Archive for October, 2008
Apparently what I bought off of Ebay the other week is the "Model T" of record players. You have to take the platter off and move the belt by hand to a different bit of the axle to switch between 45 and 33 rpm. By hand. Pretty soon I'll be smoking a pipe and predicting the weather with my aches.
Now that the new Housing Works website is up ad running, it seems only fair to also link to our online auctions/buy-it-now store, which has technically been in soft launch for like two months.
Thanks to the valiant combined efforts of the Housing Works staff and Happy Cog, the new Housing Works website is live.
The result seems to be essentially meaningless, I think because the sample size is underwhelming. Might make more sense divided into pre-tv and post-tv. Notes: Carter's little interpolated grin is charming, G. W. Bush's hook hands less so; Madison was really small, and Taft was not.
Note: the cupcake was not served by Building on Bond, as they are apparently not serving food till later in the year, or something? The cupcake was from the people at the Six Point Beer Garden thinger at Atlantic Antic, and I was dumb and didn't record the name of their cupcake-making operation.
Kio is actually super excited about the cupcake.
Moriah and I made some ice cream, and I wanted crumbles in it. We almost bought cookies but it was agreed that graham cracker would be way better. I got to add the cinnamon and sugar.
Taken mostly so I can remember to go back and take a better picture with a not-iPhone camera.
Flash app to upload, edit and create ringtones from mp3s.
"They just didn't have anything, just very poor people who live out on the steppes. You could tell by the way they were dressed. It was like 'humm … these aren't rescue guys, these aren't SAR (Search and Rescue).'"
The "Exhibition Preparation" section is, of course, particularly fascinating.
Visual distribution of electoral votes for every single presidential election in US history.
More than a half hour of Bass discussing title design.
So that's what pandas are good for.
I'm admittedly somewhat late to the party here, and nowhere on this list will you find "taking a break for a few months because we broke it", but for all I know this is a nice rundown of the sorts of things we might expect to be discovered or confirmed by the LHC.
"Since 1983, in addition to his work on and about the violin, Jon Rose has been bowing and recording the music of Fences worldwide. A wide range of atmospheric music can be coaxed from these ubiquitous landmarks."
"We always talk about New York as a 'global city,' but I think we have too much of a two-dimensional view of where it begins and ends. The same way that millions of people flooded into the city—for the first time, in a very concrete and dynamic way, New York has sent colonies to other places."
