Archives for the month of: April, 2009

re: this awesome time traveler essentials print by ryan north:

eric: hehe

eric: yeah

eric: i saw that the other day

eric: tempting

eric: especially as a print

kara: i like the ‘woo’ on the wing cross-section

kara: ha in this [print] he gives the chemical formula for synthetic birth control

kara: this is totally the kind of thing that would be great to have on the back of the bathroom door so you can contemplate it while sitting there doing your business

eric: mike has that one from questionable content that just says “mmm… that’s good poopin”

kara: i think that would freak me out

kara: i mean, i don’t need my BMs evaluated like it’s the olympics or something

eric: 6.8

last year i saw ‘this american life – live’ at the theater and it was fantastic. this year it was even better! instead of showing clips from the forthcoming season of the television version, this year’s broadcast was a live radio show, the original medium of this american life. there was a chris ware animation, a chris ware-animated music video of an andrew bird song featuring quimby the mouse, joss whedon performed a song from the ‘dr. horrible’s sing-along blog’ commentary, and starlee kine, mike birbiglia and dan savage read essays. and of course, the pre-show hangman and anagrams. the last five minutes’ countdown was especially clever.

my favorite segment was Act 2 – mike birbiglia’s story about letting go and realizing what is important…well, it’s about more than that but you’ll have to see it and watch and hear his delivery to get it, probably. uh also i may or may not have a huge crush on him now.

my very close second was Act 4, dan savage’s story of his personal faith and his mother’s death. it was heart-wrenching – there is no other word for it – and especially upsetting to see dan savage, he of the quick wit and tart tongue, struggling to hold himself together and finish his story.

the other segments were very good too and ira glass was his usual self, which is to say, clever, funny, self-deprecating and adorable. luckily, if you didn’t get to see the broadcast tonight, there is an encore screening happening on thursday, may 7! you can purchase tickets here and it is so so so so amazing – you’ll be glad you went to see it!

seek 'n spell

everyone who has an iphone! my friends over at retronyms have released their third iphone app. seek ‘n spellis a game that uses gps to plot your (and your friends’) location, then scatters virtual letters around you. pick a time frame, run around and collect as many letters as you can before your friends’ get there first, then spell words with your letters to score points. highest score wins!

i had the privilege of demoing seek ‘n spell during one of my trips to san francisco and it is a lot of fun. bonus: you’re outside running around with your friends, so you’re getting exercise AND hanging out. double bonus: everyone who is not playing the game and is in the area is totally confused and in most cases, really interested in what you’re doing. a great way to meet people maybe?

go buy seek ‘n spell! only $3 and totally worth it.

/shameless promotion

via i can has cheezburger? via ellen

this online museum is a collection of illustrations of fantastical creatures. very cool, dark, sometimes disturbing – reminds me of something from the x-files.

i love this tortoise. i love how he gets in the cat’s tail over and over. i love how fast he moves on those itty bitty legs. love. him. sadly the author doesn’t allow video embedding, but you can see it here on youtube.

this is a friend of a friend, and it is FANTASTIC. just when you think it’s over it gets better and better. then the wearing boxes while flailing. then the HOPPING. you’ll know it when you see it.

just got back from drinks with the only other two ‘original’ interns and it was pretty great. jula and jennie, you are the best. never fear – we’ll get brett to stop eating eggs and we’ll go out for a crazy night of drinking and dancing! …not necessarily in that order.

Macgyver by Wade Schin

almost as awesome as the bsg – ds9 mashup, but maybe actually more awesome because it involves macgyver? dunno. but it’s pretty great.

related: anyone can feel free to buy me this.