Happy New Year. Sorry I haven’t been writing so much. Most of my spare time is being taken up by drinking massive amounts of Irish Whiskey(including last night – I had to stay in bed today until 6pm and I wasn’t actually able to eat or drink anything until about 10), celebrating the holidays, eating, [...]
This guy Phil Gyford decided to publish daily, starting on Jan.1, 2003, the entire diary of Samual Pepys (1633-1703), day by day, over the course of the next 10 years. I think this is fucking cool. “Hella-cool” is a term NEVER used in the 1600′s. The following is a quote from the “about” page on [...]
I just got emailed a picture of some New Year’s Eve debouchery at Balthazar. I was pretty hammered when I came a across this girl. She was wearing this lovely shirt, which happened to be glued on in order to prevent any more embarassment…(I asked.) A girl from a local punk band, shewolves, took this [...]
This article was sent to me during Christmas, and I forgot to post it. It’s pretty good. Enjoy Santa Physics, reprinted here (originally http://junior.ath.cx/santa.asp)… There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist religions (except maybe in Japan), this [...]
God I miss these two. I got emailed this great powerpoint presentation of some old snowman strips they did. It’s a little bit of a download, maybe 600k or something, but it’s worth it. It may not work on Macs. Enjoy. Click Calvin to download…
I recently found this picture of myself, circa 1978. I was 5, in my parents house in Staten Island. Yeah, that makes me 29. I was dressed as none other than Superman. Except I had just gotten stiches in my chin for the second time. Obviously not the Boy of Steel. I remember being very [...]
I know that it’s almost 7am. I have been working for hours on the new photo blog, and it’s finally done! You can find it in the left hand navigation as “photos“, just like before. I haven’t added any new new picts yet, but it will be sooo easy, that I expect to update the [...]
After Chris posted the calvin link, I wondered if there was a main archive of the strip. Witold showed the incredible Doonesbury page which has every strip Gerry Trudeau ever drew. Well, there’s no site like that for Calvin but there is this. It has a good backlog but there’s no record of how many [...]
God damn! I have been crazy sick with some kind of vicious stomach flu for the last 2 days. I started Monday at work before lunch, maybe at noon or so with some minor stomach pains. It progressed into sharp stabbing pains, number 3 (puking) and all the other assorted stomach flu nastiness. It hasn’t [...]
Joergen sent me this but he’s too lazy to post it himself. You know that classic Hollywood scream you hear in almost every movie? That’s called the Wilhelm. Apparantly a character named Wilhelm died in a western in the 50′s and they liked the way he screamed so it got sampled. A lot. Here’s a [...]
The whole pixel art section is now also converted to its own MT blog. I am pretty psyched because it was such a pain in the ass to update. Now it’s more consistent, and will be simple to add new pixels. Plus, the “fresh pixel” section here to the right will be automatically updated.
The other day I was browsing one of my favorite sites, A Life Uncommon, and starting reading about the camera that Dawn uses to take some of her pictures. It turns out that the Lomo LC-A has a huge cult following because of the vibrant and unusually professional looking photos it takes. I decided to [...]
Here’s a great little flash site. Crispy, clean, fun…I can’t say enough about Fantasmagoria Interactive‘s website. I even love their name.
More great flash action with this little game or experience or whatever. FLY GUY is really nicely done. I particularly like the strongman/sledgehammer launcher.
I got this pretty cool blog search feature working tonight – it’s in the upper right hand corner of this blog. I made some significant modifications to the default template, and learned a little in the process. For now, it is limited to the main blog only. I may add additional search for the pixel [...]
As Chris will tell you from our lunch hours, I could spend my life quite happily eating nothing but burgers. Until the inevitable heart attack. That’s why I’m psyched about the new story in the New York Times about burgers in the five buroughs. Pretty in depth but they missed two great ones. First is [...]
I wish I thought of this first. I wish I wrote it. But I didn’t. I got it in my email today. No author, no credit. Just the fucking truth! Here you go: When I was a kid adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when [...]
The French car maker Peugeot has their 2nd concept car contest running. Quite interesting automobiles… some look hilarious, some i would never consider, some i wanna drive today… enjoy. PS: the vote for your favourite model ends feb 17 2003
I often go to scriptygoddess.com to find great php howto’s and moveabletype tips and tricks to make this site better. For example, I grabbed the scripts that allow us to have this customization where you can change the colors on the site. Well, I was astounded to find a script today that let me add [...]
I know Witold is a huge fan of Leica cameras. If his photos are any indication of the quality of these fine machines, then I must admit they are worth their relatively high price. But take a look at this LEICA M 6 SET WITH JAQUAR XK/ROOSTER/LHSA/BUN on eBay! $14,000! Reserve Not Yet Met!? This [...]
These guys are really taking the character animation Flash site to the next level. It’s absolutely insane. Every section transition is a mini animated movie. Check it out.
I first saw this a year ago and was hysterical. It took until today to recover the address. Behold the ninjas!
If you are a dork like me who enjoys words as well as interesting site navigation – you’ll LOVE The Visual Thesaurus! …I’m such a tool.
I made this little splash thingy for the cafeshop in hopes that it might drive some people over there to buy t-shirts or mugs or thons or whatever else. I have to say that I stole the starburst image (though I did change the colors, font, and words) from flipflopflyin. I hope he won’t care. [...]
Wow. Witold emailed me this link today. The guy or guys over at youngpup.net have done some amazing user interface gadgets build using DHTML and DOM. They look and feel like they could only mbe done in flash, but they aren’t. All source code and tutorials are public. I will definitely be trying to learn [...]
I am really pretty excited by how well the new pixel food came out. Featured in the “latest pixels” area to the right, you can see my 2 sushi combos and a pretty cool rendering of chinese food takeout. I hope you like them. These and other non-pixel-people based art will make it to a [...]
I got these in my email today. They are hysterical. Enjoy… (thanks to Carissa for sending these over) As we approach the year 2003, it is that time to review the 2002 candidates for The Stella Awards. The Stella’s are named after 81-year old Stella Liebeck who spilled coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald’s. [...]
Just enter your name with proper capitalization and sit back and wonder. i have no clue what and why triggers the output, but one small character makes a big difference. witold would be a “forgetful dragon” and chris would be a “Bothersome Balrog”. i gues it has as much meaning as fortune cookies…
Now we have final proof that this is the worst American economy since the Depression. Somebody robbed Alan Greenspan’s house. The guy in charge of the economy is now suffering its effects. Fucking beautiful.
If only the movie could be this good. Here’s a Quicktime with animated Legos for a hypothetical Episode III trailer. I thought it would be a goof but it’s actually pretty serious and ties the plotlines of both trilogies together. They might as well let Legos do the film. The acting couldn’t be any more [...]
Here’s another great piece of flash character animation. There’s not much to the site, but the menu and animations are spot-on. Slob sent this over this afternoon. Thanks, man. I think after Titoonic and Neostream, my third favorite flash animators might be these guys collaborating at Tokyo Plastic.
Finally! I uploaded a ton of new photos to the photo section. I hope you like them. I spent the time building out a blog so updating would be easy. Then I got lazy and didn’t want to scan anything. I hate scanning. Well, I was bored tonight and had nothing to say, so I [...]
Pretty sick weekend for me… Friday was uneventful. I got home from work a little late and was exhausted, so I stayed in. I did a little work on this site and watched DVDs. Saturday I went to Staten Island to see my parents and go to a surprise 40th birthday for a friend of [...]
As per Chris’ request – please enjoy this …the 4 minute long Terry Tate – Office Linebacker commercial. Best line – “WHOO-HOO!!! Here come the PAIN TRAIN!!!” I’m gonna use that next time I see my brother watching the Golden Girls on lifetime in my house.
I have a NEW STORE. I still have the cafeShop like before with all the great products. I am working on some more as well. But, I made a little shop at a great new site called pixeltees.com. All they sell are t-shirts with pixel art on them. So, people who go there to buy [...]
You might ask yourself what this 18 year old is doing dangling from these high-power lines and why he needs these rescue workers coming to his aid. (AP Photo/Fred Farmer) Well, according to this article on Yahoo! News, he is Joe R. Thompson III, 18, who was thrown at least 25 feet out of his [...]
I swear to god, this is a GOOD friend’s uncle. How great is this!? -From the May 2002 CA Bar Journal Tax attorney who operated a brothel in his office resigns A Tarzana tax attorney who was accused of running a brothel out of his law office has resigned from the State Bar. BOBBY ABRAMS, [...]
