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Judah

I am here for Friends

About Me

One time I drank a whole jar of applesauce!

My Interests

real knives, guitars, mathematics, the humor of the pathetic, wikipedia

I'd like to meet:

Myself from 1999. I'd tell him that he's on the right track. He needed to hear that.

Music:

Barcelona, Belle and Sebastian, Better Than Ezra, Frank Black, Frank Black and the Catholics, The Breeders, Bright Eyes, Built to Spill, Cake, the Counting Crows, Deltron 3030, Thomas Dolby, Future Bible Heroes, the Gothic Archies, Grandaddy, the Hi-Fives, Jets to Brazil, Kleenex Girl Wonder, the Magnetic Fields, Midnight Oil, the Mountain Goats, Nada Surf, Outcast, OZMA, the Pixies, the Pulsars, the Rolling Stones, the Rondelles, Semisonic, Tonic, Trembling Blue Stars, Tullycraft, the Weakerthans, Weezer, the Wrens

Movies:

any kind of $5 Kung Fu movie, the Streetfighter series, Field of Dreams, the four Tarentino Movies and True Romance, Suicide Kings, Hi Fidelity, the Lone Wolf and Cub series, God of Cookery

Television:

Futurama, Family Guy, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, Space Ghost Coast To Coast, Home Movies, the Simpsons, Newsradio, Reno 911, the Boondocks

Books:

Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Nabakov, Joyce, Murakami, Mulisch, Barth, Zadie Smith, and anything translated by Ralph Sawyer.

Heroes:

that rabbit that scared Jimmy Carter.

My Blog

Flickr Meet in space

I was watching NASA TV (listening to it, really) at work this afternoon, and when all of the crew of Endeavour went aboard the ISS, I clicked over into the window to actually watch. Sure enough, a bun...
Posted by Judah on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:28:00 PST

Aging

My father is sixty, and suffered a heart attack some years ago that makes him seem older than he is. When he has been in bed, or sitting for a long time, and he stands up, his first few steps are take...
Posted by Judah on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:27:00 PST

Robots in disguise

Went with a sizeable eBay contingent to the 12:45 showing of Transformers today. We basically had the whole theater locked up, so everytime eBay was mentioned, a rousing cry went up.Also: Robots beat ...
Posted by Judah on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:19:00 PST

I am in a book!

Finis: A Book of Endings to Give People New Beginnings After Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, my old friend Ryan (of long acquaintance on usenet and irc, though it shames us both to admit it) pitch...
Posted by Judah on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:55:00 PST

Sing for joy

Georgie Porgie used to get real high He used to kiss the world till it made him cry He was under the bottle's command But one winter he got it together and Happiness came with the warmer weather layin...
Posted by Judah on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 03:54:00 PST

Are dictionaries irrelevant now?

Here is a list of words that were recently added to the Oxford English dictionary. Please help me to understand if there is a reason for this book to even exist.http://www.oed.com/help/updates/Prakrit...
Posted by Judah on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:04:00 PST

Surprise, Honeycomb

cut a killing path / through the true west dozens laid rest / settled down then at last thought i might be done / but being good made me burst the killing got worse / it almost got fun / ...
Posted by Judah on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:49:00 PST

Why Wikipedia should be blocked

(1:23:31 PM) Judah Nielsen (Work): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime(1:23:47 PM) Judah Nielsen (Work): Section on the priviledged character of 3+1 spacetime is particularly interesting.(1:25:47 P...
Posted by Judah on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:30:00 PST

Pictures remain to spit at the image

(cupboards well stocked with things to diminish / the pain that comes with clarity and mirrors in well-lit rooms)I am going to be slightly less internet-available for the next couple of weeks, or howe...
Posted by Judah on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:55:00 PST

What it is like to talk to me while I am working OR I am done with Jury Duty

(3:29:35 PM) Rolf Skyberg: honestly, I think there are parts of Maslow's theory that are bullshit,(3:29:42 PM) Rolf Skyberg: but it serves as a useful rubric(3:29:58 PM) Judah Nielsen (Work): yeah, bu...
Posted by Judah on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 03:50:00 PST