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May 2007 Posts May 31, 2007
This idea of email bankruptcy is a fascinating meta exercise in today's connected world, one I had not heard before an overheard conversation on the subway yesterday. I am one of those people who rarely replies to email which is assisted (or made moot) because outside of work, I rarely get any email. At work, I have to respond -- it's one of the prime elements of my job. But at home, very few require a response and I usually do reply quickly to those that do require a confirmation or answer or whatever. I never get any postcard-style email anymore, you know, those kinds of email asking how you are, what is happening, how are things? I probably stopped getting them because the answers are usually in my blog. Or because I didn't ever answer them.
May 30, 2007  I love future thinking product demonstrations such as Microsoft Surface. I don't see them very often but it reminded me of a point I was working Ottawa and I saw a video from HP or Dell or some other big name, truly a demo on a videotape, that spoke of the future of consumer computing that gave me the same tingly, "Welcome to the future, show me my jetpack," kind of feeling. I wonder if that video is on the web?
Despite what you think, last Saturday I created the universe. Sunday was spent choosing one blue marble to be the center of all things, a reflection of the blue eyes I wish I had. Monday I thought out and populated a few billion years of history, staying up to 3am to fill up the space once I decided on "recorded history" -- that act required a lot of coffee and I am glad I came up with that one. On Tuesday, I gave free will a thought and just let myself create opposing views all willy nilly. I think I had too much coffee and too little sleep cuz this morning, after letting the Creation Machine run on it's own for a while, I found this Creation Museum being talked about everywhere and it doesn't have one mention of me. Silly human beings; this Saturday I might have to start all over again.
I probably should have known that Rogers Blackberries do not work in Japan before I had a user take hers with her.
May 29, 2007
Maria, so you never have to ask again, ALL comments are moderated not just ones from sexy blogs. It saves me from having to delete a ton of comment spam. May 29 07
A bleeding hole bit in your tongue combined with wasabi mayo in a sandwich is an interesting sensation.
May 29 07 LMAO. I can imagine myself watching repeats of this Law and Order Special Letters Unit, while eating supper. It's not like anyone actually watches first run L&O. Heh. "Yeah but who listens to a talking piece of poultry." And the Munch Muppet is classic. (thx Martine, that was priceless)
I used to have a little bit of a following at my blog. But that was because blogs were new and my kind of babbling and links were relatively rare. Years later, when blogs are a pop culture catch phrase, I am not so much. It's not that things have changed so much, it's more that some people write better and more interestingly than me. I accept that and if I wanted to change, to gain readership, I guess I would. But then blogging would be work not fun. For example, I complain about the commute -- the jamming onto to trains, the squeeze through narrow flesh tunnels to exit at Bloor, the standing in front of the doorway of subway cars stopping me from getting 1 foot beyond the entrance without a shoulder nudge, the days it all smells like bad breath, the spicy food eaters, the women hitting me in the back of the head with the massive bosoms (bus rock, whack, bus rock, whack, bus rock, whack....), the people who read my book with me, the backpacks that smash me in the face as teenagers have a body swinging conversation, etc. I would complain and whine and try to sound a little funny. But if I thought about it for a bit, I might make a post like Meish's Things my new commute has taught me #1. It's a good read, a fun read and informative.
May 29 07 May 28, 2007 Wow. That is a memory. It's nice to know that no matter how much is accidentally deleted or you allow to be deleted, memories still persist on the web. If anyone ever asks, "What is the point of blogging?" I will have any answer.
May 26, 2007
Is no one getting that massive spam that starts off with the talk about a "telepathic theater" ?? It's about 10 pages long and is full of conspiracy theories? No one seems to be Googling it. Updatish: The spam has now hit a ton of blogs with open comments. WTF?
May 26 07 May 25, 2007 So, a Woman has had it with Starbucks because of quote on cup. It was an intellectual dig at people who believe in God. It's not even a quote from some famous thinker but from a Starbucks customer. I think it's more an insult than a conversation starter which could have been summed up as, "people who believe in god are stupid." Not a good way to foster good customer relations, IMO, and that's coming from the 99% athiest.
So the buzz phrase of this news is Microsoft claims software like Linux violates its patents but the catch, from my high up view of the world of pooters, is that Microsoft may have finally found the way to compete with FOSS, or Free Open Source Software. I am pretty far outside the tech world these days, being a peripheral user (yeah i just use printers and scanners and.... >:) and not really having much of an opinion. But I have been exposed to this whole prior patent creation thing before and it still confounds me.
Psychology student Bill Rifka -- who is 35 and in a relationship with an iBook -- admits he has "often flirted with many a sweet laptop on eBay and felt true desire." Like all objectum-sexuals, Rifka also attributes a clear gender to his partner: "To me, my Mac is male. I'm living in a homosexual relationship, so to speak."Falling in Love with Things talks about people who really really love things. I can't wait for the CSI episode.
May 24, 2007 May 23, 2007 Marmy is going to become the official cookie monster but I am going to be a dabbler. No more attempts at claiming, This Boy Is Cookie. But I do want to explore the
I am really into asparagus
these days. I must admit that it was the bacon wrapped BBQed ones from last summer that perked my interest but we usually just roast it for a few minutes until it is crunchy-tender. I love adding new green food to my diet. Updatish: ohmigawd, that was ME yesterday. and here I wanted to gag my stall mate with a urinal cake. yeah yeah, TMI.
May 22, 2007
I wonder.... how many MMOs allow you a brief free period of play in order to try things out? Updatish?
May 22 07 This article on The mystery of the daytime idle is really only interesting to the people who work all the time often seven days a week. They are stuck in their 8am to 8pm work lives and therefore, cannot understand why someone would have a chance to sit on a park bench in the middle of wednesday and just read. I was once one of those people having many random week days off of which I would just sit and watch people. But what I really need to know is, at Yonge & Eglinton, what does The Tanned Man do? He really is just hanging out all... the... time.
May 18, 2007 May 17, 2007 I must admit to gaining a grudging like for canadian poetry while reading the posters on the subway car walls. Thus I like finding rob mclennan's blog.
What is more amusing than reading about the Travellers invading Lancaster University campus is the fact that the americans in the reading group (and probably some city bound UKers) have no idea what travellers are. I cannot say I know alot about them btu I know they are related in nature to the Gypsy / Romany people but not so much in race. There are travellers in north america and most recently, a TV show about them called The Riches started running of ShowCase here in Canada.
May 16, 2007 This PictoBrowser Preview is just too kewl. It makes me like my photos again and the sizing is decent. time to resurrect?
Heh. Megnut does the Mean Chocolate Chip Cookie, as in averaged, based on her bid for recipes. As you remember, I kind of did that but I focused more on the grander elements. To me, the non-baker, precision is not important. A bit more butter or less, a bit more salt or a bit less, etc. does not matter. It's using brown sugar vs white sugar or a combination of the two. I like hers having all three but to be honest, I am not happy with her visual results. While many of my tries did do the homemade flat-cookie, I prefer a cookie with more height. That reminds me, I owe a vendour some cookies.
To quote Wil, i now know what to call the feeling I have had for a number of years, "survival myopia." When you are so caught up in doing the day to day thing such as bills, dishes, laundry, sweeping, working, bills and more importantly from my POV -- distracting yourself, you forget to notice life is passing you by. How do you pull out of this?
With the MJ Bust (*snicker*) making waves and PvP talking about boobies (and getting shite for it) I thought it only appropriate to poke some fun at the typically D&D version of sexism, the chainmail bikini.
Yeah yeah, I want to seeWaitress. It's mainly because it stars Nathan Fillion, and I must admit than I am rather fond of seeing things with the ol Firefly cast in it, but also because the one trailer I saw looked cute. But the fact that the director Adrienne Kelly was murdered before it was released, adds something... I am not sure what, but something.
May 15, 2007 Remember what I said yesterday about the affect of us little guys canncelling accounts or severing relations as being of no effect. Take a look at this Flickr discussion and you will see it's not just the lil never-published people but some of the Flickr mainstays. Whoah.
To follow up on the whole JPG Debacle from yesterday, there is a MetaFilter discussion about it. The funny thing is all the people saying they are cancelling their accounts -- I wonder how many people who cancelled their accounts were actually published in the mag. It's like me saying I will never shop at Walmart again. If I was a regular and spent billy-uns there, then I would affect it... but I barely shop there so I am of no account.
May 14, 2007 This entry by Heather about JPG Magazine is odd. Even odder is the lack of entries on the web talking about it. I guess it has to deseminate more. It's very freaky that an entity could eliminate the history of it's founders without any explanation whatsoever. I look forward to the flamewar that will inevitably generate. P.S. This is Derek's page; I wonder how long it will be allowed to last.
I met an editor for Harlequin books this weekend. She was talking about a time-travel story so I imagine she is involved in one of their more fantastic imprints, but little did I know that they have a Manga imprint. Weird but appropriate.
OK, I have to sheepishly admit something. I don't get the fascination with Moleskines. Oh I can see that they are nicely bound and have good quality paper but not being a sketch artist, I don't see the point. Considering many are bought purely to be organizers and notebooks, why the expense? Really, if you don't do this with them, why?
I forgot to mention that we were flicking through the channels a few weeks ago and I saw dinoaurs running about. And i saw an S Club alumni running about as well. Yep, Hannah Spearitt is on Primeval, an ITV show about time portals and not very well done CGI monsters.
May 10, 2007
I love Queen W. Last week it was the KISS boots & black formal skirt & jacket combo on the long haired asian guy. This week it was an early 20sumthin hipster sniffing a bra as he walked along.
May 10 07
This is a longer post but it was inspired by the The Damn Parents Today article at suicidegirls. I haven't finished reading it so it's not about the article itself but about the comment of a camping site having WiFi.
May 09, 2007 I hope that when the web expires into some other form of world-connected media form, the people that made it great by being a gem of a find amidst all the dross are remembered in some manner. For example, a perfect source of inspiration and envy for me was Matt Rossi and I wonder constantly where he is.
May 08, 2007 When I used to shoot B&W 35mm photography, I used to love the shots where the film flowed into the shot and you could see the sprocket holes and labels and such. But in no way could it be as neat as this kind of shot.
I once tried to describe why I liked war movies. Besides the flagrant use of heroes, it was something indescribable about the gear the soldiers wear. Something about a soldier decked out in survival gear always struck a chord with me, like the D&D adventurer decked out from a visit to the Provisioner Hut. I can see that other people have it in the way they do these 1/6th scale soldiers. The entire group is fun to browse.
Now that's it is confirmed, are you wondering what to expect from Heroes season two ? I predict a Heroes Registration Act (as hinted at in season one), some physically deformed Heroes living in the sewers, the establishment of a school for the younger Heroes in upstate New York and another hint of the future featuring a scene with a scarred Peter defending a red headed Claire-bear in front of a wanted poster with other familiar Heroes crossed off.
May 07, 2007 Not only are our poppy coins used to listen in on american defense contractors but Canadian Geese also have microscopic cameras in their eyes to spy on military bases, all canadian tourists can pickup radio waves between security agencies and each and every single beaver is trained to attack the US, upon the use of a secret activation code. Beware my american neighbours, we are out to get you. Oh and I am sorry to say that our nanites are responsible for the bee deaths.
I saw a stupid TV show about the 3 Musketeers starring Bruce Boxleitner and thought, "Oh how the mighty have fallen." Well not that mighty but it is nice to there are still B5 stories out there for me to see once I have no more cable TV coming my way -- alllll cancelled May 18.
I think we should skip the idea of temporary tattoos for lost kids and just go with a permanent tattoo behind the right ear. That way when they are abducted and found 6 years later, you can confirm you have the right kid. See a kid with a cauliflower burnt ear and you know trouble lives there.
May 05, 2007 It's art. It's a refurbed corona (Corona, Smythe Corona) typewriter that is now a waffle iron that churns out keyboard shaped waffles. Now is it just me or would a waffle iron that would turn out toast shaped waffles kinda neat?
May 04, 2007 There is a popular internet released free RPG system called Fudge. Someone decided to make a Pirate game using the system, thus creating Fudge Pirates. That doesn't quite sound like what it is actually about.
Let's do something different and post a link to the same blog twice in a row. As long as I set it up, it's OK? But this post is all about writing without the setup. I have always considered good writing being the kind that jumps right into it and I think I have noticed what is lacking in my current crop of scribbles -- I never just jump into it, i always have to set it up. You should just be wrapped by the style and the story... of a story. P.S. The use of popups as footnotes and tangents makes both the writer, the web geek and the tangential talker in me just shine with smilies.
May 04 07 I like well written little annecdotal posts like this one. But I have to ask, "Can you close a
I thought my favourite line from Ugly Betty last night would be, "Hello D&D Nerd here...." but really it turned out to be this one.
May 02, 2007
OK, this was a good good question by Chirographum.
Photojunkie just launched a redesign. I kinda miss the days when these things were announced with fan fare and commentary all around. I will get around to actually finishing one of my eleventy-four redezine iterations one of these days.
The first thing I thought when I looked at this online communities map was, "Hey that would make a pretty good D&D world map." What would be the dominant culture of the land of AOL? Where would the dwarves make their homes? Probably along the range in Orkut and Xanga. Oh, this could be fun. Oh I am not the only one who thought so.
In case you haven't noticed, I abandoned the 365 Project. When I caught myself rushing to take a couple of 11:59pm photos to "make due for the day" I realized my heart was not in it. My mind is on other things right now and requiring myself to pay attention to something else was not happening. Plus, these projects are supposed to be done for the fun of it, not for the requirements. Plus, this doesn't mean a photoblog will not resurrect sometime soon, just nothing required of me.
May 02 07 at first glance this Diet Blog was interesting, for someone interested in eating in a more healthy manner. I know, I know, I am not that bad. I know how to eat better, I just do not choose to do so very often. Anywayz, I thought the site was interesting... then I saw the between the lines stuff. One post balks at the idea of eating a burger, another one talks about a lady eating a salad being the more attractive person vs the one Eating a Whole Pie. Nice slanted message there.
May 01, 2007 Mmmm, every day I believe I should see something pretty, something beautiful and not just the danger, the horror, the stress and the violence I get from pop culture. Thus I liked print & pattern.
Oooooo, sweet bottom frame (not frames frame but framing the bottom of the page) over at fortuitous. I particularly like the fade.
Oh. My. God. This will be revenge on all those baby pushers amongst my friends (you know who you are) as I will get them all Chewbacca Costume and demand pictures !!
I don't update the 'books desired' category enough. But with boing boing making a few suggestions lately, I am adding Brasyl to it.
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