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Entries from October 2008

OMFG

October 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments

So I agreed many months ago to record a version of Wolf Parade’s “I’ll Believe In Anything” for my friends Alex and Laurenn’s wedding. They wanted to have their first dance to it, but the original is way too fast and indie rawk to slow dance to.
I’ve put together a massive orchestral version that has [...]

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Tags: Music

Green Panda

October 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

A new image of the Zenarchery panda; I’m trying out a new illustration style. (If you like it, I’ll totally sell you a print of it.)
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Tags: Design · Visual Art

Paul Smith ripped off Robert Hodgin!

October 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Apparently one of designer Paul Smith’s patterns is a pixel-by-pixel copy of a Flickr image by Robert Hodgin (who wrote the Magnetosphere visualizer that is now the default visualizer in iTunes, and who has also been an immense help to me with my Processing code)!
Robert says, to be fair, that the “birds” in his images [...]

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Tags: Design · Elsewhere On The Web

Secret Halloween Cover

October 26th, 2008 · 3 Comments

If you were to point your browser here, you might find a special (and ridiculously silly) Red State Soundsystem Halloween cover. Because I love you. And I was really bored on this late Saturday night / early Sunday morning.
Happy Halloween, folks.
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Pimpin’ Lost A Hero

October 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Rudy Ray Moore, better known as “Dolemite”, died today. Sigh.
Way down in the jungle deep,
The bad ass lion stepped on the signifyin monkey’s feet.
The monkey said, “Muthafucka, can’t you see?
Why, you standin on my goddamn feet!”
The lion said, “I ain’t heard a word you said.”
Said, “If you say three more I’ll be steppin on yo [...]

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Tags: Culture

DIY Storage

October 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments

A couple of years ago, I read an article online about a dude who bought a tiny house in Marin County — so tiny he didn’t really have space for all of his computer gear.
So he got himself a wire bread rack, replaced the crappy plastic shelves with hardwood, and stored not only his computer [...]

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Tags: Personal

Pimp My Jihad, Mk. 2

October 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments

If you know me IRL, you may have seen me wearing my “Pimp My Jihad” shirt I made a few years ago, with a tricked-out AK-47 on it. Well, here’s Mark II:

I’m pretty proud of this design. It was extremely complex and time-consuming to do. It’s currently up for critique at Threadless. If you like [...]

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Tags: Design · Elsewhere On The Web · Visual Art

Oh Hell, The Finale: Oh, Shit.

October 4th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I broke down and went to UMC.
It wasn’t a salivary stone at all. Mea culpa. I was wrong.
Instead, I have been told that apparently the entire lower half of my skull consists of four severly impacted wisdom teeth. One has punctured my maxillary sinus. Another is disrupting the movement of my jawbone. And this one [...]

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Oh hell, interlude

October 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Topicane 4% lidocaine topical anaesthetic: $16.50
Disposable pocket scalpel: $0.69
Medical precision tweezers: $4.33
Sterile sutures: $10.00
Information from the Web on various procedures to remove stone from Wharton’s duct: free

Not having to pay some retard doctor $2500 for an hour’s worth of simple surgical procedure? Priceless.
[Update: No, I'm not really going to do this. Well, probably not.]
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Oh, Hell, part 2

October 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

So I definitely have a blocked sublingual gland. I’ve been alleviating the symptoms by…well, you don’t want to know. I seem to have a salivary calculus, or stone, in my sublingual gland under my tongue. I’ve been trying to dislodge it (which is ungodly painful), but I think it’s too big. (This just happens sometimes, [...]

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Tags: Personal