Archive for the ‘Ramblings’ Category
Jeffery Zeldman is a web guru that I enjoy reading
From today’s Running woman and madman:
The whole thing is unconscious. It has the visual semantics, but not the intention, of cheesecake. She is simply late, happens to be beautiful, and isn’t dressed like an Anabaptist. Nevertheless, her passage fractures the Matrix.
Mmmmm, cheesecake.
An excerpt from Dexter Filkins’ account of his time in Iraq as a reporter for the NY Times:
Our leader that day was Sgt. Sam Williams, a 24-year-old from northern Michigan. Sam pointed to the top of the tower and told his men to fire. And so they did, guns singing, grenade launchers, machine guns, boom-boom-boom-boom. Horrendous and loud.
What if Miller is still alive? I thought. There was so much firing and so much stuff flying, bricks, shrapnel, bullets. Two marines were wounded. One of them was Lance Cpl. Demarkus Brown, a kid from Martinsville, Va., 22. The marines were raking the minaret, Demarkus was, too, and then he dropped his rifle and grabbed his right cheek. “I’m hit – I’m hit!” he said, panic in his eyes, real panic as if he was going to die. But the wound was small, and Demarkus was so young, he seemed like one of those kids on the playground who gets hurt every time. He seemed so frightened. He was killed a week later.
The young age of the soldiers struck me, as did the portrayal as Demarkus just before you find out he gets killed.
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Seriously, what the hell?
Trailer for Oliver Stone’s “W”
Zooey Deschanel
My Zooey Deschanel crush just got a little bit bigger:
City Yard
Some pics of the yard from Jess:
Pissing away my privacy…
I singed up for FriendFeed so anyone who is interested can easily stalk my online persona there.
Lunchtime Reading
- “What i good tequila?“, the followup and a related guide on drinking and buying tequila
- Lit 101 Class in Three Lines or Less
Why do eject buttons always go under the CD/DVD tray? When opening the tray you usually have to hit the button and move your hand so it’s not in the way, and then when the tray is open you can’t see it and have to bend under the tray to closeit. What kind of crap is that?
This has been bugging me for years.
Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)
55 minutes into the movie our protagonist spots the cops and guns it. Everything up to that point serves only to justify the 40 minute car chase that ensues.
Written, produced, directed, choreographed and performed by H.B. Halicki, also known as “the Car Crash King”.
You can find clips of the chase on YouTube, but I recommend picking up the DVD and watching it in decent quality.
