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  • Weekend Report

    Overall the weekend was pretty mellow. I ended up going to Boston on friday for a doctor appointment and tried forever to find someone around to hang with afterwards. Sheesh, everyone got lives when I wasn’t looking! That and I very much need to update my address book. Too many of the numbers I have for people are wrong.

    I ended up visiting with my friends Mike and Michelle. It was great to see them and to be social. It made me realize I have to start having more contact with people. I stayed there way too late and came home and crashed.

    Next time I have to go up will probably be saturday. Who is going to be around?

  • Music Video Goodness

    Some music videos for your entertainment (click on the image to view):

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    Picture 8

    Just what I needed on a lazy thursday.

  • Repetitive Information Injury

    Just as I was coming to grips with NADD, I find out that there’s another aspect to it: Repetitive Information Injury.

    NADD sufferers walk a delicate tight rope between effectively consuming large amounts of information and losing themselves in a endless loop of useless, frustrating information acquisition motions that I’ll call Repetitive Information Injury (“RII”).

    For me RII shows up late in the day. I’m between meetings and having nothing urgent on my to do list. I sit down at the computer and scan my unread email. Once done there, I click on a couple of tab groups in Safari and scan the news. Lastly, I switch to NetNewsWire and scan for changes on my 75+ feeds.

    And then… I do it again.

    And again.

    It sounds silly, but I’m literally stuck in a loop of information acquisition. What I am looking for? Something interesting informational tidbit which grabs my attention and if I don’t find it, I’ll often loop four or five times before I realize that I’m in this useless, non-productive loop. [Rands in Repose]

    Crap, this describes many an afternoon for me. I may need professional help.

  • Romeo and Juliet

    Brilliant!

    Romeo and Juliet, told entirely in emoticons….

    Romeo and Juliet, told entirely in emoticons.

    [via Blog of a Bookslut]

  • What’s the buzz

    There are a crazy amount of iPod accessories out there, but this is the most… uh, interesting one yet. For that special someone in your life.

    iBuzz—iPod Controlled Vibrator
    Images Ibuzz
    Merry Christmas, Mom! Apparently this little device, which hooks up to the iPod and buzzes in time to your music library, is the hottest Christmas gift going. It’s great for getting to sore muscles and aching bones and might even be used for a bit of extracurricular self-induced carnival time after hours, but we wouldn’t condone that at all. The body is a temple.

    Huge buzz for iPod gizmo [The Sun]

    [via Gizmodo]

  • QOTD 11/11/2005

    Laurie Anderson
    “Paradise is exactly like where you are right now… only much, much better.” [via Quotes of the Day]

  • I REQUESASSISTANCE.T

    zefrank request

    From the wonderful mind of zefrank, a request for help. A dramatic reading of spam.

  • I want one of these for my room

    This is so cool. And A Charlie Brown Christmas is one of my favorites.

    Replica of Charlie Brown’s Xmas tree
    Cory Doctorow:

    Urban Outfitters is selling a replica of the “pathetic” Xmas tree Charlie Brown took home in A Charlie Brown Christmas:

    Images Charliebrownxmastree

    The tree is an exact replica of the tree from the famous cartoon, made of wire branches and plastic needles with a criss cross wooden base. The bendable branches allow you to make it look just how you want, super pathetic or just kind of pathetic. The tree comes with one red Christmas ball ornament.


    Link

    (Thanks, Cory!)

    [via Boing Boing Blog]

  • Frappr and Me

    A few people have started doing this, so just to be trendy I’ve decided to do it also. Frappr is a site that lets you map where people are. For instance, if you click on the button below, it will take you to the page for this blog (with one whole person on it as of this posting). And then you can add yourself to the map. I’ve always kind of been curious about the readership of this blog. I know it isn’t huge, but there do seem to be a fair number of people who read it. So please, leave a marker for yourself (It only requires a name and a zip code, so no other personal information is required).

    Check out our Frappr!

  • Okay, just one more quiz

    Okay, one more quiz for the day and I’ll stop. But I liked that I was Very Silly.



    Very Silly

    Arbitrary Silly Coordinates: (105,5)

    Now, score each answer as follows:

    A) 256 points

    B) π points

    C) -(i2) points

    Multiply the score of each answer by the square root of its ordinal number.

    Now, take all the answers whose ordinal number is even but not evenly divisible by three and add them together to get an X-axis value. Take all the answers whose ordinal number is evenly divisible by three but not by two and add them together to yield a Y-axis value. For all other answers, discard the results; they were red-herrings.

                   ^________________________________________
    
         9.001 |       |                 /|             |
    
               |       | Write questions/ |             |
    
               | Visit | to The Oracle /  |             |
    
           F   |Parents|        /\    /   | Libertarian |
    
               |       |       /o \–* S  |             |
    
           u   |       |——/o   \   l  _–_          |
    
               |——-+      \   o/\  e ‘    `         |
    
           r   |   \_          \ o/  \ e( Date )        |
    
               |     \_ Attend  \/ o  \p “-__-”         |
    
           l   |       \_ party  \  o /   |             |
    
               | Watch   \_       \  /—-+————-|
    
           o   | TV all    \ __    \/                   |
    
               |  day       ]  —__|    Play Doom      |
    
           n   |____________|       +___________________|
    
               |          \  Drink  |______             |
    
           g   | rn        \heavily_|      |            |
    
               | alt.       \     /        | Oaklahoma  |
    
           s   | binaries.   >—<   Do    |            |
               | pictures.  /     \__ your +------------|
             9 | erotica   /  lint   \ laundry          |
               +----------------------------------------->
    
               -3                              6.02*10^23
    
                          F o r t n i g h t s

    Finally, print the above chart out on a piece of paper. Using the X- and Y-axis values you computed earlier, find the corresponding location on the chart and mark it. Then throw it away and try not to think about it. You’ll be glad you did.


    My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

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    		You scored higher than 10% on VerySilly-X
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    		You scored higher than 0% on VerySilly-Y

    Link: The Very Silly Test written by ewhac on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test