Daft Punk is doing the soundtrack for Tron 2. Can I get a "Hell Yeah"? http://ping.fm/fJEO5
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NC is getting an early start on plug-in hybrid charging tech: http://ping.fm/kPrGj
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Thank you, Google, for one less reason to visit my local library. http://ping.fm/uxV6g
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Word to the wise: don't link your professional work to your personal blog that contains the word "nigga". http://ping.fm/wMfp1
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1983: The worldwide shirt sleeve shortage hits an all-time high. Few are harder-hit than rock bands like Stryker. http://ping.fm/EmyI1
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Just learned about John Edwards' real-life extramarital affair via the Onion. Oops. http://ping.fm/hbxUi
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: testing micro-blogging via ping.fm (via iGoogle gadget)
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is testing status updates via ping.fm
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It has been nearly a year (to the day!) since I last posted in my LiveJournal, so for those who haven't de-friended me for lack of activity, here's a quick summary of what has changed in the past year:
- I got engaged in November(!) I could go on and on about how awesome it's all been and how absolutely amazing Christine is and how easily the wedding plans are falling into place, but I want to keep this short.
- I have changed positions at work. Twice. Last year I accepted a position to develop on and support our use of a middleware product called webMethods. Seeing that as a road with limited potential, I recently moved into our Production Support group, where I will basically spend my time finding and fixing bugs in production code.
- I have officially begun the switch away from Windows. I purchased a Mac Mini last week to serve as a stepping stone, and have begun trying to use it for all of my everyday tasks. I have it on a KVM with my old Windows XP machine, which is basically there to perform any tasks that I haven't yet found a way to perform on the Mac, and to burn CDs/DVDs, since I didn't opt for a burner in the Mac Mini. Add to these the old Pentium 3 laptop I'm running Xubuntu on (purely as a bittorrent machine), and I've got a pretty diverse office again.
- I can't remember the last time I actually finished a video game. I've tried, but the number of started-but-unfinished games just grows. I think I may officially be a "casual gamer". Not sure if that's a good thing, or a bad thing, or any other sort of thing. It just is.
That's pretty much it. It's been a good year. And given that it was a good year away from LiveJournal, I don't think my LJ attendance is going to be changing anytime soon.
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The popularity of The Arcade Fire. I've listened to Neon Bible a couple of times now, and the attraction still eludes me. To be sure, it's not a bad album, and the band itself is by no means untalented, but I don't find anything about the music interesting in the least. I just don't see the allure. I strongly suspect that this is one of those things where some music critic decided, after a few too many glasses of merlot, that band X was the greatest thing ever, and said so in print, leading other critics to follow suit by default, lest they be accused of "not getting it", and it just snowballs from there.
"Fissy (fizzy?) Navel Pineapple Rassdango:
I took this picture, just as proof. I don't have any idea what those words mean. Some of them aren't even real words. Help.
UPDATE!: Apparently, Denny's has introduced a line of "Fusion Favorites" beverages, which include "Fizzy Navel" ("A splash of peach flavor in tangy Minute Maid(R) Orange Juice, with a dash of Sprite(R) and a hint of lime") and "Razzdango" ("A fruit filled blend of red raspberry and mango flavors with Sprite(R) and lime"). That solves the mystery of what this was supposed to mean, but not the mystery of why Denny's puts dyslexic employees in charge of the marquee.
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It's an official Transformer. It's a fully-licensed iPod dock. It's $145.
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I think I need to reevaluate this whole Livejournal thing.
Discussion of politics or philosophy on LJ quickly becomes arguing politics or philosophy with unwitting authoritarians and wannabe neo-socialists who are about as capable of polite, grammatically correct discourse and organized thought as a handful of flatworms carefully draped across a keyboard. These discussions quickly become slightly less pleasant than pounding myself in the balls with a claw hammer.
I'm not really sure that I need to know what people are eating for breakfast or how many pounds they've lost on the new all-pudding diet. Clearly, they should be able to write about whatever they want, so this is more of an issue of where I need to learn to filter effectively and be less concerned about pissing people off by unfriending them.
I do want to know what is going on in my friends' lives, but I think I'd rather find out in person. Like, face to face. I heard that that was how people used to do most of their communication once upon a time. Crazy, huh?
Likewise, I think I'd rather tell people what's going on with me in person, rather than writing about it as if it's an editorial or a diary entry, as if people even care to read about it. From now on, I think I'm divulging personal info on an opt-in basis only.
I'm pretty sure that I don't care what brand of deodorant my LJ username smells like or which Gilmore Girls character I am or anything even remotely similar. And even if I should change my mind about that once in a while, I kind of doubt that anyone's day is going to be made more complete by knowing to which house I was assigned by the Sorting Hat (Ravenclaw, okay? Do you feel any better for knowing? Me neither). Tests and quizzes are therefore out.
Doesn't leave me a whole lot to do with LJ, does it? I suppose I could write amusing articles and/or stories or whatever, but really, if I'm going to do that, shouldn't I just start my own ad-supported blog somewhere and get something out of it?
I mean, come on.
ADDENDUM: please note that I haven't read or posted to LJ in a little over two months, so I'm not exactly making reference to anyone in particular with any of the above cattiness. It's just that five and a half years (holy crap that's depressing) of LJ is generally enough to get one familiar with what is and is not regular, everyday content. If you think I'm talking about you, maybe it's time to consider deflating your ego just a tad.
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How is it that someone managed to get the personalized plate "PERTWANG" past the license plate office?
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Observation: In the general case, I do not win raffles or other similar contests that randomly select winners from a series. However, it is also the case that the contestants immediately on either side of me will win. At my company's last holiday party, the people with ticket numbers immedately preceding and following mine won a DVD player and an iPod, respectively. Today, we had a company lunch which included a raffle, and again, the people with ticket numbers immedately before and after mine won a DVD and an additional paid vacation day.
Hypothesis: I exude a torus-shaped aura of statistical improbability. The center of this "luck donut", where I am, is unaffected, but those in my immediate vicinity are markedly more likely to win at games of chance. Whether this improved ability to beat the odds applies only to "good" luck (winning a round of roulette) or also to "bad" luck (losing(?) a round of Russian roulette) is unknown, and possibly unknowable.
Conclusion: If you sit in my lap, you will probably get lucky.
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I am slowly and involuntarily building a mental list of all of the men in my office who do not wash their hands after they have used the men's restroom.
Someday I am going to be faced with shaking hands with one of these individuals. It will be an uncomfortable moment for somebody.
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You know, I was never under the illusion that it was a purely American ability to implement new security/safety measures that ultimately don't impact the problem that they were designed to solve, but instead simply make life less convenient for the citizenry. However, I did sort of assume that after we proved to the world how much less convenient air travel could be made without actually making it safer, other countries wouldn't bother attempting to rob us of the "world's most inept and unnecessarily excessive security" crown.
Oh, how wrong I was. Apparently, passengers now cannot bring carry-on baggage onto planes in the UK, and it's hitting musicians pretty hard. I honestly don't see how anyone can think that this is a good idea. Are there really that many people who would not go mad having nothing to do on a plane other than maybe flip through the SkyMall catalog?
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BOO to jackasses who attempt to do business with a store cashier or customer service rep while also having a conversation on a cellphone.
Double YAY to businesses who now refuse to serve people while they are talking on the phone. I realize that they don't do this out of any sense of social responsibility, but rather because it tends to slow down the line and increases the chance that the customer will inadvertently screw up their own order (or whatever) due to inattentiveness, but still. If getting your business done properly and efficiently requires that you effectively give the finger to rude people, I'm all for it.
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