September 2009
46 posts
Are you kidding me? Online journalism. Search a database. Spit out data in a cosmetic table. Add a text summary as a report. Blah. #fb
August 2009
50 posts
Did I mention we witnessed a drug bust in Lowertown Lofts? 1000s of extasy pills strewn on the floor. Look like Flintstones vitamins. #fb
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jQuery Masonry →
I’ve taken a module-based approach at SOF and think this might be a great solution for stacking these blocks vertically. Perhaps this might be a way of pulling data from SOF’s Google calendar and piping in to a more clever layout that doesn’t just display as a squared grid.
“He enjoys a stable family life and has almost always worked with the same coach....”
– Paul Dorochenko, one of Roger Federer’s first coaches, in swissinfo’s article “Working with Federer was not always easy.
“Force plays a much larger part in the government of the world than it did before...”
– —Bertrand Russell
I saw this excerpt, “The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt” of the quote above on reconnoitre (reblogged from grutty → katespencer → mandalay).
Whenever I see short quips like this, especially from thinkers...
noticings →
This is one of these fun activities I could incorporate into my day and also use as a prompt for a different form of creativity.
From the site:
“Noticings is a game of noticing things in cities. Snap a photo of something interesting you happen upon, upload it to Flickr, tag it with ‘noticings’ and geotag it with where it was taken.”
“real kindness, real fellow feeling, entails hating and being hated” from On Kindness. WaPo review here: http://bit.ly/sSrpF
“real kindness, real fellow feeling, entails hating and being hated” from On Kindness. WaPo review here http://bit.ly/sSrpF
Kindness: “the ability to bear the vulnerability of others, and therefore of oneself,” WaPo review of book: http://bit.ly/sSrpF
I’m not asocial; I just don’t like struggling to chat about topics that aren’t meaningful. I prefer conversations in the small round. #fb
A helicopter has been hovering above downtown Minneapolis for the last half hour. I haven’t got a clue what’s going down, do you? #fb
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I count speaking with Samar one of those simple...
Trying to wrangle these audio elements for Revealing Ramadan into place before the kids wake. Code doesn’t want to cooperate with me. #fb
I can’t convey the huge internal smile I have thinking about eating sunflower seeds while driving Black Thunder! #fb
Trying to hound dog a photo for our upcoming project with Muslim voices. A young Bangladeshi photographer can be hard to pin down! #fb
Yes, I asked for forgiveness. It ain’t easy for a brute like me, but I’m trying. I’m tryin’ real hard… #fb
Some days being a daddy and a hubby is fraught with tension and heartache. I feel like an ass. #fb
We’re in the 1st of 4 editing sessions for our upcoming show featuring Muslim voices. I’ll be sharing some quotes here.
And, yes, I’m aware that it’s not really her. #fb
“I gave to NPR last year.” That’s a good one, @nottinafey. #fb
Is TPT continually fundraising these days?
RT @softweets A series of mock diary entries about a pop star’s conjectured conversion: http://bit.ly/2uqRbM
Silhouetted pack of 6 raccoons darted out of a black Bryn Mawr Meadows, crossed under the street light, + disappeared. Havoc will ensue. #fb
Almost made it through 3 innings at the Dome with 2 frenetic boys. They take after their mother, obviously. #fb
RT @softweets A cat’s call + a French Catholic boys choir + Rossini + a Korean audience = many laughs. A video meow! http://bit.ly/xA4oF
Are suburbs the equivalent of an expanding delta marsh that buffers tornadoes from striking urban cores? When was Minneapolis last hit? #fb
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“I don’t think anything, but I imagine everything.” —Cardinal Wolsey in The Tudors. #fb
What a day when O’Connor became the first female Justice on the Supreme Court. I was 11; I’m glad my sons won’t think anything of it. #fb
Recently realized that my son’s Scooby-Doo addiction on Netflix is now populating my social stream. Street cred at an all-time low. #fb
RT @softweets A show about fishing and art on SOF? Oh yeah. James Prosek on finding God “through the theater of nature.” http://bit.ly/rGWjf
Finally heading to the BFM with the extended family and gonna get that dang Mac looked at by the geniuses. Voila!
From the Genius Bar to Nickelodeon Universe…
Minneapolis road crews active on Morgan today. I’m just trying to rein in the man-kin.
At 8:50 pm 39% of Americans watch TV or a movie. At no other time except for sleeping do more people do the same thing: http://bit.ly/1GOG3g
A thunderstorm is rolling in. I can’t wait.
WatchA post of mine on SOF Observed:
Poetry Gone Video Viral Trent Gilliss, online editor
Poetry. What can I say. Verse slakes our audiences’ thirst; many of us imbibe poetry in binges. Yet, most people — well, I — don’t regularly take the time to sit down and read a chapbook, much less a poem these days. These cinematic tableaux (embedded above and below) commissioned by BBC’s Poetry Season...
The Beasties are back! “Too Many Rappers” (w/...