This one’s going back on my to-be-read pile. Perversity just doesn’t get old. Of course this is coming from somebody who has aspired to be a dirty old man since he was Lolita’s age. Getting closer every year.
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Monthly Archives: December 2005
Lolita at 50 - Is Nabokov’s masterpiece still shocking? By Stephen Metcalf
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Flying With Scissors and Other Airport Updates - New York Times
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Presuming that our budget will sustain it, 2006 looks to be a fairly flight intensive year. Not as crazy as people who fly for their jobs, but I’m looking at at least 4 flights, 2 of them international. Cybil has tentative plans for 3 or 4 more than me.
Along with the author of this article […]
WTF Case: This Grid-based Font
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
WhatTheFont to the rescue! Their tool couldn’t identify this font (since the characters aren’t continuous) but I got a reply from the Forum identifying the font as Amber Angled by MADtype. If you enjoy fonts take a moment to look at the samples on the MADtype site. Gothico Antiqua, Rubba, and Shifty are particularly amusing.
CSS Vertical Bar Graphs
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
see also: CSS FOR BAR GRAPHS.
This is excellent timing. I had just started dabbling in building a vertical bar graph for my magic deck’s Mana Curves. A couple years back I had done a horizontal bar graph using some DOM scripting (Table -> Bar Graph). This time the plan was to build it in CSS, […]
Sexy Smooth Curves
Monday, December 19, 2005
I’ve really gotta get my shit together and learn how to use paths in photoshop. Kinduv sad that I haven’t yet.
The Other I.D.
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Just got new wires on my braces yesterday. Under the increased tension one of my brackets decided to pop off, the one in the very back. Now I’ve got a half-inch exposed wire dicing the inside of my mouth. So this article lends additional (if ironic) weight to it when I say, “MY GODDAMN BRACES […]
Psychology Today: Stirring Sound of Stress
Thursday, December 15, 2005
neat little article about a german study where they looked at the biology behind people’s internal alarm clocks.
Browncoats : Official Serenity Fan Site : a/v room
Thursday, December 15, 2005
You have to sign in or join to see it, but here is one of those scenes with Inara that was cut from the beginning of the movie. The Quicktime/Windows Media links are switched, and Joss’ introduction isn’t worth watching, but if you can’t get enough of Inira give it a watch.
Krautwald
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
There’s so much good natural lighting here in socal, but sometimes I do find myself trying to rig up some indoor lighting for some product shot or other. this looks like a nice trick to bust those shadows.
Fuck Christmas
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
It’s the fucking Pagan celebration of solstice. And those “Christmas” traditions? They’re not just like Pagan rituals, they fucking are Pagan rituals.
Love me a good rant.