Current and older online projects by Robert Daeley. See About this site to find out about The Celsius1414 Journal itself.
The Trolley Dodger (trolleydodger.com)
Tangled up in Blue since the late 19th Century.
The trolley was associated with the Dodgers even after they moved into Ebbets Field. It’s been said that no one drove to a Brooklyn Dodgers game — everybody arrived on foot.
Times have sure changed, and almost everyone arrives at Dodger games in a car now, but there is still a great convergence of different folks trudging from the various parking lots and melding into a blurry mass of fans cheering on the Boys in Blue. Maybe the trolleys or their 21st Century equivalents will return one day for real, but for now, the spirit of the Trolley Dodgers lives on.
2011-12 should see an expansion to commentary on all the major sports teams in Los Angeles.
The No No Project (nonoproject.com)
Chronicling the Anti-Aerobic Conspiracy.
Walking around town, you’ll see sign after sign forbidding you from performing healthy outdoor activities. Skateboarding. Cycling. Walking for the love of Mike. It goes to show what’s really important in this society: keeping things comfy for sedentary property and car owners who would deny you your god-given right to breathe outdoors!
A tongue-in-cheek look at the vagaries of modern signage. In 2011-12, I’ll be expanding the focus to look more at the Surveillance Age in which we’ve arrived.
What began here on 4 May 2009 as the Mellifluous Phrase of the Day has morphed into a whole zoo of MPotD posts, highlighting notable passages from online sources, books, stories, poetry, songs, or whatever. Recent examples as of this writing include:
- Melancholy passage of the day
- Matrix Phenomenon of the Day
- Mocking paragraph of the day
- Meaningful poetry of the day
Brand-new as of March 2011, I’ll be featuring the best of the 21st Century so far — the amazing stuff that makes those moping after “promised” flying cars and jetpacks seem like wet blankets. See the recent “The Now Future: Human Exoskeletons” for details. Flying cars are so last century. The Future is Now.
Started in late May 2011, Blue Monday is planned to be a weekly feature, including whatever group, songs, or other musical interests currently strike the fancy. It is in a sense a replacement (albeit several years after) for my short-lived SongSungBlue blog.
As featured in the inaugural post, the name refers to the New Order song, as well as being an oblique reference to Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions, subtitled “Goodbye, Blue Monday.”
This photography series makes for a fun pastime while wandering around in the world — finding instances of the number 1414 wherever it might show up and taking pictures of it. I’ve got quite a few I need to upload at the moment. Submit your own!
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Older Projects
Cooking with Phasers (formerly cookingwithphasers.com (2006), now phasers.celsius1414.com)
Reversing polarity in your kitchen since the 21st century.
Perhaps the only characteristic common to absolutely every geek is an indignant denial that every geek shares anything in common with every other geek. There is no such thing, the idea goes, as a Typical Geek. Witnessing one of the many geek flame wars — Mac vs. Windows, Linux vs. Windows, vi vs. emacs, distro vs. distro — might just bear this out.
It’s safe to say, however, that there are particular movies that virtually every geek has seen, if not dissected minutely a la the Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons. It is also safe to say that every geek in existence has, at one point or another in his or her life, eaten food. Without getting too far into the existential “What Is A Geek?” questions, let us reflect on this seemingly strange paring.
txt.celsius1414.com (txt.celsius1414.com, 2008)
Welcome to my plain text file repository. It’s a spot for me to keep useful text files handy online and is an adjunct to my main website.
Former blogs
(Content subsumed into celsius1414.com.)
- End Pavement (outdoors, cycling, hiking, environment)
- The Grown Diaries (cooking)
- SongSungBlue (music)
Former blogger/editor at:
- O’Reilly/MacDevCenter
- blogging.la AKA Metroblogs: LA.
- MacSlash