Church of Meat

Soul Groove’s fried chicken and bacon waffle sammy with...

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:37:26 -0400

Soul Groove’s fried chicken and bacon waffle sammy with mac n cheese chile relleno #fatlife #yoga #weightwatchers #vegan

Also, when I went to SF I was vegetarian...but I went to In N Out anyway. Because it doesn't count on vacation.

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:27:23 -0400

All the food has been very veggie, halal, and kosher accessible at Google I/O so far, and actually ALL of the prepackaged foods given out are chosen by their ability to be recycled, except for lunch today. There were just endless buffets of barbeque chicken. They had a really sad bowl of lukewarm veggie burgers at the end without buns, they looked like crappy Morningstar ones. Next to it was deboned deskinned chicken thighs.

I couldn’t figure out if it was more depressing to serve the gross veggie burgers, or thighs with the skin and bones off for someone who just wants to inhale meat slankets.

PS, MIKE FUCKING CHEESE!?

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:22:49 -0400

Yes. I think we are getting “Waffle Sammies.” I will Instagram it.

Why has no one invented a food peripheral for your computer where you can just plug in cheeseburgers?

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:22:32 -0400

You know that is a very good question that would fit the scope of a decent Google[x] project. I will write Peter Norvig as well, and see how far we’ve gotten with Artificial Intelligence recognizing a cheeseburger through machine learning.

Confessions of Matt: I have never been to In N Out, and I love pickles. I am staying in tonight in...

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:07:00 -0400

Confessions of Matt:

I have never been to In N Out, and I love pickles.

I am staying in tonight in SF besides maybe running out to In N Out to fix that lil problem, so ask me some questions. I will entertain Munoz style “feelings” questions but preferably questions could be in food format, or my feelings about technology unleashed at Google I/O, or some combination of the two ie “Why has no one invented a food peripheral for your computer where you can just plug in cheeseburgers?”

Cheeseburgers are on my mind because I ate some last night and watched the Trailer Park Boys movies back to back for the last two nights.

*furthermore, it turns out, I’m having lunch with Mike Cheese tomorrow.

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Thu, 16 May 2013 22:59:14 -0400

whpkrecordlibrary: BLACK FLAG - My War “Henry’s whining makes...

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:06:55 -0400

whpkrecordlibrary:

BLACK FLAG - My War

“Henry’s whining makes him sound like a three year old who, upon discovering that his tricycle is broken, wants everyone else’s to be broken too.”

Crawdad, chocolate and apple beignets, with cheesy grits and...

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:01:09 -0400

Crawdad, chocolate and apple beignets, with cheesy grits and community coffee #fatlife #googleio #googleio2013

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Thu, 16 May 2013 10:37:46 -0400

Thee UV Race

Tue, 14 May 2013 01:07:48 -0400

Thee UV Race

Chris Hadfield, giant space commander nerd.

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:22:01 -0400

Chris Hadfield, giant space commander nerd.

OOHRAH @peterpaulmuller I found your pajamas I hope you...

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:24:07 -0400

OOHRAH @peterpaulmuller I found your pajamas I hope you don’t mind me wearing them about

digg: Chris Hadfield wrings out a washcloth in space, proving...

Sun, 12 May 2013 14:36:19 -0400

digg:

Chris Hadfield wrings out a washcloth in space, proving once again that every single thing you do is 100x cooler in space.

Turn on, tune in, drop out

Sat, 11 May 2013 13:19:48 -0400

Turn on, tune in, drop out

Okay I’m making this, because steel is more conductive for...

Fri, 10 May 2013 17:53:08 -0400

Okay I’m making this, because steel is more conductive for heat than pizza stones are, and because pizza stones are expensive, and this is a great excuse to abuse friendships in the steel industry.

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Fri, 10 May 2013 11:24:01 -0400

Kickstarter Reviews: NeoLucida

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:23:42 -0400

I want to like the NeoLucida, I really do. I would buy one- but therein lies the problem, the scope of demand outweighs the supply the two teachers are capable of fulfilling, and therefore they’re selling the design to someone else to generate at a later date. That part of the equation I totally get.

They are making a limited number, which is just a prism glued to a fixed-flexible snake housing, affixed to a clamp. The only thing being made is a custom prism, and the little metal prism holder, the rest bolts together.

In the backer section, they advertise the ability to get “news of the commercial version being made” for 1-2$ in donation. I was a bit confused because why would anyone pay a buck to hear about the ability to buy something in the future. Would I pay a buck to hear when I can next buy a beer? What work am I paying for? I really don’t think paying someone to give them my email address should be an acceptable policy.

So, I wrote them. Here is their reply.

Hi Matt,

Thanks much for your interest.

The NeoLucida is a provocation whose purpose is to prompt discussion about art history, and to help people understand drawing in a whole new way. We have not conceived this project as a business. We don’t want to run a business, and (as unexpected as this might sound) we’re really not doing this to make money. Likewise, Kickstarter is not a store — and the folks who have supported our provocation, who will also happen to receive NeoLucidas as their reward for doing so, are not (per se) “customers”.

As we said earlier, a $1 donation is a support for our efforts, and will help make our next steps more economically feasible. We genuinely hope that you find this to be worth something in itself. But to sweeten the pot, the ‘reward’ for such a $1 donation is (A) that you will receive all of our private and exclusive updates about the progress of our project; (B) that you will be among the first people to be informed when additional devices become available; and (C) that you will be put on a waiting list, so that you can be among the first people to get one of these devices.

We are now entering an unexpected new phase in which we face the new costs of managing how the project is handed off. We want to do it right, and this takes time and research. A $1 or $2 donation will help support this. As a final side benefit, we’ll be able to… hand off the project so that someone else can make additional units. That’s something that we might not do otherwise. Believe me, we have seriously discussed just producing the 2500 and leaving it there.

You certainly don’t have to support our project with a $1 or $2 donation. And if you like, you are welcome to follow us for free on Twitter or Facebook, where we will also post news from time to time.

Hope this is clear, and thanks again for your interest. Golan & Pablo

The problem is art. Apparently, they aren’t selling these, they are “provocating” them, and they’re not being sold to customers, but some other linguistic twist on “customers.” Artists treating business as art, I have worked for these people before and its a nightmare, because they don’t see why business has its own language.

I get it. I’m around a lot of artists. I’ve made “art.” I’ve seen far worse executions of grandiose self-masturbatory language.

There’s a great potential to make a beautiful, functional product here and they’ve taken that opportunity out behind a shed and shot it in the face, and are charging a dollar admission to listen around the corner to them whispering how terrible it is.

What is the strangest to me is after the fact that they complained they both spent 350$ on original camera lucidas and showed these beautiful brass objects that fit nicely into a tiny case, they whip out this slapdash thing with no design to it.

For 30$, yes, utilitarian, great. The 250$ version you might expect to, I don’t know, be a little foldable thing perhaps someone with more exacting requirements of a camera lucida might use, such as the ability to be fixed low to the table, a zoom, I don’t know. No, you just get a fancy box.

Non-tech civilians try out the occulus rift

Fri, 10 May 2013 10:50:00 -0400

Non-tech civilians try out the occulus rift

Support for Danny, Alyssa, Ada and Reagan

Fri, 10 May 2013 10:42:27 -0400

Support for Danny, Alyssa, Ada and Reagan:

The big fire Wednesday morning took out Danny and Alyssa’s home, and everything in it (thankfully not the girls). There was a little fundraiser last night and if you’d like to donate online that’d be a big help. We’re getting a list together of items they need as it was a total loss and they’ll need blankets/clothes/food/diapers/etc. Staying with the Jeffers if you have something to donate or contact me.

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Fri, 10 May 2013 10:32:42 -0400