ketchup

Yesterday was one of those days, the kind I could call “bad” but really wasn’t bad. It was merely challenging. It walked up, shook my hand, and said, “You’re going to need to work at me, but when your head hits the pillow tonight and the cat curls up on your lungs, it’ll all be worth it.” It did not, however, indicate to me that rolling out of bed this morning at 6 would be worth it. I could be a morning person if mornings didn’t come so early. As it turns out, managing people is both ridiculously easy and stupefyingly hard. No surprise there: everything’s both, sometimes simultaneously. I like that. Am I a Taoist? I especially liked the part of yesterday that involved the aggressively crazy guy perched...

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Posted on 30 Mar 2006 | 1 comment

gummy phones

This may only be relevant to Inkbot, but those of you with smaller ears might also be interested. It is no secret that I absolutely loathe the standard iPod earbuds. Last year I tried the Griffin EarJams, but they just made the unforgiving pieces of plastic larger and unwieldy, so that they were uncomfortable and fell out of my ears constantly. I had some cheapo collapsible Sony headphones for a while, but they died, so I was back to the iPod earbuds and willing to stick it out because I’m really tired of buying substandard crap that doesn’t add value to my life. Until this morning, when my ears started to bleed. Thankfully, the eardrums weren’t bleeding, just the skin, but still — if you have never experienced impromptu ear bleeding,...

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Posted on 24 Mar 2006 | 5 comments

listen

listen

foot and concrete Originally uploaded by cygnoir. Bright Eyes’ song “First Day of My Life” makes me so happy whenever I hear it, especially the line “I’d rather be working for a paycheck than waiting to win the lottery.” Interpol’s “Slow Hands” always puts me in a James Dean mood, you know the kind: I’m a loner, Dottie. A rebel. The Bootcuts’ “Six Bux Waltz” inspires crazy hopping and arm-flapping. I long for a top hat and cane when I hear Pink Martini’s “Hang On, Little Tomato”. Frank Zappa, Led Zeppelin, Pat Metheny, Black Flag, Wally Pleasant, and Pixies remind me of college; nine inch nails and New Order remind me of high school; Violent Femmes and the B-52s...

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Posted on 23 Mar 2006 | 1 comment

cartman

cartman

cartman Originally uploaded by Luodanli. Best. Tag. Evar.

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Posted on 22 Mar 2006 | Comments Off

old to new

old to new

My handy little folding headphones are D-E-D dead. Yesterday I spent the ferry ride (longer than usual, because one of the catamarans is in dry-dock this week) twisting and turning and creasing and bending the right-side wire. As it turns out, the “Democracy Now!” podcast only in my left ear just makes me sleepy. But I don’t want to buy new headphones. I don’t want to buy new anything anymore. Ever. (This week.) Recently I was a bit mopey about not having a commute carry-all with lots of pockets for various things I need on the commute that don’t go in my exactly-right-sized purse, so I refurbished an old thing I had. The thing is difficult to describe, but it was given to me ten years ago and I think it was originally designed...

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Posted on 17 Mar 2006 | Comments Off

links for 2006-03-15

SF0 SF0 is a Collaborative Production Game set in San Francisco. Players build characters by completing tasks for their groups and increasing their Score. (thanks, Jason) (tags: california sanfrancisco socialsoftware games) Apple – Trailers – Cars Yay, new Pixar movie! (tags: film animation) Robocarp Mostly I just wanted to type Robocarp, but it is pretty neat. (tags: technology robotics) popurls.com “popular urls to the latest web buzz” … I don’t know why I’m bookmarking this, but I’m half-asleep and it looks potentially useful. Folks, don’t sleep and surf. (tags: links popular daily) Three Minds @ Organic: This is Media 2.0 Interesting take on Web 2.0. (thanks, MSG) (tags: web...

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Posted on 15 Mar 2006 | Comments Off

links for 2006-03-14

PlaceSite – Inventing Wi-Fi Community Everyone who opens a Web browser in a PlaceSite place sees a host of digital community services by, for and about people who spend time in that place. (tags: socialsoftware wifi) Trixie Tracker: Baby Tracking Software Track your baby! (tags: tracking babies) Fore-edge Painting: Frost Secret paintings on the page-edges of books. Wonderful. (tags: art books) isolatr beta Helping you find where other people aren’t. (tags: parody socialsoftware) Firefox: Mac PPC Optimized Builds Furbism.com has several Firefox builds available for download optimized for different Mac CPU architectures. (tags: apple mozilla...

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Posted on 14 Mar 2006 | 1 comment

i want to feel good

I remembered to catch the 1 California, though it does not run east on California. I counted out a dollar and a quarter, two dimes and a nickel, and I walked a few blocks down the hill until I met the bus hiss-popping to a stop at the light. The bus, even accordioned, was full. As I gave over my money and rose to the driver’s level, he smiled and said, “Hold on.” I gripped the yellow metal bars and turned to face the windshield. The street, the oncoming traffic, the tiny people with their huge plastic bags, everything was so fast and bright and close. The massive windshield shielded me from only wind as I listened to the audiobook narrator intone, “Repeat these five words to yourself: ‘I want to feel good.’” I want to...

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Posted on 13 Mar 2006 | 3 comments

links for 2006-03-11

spatch.net Funny for more reasons than “The Dan Brown Code” reason, but that is also a reason, and that reason is also funny. (tags: humor) lost camera: delighted. Judith got her camera back, no thanks to people who really shouldn’t be parents. (tags: judithgetshercamerabackyay) Mini Mao: A Cabalistic Card Game We played this last night at the SFlickr meet. It was so much fun! (tags: games...

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Posted on 11 Mar 2006 | 1 comment

links for 2006-03-09

manybooks.net Free eBooks for your PDA (tags: ebooks free) Wired News: World of Warcraft – The Text Adventure “You run. You run and run. You run and run and run.” (tags: humor games worldofwarcraft)

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Posted on 9 Mar 2006 | 1 comment