“Mstand Laptop Stand By Rain Design” (Rain Design) Ever since I got my Macbook Pro, I was using the box it came as a stand when I sat at my desk. It raised it up enough for use, but not quite enough for comfort and it was an inelegant solution. Plus, I lost a great …
Just cause I think he will enjoy it, I wanted to share a song with Jo Cose from a trippy band called Circus Contraption.
The Odditorium
[audio:TheOdditorium.mp3]If you are in the Seattle area, definitely check them out live. Other people should buy their music from CD Baby. This track comes from their album Grand American Traveling Dime Museum.
So I mentioned before that my essay on the Living Theatre’s 2007 production of The Brig was to be published in PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. Yesterday, I received my copy and it was rather cool to see myself listed in the contents: What I did not expect, however, was that I was …
I received an email from Rep. Yvette Clarke and am totally impressed: As you know, the offenses of the Bush Administration are numerous. The Administration’s handling of Hurricane Katrina, the domestic spying program, the Valerie Plame C.I.A. leak scandal, the politically motivated firings of U.S. attorneys and the use of faulty intelligence in the lead-up …
5-year-old mistaken for criminal at airport January 8th, 2008 It?s a case of a mistaken identity for a 5-year-old boy from Normandy Park. He had trouble boarding a plane because someone with the same name is wanted by the federal government. Mimi Jung reports from Sea-Tac Airport.
The report goes on to say that when the Mother, wanting to provide some comfort to her son, approached him to give him a hug, the TSA staff told her to not touch him because he was a National Security risk.
sigh
(Link via Boing Boing)
From his Discworld book Interesting Times:
When people who can read and write start fighting on behalf of people who can’t, you just end up with another kind of stupidity. If you want to help them, build a big library or something somewhere and leave the door open. – Rincewind
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The last time I did any computer programming was back in the days of Basic. I don’t even really remember much about the programs I wrote or worked on. I know that we used to get some magazine that had code in it and you would type it in to make basic programs. Often, my …
Tons of fantasy stories and historical documents use the term “league” as a unit of measurement and I honestly had no real conception of how far a league was until I decided to use it in one of my 10 10 Minute Plays and needed to look it up:
League (unit) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: A league is a unit of length or area long common in Europe and Latin America, although no longer an official unit in any nation. The league most frequently expresses the distance a person, or a horse, can walk in 1 hour of time (usually about 3.5 miles or 5.5 kilometres).
So it is distance measured by time. I like that.
“28 Days Later (Widescreen Edition)” (Danny Boyle, Toby James) When I first saw this movie on the big screen, with my friend Natalie – I was really impressed. The scenes of empty London in particular were stunning in a movie theatre. Overall I felt that the ways in which Boyle created tension were compelling. Rather …
Does anyone else feel like the game is rigged? That the media plays at reporting the primaries but really dictates their results? Does anyone else have a queasy feeling in the pit of their stomach and the creeping fear that, because ALL of our politicians are bought and paid for, that we will never see …