overstated: Migrating to del.icio.us
Making sure I have a blog entry for today to test the automatic posting.
(categories: geekery interesting reference)
“Be careful not to bend the legs when you push it in.” “That’s what she said.”
(categories: funny)
“No. When we take a break, it takes a break.”
(categories: funny)
“Allow the Eye to Watch You Work. Mwa [...]
I found an interesting tidbit on the ‘Net the other day. You know the classic bit, “CLOSE DE LID!” “Sorry!” “S’alright.” That’s actually a derivative of a bit that a guy named Senor Wences made famous — he’d say, “S’okay?” And Pedro, the puppet head with no body, would say from [...]
My employer is located across the street from the site of the construction of the Trump Tower Chicago, and I found it interesting how much my sense of direction has been thrown off by the demolition of the Sun-Times Building. When entering an elevator bank on my employer’s floor, it is usually pretty impossible [...]
A fun little music meme from Mike Hanscom:
How many songs?
3,373 songs, 15.87 GB, 8 days, 8 hours, 3 minutes and 11 seconds total playing time.
Sorted by song title, the first and last songs?
“‘97 Bonnie & Clyde,” by Tori Amos, from Strange Little Girls, and “Zankoku na Tenshi no Teize (TV Version),” by Megumi Hayashibara, from [...]
An interesting, yet very sad, tidbit about Keanu Reeves, from this week’s Time article on him (with regards to “Constantine”):
[I]f you look at Reeves’ life, you have to wonder whether he has more personal reasons for keeping people at a distance. His parents split when he was a toddler. His younger sister Kim, [...]
I recently noticed that my sister posted her reading list to the Web, of books that she was planning to read. It is not quite as segregated as hers, but I’m planning to work on these books, myself (and not in this order):
Learned Optimism
Don’t Think of an Elephant
From Chunk to Hunk
AppleScript: the Definitive Guide
The [...]
You know, I really like Cory Doctorow as an author, and as a blogger, he’s usually pretty amazing. But sometimes, his commercial whoring gets a little obnoxious, and that’s not even mentioning how many ads they’ve stuffed onto the front page.
Excerpt from “Hack Yourself“:
We’re excellent pattern-matchers. That’s what the human mind does Ѡit’s a pattern-matching engine. So we look at ourselves, at our history, at our behaviors, and we draw straight lines between the points Ѡwe assume that just because we’ve done things a certain way in the past, we’ll always do them that way [...]
Another excerpt from “Hack Yourself“:
What you don’t realize is that your demon doesn’t know anything. It’s an idiot. It’s nothing but a parrot, repeating back to you anything negative that it’s ever heard, anything that makes you hurt, makes you squirm.
Interesting Wired article:
The Erotic Museum in Hollywood, California, aims to change all that. As part of its mission — “to provide the community with a positive image of the potential of human sexuality” — it has launched the Human Body Project, with the ambitious goal of chronicling what human beings really look like, in all [...]
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