Monthly Archives: August 2011

Joe Walsh, Idiot

No, not that Joe Walsh. This one:

“It’s pathetic. I’ve never known a president who refuses to accept responsibility for anything.”

...whined teabagger congressman, Joe Walsh. Well, guess what, deadbeat dad, you still don't know such a President!

  1. Obama: I accept the responsibility...
  2. "Listen, I'll take responsibility. I'm the President."
  3. 'In case you were wondering who's responsible, I take responsibility,'
  4. Security failure 'my responsibility'
  5. "As president I take responsibility" for a failure to restore job growth more quickly.
  6. Ultimately I have to take responsibility...
  7. etc.

A Freakin Violet

Nikon N80, 105mm macro, Fuji Sensia 100 (repost)

Some friends of ours have a huge copy of this hanging in their bathroom. It's pretty wild looking when it's bigger than your head.

RASH

Rumor goes in, bounces around a bit, eventually reaches a state of excitation and polarization sufficient to break through the normally impenetrable barrier that separates blogs from the mainstream media. And the result is a searing stream of FALSE that burns everything it touches.

It’s like a LASER, but with nonsense as input and paid hacks as the oscillator. I shall call it the RASH : Rumor Amplification by Stimulation of Hacks.

Pump the propaganda! Pump it!

98 tomorrow?

As usual.
Good time for the A/C to die!

Such problems. There are people out there who don't even have internet access so they could get a blog on which to complain about such things!

Limbo

This game is really really great. Not only is it a fun side-scrolling puzzle game, it's the best looking game I've ever seen, and it's all rendered in dark grays. The view zooms in and out depending on where you are, and the world goes out of focus on the edges of the screen, which, along with the blurred background (and foreground) creates a nice feeling of walking through a 3D world. Plus, it's done in all dark grays, with a constant subtle flicker and grain that gives it the appearance of old B&W film.

The solutions to most of the puzzles are hard enough to be challenging, and many of them are hilarious - in a grim and absurd way - but a few were really subtle, and I had to peek at a walkthrough a couple of times. Still, it's not as difficult as the very similar 2D side-scrolling puzzler, Braid, which was kind of over-the-top hard, at times. This was just right.

It's quick, too. I got through it in a few afternoons.

Start Your iPods

Shuffle. Five. Describe.

  1. Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians- Birds In Perspex (live, BBC). One of my favorite RH & Es tunes, this version especially. I played this album ("Perspex Island"), David Byrne's self-titled solo album, and Adrian Belew's "Here", constantly, the summer of 1994. T'was a summer of pleasant melodic adult-alternative. Though I was only 23.
  2. Beck - Sing It Again. A simple country waltz: finger-plucked acoustic, brushed drums, piano, some kind of slide guitar haunting the background, a harmonica. I'm sure a lot of people only know Beck's dense, sample-heavy rap and/or dance songs. But, he has albums full of tunes which sound nothing at all like "Loser" or "Devil's Haircut"; one of the bleakest records I have is his "Sea Change". Quite the talent, that Beck.
  3. Sunny Day Real Estate - Song About An Angel. My favorite SDRE song. Quiet-loud-louder - repeat, beautifully melodic, and the lyrics are completely unintelligible and impenetrable.
  4. Pixies - Santo. From their "Complete B-sides" collection. The mixed Spanish/English lyrics and shouty delivery makes this sound like a "Surfer Rosa" outtake. But it was the B-side for "Dig For Fire", from "Bossanova". Shows what I know.
  5. Belly - Stay.This pretty thing is the last song on "Star", closing that awesome album with a sweet, warm hug. A YouTube search for this brings up countless videos of fat bellies, pregnant women, exercise videos.

Do it.