Month: June 2006

Calexico

I went to see Calexico last night at the Roxy. It was excellent. They do a sort of borderlands rock that I think is both beautiful and intelligent. But maybe it’s just cause I’m a sucker for a steel guitar.

Anyway, they closed with a cover of Manu Chao‘s song El Desaparecido, which I had almost forgotten about: Cuando me buscan nunca estoy, cuando me encuentran yo no soy…

Facial Hair Day 10

The cheeks are looking uneven, but overall it’s soft and fuzzy now.

Facial hair growth, day ten

I still don’t know whether to file this under “deeds” or “people,” or for that matter whether it’s an incredibly stupid exercise in self-indulgence.

But then again, what are blogs for?

Why Stylefeed?

Sometimes I like shopping– I like nice things and it can be fun to look at them, browse through them, occasionally buy one. There are other kinds of shopping I don’t like, though: I hate it when I need, say, a pair of pants to wear to a particular event, and they have to be in a particular style, and nothing is quite right, and I have to walk all the hell over town to find them, and if I do find them at all, they’re fifty bucks more than I want to spend.

Stylefeeder makes both kinds of shopping easier. If I’m browsing, it lets me keep track of what I’ve browsed through, and where, so if I go back and decide I do want it, it’s right there for me. If I’m looking for a particular item, it gives me a shortcut to all the similar items that other people thought were interesting. For example, if I wanted to buy some jeans, I could visit the stylefeeder jeans page, or even subscribe to its RSS feed, to see all the interesting jeans. And of course you can get more whimsical. If I wanted to buy some kind of cute thing for my girlfriend, there’s a whole page of cute.

The third thing it lets you do is find new stuff by recommendation from people you agree with. If I see interesting things that the user Phil has added, I can check Phil’s Stylefeed and follow his taste.

(Note: Yes, my company runs Stylefeeder).