Gareth Thomas, a famous rugby player for Wales, came out of the closet after years of lying to himself, his team mates, and family (including his wife). He has decided to become the model for young people that he never had. This is his moving video short talking about how things “get better.” He’s a…
I watched the most unusual movie the other day. It’s called Monsters, and it involves, well, enormous monsters from outer space. But it’s not a single-minded monster movie, not in the way that, say, Cloverfield is. Instead, it lives in a rather underpopulated genre of its own: the dramance, guest starring monsters. It’s also an…
Checked in to my Flickr account today. Someone had taken advantage of my Creative Commons permission for reuse and remixing of any image in my collections. When I clicked on the link, I was pleased to learn that Darwin is now an unpaid spokesperson for commercial floor cleaners in Boise, ID.
Today, Jeremy and I enjoyed omakase lunch with Isa at Ebisu. I urged Isa to hew freely from my normal sashimi requirements. He delivered several tasty, bright, and colorful plates, including this one. Clockwise from top: ikura and uni in a shiso bed, sprouts and daikon radish, scallop, crunchy and very fresh clam, umi masu…
I’m not a huge fan of taking pictures of food in restaurants, but it seems so appropriate when sushi is involved, and for probably good reason. The bright, shiny, colorful qualities of raw fish — it’s like photographing a fruit bowl, or studying a table-top still life from hundreds of years ago. Left foreground: shiromaguro…
On chit chat, its social importance, and its function in a process of natural selection.
Just got back from a lovely trip to Seattle. It was my fourth visit to the gray city, but probably the first time I really had a memorable stay. The difference between this and previous visits is that I was sleep-deprived and burnt out from work — two conditions that make a very unhappy and…
Sometimes, I have a Spidey sense for a movie without having seen it in the theater. When it comes out on DVD or Blu-ray, I’ll just buy it, knowing that I will probably enjoy having it in my permanent library. Primer was a good example of that. So, when Where the Wild Things Are came…
I’m not impressed. Neat little service, I guess, if your finances are simple, but if they are complex, nuh uh.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. I just love the Olympics. I can’t be bothered with the media spectacle, all that opening-ceremonies-a-guy-got-killed stuff. That’s for media whores and their pimps. I love the actual competitions. The beauty of streaming instead of watching on TV is that you get loads of raw replay without…