February 2015

Can anyone recommend a good Mac/iOS app for reminders/alarms that recur multiple times a day?

In honor of Kathy Sierra’s recent Wired piece (wired.com/2015/02/silico…), here’s a video I revisit about once a month: vimeo.com/24195442

It’s time you all knew the truth. Rambo: First Blood Part II is based on my single-handed rescue of dozens of American POWs from Vietnam.

My brief review of Birdman from a few months ago, which I stand by: letterboxd.com/robweychert/fi…

Hey, film nerds, @iamrumz just launched @the_completist, and you’ll want to check it out: thecompleti.st

Today I learned that Andy Samberg was the monkey in James Kochalka Superstar’s classic “Monkey Vs. Robot” video. youtu.be/k1Csif5l_6c

Reviewing my dinner party invitee list. Let’s see, there’s Cube, Eazy, Ren, Yella… Crap, I forgot about Dre.

“All put together, invasive species cost the US more than $120 billion a year in damages and control costs.” medium.com/the-nib/the-sn…

I’ve committed my share of online sins, but I have never understood the outsize glee of the common lynch mob. nytimes.com/2015/02/15/mag…

Semi-related questions:

1. What should be preserved, why, and for how long?

2. Where does self-improvement end and self-acceptance begin?

Sending @davidpajo and his family wishes for healing and peace.

Goddammit. David Carr. RIP. nyti.ms/1B4Cyq6

“So it’s a whole movie of Legos? I guess I hadn’t really thought about it. And they move around?”

The internet is the most sophisticated medium for text that has ever existed, and you people are tweeting pictures of paragraphs.

Man, there were several years there when Apple products could be relied on to just do exactly what they were supposed to. I miss those days.

The original Uncle Buck is still the best, but this is a really fun remake.

Verhoevathon on Netflix, you guys.

Today I learned about scleral tattoos and I definitely didn’t squirm at all. people.howstuffworks.com/scleral-tattoo…

A lot of Assault on Precinct 13’s potential appeal rides on its antihero, Napoleon Wilson (Darwin Joston), but the character just doesn’t get there. All of his sardonic one-liners are limp punch lines in search of a joke, and Joston’s portrayal of him as a notorious, cavalier killer is bland and ineffectual, completely absent the menace he is presumed to possess.

While spinning your wheels for hours trying to get out of that icy parking spot, consider contemplating why you even own a car in NYC.