w/harper

Nov
15th

Sun

Patty & Yoni in the Pacific

dramatic Ella, in front of her dad’s matching head of hair

dramatic Hannah

(from sometime in the Spring, 2009)

dramatic Lila, outside

(from sometime during the Summer)

Max won’t let Patty grade papers.

(Having fun with the in-phone photo tweaking app Tilt Shift Generator.)

Oct
20th

Tue

consumer a/v & computer geek news of the day

The new $1700 27”, higher-than-HD-resolution LED screen iMac is wall-mountable.

Is it just me, or is this the ultimate kitchen-wall a/v telecomputer machine-thingy or what? Have it running Plex, with Rowmote on your iPhone, add one of those EyeTv dongles to it if you want to bother with cable, and you’re all set. (it has a webcam, too, by the way - which makes me think of Infinite Jest’s Rise-and-Fall of the videophone industry section. It’s one thing if you’re tethered to a desk with videophone chats, but to be able to do that while making dinner…)

There’s never really been any doubt in my mind that all this stuff would eventually converge, but if that’s what $1700+ can buy today, it boggles the mind as to what will be available by the time I’m actually in the market for an ultimate kitchen-wall a/v telecomputer machine-thingy.

Oct
3rd

Sat

I am beautiful on the inside

Finally saw Grizzly Man. And yes, the guy was asking for it.

★★★★☆

Oct
2nd

Fri

[via]

who says all those conversations out on my parents' porch didn't prepare me for the real world?

me: had a conference call yesterday that sunk the whole afternoon
Matt: brutal
me: after having raising the ceilings of the addition over and over again to appease the husband, the wife suddenly asks, "has it gotten too tall in relation to the brick house's scale?"
(a bit of a relief that she asked the question, honestly, as it has)
Matt: haha
me: I ended up actually saying something like this to the clients, as I was handling this solo:
he said he wanted openness and light, and thought that high ceilings were the surefire way to guarantee this
I told him that high ceilings are never experienced solely as a vertical condition in a vacuum, that there's always a horizontal component to it as well
Matt: true
me: the horizontal connections we've designed in there are incredibly far-reaching and open to the site
sited well with the sun's path, too
meaning - we can lower the ceilings, jackass
Matt: haha

Aug
29th

Sat

I got onto Kottke

Yes, I am the ‘bill’ that passed that David Lynch quote along to Messr. Kottke. To say that I feel like I just got my first ~~Najor~~ Major League hit would be wildly overstating things, but I do feel ~~Luke~~ like this is something of note, some notch on my belt, of sorts. Maybe it’s more akin to contibuting an additional baseball for play at a minor league park, or something. But, you know, at one in a really good farm system to say the least.

(edit: did some correcting of iPhone-related typos)

Aug
20th

Thu

Finally current again with Mad Men. So good.

Aug
12th

Wed

Sneaking Sally Through The Alley - Phish - The Gorge 8/7/09

Yes, this is an 17+ minute stream-able audio track, an odd post for this blog. But I think it might be the best thing I’ve heard these guys do since they reunited in March, and I’ve listened to just about every second of what they’ve publicly played so far in the 3.0 era.

[download the AUD here]

Jul
27th

Mon

My Twitter travelogue begins.

Follow along if you’d like to be bored.

Jul
24th

Fri

Festival 8

(the festival info and faq writeups are pretty entertaining, actually)