September 2008 Playlist

1. Bastards Of Young – The Replacements
2. Knickerbocker – Fujiya & Miyagi
3. Something Is Not Right With Me – Cold War Kids
4. Dancing Choose – TV On The Radio
5. Bruises – Chairlift
6. Golden Age – TV On The Radio
7. Souled Out!!! – Conor Oberst
8. A Method – TV On The Radio
9. Here Comes A Regular [...]

Debate Drinking Game

I was going to search around and try to find a roundup of debate drinking games, but someone at Metafilter has already done it for me.
The comments yielded one that I will promptly repost here and use for tonight, I will be drinking bud light, another kind of beer that doesn’t taste like piss, and [...]

Chinese Democracy for Thanksgiving?

I don’t usually drink Dr. Pepper on Thanksgiving, and in fact I had planned to spend much of this Thanksgiving watching the Seahawks give Tony Romo a piece of their mind, but now it may be that I have to trek on down to motherfucking Best Buy to buy an album that I will immediately [...]

Job Interview

Video of Sarah Palin talking to Katie Couric reminds me of when I interviewed for a job and someone asked me to define teamwork and then I just said a bunch of words while I slowly died inside.
I was interviewing at a Starbucks.
Sarah Palin is interviewing to be the vice president of the country I [...]

Matt’s New Phone?

HTC had a press conference today unveling their “G1″ phone, which is the first little mobile phone dealy based on Google’s Android OS. Now, as a person who has inadvertandly worked around all sorts of ‘mobile devices’ for the past 5 years, I can finally say that I am in love with this phone.
Not only [...]

Presidential Debate Drinking Game Next Friday

So in honor of the 1st Presidential Debate of 2004 in which I drink a 12 pack of MGD with some folks, I am inviting everyone I know over next Friday at whatever time this goddamn thing starts (6pm PT, apparently) and have a presidential debate drinking game. Here are my current thoughts. I may [...]

I can’t get enough of you Crows.

A study was able to prove that crows can identify an obstacle based on reasoning and not arbitrary features (A Cuddlefish or Octopus can do the arbitrary features trick, as seen on Nova). This is something a chimpanzee can not do.
But really, this is the intro to a much better post. I’m ready to roll [...]

Infinite Jest

I was sad to see that David Foster Wallace had passed away even though I own two of his books and haven’t gotten through more than a quarter of either.
Infinite Jest, at least when I tried to read it, was almost physically impossible for me to read, it was full of footnotes, and the book [...]

It’s Happened

Yesterday, after consuming just a single Mojito, Gretchen went to Everyday Music and somehow ended up with a Japanese DVD set of every Star Trek: TNG episode ever. 48 discs for $80.
The cover is priceless and features Picard along with Captain Janeway of Star Trek: Voyager. We watched like 5 episodes yesterday before I had [...]

Quick Thought

I would love to get a t-shirt with a Hadron Collider graphic like on the google homepage and have it say something like Higgs BosPWNED