That Single Grain of Sand…
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007I’ve never paid a lot of attention to the White Stripes. Ms. Z is fond of them, so they’ve crept into my awareness and our household playlist. They also appear in a segment in Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes with a Tesla coil. Despite negligible acting skills, their proximity to two of my favorite iconic [...]
Promiscuous Materials Project
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007Jonathan Lethem remains a favorite author and is one of the few I buy in hardcover without question. Only Haruki Murakami and Margaret Atwood so consistently impress.
Not only is Lethem’s prose witty, his characters well rendered, and his themes at times challenging, but the man himself has a lot to say on the topic of [...]
Monday Meme: Soundtrackin’
Monday, December 11th, 2006This mildly game-like meme caught my eye (caught my ear?) the other day. You fire up your MP3 mix and drop the songs, in order, into the slots provided on a “Soundtrack of Your Life” list. The result are typically pretty amusing and often times synchronous. Of course, the synchronicity in my list stems from [...]
Bottom of the World
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006I’ve become a member of Emusic, a service which provides DRM free mp3 downloads. They feature a lot of independent music (obviously), including my favorite artist - Tom Waits. This afternoon, Ms. Knittiot discovered a free download from Tom’s upcoming album. The track is more melodic and less rhythm driven than his last several albums. [...]
Coding Ponderables
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006If this code: if(x==1) break; is identical to this code: if(x == 1) break;
And if you were writing an online course which had stressed the importance of using white space to make your code legible…
And if you asked the user a question which required them to demonstrate the proper use of a break in an [...]
Games As ‘Open’ Texts
Thursday, December 15th, 2005Note: I’ve been stewing over this post for some time now. I was on the verge of completing it yesterday, when I received some news that destroyed what focus I had. The problem, over all, is that my reactions to the topic are slippery, moving from positive ‘A-ha!’ moments to bewildered ‘Bring it [...]