fucking sexy

woooooow



"Using a network of 32 active and passive near-infrared optical sensors, it detects motion above the table and changes in ambient light. Made of fully analog circuits, the light patterns sweep outwards from your motion with perfect fades, ripples across a pool of 480 super-bright white LEDs. It works in full sunlight or total darkness. Without motion it calms down to a very slight twinkling, with lots of motion all sorts of complex emergent behavior begins to happen."

Again. Woooow.

the day the music died

Great article that clearly articulates what went wrong with the music industry and explores some possibles for its future.


READ IT

RIP Oink.

beirut

I would just like to express my greatest appreciation for Beirut, the band not the city. Beirut is sooo good! Wanna know how good? My alarm is Beirut and I STILL DON"T HATE THE SONG.

My alarm is set to "Scenic World" but "Elephant Gun" is a good one too, and it has video.

i met this girl in Portland who really loved photobooths. Like, we were at the Mirah show, but she was there b/c there was a photobooth. Like, she was driving cross country to visit photobooths. "Did you know the city of Portland only has TWO photobooths?" Also she hated digital photography and loved organic food but was really defensive about not being a vegetarian anymore. So the venue didn't allow smoking except for inside this little (not ventilated room) where i spent most of my time. Here's a picture of not the photobooth girl. This is me w/ some kids who really liked drugs and eventually found some by stopping someone on a bike at 4AM.












Portland has a great sense of humor. This is Mill Ends Park. Actually it is a flower pot in the middle of the street where a light pole was going to go but didn't. Some guy could see this park from his window and started writing a column about the leprechaun that lived in it. Later they made it an official city park. It is also in the Guinness Book of World Records as the worlds smallest park. http://www.portlandonline.com/parks/finder/index.cfm?action=ViewPark&PropertyID=265


THIS GUY should be in the Guinness Book of World Records as the sweetest puppy in the world! He is sooo sweet.
Steve behind him is pretty cool too. Steve told us about this block party which turned out to be a joint 40th birthday bash for Chet and John. Chet is the drummer for the eels so he can party like a rockstar. Other rockstars were there. This one band that Kathy saw open for the Pipettes for example. When she saw them the first time though she didn't realize the oldest member was a 14 yr old girl. Smoosh rocked. Clowns from the Clown House performed as well as MarchForth Marching Band. Check it.

We met some cool people at the hostel as well. In fact, everyone we met at the hostel was more interesting than we were. My fav. roommate was Andreas. The singer from a German screamo band called "a dead letter theory." While he was in Portland, his first submission to the Toronto Film Festival was being played.

Yup. Here's a picture of my new piercing.


Ok. Bye bye.

big bang

"Starfish can be pests to fishermen who make their living on the capture of clams and other mollusks at sea as starfish prey on these. The fishermen would presumably kill the starfish by chopping them up and disposing of them at sea, ultimately leading to their increased numbers until the issue was better understood."

So I was thinking about the whole asexual reproduction thing. One starfish could potentially become infinity starfish, so it's possible that all starfish originated from a single starfish...like a starfish big bang.

hi oof boof, wave here

look what i can do!

ps. don't eat shark fin anymore. sharks are caught, definned, and tossed alive back into the ocean: 100 - 250 million annually. on the same note. there is nowhere to get decent dim sum in st. louis during the week.

pps. what's the diff. between a scooter, moped, and vespa?