archives for Wednesday 27 September 2006
a thing of beauty and a joy for..about five years, more or less
Wednesday 27 September 2006 | I like a cookie
That’s almost exactly how old our G4 Powerbook is, once a desperately thrilling Christmas present from our mom in 2001 (see ancient blogpost) when Titaniums (Titania?) were hot off the assembly lines—although the CD drive, not yet being Combo, could only read not write. And now it can do neither, but as this grieving owner […]
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and people think crack climbing is easy
Wednesday 27 September 2006 | I like a cookie
People think that because people like Dan Osman make it look easy. People are stupid. (Inadvertently courtesy of Jason Kottke.)
Check out his casual chalk-dust flinging dynos. Check out the way he flips off the wall many hundreds of feet off the ground. Watch how he steps off tiny knobs and flows through laybacks that would […]
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macarthur fellows
Wednesday 27 September 2006 | I like a cookie
I’m usually too busy being vitiated by envy to feel anything but tepid dislike for the MacArthur Fellows, but in this year’s crop for some reason instead I see every reason to be grateful, and to hope that H. sapiens might even at some point be spared ourselves, thanks to the labors of their kind. […]
