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Short posts and notes.

• Caffeine

  Caffeine doesn’t affect me. It’s not having caffeine that affects me.

• 46 recording mash-up of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring"

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpQKLOVnjUY

• Get me my lightsaber

  There is a lot to be excited about in the latest Star Wars trailer, and I am glad The Incomparable has another 1 and a half hour podcast to discuss the 1 min...

• There are few popular movies from the past 15 years I have not seen

  Last week, Marco Arment posted a list of popular movies he hasn’t seen from the past 15 years.  His lack of familiarity with popular movies has come up on se...

• Five years of a non-conformist commute

  Five years ago today I bought and started restoring the bike I currently ride to work—a 1972 Schwinn Super Le Tour. I’ve spent the last five years using it t...

• Who Who

• Interplanetary tourism

• A year of steps

  My FitBit stats show that I have taken more than 3.5 million steps in the past year.

• The world needs a House of Cards / 24 crossover

  Like many others, I’ve been bingeing on the latest season of House of Cards over the past several days. This morning I woke up with an idea for a crossover b...

• Albums in the age of the algorithmic playlist

  Today I listened to the Smashing Pumpkins album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness from beginning to end. The two-disc album has more than two hours of m...

• Well, there goes my weekend

  

• The evolution of Batman on the big screen

  https://vimeo.com/119087147

• Turning three

  Today my middle child turned three. It has been so amazing to watch him grow up this year. It seems like he just turned two, and suddenly he has grown into t...

• Simpsons intro in pixel art animation

  http://youtu.be/FIZ_gDOrzGk

• Nobody lives there

  According to recent census data, 47 percent of the United States’ territory is uninhabited.

• Maternal stress relief

  My wife shared this image with me the other day, which shows how having more kids can actually give you fewer things to worry about. One or two kids more and...

• Mixed messages

  One of my credit card providers sent me an email this morning promoting some of the ways I can use my membership rewards points.

• Through You (Too) is my jam

  The albums Through You and Through You Too are incredible works of remix art. The two albums consist of video songs made up of clips from unrelated YouTube v...

• The Pillars of Creation

  The Hubble Telescope, which launched 25 years ago, recently sent back some incredible high definition photos of the Pillars of Creation.

• Augmented hands

  I do not want to try this machine that changes how you perceive your hands, but seeing what is possible with augmented reality is amazing.

• Climbing to new heights

  My oldest boy is becoming more adventurous, climbing anything and everything he can find. Here he is sitting atop a rock climbing wall at Lakes Park. Last wi...

• Bat-Santa

  Christmas is over, and the photo is from last year, but this is too cute to not re-post.

• Bed time protestations

  The wife is at a girls night out this evening. I put older two boys to bed shortly after she left. We had a big day, and they had short naps, so they went do...

• The world is becoming a better place

  Little by little, the world is becoming a better place for the humans who live here, and no amount of bad news seems to slow it down. Improvements in broad e...

• Fourteen things I'm thankful for from 2014

  2014 was a good year for me and my family. Here are a few of the reasons I’m thankful:

• Deep Dark Fears

  Last night, I read throught the entire archive of the Tumblr, Deep Dark Fears. The premise of the site is simple. Visitors can anonymously submit their deepe...

• The tool you have

  When the only tool you have is a bottle opener, every problem looks like a beer.

• Parable of the Polygons

  Parable of the Polygons - a playable post on the shape of society.

• How speakers work

  Jacob O’Neal makes animated infographics on his site, Animagraffs, that show how things work. A recent one that caught my attention shows how loud speakers w...

• Using kids as exercise equipment

• Population.io

  Well, this is depressing. I used to think I was one of the young ones, but it turn out I’m older than 51% of the world’s population, according to data from P...

• Wall art

  I upgraded the wall art in the boys’ bedroom this afternoon with some additional classic comic book covers.

• 8-bit hell

• 2014 year end news photos

  I’m a sucker for year-end-reviews of everything. These collections of news photos from Buzzfeed and Reuters show that 2014 was a rough year all around the wo...

• Concept art for Star Wars: The Force Awakens

  Phil Noto drew two cover concepts for the upcoming movie, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, based on the recently released trailer.

• Jurassic World is open

  The trailer for the new Jurassic Park movie came out yesterday. It looks like a promising summer blockbuster. While there is little chance it will live up to...

• Wedding attire

  I’m feeling sharp today in my new argyle Batman dress socks.

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• "Out of the corner of your eye, you spot him...Shia LaBeauf...He's following you."

  This is the most incredible music video. I don’t know how I managed to go so long without watching it. It was all over the web a couple of weeks ago, and I h...

• The United States of Thanksgiving

  If you’re struggling to come up with something new to serve this Thanksgiving, the New York Times has you covered with recipes for dishes from every State. I...

• Car shaped bike rack

• Three giraffes at the lunch counter

• The boys waiting their turn

• Clouds arranged in a nearly perfect grid

  There was a very strange cloud formation in the sky earlier this morning. It was a evenly spaced,  17x6 grid of small wispy clouds. It dissipated about 5 min...

• Joining the IndieWeb

  Over the last couple of months, I’ve been working on moving my personal site (this site) over to WordPress on a VPS. The move was inspired by a desire to ado...

• Museum of selfies

  Olivia Muus created the Tumblr Museum of Selfies. It is a collection of famous museum portraits who’s subjects look like they are in the process of taking a ...

• Creative routines

  The daily routines and rituals of creative people is largely irrelevant to anything I will do or make, but it is still interesting to see how they decided to...

• Photos of photos

  My wife texted me a picture of our DSLR’s viewfinder.

• Trailer for the new Monument Valley levels

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me4ymG_vnOE&feature=youtu.be

• First drafts of Wikipedia entries

  First Drafts of History is a Tumblr that collects screen shots of the first versions of various Wikipedia entries.