Archive for December, 2007
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Some good music I heard about in Portland – Menomena
A local-to-Portland band called Menomena. (Listen to Wet and Rusting, courtesy of Let’s Sexy Fighting)
Layered compositions like Modest Mouse, with vocal stylings kinda like that Sam guy from Quasi (a band I never really got into). If these folks made pop music 40 years ago, they’d be contemporaries of Paul Revere and the Raiders, I [...]
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Why statistics are my favorite form of maths
With the recent snow storms happening all over, I thought this was an interesting statistic to share:
96% of Americans say “Oh Shit!” before going into the ditch on a slippery road.
The other 4% are from Minnesota, Michigan, or Wisconsin and they say, “Hold my beer and watch this shit.”
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Sauteed in Awesome Sauce!
(thanks to carl for sending this to me)
Shot in Ames [freaking] Iowa by Leslie Hall:
Reason No. 123890477 why the midwest is best!
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Toward a grammatically sound X-mas
Tintinnabula is the plural of tintinnabulum – a small tinkling bell. Tintinnabulum has a corresponding adjective: tintinnabulary. The adjective form is more common than the noun and means “of or relating to bells or their sounds,” as in “Quake Gives West Texas a Tintinnabulary Time.”
Dendropsophus tintinnabulum is a species of subtropical frog that is known [...]
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
What happens when your favorite film director teams up with your favorite actor to make a film in your least favorite genre?
Well, when the director is Werner Herzog, the actor is Christian Bale, and the genre is war film (admittedly, Viet Nam war films are the only war films I’ll watch and there are a number that I like a great deal) than what results is a very interesting take on Americans. Rescue Dawn is the [...]
