Selfish Crab

My Vacation – 1 by selfish crab.

Great fucking vacation.

# 2006 May 8 • From the 'Life' dept • 1

Jim Woodring, surreal illustrator behind The Frank Book, has a blog (via waxy via boingboing)

Two thoughts:

1. pupshaw is my favorite
2. best moleskine use. ever.

# 2006 May 6 • From the 'Links', 'nerd' dept • #

drool.  (via waxy via here)

# 2006 May 6 • From the 'Links', 'nerd' dept • #

Video: I’ll Be Watching You. Columbia Business School Spring 2006 Follies spoof. (via nytimes, who couldn’t bother to do a direct link to YouTube.) It is Steven D. Levitt-approved.

Don’t miss past years’ spoofs. Or the real Dean Hubbard’s University lecture on
Tuesday.    cal3 still doing registration = le sigh.

# 2006 May 6 • From the 'Columbia', 'Links' dept • #

So, as a male, I am obligated to bother with sports, but the iconoclast in me must question everything. As a result, one of my favorite pastimes is evaluating a sport on a set of arbitrary values. For example, consider golf.

Golf requires a good mix of athleticism (driving,) finesse (putting), and judgment. The handicap system apparently is a nice skill equalizer. And then there’s that cliché about how useful it is for your career.

Unfortunately, this sport is a massive waste of resources. All this effort is expended to maintain giant well-watered, well-manicured plots of grass that only a handful of people can play on at any moment. I mean, basketball only takes tar and a hoop; soccer plays on any surface, with anything as goal markers.

Also, the sport oozes exclusitivity: dress codes, bag porters, private courses. And technology matters too much.

Thusly, I have rationalized not learning to play. Thusly, I reject golf.

Anyone care to defend this resource sink of a sport?

# 2006 May 4 • From the 'opine' dept • #

I’m just going to keep writing and hitting “publish” until my battery runs out.

Too many of you read this crap at work.

Did you know WordPress is ass-stupid when it comes to timezones? You manually set the offset from UTC and it doesn’t change when in daylight savings time. Well, unless you have a plugin…

My wrists hurt. I’m glad I’m taking a short vacation. I don’t have to type as a lawyer right?

Let’s see… what else inane shit can I write about?

In alluding to a co-worker, I casually used the phrase “Preggers McGee” in an e-mail. This was two weeks ago and I’m still proud of my own cleverness.

Playlist is heavy with b-side Neil Young, Etta james, and whatever indie goodness the new kids are bringing to jukie.

Let’s foster participation. What’s one song I haven’t heard that I should?

# 2006 May 3 • From the 'meta', 'nerd' dept • 1

This site should blow the mind of exactly one of you.

# 2006 May 3 • From the 'Life' dept • 2

One can tag their flickr photos in Chinese???

# 2006 May 3 • From the 'nerd' dept • #

Friends, I’ve finally come around to alcohol. This happened roughly when work became less magical and life decisions needed a deciding. This combination has made drinks sweeter on the tongue and welcome in the belly.

Anyway, now that more and more of my fun is at night and out of reach of a cumbersome S70, I’m shopping for a complementary thin n’ light camera for snapshots. Thoughts? SD450? Lumix DMC-FX01?

# 2006 May 3 • From the 'Life' dept • #

kb #5837142:   Do not schedule end-of-year intern dinner at Mama Mexico on the same day as nation-wide immigrant strike/walkout.

# 2006 May 2 • From the 'work' dept • #

small flowers by selfish crab.

# 2006 May 2 • From the 'Life' dept • #

I removed tech and web and replaced them with the umbrella category nerd. I can blog about nerdy stuff like Magic cards (snifffff) and video games and pocket protectors, and these posts will now be appropriately labeled, like a biohazard.

Please hold your jokes about a nerd not having any Life posts.

# 2006 May 2 • From the 'meta' dept • 3

Well shit, if they can finish Duke Nukem Forever, why not wildfire 2.0? and registration 4.0?  I’m feeling pressure for end of May…

# 2006 May 1 • From the 'nerd', 'work' dept • #