— “i wanted to play the best visual hack and the best aural hack of super mario bros. at the same time”

Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Failure

I know Scott Pilgrim bombed at the box office, and honestly, I know it probably deserved to given how inaccessible the movie was to like, every possible demographic and how they gutted the actual romance and character development of the comics and instead just focused on CRAZY ACTION WHOOHA but can we all just agree to love Scott Pilgrim still anyway? Here, have some awesome animated gifs from the video game.

Mathowie, Big Time Blogger

I want this on a shirt.

I Want To See That Movie

dakotasmith: SMITH AND WIGGIN
dakotasmith: it’s a movie about how i think will smith and i are brothers dakotasmith: and in a cop buddy movie
dakotasmith: staring wiley wiggins
dakotasmith: as me

— then me and will smith throw a CRAZY PARTY

Once I leave Chicago I will stop posting dog pictures. Probably.

A rough recounting of what I wanted:

1. Make money (duh)
2. Like and respect the people I work with
3. Really enjoy my day and feel like I got something done
4. No pointless meetings
5. Making something I’m proud of

I follow a few VCs on Twitter and have talked to even fewer in person. While they have all been extremely kind, thoughtful, and blindingly smart, I came away from any those interactions thinking “I don’t see their money benefiting me for anything I want to do” and so I haven’t pursued that route any further.

Although I haven’t really been making anything this week, so it’s something of a vacation from that.

I am really happy with the last two things I made - mail me daily and imagesoak - but I am also really happy teaching puppies how to swim.

One of my parents' newly adopted dogs.

The other newly adopted dog.

One is from bloodthirsty predators you can’t trust and the other is a figment of your fucking imagination.

That sounds insulting but it’s actually a rather brilliant insight.

“No, art like that view to corrupt thing.”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“What?! I just wrote about that last week. On my website.”

“…uh yeah. I mean, I guess I missed that one.”

Uhoh, Your Friends Don’t Read Your Website

You spend hours “blogging” or creating projects or whatever and then the next time you see your “IRL” friends they have no idea what the hell any of it is.

Because they aren’t like, total nerds.

Isn’t there a better way?

RSS

“Hey, my site has an RSS feed! You can just subscribe to updates and then you won’t forget to check it.”

“What the hell is RSS?”

“It’s like, an XML format originally for site syndication that allows you to get updates in a feed reader.”

“What does any of that mean?”

“You know, honestly, I don’t even know anymore.”

Email

“Ok, never mind that. Can you read email?”

“Like, Facebook Mail, or regular email?”

“I refuse to dignify that with an answer. Just enter your email address here to subscribe and you’ll get an email when I update.”

Happy Endings

“You shouldn’t eat cheese fries.”

“Huh?”

“You wrote about eating cheese fries. I got an email about it! That’s unhealthy! Think of all the choleserol!”

“…”

Make RSS So Easy It Disappears

So that’s the concept behind mail me daily, which I launched last week in alpha.

I’m trying to make rss and subscription so easy it disappears for publishers and readers.

If you’d like to try adding it to your site to help your readers “subscribe” to your site’s RSS feed by just entering an email address, let me know.

It’s a folder that sits on my Mac’s desktop. Anything I drag to it shows up a few seconds later on this blog thing.

It’s stupid but it’s currently my Favorite Thing Ever. I may clean it up and release the code sometime but it’s more of a “stupid python and Applescript tricks” than a real application right now.

Oh also “people” are now allowed to try the experimental version of 4uhm.

And by testing I mean… you should subscribe. Or don’t! That’s fine too.

Subscribe to web sites and get one email every morning with the updates.

That’s it.

It’s RSS for people who don’t ever want to know what RSS is. And people who don’t like RSS and don’t want to deal with another inbox. And also people who love RSS but love email. I’m not sure. We’ll see how it goes. I’m liking it so far.

“That isn’t productive.”

“I know.”

“It just means each project needs to have a b-side. And that’s good. Everything should have a b-side.”

• An art experiment that encrypts what you type in real time into colored dots
• 4uhm, which is a group blog/image discuss board thing that basically nobody is allowed to use ever but you can Oatestache posts
• A thing sort of like 4uhm that is superinstant and more like disposable chatrooms and defaults to everyone being called ‘anonymouse’
• Dead simple email subscription to any web site prototype
• Endless Inkwell, which I use to manage this website

It’s nice to be able to prototype things quickly and see where they take me. I don’t know if any of them will grow up to be real products yet.

Stop the flow and tell me what’s on.

I saw them for the first time today and they brought me a lot more joy due to the accidental multi-year delay.

Ben is an Austin Bar Patron.

The end of the Peel recording sessions.

Bryan, Ben and Katie flipping me off, apparently.

It’s part of a process.

Young Person’s Guide To History was shown again July 4 and it makes me want to watch The World of Franklin & Jefferson again. On hallucinogens.

I’ve lost a little bit of weight recently.

My expertly crafted three step plan to weight loss:

1. Quit your job where there’s food everywhere at all times
2. Eat oranges
3. There is no step 3!

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