“ Please explain this for those of us who have wives and jobs.
ColdChef, asking for clarification on the aforementioned big news about a thing that happened with a video game. Or, something.
a personal weblog,
or “blog,”
by Merlin Mann
![And, yet, ironically enough, Anyone Can Swiss. Even me.
Go figure.
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«L’enfer, c’est les autres» by merlinmann
My favorite slide from a new presentation I’m writing, called, “Running Productive Meetings.”
This particular slide is titled, “Why Meetings Can Be Hard and Complicated.”
ISKs, Aphasias, and Becoming Jasper Beardley; or “You shot who in the what, now?”
The Escapist : News : More EVE Online Shenanigans: GoonSwarm Ganks Band Of Brothers
Details are still a bit scarce, but apparently The Mittani, leader of the Goonfleet Intelligence Agency, managed to convince a very high-ranking director in Band of Brothers to turn traitor and join GoonSwarm. Which in itself is bad enough, but according to a Shacknews reports, he brought trillions of Band of Brother’s ISK, the in-game currency, with him.
Just noted in passing, really.
Because, the extent to which I understand not one fucking syllable of that paragraph makes me wonder whether: A) this is simply a prank post to evaluate whether people are fronting about insider video game knowledge; B) I am truly this astoundingly out of touch with regard to whatever the fuck this domain of information means to someone under 40; or C) I have suffered a hideous series of strokes that is hampering my ability to recognize what small collections of English-language words “mean.”
Hey, wait. Can you guys even read what I’m typing right now? Maybe it’s worse. Holy fucking shit. Maybe I have fucking Wernicke’s aphasia. Jesus Christ!
Anyway. Better go. I have to go yell at some teenagers, then clean the cottage cheese off my Matlock slippers while listening to Glenn Miller.
Mad asked why it’d taken so long to pay the delivery guy for our Indian food. I told her we had to chaat about the Naan Compete Agreement, and it tikka longer than I expected, but that he was Ghandi now.
I know, I know. So sari.
New Prius Feature
I noticed this for the first time today: apparently my Prius can now convert excess energy into NPR pledge drive donations on the fly. Impressive!
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
QPR - Nation of Talkers - “Planet Comment”
Interesting discussion about web community.
Previously on QPR:
At least for me,
the popularity of a Tumblr post is inversely proportional to the time spent posting it.
It’s funny because it makes me hurt inside.
☆
If only there were some kind of service where people could congratulate each other on the things they thought of while watching TV.
GPoMaMDaMAS
Gratuitous Picture of Myself and My Dad at My Age Saturday
I took this back in 2007 when I was doing some innovative R&D in the field of head hair and self-esteem. Groundbreaking shit, really.
It was fun to run it through iPhoto Faces and see what’s what.
Who Is On Twitter
The full list is great.
- people who are just back from a really awesome run
- people who are involved with “computers”
- people who are involved in “social networking” and optimizing the power of re-Tweeting and “computers”
- people who really like the news
- people who are hungry
- people who are back from an OK run
- Rachel Maddow
Armed with 2 grocery bags filled with props and costumes, and a pocket full of quarters. A young family goes to the supermarket and commandeers the 25 cent photobooth. Jumping in and out of the booth between each flash we came up with these 35 hysterical photos which we then dry mounted on a heavy photo mounting board. It was just one of the Christmas presents we made that year (1969) because we were so poor.
Like I said in comments, this is completely delightful.
Brady’s Bits? I had a giant crush on Paul’s daughter (“My Italian Daughter,” as I believe Paul refers to her), during three melancholy stretches between 1982 and 1989. A very young Kim is the one in the print top (my fave is column 7, row 3). Which would make the girl in the black top her wonderful and hilarious younger sister, Billie.
What a fun family. When I knew them, they were way too cool for 1980s Pasco County.
