The Indie Machine’s onslaught of North By Northeast 2010 comes to a close…. and man are we wiped….

For those of you living off the grid – tonight was the Series finale of LOST.

Like most I’m still trying to process it, but here’s my play by play that I took down and posted over Twitter as the action was going on:

BE WARNED, THAR BE SPOILERS HERE, MATEY!

There are two sides to any mechanical philosophical argument: the first being the pessimistic route normally taken by post-apocalyptic science fiction films (ala Terminator, Matrix, Robocop, et al) where we’re either going to be eliminated, enslaved, or ultimately become the machines we’re so fond of using on a daily basis.

Yes that’s a pun….

For the first time since October I have completely shaved my beard, and it remains clearly evident when I step outside: something just doesn’t feel right when the wind hits my face.
This change came about last night as I toiled away at one project or another and the prickly sensation on my face just became irritating – maybe it’s the change in the weather outside or something, but it was just starting to get wayyyyyy too uncomfortable. So I shaved the sucker….
At the time I might have thought it …

It’s said that once something has been made it cannot be unmade, whether that’s an idea, a philosophy, an idiom, or a piece of technology (like Whedon’s “Dollhouse” proposed – RIP). So I suppose it only makes sense that this concept would also apply to something like the internet: a vast sea of the aforementioned potentials that have become buried or weathered over time, but if one looks hard enough and in the right places one might be able to track down some of the most incriminating photos from …