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My name is Michael
and I put things here.

I like this trapezoid.
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Untitled Coney Island

Legend:

  1. Jing Fong Restaurant (Chinatown, New York)
  2. Steeplechase Pier (Coney Island, Brooklyn)
  3. Nathan’s Famous (Coney Island, Brooklyn)
  4. Fresh powder blowing across the beach (Coney Island, Brooklyn)
Cavalier Rose @ Pianos(Lower East Side, New York)

Cavalier Rose @ Pianos
(Lower East Side, New York)

Cold(Coney Island, Brooklyn)

Cold
(Coney Island, Brooklyn)

Mona Simpson: Homer’s Mother, Steve Jobs’s Sister(Northampton, MA)
The novel concerns a millionaire college-dropout industrialist and his estranged father and love child.

Mona Simpson: Homer’s Mother, Steve Jobs’s Sister
(Northampton, MA)

The novel concerns a millionaire college-dropout industrialist and his estranged father and love child.

Sulfur Hexafluoride Blooper

Inhaling sulfur hexaflouride is the opposite of inhaling helium.

(Thanks, Simone)

The YouTube-video downloader I made is my favorite way to do it.

Sometimes it is appropriate to have the original files for a given YouTube video. I may want to work with the video file, put it on my iPhone, send it directly to someone, or save it because I expect YouTube or its original uploader to have it removed for copyright violation or its controversial value.

YouTube doesn’t make this very easy. There is no download button. And sites like KeepVid often feed the flv files that I don’t want. JavaScript bookmarkets are reliable but, like KeepVid, don’t name the videos for me. After using any of these things I’m left with half a dozen video.mp4s in my Download folder.

I heard you’re not supposed to complain on the internet, so I started making my own in Python [download]. It downloads the standard iPhone-quality mp4 file to the same folder and makes the filename the video’s title. The code is too remedial for licensing terms. Feel free to modify, improve or delete it.

You’ll need to understand the command line to play. I apologize if you already read this whole thing and don’t get it.

To Try:

  • Download/Unzip script
  • Open a terminal window
  • Navigate to the script’s directory
  • Execute it with “python saveTube.py”
  • Give it the URL of the YouTube video. It will print out the video’s hash tags if the URL is good. It will quit when done and your video will be in the same directory.
voteforgoats:

I want to mail this to every single person I’ve ever known.

voteforgoats:

I want to mail this to every single person I’ve ever known.

Joplin Twitches(East Village, New York)

Joplin Twitches
(East Village, New York)

Union Pool(Williamsburg, Brooklyn)

Union Pool
(Williamsburg, Brooklyn)

New York Stock Exchange(Williamsburg, Brooklyn)

New York Stock Exchange
(Williamsburg, Brooklyn)

Bottle Up & Go(East Village, New York)

Bottle Up & Go
(East Village, New York)

There isn’t much else to say about the imminent tablet announcement.
“This will be the most important thing I’ve ever done.”-Steve Jobs, weakly cited, offering the gist of tomorrow’s event.

Word is that the project has been in the basement oven for as long, if not longer, than the iPhone. And, the corroborated understanding that the iPhone was an offshoot of the never-unveiled, notepad-sized “Safari Pad” makes this recently attributed quote ever more titillating. If the iPhone is the lesser triumph, just what in the hell is coming tomorrow?
What detail am I most excited for? The [virtual] keyboard. How do you type on this 10” piece of glass? How do you hold it? Do you even hold it up? Lonelysandwich has a writeup on this issue. If you can type on this tablet faster than is possible on the iPhone, it has a chance at really supplanting laptops.
Get your scorecard over at Unweary and play along.
P.S. This photo comes up when you search for “Steve Jobs heart attack”

There isn’t much else to say about the imminent tablet announcement.

“This will be the most important thing I’ve ever done.”
-Steve Jobs, weakly cited, offering the gist of tomorrow’s event.

Word is that the project has been in the basement oven for as long, if not longer, than the iPhone. And, the corroborated understanding that the iPhone was an offshoot of the never-unveiled, notepad-sized “Safari Pad” makes this recently attributed quote ever more titillating. If the iPhone is the lesser triumph, just what in the hell is coming tomorrow?

What detail am I most excited for? The [virtual] keyboard. How do you type on this 10” piece of glass? How do you hold it? Do you even hold it up? Lonelysandwich has a writeup on this issue. If you can type on this tablet faster than is possible on the iPhone, it has a chance at really supplanting laptops.

Get your scorecard over at Unweary and play along.

P.S. This photo comes up when you search for “Steve Jobs heart attack”

The Shining Twins(East Village, New York)

The Shining Twins
(East Village, New York)