Chris & Alicia
May 31st, 2004
There were plenty of professional and amateur photographers at Chris &
Alicia’s wedding, so I contented myself to a handful of low-resolution
shots from
the hip.
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Archive for May, 2004
From back when telephones were new and scary
May 27th, 2004
Let the smooth slab serifs of Lubalin Graph help teach you How To Make Friends
By Telephone. “Be sure to give the person you’re calling sufficient
time to answer his telephone. Wait at least a full minute.”
Also: “You would not interrupt in a face-to-face conversation and the
same applies to a telephone conversation.” [more info]
My point exactly.
May 27th, 2004
Harvard Magazine: The Way We
Eat Now. Evolutionary metabolic traits, economy of modern refined
foodstuffs, socioeconomic factors, it’s all in there.
Geek gambling.
May 26th, 2004
A Slashdot article even my brother will read: this discussion
of the geekier side of poker has exploded into a great thread about
casinos, statistics, and other aspects of gambling, such as when to hit the
poker tables:
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I found the best time was afternoons – the locals are gone, and the sharks are
still sleeping it off, leaving you and a lot of really stupid people. That’s
when I did really well. It helps when some moron will take 2-7 unsuited all
the way to the river in Hold ’em. It happened to me, it was great. You can’t
lose.
(Oh, and I totally remember this,
too. On the one hand, what a classic! “Where time becomes a loop.” On the
other hand, what a ridiculous amount of storage space in my brain is wasted on
television…)
Cel shading as throwback art
May 26th, 2004
I didn’t realize until leafing through this gallery of pre-WWII Japanese postcards that the color and style
of Wind Waker is actually a throwback.
newer: Geek gambling.
older: Anthromorphization, part XVIII