This is my favorite explanation yet.
Crop circles: caused by high wallabies. Read the article from io9.
Crop circles: caused by high wallabies. Read the article from io9.
Since my last mix came all the way back in March and was about a snowy day, I thought it would only be fair to make a brand new, summertime mix. And what says summer more than mysterious, prophesied takeovers from the skies? The Mayans had a pretty good handle on how to party in the heat and humidity, so let them be your guide to this 2012-influenced collection.
The Takeover: summertime mix tracklist:
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I totally overdid the chore-ing tonight and fell asleep on the couch around 11 while watching Monster Quest. Yeah, grandpa is lame. In any case, I’ve decided that I’d rather make a new mix instead of reviewing an album, so I’ll post that up tomorrow. In the meantime, enjoy this triptastic video for “Kids” by MGMT.
Kids – Mgmt “Official video” from Bulch on Vimeo.
(How was there not already a video for this – it’s been played to fucking death!)
I don’t really have anything interesting, witty or clever right now. It’s been orientation time for new students here at work and I had to play fill in Apple rep since Apple just didn’t feel like coming to our Tech Fair yesterday. Important realization: I could never sell computers for a living. Being charismatic and concerned for that many hours was exhausting.
I’m hoping to post an album review up this evening. We’ll see how motivated I am in a few hours.
Kate’s whip of choice has been getting pummeled in magazine reviews of late. The X3 has been pitted against the current crop of tiny luxury SUVs in TopGear, Car and Automobile (though, really both Car and Automobile employed the same guy – Georg Kacher – to write their comparisons.) Everyone has been calling it harsh, austere, rough, unpolished and lethargic. Well, perhaps – but only when you compare it to cars designed as 2009 models. Remember, everyone, the X3 was a 2004 machine and things, as they do, change over five years. Yes, the Audi Q5 or Volvo XC60 are more refined beasts but they should be. The fact that the X3 is still a contender at all shows that BMW created a winner when it staked a claim to the ground these baby utes drive upon. Give the old girl some slack! The only complaint about Kate’s 3.0i spec 2005 I have is that it’s a bit neurotic in its character. You’d expect that from a BMW though right?
So, I was quite pleased to find that Car & Driver has rehashed the comparison test for American readers and has found that the BMW X3, while not the winner, is deserving of the #2 spot in its opinion. RESPECT.
I received a delightful email a moment ago from Twitter, alerting me to something amazingly unexpected:
Naturally, my cryptid-minded self thought “Oh, sweet! Bigfoot researchers!” But, I soon realized that this particular team happens to race in the name of ‘squatches. Still, my disappointment was palpable.
In any case, hello to my new LeMons followers! Glad to make your Twitter-acquaintance.
I love when a seemingly pointless technology winds up having a use that far outweighs anything its creators intended. Twitter being used to communicate in a locked down Iran is a perfect example of this. You had better believe that no one thought Iranians would be tweeting a presidential election. Today, Kotaku reports that a game development student in the UK is using The Sims to explore issues of poverty in society. The student, Robin Burkinshaw, has created a father-daughter pair that live in an abandoned lot in her copy of The Sims. She is also using a blog to chronicle the Sims’ lives.
Read: “The Sad Story of Two Homeless Sims” (via Kotaku)
Whether this will make any sort of difference in reality remains to be seen, but it is a fascinating chance to use a game for something more than it was ever expected to be.
While my muscles try to take their revenge on me for making them go along for the ride while moving until the wee hours of the morning, I’ve been getting caught up on work, email and a few articles online. Here’s one with an interesting slant on a story that I’m sure you’ve heard before:
Did you know that GM was partnered with the concrete, glass, steel and rubber companies when it bought up the nation’s public transit systems and systematically destroyed them? Makes you glad we are bailing them out now, huh?