December 2011
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October 2011
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It's wrong
So VW has a new Beetle design, and a cute ad campaign to go along with it.
One the ads I’ve seen shows the new Beetle from the side, and has the text “Profile Update” on the ad.
See, the new shape of the car means that it has a different profile. Hence, profile update. Which could also refer to something seen on a social network. Enough people would get the reference that...
September 2011
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July 2011
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we can't go back, we can only go forward
in bastion, all that remains of the world after the event known only as the calamity are little floating scraps of earth and rock. as you journy amongst these broken steps, the path you’ve taken is always visible behind you. the ground in front of you doesn’t appear until you’re nearly on top of it. so you’re always sure of where you’ve come from, but one misstep...
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American McCarver: The Accidental Hall of Famer →
americanmccarver:
hall of fame or not, i will always love chris osgood.
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Sparrow: Sparrow 1.3 has been submited to the Mac... →
sparrowmail:
a better sidebar, no more useless window animations. looks good. i’ll definitely give it another shot once it’s out.
http://americanmccarver.com/post/7260056120 →
americanmccarver:
I can only hope the residents of Nassau County do the right thing and keep the Islanders here. Yea, it’s the economy, stupid. But it’s also hockey. Which means it’s also our hearts.
Vote YES August 1.
June 2011
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“how could we have become so different? why can we no longer understand each...”
– legion, mass effect 2
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May 2011
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some thoughts on brink
brink is good. it’s good, not great. some maps are pretty well designed from a ‘reality’ point of view, in that i could conceivably see myself standing in the places they depict in real life. the problem with this is that if there’s only one staircase that leads downstairs because only one staircase would exist in real life, it makes for some horrific chokepoints that can...
new lady gaga album
‘born this way’ sounds better in context with the rest of the album. ‘hair’ is my current favorite. also, saxophones?
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April 2011
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frozen
i watched frozen the other night. it’d been popping up in my netflix suggestions for a while, so i figured i’d give it a shot.
a better name for this movie would have been eaten by wolves, or perhaps screams uselessly at wolves, because that’s what most of the characters wind up doing.
now, don’t get me wrong, it was a decent enough movie, with a few genuinely tense...
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“kolyat. i’ve taken many bad things out of the world. you’re the only...”
– thane krios, mass effect 2
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living in the future
read a tweet mentioning a sporting event taking place in another country, on the other side of the continent.
visit the website of the sporting league in question, and see that the game is being televised over here, along with the time and network.
grab my iPad, and open up an application provided by my cable company/ISP that allows me to stream live television to the device.
the future is...
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Friday, Rebecca Black, and celebrity hate
wholeheartedly agree. especially:
Finally, we have a pop song that is loudly, perfectly, about nothing.
and there really isn’t anything wrong with that.
remiel:
I love “Friday”. Unabashedly. I hope Rebecca Black makes a million dollars from it, her debut album is a Gaga-caliber hit, and she marries her dreamboat, Justin Bieber.
When I first heard “Friday”
I thought “This is quite...
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Mass Effect anime announced by EA and FUNimation →
could be interesting. i’m playing through mass effect 2again now, so my interest in all things mass effect is heightened - hopefully this comes out near enough to mass effect 3 that i’m still invested in this franchise.
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Abandonwear Clothing →
with regards to my awesome t-shirt collection, i’m not sure how i’m going to be able to stop myself from buying everything here.
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game glut
since january i have started but not completed the following:
1) dead space 2 - between two-thirds and three-quarters finished)
2) singularity - managed to pick this up for $1 from amazon thanks to some gift card usage, played it a few hours and then dropped it. it’s entertaining enough, just not really drawing me in.
3) enslaved - picked this up on clearance. progressed through 10 of 14...
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sparrow initial impressions
so, i recently downloaded sparrow, the new indie mac mail client. i’d been following it since it was in beta, and gmail only. it piqued my interested, but was of little use to me if it didn’t have general IMAP support. now that it does, i’ve purchased it and have been using it for the past couple weeks. for the most part it is indeed very nice, but there are a couple quirks that are making the...
TaskPaper in Mac App Store
hogbaysoftware:
TaskPaper is now available in the Mac App Store. In celebration (marketing!!!) it’s on-sale both in the App Store and on my own website store for $4.99. Price will return to $29.99 on Friday.
this is a huge savings, for a great program. get it while it’s hot.
March 2011
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bizarre finder icon preview glitch
one of the islanders tumblrs recently posted a pretty cool looking photo of matt martin and zenon konopka on the islanders bench. they’d edited the image so that everything was black and white except for the islanders logo on their helmets:
but up to a certain threshold, the finder will render the icon preview in full color:
the threshold seems to be 188/192 for the icon size. 188 or...
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“In an attempt to move the organization into a new era, the New York Mets...”
– Mets Release Mets - The Onion Sports Network (via sportsnetny)
saw this linked on twitter today, and it made my day.
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Mariel Clayton →
barbie dolls doing some pretty crazy shit
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“Lemieux had to know the time would come when he’d have egg on his face after...”
– NOW WHAT, MARIO? After latest Matt Cooke hit, time for Mr. Lemieux to make an even bigger statement · islanderspointblank.com
February 2011
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an alternative to simplenote+notetote
there’s an app that just hit the mac app store called notetote, which adds remote download capability to your mac via simplenote. which is all well and good if you use simplenote, but i don’t. i figured there was probably a way to achieve something roughly similar on my own, and there is. the rest of this assumes that you have hazel, though i’m sure something similar could be...
January 2011
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December 2010
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“I understand that there are certain parts of the country where the weather makes...”
– Tux Life: The Mall is a Terrible, Awful Place
November 2010
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“Answer his questions honestly. If he asks you if you spilled a hot cup of coffee...”
– How to Ask a Nerd for Help (and Get It) Without Looking like a Huge Jerk (originally linked from The Brooks Review)
some of this is just sarcastic filler, but other bits of it ring true - especially the bit above. the following is also (mostly) true:
if you don’t give enough of a crap to try to...
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