Monthly Archives: June 2008

Blogging the Class: Week 5

Tonight’s class started off by demonstrating a camera obscura constructed by taping black tarp over the windows except for a penny-sized hole cut out of a flattened piece of soda can. When we killed the lights, the whole room was … Continue reading

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Netflix Customer Service For the Win

Proving once again that its customer service department listens and acts, Netflix has decided to keep profiles after all. Less than two weeks after pissing off hordes of subscribers, Netflix sent out this glorious message: Thanks for listening, guys. The … Continue reading

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Ansel Olson

As if you couldn’t tell, I’m hopped-up on photography these days. I’m also, as you may have noticed, a fan of my locality, Richmond, VA. It’s truly a shame, then, that it’s taken me this long to highlight the photography … Continue reading

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Wall-E End Credits

Okay, there are enough gushing reviews of Pixar’s latest release, Wall-E, that I needn’t muddy the waters with my lesser writing skills. I loved it. Best movie of the year so far in my opinion. This post, on the other … Continue reading

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Picture Imperfect

Ten fresh frames on my Flickr pro-feezy.

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Debts to Society

Today I was thinking about our national debt in the United States, as of this entry estimated at about $9.3 TRILLION, or nearly $31,000 per person. This got me wondering whether other industrialized nations suffered from similar financial problems. So … Continue reading

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Land AND Sea Yacht

Yes, it’s conspicuous consumption. Yes, it’s impractical. Yes, it’s so awesome my head asplode. BEHOLD! The Terra Wind Amphibious RV: (via Uncrate)

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Outsourcing Human Memory

There’s an article in The Atlantic making its rounds ’round the blogosphere about the affects on the human mind of the Internet and its immediate information availability. The general idea is that with the advance of the Internet the very … Continue reading

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The Ha-Ha-Happening

Oh boy, where do I start? The only reason I went to see Shyamalan’s waste of celluloid, The Happening, was because Val really wanted to see it, and wanted me along for the ride so she’d have an arm or … Continue reading

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Park

This one is hilarious, but if you’re at work or are sensitive to profanity, beware some of the language… Park from Amir on Vimeo. (via Jakob Lodwick)

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