May 30, 2007
Kanye - “Stronger” clip. Kanye samples Daft Punk. I promise you I heard the sampled song a few hundred times getting rides home from Wally in high school. (via Sumish)
Archive for May, 2007
May 25, 2007
ABC NBA Finals commercial. I’m at work so I have no sound but it still looked good.
Spidernoia
When you see a spider in your house. Then you run to the bathroom to grab tissue to grab the spider with. Then you come back and the spider is gone. Not cool.
Dan Simmons - Hyperion
[Update 5-25-2007:I just finished yesterday. And now I know why people say that it's really just half the story. Take that as literally as possible. You can watch Alien without seeing the others. To a degree, this is true for A New Hope also. But Hyperion is more akin to the Fellowship of the Ring. You can't just stop at the end of that. I should have known because that's exactly how Ilium and Olympos were.
It's a fairly easy read. Especially considering the format. Each member tells a story that spans about seventy pages each if I do the math correct. I tried to knock one story out a day on the bus and between classes. Every time a story starts, I couldn't help but think about how boring the character was and how boring the coming story would be. But I was terribly wrong. Only one of them was o-k. The rest were pretty much um wow. I sit here and wonder: how can someone imagine all this stuff? Then to sort through it and make it entertaining. It's really amazing. You might be thinking, "Wow, he's ranting and he's lost his mind. Is this the best book ever?" IT IS]
People say Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion are essentially one book so I guess this is really about the first fourth of the book–because I’m only halfway through Hyperion right now. Still, I’m gonna go ahead and declare it the best book ever. I really liked Ilium, but a lot of people (aka Amazon customers) said that it had nothing on Hyperion. They might be right. Here’s my summary so far: 7 people far in the future (think fast space ships) have secret pasts all involving encounters with the Shrike (pictured). Yah bad summary.
May 24, 2007
ESPN Kevin Durant chat (I’m not sure how long that link will be good for). Things are looking good: Tarak (Amherst, MA): “Do you turn your game to another level (like flipping on a switch) when a close game is winding down.” Kevin: “No, I was always taught that great players do it every game, every day. At different parts of the game, it’s different, but every time I step on the court, I’m playing hard.”
May 24, 2007
Tracy McGrady - 13 Points in 35 Seconds. The best cut of this I’ve seen.
May 23, 2007
Creed Thoughts. www.creedthoughts.gov.www/creedthoughts. Every week, I wonder how The Office can get any better. Then it does. It’s almost tied for first with Arrested Development in my mental comedy power rankings.
May 22, 2007
May 21, 2007
Pac Man’s Skull (This is a PDF file). Scroll down to page 39. There’s a lot of other weird things going on in this but I don’t understand the language. [via Neatorama]
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