May 2008
186 posts
Smells strongly of Pop-Tarts here, while I read Amitabh Bachchan’s blog. Have sudden craving for chai and breakfast pastries.
Biking: Jamaica Pond > Arboretum > Forest Hills Cemetery > Ula Cafe.
“As the hedge-fund fiasco demonstrates, Democrats have turned the Senate into the...”
– “The Senate Caves,” Rolling Stone
Ugh, really want to go swimming, but can’t think of anywhere boston area that i’d want to go.
Hell, but Hil supporter argues that MI vote between Hil and [blank] was between “2 legitimate presendential preferences.”
MI Obama supporter argues the DNC should award delegates on polls, which show undecideds for O. I want him to win too, but come. on.
Effing clowns, both. Bye, MSNBC, I’m going outside to play in the imminent thunderstorm.
Attn salaryman sitting in his car, with Queen turned up to deafening levels, while reading the WSJ: keep on rocking in the free world, manh.
C: ...and be sure to spread bizarre disinformation about me to anyone who knew me in high school
A: oh no, i'll tell them the truth
A: after the third year you went crazy and joined a liberation army in tajikistan
A: last i saw you was on the BBC world
A: holding Natalie Portman hostage and demanding kosher pickles
“This is the impossible level, boys. Impossible doesn’t mean very difficult...”
– Lou Reed, from this unreleased Penn & Teller Sega game:
What do Neil Young and Tata Motors have in common? They’re both competing in the Auo X-Prize: http://twurl.nl/8f4syq
and we’re off: espresso + banana = my daily second wind.
Beyond Reach →
Rosebud diner for the all-nighter recovery!
The Smartfuel truck just got us a salute from some folks pumping gas in Manchester, NH.
So it’s not just the sketchy incumbent players stealing our WVO; individuals now stealing it to make biodiesel at home. damn! #Smartfuel
Exclusive: McClellan whacks Bush, White House... →
Holy shit, McClellan. Did NOT see that coming.
going running in the humid, between-rains time was a sweaty, exhausting mistake.
"thought leaders get pheltup" - foomandoonian →
hey, it’s my shitty pun! :)
love storms like this in the spring - they smell, sound, look, and feel perfect, from the lightning to the pressure in your eardrums…
bring on the thunder
Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine →
Coffee, I drink it black and by the bail. Late morning, trying to rally.
trying to kill mice. poison and sticky traps apparently not working. heavier weapons?
DailyGood: The B Corporation →
“We have reached the point at which creation, rather than attack, ought to be the first obligation of reformers. The social entrepreneurship movement is the first tip of this iceberg.”
Community Sites for Scientists and Physicians: The... →
Why Does This Prominent Amazon Researcher Face 14... →
Why Does This Prominent Amazon Researcher Face 14 Years in Prison for Biopiracy? http://www.wired.com/science/p… …He walks a few steps and then stops abruptly….
Playing foosball at Big City. I will never be good at this.
thinking I might just load up my bag with pbrs and bike around from park to park (if you’re reading this you should join)
horray for space probes with twitter feeds! @MarsPhoenix
How can you drive with your windows up? How?
Green Power Execs Start to Swagger →
James Kunstler interviews Jane Jacobs, 2000,... →
I really can’t stand Kunstler for long - he’s essentially a whiny Cassandra who moves from topic to topic as each sky refuses to fall - but when he gets up a good head of anti-suburbia steam, he can be pretty entertaining. Either way, he’s an interesting, polarizing personality. Jacobs is of course the mother of new urbanism, the queen of the anti-high-modernism charge; what she...
“Credit bubble, real estate bubble, oil bubble, currency bubble, commodity bubble...”
– Bruce Sterling (again. keep thinking i’m going to get bored with this guy, but then he drops another amazing little nugget, and i’m hooked again.)
The Last Bite →
marco: Overview of the world’s food system, the problems it creates, and the challenges it’s facing.
tuneage:
Ratatat - “Shiller” Ratatat have a...
why *IS* twitter so damn shaky?
Everything looks better when your head’s in the... →
Twittering while trackstanding: actual definition of douchebag.
Omg. but getting the nod from boston’s infamous ‘woop-woop’-bicycle-cart-with-flags guy while doing so: fucking priceless.