Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in November 2007.

1 Orchard

...closed. Orchard, lower east side bar where I learned to mix in front of an audience on Sunday nights is closed. May you forever remain in my memory, smoke laden and perpetually 4 am.

I met many fine folks here like my friend Aro the barback with SIN tattooed on his throat, and learning beats from Josh, the original Yak Pak designer (whose owners held a share of the bar) and DJ Spooky, who had a weekly there in its early days.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in November 2007.

Ice cream, Beer & sundry

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in October 2007.

Hot Sauce as Anesthetic

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/heal...

WASHINGTON - Devil’s Revenge. Spontaneous Combustion. Hot sauces have names like those for a reason. Now scientists are testing whether the stuff that makes the sauces so savage can tame the pain of surgery. Doctors are dripping capsaicin, the chemical that gives chili peppers their fire, directly into open wounds during some highly painful operations. These experiments use an ultra-purified version of capsaicin to avoid infection -- and the volunteers are under anesthesia so they don't scream at the initial burn.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in October 2007.

Ico

Randy

Because I’m going to have to explain this a million times today:

• I’m a character from a videogame.
• For the PlayStation 2.
• It’s called Ico.
• The protagonist doesn’t have a name.
• He’s a little boy who saves a princess from monsters in a castle.
• He fights windmills and smoke with a wooden stick.
• I’m that character.
• I left the stick at home. I may go home and get it.
• The reason I’m wearing a suit is because the little boy grew up and got a job.
• Ico is probably my favorite game of all time.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in November 2007.

Porkchop, Brussels Sprouts and Americano

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in October 2007.

goatse love pie

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in November 2007.

AIGA Symbol Signs - Just in Case

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/symbo...

This system of 50 symbol signs was designed for use at the crossroads of modern life: in airports and other transportation hubs and at large international events. Produced through a collaboration between the AIGA and the U.S. Department of Transportation, they are a triumph of design over mediocrity. Or something.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in October 2007.

Majestic 2001

This news post today regarding BioWare and LucasArts made me recall a phone conversation I had on the lawn outside AltaVista back in 2001. A producer from BioWare called me and said they were using a set of textures I’d made to prototype KOTOR. They wanted to know if I was interested in moving to Canada.

It was then that I realized that the game industry, as attractive and fun as it could be, was not going to, well, pay well enough to have the life I wanted to have. Especially in 2001. In Canada.

I ended up taking a 50% pay cut to go work on a PS2 game in Seattle later that year. Silly me, not learning.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in October 2007.

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Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in October 2007.

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