to contact me, send a note to web at this url. or just ask. [tweets :: flickrs ][rockphotos ]Tumblr (3.0; @sciencevsromance)http://sciencevsromance.net/“For some reason trying to pretend that you’re a middle aged married man having NONSEXUAL tickle fights and groping sessions with younger male employees is creepier than if he just came out of the closet or admitted he has problems with knowing what is appropriate.”<br/><br/> - <em>Claire tells it like it is, political scandal style. [<a href="http://www.zulkey.com/2010/03/httpwwwnytimescom20100310nyreg.php">Zulkey.com</a>]</em>http://sciencevsromance.net/post/441545516http://sciencevsromance.net/post/441545516Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:10:31 -0800<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://widgets.nbc.com/o/4727a250e66f9723/4b989f3500c86e0b/4b988bc019e9dd06/ec849590/-cpid/98be3d435cb0d1fe" id="W4727a250e66f97234b989f3500c86e0b" width="400" height="294"><param name="movie" value="http://widgets.nbc.com/o/4727a250e66f9723/4b989f3500c86e0b/4b988bc019e9dd06/ec849590/-cpid/98be3d435cb0d1fe" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="allowNetworking" value="all" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /></object><br/><br/><p>National Debut “Terrible Love” On Fallon [<a href="http://stereogum.com/296301/national-debut-terrible-love-on-fallon/top-stories/lead-story/">Stereogum</a>] and you don’t even need to stay up late to hear it.</p>http://sciencevsromance.net/post/440805460http://sciencevsromance.net/post/440805460Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:49:53 -0800<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz3vz2dHLD1qz72sno1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>whoa. chatroulette map.</p> <p><i>(via @seanbonner)</i></p>http://sciencevsromance.net/post/440756085http://sciencevsromance.net/post/440756085Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:11:00 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz3hciLkDu1qz72sno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Department of pictures worth thousands of words, from “So who WERE the two Tory ministers who had gay flings with Christopher Hitchens at Oxford?” [<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255852/So-WERE-Tory-ministers-gay-flings-Christopher-Hitchens-Oxford.html#ixzz0hmT6T9V5">Mail Online</a>]</p>http://sciencevsromance.net/post/440146804http://sciencevsromance.net/post/440146804Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:55:30 -0800“If I’m in another location, I can actually sit and look at that screen and see who checked in last, and I can reach out via Twitter and say ‘Welcome. Have you been here before? What kind of food do you like?’”<br/><br/> - <em><span>Joe Sorge, on Foursquare’s new business toolkit. [</span><a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/foursquare-introduces-new-tools-for-businesses/?src=twt&twt=nytimesbits">NYTimes</a> via @busterbenson] I’m glad that they’re going to opt-in/opt-out on the user level because for everyone who might find an unexpected SMS from a distant owner cool, there are more than a few others who will find it creeptastic.</em>http://sciencevsromance.net/post/437187056http://sciencevsromance.net/post/437187056Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:16:49 -0800<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz0nnpFb1y1qz6j65o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://distorte.tumblr.com/post/436807209/it-has-begun-i-know-you-kids-dont-need-telling">distorte</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.themorningnews.org/tob/">It has begun.</a> I know you kids don’t need telling. But just in case any of you kids need telling.</p> </blockquote> <p>This is, I think, the first time that I haven’t read any of the contenders. This year, an Andrew W.K. judges the semi-final, which, I guess will have to be much better than the year that Dale Peck weighed in during the 2006 version, right?</p>http://sciencevsromance.net/post/437059273http://sciencevsromance.net/post/437059273Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:40:53 -0800<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz040j4vRu1qz72sno1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Saturday looked like this. A couple days and several hundred miles later and snowflakes are hitting my eyes on the way to work.</p>http://sciencevsromance.net/post/436322596http://sciencevsromance.net/post/436322596Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:14:00 -0800“Not only does your heart die when you get older, your face bloats, your skin sags, your hair goes gray, and you play second banana to Charlie Sheen on some inexplicably popular ABC sitcom.”<br/><br/> - <em>Alex Balk on the John “too important for the Death Montage” Huges tribute segment. [<a href="http://www.theawl.com/2010/03/actually-liveblogging-the-oscars-part-2-house-of-blog-and-sand">The Awl</a>]</em>http://sciencevsromance.net/post/435660397http://sciencevsromance.net/post/435660397Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:52:15 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyzo7qKjOP1qz72sno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Lindsay Robertson turned the best quotes from Oscar acceptance speeches into e-cards. This one, from Ryan Bingham, elicited the loudest guffaw at my own particular Oscar party.  Because, really, do even country singers love rainbows that much? [<a href="http://jezebel.com/5488193/get-your-best-oscar-quote-e+cards-here/gallery/">jezebel</a>]</p>http://sciencevsromance.net/post/435621520http://sciencevsromance.net/post/435621520Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:33:26 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyxrxbfmGY1qz72sno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Going back to Seattle, regretting the generosity of the previous night’s pours.</p>http://sciencevsromance.net/post/433378521http://sciencevsromance.net/post/433378521Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:58:23 -0800<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyw07ohDIA1qz72sno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Coit Tower. Because when I have a few free hours to be a tourist I like a good tall building with nice views. Much much less of a debacle that the Willis Tower visit.</p>http://sciencevsromance.net/post/431241697http://sciencevsromance.net/post/431241697Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:02:12 -0800<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyuq0rqEIU1qz72sno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Trippy tropical times in a hotel basement. That this place exists is kind of mindboggly in and of itself.</p>http://sciencevsromance.net/post/429908262http://sciencevsromance.net/post/429908262Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:24:27 -0800<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyul5fUDrk1qz72sno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Singapore Sling at the Tonga.</p>http://sciencevsromance.net/post/429774112http://sciencevsromance.net/post/429774112Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:38:58 -0800<embed style="display:block" src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:266351" width="360" height="301" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="window" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="autoPlay=false" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" bgcolor="#000000"></embed><br/><br/><p>The only people left on Chatroulette are reporters. (via <a href="http://toomuchnick.com/post/429245153/jon-stewart-chatroulette-geekosystem-bahaha">nick</a>)</p>http://sciencevsromance.net/post/429299362http://sciencevsromance.net/post/429299362Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:06:00 -0800<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyr2h5qWXk1qz72sno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>At a speakeasyish bar where we were escorted through a bookshelf door to a back bar, inexblicably crowded for an hour with Brits.</p>http://sciencevsromance.net/post/425942932http://sciencevsromance.net/post/425942932Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:02:39 -0800<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyqaoeVhbh1qz72sno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>SFO, waiting for BART.</p>http://sciencevsromance.net/post/424921038http://sciencevsromance.net/post/424921038Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:02:37 -0800<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7585404&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7585404&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7585404&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>I went to the local premiere of the Seattle version of <a href="http://vimeo.com/7585404">$5 Cover</a>, directed by Lynn Shelton and starring more than a dozen local bands playing slightly fictionalized versions of themselves. I don’t know if this series will cause any of them to blow up into superstardom, but, collectively, the twelve episodes are an understated but gorgeous love letter to our city and its music scene.</p> <p>It’s so much more comfortable than this trailer suggests. My biggest concern when it first showed up was that it would be really forced, but the whole project feels much more like a gentle documentary than a scripted drama.</p>http://sciencevsromance.net/post/421573555http://sciencevsromance.net/post/421573555Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:43:34 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kylhouPdLT1qz7908o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://rickwebb.tumblr.com/post/419547199/the-evidence-behind-health-supplements-ive">rickwebb</a>:</p> <blockquote> <a href="http://thefuturewell.com/2010/02/26/the-evidence-behind-health-supplements/">The evidence behind health supplements.</a> <p>I’ve been needing something like this my whole life. (via futurewell)</p> </blockquote> <p>The interactive version is nifty, too. [<a href="http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/">informationisbeautiful</a>] It links to a Google Spreadsheet and refreshes as new information is added.</p>http://sciencevsromance.net/post/420057353http://sciencevsromance.net/post/420057353Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:19:35 -0800<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kykuf1Djei1qz72sno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>still trying to get a handle on hipstamatic. this time with the cherry blossom explosions all over my neighborhood.</p>http://sciencevsromance.net/post/418648991http://sciencevsromance.net/post/418648991Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:23:25 -0800<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kykt1aY6sm1qz72sno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Best game I’ve watched in years. Possibly the only game in years, but let’s not have that detract from the superlatives.</p>http://sciencevsromance.net/post/418588857http://sciencevsromance.net/post/418588857Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:53:33 -0800