Category: LiveJournal

  • Notebook conclusions

    Now reading: Tourist Season, Carl Hiassen I promise this will be my last post about notebooks. So I bought a Moleskine address book, because I wanted to have an address book that will last me decades, and because I wanted to compare the Moleskine construction to the Cavallini that I recommended earlier. There’s definitely a […]

  • WELCOME, MY FRIENDS, TO MENDIA

    If my friends jumped off a bridge, I’d be flying through midair by now. http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/target=display_nation/nation=mendia

  • Classic crime authors

    Discussing The Grifters on #perl: <mendel> What other authors would one want to check out if one were becoming a fan of, say, Jim Thompson and Raymond Chandler? <Fletch> go to amazon and see what they reccomend. Why ask people about books when you can ask a machine? Argh. So, anyhow, I’ll try with a […]

  • Internet radio revisited

    Metafilter catalogs the current state of online radio, with a handy list of the stations that have survived the CARP ruling. If you’re like me, you stopped listening to a lot of your favorite net radio stations when they all disappeared a few months ago. A lot of mine have come back, and I’m slowly […]

  • time travel

    Despite a long day at work, I managed to get through the door at HMV in order to pick up the new Erasure cd Other People’s Songs (released a week or two ago), and the new Massive Attack cd 100th Window (released today — I H4V3 0-D4Y TR4CKZ!!1!oneone). I’m getting this feeling.. I think this […]

  • Notebook

    A little while ago, I posted about Moleskine notebooks, and noted in the comments section that what I really needed was a Moleskine that wasn’t a Moleskine — I didn’t care about using the same notebook as Hemingway, but I did want something with a lay-flat sewn binding, little elastic strap, pocket in the back, […]

  • Cats (and tangentially Girls)

    [reading|Jack Kerouac – Big Sur] So now that I have room, I’ve gone and put together some new icons featuring Cat of Cat and Girl. Around the same time, I noticed that one can search the directory by interest, and get back a list of users with their default pictures. I am subtly pleased that […]

  • Too hip!

    So lately I’ve been rekindling an old interest in muscle cars. But while surfing the web the other day, I got distracted by an article on the AMC Hornet (don’t ask), and started digging around for more Hornet stuff. And then I found this ad: They just don’t make cars that hip anymore.