Stuff from May, 2007
This is the archive of tumbledry happenings that occurred on May, 2007.
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This is the archive of tumbledry happenings that occurred on May, 2007.
Our archdioses is getting a new archbishop who, as far as I can tell, is a total shithead. Let us quote from the article in the April 25, 2007 article in the Pioneer Press about him, shall we? Emphasis mine:
As bishop in New Ulm, Neinstadt prohibited cohabitating couples from being married in Catholic churches. He barred female pastoral administrators from leading prayers at a semiannual leadership event. He once disciplined a priest for holding joint ecumenical services with a Lutheran congregation after the Catholic church had been destroyed by a tornado.
I actually like Vista. Best Solitaire ever.
Ahh, football - “Many people think football players are dumb jocks. Here is newly drafted Miami Dolphins fullback Reagan Mauia doing nothing to dispell this myth.”
People Magazine: No Photoshop - When they shot the world’s 100 most beautiful people, People magazine decided against any Photoshoppery or make-up. This article details some techniques to beautify the your subjects.
This might be me and my primary-literature addled brain acting up, but I have to ask something. Sometimes, I’m fine when I read the word “dishonest.” But other times, when I read the word “dishonest,” my brain says “dish-honest.” Should I be seeing a doctor for this? We’ll try an example. This is a writer for The Inquirer who is talking about ethical guidelines when editorial content and the interests of advertisers clash.
Intentionally out of focus.
On Facebook, I saw Nils added “The Cinematics” to his list of favorite artists. I’ve heard two songs off of their album “A Strange Education,” and I really like what I’ve heard so far. I’ll have to give the rest of it a listen soon.
It’s from this loneliness and the fear it brings That new doors can open up and be a savior to me So I’ll open my mind Open my heart It’s the only way to breathe
It’s just a trick of the lights she said So don’t panic, now don’t panic
Backlit by a cell phone.
For a site called “tumbledry,” I don’t post laundry related things much. I find this dolphin hilarious.
Adobe CS3 Icons - That aren’t crappy.
The keynote presentation of Apple’s forthcoming iPhone has a great clip from NBC’s The Office:
I don’t have a ton of contact with the Scranton Branch, but, before I left, I took a box of Dwight’s stationary. So, from time to time, I send Dwight faxes. From himself.
From the future.
Dwight,
At 8am today, someone poisons the coffee. Do not drink the coffee.
More instructions will follow.Cordially,
Future Dwight
Conan and 1864 Baseball - Conan’s 1800’s style taunts at the opposing team are hilarious. As is his outrageous mustache. His on location stuff is always great.
Fair to Midland - The local rock station (93x) has been giving a little airtime to an up and coming band (exceedingly rare, since they’re owned by the Clear Channel bastards). So, I finally got a chance to look this band up, and it seems like they’re still pretty low profile.
These black and white conversions look great with text.
CNN is guilty of massively weird/overblown/tabloid-like headlines on their front page. Small pockets of people noticed this, discussed it, and then a formalized effort was made to point out the stupidest and least news worthy headlines. And so WTFCNN? was born. Here are some of their highlights from the past week:
Hypatia Sans - Combines the feel of Kabel and Mostra with some classical proportions… I really like it.
I have a nice RA here in Morrison Hall, and I don’t mean to criticize him with this post, but I must point out an unintentional (subconscious?) commentary he made with a typo of his. You see, RA’s are held responsible by the University to put up door decorations and generally make the hall look lived in with personable posters, discussion boards, etc. These are most effective in the more jail-type floorplans of the underclassmen dorms. I’ve seen some women RAs really shine at this floor decoration thing. However, we are in upper class apartments here in Morrison, and we’re guys … so the door dec/floor decoration thing kind of falls apart. Now, my RA put up some posters at the beginning of the year, with some thoughtful motivational words next to them. They’ve hung there since September, and I’ve seen them every day I’ve been here.
I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.
There are many things that I would be proud of
If I’d only invented them such as the wheel
The washing machine and the tumble dryer
On these inventions
Surely I could retire
— Kaiser Chiefs
And this one’s a doozy. Of course, the title’s a quote from the Illustrious Cameron Moll.
KeyCue - Now this is brilliant: an application that shows you all the keyboard shortcuts for your current application. It’s like a little training program to help you use your computer faster … no more searching for shortcuts.
I liked these mice. Unfortunately, immunology lab called for them to be killed.
Here’s a great quote I saw at Jimmy John’s today:
Never be afraid to try new things. A lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of trained professionals built the Titanic.
I bought a car off a couple of ladies way upstate
Took off the Greenpeace sticker and the New Hampshire plates
My friends are saying that I may have made a mistake
But I tell ‘em have a little faith now fellas, just you wait
Puttin’ in the new shocks and the anti-lock brakes
One touch ignition for convenience sake
And when I’m through it’s gonna look and run better than new
So baby don’t make a move
Because I’m coming for you
I’m coming for you
You better make way cause I’m coming through
In my late ‘92 baby blue
Subaru
Q: What do you call magnesium sulfate with a shotgun?
A: A salt with a deadly weapon.
Source: Slashdot comment thread.
I just wanted to take this moment to point out that, recently, the land speed record for furniture has been broken. Interestingly, I do not think that there is a land speed record for anything other than furniture. Anyhow, due to the engineering expertise of Marek Turowsk, a modified sofa traveled 92mph.
A better Mac keyboard - The Tactile Pro 2.0 reproduces the mechanical key feel from older Mac keyboards, with updated USB technology.
Megnut and the mean chocolate chip cookie - Recipe generated by averaging a dozen other chocolate chip cookie recipes.
Whoa. As I write, graduation with a B.S. in biochemistry and life-changing changes all crash down at once. I should brainstorm for some sort of longer form writing about these events. I could call my writing a “post” … and then, as they accumulate, arrange these “posts” in reverse chronological order on a sort of faux-forum online. I’ll call that a world wide web log of my life. Perhaps I could shorten that to “web log.” Or even “blog.”
The iTunes we all know, love, and use has a convenient music sharing feature. It allows people on a the same network to listen to one another’s music. This is particularly useful in a University setting; you can see the music of everyone in a dorm, in a common area, and in the library. Recently, when Mykala and myself were studying for finals in the library, I decided to open up iTunes and see what libraries were available from my collegiate colleagues. The list of the library names that appeared follows:
I’m thinking strongly about seeing the movie Solaris, whose plot revolves around an unknown force that makes manifest people using only the memories from others. Roger Ebert made a striking point in his review of the 2002 version:
A present from Mykala.
My Easter basket from the Linds. Practicing my flash technique and curves adjustments.
Really worked hard on getting this one right.
Ok, here we go. Since one of the purposes of this site is to preserve things in which I am interested for posterity: I will now embark on an image-powered summary of some of my interests from the past week.
Interest 1: Vega4
This music group sounds like Snow Patrol; that’s a good thing. I like ‘em … I caught them on the radio (not on the television, though I must admit that seems to be one of the best place to hear new, alternative music these days); I’ve been thinking about getting their album ever since. A quote from a PopMatters review follows:
Iris—always having their picture taken by me.
Effects of elevated hydrogen peroxide ‘strip’ bleaching on surface and subsurface enamel including subsurface histomorphology, micro-chemical composition and fluorescence changes - Neat primary literature from the Journal of Dentistry, studying the effects of strip bleaching (whitening) on tooth health. Good news for those who whiten: no changes were seen in surface histomorphology, tooth hardness, or chemical composition. It seems that this paper comes after research in the same area, which found the same thing. Tooth whitening does seem pretty safe.
iPod Protection - I have to ask: why get a full case (of which I have 2) for your iPod when you can just get a clear plastic sticky cover? I really like this idea because you can continue to hold in your hand and experience the efforts that were made to make the iPod so nice to hold, yet also protect your investment from scratches. Now I’m sounding like a commercial.
Working on a group shot and more curves adjustments.
You know, like the Coldplay song “Yellow.”
A bit over a month ago, I was watching an episode of Late Night with Conan O’Brien, when I noticed the tie he was wearing looked awfully familiar.
“Hey, that looks like the tie I have from Express,” I said to Mykala. She seemed to agree. The thought of being able to wear part of Conan’s wardrobe was just plain cool. A good ice breaker, even (but probably not for interviews). Imagine: “Welcome to your job interview, tell us about yourself.” “Well, I have the same tie as Conan O’Brien, that is cool.” So, soon I was able to compare Conan’s tie to my own. They don’t match.
While I continue unpacking my things from my frenzied move-out from college apartment life, I leave you with a bit of a poser:
Madison’s Inquiry
If you have to travel on the Titanic, why not go first class?
Too much contrast—whoops.
Hand painted by my grandma. Built by my grandpa.
You know how here at tumbledry you earn a comment bullet after 125 comments? Is that starting to seem like an excessive number to everyone? Yes, me, too. I think I have found a better way to do this. I’ll code it up in the next week (or so) as I have time. Finding a job is rather a bit lot much higher on the list. I’d revise that sentence, but I thought it was funny. Your mileage may vary.