Posts Tagged ‘ fun ’

I first heard of Amanda Palmer when Neil Gaiman started writing short stories for her. Then started paying attention when Neil and Amanda started dating. I can’t stand much of her music at once, but a song or two at a time… whoa. Utterly, insanely, intense and awesome.
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Title: Daemon Author: Daniel Suarez Media: Audiobook Date: February 2010 Rating: 10/10 A famous videogame designer dies, unleashing an automated computer program that begins infiltrating corporate networks and setting up a new post-government world order. Sure it’s silly, over-reaching, and features a Mad Max degree of car-as-weapon fetishism… but this is a fun read...
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As promised, I spent this evening constructing a short series of sentences from the titles of songs in my iTunes library. The result is a bit depressing, but I like it: “You oughta know tits on the radio always turn me around. Your time is gonna come. Touch me, feel me, out of control...
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Tomorrow the wife and I are going to play a little game… No, you sick little puppy, nothing like that. We are just both going to do a little music library challenge. It will go something like this: Come up with a playlist in which the order of songs makes as many intelligible statements...
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This is such wonderful news. About a year ago Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer admitted that they were dating. Neil initially tried to hint this to his family by sending a photo of the two of them cooking dinner together, to which they only noticed that he had bought a new and shiny refrigerator....
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This song popped up on random play and made my day about 7% better. Few things are as amusing as a good Jonathan Coulton song, if only because he is a nerd like the rest of us (ok, except that he can actually play an instrument). Something about a song about Ikea appeals to...
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I’ve spent much of this evening coding. The result is a bit of code-hacking that is not pretty, but it works. The goal is a tool for quickly creating QR codes containing simple text or URLs on a mac. OK… Step 1 is to follow all instructions from this website. There are a couple...
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I spent the morning repairing the mortise lock on my front door. It had stopped functioning reliably about a week ago, leaving me grumbling and having to go in by the back door because the bothersome lock wouldn’t turn. I did a little googling, but (as with my search for clockwork diagrams) I had...
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This evening the wife and I sat down for a friendly game of Magic. An hour later, the dust and grime cleared away to revel her dancing a little victory jig, as I lay bleeding and battered upon the ground. (This metaphorical scene is almost true to life). I played my new green/white lifegain...
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