David Blue

Into Zurich

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I was so charmed by this film that I made myself wait two days after watching it at 2AM to write this so as to make sure all that I felt wasn’t just due to … the hour.

As someone who has participated in and thought a lot about my country’s relationship with firearms, this film’s thematic composition hit me hard. Its truth (for me): guns are just this bizarre, fundamentally anti-social, and dangerous obsession that have no place in civilization.

Also, re: my 20-year-long, extremely complex crush on Sienna Guillory: staaaahhhhpp

• Letterboxd

The student project that eventually became Google—a “crawler” that would ingest documents and rank them for relevance against a user’s query—was actually conceived as part of an effort “to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library.”

This wee truth of Google’s origin story - which I did not know - is going to weigh on me for who knows how long.

The three genders.

An intimate conversation with - and using - my iPhone 4S demonstrating the losslessest possible audio capture example.

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Just a reminder that I continue to put all of my music curatiorial energy into a single discovery playlist, basically, which is designed to make … contact.