Are we interrupting you?
This is all Alan’s fault. He posted a meme, which I usually ignore, but couldn’t resist given my current TV addictions… Very simple, When you see this, post a quote from Doctor Who on your journal. Well I had to...
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U.S. to world ads: Feel free to offend anyone except us.
This is just too stupid to be believed. I thought it was dumb enough when people in the US complained about an Absolut ad that was only being distributed in Mexico. It claimed that in an absolut world, a good...
on the elevator: bad karma?
It hasn’t been very good lately, that’s for sure. It’s like other people have been forgetting how elevators work. I notice it mostly at the office. There’s the simplest behavior: trying to get out on every floor thinking it must...
personal safety issues aside…
This video makes me giggle heartily. And you have to wonder when someone thought “oh hey, let’s try that!” and then replaced that thought with “better yet, let’s get a hot friend to try that!” In other news, it’s time...
ads for the common good
I followed a link from Pandora.fm this morning to the i’m talkathon main page. I’d heard about this brewing for a while, but didn’t realize it had started: i’m is an initiative from Microsoft. Every time you use Windows Live...
the end is nigh?
A bit of a gloomy story from a few days ago, but it brings together a lot of the separate comments I’ve heard recently. Is everything spinning out of control? Midwestern levees are bursting. Polar bears are adrift. Gas prices...
Are you an early adopter or just a jerk?
I was reading this story over at Engadget that tells of an online study — It’s always some online study these days, isn’t it? Whatever happened to the malls and clipboards? — reporting that most tech heads are high in...
“In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem.”
Irreverent US comedian George Carlin, who became known as a voice of the 1970s counterculture and was one of the country’s best known funny men, died on Sunday aged 71 “I don’t want to go around describing myself as a...
geeking out: I’m becoming a HTPC convert
Living in Alexandria, my mornings usually consisted of making coffee, having a little something to eat, cleaning up the apartment and listening to shows on NPR. My NPR addiction was mostly caused by having a car and a long commute...
in DC: the sounds of hot monkey lovin’
I was up early and decided I needed to shift my ass and take a walk through the zoo. When I map it out, it comes to about 3 miles through and back which may not sound like a long...