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casey ryan

I am here for Friends

About Me

I make video games, smirk at lipograms and throw myself into abandoned phosphate mine pits for fun.

See this: Exploding Dog

'I'd be lost without you'

Hear this: The Do - A Mouthful

Play this: BMW M3 Challenge ("Best German Sportsgame" award at the "Deutscher Entwicklerpreis") Hey, it's free!

My Interests

tennis, biking, cooking, random useful trivia, engineering breakthroughs, new media, art junk, any stringed instrument, eyewear, science stuff, too many other things to list.

Music:

écoutez:
Novaplanet

Casey's music tip of the week (updated bi-monthly):
Melt Banana - Cell-Scape

Movies:

see:
Pan's Labyrinth
Cool Hand Luke
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
A Scanner Darkly
Gattaca
Speed Tribe

Television:

I'm currently infatuated with Charlotte Charles on Pushing Daisies...and Tina Fey. It's a toss-up.

Books:

read:

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Salmon of Doubt
Kitchen Confidential
A Moveable Feast
Frankenstein
Animal Farm
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Heroes:

Powdered Toast Man

My Blog

Irony

It's a beautiful thing.I was out at the Mellow Mushroom last week, enjoying a Kosmic Karma and some Quelque Chose.  The big screen was tuned to FX, which was showing Ray.  Muted. With subtit...
Posted by casey ryan on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:56:00 PST

Name this Drink!

So we were out biking this past Sunday and happened to notice that the wild blackberries were fruiting.  I'm talking full bushes as far as the eye can see in every direction.  You stop at any randomly...
Posted by casey ryan on Tue, 22 May 2007 07:59:00 PST

<ironic smirking>

I just read this in a review for a vacuum on amazon:"This vacuum is terrible. The floor attachments suck."My new bike tires are here.  Really eager to get out and see if they solve some problems I was...
Posted by casey ryan on Thu, 17 May 2007 03:50:00 PST

A thought

The average life expectancy has gone up through history, from 50 to 74 in just the past century alone.But look at the ages of some of the notable smart/influential people in the past:Leonardo da Vinci...
Posted by casey ryan on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:19:00 PST

minor bits of thought ooze.

I enjoyed 'Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader' last week until I realized that the whole key to the show is screening for stupid people to be the contestants.  This became more disturbing when they a...
Posted by casey ryan on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:48:00 PST

London: the cameraphone tour

A word to the wise: if you're travelling to London, be prepared for the smell. There is sortof a diesel fume/sewer thing going on. I imagine it is something like what Chicago will smell like when it...
Posted by casey ryan on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 06:35:00 PST

Census data

With the apartment search in full swing, this may be my new favorite passtime:  Reading census data on any zip code I find interesting to see if it can hold any interest as a possible location of habi...
Posted by casey ryan on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:19:00 PST

The Rock drinks rasberry martinis

...and crazy things happen when you spontaneously invade Bern's.Coming soon:  Bike blog - a pictoral episode
Posted by casey ryan on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 09:32:00 PST

Smoking Zoo

Have you seen these?  I noticed one for the first time last Friday at TIA.  It's an outdoor smoking area, which has become necessary since most states are passing clean air laws which prohibit smoking...
Posted by casey ryan on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:57:00 PST

Yesterday I Woke Up Sucking a Lemon

Too long since last blog, the fans are saying.So, it was recently brought to my attention that the music I tend to listen to is mostly comprised of lyrics which are entirely unintelligible, unintellig...
Posted by casey ryan on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:50:00 PST