January 2010
13 posts
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A pessimistic comparison/summary
Web 1.0*: If you share deeply personal bits of yourself, you’re brave and daring, claiming this new medium for more human interactions, but there is a barrier for entry, as you have to have some technical knowledge in order to participate.
Web 2.0: You’re either ridiculously naïve or stupid for sharing yourself online, for the dangers are many in terms of your career and...
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Joseph Wu's Origami Page →
Origami D&D miniatures. No lie. Crazy excellent.
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Lunch planning
Me: B to the U to the Rs to the ITOS. We can down that like we're loading torpedos.
Adam: S to the a to the n to the dwiches. I brought them from home, fuck those westboro dbitches.
Adam: plus, im getting my hair cut on my lunch break. sorry doggie dogg
Me: How can I regret anything with such stylish breakdowns?
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Mad TV iPad Parody [laughingsquid.com] →
There. I said it. I wasn’t the only one saying it. MADtv was prescient by three and a half years.
I really don’t care what Apple is announcing today, but I realized this morning I missed a fun opportunity to make bumper stickers that said “HOLODECK OR BUST” which is how I feel about these things these days.
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An inquiry, sometime in 2008
Mom: So... what is Twitter?
Me: It's a way for people to send out short messages to their friends or followers, or whoever is reading them. There's a 140 character limit to what you can post, because it was originally designed with text messaging in mind.
Mom: Oh, so it's like blogging, except you can't go on and on.
Me: Yeah, but that doesn't stop some people.
Blonde Redhead Composing Score to Dungeons &... →
via sillycurlyhairedman. I heard about this movie from friends, looking to get a viewing together, so at some point in the near future I imagine a large group of queer gamers gathering and bobbing heads while watching this movie. Damn, that’s like… everything that makes me happy in one place, or almost everything.
Nnekay.com - Tales from the Trenches: the Cheese... →
I can vouch for this story because I was one of the four with her. On the drive back, as AdamD’s comment points out, we were trying to figure out why he didn’t make a simile involving the super burrito, which I mistakenly ordered thinking it was “burrito with lots of stuff in it,” not this truck’s majestic “this is really two burritos in the form of one huge...
