May 2009
56 posts
The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
– Oscar Wilde (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
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 …
Mint.com’s approach to Security
Budgeting with Mint.com
It is overcast and cold in Los Angeles. June gloom is a little early.
Di fretta - HD stock HV30
Watching Return of the Jedi…on MTV…MTV is showing movies now…
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.
test
Reading about television network executives and listening to Clint Mansell’s stuff on YouTube.com.
Watching Glee on Hulu.com.
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion.
I myself...
– Kurt Vonnegut (via peepingtom)
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.
Watching Entourage on VOD while I read latimes.com and plan a barbecue for tonight.
Watching Charlie Wilson’s War on HBO while I read about Governor Huntsman’s nomination to serve as Ambassador to China.
Word of the day: sapient.
Watching The Simpsons Movie on Time Warner HBO Premium VOD.
In Yorba Linda for lunch. Wing’s fortune cookie: Keep your plans secret for now.
Shopping.
Bowling is not my game.
Playing House. 05/12/2009
Listening to Roy Orbison. What a voice. http://bit.ly/lFXrG
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.)
...
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”...
2,000 Symbols
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…
Ray Kurzweil - Digital Media
Kurzweil and Diamandis TED Conference SlideshowView more presentations from kkleiner.
La vida es sueño
Just got a year subscription to Animoto.com
It is amazing how urls can now be traced from an email point of origin. The surveillance society continues to expand.
Watching 30 Rock on Hulu.com while I write data tables specs.
Listening to Four O’Clock Tuesdays with Gustavo Arellano on KPFK.org. It his Cinco de Mayo show so it should be interesting.
Keeping Cinco de Mayo authentic by continuing my annual tradition of listening to Elvis Costello.
Guanabee.com’s “Feedback” bar is either broken or not Chrome compatible. Fail.