November 2009
55 posts
October 2009
71 posts
Leonardo Boiko’s Diary - Education/profession of... →
I’m going to quote his entry in full:
Shigesato Itoi… copywriter, essayist.
Fumito Ueda… classical art.
Hideo Kojima… illustrator, writer, filmmaker.
Shigeru Miyamoto… painter, designer.
Keiji Inafune… illustrator, designer.
Number of game designers I admire with an education in computer science or engineering: 0.
He makes a strong point.
Man, why can’t “10 hot dogs & 8 buns” be something that comedians just made up — like not asking for directions — instead of something real.
I’m deeply ashamed to say it, but between Japan and Hawaii I had more or less forgotten about squirrels. How can I make this up to Dr. Bill?
I used to think Seattlean women were fashionable, but probably they just wear the tights since it’s cold. Now I doubt New York’s trendiness.
While I’m sure that Seattlites probably also enjoy power-, speed- and moon- it seems as though their favorite kind of walking to do is jay-.
Bus drivers with accents you can easily understand take all the fun out of visiting another town. Also the element of sheer, driving terror.
Seattle is kind of like a suburban, American version of Venice, or as if Philadelphia were pleasant instead of completely ugly and run down.
WatchAction Biker - Hesperian Pusito
Currently, I’m growing obsessed with Action Biker, aka. Sarah Nyberg Pergament. It started with a mashup I heard years ago that combined Action Biker “la conjugaison pour tous”, Bow Wow “Like You”, and Architecture in Helsinki “Frenchy, I’m Faking”. So then I went looking on YouTube for the unmashed “la...
Last night, I had a dream that I was in San Francisco, and there was a “South Carolina district” of town that sells bottles of Sun Drop. @DB
You know, if I ever go insane and decide to make creepy sculptures of my cat and wife out of hair caked in the carpet, it won’t be too hard.
Why does “Germany’s defeat of France” have the opposite meaning from “Germany’s defeat by France”? Surely prepositions aren’t that powerful…
Freaky Fortnight - Michael Agger and Susan Burton →
The Prospect Park Zoo, like all the best places to take kids, is kind of crappy and second-rate. Let the tourists gape at the polar bears in the swank Central Park Zoo. The Prospect Park Zoo has some depressing baboons and kangaroos that hide from you, and one-quarter of the exhibits always seem under construction. But it’s also homey, uncrowded, and staffed with friendly volunteers who...
WatchVia Joshuah Bearman, Johnny Cash is Der schwarze angekleidete Mann.
I would be interested in seeing a Bhagavad Gita videogame done up in 8-bit style. When you beat an enemy, you have to not collect the fruit!
The hardest part of the game would be pressing A over and over at the beginning to get past all the text of the intro. Takashi Meijin どこにいる?
If you collect the fruit of an action, your soul will go into Krishna’s flaming mouth. But, if you win it goes into Krishna’s flaming mouth.
The Conscience Of A Conservative →
Funniest series of reactions to the Obama Peace Prize announcement:
Ta-Nahesi Coates:
From Eric Erickson over at RedState:
I did not realize the Nobel Peace Prize had an affirmative action quota
for it, but that is the only thing I can think of for this news. There
is no way Barack Obama earned it in the nominations period.
When in doubt, go with what you know.
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Today I found myself thinking, “Woah, that’s a really distinctive smell.” “Yeah, but you can’t photograph smells.” Can, however, be tweeted.
