May 2009
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“The one charm of the past is that it is the past.”
– Oscar Wilde (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
May 31st
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Listening to The White Noise (now the Living Suns) a great local OC band. Their song ‘California’ made me homesick in the winter of 2006 …
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Mint.com’s approach to Security
May 29th
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Budgeting with Mint.com
May 29th
It is overcast and cold in Los Angeles. June gloom is a little early.
May 29th
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Di fretta - HD stock HV30
May 28th
Watching Return of the Jedi…on MTV…MTV is showing movies now…
May 26th
Very infrequently do I ever refer to sci-fi franchise canon, and it is infrequent for a very good reason, it is esoteric, in a bad way.
May 26th
test
May 22nd
Reading about television network executives and listening to Clint Mansell’s stuff on YouTube.com.
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Watching Glee on Hulu.com.
May 21st
“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via peepingtom)
May 21st
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That was a nice earthquake. Let us have a lot of those small and mild ones rather than a pent up apocalypse of a shake.
May 18th
Watching Entourage on VOD while I read latimes.com and plan a barbecue for tonight.
May 17th
May 17th
Watching Charlie Wilson’s War on HBO while I read about Governor Huntsman’s nomination to serve as Ambassador to China.
May 16th
Word of the day: sapient.
May 16th
Watching The Simpsons Movie on Time Warner HBO Premium VOD.
May 15th
In Yorba Linda for lunch. Wing’s fortune cookie: Keep your plans secret for now.
May 15th
Shopping.
May 14th
Bowling is not my game.
May 14th
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Playing House. 05/12/2009
May 13th
Listening to Roy Orbison. What a voice. http://bit.ly/lFXrG
May 13th
May 13th
Music: A visual quartet of sorts
Billie Holiday - Did I Remember (A note on the video, it interesting but really this is an easy way to share a streaming version of this upbeat and jazzy classic.) Chet Baker (Belgium 1964) - Time After Time (A note on the video: This is the visual relics of a less savvy media era. Note that he is missing a few teeth. It is hard to imagine any talent’s handlers allowing this today.) ...
May 13th
Salman Rushdie Writes A Sentence
New Rushdie story in the New Yorker. This usually portends a book. Here is the first sentence of In The South: The day that Junior fell down began like any other day: the explosion of heat rippling the air, the trumpeting sunlight, the traffic’s tidal surges, the prayer chants in the distance, the cheap film music rising from the floor below, the loud pelvic thrusts of an “item number”...
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May 9th
Book Review: 'The Generalissimo' by Jay Taylor →
Taylor’s rehabilitation of Chiang’s reputation mirrors a similar — though unofficial — phenomenon now underway in China, where the nationalist leader was long denounced as a “bandit” and a “running…
May 9th
Ray Kurzweil - Digital Media
Kurzweil and Diamandis TED Conference SlideshowView more presentations from kkleiner.
May 9th
La vida es sueño
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Just got a year subscription to Animoto.com
May 8th
It is amazing how urls can now be traced from an email point of origin. The surveillance society continues to expand.
May 7th
Watching 30 Rock on Hulu.com while I write data tables specs.
May 7th
Listening to Four O’Clock Tuesdays with Gustavo Arellano on KPFK.org. It his Cinco de Mayo show so it should be interesting.
May 6th
Keeping Cinco de Mayo authentic by continuing my annual tradition of listening to Elvis Costello.
May 5th
Guanabee.com’s “Feedback” bar is either broken or not Chrome compatible. Fail.
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