April 2008
1 post
Listening to Bad Religion makes me feel like I’m 15 and I need to go to 7-11
March 2008
1 post
Please share a personal (and hopefully interesting) NYC taxi story. I took a cabbie to taxi court once. Years ago, this guy didn’t want to take me to Bklyn. Just refused. I explained that I would absolutely take him to Taxi Court because, see, I’m an actor and have pretty much nothing but free time. He still refused. So three weeks later we found ourselves sitting across from each...
December 2007
8 posts
It was so obvious! Why didn’t I think of this sooner!? So stupid! But its almost too good of an idea to happen…
Ron Vs. Mac Round 27 - I’ve got this mac on the ropes…I may just pull this off yet!
Photoshop CS3: everything SEEMS familiar and yet nothing works the same way…grrr
I freakin’ love patxi’s deep dish pizza…it was EXACTLY what I was hoping for.
its amazing how snow becomes news when you’re not there to shovel it…
Just cleaned and re-arranged the desk - so now its a much more suitable working environment! Previews makes a great mousepad! who knew?
November 2007
61 posts
When will it stop!? Don’t get me wrong, its exciting and all but my god - give me a moment to breathe!
I’ve been having Guitar Hero III dreams…I can only hope for a brit pop expansion pack
‘so apparently we’re the assholes’
‘Someone like you’ ison FX right noe - possibly the best scene ever in that movie
I’ve seen the future and its guitar hero 3 (and probably Rock Band too, but I haven’t played that yet Ash…)
I seriously think I will never be hungry again…I’m STILL full
Goddamn this looks good! I am psyched…bring on 08
@cskilpatrick what are these “primaries” you speak of?
Guitar Hero III - I *should* wait for Christmas, but it’s sooo tempting
SyncTV: a new video download concept, just add... →
“Pioneer spinoff SyncTV launches in private beta today. The service is hardly the first, or even the 30th company trying to get into the video download game. But there are a few things that set SyncTV apart from competitors like Amazon, Apple, and NBC.”
TinyURL Outage Illustrates the Service's Risks →
The link shortening and redirection service TinyURL went down apparently for hours last night, rendering countless links broken across the web. Complaints have been particularly loud on Twitter, where long links are automatically turned to TinyURLs and complaining is easy to do, but the service is widely used in emails and web pages as well.
Interview with Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance... →
iFanboy spoke to Gerard Way, writer of the Umbrella Academy, a new comic series published by Dark Horse. Gerard Way is also the singer of My Chemical Romance and he talks about making the comic, how being a rockstar affected marketing the comic and about his friendship with Grant Morrison.
Not only is the waiter at this german restaurant a skinhead, but there’s a table full of like 3 skinheads. awesome
Who knew ordering a snapple at schnitzelhaus would be so difficult. I fear the boot
I didn’t have the balls to pretend like I had never heard of his band. But it would have been funny. “Oh? You’re in a band too? no shit..”
KRAKTHOOM!
ronxo: i just blinked and realized I hadn’t twittered in over 24 hours. It’s like that time I forgot to go to school for 2 days straight.
ronxo: There are multiple helicopters flying above….I feel like henry hill…
ronxo: you ever think something is ridiculously complicated, only to sit down to write and it seems ridiculously simple?
1920x1200 24" Wide Screen LCDs Fall Below $300 →
1920x1200 24-inch Wide Screen LCD displays like the Soyo 24-inch LCD below the $300 mark and even below $250 on Black Friday.
Mozilla Still Flummoxed by Firefox' Appetite for... →
Anyone who uses Firefox on Windows knows the browser has an almost insatiable appetite for memory, and it’s not unheard of for PCs to allocate a half GB or more of memory just to the browser alone.
Animal Farm (full book online), by George Orwell →
We better learn from this classic before it is too late.
ronxo: Saturday report: Real Estate & Breakfast, visited Matt @ Isotope & did some community service in Hayes Valley, podcast done and now laundry!
ronxo: @cacheop thanks for the link! I love how humbling covers are for big bands when they play them…even Radiohead loves the Smiths!
ronxo: The tonga room is a guaranteed good time.
ronxo: I didn’t realize I was in a feemasons temple! Eep!
ronxo: The line for drinks is out of control at the Feist show
ronxo: I want my year back please
ronxo: it’s classic punk rock week at casa di ron - today: The Fall, “This Nation’s Saving Grace”
Smashing Magazine - 40+ Excellent Freefonts For... →
The importance of typography in design can’t be overestimated. The accuracy, precision and balance of geometric forms can give letters the elegance and sharpness they deserve and help to convey the message in a more convenient way.
Online Advertising Growing Exponentially: How Much... →
US online advertising is projected to double from $21.4 billion in 2007 to $42 billion in 2011, representing about 13% of the total ad-spend.
24 Postponed Indefinitely!! Damn it!! →
Fox has decided it doesn’t want to just give fans only half a day in Bauer’s life, so the thriller’s 7th season has been yanked from January – with no plans to return it until the strike is settled.
Pele: U.S. fans were misled about Beckham →
Pele believes Beckham’s introduction was “very, very bad” as it raised expectations about what the former Manchester United and Real Madrid midfielder could produce on the pitch.”They announced him as a scorer of goals,” Pele told The Associated Press. “He isn’t a goal scorer. That was a mistake.”
ronxo: @onelouderash Dude, I’ll believe it when I’m holding it my hands (or watching it download)
Fans shafted as Major League Baseball revokes DRM... →
In what can only be called the biggest bonehead move since Bill Buckner’s error in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, Major League Baseball has deactivated a DRM license server used to verify your worthiness to play back video of games you purchased online. Claiming the full-game downloads were “one-time sales”, MLB is completely unapologetic to fans
ronxo: I really want to find the episode of Moonlighting with the writers strike jokes in it…
Tim Kring to Heroes fans, "Sorry it's sucked so... →
Tim Kring, creator of Heroes, told EW recently that he and his team are aware that the second season has been less than spectacular. He outlines some things that they are going to fix after the writer’s strike and going into Volume 3. Such things as the BS love stories of Claire and Hiro, too much feudal Japan and more.
Opera Mini 4 released →
After three beta releases Opera Mini 4 is finally here!
Trouble In Redmond: Microsoft Boots CIO →
From Microsoft: “We can confirm that Stuart Scott’s employment with Microsoft was terminated after an investigation for violation of company policies.” Does that mean he stole office supplies or something?