December 2010
14 posts
Books I read in 2010
(Psst… This post is formatted way better on my website. Love the Dashboard, hate the Dashboard.)
Last year changed my reading habits more than any year since 1994, when I passed time before starting high school by reading any and every even mildly sci-fi- or science-related book in the library. This year introduced three things:
Comic books. Obviously, I’ve been reading them my whole life....
Etewaf →
Patton Oswalt wrote a pretty awesome piece for Wired about the death and rebirth of geek culture:
Why create anything new when there’s a mountain of freshly excavated pop culture to recut, repurpose, and manipulate on your iMovie? The Shining can be remade into a comedy trailer. Both movie versions of the Joker can be sent to battle each another. The Dude is in The Matrix. The coming decades—the...
My favorite music of 2010
Like I’ve said before, I don’t trust my brain to track stats and trends such as “what music did I play the most last year?” Smart playlists in Tunes do that a lot better. Here’s what they have to say on this question:
1. Cabel Sasser - Music From The Incident
Ok, I know, I know. I know. I’m listing this in the interest of full disclosure, but I understand...
The man who wore my password
Florida, 2005. On those days when I’d drive home from work a bit too late or a bit too hungry, my default dinner option was the Italian deli around the corner. It looked like a 7-Eleven, stocked canned beans and white cotton socks and other things surely no one ever bought, had a thousand different lottery options, and ran three TVs set to CNN 24/7. But: the deli was damn good. Freshly...
“As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is...”
– Mark Twain in his recently published Autobiography (via Language Log)
“Expectation leads to disappointment. If you don’t expect something big,...”
– The Books, Smells Like Content
TV Forecast 1.4 →
Matt’s app for TV fans, TV Forecast, has been updated. It’s a simple and elegant solution for staying on top of the schedule of TV shows you follow on a weekly basis - and just those shows. All without sifting through horrible Flash website every network has. Matt originally made it to solve the “Is tonight’s Lost a repeat?” problem. It worked great then, and it works...
