April 2011
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October 2010
1 post
April 2010
4 posts
Pretty thorough breakdown of Lady Gaga's "not not... →
via Warren Ellis.
I’m getting tired of my brain being completely filled up by trivia, minutiae, computer-noise and other people’s drama/business/needs.
I can’t hear my own voice anymore.
Yipes!
March 2010
2 posts
Geekologie linked to a video for the “Dork Anthem,” and I won’t link you to it, because it’s terrible. My comment, recorded for posterity, because I doubt it will be approved on their YouTube page.
Trite. Same jokes have been made in much better music and with a much higher concentration of humor and originality. See: Weird Al’s “White and Nerdy,” and...
February 2010
16 posts
Need answers before 12:30pm EST
mathicaspi:
What should I have for lunch?
1. Earth fare’s salad bar
2. Earth fare’s hot bar
3. Sandwich from local deli
4. Chic-fil-a kid’s meal (my weakness)
5. Some sort of yummy organic soup
You might have gotten answers if you’d ended this post with a ? mark. Enable answers to get answers!
test
mathicaspi:
i fucking hate my followers.
If there were a “do not like” button, I would have clicked it. Instead, it’s either “like” or “reblog.” But normally if I reblog something, I like it? It’s either “like and shut up, or dislike and explicate?” :(
do you mean tumblr followers :(
that is sad :(
:(
Thinking for a Living v3.0
viafrank:
The opinions expressed below are solely my own, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of my peers at Thinking for a Living. Also, cheers and hoorays for my fellow conspirers: Duane King, Shane Bzdok, Bob Borden, and Ian Coyle.
I’d be remiss not to mention the launch of Thinking for a Living v3.0, a site geared at creating and publishing thought-provoking design-related...
WatchA song about body motion. That I made tonight. It was suggested that I create an electronica song based on a particular phrase, and I picked up the gauntlet.
"Sorry, fellow English majors—novels belong to the... →
Should be titled, “And The Award For ‘College Major Which Can Always Be Relied Upon To Shit On Itself Whenever Possible’ Goes To… Of Course, It’s The Fucking English Majors.”
English majors: You have worth, and your skills mean something. Your persistent self-deprecation withered me and drove me away. Don’t let yourselves or anyone say, “Lol, what...
Periodically, people call my Google Voice number,...
Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login →
marco:
(via Zoya)
Dear visitors from Google. This site is not Facebook. This is a website called ReadWriteWeb that reports on news about Facebook and other Internet services. To access Facebook right now, click here. For future reference, type “facebook.com” into your browser address bar or enter “facebook” into Google and click on the first result. We recommend that you then save Facebook as...
brief recap [ed: briecap]
marieyall:
simolinic:
Then we had a meal at The Grill, where I’d never been. Cheeseburger + 3-Way-Splitshake + Two of my favorite friends = Bliss. God bliss them.
If you went to the Grill last night between 11pm and 4:30am I was there! If you went after midnight then I was your cashier.
Oh, boy, this is like “Missed Connections” on Craigslist, but real and not...
brief recap [ed: briecap]
For weeks, more or less: Work from 9 to 5ish. Home by 5:45. Quick walk or run. Dinner. Web design project for a few hours. Miscellaneous design job for a few hours. Approximately one half hour allotted to Paranoia Agent. Read until unconscious.
My sentences are getting shorter. Efficiency.
Ruby on Rails. It’s a framework designed to simplify. And no doubt it is simpler than otherwise....
Jon Stewart Hammers Fox News from FOD Team →
I was getting some ambiguous but negative impressions of the President. This video, plus an article in TIME Magazine from a couple of weeks ago, have assuaged some of my concerns. He may not be doing everything right, and I have no idea if anything will work out “the right way,” but I remain convinced that he’s very smart about his position and the politics surrounding it, and...
January 2010
10 posts
marieyall:
Le sigh. I’m not so gripey about technology to get to all my friends who love it. I like some of it for sure. But the short lifespan of these things I invest so much money and time into is really discouraging.
It’s not such a big deal to me, either; I could use an iPhone to access data on the go, but get along fine without one, and most of my computing stuff requires the full...
Some Things I've Marked While Reading "Man and His...
By no means comprehensive, just typing:
p. 28, about conversation and how what we say is generally only heard as relatively the same thing we meant: ”As long as concepts are identical with mere words, the variation is almost imperceptible and plays no practical role. But when an exact definition or a careful explanation is needed, one can occasionally discover the most amazing variations,...
For Later Reference
Pens capped and clickable. Lonesome 28-man combat. Choosing the world (a way through). Pithy observations about the church. Mario. Mario. Mario. 4&onehalf inch rods. Stars of various shape. Humming along vicious. Beration. Endurance. Smooth (come) sail(ing) (a)way w(it)h me. dJr & the bubbles popping. That dog is going to make me crazy. Every job is four people’s jobs. The authorial...
While correcting my first typographic error in ~80-100 engraved objects (allegedly!), in which I was supposed to engrave “MSG” as in “Master SarrrrGENT!” but instead engraved “MGS” as in “Metal Gear Shit-I-Messed-Up-Because-Of-Video-Games,” I developed a technique for flattening out the previously-engraved area with a filled rectangle, and then...
Brains and Information and Relative Temporariness
marieyall:
simolinic:
Okay, sorry I don’t know you and if I’m butting in, but this is the public internet; and also everything I’m about to say, even though at moments it doesn’t sound like it, comes from love and exuberance (at times a not-so-speculative sciencey love) and I would be more than happy to continue this discussion either on Tumblr or over tea, because I’m on the internet but I’m...
Ripping Tony's Page From Its Coil
What I learned today:
omitting .stop() before animation in jQuery is what caused me ~4 hours of frustration and learning. Bless/curse it.
Photoshop does not output reliable registration marks for a 4-screen print; not for me, anyway.
An emotional boss does not (and should not) affect my ability to do good work. This applies when I am my own boss, as well as when someone else is. Steely resolve...
Brains and Information and Relative Temporariness
marieyall:
flannelowl:
marieyall:
thecamcorder:
marieyall:
Continuing on in the vein of ‘things I hate,’ I hate the Kindle (and similar devices). I love books (please see: my room), I have a really sentimental story about why but that’s for another time, and the Kindle is just another machine substituting for reality.
I hate the thought of a Kindle replacing someone’s book collection....
December 2009
10 posts
Nice snow, nice gallery. →
Java-generated snow? Bottom-positioned overlay snow banks? Spiffy photo gallery with gentle motion? Yes, please. Tumblr’s Xmas page gives me the a renewed interest in web design. And that’s a gift that keeps on molesting me, stabbing me with needles and talking loudly over my whimpers.
… Great-looking page.
EDIT: And ohhh, my goodness, I just noticed that the snowflakes pass in...
"this tanginess is delicious"
from 1101.com
Iwata: There are those things that you can continue doing, and those that you end up quitting. For example, I think everyone has tried to become fluent in English, at least once in their life.
Itoi: Definitely. (laugh)
Iwata: But often times, you end up quitting.
Itoi: It’s like, “Heck with English!”
Iwata: I think there’s an important...
“You have to set your priorities being aware of what you’re good at. There...”
– Satoru Iwata, http://www.1101.com/iwata/2007-09-05.html
“When you dig deep down until you hit the root of the problem, you sometimes find...”
– Satoru Iwata — http://www.1101.com/iwata/2007-08-31.html
In which I say a lot more about video games than... →
Well, more than I usually post in game blogs’ comments. I’m Simolinic, six posts down the page.
EDIT: Changed the link to a blog post I made using the original comment. Seemed like a better fit, and apparently a few people have read it. Well, isn’t that just swell?
November 2009
4 posts
“And we can choose between the colors of the lipstick on the whores, ‘cause we...”
– Ani DiFranco, “Fuel”
October 2009
5 posts
“I like to believe I’m a clever fella and here’s my secret to being clever – I am...”
– Guy English — http://kickingbear.com/blog/archives/43