Link of the Day [3.31.24]
What says Easter like a hot dog?
Hunh? You say it doesn’t? Well let me quote out the great Brett Urbacher: “Everybody likes a hot dog.”
Link of the Day [3.15.24]
Do you know I buy a lot of books? Not sure if I read a lot of books, but I do buy a lot of books. Perhaps I need to get on and read them, but there’s a lot of books. What’s good? What’s bad? Dunno. There’s too many to read.
What’s a list of the great American novels for? Only to add them to your other books.
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/03/best-books-american-fiction/677479/
Link of the Day [3.01.24]
Third month. Three is a magic number!
The first time I heard De La’s “Three Feet High and Rising” was senior year in high school and my friend Stan was playing “Me, Myself, and I” at some random party we were at. He was like saying, “So good. So good,” but I was high and just grooving out on this funky new shit. I did not comprehend what I was listening to. Just grooving and riding the buzz.
I’ve been riding the buzz with them for 35 years!
https://music.apple.com/us/album/3-feet-high-and-rising-35th-anniversary/1731021243
Link of the Day [2.29.24]
Not really having something today, I guess. I just want to post something for leap day. I also want to post something so that February 2024 has more than one post.
I just did a quick check of my favorite sites for this link and this one about Pluto’s orbit seems appropriate for the day. Does Pluto have a Leap Year?
Link of the Day [1.25.24]
Analytics from my twitter feed say no one sees these when you post them so late in the day. So therefore, today’s comes up just about an hour earlier than yesterday’s. I guess maybe we’ll get an extra view?
Yeah!
But no one clicks through on their twitter feed. So no one’s gonna see this. But you’ll be missing out on something great.
A couple of weeks back, Nogizaka46’s TV show’s YouTube channel posted that they’re now going to include subtitles within a week of the showing. YES!
Yup, you too can now become as big a Nogizaka fan as me. The episodes go as far back as GomenFin back in 2021.
You’ve got a long way to catch up. What are you waiting for? Only click through!
Link of the Day [1.24.24]
I write this on a MacBook Pro, one of the latest forms of the Apple Mac. It’s been 40 years since its introduction back in 1984. Once again that iconic of years reminds us of the iconic introduction commercial. So let’s all celebrate the Apple Macintosh.
“No I’m afraid it was. It was witnessed and notarized by an official notary public.”
Link of the Day [9.16.23]
Adam Jones was my favorite Oriole maybe even of all time. But really it was Brooks Robinson. You see, Robinson retired in 1977 and we went to his appreciation day on September 17. Right around my birthday. Still he’s a favorite, and Adam Jones, too.
Jonesy was there for the last good Orioles team. He was definitely the heart and soul of the team. He represented Baltimore really well. He’s the best at that. Definitely, the best.
#StayHungry
https://www.mlb.com/orioles/news/adam-jones-officially-retires-as-a-baltimore-oriole
Link of the Day [8.13.23]
Kottke points us to a Mastodon thread explaining why the huge size of cars (and trucks) is a bad thing.
Maybe it’s just a problem in the United States.
I was just in Europe and rented a car which would be compact in the States. It had 4 doors and fit 5 tightly. There’s a trunk and fit our luggage. It was probably smaller than my Mini Cooper.
And there was an even smaller option.
Most every one in Europe was smallish compared to the US. Small to fit the small streets of many of the towns and cities. The city streets were sized for these smaller cars. Human sized.
But anyhow, our cars are getting too big which leads to many bad things. It ruins roads quicker. It kills harder. It costs more. And somehow, we’re gonna run out of room for them: road widths, parking space widths, home widths. Just not human sized.
https://kottke.org/23/08/car-bloat-huge-cars-are-terrible-for-society
Link of the Day [7.03.23]
It’s the middle of the year, summer is in full swing, but what better way to think about the passing of the year with thinking about calendar layouts. Yes, you heard that right. Calendar layouts!
Today’s link is one I found a long time back, maybe earlier this year, but forgot the URL until recently. It’s such a simple idea for calendar layout. I wish I could print one. (My printer is out of ink and obsolete).
Link of the Day [6.15.23]
At their inception, Nogizaka46 was the official rival of AKB48. Debuting in 2011, it took Nogizaka46 seven years to overtake their rivals and become Japan’s top mainstream idol act.
Today, Nogizaka46 are the rivals to a new idol group produced again by Akimoto Yasushi. The new group is 「僕が見たかった青空」(“Boku ga Mitakatta Aozora”) or “The Blue Sky I Wanted to See.”
How long until they overtake Nogizaka46?