collaborative filtering

wow what a phrase. my new favorite phrase. collaborative filtering. it's already how you experience the internet.

a group of people filter out bad information and identify and highlight the good information. this is how certain forums get their value.

looking for something? someone's found it for you and wants you to know.

-inspired by the nytimes article Netflix Competitors Learn the Power of Teamwork

the truman, i mean the marbury show

stephon marbury is my new favorite person. because he's amazing.

"Going bald at 19 is not sexy. Its not the jump-off."

after the 24 hour ustream thing he then did a nother justin.tv thing.

he's at justin.tv/starburytv

it's like the truman show! except it's the marbury show!

it looks like he's gonna be on the web until he signs a new contract! and if he doesnt? well, i guess we have a lot to look forward to

here's the 24 hour transcript with some good quotes -- marbury 24hr transcript | nba musings

i'll let you find the other links. yeah stephon! taking the internet by storm.

have words will travel

must...play...basketball...outside...now

"take me somewhere"

-The Visioneers (2008)

and here are somerville farmers markets

yo

yo, this whole thing with Prof. Gates sucks. and it happened with my police department. what a mess. it's on front cover of nytimes? jeez.

nother cool album cover to lighten the mood.

pouring rain

raining pour

random cool album cover

hi

hi how are you? i can't really talk, so we'll have to catch each other sometime soon.

here's a funny photo that's joking about the boston college quarterback situation. haha very funny, but who's actually gonna be the quarterback? will bc win any games? time will tell.

yah. everything's good. weather hasn't been so bad, i havent dropped any air conditioners on anyones head, haven't gotten any parking tickets, so i cant really complain.

so yeah, task at hand. gotta focus on the task at hand.

bonjour!

boating fail

someone get this guy a bailer

hey

hey im busy running around and stuff. weve put air conditioners in, but, like a fool, i brought my roommates up. now that hes put his in we run the risk of tripping the breaker (the electric wiring in this old apt is horrible, and ive had to go reset the breaker box many times)

here are all the cambrige farmers markets. what an exciting screenshot. i got a dozen eggs in central sq today. im gonna try 3 of them tmrw. am very excited. cya

NS 8 Flow 2

i saw unmistaken child today. it blew me away. i cried like 15 times. what a beautiful, stunning, pretty much unfathomable movie. wow.

and i wanna go back and see the hurt locker tmrw.

went to soulelujah. now my legs hurt.

here's the link for the trailer for unmistaken child. i'd recommend you see it if it's playing in your area. otherwise it's at the kendall sq cinema for the rest of the week.

Unmistaken Child

i'm slowly getting my words back, allow me to collect the alphabet

swami

the idea is to make it to the farmers markets, then the pool

oh yeah and i finally put in the air conditioner. i think this is a record for the latest date that ive had an air conditioner in my room. ahhh it feels nice tho

hey

hey i was out of town for a day im still getting caught up lemme get back to ya

yo

yo in 30 seconds here's how it went down -- 4th of july weekend was great. busy and fun and such. this past weekend was also terrific. busy and fun and friends.

tonight i went and saw dj rupture and dj c at enormous room. totally impromptu show. thank god i get the enormous room emails, otherwise i wouldnt have known about it. went with some friends, bumped into a friend, good times.

i got a question as to where i got these strange photos from (i've posted a couple more)

here's the answer -- Carlo Van de Roer. just click on portfolio then the aura portrait machine. don't ask me how i found this, cause i don't really recall. but the photos are awesome

yeah. so i didnt do weekend recaps the past couple weekends. but everything has been pretty fantastic. and today i sat in the sun (lil sunburn) and played basketball (lil sore).

i had my first real introduction to cumbia tonight, and it was so cool. i had listened to it a bunch but for the first time tonight i got to hear it loud and live. i'll try to dig up some more information about it.

cumbia es en mi alma!

and here we are

right here

note to self

when you have a large party and you expect there to be a lot of people in your kitchen, temporarily remove the knobs for the burners on your gas stove

also -- guys in Massachusetts have no style. sad but true sometimes. i was told this tonight, and had to share it.

hope you had a good one

-D

"What are you going to do about it? What are you ever going to do about anything?"

-sag harbor, p. 96

a fair trade booster seat

“I went back and it freaked me out,’’ the 39-year-old Brooklyn resident wrote. “Davis Square used to be a seedy area but a decent place to get a slice and a coke, or catch a game over a beer, but now appears to be a terrific place to sip a latte and, I don’t know, shop for a fair trade booster seat?’’

from On tiles, a story of gentrification

ya know those tiles in the davis sq t station? just as you enter on the side upstairs? even i remember those from taking the t as a teenager. pretty cool.

i guess that the tiles were created at a school, the Powderhouse Community School. i lived on powderhouse blvd right by tufts til i was 5. haha good work globe.

you can can also look at the projects web site, but it's crashed right now, due to extra traffic? who knows, but at least you can look at some more of the tiles on the background

The Davis Square Tiles Project

deriving meaning from quotes

how about this one -- "Never write if you can speak. Never speak if you can nod. And never nod if you can wink."

here's my version, adapted for the 21st century -- "Never email if you can talk. Never talk if you can smile. Never smile if you can hug."

or how about -- "Never email if you can chat. Never chat if you can talk. Never talk if you can smile."

whoa, i managed to make my two similarly meaningless (or not?). i'll leave it up to you

what does it mean to you? all that i can think about is how i prefer talking on my cellphone to texting. as in, id rather that you just call me instead of text. ya know what i mean? not that there's anything wrong with either one.

another thing it means to me -- never email or chat online or talk on the phone if you can talk to someone in person. it's that simple. hmm.

did i already post this album cover? i'm diggin it...

the death race

terrific nytimes article and video. you should definitely watch the video first. or not. but just make sure you watch the video cause it's pretty good.

the death race is a ridiculous "race" set up in vermont where only a small percentage of people actually finish. there's a lot of barbed wire and problems and stuff. really entertaining.

i dont think i could ever do something like this. or maybe i could. but it looks really, really hard.

that being said, anyone wanna get in shape with me and try it next year? could be one of the biggest regrets of our lives! haha jk.

the two winners this year were marines, one american and one british. no way am i anywhere close to being as fit or tough or these guys. it's inspiring tho! you gotta be a little nuts to do this thing...

Pushing the Limit -- You Created It, Tough Guy. So Let’s See You Finish It.

PANIC - The Zebra mussel has arrived in massachusetts

the sky is falling. massachusetts will never be the same...

THE ZEBRA MUSSEL HAS ARRIVED

im only half kidding. these suckers are like kudzu. they've made lives miserable for a lotttttt of people

Invasive mussel found in Bay State lake

shoot. hopefully they can get rid of these buggers.