Archive for November 20th, 2008

Chainless Bikes!

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

As if you hadn’t guessed, I’ve become a commuting cyclist around town.  As such, this article on changing from greasy chains to a composite that wouldn’t need greasing and wouldn’t eat my pants interested me, and may interest you.  Do you bike to work?  Do you have any pants-eating stories?  Are you just reading this because I said “eat my pants”?  Discuss.

Blip (Chiptunes) Festival

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

You may remember a little while back when I posted about the chiptunes documentary.  Well, the event that brought it together, the Blip Festival, is happening again in NYC, December 4th.  I have become a big fan of this stuff, and wish like hell I could make it for the fest.  Sadly, there are one too many engagements keeping me away.  I guess that narrows down the “cities I don’t live in” contest, huh?

If you can make it to this thing, please let me know.  I’m interested to see what it would be like and would LOVE a full report.  I would even post pics and things right here on the site, if one of you fine Systemics was so inclined.  Just sayin…

Btw, I can’t decide if the above image (taken from the video contained at the link I’m posting) is awesome or creepy.  You make the call!

Visual Movie Reviews

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

A guy makes great visual movie reviews, then posts them on Flickr.  Pretty cool stuff, and I actually agree with the ones I’ve seen.  Darjeeling Limited is a pretty one though my fav has to be No Country for Old Men.  What do you think of these reviews? (Oh, and this guy has a web site.)