http://thesirdanny.com travel log, blog blog blog Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:42:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here is my opinion: WALL-E is both Pixar's best movie to date AND the new bar for animation standards AND an epic homage to not only 2001 but the dystopian genre as a whole. Incredible.  It gets an A+. I am going to watch it again and again, definitely going to ... http://thesirdanny.com/2008/wall-e/ Music made memorable. Why? Because I heard pieces of these songs in England and Scotland and wrote down the few lines. The Fratellis - Mistress Mable Foxboro Hot Tubs - Mother Mary The Corteeners - No You Didn't, No You Don't The Kooks - Naive The Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control Vampire Weekend ... http://thesirdanny.com/2008/the-british-isles-mix/ Here is my pre-wwdc wish list: updated macbooks cool new iphone + cheaper raw iphone prices so I can get either a brand new one or a used "old" one for less than $200. something new and cool that no one was guessing another very cool promo deal that gets me free stuff when ... http://thesirdanny.com/2008/pre-wwdc-wish-list/ In my past life as a surfer, there was this notion of finding the perfect wave. And the closer you get to finding or surfing that perfect wave, the further away it gets. Today I was at Turn-Around shooting surfers and fliers and watchers, but the perfect shot got away. Three young, ... http://thesirdanny.com/2008/the-perfect-shot-the-perfect-wave/ I walked into the kitchen and Roxy followed me. Being the generous person that I am, I reached into the cupboard and pulled out a rawhide bone. She sniffed and then delicately opened her mouth and reached up and clamped down on the bone as I let go. Previously she would ... http://thesirdanny.com/2008/eat-chew-bury/ I've been trying to come up with words to review this album. Think of your favorite Death Cab For Cutie album. Got it? Better than that. 10/10. Worth listening to... non stop ... for days (now) without pause. Rolling Stone summarizes it for me: "a deep understanding of lovelessness and the way people live in its ... http://thesirdanny.com/2008/death-cab-for-cutie-narrow-stairs/ I have terrible teeth. This is not my fault, but genetics. You may see pictures of me, rarely smiling with my teeth or if you do, the sub-par quality of which I talk of. But you wouldn't realize that I have 4 less bicuspids than the typical mouth (8). Thanks ... http://thesirdanny.com/2008/my-teeth/ Scoble has a nice post about inventing new slang because Mashable is telling everyone it's not a recession. Sorry, Mashable is wrong. Mashable writer Mark Hopkins takes the first line from wikipedia as justification for them calling everyone out. A recession is a decline in a country's real gross domestic product ... http://thesirdanny.com/2008/wikipedia-is-great-if-you-read-the-whole-article/ I saw a 2008 Murciélago today at lunch, I stopped to admire and then an over-dressed but skinner than bones guy covered in jewelry sauntered over to it snubbed his nose at me and got into his car and drove off. http://thesirdanny.com/2008/thursday-at-lunch/ Sunny. No clouds. Blue sky, light wind. 70º F. I woke up at 9 and had a bowl of cereal for breakfast. I drove down the coast listening to Rage Against The Machine's self titled album, trying to find parking so I could write at the beach but each lot was too ... http://thesirdanny.com/2008/little-details/