This article about the power law isn’t new, but it’s been making the rounds at Worio. I really wish I could write like this — it makes an interesting and important technical point and it does so with wit and enthusiasm. Whenever I try to start writing something interesting about my research, I invariably decide…
Month: April 2009
make us dance, fat man
the unmoving dance of shame, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. Dan Deacon took over Richard’s on Richards last night and put on what may well be the show of the year (well, for me — I don’t go to all that many shows). Vancouver hipsters are legendarily reluctant to shake it at on the…
“Congratulations, mortal! In return for thy service, I grant thee the gift of Immortality!”
"Congratulations, mortal! In return for thy service, I grant thee the gift of Immortality!", originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. More than 10 years after I started playing Nethack — probably the deepest computer game evar — I finally beat it! That’s a 6,139,426-point Valkrie win right there, homeboy. If you don’t know Nethack, you’re…
Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977)
I’ve been on a big Patton Oswalt kick lately, and on his album Werewolves and Lollipops he talks about this movie at length. So, you know, go follow that link and listen to the bit. It’s hilarious. And then doing a little research on the internet, I found that this movie has a whole elaborate…
Adventureland (2009)
A notice to Generation Y: the 1980s were not cool. High school was not like John Hughes movies (except that the seemingly-cool chick usually really did end up with the jock or the rich kid in the end). Nobody wore their legwarmers and teased hair ironically– they were just kind of naive and dumb that…