Posted on August 31, 2010
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Hmmmm
Posted on August 30, 2010
Dear faithful readers,
I need your help. I Googled it, but I didn’t get a satisfactory answer. So, I have a French press coffee maker in my office. Until now, I have just been rinsing it out in the utility sink. However, my landlord say that this might clog the drains, so I can’t do it that way. Does anyone have an elegant solution to my problem. I read somewhere that a spatula is the way to do it. I don’t really want to keep a spatula in my office, but it may have to come to that.
Until then, I look forward to your recommendations.
Thanks!
Heath
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Posted on August 30, 2010
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Book Review: Confederacy of Dunces: John Kennedy Toole
Posted on August 30, 2010
Might as well let you know my favourite book of all time is “Tom Jones.” Why do I mention this? Because ‘Confederacy of Dunces’ is one of the only books has come close to touching it.
Our hero is Ignatius J. Reilly, lifelong resident of New Orleans. Although college educated, he spends his days holed up in his bedroom in his mother’s house, writing letters to future faithful readers, masturbating while thinking about his dead dog and reading the works of Boethius among other Midieval philosophers.
Things change when his mother, after some time at a bar, crashes her car, and finds herself indebted. She forces her son to go to work, and that is where our comic misadventures begin. Finding work at a failing jeans company, Ignatius manages to, well, change things forever.
This is one of the funniest books I have ever read. This goes not only for fiction but also non fiction. I literally LOL’d at this book. While I was by myself. Yeah. Every character is, well, a character. From the bumbling, enpranked police officer to the quarrelling owner of the factory where Ignatius begins his work, everybody is well rounded and hilarious.
On top of this, the storytelling is marvellous. You flit from scene to scene as multiple storylines grow throughout New Orleans. On top of this, Toole never finds it completely necessary to tell his story in standard means. Oftentimes you find out what happen in between chapters through Ignatius’s letters to his fictitious readers or during a police report.
Even more fascinating is the story of how this novel came to be. It was first published in 1980, despite Toole’s suicide in 1969. He spent much of his life trying to get this book published, but obviously failed. So, in 1969, he went on a road trip where he visited the hometown of the deceased Flannery O’Conner, and killed himself. 10 years later, his mother approached the literature professor at Loyola, who promised to read the first 10 pages, and kept reading, finding it, as Toole imagined, to be a comic masterpiece. Toole received a postumous Pulitzer prize in 1981.
This book is easily one of my top 5 favorite books, and I can’t believe I took it so long. Please, do the right thing, run don’t walk to your locally owned and operated book store and pick it up. Or, order it from Powell’s after clicking the following link:
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Posted on August 30, 2010
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Throwback Monday: Younger Brother: All I Want
Posted on August 30, 2010
So this isn’t really much of a throwback, but it is still a pretty sweet groove to get you in the right mood for Monday. It takes a bit to get going, but is def worth it.
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I would submit this for best picture of all time btw
Posted on August 30, 2010
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Sunday Link Roundup: Midnight Edition
Posted on August 30, 2010
Facebook to trademark the word ‘face’
How would a panhandler use a free credit card
How the Pirates win while losing
The rise and fall of American Apparel
Medical tricorder! Medical tricorder
Bad science. This is bad science reporting.
Sleep makes you better at Guitar Hero
Driving under the interest of … bread
3-day Mad Max re-enactment in desert
Where the Tea Party gets its money.
Thanks fark!
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Saturday Pregame: Oral History of Gaming: Game Godfather Sid Meier
Posted on August 28, 2010
If you don’t know who Sid Meier is, well I can’t help you. But this video, 23 minutes long, is kind of a little glimpse into what makes him tick. There’s a 48 hour game competition, and he ‘enters’. You really get to learn his history, check it out:
BTW, the game he creates is called ‘Escape from Zombie Hotel’.
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