Updates for the week of 2009-12-20

  • The Mood Ring: What To Do With Mood In Your Story? (http://j.mp/5i7pxZ) – @chuckwendig speaks truth. #
  • Much audio-wrangling, but pretty productive all around. @Cyface let me study the secret editing kung-fu scrolls today. Crossfade-jitsu! #
  • RT @hotdogsladies: For better or worse, every decade's defined by what stopped seeming impossible. #
  • RT @FakeAPStylebook: Always capitalize brand names. Ex: Toyota Camry, Kia Spectra, GM Death Throes. #
  • Lllllllllet's get ready to Rumbllllllllllle… #
  • Denied bowling supremacy tonight, but still a great finish on a great season with fellow Crazy Bowling Monkeys @cyface and @DaphneUn. in reply to cyface #
  • "Imagine what these people must think of libraries." http://is.gd/5qoKk #
  • Class last night, weird/good meeting today, and an interview this afternoon. All my talky words for the week are used up. #
  • Teaching classes where the students are creating their own stuff has taught me the reality of teach-pride. Amazing. #
  • RT @rdonoghue When someone talks about things technology can do, I remind myself webforms still don't fill in my state & city by zip code in reply to rdonoghue #
  • RT @RemiT: TV Show: Nested, color-coded narratives explode into cartoon chaos. This is a must-watch. http://bit.ly/746TVZ #
  • Mr @ChuckWendig recombines familiar household ingredients and explodes my brain — http://tinyurl.com/yk6qab8 — More on @rdonoghue's "egg". #
  • The Known Universe (http://j.mp/8G8Zo1) – We are living on a speck. Forgive us the kangaroos who refuse to see that. #
  • The Project for Awesome (#p4a) has begun. Go Nerdfighters! DFTBA. http://bit.ly/5fglP7 #
  • It's kind of amazing and wonderful how many hits you get when you do a google image search for "moose silhouettes". #
  • RT @amandapalmer: i present to you my first kitchen-ukulele-blogsong: "Gaga, Palmer, Madonna" http://bit.ly/6DOIYy — EXCELLENT #
  • This week my #followfriday recommendation is @crredwards, just because she cracks me up. You're welcome. in reply to crredwards #
  • Secular Christmas Carol (http://j.mp/8u4Zub) – Excellent. I love these guys. #
  • Why the Phantom Menace sucks (http://j.mp/6g2ui5) – If the first 20 seconds don't get you, stick around until "protagonist". #
  • Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Review (Part 2 of 7: the story) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG1AWVLnl48 — Wow. Really sharp. #
  • The Phantom Menace – The fights (Part 6 of 7) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORWPCCzSgu0 — Wow. GREAT observation about fights. #
  • Apologies to folks who didn't care for the star wars guy's non-critique junk. Yes, tasteless, but man, the critique parts are so damn solid. #
  • Yes please. Avatar's out, but I'm up for anything. #
  • I didn't mean 'out of the running' I just meant released. :) but up in the airs fine too. #
  • Which 'it'? #
  • Apologies also for some of my less-intelligible posts in the last hour or so: my direct messages somehow became regular ol' posts. #
  • Comic: Deterrent (http://j.mp/6GdbhQ) – Truth. #
  • My daughter is spending her time at the McDonalds play area compulsively resetting the exquisite corpse game at the entrance. She is Monk. #