It came and it went and I totally missed it. Without fanfare of any sort, Station in the Metro turned ten a little over a month ago. Well, actually, it’s a tiny bit older than that, but that’s the date of the first column I wrote on what I then thought would be a weekly…
Category: ramblings
Hello SquareSpace
Yes, the design has changed once again. But more importantly, so has the entire back end, the hosting, and the RSS feed. Bear with me for a few more days as we make the transition (there will be some broken links and some weird formatting — feel free to alert me), but if you’re used…
Slime Recipe from Ghostbusters II
As Uli Kusterer was musing aloud on Twitter about how the slime in Ghostbusters II was made, I decided to pull out the ol’ Cinefex collection and look it up. This slime recipe is quoted from issue 40 of Cinefex: For the slime corridor — and most of the live-action scenes as well — the…
FlintPhone
Download the Ringtone In celebration of finally getting a new working iPhone, and the return of a working external speaker through which to hear ringtones, I though I would share my iPhone ringtone: the Flintphone. This is the ringtone for Derek Flint’s direct line to the President in the 1966 movie Our Man Flint, which…
Sunset, 5 Dec 2008
Sunset, 5 Dec 2008, originally uploaded by bobtiki. The sunset across the street from my house today caught my eye. One small element of beauty in an otherwise depressing day.
An Ode to My Busted iPhone
I never thoughtThat you would be so fragile Your skin, your face,Unscratchable, they saidI put you to the test. You survived.For a while. Marks appeared.A few careless drops to the concretebroke your jawYour vibratorrattling loose inside your chest I thought I could fix youBut I just made you worse. Alas, this was not a defect…
The Feeder of Birds
The Feeder of Birds, originally uploaded by bobtiki. Clawed by the more aggressive squirrels at our new house, the bird feeder still stands watch.