July 2010
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“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your...”
– Lawrence Krauss (via quote-book)
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“Pooping pigeons forced the Kings of Leon to abandon their St. Louis, Missouri,...”
– CNN
Cape Feare
Sideshow Bob: Farewell, Snake. May the next time we meet be under more felicitous circumstances.
Snake: Gah?
Sideshow Bob: Take care.
Snake: Bah.
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“More than 12,500 gays have been booted from the military since...”
– This is not okay. CNN
YouTube downloader update
I woke up this morning to find that the YouTube video downloader for Safari 5 was no longer working. It turned out that YouTube had changed some code around, so people using the Flash player (most people) could no longer download videos.
It has now been fixed, so if you use the extension, please upgrade to version 1.1.3. Sorry, and thanks.
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PBR explained
According to Wikipedia:
[PBR] has become popularly associated with the contemporary hipster counterculture. A possible contributing factor to the resurgence of Pabst Blue Ribbon is the lasting popularity (particularly among hipsters) of the cult film Blue Velvet, in which antagonist Frank Booth (played by Dennis Hopper) profanely declares its superiority over rival beer Heineken, in which he...
PBR
A rumination:
Scientists have confirmed that beer goggles are in fact real. However, scientists are still baffled as to why people continue to choose PBR.
I know right??
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Flickr reprocessing
I recently went back through all my pictures on Flickr, and reprocessed almost all of them.
Previously, I had imported my photos as RAW from my camera into iPhoto, dragged them from iPhoto to my desktop, and then used the Flickr Uploadr to put them online. I realized that this method loses a lot of the data (such as Picture Styles and EXIF details), since iPhoto doesn’t completely know how...
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Reformat
On Sunday, Kate and I were watching Bones using Netflix instant streaming. I closed my laptop to bring it to another room. When I opened it again, it was unresponsive. Oh great…
I forced a shut down, then booted up. Got to the log in screen fine. Tried to log into my main account. Brought me straight back to the login screen. Uh-oh.
The guest account logged in okay, so I decided to try...
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She & Him!
On thursday, I went to She & Him’s show at the House of Blues Boston with Kate and Jackie. The Chapin Sisters opened for them.
Musically, they were pretty good. They got better as their hour went on, especially when they added some of the members of She & Him for a fuller instrumentation. It turns out that the Sisters sing backup for She & Him, which I thought was pretty cool....
