November 2011
80 posts
haggady asked: spring registration for me next week! what are you doing next semester? I feel like we've probably already chatted about this but I forget
October 2011
90 posts
Just met my new boss.
She is young, really nice, a creative writing major, and very intelligent.
I have a feeling she will be a good boss, just like my last boss.
Justice's new album is making my brain tingly.
RIGHT NOW
no roommate right now?
kitein:
thebigchopperfan:
kelseygrammer-yourewaytoointoit:
no pants time!
i don’t get the no pants thing
i feel very uncomfortable when i’m not wearing pants
if i could live and die in pants that would be great
it takes way too much effort to take off my pants at any point in time
either that or it’s too cold to
smothers self under a million blankets
Down with the pantsocracy. ...
Apparently I'm sick?
I have this weird thing where I don’t even notice that I’m ill until it’s way too late to have done anything about it, if I notice at all.
In class today I was just kinda doing my usual resting my chin on my hands and fidgeting and stuff and lo and behold my lymph nodes are swollen something fierce. After I realized that I was like, “Oh… well yeah I guess my throat...
put my sburb title/fallout title in my box
hellaciousbrother:
i kinda like the fallout ones better
The Vault Dweller
The Chosen One
The Lone Wanderer
The Prisoner
The Initiate
The Courier
The Warrior
all cool, super cool
Yes, yes, The Courier is one of those phrases that just kinda makes the hair on my neck stand up. It’s so simple but represents so much about the character’s place in the world.
Today's Dinosaur Comics was just... magical.
Philosophy jokes make me tingle in my brainal area.
Apparently, when Skylab crashed the county that it... →
It went unpaid until a DJ raised the money in 2009.
skuboglesby:
ghostlymobster:
today in class a straight cis white male declared himself one of the most hated minorities in the world
because hes atheist
im sorry but are you actually shitting me
to be fair i already hate him
To be even more fair, what he said was most likely a sensationalized, nth-hand version of this study, twice baked by the blogs.
While “most hated minority in...
spleenbrick replied to your post: spleenbrick replied to your post: Prototype is a…
its too bad the atmosphere of suspicion was totally obliterated by the game mechanics. ‘stay alert! zeus could be anyone! on an unrelated note, pvt jeff dropped his weapon, ran up a building and started hurling the infected entire city blocks’
Haha, well, yeah that is pretty incongruous. I do wish they...
spleenbrick replied to your post: Prototype is a really good game you guys.
also it has the best ambient radio chatter in a game bar none imho
You know if you hadn’t mentioned it I wouldn’t have thought about it, but yeah, it is really good.
Aside from the jargon, it’s one of the things that makes you question your power. You keep hearing them screaming about you, trying to...
Prototype is a really good game you guys.
It does a good job of making me feel powerful and deadly without making me feel like that’s a good thing.
I mean first of all the difficulty, both initially and curving, is pitch perfect (at least for me). And the different powers are strategically useful, and once you master flipping through them on the fly you feel like you’re unstoppable (until you run into something that stops...
This movie looks pretty interesting. →
The trailer just kinda puts out this, “What would happen if some kids got their hands on incredible power that they’re in no way capable of handling maturely?” vibe that I am always really interested in.
Something about the deconstruction of common daydreams, revealing them as horrifying things that nobody should really want to happen, is just deeply appealing to me. I hope...
waterbotttles replied to your video
Someone once told me that the Fact Seagull song reminded them of this.
Now that you mention it, I can definitely hear the resemblance.
michiforjoy replied to your post: Bad Technology Idea
Aw, but it’s free for you to listen to! They’re doing you a service, those phone contacts of yours, by paying for your privilege of hearing those dulcet tones and rhythmic thumps while you wait for their voicemail to kick in. Free is the best, right?
The worst part is they’re not even people in my contacts; they’re people I...
Bad Technology Idea
Allowing people to change the tone you hear when you call them from the normal ringing to thirty seconds of their favorite song, looped.
Aside from the fact that the audio quality of a telephone call makes absolutely every song sound a little bit like the wailing of demons, there are just far too many people who do not consider the idea that not everybody who calls them likes their taste in...
hellaciousbrother replied to your post: Just cut myself opening a container of mayonnaise.
“i’m going to RELISH sucking your blood, MAYO-r”
“You’ll never ketchup with me, Van Helsauce!”
sadgi replied to your post: Just cut myself opening a container of mayonnaise.
or were-condiment
Oh no what if my phases are aligned with
like
barbecue competitions
Just cut myself opening a container of mayonnaise.
I hope I don’t turn into a strange condiment vampire.
“Higher humor is based on relief of distress through true adaptation or learning....”
– C. George Boeree, “Humor: A Phenomenological Sketch”
The Stretch headphones →
Gustavo has a pair of these and they are ludicrously comfortable. Someone else aptly described them as like wrapping your ears in a cloud.
There is pretty much no way I won’t be buying these in the near future. The biggest problem I’ve ever had with headphones has been comfort over long periods of time, and Gustavo says he wears them for hours without any issues.
haggady replied to your post: The Worst Things About Writing for the Internet
so basically, democratization of content combined with gatekeeping?
Well, gatekeeping works for some things and not others, I think. Advertising steps in for the latter.
Maybe a combination of both is ideal? Lots of Android and iOS apps work that way. Either you pay a fee or you get ads, and either way the makers...
spleenbrick replied to your post: spleenbrick replied to your post: The Worst Things…
yeah most of them are a mix. I think Deadspin is all freelance
Well, cool! Even more actual precedent for the model, I guess.
As far as I know, all fiction has in this vein is ebooks through stores like Amazon and Barnes and Noble, with their proprietary devices. Long fiction probably would find a...
spleenbrick replied to your post: The Worst Things About Writing for the Internet
you do realize a shitload of news sites already use that format.
Even the democratization of content? I thought about mentioning that but left it out because I didn’t think that condition applied. Though I guess that’s pretty much the definition of “freelance,” actually. Are they mostly...
thebigchopperfan-deactivated201 asked: all i know about the cracked article is it said "you can't hate capitalism" and then i closed the tab. that's kind of against everything i believe in!
The Worst Things About Writing for the Internet
I’m catching up on Cracked.com; can you tell?
Article link.
This one was interesting to me mostly because I’ve often considered The Internet as a medium to publish my fiction. Toward the end of the article, the very last paragraph, DOB mentions that it’s still worth it because the democratic nature of internet publishing lets people succeed when they otherwise would not.
...
michifun asked: It's more about the format of your statements. In law we are trained never to assert things that are merely conjectures. In fact, in court we typically say "I submit" (not "I contend" or "I assert") before such statements. If we want to persuade someone of a possibility, it MUST be backed up with likelihoods, evidence and its weight, citations of past examples,...
michiforjoy replied to your post: michiforjoy replied to your link: Gladstone of…
Disagree! Look at how the protests are spreading, across cities and continents. Maybe each will distill out its own version of “we don’t like the gap between rich and poor”, and its own goals. You stated predictions as if they are facts.
Yes, but also look at how few people can say what the protests are...
michiforjoy replied to your link: Gladstone of Cracked.com provides a cogent critique of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
I’ve heard counter-arguments to the effect of still working to be inclusive and getting everyone realizing they have a stake in this by keeping it open (like, airing of grievances). And then later focusing this even larger group onto specific goals.
The problem with that...
Gladstone of Cracked.com provides a cogent... →
Gist: We got a good thing here with this movement, guys, lotta legitimate reasons to protest, but maybe focus it so you can actually achieve some of your goals?
waterbotttles said: I don’t think it’s that DC bought the rights, rather that Warner Bros. has the rights to DC and Hanna Barbara.
Naw Wikipedia says DC rebooted it as a “serious” super hero franchise.
Space Ghost was bought by DC and rebooted...
And now shows up in a Brave and the Bold episode?
I just… can’t encompass this with my mind. Though I have to say the campy tone fits with Brave and the Bold at the very least.
Independent Vegas
All the way.
Benny convinced me that all these other chucklefucks are unworthy of the desert jewel.
Then I killed him. Turnabout is fair play.
