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Forgive Haiti’s Debt

HipNerd — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:55:24 +0000

http://www.avaaz.org/en/haiti_cancel_the_debt_2

Big Sky

HipNerd — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:23:24 +0000

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New Sketches at LyleFile

HipNerd — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:56:23 +0000

Check out the new art over at the Hip Bro’s site. lylefile.com

September 11, 2001

HipNerd — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:08:32 +0000

I live in Los Angeles. As I was getting ready for work, I got a call from my grandmother, who lived in New Jersey, about the attacks. I don’t think she even said what was going on, just something like, “Turn on the TV, there’s something terrible happening in New York.” I turned on the TV and had a minute or two of cognitive dissonance as I saw only one of the two towers standing. The idea that one of the World Trade Center towers was gone was too strange, and I quickly put the thought out of my mind. A minute later I saw a replay of the building falling.

I remember the days that followed as feeling really strange. All the media concentration on the attacks, and how it was nearly the only thing that even friends and family talked about for a few days straight, made all the predictions of “the death of irony” and how “the world has changed forever” almost believable.

The day after the attacks, I saw a car driving around the streets near my work, horn blaring, with an American flag flying out the window, and a big, hand printed, cardboard sign on the back that said something like “U.S.A. TIME TO KICK ASS!” and I thought, “Oh, this is going to turn ugly soon.”

A year later (nearly to the day), my son was born. And, while my personal life has changed considerably, it seems the world has not.

Nightmare Gallery

HipNerd — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:01:42 +0000

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4th of July, 2009

HipNerd — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:36:03 +0000

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Wild Music

HipNerd — Thu, 14 May 2009 06:11:26 +0000

Karlheinz Stockhausen "Helicopter String Quartet"

John Cage "4′33"

John Cage – Water Walk

Times Square Sound Sculpture by Max Neuhaus

sun ra – space is the place

SUN RA "Calling Planet Earth"

According to the Wikipedia article on Sun Ra his birthday is coming up on May 22. I hereby declare May 22 Sun Ra Day.

Clouds Go By

HipNerd — Sun, 03 May 2009 05:17:36 +0000

I recently installed CHDK on my camera. Here is a time-lapse movie of clouds from my back yard. Not terribly original, I suppose, but I liked the results nonetheless.
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Dave Arneson Goes Negative Hit Points

HipNerd — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:47:45 +0000

Dave Arneson, the co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, is dead at the age of 61. His influence went beyond D&D to include computer games.

Sticker Plant

HipNerd — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:52:51 +0000

I don’t know what the real name of this plant is, but when the plant dries up in the summer, the little seed pods stick in your socks when you go hiking.