LinkMania: Things I haven’t been writing about (abridged list)
Posted On Monday, August 27th, 2007 By Zen Render
So… life’s been a little weird lately, and I stopped posting my “Everything I bookmarked todays” lists, but I’m still here.
Here’s some things I’m not writing about.
- My mom’s health. Happy thoughts towards speedy recovery, mmmmkay dear readers? KayThanks.
- Our firstborn son going to school in a week (didn’t we give him to someone as payment for something, already?)
- June’s 2nd Podcast (was going to do August’s Cover/Prince double-barrel show, but mom went back into surgery again, ’cause she seems to really enjoy DOING THAT, and so I drove out to the ‘wack to go see her afterwards. I sang my guts out while driving out there, does that count?
- Itty bitty motherboards.
- James Brown WISHES he could jam with these guys. (unplugged, too)
- Sharing your wifi (without giving away your WEP/WPA keys), and getting same from others.
- Why I was using a computer to play Adventur when I was SIX on the mainframe at Queen’s (bonus points: why I heart encrypted communication so very very much). Mom must’ve been singing me to sleep with this stuff…
- Some weird band from Holland I might like, if I heard more.
- I should have watched more of those load screens and DEMOES on my C64, I might’ve become an artist instead of a techie…
- How would I say it? How would YOU say it? How would they say it?
- Yummy, yummy Steampunk. (Oh, and Arwen and I are going to see William Gibson talk ’bout his new book at CBC Radio 1. How Canadian/Nerdy can we GET?)
- Videos that’re just a bunch of people dancing aren’t new… neither’s choppy editing to make up for visual narrative.
- Bears – Beets – Battlestar Galactica: Top 10 Scenes from the Office
- Straw + Ink + Drawing in Monster Bits = Good.
- Slipping Firefox past people who prefer Vista’s black glass looks.
- Tie someone to a tree with their own feet.
- Lipogram: Story of over 50,000 words without using the letter “E” (etc)
- Pretty. Weird. Pretty/weird.
- Photography, and eco stuff, with nerdiness and alsoplus – can Burning Man Go Green?
- The guy who droplifted the fake Parrots Hilt’n cds with titles like “Why am I famous” and “What have I done?” does all SORTS of other art.
- Future Sound of London has come full-circle, and is doing what Kraftwerk used to: Breaking stuff, rebuilding it, and making it make noise.
- Korea:Breakdance:Beatboxing:Turntablism… Kickin’ the Pachebel Cannon OLD SCHOOL.
Oh, and Ripley and I are gonna go see K-OS.
WORD.
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Happy thoughts for your mom coming from over here.
Also, you’re going to see William Gibson speak? That is all the cool, right there!
Hey wha’ happnee? We saw Don D & Grant @ the Gibson thingee but not you guys.
Glad your mom is better.
I got home at 6:10 (doors were at 6:00, and the show started at 6:30). Arwen had hurt herself while schlepping all over Kits looking for her lost jacket, and I had thought the thing was at 7:30 or so. It was the day before payday, so I wouldn’t have enough to buy a book and get it signed, and it would be a panic for us to get there, and in the end I was tired, and hungry, and just not in a cyberpunky sorta mood.
Do over? No? Hmph.
That Office compilation was sweet. I’d never seen the exercise ball one before. That was good. Holy moses is that ever something I’ve wanted to do for a long time.