- Getting up before 5am is a suck. #yawn #
- Reading @plasmatron’s setlist reports has me all giddy, wondering what I’ll hear in two weeks. I can haz “My Father My King” encore? #
- Deli breakfast down my neck. Let the second half of the day begin! #
- @shaiza But very in line with their current window display. And it got people talking! To wit: you tweeted for the first time in months. 🙂 in reply to shaiza #
- RT @FakeSteveHarper: It would be nice to gain the ~10k followers I need to pass @pmharper. Someone get that done for me, ok? #followfriday #
- Promo email from Porter Airlines. No text, images don’t load, ‘contact us’ and ‘unsubscribe’ links broken. #emailmarketingfail #flyporter #
- i think i’ve found my brother’s early christmas gift: http://is.gd/ukN4 #
- Done, heading home. Maybe there’s something to be said for getting to work crazy-early… #
- “What we don’t know could fill a truck. What we don’t know cannot hurt us.” ♫ http://blip.fm/~4wq3u #
- This Bill Moyers interview with The Wire writer David Simon is exceptional. http://is.gd/t4le #
- @spotlightcity We ended up going more pubby. Jason George. in reply to spotlightcity #
- Note to self: if you want to stay awake past 11, don’t get up before 5. I. Am. So. Old. #
Category: General
And no, you could not paint this yourself
If you like Mark Rothko’s paintings as much as I do, you’ll be happy to know that the Tate Modern (which houses many of his works, including the Seagram murals which I’ve sampled above) has created a website where you can take a panoramic look at their Rothko exhibit.
[via the excellent Open Culture]
The gamut of opinions
Dumb. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Disgusting. Stealing someone’s mail carries a stiffer punishment.
Want. Doublewant. Want for Nellie (’cause she does that).
Funny. But only if you’ve seen the original.
Six short years to listen to their scattered, rambling memories
I don’t know why the following fascinates me so, but it does: in about six years, give or take, there will be no one left alive who was born in the 1800s.
Based on the birth dates of the people officially recognized as the world’s oldest, and assuming top-end outlier lifespans remains roughly constant, some time in 2014 we should see the death of the last person whose life spans three centuries. I know that doesn’t really mean anything; it’s just a random distribution of regularly-occurring events around arbitrary milestones, but still…it seems weird. Or rather, it seems wonderful that someone alive today saw the death and birth of two centuries, and also seems vaguely sad that after they pass on we won’t see another of their kind for 86 years.
OK, that’s enough of that, I need to lighten the mood in here a little. Who’s up for some Tequila and a round of Yahtzee? We can call it Yahtzila. Or Tequizee, that’s fine…I’m not married to either.
Picture a road sign with a little animated diggy-guy
I’m changing my blog template and messing with some of the widgets, so pardon any wonkiness you may see with my blog template today.
UPDATE: I think I’m done. Quite pleased with this new theme too. I dig the rotating banner image at the top. Anyone have an opinion on the new look?
[tags]maintenance[/tags]
"I'm not a monster…I'm just ahead of the curve."
Deary me, I somehow managed to forget to blog about seeing The Dark Knight (imdb | rotten tomatoes). Nellie reminded me tonight while we were having a drink and some food at C’est What. That was tasty, by the way, even if they didn’t have half the beer I wanted.
Anyway…TDK. I liked it lots and lots. I liked that they finally introduced Bruce Wayne’s internal conflict into the series, the fact that he doesn’t want to be Batman, but maybe secretly he needs to be. I liked that Christopher Nolan doesn’t film fight scenes by just jump-cutting together dozens of quarter-second snippets. I liked that Maggie Gyllenhaal was in it instead of Katie Holmes. I liked that the batvehicles, as bizarre as they looked, moved like real vehicles. I liked how dark (mood, not lighting) it was…Batman’s supposed to be dark. Most of all, I liked that for all the hype I’d heard about how good Heath Ledger was as The Joker, I was still blown away. He was very good, and very scary. Nicholson was very good, but never scary.
I didn’t like that Christian Bale sounds like Tom Waits when he does the Batman voice and I didn’t like that they took Aaron Eckhart’s* storyline too far. Those are minor complaints, though; it was an excellent film.
* did anyone else keep thinking about the crooked cop from the Batman every time he was on the screen? “Eckhart…think about the future!” [blam!]
[tags]c’est what, the dark knight, batman[/tags]
Smarter, relieved, sleepier
While we’ve kind of had an Olympic theme running (ha ha) throughout our MBA program — we started in 2004, the year of the Athens games and we’re finishing just in time for Beijing — I didn’t realize the timing worked out so well. We actually write our last exam on one of the last days of the games, and the closing ceremonies will take place on the 24th…just as we close out our final MBA week and return home. I don’t think they planned it like this either; the class schedule’s been set since 2004 and I don’t think the Olympics schedule has been out that long.
On that subject, I guess I’ll miss the last week of the Olympics. But I guess I won’t mind that so much.
[tags]mba, olympics[/tags]
Old Germany
Last night some of us drove to Amherst, a nearby town, for some dinner. My brother had eaten at a new German restaurant in town the last time he was here, and he quite liked it, so we opted for that. It wasn’t a hard choice; there’s just never been a good restaurant in this town for as long as I can remember.
What a pleasant surprise the Old Germany restaurant was. We all left stuffed full of delicious food (enormous hunks of meat & fish, spaetzle, mashed potatoes, etc.) and proper (Lowenbrau! Erdinger!) German beer. The couple who owns the restaurant, one cook and one server, were very pleasant and friendly. It was extremely reasonably priced too: I had fresh bread, tasty garden salad, delicious Talapia in a mustard sauce, lots of mashed potatoes and two large beers for $22, tax in.
The ambiance is a little weird, since it’s built in an old Dairy Queen (and even still has some of the cheap plastic seating) but the food more than makes up for it. Anyway, when you have nine family members, three of whom are under the age of 10, you just make your own ambiance.
[tags]old germany restaurant, amherst[/tags]
MiMiMiMi (translated: "Habanera")
Ever since I was a kid, Beaker (from the Muppets) has cracked me up. No other character from the show ever really made me laugh, but man…Beaker would get me every time. So when I watched the new virals that’ve been dropped on YouTube, this one made me pretty happy:
[tags]muppets, beaker[/tags]
Even better than cardamom made
More summerlicious-ness tonight, this time at Amaya. I’d heard great things about it, but…wow. Fantastic. I had the savory chaat, seafood xacutti, frozen mango mousse and a couple of Kingfishers. Nellie had the pakoras, vegetarian thali and spiced brownie. She also had a glass of wine, and T-Bone had a couple; it’s a good place to get wine as the two owners are sommeliers, and that knowledge and enthusiasm for wine seems to have trickled down to the servers.
If you want more detail, the full menu is on the Summerlicious site. I’m still full, but my mouth is watering again just reading it.
All that, and it was half the cost of our disappointing night at Lobby earlier in the week. No question about it: we’ll be heading back there soon.
[tags]amaya restaurant, summerlicious[/tags]
Skirl | Dan Dickinson 