February 2008
15 posts
MY APPLES. Let me show you them.
Let me tell you a little bit about why I’m an Apple customer. I know, I know, you’re already rolling your eyes and muttering words like “fanboy”. You think people like me are as stupid as the people who buy overpriced designer clothes, and you have all sorts of various other arguments about why Apple is bad and the people who are fans of Macs are idiots. A few of them...
Sleepswimming
I don’t know about you, but often I’ll randomly stumble onto an intriguing question that I can’t even possibly imagine the answer to. Unfortunately I always seem to do this when I don’t have a pen or computer, and invariably I always forget the question by the time I have the ability to look it up. But ‘lo, I have restumbled onto an old, previously forgotten...
Violet Blue’s five-minute tech talk for...
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The world needs to know!
Me: http://www.scruncherorfolder.com
Danielle: Of everything you've ever sent me, that is the one that has forced me to consider deleting you.
Me: The world needs to know!
Danielle: No, no, it doesn't.
Me: I'm a folder :)
Danielle: Ugh.
Danielle: Jesus.
Danielle: I have the memory of a camcorder. For the rest of my life, I'm doomed to know that.
I've always kind of thought I might be the One.
My chat client supports custom soundsets, and I found a Matrix-themed one for it that I really like. So I’ve been listening to various techo-electronic noises coming out of my computer as people sign on and sign off and IM me for the last couple months. I didn’t think about it, but I decided to watch the Matrix a few minutes ago and I took my computer into the living room with me. ...
I Expect You People To Be Lining Up
The wonderful thing about being older is the longevity of the things you buy. Sure, phones and computers and the like tend to need to be replaced every year or two, but on the whole most things are going to last you for many, many years. This is nothing groundbreaking; I would even go so far as to call it obvious. But you really don’t think about it until you get to make your first big...
Killer Tornadoes Attack Only Clinton Country (I... →
Code 46
What a fantastic movie. I’d heard about it years ago but had forgotten to check it out until now. The whole movie had this etheral dreampop soundtrack kind of like Lost in Translation. Made the whole thing feel like a dream.
