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guy schmidt

I've been married for over ten years / I'm the daddy of this guy/ We have a dog / And a turtle / And a fish / We live in a cool little town called Frederick /

I work for an awesome small batch company / My favorite animal is Bigfoot/ I cheat at Scrabble / I'm scared of ghosts / I like hiking / I play kickball /

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  • March 16, 10:06 PM

    noted on 16Mar10

    # It looks like nerdly delights aren’t the only thing I’m missing at SXSW. It seems Austin is the Mecca of breakfast tacos. “For less than $2, you get a warm tortilla filled most commonly with eggs, meat, and cheese. This is prime morning-after grub, and in a town of college students (and adults acting like college students), that’s no minor point.” /via

    # Handmade maps often have “… an error detector, something that tells you something’s gone wrong.” (If you see the red barn, you’ve gone too far.) They adhere not to mapmaking norms but to the user’s particular needs.” My favorite direction from my day’s of hunting for parties in high school were the hand drawn maps and instructions like “roll down your window and listen for the music.”

    # Marwencol is a fictional model town built by a man recovering from a severe beating that almost took his life and left him physically and mentally damaged. The model/story building is helping him recover in both regards. /via

    # @anywhere sounds like Twitter is getting into the comment business. This may be good as it relates to comment trolls and my idea that Twitter is like Whuffie.

    # Life as we know it. /via

    # A day in the life. /via

  • March 15, 10:10 PM

    noted on 15Mar10

    # My son’s explanation of a rather large bird poo on my car: “Maybe a bird picked-up a dog and it pooped on your car.”

    # I picked up Lethem’s latest from the library yesterday. I just finished a steampunk/zombie banger that was decent.

    # I have a thing for bags. Two nice ones I ran across recently: Hard Graft’s 2UNFOLD Laptop bag and Archival Clothing’s Mussettes.

    # What I learned today: Zenati are people who enjoy “… wearing a full body suit (typically Lycra, though other materials fall into Zentai labels) for private enjoyment or exhibitionism.”

    # The next Sy-Fy movie: Great White Sharks vs. Giant Squids.

    # The Drive-By Truckers’ new album, The Big To-Do comes out tomorrow. 

  • March 13, 11:11 PM

    From a walk in the rain today.

  • March 13, 03:43 PM

    Biggie inspires foodie.

    On the 13 year anniversary Biggie Smalls’ death Francis Lam writes about how his music inspired his food writing.  Here is Lam on a line (The milks was chocolate; the cookies, buttercrunch.) from Sky’s the Limit:

    ” … but it was the cookies, buttercrunch, that made me understand food’s potency as a symbol, its ability to bridge enormous gaps between him, his characters, and the listener, whether that listener hustled on his corner or was a Chinese kid from the suburbs.”

    Also, I love this bit: “For years, I tried to listen to other tapes in my little suburban family sedan, but I would just keep going back to the Black Rhinoceros of Rap, listening to him drop unexpectedly like bird shit.”

  • March 13, 03:28 PM

    Mad samples.

    ESG’s 1981 song, UFO, has been sampled in dozens of hip-hop songs, including LL Cool J’s Mr. Goodbar, Public Enemy’s Night of the Living Baseheads, and Q-Tip’s Let’s Ride.  Just to name a few.

  • March 13, 03:25 PM

    Insta-Biz Markie.

    Incredibox lets you create your own animated beatboxing extravaganza. /via

  • March 13, 12:10 PM

    Clouds from space.

    This photo of waves of clouds along the east flanks of the Andes Mountains taken from Gemini 7 is phenomenal. Full story and bigger sizes can be found on NASA’s GRIN site. /via

  • March 11, 09:19 PM

    Essentials for the last person on Earth.

    Propane tanks, books, weed whackers, and good oral hygiene are just some of the items on the last person on Earth’s essential to do list. A fascinating thread on Reddit. /via

  • March 11, 09:00 PM

    What Lies Beneath by Q-Tip from Soundbombing III. I can honestly say that I have never heard this before. Cool! /via

  • March 10, 09:57 PM

    Flip-flop weather.

    We are still over a week away from the official first day of Spring, but my son and I loved wearing flip flops yesterday.

  • March 10, 09:51 PM

    Academy award winning movie trailer.

  • March 10, 09:44 PM

    Mimeo in the tumbleverse.

    A blog on the creation of Mimeo and the Kleptopus King, an iPhone game in the style of old Nintendo games. It looks like a blast. More from the game’s creator, Shaun Inman.

  • March 10, 09:38 PM

    WASPs in color.

    NPR did a story on the Women Airforce Service Pilots, a program that ” … trained civilian volunteers to fly planes stateside so men could report overseas for combat duty.” One of the pilots took a ton of color photographs.

  • March 10, 09:33 PM

    25 covers.

    The A.V. Club picked 25 songs they would like to see covered. Twenty-five invited bands will get to pick from the list and the results will be posted every Tuesday. My guess is that Pink Floyd “Wish You Were Here” will be the last song standing.

  • March 10, 09:27 PM

    Bike routes.

    Google added directions by bike to Google Maps. Maybe I will now be motivated to bike the 5.8 miles to work. Maybe.

  • March 10, 09:23 PM

    Bookshelves, no more.

    “So we lose forever the pleasure known to humanity for 500 years of taking a stroll up and down the aisles of someone else’s brain by perusing their bookshelves.” Bookshelves, a casualty of the coming e-book explosion.

  • March 10, 09:18 PM
  • March 09, 10:42 PM

    Lazy Sunday Live

    Samberg and Parnell perform Lazy Sunday live backed by The Roots. /via

  • March 09, 10:50 AM

    Top Billin’ by Audio Two. Straight from ‘87. /via

  • March 08, 10:43 PM

    Stephen Hawking’s words are pretty haunting in this video. Oh yeah, and stuff gets busted in slow motion. /via

  • March 08, 10:42 PM
    Lifetent
    Designer: Dan Ostrowski
    Based on the reports coming out of Haiti, I decided that a natural disaster refugee was a transient person that would migrate to new locations in search of safety, food, and/or medical help. I developed an inflatable tent because of its lightweight, easy transport, and minimal storage space when not in use. A GPS tracker was added so that rescue teams could know, before entering a ND zone, where they are most needed. The Lifestraws were added in an attempt to stave off water born pathogens and the use of mosquito repellent fabric was indented to stave off malaria.

    The winner of the Core77’s 1 Hour Design Challenge on Emergency Shelters.

  • March 08, 10:39 PM

    A panoramic picture of Mars’ horizon created in 2004 by Spirit, the robotic rover. /via

  • March 08, 10:30 PM

    Hot Lava (game)

    Hot Lava is a game for all ages, in which the players imagine that the floor or ground is made of lava, or variably as any other unsavory substance, such as acid, and thus avoid touching the ground lest they get burned or otherwise injured. The players stay off of the floor by standing on furniture or the room’s architecture. The players generally do not remain still, moving from one piece of furniture to the next. The game can be played with a group or alone for self amusement. There may even be a goal, to which the players must race. The game may also be played outdoors in playgrounds or similar areas. You can set up obstacles to make the game more challenging. This is a variation of an obstacle course.

    We used to say if you fell in the lava you became a lava monster and tried to attack the survivors as they jumped around the playground. The indoor version rarely involved the monsters and was more of an excuse to jump on your parent’s furniture. I was reminded of this awesome childhood game by this drawing.

  • March 06, 10:05 PM

    Created exclusively for the Royal We by Oliver Jeffers, this is a signed print of a hand drawn map of the world. The whole world. With pins. Each print comes with 202 pins to chart your path to total global domination. 200 of the pins are black, one of them is red and one of them is blue. red is for headquarters, blue is for next target.
    P.S. Jeffers site is awesome. P.S.S. If you’re looking for a good kid’s book for your munchin one from Jeffers is a good bet. I picked up The Way Back Home for the boy and he digs it. /via

  • March 06, 10:04 PM

    Black and white kinda makes the old Batman look bad ass. Adam West is The Dark Night. /via

  • March 06, 10:03 PM
  • March 06, 09:59 PM

    Two bottled ghosts for sale online

    The ghosts were captured in two vials of holy water during an exorcism. The holy water “… dulled the spirit’s energy and put them to sleep.” The purchaser need only poor the contents of the bottles out in their house and let the liquid evaporate to awaken and release the spirits. No thank you.

  • March 06, 09:58 PM

    The secret code names of 37 sci-fi blockbuster films

    Sometimes it’s so the competition doesn’t catch wind of a killer title and steal it. Sometimes it’s so crews can film on location undisturbed by a public who’ll pay less attention to a trailer marked with an unknown name than a famous franchise. And sometimes it’s so a production won’t get overcharged by suppliers. After all, the studio behind Star Wars: Episode VI—Return of the Jedi probably has deeper pockets than whoever’s filming Blue Harvest, right?

    The codename for Alien was Star Beast and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial’s was A Boy’s Life. Apparently the studio wasn’t too worried about name stealing for Snakes on a Plane since it’s codename was Snakes on a Plane. /via

  • March 06, 09:56 PM

    The Potential In Mini-Albums

    This mini-album experiment could help fix two problems. First, it could help keep record labels on the store shelves on retailers wary of falling CD sales. Second, cheaper albums will probably do more to lure buyers who would have otherwise bought a single track. The current gap between track and album is about $7.70 – a $9.99 digital album price minus $1.29 track price. At iTunes, Shelton’s Hillybilly Bone costs $5.99 while each track costs $1.29. That’s a difference of $4.70. If the price gap is reduced to the $4 to $5 range, labels may be better able to convert track buyers to album buyers.

    I’m surprised more artists don’t release singles. Not just singles that lead up to an album, singles instead of full albums. Kind of a Johnathan Coulton thing a week model. /via

  • March 06, 09:11 PM

    Free 'NPR Music At SXSW' Sampler

    Includes some Broken Bells, Spoon, and others. It’s through iTunes just in case thats not your bag. /via

  • March 06, 10:27 AM

    24 Secret Restaurant Menus Revealed

    14. Long John Silvers: Side of Crumbs - This is a (Free!) box of fried batter parts that have fallen off the fried fish or chicken. Great to put on top of salads.

    Mmmm … fried niblets. /via

  • March 06, 10:21 AM
    “Public spaces are not a frivolity. They are just as important as hospitals and schools. They create a sense of belonging. This creates a different type of society — a society where people of all income levels meet in public space is a more integrated, socially healthier one.”
  • March 06, 10:18 AM

    Should be Working by MAMMOTH. I never had the cajones to take up skateboarding. I injured myself enough on a bike, I figured a skateboard would spell doom for a klutzy fat kid. That being said the dudes in this video have cajones for days. /via

  • March 05, 08:16 AM

    Yesterday’s sun rising over the Monocacy River.

  • March 04, 10:26 PM

    The Sandpit by Sam O’Hare. Yup, still a sucker for tilt shift, especially the helicopters. They look like little bugs.

  • March 04, 09:49 PM

    UNphotographable

    Photos never taken that weren’t meant to be forgotten. Opportunities missed. Simple failures. Occasions when I wished I’d taken the picture, or not forgotten the camera, or had been brave enough to click the shutter.

    I actually just had my own missed photograph opportunity. I was meeting my family for dinner and the darkening sky all around the parking lot of the restaurant was full of black birds. Thousands of them swarming and squawking. I had my camera, but forgot the memory card. I tried with my mobile, but it turned out to be a crappy shot. /via

  • March 04, 09:37 PM

    This is the The Rally Fighter. It was designed by a community of thousands. And if you want one people will come to your house and help you build it. All cool stuff, but I just think it’s one bad-ass car. Does it come with a wrist crossbow? I mean if you drive this it’s almost a guarantee you will have to fight off mutant bikers and feral children with razor boomerangs at every turn.

  • March 03, 10:15 PM

    'Crabzilla': The biggest crab ever seen in Britain

    Nicknamed ‘Crabzilla’ after the fictional giant monster, the Japanese Spider Crab has a body the size of a basketball and its legs can straddle a car. They will eventually measure a massive 15ft.

    I have never seen something so horrifying yet so delicious. I wonder how much melted butter it would take to eat Crabzilla?

  • March 03, 10:07 PM

    Three MC’s and One DJ was the first song I heard this morning. I love it; so basic and fun (Sweet and sour like a tangerine / Fresh like a box of Krispy Kremes / Kenny Rogers’ Gambler is my gambling theme).

    Enthused by re-hearing this song for the first time in a while I did a little Googling and came up with this video. It’s a single camera view from the full music video. Skip to 1:45 for the action.

  • March 02, 09:10 PM

    From illustrator Brian Rea’s collection of fears.

  • March 02, 09:09 PM
  • March 02, 09:09 PM

    Aaaaaaa.

    The skull of regret is not to be toyed with. /via

  • March 02, 09:08 PM

    Broken bells.

  • March 02, 08:54 PM

    Mammoth bones for cash.

    Thawing of the Russian tundra’s permafrost is spewing forth about 50 tons worth of woolly mammoth bones a year. Entire villages are surviving on the cash made from harvesting and selling the fossils. I wonder what other businesses will pop-up as the Earth cracks and shifts; revealing more if its secrets?

  • March 01, 10:16 PM

    Mini-wikipedia.

    Ten Word Wiki is an encyclopedia for the ADD generation. Example. /via

  • March 01, 10:07 PM

    Not a real thing.

    A blog dedicated to fictional brands, like the Swingline Staplers and Dapper Dan. /via

  • February 28, 10:07 PM
    “Remember: a male may “dance” by resting his crotch on a stair rail or banister and squirming his pelvis – don’t react. If that’s this particular night club scene, go along with it.”
    A very important tip on how to blend into the concrete jungle from a 1974 book called Survival in the City. /via
  • February 28, 08:58 PM

    Flat earth.

    Some people still think the earth is flat. From the current president of The Flat Earth Society: “I haven’t taken this position just to be difficult. To look around, the world does appear to be flat, so I think it is incumbent on others to prove ­decisively that it isn’t. And I don’t think that burden of proof has been met yet.”

  • February 28, 05:55 PM

    McDonald's has a head chef?

    Time talks to McDonald’s head chef. Funny, for some reason I picture McDonald’s having a head chemist instead of a head chef.

  • February 28, 05:40 PM

    Moves for days.

    I have to agree with Bradley, this video made me smile. Especially starting at 1:28.

Audio

  • What Lies Beneath by Q-Tip from Soundbombing III. I can honestly say that I have never heard this before. Cool! /via
    133 plays
  • Top Billin’ by Audio Two. Straight from ‘87. /via
    121 plays
  • headunderwater: Mos Def - Auditiorium Ft. Slick Rick Good old school/Wu-Tang hip-hop feel with the beat just knockin’. Slick Rick kills on this track. It’s always good to see the Rickster getting work.
    1021 plays
  • I had Verses from the Abstract by A Tribe Called Quest stuck in my head when I woke up this morning. Maybe it was this line that did it: Use the Coast in the mornin’ to avoid the funky odor Anyway, it’s a good way to start the day. (via)
    50 plays
  • I’m always on the lookout for instrumental music to listen to at work that doesn’t, you know, suck. Jazzhole by Free The Robots fits the bill. More Free the Robots on the My Space and the Twitter. Thanks for the pointer sunnycyl.
    188 plays
  • The audio from Ok Go’s video for This Too Shall Pass. (via)
    60 plays
  • The Hot Rats cover the Beastie Boys, “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)” It doesn’t suck. (via)
    47 plays
  • Coldplay covers the Beastie Boy’s Fight for Your Right. The story: “The Beastie Boys canceled a summer of high-profile festival appearance when MCA announced he had cancer. Jay-Z subbed in at All Points West, paying predictable tribute (“No Sleep Til Brooklyn”). More unexpected was Chris Martin’s brilliant minor-key piano ballad two days later.” By way of Cover Me’s Best Cover Songs of 2009.
    149 plays
  • Ben Folds makes this old Snoop Dog/Dre song sound like a melancholy story of gangsta love unrequited. (via)
    40 plays
  • I ran across this track from The Grey Album a couple days ago. Hearing how good it is and remembering all the trouble the album stirred up reminded me of this quote from ck/ck: “But I suppose that’s a major theme of this decade that has just been: the failure of companies to give the consumers what they want, which in turn has resulted in a culture where illegality, piracy and hacking is the norm.”
    79 plays
  • Busted Heart by Bishop Allen.
    53 plays
  • Little Bird Courage by Old Canes. Via Rubin Recommends.
    65 plays
  • Engine Engine Number Nine On the New York transit line If my train jumps off the track Pick it up pick it up pick it up Still a most excellent song to make one’s peers jump. [via]
    73 plays
  • I’ve Got More Rhymes Than I’ve Got Grey Hairs And That’s Alot Because I’ve Got My Share [via]
    82 plays
  • Indianapolis by The Bottle Rockets. In honor of my car that just died. [via]
    51 plays
  • The Afterlife by Yacht [via]
    44 plays
  • Holland, 1945 by Neutral Milk Hotel [via]
    57 plays
  • Prom Zombies by Stellastar [via]
    85 plays
  • Body - Thao [via mr. jones]
    71 plays
  • The Avalanches - Since I Left You [via]
    218 plays
  • I Want To Burn You Down by Mike Doughty from his new album Sad Man Happy Man. [via]
    1174 plays
  • I’ve had Waiting for My Ruca by Sublime stuck in my head ever since I clicked the tiny little play arrow on hrrrthrrr’s blog. Now you to may enjoy.
    1614 plays
  • Son of Byford by Run-DMC. From a selection of songs all less than a minute long.
    32 plays
  • Ryan Adams - Damn, Sam (I Love A Woman That Rains) [via]
    293 plays
  • Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around. I can’t listen to it without thinking of the title sequence from Dawn of the Dead. [via]
    278 plays
  • Jaydiohead’s Change Order was my favorite song today. It made a great soundtrack for my cloudy morning commute.
    52 plays
  • Monsters of Folk - Slow Down Jo. [via]
    114 plays
  • Booty Groove is one of the tracks from Double Check Your Head. A free album that re-mixes the songs of The Beastie Boy’s Check Your Head. [via]
    39 plays
  • De La Soul – In The Woods from Buhloone Mindstate. [via]
    43 plays
  • Weird Science by Oingo Boingo from the soundtrack for the movie Weird Science. Classic 80’s flick, I loved it (and Kelly LeBrock). Thanks Mr. Hughes for this and your other wonderful films. [via]
    176 plays
  • LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out. I wore this cassette out in the nine oh! [via]
    67 plays
  • Wilco’s Kamera does make good Sunday music. By way of folkinz.
    118 plays
  • Make The Loop Say Aye (OJ Da Juiceman vs Discovery) by way of The Hood Internet. P.S. check out non mashed-up Discovery on their site or on the Hype Machine. It’s good stuff.
    66 plays
  • Paper Underwear by David Holmes by way of this heist.
    23 plays
  • Gnarls Barkley - A Little Better. I already listened to this like five times. Via never capitalize.
    168 plays
  • Los Campesinos! » You! Me! Dancing! by way of mr. jones
    64 plays
  • What (Tribute Remix) - Skillz, ?uestlove & Randy Watson from J. Period’s Q-Tip tribute album.
    33 plays
  • Lisztomania by Phoenix. This song is destined for an 80’s teen comedy. I must find a time machine and visit John Hughes …
    1276 plays
  • Ohio Players - Funky Worm Damn that’s funky!
    289 plays
  • A mash-up of Matt and Kim “Good Ol’ Fashion Nightmare” and the Beastie Boys “Shake Your Rump.” Sweet stuff from mashuptown. [via]
    65 plays
  • Tiger Woods by Dan Bern. Contains this gem of a line: My balls are as big as small dogs. Great song. [via]
    19 plays
  • Mos Def - Quiet Dog. It’s good to hear you going off again Mr. Smith.
    105 plays
  • Mr. Incognito by A Tribe Called Quest from an excellent collection of Tribe rarities by Cocaine Blunts.
    54 plays
  • Commerce TX - Ben Kweller - Sha Sha (via Mr. Wilson) I’m about to go on a Kweller buying spree.
    976 plays
  • A nice live version of Root Down by the Beastie Boys. Many more tracks on Captains Dead.
    22 plays
  • Beta Band - Dry The Rain My new favorite song.
    338 plays
  • Excursions (Remix) featuring De La Soul. From the upcoming J. Period’s The [Abstract] Best mixtape, that will be available for free download on February 10th. More about the album here.
    70 plays
  • Indian Flute - Timbaland and Magoo ft. Rajeshwari via hiphopology
    2459 plays
  • DJ Tripp - Paper Rump Wreckx-n-Effect’s “Rump Shaker” meets MIA’s “Paper Planes” in this deliciously perfect mash-up, taken from Best of Bootie 08. Memories of high school dances are tripping through my head.
    145 plays
  • Bon Iver - Skinny Love. Can’t get enough of this song. It’s only a matter of time before it’s in a VW commercial. Via jamesnord.
    40 plays

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