January 2011
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Should Tumblr care? In response to issues with... →
armeck:
hmm.
I’ve said this before, and it is purely speculation (though somewhat educated speculation), but tumblr is built on PHP and MySQL. There are literally too many scaling issues with those tools for the size of the audience tumblr has. Facebook has somewhat solved this problem but they had to write a some very impressive specialty tools in order to make it happen and they had...
“RED STATE U.S.A. TOUR
Movie Screening with Kevin Smith Q&A
March 29, 2011 ...”
– $45 and $65 plus bullshit Ticketmaster-type fees on top of it?
Sorry Kevin, I’ll Netflix it. $20 for Casablanca at the Fox Theatre? Worth it. More than twice that to see Red State at the Cobb Performing Arts Center? Not happening. Though given that Cobb is probably the most religiously nutty of the...
“Never, never advise a boy on driving, car maintenance or how to change a tire....”
– p. 120 (via nicetobewith)
“That way lies spinsterhood.”
Also, the sequel: “Something spinster this way comes…”
Damn, brooke, this stuff just kills me sometimes.
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Soooo the bees may be dying because the EPA... →
Delightful. I’m so glad we are going to have pest free agriculture that can’t pollinate. Thanks Bayer! You guys are the best!
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oh, and matt-t
definitely follow that guy for sure.
matt-t
A little about me...
So something fairly unusual has happened in my little neck of the tumblr world. I’ve gained some followers this last week, certainly a good bit more than my normal rate, and it appears to be mostly from either this minor incident with Tyler. For the record, I think Tyler is an interesting guy, I’m sure he has no idea who I am at all, and I was not trying to go after him personally,...
Shorter Excerpts: peterwknox: Kevin Smith’s Red... →
peterwknox:
Kevin Smith’s Red State Premiered at Sundance, and Vulture Was There — Vulture
As he explained, the movie took 25 days and cost $4 million to make. If he sold it for $6 million, it would still take $20 million to market. But since that $26 million doesn’t go back to the movie…
Shorterexcerpts asked if Fox Theater wanted to host a showing of this, but for whatever reason,...
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WatchI know there is an Athenian or two following this tumblr. Tonight at 9:00pm at Cine, this ongoing screening series called the Videographer’s Hellabig Show is happening. Two films that I’ve been either intimately or tangentially involved with are screening, “Painted Love” and “Torment”. Tonight’s show is a “Best Of” containing films from...
“This was a time before Along Came Polly, before Step Brothers, and, mercifully,...”
– The Awl - Be Less Stupid.
Step Brothers is a truly great movie.
(via skybarn)
Seriously. Let’s all sing “one of these things is not like the others.”
tanya77:
bbook:
Casting Anne may be Nolan’s biggest whoops yet but at least we’re going to get a super beefy Tom Hardy. And who could ever be opposed to that?
Oh, somebody said it.
I’m assuming you are referring to Hathaway? I don’t know. Judging from her performance in Havoc, I bet she pulls it off just fine.
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Tyler Coates: meth: Yeah, I don’t think this one... →
meth:
Yeah, I don’t think this one is very fair. [Note: my link] He puts a ton of smart women in his work, but The Social Network had to follow the court transcripts and the book to a great extent, and there weren’t a lot of women involved in the creation of Facebook.
Go watch pretty…
Okay, fair enough on the pandering, that’s a valid point. But I’m not sure the audience...
wooliebear:
Every time I see a story with “Breaking Dawn” in the title I get excited because I think it’s a remake of “Red Dawn.”
But it’s not. It’s not even some sort of really bad (good) psychosexual/S&M thriller.
Hey, but they did remake Red Dawn. I think this time the Chinese get involved.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234719/
It’s been finished for a while but sitting on a...
Holidazed and Confused →
Some lovely and ridiculously talented ladies I know are in a Burlesque Troupe here in Atlanta called Blast-Off Burlesque. They have a special Holiday Show, happening tonight and tomorrow at Seven Stages. Creative Loafing lists the show on it’s Five Things Today page, and honestly, these shows are just lots of fun entertainment. I will be at tonight’s show and one of the shows...
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MIT put free courses and materials online →
OCW Scholar
MIT OpenCourseWare has published five OCW Scholar courses, the first of twenty such courses that will be published over the next three years. These courses have been designed to support independent study without the need for additional resources, and include multimedia such as video and simulations. Learn more about OCW Scholar.
This is very cool, particularly if you are a little...
“The cricket paralysis virus has disrupted supplies to pet shops across North...”
– First dead birds, then dead fish … now crickets - U.S. news - Environment - msnbc.com
This isn’t getting spooky at all.
(via occultist)
First they came for the birds, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a bird. Then they came for the crickets…
Spiersblr: Re: Jared Loughner's family →
spiers:
Reading the comments on this Gawker thread about Jared Loughner’s family, a few thoughts:
It is far harder than you probably think to get an adult with paranoid schizophrenia help—professional treatment or otherwise. And I know this from painful direct experience. Paranoid schizophrenia runs…
I’ll add to this. You can throw a mentally ill person into as much counseling as you...
“Nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should.”
– Julia Child (via fivefifteen)
Words for my week, for damn sure.
Let's call it hell.
(Warning: This is a longish post. Not the typical tumblr fare, but I gotta write all this stuff down or I won’t even believe it happened myself.)
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It’s right before noon on Wednesday, December 27th, 2010. I’m trying, distractedly, to film some seagulls while waiting for Jens, our lead actor, to finish up in makeup. The fake beard he is wearing looks amazing, but in...
