A while back, Dick, Barry and I agreed that what really matters is WHAT you like, not what you ARE like. Books, records, films ... these things matter! Call me shallow, it's the fucking truth. - Rob, High Fidelity

In epistemology the prefix meta- is used to mean about (its own category). For example, metadata is data about data (who has produced it, when, what format the data is in and so on). Similarly, meta-memory in psychology means an individual's intuition about whether or not they would remember something if they concentrated on recalling it. Any subject can be said to have a meta-theory, which is the theoretical consideration of its foundations and methods. - wikipedia

what niv reads

last 10 bookmarked

1. Recompiling PHP5 With Bundled Support for GD on Ubuntu - CuMu.Li
   
2. Norm MacDonald's Last Appearance On Late Night With Conan O'Brien Is An Instant Classic - Late Night - Videogum
   make sure to watch this when you get home.
3. Create an Awesome Grass Texture in Photoshop | My Ink Blog
   use this soon.
4. Main Page - Sabermetrics
   tangotiger's wiki. essential.
5. The Existential Clown - The Atlantic (December 2008)
   
6. 'The White Album' 40 Years Later : NPR Music
   I need to listen to this at some point.
7. Eric Musselman's Basketball Notebook: An example of getting the most out of your opportunities
   
8. Key Bindings for Switchers
   finally, makes mac pgup+pgdn+home+end act like windows (aka sane)
9. 10.5.5 on the Dell Inspiron/mini 9
   
10. Operation Sports Forums
    

what niv watches

last 3 shipped

1. Shipped: Machete
   
   

   Shipped on 01/16/12.

   Hired to assassinate a politician, vigilante and ex-Federale Machete (Danny Trejo) nearly dies when a sniper shoots him during the job. Out for revenge, he's joined by a reluctant old buddy (Cheech Marin) who's become a pacifist priest. Written and co-directed by Robert Rodriguez, this homage to exploitation films based on his fake trailer in Grindhouse co-stars Robert De Niro, Michelle Rodriguez, Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Alba and Steven Seagal.
2. Shipped: A Christmas Story
   
   

   Shipped on 12/17/11.

   This humorous, nostalgic look at Christmas in 1940s Indiana is a holiday classic concerning 9-year-old Ralphie's (Peter Billingsley) desperate wish for a "Red Ryder carbine-action, 200-shot Range Model air rifle with a compass in the stock and a thing which tells time." As Ralphie wages an all-out campaign to convince his parents (Darren McGavin and Melinda Dillon) the toy is safe, his dad wins a major award -- and displays it in the window.
3. Shipped: Elf
   
   

   Shipped on 12/13/11.

   When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can't shake the nagging feeling that he doesn't belong. Will Ferrell stars as the towering Buddy, who vows to visit Manhattan and find his real dad, a workaholic publisher (James Caan). Ed Asner, Bob Newhart, Zooey Deschanel and Mary Steenburgen co-star.

top 3 in queue

1. Amadeus
   
   F. Murray Abraham earned a Best Actor Oscar for his imperious performance as Antonio Salieri, a mediocre composer whose churlish young rival, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce), wins immortality with his musical genius. Not happy to see his talent eclipsed, Salieri dons a disguise and deviously plots revenge, obsessed with muffling Mozart's maddening laughter. Milos Forman's masterful drama also won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director.
2. Rebel Without a Cause: Special Edition
   
   When Jim Stark (James Dean) arrives in a new town with his troubled past firmly in tow, he quickly falls for the girl next door (Natalie Wood) and befriends the vulnerable Plato (Sal Mineo), forming a surrogate family fueled by alienation. From a deadly game of chicken to the spectacular climax at Los Angeles's Griffith Park Observatory, director Nicholas Ray's Oscar-nominated portrait of teen angst provided a jolt to 1950s America.
3. The Wild Bunch: Special Edition
   
   Director Sam Peckinpah's brilliant 1969 Western epic tells the story of a bunch of aging outlaws, led by Pike Bishop (William Holden), whose botched plans to pull off one last job forces them to collude with a crooked Mexican general (Emilio Fernández) -- leading to ugly bloodshed. Ernest Borgnine, Ben Johnson and Jaime Sánchez co-star in this special edition, which includes never-before-seen outtakes and three exclusive documentaries.

what niv hears

1. Red Sparowes ? We Left The Apes To Rot, But Find The Fang Grows Within
2. Fang Island ? The Illinois
3. Fang Island ? Sideswiper
4. Fang Island ? Life Coach
5. Fang Island ? Daisy
6. Fang Island ? Careful Crossers
7. Fang Island ? Dreams Of Dreams
8. Fang Island ? The Landing
9. Fang Island ? Tickle Mountain
10. Fang Island ? Vlad