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@neonwar re: mustard bath. no mustard-y smell, just mustard-y strength

The matron at my boarding school used to make hot-n-spicy mustard seed based baths with a variety of insane ingredients to "sweat out" our field hockey injuries. I use this stuff (pictured) as a base, and then vary ingredients based on how crippling my particular injury is this week. :) Its *awesome*.


Posted from Los Angeles, CA

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pro-tip for retailers: employ writers/marketing/packaging people WHO CAN SPELL. love, rickt.

Posted from Los Angeles, CA

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man with conjoined flowerpot head terrorizes downtown locals

Eyewitnesses say, "smells good but the bees were scary"


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a nice picture [apparently] explaining just how screwed musicians are when they sell online

i';ve no idea if these numbers are true because i know very little about the music industry. can anyone with any real knowledge ack/refute?

Cool Infographics - Cool Infographics - How Much Do Music Artists EarnĀ Online?

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enjoyed terrifying ride on Angel's Flight to epic lunch @ central market despite quite significant owee back

Posted from Los Angeles, CA

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harald welte's anatomy of a contemporary GSM phone. laid bare. lawsuits/gag orders to follow. read this. #engineerpr0n

(download)

this paper is basically, exquisite.

the abstract of harald's paper:

Billions of cell phones are being used every day by an almost equally large
number of users. The majority of those phones are built according to the GSM
protocol specifications and interoperate with GSM networks of hundreds of
carriers.
Despite being an openly published international standard, the architecture
of GSM networks and its associated protocols are only known to a relatively
small group of R&D engineers.
Even less public information exists about the hardware architecture of the
actual mobile phones themselves, at least as far as it relates to that part
of the phone implementing the GSM protocols and facilitating access to the
public GSM networks.
This paper is an attempt to serve as an introductory text into the hardware
architecture of contempo- rary GSM mobile phone hardware anatomy. It is
intended to widen the technical background on mobile phones within the IT
community.

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can we dispense with the oedipal father/mother bollocks and just embrace the face that dudes and dudettes in SPACE UNIFORMS are fucking hawt?

This is 2010,yo. Lets not hide behind silly polyester fabrics like we have done for so many fibers before.

RMT.

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all o' y'all in LA should head to a brothel this weekend...

... that's right, a POETRY BROTHEL.

The Foundation Room - House of Blues, LA.
Saturday, 17 April 2010 at 21:00

More info here: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=108309552532595&ref=share

Founded in 2007, The Poetry Brothel took New York by storm. Its unique concept, that of poetry as an interactive, seductive experience, filled every room it chose to occupy. As the brothel ran strong in New York city, it began to throw off branches, most notably the Prostibulo Poetico, the sister organization in Barcelona.

Now the Poetry Brothel is coming to Los Angeles. Hosted by one of the early members of the New York Brothel, this intimate experience brings poetry out of bookstores and lecture halls, and into the sumptuous interiors of a bordello. A full bar quenches patrons thirst, while live music, burlesque, and featured readings whet the appetites of the mind. Every poet has a price, and for a small time can be contracted for a private reading in the plush corners of our salon.

Join us in the Foundation Room of the House of Blues, where you will introduced to a side of the LA poetry scene never before available.

Featured artists include Kristina Valentina and Christine Stahr.

Special guests may make an appearance, perhaps even a sighting of our founders, wishing well the young Madam M as she premiers in her new home.

Cover is $10 with Flyer, and $15 without.

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a lovely lunch courtesy of ipod, grass, clam chowder, a BLT and this week's NY Observer. ahh.

Posted from Los Angeles, CA

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probably the best example of how not to wear a fanny-pack that you will ever, ever see. (*outside* and *around* the suit jacket)

WOW. This actually hurt my eyes.


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