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A Coastal Maine Halloween Mystery

Anthony — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:38:52 +0000

Here’s an intriguing Halloween week mystery from my home state of Maine. While the coast of New England is well known for its haunted houses, this one is a bit more obscure; apparently the tides went bezerk earlier this week, with several dramatic back-and-forth shifts of more than eight feet. The National Weather Service could only describe it as “a mystery.” Weird enough for me. [h/t Jim].

Sarah Silverman Says: Schlep To Florida

Anthony — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:16:54 +0000

The Great Schlep

Post-It Note Art

Anthony — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:13:14 +0000

The shoplet blog has a couple of articles on Post-It Note art. Nintendo’s advertising campaign is especially neat.

More From The Craigslist Archives

Anthony — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:48:57 +0000

To the drunk hottie who fell off my motorcycle…

Demise of the Chemistry Set

Anthony — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:49:59 +0000

Thanks to MAKE (if you don’t get their feed, you should) for an article on the demise of the home chemistry set. I had one or two and caused all kinds of edu-trouble with it.

The Ideal Commute

Anthony — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:12:15 +0000

On his way in to work, DJ demonstrates the ideal commute.

Jamais Vu

Anthony — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:56:24 +0000

Here’s a fun little list of brain oddities. I remember as a kid my brother and I used to fuck with our heads by saying the same thing over and over again, say for a minute or so, until the phrase seemed so ridiculous that it no longer felt real – it would take on an alien, unrecognizable sense. Try it yourself – pick a word, or a phrase, anything that makes sense to you at the moment. Repeat it to yourself at a comfortable pace over a period of a minute or so. It will shortly seem absurd.

Bird Songs and Red Mangoes

Anthony — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:26:03 +0000

Today was one of those days that reminds me why I love living – and as a bonus, doing it here. The sun was shining and it was well above 80. The birds were singing away and frantically going about their springtime business. I have some (sparrows, I think) nesting on the north side of the house. I hear so many different birdsongs day and night that I’ve started checking eNature.com to try to identify them.

The strawberries, herbs and other plants on my deck were singing too. The lemon tree is still inside (I may move her outside eventually) and the longer days of spring have clearly inspired her; she’s leafing and budding up a storm. I also seeded some Roma tomatoes … we’ll see how that goes.

The air was clear as a bell; while I can always see the Santa Monica Mountains, today their texture and colors were so rich I could almost feel them. And more impressively, I could clearly see the peaks of the San Gabriel Mountains off to the north, which are about 80 miles away and border the Mojave Desert.

I spent part of the afternoon and evening on my bike and stopped to try the new Red Mango place in Venice. The stuff is pretty good. (I had strawberries and graham cracker crust on mine, but it was more like graham cracker dust.)

I sat there for a while, lazily guarding the invisible border between Santa Monica and Venice, as it buzzed with beautiful people ramping up their Saturday night. As the sun began to let go, I rode home and decided to tell you all that this was one of those days.

My Kinda Girl; My Kinda Toilet

Anthony — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:05:27 +0000

Great commercial from Sweden…

[h/t David]

Mac Wallpaper and Icon Fun

Anthony — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:26:06 +0000

Got some great wallpaper today for my “Big Mac”. On the big Power Mac upstairs, it’s usually some impossibly hot fashion model staring back at me (from my impossibly gorgeous EIZO FlexScan S24.) Believe it or not, sometimes that gets old (the models, not the monitor). Also have been playing around with CandyBar 3 and things are lookin’ awful purty. [h/t Matt Brett.]