Archives for November, 2007
What you’re looking at here is one small slice of a waveform graph of my music listening habits over the last year, as recorded via last.fm. I generated this using the service at LastGraph, which makes it super easy by just giving your last.fm username and a date range. The guy who made LastGraph, Andrew [...]
Last week, Annie and I went to Seattle to see the special two-hour episode of Galactica, Razor. Microsoft was sponsoring a free screening in select cities, and one of the theaters happens to be near Annie’s parents, and we weren’t going to pass up the chance to see Galactica on the big screen. It was [...]
“Implication is more efficient than simulation.” – Don Hopkins, summarizing Will Wright, discussing why SimCity isn’t as realistic as it appears. Update: Edited to properly attribute the quote to Don Hopkins, based on his comment below.
This magazine cover is a perfect example of why you should always have someone else review any art decisions you make. There are several things in this illustration that don’t make any sense… The kid on the left, I assume, is supposed to represent current, cutting-edge technology — hence, the Web 2.0 shirt — so [...]
Annie: “I just wanted to let you know that I was right, she was pooping.” Scott: “This is the weirdest phone call I’ve ever received.” – Annie called me about ten minutes after I left the house to tell me this.
“The Web has given angry and vitriolic people more of a voice in public discourse. People in the past who have been on the nutty fringe of political life, who were more or less voiceless, have now been given an inexpensive and easily accessible soapbox, a blog.” – Former Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, [...]
“I was a baker. You can’t just turn up the oven and expect to take the bread out sooner.” – Eric Danielson, NorthTemple.com QA lead, commenting on the futility of trying to rush some kinds of development.
As far as he can tell, Dr. Robert Morgan (played by Vincent Price) is the only survivor of a plague that turns its victims into shuffling zombie-like vampires. Through flashbacks, we see the onset of the disease, and the growing horror as increasing numbers of people become infected, including Morgan’s wife and daughter. Price’s droning [...]
