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and you know i wouldn't just say that about any old parking lot... via nextnaturedesign:landscapes

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tony is really cooland so is this article about hydropower turbines that generate energy from the flow of the east river ...in December 2006, an innovative energy company ...planted two state-of-the art turbines in the East River. They spin with the ebb and flow of the river's tides, turning the water's boundless energy into electricity (as long as dead bodies don't get stuck in the blades). via

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courtesy of adbusters

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- leaving the apartment to take the bus after waiting forever for a car, and an empty cab comes up the street- i was out of money but a friend who happened to be walking by to go home lends me a 20 for the ride- finding a parking spot in under five minutes at 11 pm at night (basically, a miracle)- park in the first empty spot i saw - which a) had the right alternate side parking andb) is the *

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every morning this past week, riding the B61, i've been checking out the incredibly rapid destruction of the gorgeous, circa 1885 hackett building. when i first noticed the scaffolding and the removed windows, i had (naively) thought the building was being renovated into new apartments. but instead this glossy shiny and ultimately pretty boring bauble will be built.i am completely baffled by

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i'm not kidding

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it has been over a year since jesse and i were in shanghai laughing uncontrollably at english translations of chinese signs.i wish i had taken a picture of a sign in the shanghai train station advertising a new industrial machine - model no. A.S.S.or the sign in the taxi that said no psychos were allowed in the vehiclebut i've never seen a sign quite as funny as this onei guess figuring out

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my mom always said, no matter how good you are at something, there will always be somebody else who will be better than you are. and so, i present the "why" of math doodling, courtesy of the triumvirate of smarty pants in my personal orbit.mvb: Its a symbol of the multiplication you have to do to arrive at the final answer. There is really nothing to the graph itself. For instance write out the

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via scientist, interrupted~~~ astounding ~~~math:doodle

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oh mr tyzik, where would we be without you?from flickr via marketa

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first posting in a while! let's just say that the holidaze have me in a tizzyso number one - give the gift of C02 regulation. many of you have probably heard that a coalition of states including New York, have sued the EPA for failing to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant. while the feds and the supreme court hems and haws over whether or not there is enough proof that carbon dioxide as a

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...this time by steve jobs! apparently the ipod concept was first conceived by native americans - so long ago in fact, that it is imbedded in the landscape. i wonder if being in canada will stop apple from suing for copyright "infringement".in other news - quebec leave canada already! and when you realize its really really hard to be an independent country inside another (i believe the only

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a couple of random thoughts for today as i procrastinate through my lunch hour:habitat for humanity is building a house out of styrofoam in bedstuy, which i'm assuming won't look as crappy as say, old styrofoam coolers after a couple of uses, or the gross used cups that wash up on the beach. at least you know that your house won't biodegrade (in the daily news via curbed). now if only these

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thanks to sadie, i now have more insight into lubing nipple watering systems and nipples and cups than i have ever cared to. mmmm.... turkey. gobble gobble

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one of the nice things about this unnervingly warm november we've been having, is that bicycling has continued to be a viable means of transportation around the borough. friday's weather was enchanting, sunny with the mercury exceeding sixty degrees fahrenheit. tony and i decided to ride our bikes to the brooklyn academy of music to see the movie borat. our excursion turned out to be far more

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a glimpse of the future shows us how W one-ups our friend Bill by setting up an e-commerce site called prez pardons:President Bush plans to "use the Prez Pardons site on the Internets to hopefully make a little extra money before my presidency is all over. I mean, the president pension is chicken feed."Prez Pardons provides simple instructions, testimonials from satisfied customers, and

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mary-jane makes for fun in yet another way... if you consider having your gametes swimming properly fun...A synthetic chemical based on those found in marijuana may fix a problem that, paradoxically, affects the sperm of cigarette smokers.A new synthetic cannabinoid appears to restore the ability of the sperm to bind to the outside of human eggs. The finding is unexpected since smoking marijuana

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the nytimes yesterday had an interesting article about dr eisner, one of e.o. wilson's former students, who has appropriated the colour photocopier to make art. Color copiers can accommodate more than just paper documents on the glass plate that serves as their stage. They can “see” three-dimensional objects as well, objects of up to a very considerable thickness, which they depict in their

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as stephen hawking put it a little while ago It is important for the human species to spread out into space for the survival of the species. Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of. so yes, humans are effectively parasites - of entire

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yeah, i've been a-slacking, as lately life has been more interesting than the internet - when i'm not at work, that is. updateness... more wedding photos can now be found here. i particularly like the one of the college-girlfriends-clan. also known as the staff photo of the world-saving collective i'd start if i ever win the lottery or maybe... maybe even the genius grant? (yeah right)anyhoo

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i survived san francisco and the wedding weekend, thanks to the hospitality of my wife and her boyfriend. i also managed to avoid being swallowed by their pull-out bed thanks to dan, who had warned me about the huge divot in the middle of the mattress. pictures coming soon (of the wedding, not the mattress).lately i've been supporting the flagging consumption economy by binge shopping on the

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so given the recent uproar in london about terrorist attacks etc etc etc, and the fact that i have to fly during what is both a major holiday and college student mass migration, i tried to find out what things i could or could not pack so that hopefully i'll cut down the level of hassle i'd get going through security, without having to resort to getting naked and walking through. i'm especially

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first you'll laugh...and now you'll crythe particulars and more via curbedgreed:breuckelen

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on monday i went to the opening party of my friend seamus's new restaurant, called boqueria after the big crazy market in barcelona. nothing quite like free food and drinks to get me into manhattan!anyways - the synopsis? seamus makes some crazy high-tech goodies, some crazy good seafood, the best paella ever, amazingly decadent dates wrapped in bacon... and two colours of sangria. high tech

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } drowned in beer, originally uploaded by thixotropic. soi liedmy trip to resort mom was fabulousmy niece is quite possibly the most wonderful bundle of joy everand my mom's garden is just gorgeousmore pictures here

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } entryway, originally uploaded by thixotropic. i've really moved out. i handed over the keys and everything. no more stumbling for the hallway light switches in the dark, bizarre smells from the warehouse next door, and

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } vcbot600x564, originally uploaded by thixotropic. this week seed had a fun article on complexity that was also just visually stunning. i've been thinking a lot about the visualization of data lately, between having to

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regarding an emailed excel file..."Excel 2007 said the file was corrupt. I think it was being metaphorical. Anyway it opened just fine in Excel 2003. Thanks."sorry for the short random snippets - my brains have been MIA these past few days...

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"if i could eat myself out i'd be skinny as a toothpick"or something like thatand it was not just me that heard it, either.

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } grow your own, originally uploaded by thixotropic. and i thought i waited a long time to move into my new flat. ignoring for the moment that this is a conceptual design - if we use the species proposed by the designers, if i

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one of the things about moving, is that you discover things that well, you forgot that you owned. while some discoveries were a bit more, um, exciting than others, i also found a massive and completely incomprehensible geological map of canyonlands national park, where i had gone backpacking for a week almost ten(!!) years ago, in the needles district. i will hopefully come up with some low

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andrew i fucking love youyou've given me back my eyes and ears. and yet another reason to love apple. and yes, i'm thinking back to having to navigate the annoying connection software while trying to map points with a crap interface as we drove past the federation of black cowboys on a very-nice-yet-somehow-disappointing PC.and yes, i can't believe it took me this long to google it either.

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since i've moved but my internet has not, this is going to be in crappy phone camera pictures with a few words.packing is like archeology; under all those postcards on the cork board was no less than five currenciesfor ten glorious minutes before detritus of my life arrived, the only thing in my bedroom was a new bed.and finally, today was plant moving day. with jester and robstar's help

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down the street from my loft, there is an empty lot that for as long as i've been here, has been filled with empty cars. there are fewer cars these days. recently a hot dog stand with an umbrella took the place of a rusty mercedes. i remember when the weeds grew tall in between the cars, and there was a huge thornapple growing right by the chain-link fence, its huge white flowers would tempt

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this is called moving drama no. 1, because i'm sure to have another one coming. it's been going a little too well so far... it appears i have enough boxes, i actually have bubble wrap to swaddle my pieces in (even one casualty is too many), i have found homes for everything except the couch, my magazine subscriptions are already changed. i felt i could reward myself with a beer from the bodega

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } collage, originally uploaded by thixotropic. by kareninagonzalesmy fridge magnets have never looked so hot

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is this more like a transplant, or a repotting? i mean, i really love brooklyn and all, but am, or was, i pot-bound?um, yeah. sorry for the cheesy use of plant metaphors - but it was gonna happen sooner or later, and this is as good a time as any?i am also now taking suggestions...

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are strange journeys; i approach them with about as much enthusiasm as a trip to the dentist. especially when first a gaggle of teenagers holds up your flight for an hour, only to then sit on the runway for another hour waiting for some thunderstorms to clear through; and then the hotel bed just sucks and you wake up aching like you'd been hit by a train - all to give a ten minute presentation

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a study has found a new way to figure out if she's faking it, if you happen to have a PET scanner or two lying around the house:The women were asked to lie with their heads in a PET scanner while the team compared their brain activity in four states: simply resting, faking an orgasm, having their clitoris stimulated by their partner’s fingers, and clitoral stimulation to the point of orgasm.The

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apparently, everyone dates through the web, even jesus:Golden-haired, blue-eyed Jesus seeks loving young woman (22-30), preferably of recent Norse-Germanic heritage, who wishes to live in the spirit of the eternal. Innocence, or rebirth into innocence, and a desire to transcend the material mendacity of this world are essential!...Prospective respondents should read 1 John 4:18. True to artistic

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friendster is not just for looking up your high school buddies, stalking your ex-[affiliation], or simple booty hunting anymore...[The] National Security Agency ...is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology - specifically the forthcoming "semantic web" championed by the

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } two brothers, originally uploaded by thixotropic. there are few family decision-making moments that are as intense as what happens when we go out together to 飲茶 - which translated literally, means "drink tea" - but actually

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this potato battery makes me think that the barely-held-back oil and energy crisis could turn out as something like a global potato famine. since hey, we eat our oil anyways. Farming [is] an annual artificial catastrophe, and it requires the equivalent of three or four tons of TNT per acre for a modern American farm. Iowa’s fields require the energy of 4,000 Nagasaki bombs every year....[The]

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i'm almost not even sure what to say about this. it is definitely a nice example of science writing - concise methodology, clearly presented results, with a short discussion of possible mechanisms and even some citations. Update: the embedded movie was fucking up the page so i took it out. go here to see the video this post refers to!via andrew

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saturday:booty

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built by wendy sample sale!discounts:Wrangler47 jeans were $126, now $50 cotton tops were $135, now $65 bermuda shorts were $100, now $50 (and please don't do the cowboy boots bermuda shorts thing!)etc etc etcfriday+saturday 11am to 8pm46 north 6th st, x streets wythe and kent, williamsburg.consumption:vanity

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } phloxsun1, originally uploaded by thixotropic. i know, i know, its an obsession. or is it just spring?i also just realized i will probably miss seeing the first of my lilies bloomfuckwhen did i become my mom?

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you'll know your jeans are too loose (and doing nothing for your ass) if you can't feel the mobile vibrate in your pocket

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } columbines, originally uploaded by thixotropic. and this is the other columbine from mom's house - tall and free standing and later bloomers than the little purple ones. but i like them all the same. and what's best is

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it's true!It has become a big no-no in school lunchboxes because of its unhealthy reputation.But it seems that Sunny D, formerly known as Sunny Delight, is not half as bad for children as it is for fish.Around 8,000 litres of concentrate used to make the drink leaked into a watercourse on Wednesday morning, turning the river bright yellow.Dozens of fish were found floating on the surface,

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here are some free shows for everyone to put on their radar - more evidence that we live in the center of the universe:june 13 eels @ world financial ctr plazajune 25 feist + buck 65 @ summerstagejuly 4 belle and sebastian @ battery parkjuly 13 yo la tengo @ prospect parkjuly 20 sugar hill gang @ south street seaportjuly 27 the hold steady @ castle clintonjuly 30 lady sovereign @

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it's useful to remember that you're actually quite small

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but the chance to go to the sold-out new york premiere of brothers of the head was just too good to pass up. and this movie was absolutely amazing, complete with great music and acting - i was totally riveted. and if you don't catch it at tribeca its also being released in july, but really, it's lots of fun so go see it this weekend!punk:twins

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i absolutely adore my roof in the springtime. the dwarf columbines from mom's house are doing amazing, and i think this year will the first blooming year for the regular tall ones. yippee!

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from the met food on vanderbilt avenue (thanks marketa for passing it on)

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Jane Jacobs, quite possibly one of the most influential urban planners ever, passed away today in toronto today. she is locally famous for stopping an expressway from being built through lower manhattan by robert moses. in her great book the death and life of great american cities she presents a critique of urban renewal, advocating walking scaled, mixed use and mixed income neighborhoods as

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no, i'm not talking about the state of the neighborhood even with all the glass curtain wall buildings sprouting up everywhere and the rapid disappearances of entire warehouses.i'm actually referring to a very funny article that takes the hipster handbook a step further - its a step-by-step guide on how to rid yourself of a hipster infestation, specifically using music as the tool:There are two

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clearly, i am working way too hard trying to get published. And this is the paper that helped me come to this realization: The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves: Anatidae) as published in DEINSEA - annual of the natural history museum rotterdam. Next to the obviously dead duck, another male mallard (in full adult plumage without any visible traces of

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marketa puts it best.independent verification to happen sometime next week.

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so now that i finally get around to unpacking from my trip to lake tahoe, i find a little piece of paper in my snowboard bag that wasn't there before:To protect you and your fellow passengers, Covenant Aviation Security (CAS) is required by law to inspect all checked baggage. CAS is a private company under contract with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to provide baggage and

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so freddy's bar and back room has been a fixture in the brooklyn music scene for a while now, and it's been one of my favorite bars ever since i first went there for the old-time jam - a musicians' gathering where the only rule is that the song played shall be more than fifty years old. Freddy's has been very active in the fight against the Atlantic Yards project, where Bruce Ratner proposes to

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so apparently in all that stone under the entrance ramp of the Brooklyn Bridge, DOT workers found a hidden vault full of cold-war era provisions. City workers were conducting a regular structural inspection of the bridge last Wednesday when they came across the cold-war-era hoard of water drums, medical supplies, paper blankets, drugs and calorie-packed crackers — an estimated 352,000 of them,

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ever wonder what nine trillion dollars could buy?- enough to buy Buckingham Palace 9,000 times- is roughly four times Britain’s GDP- equates to $1,500 for every man, woman and child in the world- would buy all the tea in China. In fact it would buy all the tea in the world for the next 2,000 years.- is enough to solve the Palestinian crisis by rehousing every Israeli and Palestinian family in a

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i actually remember having heard about the company realdoll several years ago; however, i never realized that the maintenance of these toys was so complicated! Very tight or binding straps left on your doll over an extended period can form dents in the flesh, as on a real person. It is therefore preferable to store your doll in the nude.---To avoid damage to painted areas such as the face,

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Since the last time i posted a quiz everyone had so much fun, here's another one i found via scientist, interrupted. i don't know about anyone else, but my college major choices were between anthropology, geology, and ecology and evolutionary biology. apparently, what i chose (eeb) was spot on, according to this quiz. that 92% for dance however, is bullshit. did the quiz correctly predict

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yesterday andrew and i spent the better part of the day driving around staten island eating munchkins from dunkin' donuts (okay, maybe i ate most of them), when we happened across a boat graveyard, which initiated a U-turn that very nicely showed off the tight turning radius of the prius. too bad we couldn't stay very long - because clearly there is more than a little bit of adventuring to be

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so the website phylotaxis is definitely my new favourite way to get my science news everyday. Without the randomness of culture, science becomes dry and predictable, imprisoned in a strict square grid. Without the rational thinking of science, culture quickly teeters towards chaos.it presents in a really visually compelling way, interesting ideas about the interaction of culture and science,

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happy new year! it's the year of the dog. read a list of traditions that i did not follow here. and of course , the tradition that i do almost always observe - wearing new clothes so that the evil spirits won't recognize me in the new year - is not listed. but no, i did not use the new year as a reason to go shopping. really.

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so most people know that i’m a total city nerd – i love knowing about things like how to get onto the high line, the beaches at floyd bennett field, the ramshackle piers in williamsburg, random train lines in bushwick and where the office of emergency management is. i just got the most perfect book to satisfy my thirst for random new york city-isms. the works: anatomy of a city by kate ascher (

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here i am, monday morning, at a hopelessly boring and botched computer training by overpaid, incompetent consultants, when i was reminded by a certain tattooed motorcycle ridin' chef from the U.K. that Computer Based Training (CBT) is really not very different from Cock and Ball Torture at all...Thanks Chriss!

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apparently, i am only 17.55424% geek, which makes me less geeky than andrew but not geeky enough to understand how or why my score was calculated to seven significant digits. can geekiness really be measured that precisely? what did you get?and, scientific proof that men revel in revenge and women are softies even if the fuckers deserve it.UPDATE:sadie scored 30.99647%dan dine scored 15.58185%

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my good friend lizzie has been working her tail off helping to put together Act Local, which is a group of local NYC artists and musicians coming together in an all-day event to benefit the Southern Arts Federation Emergency Relief Fund. The Relief Fund's goal is to help artists throughout the Gulf region rebuild after losing an estimated $82 million worth of equipment, studio space, live venues

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or i guess technically, the word for tomorrow. paraskavedekatriaphobia who knew?

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and some notable events to date:- getting my best friend laid (actually twice, but since the first instance was at the tail end of the year, i won't claim more credit than that)- screwing up my neck having sex on/near new year's, two years in a row- successfully fixing my car's leaky sunroof - now if i could just figure out the wiper blades...- 100% procrastination on my research papers so far-

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and you thought deterministic movie-watching was limited to netflix recommendations... the neural network can judge a film based on seven key parameters: the "star value" of the cast, the movie's age rating, the time of release against that of competitive movies, the film's genre, the degree of special effects used, whether it is a sequel or not, and the number of screens it is expected to open

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okay, so happening soon in the neighborhood:my friend marketa will be selling her awesome handbags at this shopping fair being held at the warsaw on december 17. the last time i was at the warsaw i saw one of my favorite band ever, the national. i wonder if we can get beers from the bar for shopping with.music wise - wednesday dec 7th is going to be a big music night, with two of my friend's

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so i've been having internet issues at my house lately - in an i.s.p. switch that maybe won't end up saving me money after all? i had a slower-than-dialup connection, and once that was fixed, it turned out that someone maliciously ripped out my connection in the neighborhood phone box, and replace it with their own! all of this involved crawling around on the roof and down the side of my

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quite possibly the best widget ever - a widget that is the oblique strategies created by brian eno and peter schmidt. how cool is that?truths:cards

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } a walk in tuxedo park, originally uploaded by thixotropic. last weekend we went on a walk near bear mountain to check out some fall colours... having been a drought year, a lot of the trees had prematurely lost their

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saturday morning - post sus2 - was spent wandering the narrow alleys of old town, which is the most traditionally chinese area of shanghai. old town is a great place to let yourself get lost in - we just wandered and wandered and wandered - it was like a walk back in time to when streets were narrow and carless, and part of the household's living space - laundry strung on power lines, hissing

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how could anyone resist a pitch like this?Howdy All, To show you how bad I am at the kind of shameless self-promotion they were always telling us in film school it was necessary to master if we ever hoped to make it in the film business, which like any other responds only to the cold, cruel demands of the market (OK, they didn't put it exactly like that; maybe I've been reading too much Marx, or

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here i am. i'm still here. it has been a while - switching my i.s.p. was quite the drama - and the bummer is that i'm still not up to full speed. but at least right now its up fast enough that i can actually check my email, for example. i also now have a research meeting next week for which i have to do some modifications to a math model. have i started? no. but be sure to watch this

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dave's piece at the dumbo arts festival, installed in the pouring rain. we spent saturday down there documenting, drinking, and checking out the neighborhood..flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } life preserver 2, originally uploaded by thixotropic.

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being dragged around my first day on the visa errand was a wonderfully random and unplanned introduction to shanghai, involving lots of bus trips on a transportation system that is exponentially larger and infinitely more arcane than nyc's. you can ride on over 1,100 bus lines, costing about 2 yuan each ride - that's worth about 25 us cents. there is no such thing as a route map at the bus stop

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i know the weather report says rain, but i think that some things might be better viewed in dreary gray light. for example, come and check out dave melrose's awesome sculpture "Life Preserver" in the East River this weekend at the DUMBO arts festival, which will also happen to be full of other cool stuff that i'm not cool enough to know about. or just wait until the weather is nice on sunday,

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hong kong has the most ridiculously modern airport i've been in - high speed trains shuttle you between the shopping / services area to the gates - multiple escalators and levels carefully engineered to handle people traffic efficiently. very different from the old kai tak airport in kowloon, right on the harbour - with a runway approach that takes you within a few hundred feet of residential

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to digress from travel writing a little bit, here are some consumption-related environment news.october is nyc's electronics recycling month. remember throwing away electronics is bad bad bad - both in terms of potentially toxic components and also because they contain valuable components / parts / materials (i.e precious metals) that can be reused. this is exactly what someone we met on the

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the trip to hong kong was not as awful as i had remembered, having been lucky to afford the direct flight from jfk to hong kong, via the north pole. the ride clocked in at 15 hours when it used to be 24 hours door-to-door (on top of the fun 12-hour time shift). and it's when i ride an amazing system like the airport express from the airport that i appreciate what mayor mike is thinking of when

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i've just gotten back to my dad's house in hong kong, from a weeklong trip to shanghai visiting an old friend. shanghai is amazing, and in many ways reminds me of hong kong - the unending hustle and bustle, the bright lights and towers, and the massive roiling crowds. in many ways, shanghai to me is a young hong kong, striving towards some capitalist consumer pinnacle of power - it just has

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today is my niece's birthday. she just turned four. this morning my brother called (at what seemed ridiculously early to a dehydrated drunken brain) to tell me that the inflatable trampoline i had bought her was a huge hit at the birthday party. apparently trampolines are amazing babysitters, allowing the grown-ups to hang out and discuss grown-up types of things. today of course, is also the

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it's nice to see that my old co-worker, mike, was able to face katrina with a sense of humour, even if he did get a shard of metal in his ass while mooning the hurricane. he is also running a blog which initially, became a place for people to post and start looking for loved ones, but is now also indundated with posters trying to drive traffic to their business sites. horrendous. there also

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it's for vitamin water, and their call answering message is absolutely amazing. obviously you are not calling to speak to a person, but the message is fucking hilarious.718.746.0087apparently the last voicemail answering service was a cranky jewish lady. if only all companies approached answering systems with such a sense of humour... it makes wading through the menus that much more tolerable!

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hack the elevator to go straight to your floor - fucking love it. now i wish i worked somewhere where i ride an elevator up and down... i probably won't have a chance to try this until next week.life:tricks

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so through a pretty circuitious route (mom -> tai chi -> a tuina see-fu -> his flushing, ny girlfriend -> mott street) i found myself walking into a tiny storefront no bigger than my bathroom in chinatown. it was like friendster, but without the web part. the smell was so amazing - when i walked in, i felt for a moment like i was seven, walking into the chinese herbalist where my mom had bought

thixotropichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254877246259620504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10969640.post-1122823278226542132005-07-31T10:16:00.000-04:002005-07-31T11:21:18.233-04:00

i've been listening to the national's new album, alligator, for about the past month or so, but this morning, listening to the album (yet again) i've decided it may be the most perfect album of the year. it can be listened to hereaudio:product placement

thixotropichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254877246259620504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10969640.post-1122525487415074152005-07-28T00:32:00.000-04:002005-07-28T00:38:07.420-04:00

what the fuck? The Bush administration, which is pushing alternatives to the Kyoto treaty on global warming, unveiled a six-nation pact on Wednesday that promotes the use of technology to cut greenhouse gas emissions.The deal between the United States, Japan, Australia, China, India and South Korea will build on existing bilateral agreements on technology sharing. It includes no Kyoto-style caps

thixotropichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254877246259620504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10969640.post-1122522092781043282005-07-27T23:29:00.000-04:002005-07-27T23:41:32.786-04:00

never mind that the epa tried to suppress the fuel economy report on the eve of the signing of the energy policy (at the bidding of the administration i'm sure), but sadly there's also a reason to not love bmws (well, as much as i do now, anyways)Some foreign companies do not even trouble themselves to follow fuel economy regulations. BMW, in fact, has paid more than $70 million in fines since

thixotropichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254877246259620504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10969640.post-1121650086012026182005-07-17T21:17:00.000-04:002005-07-17T21:28:06.016-04:00

yesterday we went to governor's island which is one of the stranger places i've been to in nyc; it involved taking a ferry, all to check out the opening day of set and drift. the art was ok, the best were two pieces that keyed off the old officer's houses, spawning quotes such as "it's like the house vomited" and "it's just so pretty".it's also funny how your neighborhood comes back and bites

thixotropichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254877246259620504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10969640.post-1121530997364002972005-07-16T12:20:00.000-04:002005-07-16T12:23:17.373-04:00

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- A tragic fire on Monday destroyed the personal library of President George W. Bush. Both of his books have been lost. Presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer said the president was devastated, as he had not finished coloring the second one.many thanks to marketa for passing this tidbit along!books:fake news

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