November 2009
93 posts
Saturday Morning Science Experiment: B.F. Skinner... →
October 2009
90 posts
Saturday Morning Science Experiment: B.F. Skinner... →
“Based on my visual survey of downtown Boston last night, the most popular...”
– Sean Hussey (via merlin)
Sleepless in West Virginia →
Google Wave as an RPG environment →
Canadian folk singer dies after coyote attack →
JiMix: A Western, in SPACE
Even before Firefly, the exploration/pioneer spirit of both the Old West and Old Space were the peanut butter and chocolate of gritty, dirty, science-fictiony adventure. This mix is a celebration of that spirit, with songs that I think go pretty well together.
Muse - “Knights of Cydonia”
Andrew Bird - “Way Out West”
Symphony of Science - “Glorious Dawn”
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this is a recording of my local grocery...
I dreamed about money and celebrities last night
I dreamed that I found a little, leather pouch that produced a wad of bills adding up to $100 whenever I closed it and then opened it. I think it was called the “victrosur,” or something that sounded very Nordic. It had belonged to my late grandfather, who had included a pronunciation guide with the wallet, as if knowing its name was integral to making it work.
If dreams make...
JiStoWriWe
Pronounced “Ji-sto-wri-we,” this is what I’m doing instead of NaNoWriMo, which stands for National Novel Writing Month, in which people all over the world spend the month of November writing a novel.
Mine stands for Jim’s Story Writing Week, which means I’m giving myself a week break from my novel and writing a story instead. This is the week. My story is going to...
“It’s useless, flying kites
It only works if the wind is right.”
– Universal Hall Pass - “Dragonfly”
“I’m fine with Jesus. It’s his fan club I have a problem with.”
– Rev. Ivan Stang, Church of the Subgenius
Amazon.com: Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable →
$500 for a cable? Yep.
The reviews have a few things to say about it.
I had a dream last night about Adolf Hitler
Not really. It was more about his philosophy.
He thought that there was a finite amount of sleep in the universe, and that lazy people without jobs were using up all the sleep so that people like him (and me) suffered from interminable insomnia.
This was in my dream, so I don’t know if it’s true. Someone who looked like Rainn Wilson was using this philosophy as an excuse to force...
“He’s the American shit head who makes tricks with bricks!”
– from Bloodsport (1988)
this is how I'm spending my saturday night:
researching actors I see in Law & Order: Criminal Intent episodes (and then blogging about them).
the guy who owns the bar in True Blood grew up in West Virginia.
So did I. But you probably knew that.
please excuse the mess. redesign in progress.
thank you.
j @ 1PM
Nation's Morons March On Washington State →
“I’ll protect you as you move along the way.
And I’ll love you from...”
– Spacehog - “Jupiter’s Moon”
Displaced Worlds →
NASA Unveils Moon Rocket →
Four Things I Did in My Lucid Dreams Last Night
Jammed with Johnny Cash (I don’t play an instrument)
Stopped a criminal mastermind from taking over the world by using my plant-control powers (I don’t actually have those)
Made love to a neighbor who looked an awful lot like Brooke Shields (I don’t have a neighbor like that)
Visited my friends at Sesame Street (it doesn’t exist)
Area Man Has Far Greater Knowledge Of Marvel... →
“The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human...”
– Albert Einstein, 1954 (a year before his death, thus putting to rest the erroneous idea that Einstein was in any way a religious man) - from Letters of Note, via @mrteller
8 Ways to Customize Your Billy Bookcase. →
