Ahhh, the advantages of metrication:

Actually, the metric equivalent to a ‘shitload’ is the metric ‘assload.’ As in, ‘That’s an assload of storage!’

It’s much easier to talk in terms of milliassloads, centiassloads, assloads, kiloassloads and mega-assloads than in shitloads; who can ever remember that one shitload=4 ‘whole piles of’ = 7.46 ‘whole lotta’s = 14.5 (14 even in certain states) ‘whole buncha’s = 31 ‘fair chunk of’ which, finally, contains 252 ‘bitta’s.

After all, isn’t it easier to say ‘there’s 40 centiassloads of storage on that mem card’ than ‘there’s a whole lotta and a bitta space on that mem card’?

For the uninitiated, metrication information is at Wikipedia.

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This wreath hung on our apartment door in 1990 while my family’s house was being built.

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Forecast for tomorrow: “Bitterly cold. Sunny, along with a few afternoon clouds. High near 0F. Winds WNW at 5 to 10 mph.” That’s a high of -18°C.

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A great talk by Richard Dawkins in July 2005, The universe is queerer than we can suppose. A quick summary:

Biologist Richard Dawkins makes a case for “thinking the improbable” by looking at how our human frame of reference — the things we can perceive with our five senses, and understand with our eight-pound brain — limits our understanding of the universe. Think of it: We can’t see atoms, we can’t see infrared light, we can’t hear ultrasonic frequencies, but we know without a doubt that they exist. What else is out there that we can’t yet perceive — what dimensions of space, what aspects of time, what forms of life?

I appreciate that Dawkins doesn’t break out his intense atheistic views in this talk, as I don’t think they fall within the scope of what he’s saying here. Besides, I’ve “always taken issue” with the title of Dawkin’s book “The God Delusion”. All that said, this is the best talk I’ve heard in quite some time.

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Now this is how to shoot a portrait: diffuse light and some good cropping when the photo was taken… instead of cropping after!

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Michael Cera went on Letterman to promote Superbad this past summer, and he’s unbelievably poised for a 19 year old. Also: he’s 19?! Anyhow, some (63% on Polls Boutique) are saying he’s the next Ben Stiller. We shall see.

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Now this, this is a softbox.

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Here’s the holding page for forthcoming reviews of the scary movie Cloverfield. Quick summary:

Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.

Hopefully this will be good; it’s like a professional version of the Blair Witch Project. Looks to have fewer scary walk-around-house and more large scale horror thrills. I’ve found that, the more confined house spaces that are involved in a movie, the more scared I am.

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Found this in an abandoned office.

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