Yeah, it’s been a little while, huh? Sorry, we’ve been busy over here making ice cream with the kitchen aid, swimming in the lake, hanging out in Yosemite, and generally enjoying summer. We’re gearing up for Wedding Week 2010, where we go to 3 weddings in 7 days.

I also have to go get two wisdom teeth out today, which might be fun, but probably not.

Damn, that Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin album and Sir Luscious Leftfoot are goooood. Hope everyone is enjoying their summer. What have you been doing?

• The Burger Lab: The Ins-n-Outs of an In-N-Out Double-Double, Animal-Style
   + It's posts like this that got Kenji that six-figure book deal. So, burgers this weekend, anyone? I'm thinking Shake Shack v. In-and-Out burgers.
• The New RED Trailer
   + Note sure what I think about this yet, even though I really want to like it because I enjoyed the graphic novel.
• Which Congressional Candidate Brought a Gun to The Stranger Yesterday? Let's Go to the Videotape.
   + Eli Sanders: So did you pull out your concealed weapon at The Chronicles of Narnia?you never know when someone's gonna freak out at toy story 3.
• Simple Mad Men posters
   + can someone who watches this show explain these posters to me?
• When You Spill Oil In Water Perhaps The Things In The Water Evolve
   + We're all dead!
• Foursquare Launches Layers: Annotated Collections of Places From IFC, HuffPo, and More
   + Finally! Push advertising becomes a reality. The question now is when will the world come to an end.
• What is vacation good for?
   + "the researchers found that going on vacation gave a notable boost to pre-vacation mood but had hardly any effect on post-vacation feelings."
• 3D Displays May Be Hazardous To Young Children
   + avatar: bad for your health. no, really.
• Senate Forecast: After Primaries, Picture Slightly Improved for Dems
   + i like those WA numbers.

And here we are. I’ve been trying to get this out on a weekly basis but some weeks are just dead with no links and some weeks I’m just too damn busy to get anything down. This is one of those weeks where I’ve been really, really busy, but there are some pretty cool links I have had.

If you’re gonna just look at one, I’d read the comic sans thing, because it really is funny. Like I said, I’d like to see it turned into a short where Steve Buscemi does a dramatic reading of it. Perhaps as his character Mr. Pink from Reservoir Dogs.

• Did Michelangelo Draw A Brain in God's Neck? : NPR
   + cool
• The flipper bridge
   + this is cool, but i imagine those curves are still way too dramatic not to cause traffic and accidents. the bay bridge added a slight curve to deal with some traffic issues, and caused way more accidents. the tacoma s-curves constantly back things up.
• Engadget Previews the Upcoming Motorola Droid X
   + my god this thing looks huge.
• Martin's Famous Pastry Shoppe, Inc. Online Store
   + is it crazy for me to want to order a case of these since i can't get them on the west coast?
• Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency: I'm Comic Sans, Asshole.
   + I like to imagine who would give this monologue. I'm thinking maybe Steve Buscemi. Like daffodils in a motherfucking spring.

We’re off to see Adria at Parfait again today and then off to some Ethiopian food for Jams’ birthday. Still am way behind in posting about movies that we’ve seen, but there were some really good ones recently, including one we saw at SIFF called Waiting for Superman about the educational system which showed a good deal about Geoffrey Canada and Harlem Children’s Zone. The NPR story about the grants touches on the same subject and Owl and I were glad that the grants weren’t just about building charters, but something bigger.

Anyways, more on that later. I’m gonna go get some ice cream. Damn it I’m all caught up on The Walking Dead and now can’t wait until the next issue comes out. RICK GRIMES FTW. HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

We moved a couple weeks ago! Thanks to all those folks that helped us pack, carry boxes, etc. Just getting back up to speed over here and trying to catch up on a ton of things. It certainly is no help that we now have a ton of unpacking to do still, but I’m glad we’re out of that crappy place we used to be in! Also, I was in Columbus this week which was weird and humid.

I was somewhere near a mall, and know they had two Chipotles, a Waffle House, a few McDonald’s and a very crappy and overpriced sushi place. I know, don’t ask me why I felt the urge to eat chicken katsu in Ohio.

I have very few links to give you this week, but I have to say, I’ve spent a lot of money at iTunes in the last couple of months since I’ve done a fair amount of media consumption on the iPad on the plane, sitting around while watching TV, etc. and it’s kind of troubling (from a personal financial standpoint), but damn I’ve read some good stuff.

Anyone else read through all of The Walking Dead? I’m only on issue #25 or so and am trying to wait until the next collection comes out, but I broke down and bought a couple of single issues as well. So good.

I finished reading Michael Lewis’s The Big Short, which was also fascinating. Kottke had it right when he said that he’d made a hero’s narrative out of the sub-prime crisis.

I also have some updated movie lists to bring you, since we’ve gone on a tear with some SIFF movies. But that’ll be later, if you can’t wait (ha!) there’s an incredibly hard to parse list here. Here’s those links I was talking about.

• The surprising truth about what motivates us (video)
• Season 6 - The Infosphere, the Futurama Wiki
   + mark your calendar, june 24. spluh, you should probably come over and watch.
• Motion Designer – Flash or AE (Redmond)
   + hmm this sounds familiar...
• BP’s Brands
   + hey how about don't buy gas again? BURN!

Ugh, BP.

In any case, have a great weekend. It’s supposed to be nice in Seattle, which will be a change from all this crappy weather we’ve been getting.