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| [This Is Water by The Glossary] |
Just a few videos, articles and blogs that I've come across (largely by way of Daniel) to help waste your time. No need to thank me (or him).
[+] This may be the best entry to date on Ways to Waste Time, prepare to do nothing today: GeoGuessr
[+] I am still trying to decide if sublets in New York City (and surrounding areas) make me feel even better about my situation or really bad for the people living in them.
[+] A (new) way to think: This Is Water. And the 'fine purveyor of stimulating videograms' that created this book ad: The Glossary. Someday, when I have something to advertise, I'mma gonna hire them.
[+] Weekend song - play it loud and repeatedly: Mushaboom . Feist
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| [Lake Retba in Senegal] |
Just a few videos, articles and blogs I've come across that will help waste your time. No need to thank me.
[+] Unearthly places found on Earth.
[+] What a little editing can do: Ferris Bueller's Day Off as an indie film trailer...and the original trailer.
[+] Here's a silver lining to a beetle infestation. (Originally my uncle Jim told me about this, but he doesn't have a blog to link to.)
[+] Weekend song - play it loud and repeatedly: The Boxer . Simon and Garfunkel
Just a few videos, articles and blogs I've come across that will help waste your time. No need to thank me.
[+] Check out all the finds at Street Art Utopia, where they "declare the world as our canvas."
[+] Ever had a restaurant you truly regretted dining at? Ever read a review with so many questions?
[+] FEMA has a ' Waffle House Index', Denny's better start getting with it.
[+] Prepare to do nothing the rest of the afternoon: 100 Best Tumblrs of All Time [beware that some may be of poor taste or contain adult language/adult humor/nudity]
[+] I had no idea Shirley MacLaine and Warren Beatty are siblings. #commonknowledgethatshocksme
[+] Weekend song - play it loud and repeatedly: Since I've Been Loving You . Led Zeppelin
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| [Redhead Girl - Ballpoint Pen by Samuel Silva] |
Just a few videos, articles and blogs I've come across that will help waste your time. No need to thank me.
[+] I use pens to make lists, a Portuguese attorney makes photorealistic works of art with pens. [Thanks, Lauren!]
[+] Bansky graffitis come to life!
[+] Animals and children: worse on each other than on rugs. Where are these parents?!? [Thanks, Joe!]
[+] These old social guidance films are riveting. I can't tell if I like the actors or the narrators lines better.
[+] Feeling smart? Get smarter with Good Job, Brain! This weekly podcast is awesome. One word: castoreum (listen to the foodie podcast for more information.)
This weekend I ran across a cool link on kitchen mistakes and the underlying culprits over at Cooking Light. Check it out here.
In related news, this weekend we had a family dinner with Daniel's family and we served...mushy kebabs. We've made these particular kebabs hundreds of times, so it was driving me crazy what caused the culinary mishap. A little research and I found out that fresh pineapple juice (which we included in the marinade for the first time ever) contains an enzyme, bromelain, which is a meat tenderizer. You've got three options if you are thinking of using pineapple juice in marinades: 1) Use fresh pineapple juice and don't let it marinade for more than 30 minutes - a little tenderizer, but not too much; 2) Use cooked or canned pineapple juice, which lacks the enzyme because the heat used in both of these forms of pineapple change the enzyme; 3) steer clear of pineapple juice in meat marinades.
Music we have on heavy rotation right now:
Daniel's List: (no list for him...booo!)
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Anica's List
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Indio's List:
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| [Lava Kiss by Dallas Nagata White] |
Just a few videos, articles and blogs I've come across that will help waste your time. No need to thank me.
[+] Your pose in front of the Grand Canyon's got nothing on this.
[+] What if pandas are this petty?
[+] Long, pointy Mexican boots. I don't get it.
[+] Haitian commercial that will make you want to shake it 'til the butter melts.
[+] This is why descriptive movie titles would never work.
[+] What happens when the Olympics move out of town? A look at how Olympic development is used after the games end. (A forthcoming project featured on Kickstarter).
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| [photo by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre] |
Just a few videos, articles and blogs I've come across that will help waste your time. No need to thank me.
[+] These images aren't Photoshopped. But some of them probably took forever to line up.
[+] What camera phones were invented for.
[+] The ruins of Detroit.
[+] Have you tried to watch TV without a remote? It can't be done!
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| [photo by David Haberlah, flickr] |
Just a few videos, articles and blogs I've come across that will help waste your time. No need to thank me.
[+] Undoctored pictures of Hong Kong's densely positioned residential skyscrapers. Unbelievable.
[+] The makers of superheroes can be superheroes.
[+] flickr's 100 best photos.
[+] RHCP crack me up. Somehow I'd not seen the video until this week.
[+] Who doesn't love straws? An interesting Mickey D's commercial from Japan. (Just a suggestion: turn down your computer volume before watching.)
This guy is a creative genius. I can't wait to force Indio to start posing in an outlandish manner so I can Photoshop him into something like this:
or adorable like this:
These children must have the patience of a saint.
I am sick and tired of the stacks of paper.
They've been piling up in my home office since the filing cabinet reached its maximum capacity and I think its messing with the office mojo I've worked so hard to achieve. Maybe the chi or feng shui or something clever and Eastern is all outta whack, but either way, it is definitely affecting my ability to work amongst the clutter. For many reasons, no good one to call out specifically, I decided to do something about it tonight.
To do this I had to face the fact that I am a document hoarder. If you asked to see a Walgreen's receipt for cough medicine from 2002, I probably have it. Who even knows if I could locate it, but I have it. I've fully admitted to myself that I'm stashing documents that no one will ever care about. To remedy this I have my little shredder working harder than investment banking companies heading into a Senate Hearing (lets all pretend that analogy was funny and made sense.) The poor thing is actually overheated and so we both - the shredder and I - decided to call it a night.
Before beginning my take-no-prisoners 2012 Spring Clean, I did a bit of online research as to what should be kept and what is best used a gerbil bedding. Fortunately, it seems many people have this packrat gene when it comes to financial documentation, so the advice was free flowing:
So, goodbye 2002 Walgreen's receipt, you will not be missed. I feel lighter already.
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| [art by Carmichael Lynch] |
Just a few videos, articles and blogs I've come across that will help waste your time. No need to thank me.
[+] This kid is so industrious...and clever. And it is gonna end up paying for his college!
[+] I could stay on this site for days - it is a wonderful curation of amazing art and design.
[+] I want to get some flashlights and play around with my camera. [Thanks, Lauren!]
[+] Let's just put this Led Zeppelin song on repeat and call it a (good) day.
[+] Crap. Now I gotta rethink all my table vignettes.
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| [art installation by Regine Ramseier] |
Just a few videos, articles and blogs I've come across that will help waste your time. No need to thank me.
[+] Have a ton of those pesky dandelions? Make an the fuzziest ceiling ever.
[+] Current bands cover songs, new and old, from a limited list. Bluegrass version of Arcade Fire? Yes, please!
[+] Recreate those old childhood photos.
[+] A symphony flashmob on the train.
[+] Moral of the story: take time to appreciate the orchestral flashmob or violin virtuoso at the train station.
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