Author: Harold
Protected: Too many gut punches
Long rehearsal is long. Shaved my beard today, now my chin is cold.
Delicious Links for 2013-04-18
- The miniature coffins found on Arthur’s Seat | A Blast From The Past
Seventeen tiny coffins, hidden amongst the rocks of Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh. A great article that takes this incident from "Ripley’s Believe It or Not" material to real history with some solid facts.
- MFA vs. NYC: America now has two distinct literary cultures. Which one will last? – Slate Magazine
While this was a fascinating examination of the differences between New York and MFA style "literary" writers, I kept flashing back to a novel I’d read a couple years ago, "The Thieves of Manhattan". Great story.
- Man Finds Out He’s Married to His Sister on Their Anniversary | The Stir
Wow, I just have no words to imagine this situation. And to think of the poor kids…
- The Abandoned Palace At 5 Beekman Street « Scouting NY
An incredible photo-filled article about a beautiful building in downtown Manhattan, boarded up and half-abandoned for decades and now undergoing renovation.
- Fake Yo-Yo Trickster Fools Every TV Station Everywhere
I just love the fact that somebody can pretend to have an unusual talent & a half-decent background story and still get on television in this day and age. It’s like nobody in local TV knows how to do basic research on the internet.
- 17 Secret Doorways To Help You Turn Your House Into Wayne Manor
These are all great, but I especially love the pantry door at #15. I know a guy who could finish his basement with one of these.
- Tiled Penny Floor » Curbly | DIY Design Community
I saw this on Tumblr with the headline of $1.44 a square foot (it’s really closer to $1.96) and I just fell in love with it. Someday I’ll my own house and I will find a room to do his in.
- Crazy ceiling fan – YouTube
Just watch this, it’s awesome. Now, I can’t picture how you could screw up assembling a ceiling fan that badly, and I don’t imagine it’d work forever, but in the short term it’s kind of awesome.
Surprise, I’m alive!
So, I’ve kind of spent the last eight weeks building three different shows. The first to go up was “Marriage of Figaro” about three weeks ago, then “Anatomy of Gray” last week, and a couple days ago we opened “Eurydice”. I’ll talk more about the whole process later but Eurydice is most on my mind, for obvious reasons.
The thing that sticks out most right now is something that happened at the opening matinee for a bunch of high-school students. After the show the cast and crew came out and sat on set and took some questions from the audience and there was this one girl in the front row who asked about the baptism theme and if that was intentional (it wasn’t on our part, but might be inherent in the story). After her question, she just sort of sat there sobbing while the cast answered a bunch of other questions. When we finished up I remarked to Mat (playing the role of Father) that she looked like the kind of girl who’d go home and start up a Tumblr about this play.
Then last night Gill and I were at the opening night performance and I’m positive baptism-girl was sitting behind us with a bunch of her friends. After the play was over I overheard her say “This play just gives me so many feels” and I knew that if we hadn’t banned video recording that there’d be a bunch of sepia-toned animated GIFs of our actors in a couple of days.
P.S. For support – the mood “blah” was pre-selected for me when I started writing this entry. Firefox 20.0.1, Windows 7 Professional.
Delicious Links for 2013-03-21
- Suicide Forest in Japan – YouTube
Creepy min-documentary about Japan’s suicide forest, so dense and remote that authorities only look for bodies once a year.
- No Fly Posters | Creature Forum
A wonderful dialogue between some artists and a building owner.
- 37 People Who Are Worse At Cooking Than You
Oh god, the pizzas!
- 15 bizarre green inventions: White Goat | MNN – Mother Nature Network
I love this. Insert ~40 sheets of used office paper and receive a fresh roll of toilet paper in 30 minutes.
- DIY: Changing Headlight Bulbs – Unofficial Honda FIT Forums
So one of the headlights on the car is out, and I thought maybe this is something I can do myself. But when the first two steps are to jack up the car and remove the tire, I think I’ll let a shop take care of it.
- Positronix comments on These fucking scissors
A beautiful thread on Reddit about the lab equipment of unknown provenance and usefulness that cannot be disposed of. It reminds me so much of diving through the theaters sometime, looking for the right part or piece of scenery
- Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Script Has ALL Eleven Doctors | GeekMom | Wired.com
Rumor and speculation about the upcoming 50th anniversary episode of Doctor Who. If this one is to be believed, it’ll feature all 11 Doctors, though I’ll believe it when I see it.
- Gender-Bending Chickens: Mixed, Not Scrambled | This Scientific Life
Huh. Half-n-half chickens.
- Applied Math – Futility Closet
Oh this is neat: you can use the Fibonacci sequence to quickly convert miles to kilometers.
Delicious Links for 2013-02-26
- Reset TCP/IP networking stack in Windows 7 and Vista | L.A.M.N.K
I don’t know how my TCP/IP stack got corrupted, but it ended up being one of the most annoying Windows problems I’ve had to deal with.
- On Pins and Needles: Stylist Turns Ancient Hairdo Debate on Its Head – WSJ.com
Fantastic article on how a hairstylist from Baltimore performed some practical archaeology in her spare time, and introduced a new theory on ancient dress.
- ‘The Kidnappers Foil,’ a Local-Talent National Treasure – NYTimes.com
As scams go, this one was pretty bizarre. This director spent over 40 years, remaking the same movie year after year in location after location, as a way of scamming money out of parents who wanted to see their kids in the movies.
- Goats Yelling Like Humans – Super Cut Compilation – YouTube
Disturbing and hilarious at the same time
- Vokas Provision Co Chagrin Falls, OH, 44023 – YP.com
This nice lady called me Friday before last, explaining about how her company was offering a home-delivery organic food service, and that they were going to be doing demonstrations and samples in the area. She tried to get me to sign up to have someone drop by but something didn’t seem right. I managed to get the company’s number and looked them up, and what I found is a classic oversell con.
- Meteorite explosion over Russia injures hundreds | Science | guardian.co.uk
To wake up to a headline like this makes me realize that we’re actually living in the future.
- SoundCloud – Hear the world’s sounds
The Gollum & Smeagol double act of Baby It’s Cold Outside
- hms bounty hearings | gCaptain – Maritime & Offshore News
After the HMS Bounty sank last year during Hurricane Sandy, I wondered what had happened. I’d been aboard the Bounty a couple of years ago when it was here as part of the Tall Ships festival. I still have pictures on my cell phone of it docked behind the library – it was the guest of honor, displacing the Niagara away from it’s usual berth. This is a phenomenal series of reports about the hearings into the Bounty sinking, with enough detail to help even a non-sailor understand what was going on.
- Infographic: An Amazing, Invisible Truth About Wikipedia | Co.Design: business + innovation + design
Wow. This really is like a map of everything. With geo-tagging of articles you can see where we know what we know.
- Geocities-izer – Make Any Webpage Look Like It Was Made By A 13 Year-Old In 1996
I haven’t played with this enough to see if the backgrounds and GIFs are randomized, but it’s pretty fun nevertheless.
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Howto: Crosspost from Tumblr to LiveJournal
So there’s actually an easy way to crosspost your Tumblr posts to LiveJournal. It’s not automatic, but it’s not complicated either.
The first step is to copy the URL for the RSS feed of your Tumblog. Then, visit http://www.livejournal.com/syn to create a new LJ syndicated feed of your Tumblr. Note that creation of syndicated feeds is a paid account feature, but if you don’t have a paid account you can ask anyone who does to create the feed for you.
You’ll probably then be given the opportunity to name the new feed. If instead you go directly to the add feed page, that means that somebody else created the feed already. That person should be listed on the new-style profile page for the feed, so maybe get to know them.
Now take a look at the syndication page for your new feed. You’ll have to wait a little while before LJ grabs all of your Tumblr entries, but once it does everything you’ve posted or reblogged in the last couple of weeks will be listed here. You should only have to wait an hour or so, but if a whole day goes by without any of your Tumblr posts showing up, open up a Support request to ask about it.
When your entries show up, pick one from the list and visit its LJ home.
Once there you should click on the Share button at the top of the post, and then click on LiveJournal. If you’ve friended your own Tumblr feed, you should see a Share link when viewing your friends page.
After you’ve clicked on Share a new tab should open up with the Update Journal page, pre-filled with your Tumblr post. What’s pretty neat is that this keeps photosets together, keeps quote pyramids at the bottom of the post together, and properly links everything just as it did on Tumblr. On the downside, YouTube videos and sound files won’t work when you Share them inside of LJ.
Before you post your entry on LJ, you can delete the very first line, the one that says where on LJ you shared it from. Syndicated entries on LJ only stick around for a couple of weeks before they evaporate, so there’s not a lot of point to keeping that information. It’s also not necessary to get rid of it, I just think it’s tidier.