by Eric,
on 4/27/2007.

Classic and classy - even with the tats and missing tooth. I think I'm in love...

Paul said,

those background singers!

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by Paul,
on 4/26/2007.

Woohoo! This guy agrees with me about the iphone! Of course he is far more elequent than i. This is my favorite part:
Basically the iPhone is a 1996 Ford Taurus — that car in which all design problems, from logo to windscreen, were solved with an Illustrator-stretched oval.

Ryan said,

I don't think I understood most of what this guy was trying to say.

Dan said,

by "agrees with me" i can only assume you mean "has never touched, held, used, or smelled this unproduced, unavailable product"...

and by "far more elegant" i can only assume you mean "arbitrarily sesquipedalian"...

... look that one up.

Paul said,

It's just as fair to criticize "this unproduced, unavailable product" as it is to rave about it.

The overall point is that the apple aesthetic is losing it's cool. I agree.

Also, he makes a good point about how the interaction with the software makes you like the hardware (like how you might find a ugly person attractive because of how you two click, even though heshe's clearly not great-looking*). There are likely several styles to create the hardware that are 'cooler' and 'more attractive' and still as well integrated with the software.

*you just can't pass a so-terribly-innapropriate metaphor like that up.

Paul said,

i mean analogy, not metaphor.

Eric said,

arbitrarily sesquipedalian! I looked it up... that rules. Nice syntax.

Paul, I predict that your inside beauty vs. outside beauty comparison to software vs. hardware will be a children's book/fable in the future. It will be called "mac and me" or "how I learned to stop hating my iphone and started to wish it had more slots."

...or not.

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by Paul,
on 4/25/2007.

I think mine is Dr. Mario. though gauntlet would be pretty cool as well.

Dan said,

Track and Field.

Eric said,

Did anyone ever play Nobunaga's Ambition on the NES? It was one of my faves..

Paul said,

no... but i love turn based strategy.

Advance wars is the awsomz.

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by Paul,
on 4/24/2007.

from a 1964 TIME article on heavy drinking in Poland:
Government inspectors, curious at the number of empty inkwells on office desks, have found that they are commonly used as vodka glasses, and one official stepped into a washroom to discover vodka coming out of the faucets.

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by Paul,
on 4/24/2007.

A little vodka history lesson, with a call-to-action at the bottom that sorta says: vodka is for pussies (in more, and more refined, words), real men drink gin.

Ryan said,

Whiskey bitches.

Eric said,

I like sour apple pucker...

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by Eric,
on 4/09/2007.

This business model promotes democracy in regards to musician popularity, artistic creative control, and promotes relentless hard work as a means to achieve success. The current business model promotes artist exploitation through crass commercialization.

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by Eric,
on 4/05/2007.

I am not familiar with Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, but I have to give Ted respect for the Conflict T-shirt. Perhaps he is vegan?

Dan said,

he tends to prattle on and on about politics and war and things of that nature. not sure about veganism. "no more shall i be loyal to my sorrowful country" was his last single before the new album. which i still have yet to hear.

i like him though.

Eric said,

What album of his would you recommend?

According to Wikipedia the Conflict logo was "a reference to the initials CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) as well as incorporating two 'A's for anarchy and autonomy, and an 'N' for nihilism."

Ryan said,

Yeah, he's a vegan but I don't think he gets too preachy about it. He still drinks so he's not straight edge.

My favorite album of his is probably The Tyranny of Distance. If I remember tonight I'll try and up some of his stuff up to the FTP.

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