Entries from July 2007

The Big Sleep - Movie review

Date July 30, 2007

“The Big Sleep” (Howard Hawks)
Turner Classic Movies had this on last night. I hit the DVR record button. I am glad I did.
I dig film noir. I also dig the hard boiled fiction that inspired it. Raymond Chandler invented it for the most part. There may have been those before but he defined it, gave [...]

Say It Loud - Julio Lima - profile

Date July 30, 2007

I just posted a short profile on Julio Lima and his Say It Loud agency and design studio on Mills on the Colonialtown Blog on the Sentinel.
Be sure to check it out and those of you interested in co-working type space he has some for rent. It is a hip space and he has a [...]

links for 2007-07-26

Date July 26, 2007

Create Your Own Wired Cover - Powered by Xerox
(tags: wired magazine generator fun tools humor web)

links for 2007-07-23

Date July 23, 2007

Vonnegut’s Asshole
This is not your normal 2 paragraph blog stuff, this is long, funny as shit diatribes. This is a must read.
(tags: blog humor humour literature)

HDR photo software & plugin - Tone Mapping, Exposure Blending & HDR Imaging for photography
Just check out what you can do with this program. way easier than photoshop but brilliant [...]

links for 2007-07-22

Date July 22, 2007

theSeek.com : find domains faster
Beyond easy domain search for your GoDaddy spending spree
(tags: domain search ajax web2.0 domains technology web design internet)

Food - Recipes - Cookbooks - Dining - Restaurants - Butter - New York Times
how to make your own butter, registration required
(tags: cooking butter food milk cream)

Beer Advocate - Respect Beer.
Site of the magazine [...]

RV Adventures: Day 2

Date July 20, 2007

This is part two of a late posting series detailing the RV adventures with my parents on their retirement RV. The trip was over three days in July. Videos have been taken and will be posted as well.
Daylight blooms on the Road Beast. The winged rats knock on the door, just to get our names [...]

links for 2007-07-20

Date July 20, 2007

FactoryCity » My default WordPress setup: 17 must-have plugins
(tags: wordpress plugins blogging blog plugin tips list)

IndieKarma
micro payment system for indie blogs and sites
(tags: business money micropayment blog web blogging blogs)

120 Minutes
great collection of videos from 120 minutes, when indie was college rock, am and actually different and alternative was an adjective not a section of [...]

RV Adventures: Day 1

Date July 17, 2007

This is first of a late posting series detailing the RV adventures with my parents on their retirement RV. The trip was over three days in July. Videos have been taken and will be posted as well.
The parentals arrive with their “Great Escape”, a 37 foot coach that is ready to rip a huge whole [...]

6 movies I want to see…

Date July 17, 2007

but I have a kid.
I was digging around looking at the trailers on the Quicktime site and found some film niftiness to check out. I will be waiting for the Net-flicks to queue it up so let me know if you have seen them.
The Ten Ten stories, each inspired by one of the [...]

And we have forward motion!

Date July 15, 2007

We came home from our RV adventure and plopped the kiddo down and he showed his new trick. Don’t know where he learned it from but it is nifty. Check it out.

gotta have quicktime for you to see it
[Update]
Before anybody trips that we are being rough by letting him perform on the hard floor, that [...]