Smart. I love me some payment processing.
# [1]“The Rob Ford saga has exposed structural flaws in our municipal government. Council should embrace this opportunity to repair them.”
#Nicely done.
#21 November 2013, mid-morning
Aningaaq is a short film by Jonas Cuaron, son of the most amazing director Alfonso Cuaron. This short film is a companion piece to the film Gravity. It’s the other side of a conversation that takes place in that film. If you haven’t seen Gravity you should probably watch that first, but this film really stands on its own and is quite beautiful. I really loved Gravity. This film makes me love it more.
20 November 2013, the wee hours
Ten years is a long time on the Internet. It’s a long time in real life, I suppose. This site turns 10 today.
The glory days of this site were in its early years, 2004-2007. That’s really when I was posting the most, when the site might have had some amount of cachet. Back then the site was linked to from Kottke.org and had a PageRank of 6! I wrote about my life: going to concerts, watching movies, checking out bars, and all the boring stuff in between. It was an impersonal personal site. I linked to stuff. Lots and lots of stuff. Those years were busy for the site.
The early audience for the site was probably other Textpattern users and my friends. I used to write lots of plugins for the Textpattern and was very active on its forum. It kept me busy after I had finished school, but before I had started working. That summer of 2004 was fantastic.
| Year | Blog Posts | Links | Movies Reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 84 | 1 | 7 |
| 2004 | 360 | 549 | 80 |
| 2005 | 287 | 1839 | 97 |
| 2006 | 252 | 3096 | 47 |
| 2007 | 233 | 3020 | 37 |
| 2008 | 157 | 2021 | 50 |
| 2009 | 141 | 1704 | 33 |
| 2010 | 92 | 971 | 20 |
| 2011 | 31 | 635 | 4 |
| 2012 | 42 | 579 | 15 |
| 2013 | 32 | 496 | 15 |
There is more to this blog than posting frequency, though. 10 years is a long time. This blog has been around the entire time I’ve known my wife. We celebrated our 10 year anniversary earlier this year. I posted here the day before our wedding. In the time I’ve run this blog Shima was pregnant and had a baby, who then turned 1 and then 2. I was hit by a mother fucking car! and spent 6 weeks in a cast I’ve watched the city change, and then change some more. I also bought a wireless router, something apparently noteworthy in 2004.
There are lots of posts I like on this site, but the one I think I enjoy the most is about going to an M.I.A. concert back in 2005. (A discussion on Tamil people a few months later makes a nice epilogue.)
10 years! They’ve been great.
This video is incredible. I wonder why he decided to make it.
#Shawn Blanc’s launched a new review site, and it’s super dope.
#David Sedaris writes about his sister’s suicide.
# [1]Hells Yes.
##Presentable as a sufficient condition for gainful, dignified work or successful social interactions is a privilege. It’s the aging white hippie who can cut the ponytail of his youthful rebellion and walk into senior management while aging black panthers can never completely outrun the effects of stigmatization against which they were courting a revolution. Presentable is relative and, like life, it ain’t fair.
I have a lot of thoughts about working for a startup, most of them kind of negative. I work for one now that I love, but I feel like where I work is atypical of the industry as a whole. We have an ugly office, for starters.
#This is why people move to the city.
#Because the software industry is terrible, presumably.
#Waxy reflects on XOXO 2013, and links to each of the talks with some commentary.
#Minnian-Wong: Do you still have a zero tolerance for drugs, guns and gangs?
Ford: Yes
Minnian-Wong: Have you purchased drugs in the last year?
Ford: Yes.
— Today’s city council meeting has been entertaining. Nothing beats a rich entitled white dude.
But in the aftermath of an almost unimaginably humiliating week, he pulls off what could only be described as a public relations coup by hiding in plain view.
The man is a champion.
#“It’s hard out there for a bitch.” Lily Allen has a new single out.
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