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Showing posts with label media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label media. Show all posts
August 21, 2014
February 11, 2013
Free. Jazz. (or, Sidney & her man Clovis)
May I suggest that you set aside an hour before clicking through to listen to Jason Moran's amazing (and free!) "Live: Time On The Quilts Of Gee's Bend" Suite?
From the NPR website:
Jason Moran, composer and piano
Alicia Hall Moran, vocals
Bill Frisell, guitar
Tarus Mateen, bass
Nasheet Waits, drums
January 28, 2013
"Disruption is overrated."
"'Disruption is overrated,' [Stone] said. 'If you tell good stories, the platforms are sort of beside the point. We made the most analog thing you can think of, a play at the Eugene O’Neill Theater, and it worked out as well as anything we have ever done.'"-Matt Stone, quoted by David Carr today in the NewYork Times.
January 11, 2013
"Teaching to see."
May I suggest that you find a big screen and a comfy chair before clicking through to watch this amazing 38-minute video produced by Edward Tufte?
October 31, 2012
August 18, 2012
So, where are all the great novels written by dogs?
"Everything you need for a novel happens at about dog level."
-Garrison Keillor, on A Prairie Home Companion, tonight.
May 26, 2012
A first kiss.
"It is during measurement that plywood and steel first kiss."
- from "Love Letter to Plywood," a film by Tom Sachs.
February 14, 2012
A Racy Taint.
Just the final sentence of the article "Off-Color Communiques Taint FBI Sting in Court: Racy text messages between informant and agents turn off jurors" by Del Quentin Wilber, which appears on the front page of today's Washington Post:
“U [expletive] [expletive],” the agent texted back.
February 11, 2012
September 1, 2011
Seeing without reading. Or, visualization without (local) comprehension.
Last week I received via email a movie file in .avi format that would not play on any of our Macs, until I uploaded it to YouTube; now I can watch it just fine from any device – further proof that "the cloud" has (to some degree) eliminated the old requirement that a file's format be locally readable in order for the data in that file to be visualized.
August 13, 2011
August is different.
It appears to be the case that during August, magazine editors go on vacation, leaving younger staff to write and approve figure captions:
July 17, 2011
"Belgian-Style India Pale Ale"
Washington D.C. Pacifica radio station WPFW refers to the local professional football team as "the Washington professional football team" in order to avoid saying its name.
We would like to suggest, to those NeuroCooking friends who drink beer, that you may want to sample the remarkable 20th anniversary ale from Flying Dog brewery. But we will not print its name here.
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[Please note: All trademarks are property of their respective owners; their use here does not denote endorsement or sponsorship. Specifically, NeuroCooking is not supported by the good people of Flying Dog brewery, whose upcoming tour of fine establishments serving their superb ales you absolutely should attend, if you possibly can! To locate this "Belgian-Style India Pale Ale" on the Flying Dog website, see their online beer list, and click on the Latin "canis major".]
June 28, 2011
Save Rock Creek Hills Park!
What I said to the Board last night: "... don't build a costly and deficient school on this little park."
June 5, 2011
May 26, 2011
May 25, 2011
Save Rock Creek Hills Park!
What Paul Beck told the Board Monday night: "I invite you to reflect for a moment on our sense of betrayal."
May 24, 2011
May 15, 2011
May 8, 2011
Save Rock Creek Hills Park!
We have been writing here less often, NeuroCooking friends, because another topic has been occupying us lately, a great deal really, since the night of April 28th, when, out of the blue, something shocking and terrible happened.
In fact, ...
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On second thought, we would prefer not to go into the matter here. However, we would like to take the opportunity to direct your attention to it.
And so, please, might we direct your attention to:
Thank you for your understanding, and your interest.
March 25, 2011
Outside.
To make a bicycle work, we have found that it is not sufficient to pedal it, you must also keep air in its tires.
To put air into our bicycle tires, we got a great big floor pump with a silly name, which, to our surprise, came with a magazine subscription.
At least, that's what the magazine told us, when we asked then please why are you sending us your magazine, they said, you're getting it as a gift from the big online retailer from whom you bought that great floor pump. Maybe among all those papers we recycled along with the box that had the pump was one paper that said thank you for your business we are giving you a magazine subscription. No problem. But no thanks. We don't need to recycle that magazine every month.
So, we went to that magazine's website and entered the subscriber ID from our subscriber's label and selected 'cancel subscription' – and were offered three more free issues:
"Would you consider not canceling at this time if we offer to extend your current subscription by 3 issues at no extra cost"?
What was that old joke? The two old ladies are at dinner, and one says, the food here is so bad, and the other says, yes, and the portions are so small.
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