Sometimes you just want to be able to quickly get to the new stuff. That’s why I have a Smart Playlist called “New This Month”. This playlist contains all the tracks I’ve added in the last month, and I keep it synchronized with both my iPhone and with my iPod Nano. I always have all… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: June 2009
(Almost) Daily David
There is no such thing as “dolphin-safe tuna”. I can’t decide which is more fun: The Lyttle Lytton Contest or the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. Fans of conspiracy theories will absolutely love the MeFi thread on pharmaceutical companies, the WHO, UN officials, the Russians, Barack Obama, and the recently-deceased, single-white-gloved whistle-blower … Michael Jackson. Swedish civil… Read more »
Weekend Links
General Stuff My dad continues to regularly post some of his amazing photographs from Portsmouth, Bristol, and Newport, Rhode Island. When browsing Craigslist you will often find items that are not (quite) as advertised. The International Space Station took some awesome pictures of an erupting Russian volcano. Trusting your eyes is just silly. This optical… Read more »
Friday Five: Periods of My Life
In my mind my life is divided into five distinct periods: Youth (1973 – 1987) High School (1987 -1991) College (1991 – 1996) Post-College (1996 – 2000) Los Angeles (2000 – present)
Only Old Men Wear Colored Socks
This was one of those truths that I held to be self-evident for the first 35 years of my life. Wearing colored socks was a clear sign that you had gotten “old”. Only old men wore anything other than white socks. Dick Van Dyke and my grandpa wore black socks. Guys in suits wore black… Read more »
There Are Places I Remember
There are places I remember In my life … though some have changed Some forever not for better Some have gone and some remain All these places have their moments … I miss my grandmother’s house sometimes. It’s interesting (to me, at least) because I’m not normally one to “miss” anything or anyone. People come,… Read more »
WordPress Wednesday: Pithy Quotes Plugin
If you look at the top of this page you’ll see that there is a short quip displayed in my header. Every time you visit any page, it changes. I have about fifteen little quotes in my database and they’re set to display randomly with each refresh of the page. I wrote a plugin which… Read more »
iTunes Tuesday: Groupings
I love covers. There’s just something thrilling about hearing someone sing someone else’s song. My favorite part of a concert is always when the band plays a cover. (How awesome was it when Pearl Jam played Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down”? Or when Less Than Jake plays Cheap Trick’s “Surrender”?) I’ve got just about… Read more »
Random David
General Stuff I followed a link on Hidden Los Angeles and found a killer list of film locations in town. (I’m going to go out on a limb and assume LA has a lot more of these than most cities. Sometimes I forget that I am living in what has to be the coolest city… Read more »
How to Delete a Recurring iCal Event
I have finally resolved an issue with my Mac OS X 10.5.7 iCal calendar that has been annoying me since I converted from PC to Mac almost exactly one year ago. For some reason I could not delete my birthday! Because I’m now using Address Book birthdays — instead of having unique iCal “events” for… Read more »
The Dexia Rack Laptop Stand
My mom got me a Dexia Rack a few years ago as a gift. I had seen one at a bookstore on the University of Florida campus while visiting Gainesville and said that it looked pretty cool. So of course my mom noted that and got me one for Christmas or my birthday months later…. Read more »
Friday Five: iPhone Games
The iPhone games that are occupying the highest percentage of my free time right now are: FlightControl (previously) Wild West Pinball Parachute Panic Wild West Guns SkyBurger