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• The Great Taco Hunt. I’ve been going to Carnitas Michoacan for a long time now. But where’s El Tepeyac on here?

  Friday March 31, 2006

• Two Hipsters Angrily Call Each Other ‘Hipster’. Could have only been better if they argued over who got to wear the army surplus jacket at the next show.

  Thursday March 30, 2006

• How I Write by Bertrand Russell. Ken also points me to the NY Times archive for “Writers on Writing”.

  Thursday March 30, 2006

• Jeopardy Online Contestant Test. Too late for East Coasters. I’ll be busy on Thursday.

  Wednesday March 29, 2006

Unicorns are awesome. I got some great reactions.

LocustSky462: …
LocustSky462: the more i look at this, the funnier it gets
LocustSky462: i just sent this to someone
LocustSky462: why do i picture you as the dude?
LocustSky462: would have been funnier if the unicorns carried his on their back
LocustSky462: wtf.. i’m spending too much time looking at this

Doughy637: what did you search for?
Doughy637: gay unicorn?
valloq: um
valloq: no

• How to pour Ketchup (Catsup). Full technical explanation. It all makes sense now…

  Tuesday March 28, 2006

• PLAYGROUND OF THE STARS. Sweet. Someone needs to start making these for the HTML/CSS crowd.

  Tuesday March 28, 2006

Death Cab for Cutie and Rilo Kiley are fighting it out on my playlist right now.

• Death Cab for Cutie - What Sarah Said
• Rilo Kiley - The Absence of God
• Death Cab for Cutie - Brothers on a Hotel Bed
• Rilo Kiley - A Man/Me/Then Jim
• Death Cab for Cutie - Blacking Out the Friction
• Rilo Kiley - Capturing Moods
• Death Cab for Cutie - Coney Island
• Rilo Kiley - My Slumbering Heart
• Death Cab for Cutie - Expo ‘86
• Rilo Kiley - Spectacular Views
• Death Cab for Cutie - Passenger Seat

Speaking of which, the short film for What Sarah Said, as part of Directions, came out this week. It’s pretty intense, and a bit confusing at first since the writing in the video is in French. Utilizing my incalculable Google™ skills, it says on the mirror, “He loves me”, and then “A little?” “Very much!” “Passionately” “With madness” and finally finishing the sentence on the mirror, “Not at all.”

Links to a bigger version of the film, and an analysis of the video from no fat clips!!! and the Death Cab for Cutie message board.

I’m eagerly waiting to see how the short film for Brothers on a Hotel Bed turns out.

• Eagle Rock: the new Silver Lake?. The little town I grew up in is getting hip.

  Wednesday March 22, 2006

• Franz Ferdinand Frontman Shot By Gavrilo Princip Bassist. “We ask fans to cooperate with Interpol to find the assailant, and call upon British Sea Power, Snow Patrol, and The Postal Service for help.”

  Wednesday March 22, 2006

• Google Finance. I love the auto scaling in the stock price thingy, and the scrolling news is sweet. Don’t miss the management bios.

  Tuesday March 21, 2006

Movies about taking down fascist governments always seem to make me hopeful. Despite the fact that I doubt I’d ever see a revolution in my lifetime, it’s still nice to see it happen on the screen.

I read the V for Vendetta comic book a few months back to prepare myself for the movie, to which I had the same reaction as I did to Alan Moore’s more well-known work, Watchmen, which was one of, “eh.” His stories tend to be more involved than one would expect from works in the “comic book” medium; always being less about right or wrong, and instead, especially in Vendetta, staying morally ambiguous and allowing the reader to decide for themselves. It’s that last part that led me to initially conclude that I didn’t like his stuff, but after a while I started to “get it” and appreciate his stuff a lot more.

And so of course I was worried when Alan Moore disassociated himself from the movie. That’s never a good sign. The movie cut out a lot from the book and changed a lot of events around in the timeline, but overall I felt the message and themes still stayed intact. While the book focused more on anarchy, I didn’t recall ever hearing that word uttered in the movie. It still made for a good movie, and maybe some people will enjoy it for the social commentary and not go see it just cause it’s “from the creators of the Matrix!”

• Powazek: Just a Thought: SXSW to MPAA: STFU. There’s only so much control one can have…

  Thursday March 16, 2006

I’ve been on a roll lately…

MyBodyIs4Sale: common, chuck e cheese birthdays are always cool
MyBodyIs4Sale: and by common i mean come on
MyBodyIs4Sale: i need to stop doing that
valloq: it’s a come on mistake
MyBodyIs4Sale: i hate you
MyBodyIs4Sale: so much

When he says, “I hate you,” he means “I love you,” and when he says, “so much,” he really means, “so much.”

• Schneier on Security: Basketball Prank. So messed up, yet so good.

  Wednesday March 15, 2006

Conversations with myself are fun, although the people around me tend to think differently.

valloq: mannn this drink has a twist-off cap and I think I jammed it
valloq: =(
valloq: oh wait
valloq: persistence solved it
valloq: muahahah

• Ryan vs Dorkman. Damn.

  Tuesday March 14, 2006

I went out to lunch with my family and met a few of my aunts and my grandma at the restaurant. During the course of the meal my grandma received two calls on her cell phone. It was then that I realized I hadn’t received a call on my phone in almost a week, and the sad fact that my grandma was way more popular than me.

At least she didn’t have a RAZR or answer her phone with, “Where you at?”

• Seal Hat. I’ve got tears coming out. This is the greatest thing ever.

  Wednesday March 8, 2006

I have little patience for video games these days. It’s not that I don’t enjoy playing them; it’s that I don’t find many that I enjoy playing. In the past four months I’ve gone through eight games, and only one managed to hold my interest long enough to finish it.

“Eight games,” you ask, “don’t you have anything better to do?” The answer to that would obviously be yes, but why do anything productive when I can play games? That question was rhetorical. I know you were all ready to start leaving comments. Bite me. But I digress.

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