http://www.giro.org Making Digital Compost Since 1996 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:09:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am not going to watch the Beijing Olympics. I will not have them on our tv at home, period. I will probably go on the Tivo and give everything with "Olympic" in its title three thumbs down. I won't click on any Olympic news stories, and ... http://www.giro.org/2008/08/04/count-me-out/ I was going to write a long screed about the movie I just saw for whose marketing we're trying to pitch, but I'm too nauseated to be coherent. So, allow me to boil it down into easy-to-digest bullet points: -If you think watching someone be flayed alive is entertaining, you ... http://www.giro.org/2008/07/23/i-get-paid-for-this/ I realize that most of this site's traffic comes from either a) people I know or b) Korean people who just want to pay their bills, but after watching the debacle at BoingBoing regarding unpublished posts, edited comments and standards of accountability (and posting a little bit in the fast-approaching-conversational-singularity ... http://www.giro.org/2008/07/02/policies/ I grew up with comedy albums. I can still do Bill Cosby's Hofstra from memory, and my brother only has to start singing "Soap, soap, soap" to crack me up. Dr. Demento only opened more doors. And of course George Carlin was in there. The classic gold albums ... http://www.giro.org/2008/06/23/george-carlin/ Tim Russert Tim Russert came in, wearing his Rex Harrison hat, the morning of the caucus. It was a funny little detail that I thought about every time he showed up on The Daily Show or a blog: where's the hat, Tim? RIP. http://www.giro.org/2008/06/13/tim-russert/ I can't remember the last time I saw something this gloriously, rockingly silly. Supergrass, I am now going to buy your entire back catalog in pounds sterling. Because I want you to spend it all on puppets. http://www.giro.org/2008/06/06/516/ I realize that previous post was a long time coming, but in between working on Windswept and posting to Twitter, I've got the writing bases covered. There's other stuff, as always, but I can't talk about it until it's done, because to do otherwise would ruin the surprise. ... http://www.giro.org/2008/05/27/also-4/ 1) We survived the trip from LAX to Florida and back. No limbs were eaten by eels, sharks or retirees. Floating above the wreck of the Spiegel Grove with eighty feet of water overhead was a marvelous experience, made even better by doing it with Anne and ... http://www.giro.org/2008/05/27/brief-notes-on-dumbassery/ The first part of periodized weight lifting is called anatomical adaptation, which means, "Oy, muscles! These little bits of weight that you're going to be picking up and putting down for the next four weeks? Yeah, this is just the warm up. It gets tougher from here." The ... http://www.giro.org/2008/04/17/analytical-adaptation/ Thinking: the problem with space elevators and human passengers is one of safety. It takes a long time to get something high in orbit, and it's a hell of a high gravity tax to seat all of those people comfortably and safely. So, you knock 'em out, stack ... http://www.giro.org/2008/04/14/thinking-out-loud-about-windswept/