Daniel Means

• Using McDonalds’ As Pizza Toppings
  (tags: food)
• Doug Rushkoff - Social Control as a Function of Media
• Uke Hunt
  (tags: music)

3:20 pm - October 27th, 2007

The Apollo program wrapped up a little more than a decade before I was born, around a time when most human beings understood that, collectively, they were smart and resourceful enough to send other human beings on round trip flights to a celestial body. This was an important thing to realize about human beings.

Next trip will be 2019.

3:08 pm - October 26th, 2007

Here’s a general rule of thumb: If you happen to read the words “…I’m a bit of an audiophile…” anywhere on the internet, disregard whatever else is written around those words. The surrounding words will most likely be some sort of delusional nonsense about bit rates, signal to noise ratio, standing waves, and “sense of depth”. You will probably even see the word “tinny”, maybe even more than once, and it will be used with absolute sincerity. The “high end” will sound “tinny”, and maybe even “distorted”.

“There! Can’t you hear that? Right there in the hi-hat!”

No. I can’t. Neither can you. You’re an idiot. This is not wine tasting.

I of course write all of this while listening to music on a set of $99 noise reduction sound isolating in-ear headphones with a gold plated stereo mini-jack connector. The music coming from my ear-buds is both “crisp” and “full”. It sounds “nice”.

related:
Do Higher MP3 Bit Rates Pay Off?
Asch conformity experiments

1:02 pm - October 21st, 2007

“2007-10-14 - Scotiabank Place, Ottawa, Canada”

Then they do State Trooper.

5:09 pm - October 19th, 2007

Fred Thompson, he is the best possible President for our horrible dystopian future.

9:14 pm - October 18th, 2007

I think her name is Moonbeam, or something.

10:21 am - October 16th, 2007

This is from the 1972 Wattstax festival. Interesting fact: If you listen intently enough to the guitar riff, which is relentless, you will achieve some sort of zen like musical revelation.

The Bar-Kays - I Can’t Turn You Lose (mp3)

2:13 pm - October 13th, 2007

• Candidate Casting Couch: Superheroes - Indecision 2008
  (tags: politics)

3:19 pm - October 10th, 2007

from The A.V. Club:

I don’t have anything against Jimmy Fallon. I love Jimmy Fallon. He’s my dude.

I didn’t mean to hurt Jimmy Fallon.

I just want to clear the air with the Jimmy Fallon thing once again. I didn’t mean to hurt him…

On playing characters named “Tracy”:

It doesn’t bother me, that’s my name. People have been calling me Tracy my whole life. That’s my name.

Indeed. I love you, Tracy Morgan.

2:39 pm - October 3rd, 2007

• BeaucoupKevin(dot)com. - West Batman / DKR Batman
  will not make sense to most people, will be hilarious to others
  (tags: comics)
• Gigapxl Project - Mitchell Corn Palace
  (tags: corn)

3:19 pm - October 2nd, 2007