June 10, 2023

2023.06.10
My tuba is reloaded for Boston Pride March today

June 10, 2022

2022.06.10

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— January 6th Committee (@January6thCmte) June 10, 2022



June 10, 2021

2021.06.10
Happy Blade Runner 2049 Day!
Why the Red Sox = Dumb Cheap Skates
My longhouse is perfectly constructed. Every morning when I wake up in bed at the far end of my longhouse, I say my syllable. Then I spend all day sitting in bed. By sunset my syllable has traveled to the other end of my longhouse and back, and as it smacks me in the head, I fall asleep. My longhouse is perfectly constructed.
dwergaz

June 10, 2020

2020.06.10
Heh, this is pretty cool... ZeroPage reviews new Atari homebrews with a Twitch livestream - tonight they will cover my own "Loaded4Bear AI"
My devblog Atari 2600 Programming: 88 lines about 32 pixels is a joke I'm not sure many people besides me can love.

Smart people always wear glasses because their brains turn down the graphical settings to run faster and get higher IQ
This is a great point and ties into the way I think I sometimes perform smarter than I actually am... I skim information very quickly (obvious parallel to viewing the world at a lower-res setting, or a bit of blurred vision!) and get the gist, and understand how things relate. But I'm often oblivious to fine detail.

June 10, 2019

2019.06.10
*event happens* but how does this affect Me, the Protagonist of Reality

June 10, 2018

2018.06.10
A week before his suicide, Anthony Bourdain bought an artwork called: "The sky is falling, I am learning to live with it.", as tweeted by the artist John Lurie.

June 10, 2017

2017.06.10
BABAM! with Senator Elizabeth Warren...




June 10, 2016

2016.06.10
I know sleep paralysis happens because the brain gets disconnected from controlling the body, so as to minimize taking in action in the real world based on the dream (but sometimes we notice, or there's otherwise a glitch) But there must be some similar paralysis of the gullibility part of the brain; the part of our heads that says "no, that's just weird and wacky" is weirdly suppressed.
Just read that today is kind of a palindrome 6 10 2016

June 10, 2015

2015.06.10
Ha, I will be bringing my Sousaphone and helping out the "Brass Republic Band" from Western MA in Boston's Pride Parade on Saturday.

I guess by now I've earned my "Staunch Ally" card...
India does not have the knee-jerk "Thank You" that the USA has. Sort of like "Have a Good Day", I didn't realize this kind of Thank You is not universal. On the one hand, of course the American "Thank You" can run a little shallow, but I also think it is reasonably heartfelt. An Indian coworker accepts my armchair culture analysis that India emphasizes roles and structure and what you "should do", while the USA has that "rugged individualism" tradition, so the "Thank You"s are a recognition that "I recognize you didn't have to do that, so thanks".

I do so dig thinking about cultural differences use of language and gestures can imply, even if it's too easy to do it a bit sophomorica Just-So-Story-wise.

Love Blender

With appropriate disclaimers in how it can be an overwrought song, I'm a little bummed that with the multitude variants of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, most leave out the original's final verse:
I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though
It all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
This was played at Cora's baptism and I'll be honest, it got me a little misty.

June 10, 2014

2014.06.10
Boston: timelapsed, super-saturated, and tilt-shifted. I'm kind of proud to be working so close to so much of this...

On an Amtrak train back to Boston, drinking Cabernet Sauvignon from a box. (Kinda like a juice box for grownups)

Livin' the dream, is what I'm saying here.

June 10, 2013

2013.06.10
There's a set of behind the scenes movie photos making the round-- my favorite is still that header they use of Brigitte Helm in Metropolis but Frankenstein having tea and a smoke is awesome:


Sometimes I wish "playback at 1.5x or 2x speed" was standard for all video, especially keynote presentations and TED-like talks.

not minute

2012.06.10

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Manute Bol playing defense in 1984. I think about this in comparison to the "world's heaviest person" photos from a while back, and man. The human phenotype is kind of nuts! via
I love what foreign travel guides have to say about my country. It's a good way of getting a more objective view.
Idea: Term Limits for the Supreme Term Limits for the Supreme Court... we need this.
sexy singles in your area... 20 meters... 10 meters... 5 meters... oh god they're in the ventilation ducts!

Outta ~2200 songs in iTunes I consider listenable (that's out of 8500 songs total), around 50 I rank 5 stars. I'm gonna use This Is My Jam for 'em this year, starting from the top: Groove is in the Heart by Deee-lite.

scardycat!

2011.06.10

--via Bill the Splut. Love the soundtrack
Lodsys should have no problems with the "non-obviousness" of their patent-- in that it's 100% non-obvious that has f***-all to do with actual apps.

monstrous

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2010.06.10

--from the Don Kenn Gallery -- guess these are all on Post-Its? Like Daphaknee said it's a bit like Ed Gorey does Where The Wild Things Are... great stuff!
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/08/03/chillax/ defense of new wordisms and against "not a real word" apologia.
I'd like to see a Steve Jobs keynote for, say, a Snickers bar... "Oh, and one more thing: Nougat. An entire layer of pure peanut nougat."
Initial iPhone 4 review and An Android User looks at iPhone 4 news -loved the positive takes on the iPhone vs. Android issue, even with different favorites. I'm so sick of negativity in general.

play that funky music white toy

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2009.06.10
Another Etcha-a-Sketch Animator miniproject... I'm not sure if I ever tried to use it as a Poor Man's Music Sequencer before.

Random other Etch-A-Sketch Animator links, my use of it as a Poor Man's Web Cam (virtual version), the fun animations that came in the instructions with it back in the day, and a commercial that shows just how rad it was.

And make no mistake - it was pretty rad. 12 frames of 40x30 pixels (oddly, the exact same size I had chosen for small gif cinema) and the ability to string them together in any order, up to 96 steps, its neat screechy (but not generally grating) sounds, and an interface that was easy enough to learn, but lacked any editing tools beyond "copy and paste this whole frame", so if a kid really wanted to make something cool, they really had to think it out a bit...
One of the worst bits about tinyurl'ing in twitter is when you open a series of links in tabs and have lost which page came from where...
USA might stay dominant because of...English? - USA might stay dominant because of...English? Like England did?
Moslems dig on green, in part it's in the middle of the spectrum. I dig that logic of moderation, and like green, though I can't decide if my "favorite" is green or blue.
bankruptcy as shipwreck - bankruptcy as shipwreck infographic

bad news from akihabara

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2008.06.10
Josh, my friend who hosted me when I visited Japan, wrote with some sad news from Japan (I supplemented with a few photo links):
Some guy drove his SUV into a group of 18 people in Akihabara, got out and stabbed 8 to death because he hates society.

Killed them in front of the game arcade that you and I went into. The one where we went up to the top floor and you took a picture of the woman dancing.

By the way, the street in Akihabara that is closed on Sundays and has all the crossdressers and maids, as well as the one in Harajuku, have been closed to those kinds of activities since May. Police allow cars on the roads, hence the the guy this afternoon, and detain any people crossdressing and performing.

Some lawmakers decreed that this kind of behavior was immoral and antisocial.

Too bad they don't feel that way about killing being immoral. Its just an expression of human dissatisfaction with society.
I share Josh's anger with this. Besides the general split about the value of individual human lives between Japan and the West, it reveals the right wing element that still lurks under some parts of Japanese politics (there are out and out fascist parties that people politely ignore, despite their political vans on the street.)

I'm almost equally distressed by a reversal of the social tolerance, this sense of I can do my thing, you can do your thing, that has been a hallmark of much of Japanese society.


luggage with the ex's name on the tag, old love letters from the gf. while moving, mourn for what you will miss, or what you have already?
I'm impressed at how many people argue their case on wikipedia discussion pages rather than just making the edit.
Ah, the discrete charm of the summer cold. A scratchy throat has a different character while one is walking in a oddly strong hot wind.

mr. hat, mc ballyhoo, and you

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2007.06.10
So this is old news, but it came up recently, and I wanted to record the link: South Park's Mr. Hat is based on a "real" educational puppet called "High Hat". And I had lessons using him at St. Pats in Salamanca NY... I don't remember there being a puppet, but sheets and cards and general educational materials (though, Hmmm, I thought I remembered the hat coming over the character's eyes, unlike this current one... has South Park overwritten my childhood memories?)

Actually I guess this came up because the Mario Party series released their first Wii entry (they're already up to 8) and the "host" is "MC Ballyhoo". (Actually, they've had a lot of different hosts over the series... I think it would've been better if they stuck with one iconic mascot. Anyway.) And in this case, the eyes belong to the hat itself, "Big Top". I guess there might be a shade of the Harry Potter sorting hat. (Tangential Wikipedia link: Magical Objects in Harry Potter) (Meta-tangent... I like the argument about the "Nimbus 2000" on Broomsticks in Harry Potter, just the way the page exhibits a kind of Wiki "multiple personality disorder" about how it compares to the "Firebolt", and if that means if "fastest model yet" was wrong, or how exactly the timing works out, etc...)

So after the EBling's birthday party (which also acted as a bit of a housewarming, despite much work needing doing before move-in) we tried a little Mario Party 8. The minigames all seemed pretty solid, which is the important thing, but they seem to have cut out the ability to unlock all the games for free play by not letting people set all 4 players to computer control. So either humans have to play that rather slowly placed board game, bleh, or maybe I can load a save game from the Internet...

i scream, you scream... no really, there's reason to scream here

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2006.06.10
Ksenia was a little miffed that I was picking on the Russian dish that is meat in gelatin. (I was talking about how tough it was going to be to count calories at her Aunt's birthday dinner.) I told her that the second "my" culture produced, say, pepperoni ice cream, with real slices of pepperoni in it, then she could make fun of that.

It's probably not always easy to be my girlfriend.


Quotes and Video of the Moment
I am nuts for information-- as are we all, I suspect, most real men and women. I can't get enough of the stuff. When I'm clicking through the hundreds of E-mail messages that await me each morning, sometimes I imagine I'm a mighty information whale, sifting through thousands of tiny (but nutritious!) krill bits. Yum! Whether it's reading the cereal box or scanning the advertisment slide show some genius thought to project on the big screen at the movie theater, my appetite for information is unquenchable.
Joshua Quittner in 1998
That's the simplest way to explain [podcasting]. We are a factory that produces apple pies for whales.

Underwear of the Moment
Boxers? Briefs? Slate urges men to have the best of both worlds!

They make a strong case. I've got a pair myself, maybe I should consider more.

sign of the z!

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2005.06.10
It's Ksenia's Aunt's birthday, and we found out she wanted the video of "The Thorn Birds" miniseries from the 80s.

Man is this thing hard to find...I must have called and/or checked like 7 places. Every place has like 4 copies of the crappy sequel "The Lost Years" and none of the original, even the places I called and asked "is this in stock?" "well, our computer says it is." Finally we stumble into Borders right as it's about to close and find their one copy.

Anyway, I think it's so funny in a pathetic way when a store clerk in a bookstore or place with DVDs says "we don't have that in stock, but we could order it for you..." I worry that they don't understand that their niche (for me) in a post-Amazon.com is totally dependent on instant gratification. I guess there might be some people who don't use the 'Net, or maybe people are smarter than me and realize they can save on shipping or something, but still, it seems really optimistic.

Apropos of nothing: I was paging through my co-worker's kid's coloring book in English and Spanish and found out that "Zorro" is Spanish for "Fox". All this time, a few years of Spanish, and I never even noticed. I always thought Zorro was just a guy's made-up name. (And actually now I'm almost surprised it's not "El Zorro".) Learn something new every day...some days, two things!


Photoshoppery of the Moment
--from a Worth 1000 Great M.C. Escher contest. Great stuff.


i'm listening to the universe weep

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2004.06.10
Phew, like I said in yesterday's comments, it mighta been "worst. kisrael. ever." We might be going through some lean times here for a bit, content-wise, but I'm sure the site will bounce back once my schedule returns to normal. And once I find out where the batteries for my wireless mouse are....


Comic of the Moment
Buttercup Festival is a really lovely cartoon. Worth clicking through 'em all, but if you're in a hurry, see it mournful (or maybe just drugged out), optimistic in the face of mortality, and just plain wistful



Games Article of the Moment
With more and more realistic humans in video games, their creators are finding themselves stuck in the uncanny valley: so realistic that you start focusing on the unreality, and they seem like zombies...it makes me wonder if we process it with different parts of our brain. Most people can easily kind of lose themselves in a cartoon world, where everything is represented realistically. But on the other hand, the part of our brain that recognizes "real things" is pretty advanced and hard to fool...(Come to think of it, Wired talked about this already.)


Technology of the Moment
It's hard not to love the combination PDA/tricorder and Jedi floating practice droid NASA would like to put up their with the astronauts. Though I can just see the horror film potential now, if they somehow start running amuck...talk about having no place to run, no place to hide...(and judging by the sidebar photo, it's a lot bigger than I imagined, like medicine-ball sized.)

sloth and fear

(2 comments)
2003.06.10
Quote of the Moment
My favorite piece of information is that Branwell Bronte, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantlepiece, in order to prove it could be done. This is not true, in fact. My absolute favorite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.
Douglas Adams, "The Salmon of Doubt".
Another one of those English atheists I was talking about yesterday, actually. I wish I could find out more about the first claim.


Monosyllables of the Moment
WMD and Al-Qaeda and 2 years: Yikes. Tom Ridge and budgets and cargo scanning: Ugh. Yeesh, it's like we can only hope that this report was made in the same state of mind as the reports of ready-to-go WMD in Iraq...


Funny of the Moment
"Safe Sex", get it? Grabbed from Ross. Reminds me of my old similar cartoons for corkscrew and checkmate.


Linkback of the Moment
Speaking of sloths...my seventh grade story 6 Toed 1 Eyed Battery Operated Laser Sloths just got some attention on the front page of boingboing...I guess now is the time to fess up that the concept and general design for Puddo, the "huge, hungry, friendly pudding being" was ripped off from the J.D. Castens game Rebound in Antic computer magazine. And "The Place Where It All Is" has a few features in common with Loony Tune's "Wackyland". Ah well, "weak artists borrow, great artists steal". Especially in middle school. (Where I had myself called by my middle name "Logan", in case anyone was wondering about the title page.)

drip drip drip

2002.06.10
Idea of the Moment
The term "surfing the Net" is an insult to surfers--and nets. I was on this web site called "I Just Got Out of the Shower." It's people from around the world talking about how they're still a little wet. And when you dry, you get off it. Isn't it great how the Internet is going to bring us all together?
Bob Odenkirk.
I have a search of grateful that he didn't give the site name as "IJustGotOutOfTheShower.com". Of course, these days, there's absolutely no way you could publicize such a site without looking like a porn fetish site.


Link of the Moment
craigslist is one of the oldest community sites out there. There are even subsites for various cities, including Boston. (You can get a chuckle from best of craigslist)

Even thought part of the wonder of the Internet (Usenet and the web) is that it brings people together based on common interest and not accident of geography, it would be cool if there were better regional representation online. Someplace where I could go and talk about the Waltham high school hockey team, who won the state championship this Spring (I've seen banners around.)

like a virgin

2001.06.10
Quote of the Moment
My fourteen-year-old daughter [Laura]'s face and arms were covered in alchemical and zodiacial symbols in iridescent reds greens and blues. ... She stared at me defiantly, as if I'd somehow express disapproval. ...
Laura said, 'Did you know that Isaac Newton spent more time on alchemy then he did on the theory of gravity?'
'Yes. Did you know he died a virgin? role models are great, aren't they?'
"Silver Fire", Luminous, Greg Egan

News of the Moment
From The Telegraph, it's the UK view on US drinking age laws. Mentions that Elizabeth Dole would like to see the drinking age raised to 24. Such unbridled insanity. I still think there's something to the old saw that when we're considered old enough to fight for our country, we should be able to get a frickin' beer.

Superhero stands arms akimbo.  Below him the city is a neon sprawl.  He aches.  Too many arch-villains battled, too many last minute rescues.  Thanks to certain fictional characters the world expects superhero to be invulnerable.  But he's not.  Superpowers are wear and tear on a body- the knees and back especially.  And such bad karma- encountering all that evil and having all that power.  You don't think evildoers try to make sweet sounding deals?  As if superpowers and good intentions automatically came bundled with super morals.  But now the city sleeps safely, and superhero calls it a day.
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