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Hot chicks with objectification

January 29, 2010

In lieu of an intel­li­gent post about the iPad, which will inevitably be a rehash of opin­ions found else­where on the inter­net, I present to you, dear reader, two shal­low links.  First there was Hot Chicks at Art Open­ings, and now there is Hot Chicks with Stormtroop­ers.  You’re welcome.

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Podcast vs Netcast and LG Electronics

December 28, 2009

A few years ago, Apple started crack­ing down on com­pa­nies that used the term “Pod” in their name.  This occurred just as pod­cast­ing was catch­ing on to the main­stream.  Because of this, many pod­cast­ers started using the term “net­cast” to describe their shows.  Off the top of my head, these include shows from the This […]

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Windows 7 Launch Party, Service Pack 1

October 20, 2009

A cou­ple of weeks ago, a friend invited me to a Win­dows 7 Launch Party, and included a nerdy pic­ture with the email.
Last night, I Pho­to­shopped it a bit.  My plan is to sta­ple the updated “Ser­vice Pack 1″ pic­ture to a paper bag, and use that to carry in some beer and snacks.  Those nerds […]

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BSOD Easter Egg

April 10, 2009

This morn­ing, a coworker noticed some­thing about the Blue Screen of Death xscreensaver.

Specif­i­cally: F0AD:42494C4C
Using acronyms and hex-to-ASCII, this trans­lates to “F— off and die, Bill.”

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The 18th-Century Nip-Slip

February 26, 2009

We keep get­ting book­lets and post­cards in the mail from The Port­land Art Museum.  They all fea­ture, very promi­nently, Les Con­fi­dences Pas­torales on the front:

The only thing I can think of when I see this image is “18th Cen­tury Nip Slip.”  Like a paparazzi painter snuck in and quickly painted an image of the girls in […]

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Randomness: The Goth Bus, Bad Bologna, DTV, Mice, and my new Wordpress theme

January 25, 2009

GOTH Bus.  The photo is a lit­tle blurry, but every time I see “60TH” on the bus mar­quee, I see it as “GOTH.”

Fake Bologna.  Last night we had some soy bologna out as an hors d’oeuvre’s spread amongst cheeses, greek olives, apples, and crack­ers (actu­ally, diges­tive bis­cuits, if you want to get fancy.) The […]

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G1 is made of grapes

October 24, 2008

I was in Whole Foods the other night and dis­cov­ered they had the Google G1 phone!  And it was on sale!  It was much cheaper than I remem­ber the reported cost being and I did not even have to sign up for a ser­vice plan.  After bring­ing it home, I’m start­ing to won­der if maybe […]

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It’s a trap!

August 29, 2008

Okay, so I knew Port­land can be a lit­tle nerdy.  We have things like the largest inde­pen­dent book­store in town, which causes some­thing like the high­est per­cent­age of leisure read­ers in the coun­try.  We have things like Free Geek.  There’s the Geek Prom.  I could go on and on.  Heck, I even know some­one who […]

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Sense.

April 16, 2008

The vend­ing machine at work con­fuses me.  Water is twice the price of soda.  Sure, the Cokes are 12oz and water is 20oz, but it’s water!  I can get fil­tered water for free from the refrigerator.

In other news, I went to a site with a cute lit­tle CAPTCHA today.  Sure, it’s not quite Kit­te­nAuth, but […]

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WAlKWAY –>

February 22, 2008

Holy cow!  It’s a blog devoted to hand­writ­ten signs with let­ters in all-caps, except for the let­ter L.  Who’da thunk the phe­nom­e­non was preva­lent enough to sup­port such a blog?
See also: count­less blogs that fea­ture exam­ples of extra­ne­ous “quotes” and apostrophe’s

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Terminator annoyance

February 6, 2008

So I have been watch­ing Ter­mi­na­tor: The Sarah Con­nor Chron­i­cles and some­thing has been bug­ging me.  If you can only bring flesh (or tech­nol­ogy wrapped in flesh) and not straight-up tech­nol­ogy through a time por­tal, then how did that bare ter­mi­na­tor head get flung out of the bank vault and into the current-day storyline???

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The little things

January 26, 2008

Little things that feel good:
* Per­form­ing a lane change on a free­way with those nub­bily drive-by-braille bumps where you com­pletely avoid hit­ting any of those dots.
* Com­ing home to a house that smells of fresh bread, hav­ing for­got­ten that you set up the bread machine hours ago.
* Going to a club and hear­ing a song or two that […]

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