December 2011
3 posts
I’m rarely impressed by short films of gunplay, murder or suicide. They usually make as much sense as this http://t.co/cEV9lv6D
Dec 19th
To be fair, the author seems knowledgable. But the text goes from sane tech advice to unchecked, quoted Dada-isms. Trust but verify, sir.
Dec 4th
RT @jjaron: Remember those annoying “You wouldn’t steal a car” anti-piracy ads? They pirated the music http://t.co/5iqe5hkk
Dec 3rd
November 2011
5 posts
The Boy, impersonating Luke Skywalker: “Noooo! That better not be true!”
Nov 30th
RT @5tu: Celtx Script and Celtx Shots are on sale for 99¢ each today: http://t.co/AYPlHZNE
Nov 27th
RT @writing_wrongs: Imperial Walker walker. #thankyouimhereallweek #starwars http://t.co/qhOsBCET
Nov 24th
Dozens of “highly educated” people replying-all to misdirected, system-wide emails all morning. Need a method for revoking Ph.D.’s.
Nov 19th
The Boy: Cartoon characters can dream without sleeping. Me: Know what a flashback is? Him: It’s like a back story. I watch Phineas & Ferb.
Nov 7th
August 2011
3 posts
RT @tylerginter: RT @5tu: Storyboard Composer HD is out for iPad and iPhone, and it’s on sale for $4.99 for one week only! bit.ly/storyb …
Aug 4th
RT @diveintomark: If you have an identical twin and don’t devote your life to messing with people like Alfred Borden in The Prestige the …
Aug 3rd
Listening to Spawn soundtrack. The Wife: Is this The Crow? Me: So close. Name another story of a guy who dies & comes back. The Wife: Jesus?
Aug 1st
July 2011
4 posts
The Boy balanced with 1 foot on the bed frame, 1 on the window sill 2ft away… Me: What are you doing? Him: What do you *think* I’m doing?
Jul 31st
“Look at that, you son of a bitch.” via @gruber http://tinyurl.com/3m5s39j
Jul 26th
Just joined the Markdown party. Thx @hotdogsladies, NValt, Byword and Marked. *Need* a better way to blog with images (storage & linking)…
Jul 25th
RT @hotdogsladies: With gorgeous design and careful attention to users’ concerns, Google+ has reinvented how we fuck around with buttons …
Jul 1st
June 2011
2 posts
The Boy, during the hyper-jump sequence at the end of Wall•E: “Whoa. They’re going like 100 miles per fast.”
Jun 23rd
If you open your After Effects project and all of your footage is missing, but the project actually looks better, you may have other issues.
Jun 22nd
May 2011
1 post
The Boy (stepping outside): Achoo! (pause) Bless me. (pause) Whoa. I smelled too hard.
May 3rd
The Boy: How do you kick the soccer so high? Me: First, you have to grow big like me. Him: What next? #indefatigable
May 1st
April 2011
10 posts
The Boy: Why do weeds grow faster than flowers? Me: They’re greedy. They want to take all the space. Him: Like the bad guys in Star Wars.
Apr 27th
RT @MarylandMudflap: I have a hunch that the first person to domesticate a cat was both chubby and sad.
Apr 21st
Me: Guess what? There are more Star Wars movies. The Boy: How many? The Wife: Two! —- God, I love this woman.
Apr 19th
The Boy: “Excuse me, Dad?” Me: “Yes?” The Boy: “No, I mean the one where you get out of the way.”
Apr 18th
RT @televisionary: Beyond excited about @HBO developing a series adaptation of #AmericanGods with @neilhimself co-writing. http://bit.ly …
Apr 15th
Editors who love Avid should be *thrilled* with FCPx. It means Apple probably won’t buy Avid and shitcan MC any time soon.
Apr 14th
I lost track — When does everyone get to stop bitching about what Apple’s going to announce and start bitching about what they did announce?
Apr 12th
Did you hear about the old professor who dreamed that he was giving a lecture and woke up to find that he was? —Jerry Uelsmann
Apr 10th
RT @edgarwright: R.I.P. Sidney Lumet died at 86. What a legacy of cinema. 12 Angry Men, The Hill, The Pawnbroker, Serpico, Dog Day After …
Apr 10th
March 2011
10 posts
RT @fastcodesign: Utterly stunning infographic about the history of sci-fi: http://bit.ly/fIII1R (Worth seeing even if you’re not a sci- …
Mar 28th
Mar 27th
3 tags
Tamajii Storyboard app for iPad. →
Mar 27th
2 tags
The Understatement: US Wealth Distribution... →
understatementblog: Another bad chart, this time from MoveOn.org: The most obvious problem with this chart, as correctly identified by Neven Mrgan, is that it doesn’t provide a visual correlation between the population and wealth distributions. In fact, it doesn’t provide a visual display of the population…
Mar 27th
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RT @johnaugust: Whenever I watch rich people in period dramas I envy their lives of idle luxury. But then I realize I’m watching on my i …
Mar 27th
AZCAR is now valued at $545,000. So execs walked with 2x what the company is now worth. Neat.
Mar 26th
RT @nicolegregory: OH: “Your cell phone has more computing power than all of NASA in 1969. NASA launched a man to the moon. We launched …
Mar 25th
Unmotivational poster for @danbenjamin and @hotdogsladies and today’s ep of Back to Work. http://t.co/KzyMzNE
Mar 24th
Word of the day: Skeuomorph http://t.co/YZzW1oy Strange to finally encounter a word for something you’ve seen forever. See also: steampunk
Mar 23rd
Just nuked an absurd project I foolishly agreed to. Ambition loses, family wins. #live&learn
Mar 14th
February 2011
1 post
Priorities: #1: Coffee #2: Pry open door. #3: Build sled hill off back deck. http://t.co/bwqNdKt
Feb 2nd
January 2011
10 posts
I’m a completist, so I eventually had to get back to Three Colors: White. Enjoyable, but Red & Blue are so much better. Decalogue next..?
Jan 24th
Made The Boy watch How to Train Your Dragon & listen to the commentary. Maybe we should do some Lego stop motion before I throw him at Maya.
Jan 11th
Know what’s awesome? Deleting hundreds of GB of data. On purpose. #filebloat
Jan 10th
For the record: I no longer recommend a Drobo. Mine unmounted & corrupted itself during data transfers 3x today. One was a DiskWarrior scan.
Jan 9th
Anyone else have experience with Seagate’s BlackArmor NAS 400? Or have recommendations for Drobo (USB/FW800)replacement?
Jan 9th
Still holding onto my dad’s Gold Key #1 — 500+ Star Trek comics, 1967-2002, CD-ROM/printable, $7. http://t.co/WDaHxpf via @ebertchicago
Jan 8th
5.1 mix of NIN’s The Fragile, deluxe edition. Coming soon…? http://t.co/QSpJMxX
Jan 8th
RT @Coleran: “@toffeenutdesign: Dear Mac Devs, http://t.co/CXV15vD”
Jan 7th
“What impresses me is the guy who gets his shots done and goes home at 7pm to see his family.” http://bit.ly/gQeep7
Jan 5th
The Boy found the “All Dogs Go to Heaven” TV show on Netflix. Satan could use this show as a recruiting tool.
Jan 5th
December 2010
26 posts
Anyone else have trouble with Lightroom and their Drobo?
Dec 31st