11 Jun 09

it was bound to happen sooner or later...

david carradine crime scene/post-autopsy photos have been leaked to the interwebs (found ‘em last night on [not telling]).

you macabre sons of bitches will know where to find ‘em.

10 Jun 09
10 Jun 09

Summer Scabble! Tonight! Change of Location!

nycmeetups:

52books:

Tonight at 6:30p starts round one of the NYC Summer Scrabble Leage. Head to Fat Cat Billiards (75 Christopher St.) due to never ending city rain. And don’t worry about bringing boards as they provide them. See you there!

scabble? leage?

the ironing is delicious.

10 Jun 09
gpoyw
nintendo ds branded funhouse mirrors were installed in the bathrooms at revival edition

gpoyw

nintendo ds branded funhouse mirrors were installed in the bathrooms at revival edition

9 Jun 09
At revival (again) with Halley and bill cammack. Bill is evidently now mayor of this place, special day!
At revival (again) with Halley and bill cammack. Bill is evidently now mayor of this place, special day!
9 Jun 09
the slow lorus: nature’s cutest venomous animal.
still wanna tickle one?
yeah, you probably do. because you’re foolish.

the slow lorus: nature’s cutest venomous animal.

still wanna tickle one?

yeah, you probably do. because you’re foolish.

8 Jun 09
i’ve had a haynes manual for every car i’ve ever owned. and honestly, i think they have the coolest technical drawings on the planet.
i’ve had a haynes manual for every car i’ve ever owned. and honestly, i think they have the coolest technical drawings on the planet.
8 Jun 09

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

song for the accountants

-giant sand

album: purge & slouch

The debate among cultists who’ve supported Gelb for more than a decade is whether such albums reveal a dismaying lack of craft or are works of disjointed brilliance. Make no mistake: Purge and Slouch is lazy. Cut in a friend’s house, it’s an off-the-cuff jam session that should have been kept in a drawer until its bones could be picked for ideas.

-rolling stone magazine

and we all know just how much rolling stone sucks.

8 Jun 09
8 Jun 09

Battery Charges

falconieri:

AppleInsider:  300 charges typical,

Does this mean the battery will last you under one year?  I have never seen Apple post something like that.

that’s standard for lithium ion and lithium polymer cells. it refers to full cycles.

for comparison:

nickel metal hydride: 1000 cycles

nickel cadmium: 1800+ cycles

and don’t leave your machine plugged in all the time. when lithium-based cells are kept at a state of high charge for extended periods of time the lithium material tends to solidify (turn into metal) on the cathode, thereby removing usable chemistry and reducing the cell’s capacity and lifespan.

8 Jun 09

A Word On: Beacon's Closet

brianvan:

As I was in the neighborhood, I stopped in the Williamsburg location of Beacon’s Closet on Saturday. I’ve been there before and have been frustrated by the lack of mens’ offerings, but I thought I’d give it another try. My particular need: khaki shorts.

It took me 10 minutes to find the place where they keep mens’ shorts in there because they practically don’t exist. There’s a hanger rack where they keep them, and there were no more than a dozen on there. That’s their whole lineup. IN THE MIDDLE OF SUMMER. One pair was khaki. They were not even close to my size.

Meanwhile, they reject untold tons of clothes per year for trade-in because the stoopid fucking hipsters behind the intake counter are primarily obsessed with women’s couture. And they hate men. They keep the men’s section pitifully stocked. (for Christ’s sake, they turned away a like-new suit coat and many kinds of common-size dress pants about 6 months ago). I’m sure in the last month they’ve rejected about 20 of the exact kind of shorts I was looking for in my size.

FAIL.

Never going back.

(Old Navy has a 50% off men’s sale this week. I got what I needed there: 2 pairs of shorts for $20.)

yeah, that place is a fucking joke. i went there with my sister a few years back and she saw a shirt she had just seen at target priced at $21.00 … target’s price was $13.99.

secondly: i brought in some cd’s to sell around that same time and the obviously uneducated hipster shithead behind the counter didn’t want to buy moth by mick turner (guitarist from the dirty three), i had bought the cd from there two days prior, it was on their staff picks shelf.

8 Jun 09
lumber:sunnycyl:winstonwolfe:

Stevie Wonder 1974  © Al Satterwhite
Woke up to some Stevie Wonder on shuffle this morning. That’ll work.

photographer’s standpoint: just because your 20mm lens can open to f1.2 doesn’t mean that it always should. there is a time and a place for a 1 cm DoF, this was not one of those times.

lumber:sunnycyl:winstonwolfe:

Stevie Wonder 1974  © Al Satterwhite

Woke up to some Stevie Wonder on shuffle this morning. That’ll work.

photographer’s standpoint: just because your 20mm lens can open to f1.2 doesn’t mean that it always should. there is a time and a place for a 1 cm DoF, this was not one of those times.

7 Jun 09
paint bucket made quick work of this maze…
clever.

paint bucket made quick work of this maze

clever.

6 Jun 09
cool!
thanks to szymon’s post, i found out that my time dilation tattoo is on the discover magazine blog.
check out the whole set, there’s some pretty interesting work.

cool!

thanks to szymon’s post, i found out that my time dilation tattoo is on the discover magazine blog.

check out the whole set, there’s some pretty interesting work.

5 Jun 09

I’ll do you on the ferry like its fucking Titanic

Todd [talking about taking the Staten Island Ferry] (via loosegoose) (via morningstar)

i recommend the starboard balcony off the hurricane deck if you’re going to attempt this on the way to s.i., port if you’re going to do it on the way back (marvelous statue of liberty view and whatnot). take the elevator up but behave in there and throughout the upper deck, they monitor it.

have fun, screwballs.

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