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picklestimeon Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance

I remember seeing this at a repertory theatre about 15 years ago and having my mind blown. Yes Baraka and Samsara are both beautiful but IMO they lack the cohesiveness of Koyaanisqatsi, especially considering the interplay of music + images.

I echo the others who say that watching this with ads is a terrible idea. It completely kills the flow of it. I can't think of a worse movie to have interrupted by ads.

If you can, watch it any other way.

picklestimeon Sleeping with Your Gadgets On

heh. my fiancée jokingly refers to me as "nerd bono"

(she also has a pair and wears them)

picklestimeon Sleeping with Your Gadgets On

For blocking blue light, instead of filtering the devices, just filter your eyes:

http://www.amazon.com/Uvex-S1933X-Eyewear-SCT-Orange-Anti-Fo...

I've been wearing those for ~2 hours before sleeping and they work very well.

picklestimeon Macintosh Stories: Swedish Campground

My friend used to call it the "escalator" symbol.

It is pretty abstract. I see it as a representation of a switch or two different alternatives.

picklestimeon David Foster Wallace on Life and Work: Stay Conscious

I posted this last time it was mentioned, here's Wallace delivering the actual speech. The above article cuts out some sections making it less cohesive. Listen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5THXa_H_N8 (part 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSAzbSQqals (part 2)

picklestimeon I am very real

Here is the full audio of him delivering this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5THXa_H_N8 (part 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSAzbSQqals (part 2)

Highly recommended listening.

picklestimeon Homeless Man Has Three Degrees and Can't Find a Job

Very intelligent, had all sorts of ideas, could talk about anything related to his field (networking) and would challenge you to think about things differently. Unfortunately, he could talk all around theory, but he couldn't execute. It was a strange sort of inability to choose between several equally good approaches to solving a problem. Every project he worked on got about 3/4 to completion and then fell flat into failure.

Almost textbook description of ADHD. ref: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2877100

picklestimeon Indie iOS Devs Under Legal Fire For Offering In-App Purchases

What a sad little man. He should stick to his 'hobby' (whose inclusion on the site just adds that extra soupçon of patheticness)

picklestimeon Coming Home to Vim

Interesting article. I found it a bit strange that he didn't link to or reference this: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2008/10/10/coming-home-to-vim

which shares the exact same title.