Archive for November, 2005

MySpace Red Flags

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

It’s true that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. But nowadays, book publishers are smart enough to avoid printing books with shitty covers. And as such, I feel perfectly justified judging someone’s MySpace profile within two seconds, using a few handy tips I’ve devised. Here are the red flags that’ll send me to […]

Either way, it’s TSO…

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

And thus it begins—another excuse to get your Trans-Siberian Orchestra fix:
Some crazy guy’s attempt to prove his lights are best on the block. [mov]
He must have one hell of a homeowner’s association. (Or, none at all, and some very understanding neighbors.)

Instructables: Make damn cool stuff

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

This is absolutely fantastic:
Instructables is a step-by-step collaboration system that helps you record and share your projects with a mixture of images, text, ingredient lists, CAD files, and more. We hope to make documentation simple and fast. Show your colleagues how to operate a machine, show your friends how to build a kayak, show […]

Irish Asians don’t understand mumbling.

Friday, November 18th, 2005

I just returned from the “grand” opening of Harry Potter 4: The Goblet of Fire (the movie) and I’m not quite sure how to feel about it. Let me explain:
Very like Star Wars, people waited at the theater all day for this premiere. I didn’t ask what time the earliest arrived, but one of the […]

Dawn Ying Hotlinks To Me

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

So I was perusing my server stats tonight and noticed my primary site, Originality Is Overrated has so far this month used 600 GIGABYTES in bandwidth.
As spectacular as that sounds, they were almost entirely a result of a swarm of hotlinks to my MP3s directory. For those not in the know, hotlinking is the practice […]

Popcorn for the soul. And mouth.

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

A few weeks ago Chris was watching Oprah (don’t lie, you totally were) and told me about her favorite popcorn of all time: Dale and Thomas Popcorn.
Well, we all know that Oprah loves her food, and would hardly recomend a tastable that wasn’t tasty; so we both bought two bags. Also, they were free […]

Ze do nothing!

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

True story.

Quick Fix

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

Sorry for the lack of updates, but I can hardly take this thing seriously until it gets its “face lift”.
In the mean time, you can learn what things have mildly if not thoroughly amused me in the last twenty minutes or so.
I present to you a random-laugh-every-so-often flash movie (cringes are appropriate) called Three […]

At least she’s honest…

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

From Phoenix Craigslist:
ANGRY & BITTER BLACK WOMAN
Reply to: pers-111254477@craigslist.org
Date: 2005-11-14, 5:05PM MST
I am just another evil, angry and bitter black woman. Any one want to take me out?
* no — it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
111254477
Go ahead and respond. You know you want to…
[Craigslist]

Overheard in NY

Monday, November 14th, 2005

Priceless. Just priceless:
Two guys are waiting for the train inside the turnstyle when a group behind them start waving their hands and making weird noises.
Guy #1: People are so fucking crazy. I’m always around crazy people.
Guy #2: Uh…they’re deaf. And mute.
–Christopher Street station
Yeah, this is my favorite site of the week.

Four fewer blades…

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

Shaving has become something I rather loathe to do lately. My so-expensive-they-must-
be-coated-with-diamond-dust-and-put-
through-a- ritualistic-ancient-blessing-ceremony Mach 3 Turbo blades are wearing out more quickly than they used to, and the quality of the shave seems to have declined. I dislike the experience in general, and will try to go every other day if I don’t have anywhere […]

Kitchen Confidential

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

I’ve seen a few promos for Fox’s new sitcom, Kitchen Confidential, but it takes the lining of a few planets and the correct mix of other traits for me to actually proactively seek *out* a show. Usually, I like a strong recommendation from someone I trust, a promo clip that can make me laugh aloud […]

Weekends are better than bookends

Monday, November 7th, 2005

I’m amazed Chris hasn’t plugged this yet, but as it’s been making the Blog rounds recently I thought I’d give a “shout out” to the impressive music of Sufjan Stevens (no, we don’t know how to pronounce it either), specifically his Illinois album, and more pointedly the song “John Wayne Gacy Jr.”
This past weekend I […]

Ask Metafilter

Sunday, November 6th, 2005

I discovered Metafilter through my daily readings of Lifehacker. It’s a collaborative, community blog that allows users to post their own quips on interesting links, news articles, games and the like.
My favorite part of Metafilter is their question and answer section, Ask Metafilter. AskMeFi is a brilliant concept: Ask a large, incredibly varied, Google-savvy […]

Google and I

Thursday, November 3rd, 2005

A day in the life of Google for me: Search history for October 31st, 2005.
incubus fish shirt, incubus shirt, incubus morning view shirt, orange, stock photography, max payne, visual c++ runtime library abnormal program, visual c++ runtime library, cheatoween, supermarket font, TurboXS RFL BOV, RFL BOV, chris cardinal, n90, quotation punctuation syntax, this is the […]