Category Archives: Good Times

Things that make us feel good (though sometimes maybe they shouldn’t).

This Efficiency Is Killing Me

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Efficiency (noun) \i-ˈfi-shən-sē\

(1) : effective operation as measured by a comparison of production with cost (as in energy, time, and money)

(2) : the ratio of the useful energy delivered by a dynamic system to the energy supplied to it

(from Mirriam-Webster’s)

Has modern efficiency created the capability to attain levels of perfectionism such that their attainment leads to more hours working than had we not been enabled by the efficiencies to begin with? And is attention to detail in a world of intricacies a new form of artisanship or just the new tediousness of production line work? Continue reading →

Walking Around The Fish Market

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Walking around the fish market in Santa Caterina Market, Barcelona, Spain. The variety and availability of such fruits from the sea is impressive. It made me wish I had the time and the kitchen in town to buy some of these things to prepare, but such was not the case for this journey.

Go full screen and 720 HD for any amount of detail. The lighting is better after turning the first corner.

YouTube Playlist – Fun For Playing at Parties

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I realized that with Google TV a great thing to do for the ambiance at parties is to create a YouTube Playlist to play in the background with the sound off. Sometimes it was fun to have old movies playing or something else, but this is something new and fun I’m going to try soon. I hope there aren’t too many banner ads…

You can feel free to use this too – I think you have to embed it somewhere to make sure that it plays in full screen all the way through. I tried playing straight from within the YouTube interface, but it kept kicking me out of full screen between each video, so if you make one you may have to post your somewhere like this.

Proof Of Google’s Personality

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A lot of people say that Google has no personality – that it’s all engineering and no sense of social or relationships or interpersonal structures. However, here is a small bit of proof that at least a few people within Google might ‘get it’. When you create a text message in Google Voice’s web app it gives you a countdown of free characters from the standard 160. And if you use more than 160 it gives you another countdown from 2.160 (2 = 2nd text message, 160 = character count for the second message). Continue reading →

Animals Yelling Like Men

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I’m pretty sure that this is part of a global cross-species simultaneous mutation… all species are slowly but surely learning to yell, man-style… the earth is finally responding to our mistreatment of the planet, and soon she will have her revenge by having super annoying screaming animals bugging us at every juncture. every time you litter or piss in the ocean, or what have you, something will be there to yell at you annoyingly.

“Heeeeeeey! Heeeeeeeeyyyyyy! Recycle that shit!”

But wait – what if this is contagious? What if it goes airborne and starts infecting humans? There would be men screaming like men all over place!!!!!

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A shirt, found again

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This is the second time I’ve found this shirt. The first time was in Cincinnati in 1995 when I graduated from highschool and some friends and I wanted to wear aloha shirts to commemorate our “never having to go through this again.” I’ve worn it occasionally since then,and it has remained a favorite if not oft chosen garment since that time. Continue reading →