YouTube Film School
This is going up a few days later because it’s a little longer than my usual entries, and needed a bit more attention before going up.
Every snooty Mac blogger, at some point, invokes Steve Jobs’ line about the intersection of liberal arts and technology. Though the WWDC keynote was last week, I’ll instead use that line to talk about . . .
Ephemeral Writing
Should we judge the present moment’s importance by its historical weight? A massive media apparatus has risen up around politics, entertainment, sports, and every other matter, making it hard to believe that it isn’t important. With all that energy pumped out documenting every moment, it has to meaningful, right?
Most of . . .
Learning Diary: Statistics With Python Part One: The Basics
I am rounding out the Python stuff at Code Academy with their Learning Statistics with Python course. Along with a couple of books I bought, this should be a fun way to find direct applications with Python at my current skill level.
I finished the first section, which covers the basics of statistics that you probably remember from . . .
Book Reviews:Smashed by Junji Ito
Though Tomie and Uzumaki didn’t get the American remake treatment of other well known J-Horror classics, Junji Ito is still widely regarded as one of the masters of the genre. Smashed is the latest collection of his horror manga to be translated and released in the US.
The opening story is about a girl who . . .
Post Everything
Originally this was going to be an exploration of the inherent paradox at the heart of modern technology. Technology requires trust to operate, but often technology's early iterations are buggy and cannot be trusted. The solution to that paradox is the early adopter–a particular sort of masochist that is content to endure pain . . .
Reading A Mixtape - Selections From The 33 1/3 Series
The first book in this series I read was the entry on Jawbreaker’s 24 Hour Revenge Therapy. However, there was a sale recently, and I ended up with four new entries in the series. Since these are pretty slight books rather than four short reviews, I figured I would combine them here into one post. I didn’t just save you one click; I saved you . . .
Technology Driven Anxiety
Skepticism of technology has crept into the culture quietly in the last few years. We went from being amazed by how fast the future was coming, to wondering what horrors are coming from the valley. We’ve gone from being awed that an entire computer could fit in our pocket to wishing the President would just sign off of Twitter. We’ . . .