http://www.nowrench.com/crimson Life Uncalibrated Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:20:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en because she'll grow up and say things like this to you: man, if there was ever one word in a fantasy book review to make sure i'd never read it that word would be 'ninjas' 'Ninja-like Claw assassins' is just over the line i mean seriously, wtf they're probably all named something like christiano ... http://www.nowrench.com/crimson/2008/08/19/reasons-why-having-a-little-sister-isnt-all-bad/ So Art Garfunkel has put up a post of every book he's read since 1968. Which is pretty cool. But I have to take issue with the assertion that he is a voracious reader. The man has read 1000 books in 40 years, which comes out to ... http://www.nowrench.com/crimson/2008/07/14/voracious-reader/ Real quick, what's the best way in the Internet age to get people to pay attention to something? Easy, try and prevent them from looking on it. So really, what did BoingBoing expect when they 'unpublished' Violet Blue's contributions. So now what is everyone talking about and ... http://www.nowrench.com/crimson/2008/07/04/and-people-never-learn/ Google just change their favIcon, which has the effect of causing the little icon that shows up in firefox tabs to change. It used to be the distinctive uppercase G surrounded by a box. It is now the lowercase 'g' from the middle of their logo without a ... http://www.nowrench.com/crimson/2008/06/05/the-beauty-of-the-internet/ Finished off Tribeca incredibly well once again. Just like last year I was somewhat skeptical of the movies I was seeing on my last day and somewhat burnt-out from having seen so many films. And just like last year, the movies I saw on the last day turned ... http://www.nowrench.com/crimson/2008/05/16/tribeca-fighter/ Team Lioness was the name given to female Army soldiers who were sent out as support teams with male soldiers in Iraq. Their missions usually involved raiding houses where insurgents were suspected to be hiding. The females were needed because cultural and religious beliefs prohibit men from patting ... http://www.nowrench.com/crimson/2008/05/16/tribeca-lioness/ Drove back down to Auckland. First stop was the aquarium, where finding parking was a clusterfuck. But we managed to get a parking space and went to Jack Tarley's Ocean Adventure or whatever it is called. We got to see baby penguins, which were very cool, and ... http://www.nowrench.com/crimson/2008/05/16/nz-day-18/ Drove up to the Waipoua forest area on the peninsula at the north part of the island. The hike I had planned for us was the Hauturu Highpoint hike. It starts off as a cool loop hike up the side of a waterfall, which we both had a ... http://www.nowrench.com/crimson/2008/05/16/nz-day-17/ Boring and uninventive horror film from Australia. Wasn't particularly scary, wasn't particularly well made, all the characters were just annoying. It gets a two. http://www.nowrench.com/crimson/2008/05/05/tribeca-dying-breed/ A sometimes funny drama, about an independent woman who makes her living as a trucker being forced to deal with the son she had years before who she now has to care for. The real strength of this film are the performances of all three of the lead actors. ... http://www.nowrench.com/crimson/2008/05/05/tribeca-trucker/