I dream of making a team the wore these jerseys
I wish I were rich. I’d buy every damn one of these things.
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Danny Boyle On The Ruination of Mature-Themed Film
Danny Boyle, director a few movies you might have heard of, speaks out about the ‘Pixarification’ of film, by which me means the loss of mature-themed, adult-oriented movies.
He makes a few really good points about the use of violence in the stories, but beyond that, I’m not sure that it’s a trend that warrants the concern he’s voicing.
He’s worried that real adult oriented filmmaking / storytelling is moving to TV from the cinema.
I wonder why that’s a bad thing. Things change. And I’d say that a complex story with adult themes in them works better in a more spacious medium like television. More time spent with characters, more time available to explore nuance and subtleties.
Via Geek Tyrant
Oak Outliner
I do a lot of thinking in outlines, and I’ve used quite a few outliner apps in my time as a computer user and thinker of things.
My favorite for ease of use is OmniOutliner. I can just fill up line after line in that app. But the problem occurs when it’s time to get those lines out of the app. There’s no smooth way to get them out. Not that I’ve found.
There’s the OPML export, there’s the copy and paste, there’s dragging them from the app into the window of another app, but time and time again, I run into the same problem that I can’t get the stuff out of that outline without having to go back and be on the hook for a lot of fiddly clean up of odd carriage returns and spacing, extra characters that show up in export because I forgot to turn off the checkbox feature. Things like that.
It’s possible to get the stuff out, but the cost of cleaning it up outweighs the savings in using the app over using a text file or doing it right in a word processor.
Oak Outliner is weird in that it is a web-based application1 that stores your outline in the browser’s cache. That means it stays where it is, no syncing, no saving. Lots of neat features like intuitive keyboard shorties and folding of lines.
I think it’s pretty slick, just like I think another project made by these guys, Folding Text is chock full of interesting potential. And maybe for a quick one-off brainstorming session Oak Outliner might be really handy. But I’m struggling to think of a reason why I’d use this over a text editor, or Scrivener, or a native app.
I will be keeping an eye on this though.
A Week’s Worth of Groceries
Ever since taking a serious look at my own diet, I’ve been curious just how differently folks in other countries eat compared to ours. Just how bad are we? And conversely, how good are the eating habits of people other countries?
This sequence of photographs feature a family and an arrangement of food that represents what they consume in one week. I think it provides a really interesting insight into the question.
Cleaning Teva Sandals
Last year for Father’s Day, my wife gave me a pair of Teva Zilch Sandals, and I think they’re great. It’s like being barefoot without the excruciating pain and embarrassment of walking on rocks or glass or dog shit. Easily the most comfortable pair of sandals (and perhaps shoes) I’ve ever owned.
But all that goodness comes with a price. And that price is stickiness.
They get stinky after a few days of wear, especially in the warm summers we have here in Minnesota. Shocked-looks-from-guys-in-the-locker-room stinky. And that’s a problem that needs solving.
So here are some cleaning instructions that I found here, purportedly to be directly from Teva. They’re inline with other common de-stinkifying methods that you’ll find out there.
Teva Footwear Cleaning Instructions:
We foremost recommend using a mild soap and water and hand wash, please do not machine wash.
Also try scrubbing the top sole with a soft bristled brush while cleaning and gently bending the sandal from heel to toe under water pressure so that any dirt in the grooves of the top sole will wash away.
Another option for killing bacteria is to place the sandals in a sealable freezer back and freeze them overnight.
Other options:
Mix 1 cup of Listerine (or any antibacterial mouth wash) to 2 cups of water. Soak for 15 minutes and scrub with a bristled brush. Let air dry.
Put sandals in a pool with chlorine for 15–20 minutes. Scrub with a hard bristled brush. Rinse. Air dry.
Wash them in the shower with Shampoo.
Please allow your sandals to dry in an open, well ventilated area – but not directly in sunlight.
How often:
We recommend washing your sandals every two to four weeks, depending on use.
I used the soap and bristle brush method and it seems to work pretty well.
I’m curious about freezing them, just for the science experiment angle, but I’m not sure if the wife’ll like seeing my sandals next to our food.
Teva Zilch Sandals (Amazon affiliate link)
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I’m looking at you, Stephen King, you and your book On Writing. Makes me so angry. ↩