http://www.diogenesclub.net/ Not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest periodicals? Join the club. Copyright 2009 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:19:49 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss This is a list of Macintosh your mom jokes that I made eight years ago and never put anywhere. I think the world is ready now. Your mother thinks that slot loading iMacs have Mezzanine ports. I have noted on... http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/06/your_mother_kno.html http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/06/your_mother_kno.html boring tech stuff Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:19:49 -0500 If something is worth saying, it's worth saying with more than 140 characters. And yes, I realize that this is less than 140 characters. Originally posted on diogenesclub.net... http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/06/twitter.html http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/06/twitter.html boring tech stuff Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:47:29 -0500 This is the first in a series of five unrelated shorts that I'm doing for atom.com. If you've ever played Metal Gear, I think you will find this funny. If you haven't, you will find it less funny, but still... http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/06/metal_gear_game.html http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/06/metal_gear_game.html The League Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:56:45 -0500 I got a check from google the other day for a hundred dollars. You remember Double Feature Finder? Well, there are ads on it. Google doesn't bother cutting a check for anything less than a Benjamin, so this is the... http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/06/i_am_an_interne.html http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/06/i_am_an_interne.html boring tech stuff Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:13:16 -0500 Last month's issue of Blender magazine devoted two pages to a showdown between the worst band names of all time, including The Beatles, Limp Bizkit, and my college band, Skabba the Hut. We seemed to be representing every terrible ska... http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/05/probably_the_on.html http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/05/probably_the_on.html General Pettiness Mon, 18 May 2009 23:00:29 -0500 Well then have I got the thing for you. My friend Kramer, who edited Casted and Falseface among other things went to the tea party demonstrations in New York and got some great photos. You can watch a montage of... http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/04/do_you_like_par.html http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/04/do_you_like_par.html General Pettiness Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:34:15 -0500 A few months ago, The New York Times ran a piece on snuggies and whether or not they were practical for outdoor use. They also made a slideshow that included this image: Some friends of mine pointed this image out... http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/04/i_am_not_a_snug.html http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/04/i_am_not_a_snug.html General Pettiness Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:46:34 -0500 My Best Friend Is My Penis returns to Atom TV this Monday at 2:30 AM on Comedy Central. I don't have cable, so I never know how these turn out, but I'm sure it'll be awesome. You can check out... http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/04/monday_night_mo.html http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/04/monday_night_mo.html The League Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:37:27 -0500 The first is Lameosaur in Dick Sandwich. Boy, that movie's old. The second is National Environmental Inaction League (NEIL) A company hired me to make that, but they never paid me, so screw it, I uploaded it to youtube. So... http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/04/i_uploaded_some.html http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/04/i_uploaded_some.html The League Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:53:54 -0500 It's been a while since I've filed a post under the 'boring tech stuff' category, and I discovered something today that I found very exciting. For those of you who don't know what MySQL is, you can stop reading now.... http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/03/group_concat_is.html http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/03/group_concat_is.html boring tech stuff Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:22:18 -0500 Also, reader gmn10, in reference to The Great ATM Heist, writes in to say: Bono uses the term "ATM Machine" in the song "Moment of Surrender" on the new U2 album. I'm going to assume that's true because I... http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/02/cas_has_a_pants.html http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/02/cas_has_a_pants.html General Pettiness Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:25:58 -0500 The trailer for The Taking of Pelham 123 (remake of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, it was cool to spell out numbers in the seventies) came out today. Take a look, if only to see this: The trains... http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/02/taking_pelhams.html http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/02/taking_pelhams.html Ways to tell a movie is bad Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:06:30 -0500 I used to be able to find old posts of mine with google. (For those of you who don't know, you can search one specific site by putting in something like: "site:diogenesclub.net google has stopped indexing this site.") In the... http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/02/google_has_stop.html http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/02/google_has_stop.html General Pettiness Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:03:53 -0500 Video Game Night was awesome! Kevin and I scoured the internet and some VHS tapes for some obscure and not so obscure video game clips. (By the way, none of them were from all the video game movies I've... http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/02/video_game_nigh.html http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/02/video_game_nigh.html General Pettiness Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:41:12 -0500 I got interviewed by my company about my job. Who's building Meetup.com? Episode#1: Will Carlough How clever is it that I titled this post "Job Interview," making you think that I went out on a job interview but was in... http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/02/job_interview.html http://www.diogenesclub.net/archives/2009/02/job_interview.html General Pettiness Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:52:18 -0500