas. But actually, it’s so, so much better than that. (via swissmiss)
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“Hey, that’s not FAIR! … What the HELL?!
You know, this game is...”
– Eight-year-old Georgia losing Wii billiards to her ten-year-old brother. I knew she was familiar with the word, but not with how to use it so appropriately. Kids these days.
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What Magic Slate? →
So, the Apple tablet is finally coming on January 26 (probably), but right now I’m a little bit more excited about the peripheral gizmo that might be called the “Magic Slate.”
Some backstory: as referenced in the intro video for 10/GUI, proper ergonomics cannot be had with a touch surface on a forward-facing display (ouch, my back) or, conversely, a flat display underneath a...
Also, happy holidays!
Jake and Amir are my faves.
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Yesterday my mom sent me one of those PowerPoint presentations that open and run themselves (yes, the annoying kind; the kind that comes with about six pages of email addresses because it’s been forwarded since 1998). It was entitled “God’s Pharmacy” and it was basically the contents of this web page set to music:
A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris...
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On Facebook,
There is a mandatory 10-hour delay until I confirm you as a friend.
Never mind that I know instantly when you friended me (because my email is intravenously delivered through my right arm), I am pretty much always going to wait it out half a day so as not to advertise that I actually use that website.
If you are a classmate from high school, who just clicked the “Add friend” button,...
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So, trevormstr?
Trevormstr is actually a reference to a funny experience I had when I was younger, at SFO with a family friend who kept trying to convince me that my name was “Trevormeister.” My nine-year-old self may have been naïve, but was not stupid; and I was insistent that my name was, in fact, Trevor.
This was back in the day when United and the other airlines would register your first name as ARNOLDMSTR...
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Obviously I haven't tumbled in a while
…but that’s only because I haven’t had nearly enough work to procrastinate!
(Also, to be precise, I haven’t tumbled ever really, though I’m thinking more and more that this might be the best way to post things online).
Here goes nothing!
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