December 2007
finding things is awesome. have ray-ban aviators back, finally. but parents are now pining for mac mini hooked up to new HD tv. oh well.
will probably be playing the wii at two different parties this evening (@tombiro’s place & w/ @katefinn’s family). getting my game face on.
at the bank and lady in front of me just took all the green lollipops. that is not a good way to end 2007. tsk, tsk.
List Of The Day: Great Olan Mills photos →
@tombiro: yup! good ‘ol t-money. i told her to tell jess that tony sucked it up today and the “double-glove” look is on the way out, hah.
excited that a friend just saw jessica simpson at a bar right by her apt in dallas but does that get the cowboys a “W”? nope, not so much.
finally taught myself aperture and just dumped about 150 images from the past two months onto my flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/jratlee.
@tombiro: congrats to you and lara!!!
hanging with sugar hill gang for the 2nd time in a month. JUMP ON IT!
A list of the 50 most loathsome people in... →
A list of the 50 most loathsome people in America for 2007. #9 is “you” because: You believe in freedom of speech, until someone says something that offends you. You suddenly give a damn about border integrity, because the automated voice system at your pharmacy asked you to press 9 for Spanish. You cling to every scrap of bullshit you can find to support your ludicrous belief system,...
RIP: Netscape Navigator (1994-2008) - Boing... →
in sort of a post mortem flourish, the site i designed for a computer class with navigator’s built-in HTML editor during my sophomore year of high school (while living in toronto) is, in fact, still online.
“New year’s resolution: get in the dark room. Everyone start shooting more film,...”
– DAY19 PHOTO BLOG. » Blog Archive » 2007 is almost no more. amen to that. i want to dig up a nikon N80 or N75 before they all disappear and start shooting tri-x again. i have my lomo but finding a solid photo finisher in north jersey is like trying to run away from italian and chinese...
Oscar Peterson - City Lights 1976 →
(via Rashomon)
Last Statements of Inmates Executed in Texas →
I’ve excerpted one from Charles Nealy who was executed on March 20, 2007 but there are hundreds more here:
Ya’ll know I love you, you too Ward. You have been a good friend. You are a good investigator. Doug, I thank you for coming from Michigan. Chris and David, I love you. Thank them for their support Doug. Debra, James, I’m not crying so you don’t cry. Don’t be sad for me. I’m going to be with...
Scrub that. →
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Paris Hilton's Inheritance Goes to Nuns? - Luxist →
karma is a bitch, sweetheart.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Up Above My Head →
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Up Above My Head
the ailments are piling up. bum knee might force me to finally see a doctor. nothing like a waiting room to start off 2008 fresh. ugh.
Of course, next year it'll be different. →
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“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions—as attempts to...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
damn shame NAS never/hasn’t made a song about NAS.
using parents new hd lcd tv & apple tv to catch up on this american life episode. then syncing everyone’s itunes libraries. merry xmas!
there is most certain irony in receiving a letter on christmas eve from my historically jewish fraternity about my old chapter closing down.
“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer...”
– Norman Vincent Peale
separation of church and my state.
i just got home from church. we’re having dinner soon and then i suppose i should start wrapping presents. procrastination isn’t why i’m writing and i apologize in advance if this brings down your christmas spirit, it’s not meant to. at 25, i go to church twice a year. christmas eve and easter. both instances with my family. i used to be highly active in my church....
finally backing up for the leopard upgrade. for your edification, ~45,000 images take about an hour to move external via an old USB drive.
“Metadata is data about data. An item of metadata may describe an individual...”
– Metadata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia this is the future. i hope everyone is okay with that. it’s not “video” or a “network” or “search” or “collaboration” or “advertising”. it’s how we describe things. how we designate...
just switched my working color space profile from sRGB to Adobe RGB. not exactly sure why i didn’t do that sooner.
21st century 12 days of christmas.
my life is managed by 9 different calendars, 9 different address books, 2 e-mail addresses, 5 phone numbers, 2 remote assistants (one human and one digital), 6 communication devices, countless social networks (Facebook being primary du jour) and 3 digital notebooks. all synced and redundant. thanks to this, you will always have a way to reach me and i will always have a way to control how that...
all the anger i tried to dissipate from getting robbed and having to manage people/situations that couldn’t do it themselves is catching up.
dear amazon, thanks for shipping the gift i bought for my sisters in it’s original box. really helped the surprise on that one. idiots.
Mike Birbiglia: I kind of feel like Rudy... →
Mike Birbiglia: I kind of feel like Rudy [Giuliani] thinks 9/11 is his birthday. He gets that excited look on his face and buys himself a cake and lights two candles and watches them burn down. And then he looks around and says, “What do I get?” And his advisors are like “$15 million in speaking fees!” and he’s like, “That’s even better than last...
“Information is not private because no one knows it; it is private because the...”
– Anthropologist Danah Boyd in The Nation
@anildash: love the BPP, good luck and i’ll be listening!
Cat Lady Syndrome →
“Toxoplasma gondii can infect many species, but it undergoes sexual reproduction only in cat digestive tracts. Once the parasite reproduces, the cat passes it in its feces, where the next unwitting host picks it up by digesting it (intentionally or unintentionally). Then the cycle starts again. In the long run, Toxo must find its way back to a cat’s stomach to survive. So the parasite has...
Another reason to fear Santa. →
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Memorandum to the Idiot(s) Who Stole My Camera Bag
You’re cool. I mean, real cool. Where does this get you in life? Real far, I suspect. Yes, you took advantage of a mental error on my behalf and maybe I deserve it. I always have been a huge proponent of karma (it is to be noted, I am not religious). You get what you give, etc, etc. Just remember that. Life goes on. All you took were material things that I can buy again. Better,...
“For me, saying “happy holidays” has nothing to do with political...”
– - justin ouellette Taken one step further, Christmas is a PAGAN holiday. We’re celebrating Mithras’ birthday, not Jesus’.
meeting @superamit for lunch at rosa mexicano by lincoln center.
“be the change you wish to see in the world.”
– ghandi
nothing starts the day off quite like a robbery.
I’m in NYC Thursday and Friday this week at Amit... →