Hand Computers - December '14 Heat Check Edition
i would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety
— henry v
WELL. We don't have much to say for ourselves. Except, 'bro what up' from the northeast kingdom of bro-ville. Here's the shit you need to know about before you read our next post. Which, at this rate, will be in about a year.
When Hot Tub Time Machine 2 comes out, I really hope they shoot it on film. In honor, scoop up a bunch of these for your next party. It'll give your boys a reason to go re-fill on razor blades when they get the film developed. Then, boom, fridgestagram gets all the likes!
Digital preservation is really just an oxymoron at this point,” says Jan-Christopher Horak, director of the UCLA Film and Television Archive. “It’s really just putting plus and minus electronic charges on plastic — and that plastic has an extremely short half-life. So that most digital media, even if you take it and store it correctly, is probably not going to last more than eight or ten, maybe 15 years.” By contrast, with 35mm film, “we just need to put it into a cold, dark, dry place, pay the electricity bill, and it will last for 500 to a thousand years.
— http://www.vulture.com/2014/12/perils-of-an-all-digital-movie-future.html
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ThinkUp - are you super into yourself? you should be. the belly button lint of our lives deserves entire companies analyzing it and telling us how to machine train our peers. welcome to 15 where robots and drones live next door to that weird old lady who, fuck, why the fuck does she ALWAYS smell like oatmeal. Related.
If you have to invite that oatmeal chick over to the holiday block party you're having at your fly crib (GS reader qualification test #4: you must have fly crib), here are 8 great tips.
So we're in house party mode. I preach that you really don't need to spend time consuming the internet from Feb until Dec. Everything that anyone does in those months is just packaged up in December as the mountains of our collective year then extrapolated to weak predictions in early the next year. Fred's year-end list above is some top shit (honorable mention to Jadd's weekly effort: http://thisweeksplaylist.co). Especially the last track by Vacationer. Kenny used to be in The Starting Line and you do not want to read about my life when I listened to TSL. Anyway, the Vacationer track is a DJ set so you can just chill and come back to GS in Dec, like I said Felicia!
What if you knew of a single instructional strategy that research has shown improves decoding, fluency and reading comprehension? Would you use it? Of course, you say. And yet one of the most under used literacy strategies is such a well documented strategy: the strategy of rereading.
— http://linkis.com/bit.ly/eyHRg
Ben got married this year and it was the shit. I was there.
It's gonna be cool when this is a real thing next year. OpenTable loads up and you'll be able to search for restos that have zero-impact butter. That was a joke but, really, the link isn't. Really.
I LOVE NPR'S TINY DESK CONCERTS. Let me count thy ways. Okay, just thy way was my favorite way. Ben and I saw these ladies live @ T5 a few weeks ago and it was an a+ show. While you're on the NPR kick, SUPPORT them. If you do, you can scoop an awesome 15 calendar that was created by friends of the program: Felix Sockwell & Vote for Letterpress. Honorable Tiny Desk goes to the Karate Kid Miguel.
If you become my girlfriend in 15, odds are we'll do lots of cool shit that no other guy really knows about (uh, duh, have you been reading this post???) but I'll want to make you one of these. Since mostly music, deeply intellectual thought pieces and fly cookie photos are what I'm about.
Okay, so here's the point in the blog post where I'm about to look through my Instapaper and my Twitter account to see if there was anything else I missed that's hot for the beginning of the cold. 15 is all about the subscription. I'm down to pay gatekeepers, you should be too. My inbox is my favorite place online these daze and here's why: Today in Tabs, Ann Friedman, Alex Madrigal.
Going to stall some more. Do you need to buy people things? I'm going to start exclusively shopping via Need Editions. Seriously. Big Bri hit me on the IM last week and we geeked out about the Yeti. This is your new year-round party starter. In addition to the Inner Vision by Sweethome, Wirecutter pretty much runs my life. Finally, the OG blogspot master.
Musical intermission!!!!!!
Okay, let's be real. I only went through December on my Tw. Not even going to look at Instapaper b/c that's straight the dungeon of links right now. You know the scene in Three Amigos when they're stuck in the jail cell with their arms and legs all chained. Steve Martin wants that key real bad but he JUST CAN'T GET IT. That's where I am right now. I'm going to do a tab run an publish this ish. 4th wall blogging, I told you this is where to go for all the real ish in 15.
If you happen to find yourself on Tinder this year, it looks like this is the most successful way to do your Tindering. If you're not on Tinder this year, well here is EXACTLY what you were looking for.
Assholes On Demand is a real thing that I tweeted about in 2014. Related, so was Darude.
REPORTER: Mr. President, what's your favorite Wu Tang album?OBAMA: What kind of question is --[biden grabs podium]BIDEN: LIQUID SWORDS
— blupman (@blippoblappo) April 26, 2014
Cool person I met once Jenn Schiffer pretty much runs the tubes along with Olive. ANYWAY, Jenn is doing this thing at the Ace on 1/5. You should go check this out because here is your face melting off.
Watched that Vine for like a week so you're going to just have to deal with it. On the same level, here is what was good in brunch land 2k14.
Anyone who wants to buy a car with me next year, just keep waiting b/c why does all the cool shit happen in Europe first. Speaking of the rest of the world:
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1920.0"] The Boston Globe went real deep in captured documents from the Islamic state. They pretty much operate like Uber.[/caption]
Keeping on this hot anarchy tip, in 15 you can kickstart my hot new man necklace. Related: the shitpic.
Previously linked to Olive might hate my guts but this is a really good Bezos interview.
Are you a parent? Facebook is a parent. Facebook is a parent who has dogs and all the bad likes. During the holidays, I am LOVING how parents are teaching children about the surveillance culture they've been born into. Shouts to Radar.
The Elf on the Shelf essentially teaches the child to accept an external form of non-familial surveillance in the home when the elf becomes the source of power and judgment, based on a set of rules attributable to Santa Claus. Excellent deconstruction of ludic malware.
— https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/commentary/whos-boss
A lot of you hot bodies tweeted about how ISI..I mean Uber, the secret of this economy is wealth inequality. So our foreseeable future is some adaptation of this serf-like economy across various industries. If you travel to the land of khakis and DSLRs (starts with Palo ends with Altoids), bros are saying that their start-up is "the Uber of..." Of course they are.
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Now that we're not in a great place: burner phones, Chris Rock on race, how to pay attention, people you'll never be as cool as. We miss you Robin:
Here is the home stretch. I'm really excited for these two in 15.
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Here are the two tracks I played the most in 14:
Welcome to 2015, trick.
