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posts from 2014 / 03
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March 30th, 2014 9:21am
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@gdead Ha. Guessing its weight is transferring shock to the bottle, but that should happen for more styles than just IPA.
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@gdead weird. Wall-mount opener or speed opener / church key?
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@gdead nothing about IPAs or 39F fridge temp that would cause that. Are you keeping them in the door? Back by the coil? What kind?
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RT @dril: i am closing down the craft brew wiki because i am being treated like a zoo animal and nobody gives to shits .
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Daffy’s keepin’ one eye on the beast and one on himself.
March 28th, 2014 12:38am
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Martin Creed, Work No. 1629, 2013, Galleria Lorcan ONeill Rome
March 28th, 2014 12:34am
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@grahamvsworld as an O.H. (Original Homesteader) in ‘95, I can pronounce it however I like. My pronunciation is…
/ / UNDER CONSTRUCTION / /
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If any of my witch, warlock, or intelligence agency followers can make use of Fang of Cat, lmk. http://t.co/GDBDXVGrTQ
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March 27th, 2014 6:12pm
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March 27th, 2014 6:10pm
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In This, The Year Of @Horse_js.
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I can turn my high resolution supercomputer into a code manipulator and by default it’s monochrome because simultaneous-pretend-teletype. XD
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There’s only two incidents in me and I just handled the third.
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@aaronbarnett and give up my Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg ‘do? Never!
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March 26th, 2014 9:04am
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The Glengarry memes.
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(My talk of that tweet takes an hour and has memes on every slide. Not bad memes either. The good ones. The ones that are still funny.)
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“What kind of security are you into?”
“Oh, I like everything. Everything except con talks and screencasts.” -
Kraftwerk at the beautiful Fox Theater in Oakland. http://t.co/JNVprxj6vu
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Locking skewers might be ~TL-5 equiv (https://t.co/0JKq0KJLQu), but they saved @vurtyou’s rear wheel from SF thieves. http://t.co/HyOHjJVlN2
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@twitter MBAs standin on they own neck http://t.co/3LWYm4EuAb
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@alexeirrm I’m probably stopping there on the way home tomorrow if you have wish list. Prager is one of my fav chill places in Napa.
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RT @tnielsenhayden: The internet went from being damp spots on the carpet to being ankle-deep, then suddenly we all were fish.
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U//FOUO TITLE NUMBER: GRAY (FVEY “GREY”)/3-19
Their covert operatives wear gray shirts. Their clandestine operatives wear gingham shirts.
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@slp22 =] better!
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March 20th, 2014 6:18pm
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There isn’t a much more boring synecdoche than simulations othering other simulations for being different simulations and/or inauthentic.
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Engraving from “Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds” (1686)
March 18th, 2014 11:18pm
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nate silver sorts his books by color i rest my case your honor: http://t.co/iBXHuBOCti
cause it’s the best way to sort books
it’s a fact
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RT @ArbysOnline: Brand Über Alles
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1. The Reader’s Words
2. Thirty Ways No. 2
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God Particle B
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Amateur Chess Player
March 17th, 2014 8:23am
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@obfuscurity no such thing, but if it’s just thighs w/ Old Bay on ‘em, I have it weekly.
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@grahamvsworld it is not just you.
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@slp22 @vurtyou @NYMag /me rolls up a newspaper and smacks that article out of @slp22’s browser. http://t.co/qhdWbBxvYj
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When you rename your old frail gray cat Grandma, everyone in your neighborhood gets to hear you yell at your grandma.
Grandma NO!
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A cool disability to have is to be mentally paralyzed by four-on-the-floor beats.
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RT @grahamvsworld: https://t.co/Ah9fnzXtNe is deffo my favorite #mcconnelling so far, but then I also haven’t seen a bad one yet
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RT @compatibilism: Well if you’re going to write about climate change, you might as well do it like this. http://t.co/priaOlnhif
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@electricfork rad!
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@apotropaet neatneatneat.
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RT @nostrich: If you use the phrase “as someone who …” you belong in jail.
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March 13th, 2014 9:11pm
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RT @usesthis: I was in two minds about posting this, but here it is - an interview with the infamous John McAfee: http://t.co/34mjd1wNGk
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RT @M_Wein: hi we’re Run DMC and we’re here to disrupt the rap marketplace by making it easy and delightful to rock a rhyme that’s right on…
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KLAXON
Eye Status: hella gross to a lil gnar.
KLAXON
Eye Status: hella gross to a lil gnar.
KLAXON
http://t.co/sxW0RfEgBd
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March 12th, 2014 6:13pm
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RT @KeetPotato: [pony clip clops up to lecturn]
clears throat
sorry i…
clears throat
im a little horse
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I think that a lot of huge GIFs on a page is not appropriate for the Net at this time. ☯94DEC
March 12th, 2014 6:55am
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“You gotta keep ‘em perseverated.“
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I’ve been crying for three weeks now. My doctor’s say “blocked tear duct”, I say “voodoo doll revenge for https://t.co/36kH0ZxC8b”.
Sorry?
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If you get the sickest of burns in on a Senator in your district, you get to keep the Senate gavel.
It can call people to order IRL, +5HP.
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Hanging in the air, in Times New Roman: Further investigation revealed that…
Below: Snoopy, sitting atop his dog house pecking at a laptop.
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Pretty honored to see Zynga vulnerability disclosure phrases our privacy@ and I wrote (influenced by G, FB, +) two years ago used elsewhere.
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RT @Hacker0x01: Anyone can run a responsible disclosure program. @Hacker0x01 is now open to all security teams and developers. https://t.co…
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Lotta folks advocating for sites to e.g. drop RC4 and add perfect forward secrecy for HTTPS. Are many advocating the same for SMTP STARTTLS?
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These precious commentaries were on the Pioneer Special Edition LaserDisc. A different commentary by Foley is on the DVD release. It’s a pity they couldn’t get the Jack Lemmon commentary from the old LaserDisc. Well, Cinephilia & Beyond and filmschoolthrucommentaries comes to the rescue (NOTE: For educational purposes only.) Needless to say, the special edition Blu-ray+DVD of ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ is a must have (Amazon).
LD commentary 1: Director James Foley
LD commentary 2: Actor Jack Lemmon [mp3]“Listening to this veteran player speak for an hour and a half on his craft makes you realise how fluffed-up and pretentious most ‘modern actor’ commentaries are by comparison. Lemmon views acting in a practical way and concedes that you need to have a love for it; he not only discusses GLENGARRY but finds parallels to several of his other films as well, along with several amusing anecdotes about the old studio system. Ever the consummate professional, he never “names names” when he has anything remotely negative to say. To my knowledge this is only one of two audio commentaries recorded by Lemmon — if you like this actor you’re guaranteed to enjoy listening to him reminisce.” —Herschel Gelman
How many passes does it take to create perfect dialogue?
That’s a really good question. I’m not sure I know the answer. I do it fairly spontaneously, and then sometimes, for various reasons, it has to be recrafted. I used to be really good at that, but it gets more difficult as I get older just because my brain is failing. I have less brain cells because long before any of you guys were born, there was something called the ‘60s. That’s where the brain cells were. —The Writer’s Craft: A David Mamet InterviewDavid Mamet: The Playwright Directs is a short television documentary produced in 1976 where Mamet tries to convey his rehearsal methods for a play. He uses two early short plays as examples, ‘Dark Pony’ and ‘Reunion.’ Mamet is such a no-nonsense individual who never minces words with his cast, that it’s fascinating to see him direct his actors in a fast-paced, hectic manner like a character out of one of his own plays. The end result is a lesson in how Mamet directs his actors and the importance of giving his characters a motivation and how that affects their actions in the drama.
MAMET’S THEATRICAL ROOTS
- “You gotta put your ass on the line and use the audience. Period. The reason that theatre evolved that way was because the progress of the theatre on the stage aped and recapitulated the mechanism of human understanding, which is: thesis, antithesis and synthesis. And one learns to lead the audience ahead by giving them just enough information to make them interested, but not enough information so that they warrant surprise and punchline. Which is the way a joke is structured.”
MAMET ON DIRECTING
- “Your chances of making a living or making a better living are increased by writing something that you would want to write badly enough that you would actually go out and raise the money to direct it. You’re much better to do that because otherwise you’re just going to waste twenty years waiting for the good will of your inferiors. If you really, really want to make a film—go film it for God’s sake, go steal a camera and get it done rather than trying to interest some second-class mind to help make your script a little bit worse.”
MAMET ON EXPOSITION
- “The trick is—never write exposition. That’s absolutely the trick. Never write it. The audience needs to understand what the story is, and if the hero understands what he or she is after then the audience will follow it. The ancient joke about exposition used to be in radio writing when they’d say, ‘Come and sit down in that blue chair.’ So, that to me is the paradigm of why it’s an error to write exposition. Then exposition came out of television, ‘I’m good, Jim, I’m good. There’s no wonder why they call me the best orthopedic surgeon in town.’ Right? And now the exposition has migrated or metastasized into the fucking stage direction. ‘He comes into the room and you can just see he’s the kind of guy who fought in the Vietnam War.’ So the error of writing exposition exists absent even the most miniscule understanding of the dramatic process. You gotta take out the exposition. The audience doesn’t care. How do we know they don’t care? Anybody ever come into the living room and see a television drama that was halfway through? Did you have any difficulty understanding what was going on? No. The trick is to leave the exposition out and to always leave out the ‘obligatory scene.’ The obligatory scene is always the audition scene, so when you see the movie, not only is it the worst scene in the movie—it’s also the worst acted scene in the movie. Because the star has to do their worst, most expository acting to get the job. Leave out the exposition; we want to know what’s happening next. All our little friends… will say to you at one point, ‘You know, we want to know more about her.’ And that’s when you say, ‘Well, that’s what you paid me for—so that you would want to know more about her.’”
MAMET ON CON-ARTIST TALES
- “In every generation the cunning rediscover that they can manipulate the trustful and they count this as the great, great wisdom of all time.”
PROFESSOR MAMET’S READING ASSIGNMENT
- “I suggest that everyone get Francis Ferguson’s edition of Aristotle’s Poetics. Read it once—it’ll make the point—and then retire to your typewriters. [Screenwriting’s] all about working on it and working on it until it comes out even. There’s really no magic to it. There really isn’t. They say that Bach could improvise a toccata and I’m sure he could, but I don’t think anybody can improvise a screenplay. Joseph Campbell’s Hero of a Thousand Faces is another great book where he goes through the Hero’s Journey and explains that all Heroes Journeys are alike whether it’s Jesus or Moses or Ghandi or Martin Luther King, Jr. or Dumbo. Every Hero’s Journey is exactly alike because that’s the way that we understand our own Hero’s Journey—which is the story of our own life. We’re given a problem, we disregard the problem, it’s given to us again, and finally we’re called to an adventure and we find ourselves unprepared and we find ourselves in the belly of the beast like Jonah, who’s eventually spewed onto a foreign land in the second act and little friends come and help. It’s true. Whether it’s Mickey the Mouse or whether it’s John the Baptist or whether its Joshua—it’s the same thing according to Joseph Campbell. The little friends come and eventually the problems of the second act rectify themselves so that the third act is a reiteration of the first problem in a new form. Not how do I live with the fact that the taskmaster is killing the Jew, but how do I bring the Torah to the Jewish people? So the third act becomes the quest for the goal and eventually the hero achieves his or her goal and that’s the end of the movie that started since frame one.”
David Mamet’s screenplay for ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ is the best screenwriting school you can ever get. (NOTE: For educational purposes only.) Thanks to samgolightly and the great folks at Write to Reel, the BEST screenwriting community our there.
Reads/Watches/Listens:
- The writer’s craft: a David Mamet Interview
- 10 screenwriting tips from ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’
- The professional world in David Mamet’s ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’
- David Mamet papers now open for research
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March 7th, 2014 5:30pm
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RT @DDoersam: Reiterating that sometimes OODA is short for Opt Out, Dumb-Ass. #shortcircuit
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Visit my Etsy to purchase miniature dioramas of Jerry’s apartment to affix to your laptop lid in front of the camera: http://t.co/zqjyOk9ZZs
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If you don’t try to sing the orchestra hits and most of the guitar solo in of Owner of a Lonely Heart, the owner of a lonely heart, is you.
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/kickban @grahamvsworld
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I would like to add “rube”, “patsy”, and “jerk” to our collective formal threat modeling lexicon. What’s it take to do that? A paper?
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Verifying myself: I am grantstavely on Keybase.io. zO84JO3P_74ekMLUg26_ikBcKbhQAVlBfQo3 / https://t.co/gl2lt9qIwJ
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@grahamvsworld ahem.
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A helpful mnemonic:
A “principal” is our pal.
A “principle” is a rhetorical appeal to logos that jerks give for being jerks.
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And my world gets a little smaller… http://t.co/DXbVuTBP42
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RT @JessiSheron: I drew the inside of my brain at all times. http://t.co/OHYyPLKurg
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If you’re a Harry Nilsson fan, December’s Radio Free Gunslinger #71: The Gee Whiz Thing is a very special episode: http://t.co/q5Hv31Qibz
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Added a Deep Web gag to my robots.txt, only to find another gag in it is 12 years old and dead. Thanks @internetarchive!
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@vogon same, only it’s my right eye. Bad tear duct, genes, person, etc.
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RT @jasonmustian: No, YOU’RE an invalid username or password!
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Just as I was beginning to think Noe Valley was as NorCal small town as Redwood City I saw three (!!!) jay walkers cross 24th Street.
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“Oh uh, every wall is a window.”
“Oh uh, that beam there is actually a window.”
“Oh uh, I left the windows off that wall, uh, on purpose.”
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Outsider observation: so many architectural -isms seem like elaborate justifications for top-down drafting making window placement tricky.
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@grahamvsworld those were actually good. I just looked at my drafts, guess I know what it’s like to follow me now.
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The Mezzanine took me three months of ten-page sprints. Huh, oh, ha, lol, ugh, no, panic, throws book, repeat.
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@GoldbergLawDC I just saw a pedestrian w/a yellow Ikea bag on Market Street in San Francisco. Couldn’t make a citizen’s arrest from my cab.
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The Year Of The Grey Dress Shirt
