Sunday 28 Mar 10
had an extremely productive day
@ 10:51 pm
Sunday 8 Mar 09
recent developments
@ 10:48 pm
I have acquired a sparkling purple and silver water-filled hula hoop. I am hoping that hula hooping will keep me young and ward off any more white hairs (current count: 4) for at least the next 5 years. So far my record is 7 minutes and 52 seconds, while watching a segment of the Colbert Report.
This is what I have noticed so far: I can only really hula hoop counter-clockwise. Going clockwise is nearly impossible. I am wondering if this has something to do with handed-(footed-? hip-ed?)ness.
It rained this entire weekend. Yesterday I went to Gethsemane Gardens with McComas and Xixi and got five new succulents. Pictures coming soon. One of them is furry, but in a less velvety way than the one I managed to kill over the summer in Providence. I don’t think I will buy any more for awhile. I already had to move three plants to the kitchen.
Today I went to the Garfield Park Conservatory with Laura. I felt like I was in the middle of a jungle. I took this video on the way there.
swimming up the green line from chocobo on Vimeo.
Sunday 1 Mar 09
does not inspire confidence
@ 12:40 am
Does anyone else find this non-humorous clip of Lorne Michaels giving Jimmy Fallon a pep talk about Late Night awkward? Just looking at the apprehensive expression on Jimmy Fallon’s face makes me feel nauseous. Too much information.
(Possibly related: my vicarious stage fright. When I went to see Jessie and Patrick act in plays at Brown I always had trouble looking at them directly for the first 10 minutes or so because I was afraid of seeing them flub a line.)
Wednesday 21 Jan 09
dance break
@ 11:20 pm
OK, so it feels heavily inspired by Improv Everywhere, and it’s an ad for T-Mobile. But I still love this.
tags: video
Saturday 10 Jan 09
c-span video archives: not just for congressional coverage
@ 10:03 am
If you’re anything like me, you spent long periods of time working on a computer all day, and you are constantly looking for interesting internet audio programs that aren’t just the news.
My daily routine at work usually starts with the tail end of Washington Journal on C-SPAN, but then it usually switches over to a $foo press briefing or otherwise goes straight gavel-to-gavel coverage of the House. In other words, usually boring. At this point in time I will generally switch over to WBEZ, our local NPR station, or the latest episode of This American Life.
But yesterday I bothered to click through C-SPAN’s Video Archive to find some more inspiring public affairs programming. My efforts brought me:
New Media Technology, part of the Aspen Institute Forum on Communications and Society from about a year ago. Listen to Michael Eisner (ABC, Disney) and Ariana Huffington duke it out over content distribution on the internet! Somewhat bizarrely, the woman responsible for the POM Wonderful marketing campaign is also present.
The Future of the Internet, which would be more accurately titled “A Conversation with the Founder of Wikipedia”. Jimmy Wales spoke about Wikipedia and some of the ways that they try to ensure reliable information, including:
- Wikipedia as a tertiary source (meaning that all content is intended to be cited from published secondary sources, so there is no place for creative “original research” by physics crackpots
- All information posted needs to be verifiable. So even if you know something to be true, if it’s not something that other people can verify, it’s not appropriate for Wikipedia.
It’s an interesting response to the disgust that Michael Eisner expresses in the New Media Technology ti Wikipedia.