- The AV Club on Priest:
It’s as if the filmmakers realize they’re wasting everyone’s time, so they at least want to take up as little of it as possible.
- German TV reveals that Osama Bin Laden was killed by Star Trek rebels.
- Meanwhile, Teacher who vowed not to shave until bin Laden was caught or killed finally shaves. [via]
- Guy who created Mike Tyson’s tattoo suing to stop release of The Hangover Part II.
- And finally, I haven’t watched it regularly in years, if ever, but I’m still a little sad to hear that Good Eats is ending. [via]
Month: May 2011
Tuesday is as Tuesday does
Nothing much happened today. It rained until it stopped, and that’s about it. My first train this morning was late, and then the connecting train at Jamaica was flooded. Not exactly underwater, but it’s one of those double-decker trains, and I was on the bottom level. Luckily the seats themselves are elevated off the floor, because the floor itself was one giant puddle.
Oh, and it turns out I didn’t win the Geist Literary Postcard Story Contest. That’s too bad, as I really liked the piece I submitted. I definitely think I’m going to rework it a little, expand it just slightly from the contest’s (maddening) 500-word limit.
And, yep, that was pretty much my Tuesday.
Song of the day
“Don’t Get Me Wrong” by the Pretenders
Tuesday various
- Zadie Smith’s rules for writers:
When an adult, try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would. [via]
- “All these worlds are yours except Europa…and possibly Titan.” [via]
- The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We’re All Going To Miss Almost Everything:
It’s sad, but it’s also … great, really. Imagine if you’d seen everything good, or if you knew about everything good. Imagine if you really got to all the recordings and books and movies you’re “supposed to see.” Imagine you got through everybody’s list, until everything you hadn’t read didn’t really need reading. That would imply that all the cultural value the world has managed to produce since a glob of primordial ooze first picked up a violin is so tiny and insignificant that a single human being can gobble all of it in one lifetime. That would make us failures, I think. [via]
- So long and thanks for all the fish: Underwater Translator May Finally Let Us Talk to Dolphins. [via]
- And finally, My Little 11th Doctor [via]:
Monday
Today had all the trappings of a Monday, though not much else. It rained, quite a lot in the morning, and I got soaked through — well, from toe to shin, anyway — on the single block between Grand Central and my office. Some mornings, I kind of miss my old commute, with the fifteen minute walk from Penn Station. This was not one of those mornings.
I decided not to take advantage of summer hours at work this year. The approvals were due today, and my boss is away at a conference, so it was unlikely I’d be able to get the paperwork squared away. But, more importantly, I just don’t think it’s worth it, this year especially. I like the idea of leaving work three hours early on Fridays, but not so much the idea of spilling those hours into the rest of the week. Especially this year, in the new office, when I have fewer trains to choose from in the morning. Maybe if they continue the option, and after I’ve moved out — I haven’t been good about it, but I am in theory still looking for an apartment — but not this year.