There was a 3 at 3 block today of REM on WMGK, a classic rock station. We are in the end times.
This one goes out to the one I love…
There was a 3 at 3 block today of REM on WMGK, a classic rock station. We are in the end times.
If you could talk as fast as you tie…
I ran the January Roundtable and started out with a group activity where the participants had to tie a giant clove hitch around a garbage can at a distance of 10 feet. I broke everyone up into groups and they stood around the perimeter and could move. Each of the three groups had to go as quickly as possible. I started the clock and the following unfolded.
Laura Foulds: Okay, let’s start passing the rope around.
Douche bag:Â Who said you could run this thing?
Laura: Well, I was just trying to get the game going. I’m pretty sure everyone would start that way.
*Banter*
Douche bag: Do you know who I am? I won the speed tying competition this year and I tied a clove hitch in under…
Group 1: Done!
Group 3: Done!
Good job, turbo tyer.
If you could talk as fast as you tie…
I ran the January Roundtable and started out with a group activity where the participants had to tie a giant clove hitch around a garbage can at a distance of 10 feet. I broke everyone up into groups and they stood around the perimeter and could move. Each of the three groups had to go as quickly as possible. I started the clock and the following unfolded.
Laura Foulds: Okay, let’s start passing the rope around.
Douche bag:Â Who said you could run this thing?
Laura: Well, I was just trying to get the game going. I’m pretty sure everyone would start that way.
*Banter*
Douche bag: Do you know who I am? I won the speed tying competition this year and I tied a clove hitch in under…
Group 1: Done!
Group 3: Done!
Good job, turbo tyer.
Gizmodo Notes on FCC at CES
Gizmodo posted some wonderful notes taken from Kevin Martin at CES. Martin got some baleful glares for his pushing for his views on media cross-ownership. If half the stuff he mentions here is true I’ll be very happy. He’s profoundly outspoken on a la carte channel offerings for cable which would allow subscribers to buy channels rather than packages. Cable has naturally tried to drag its feet and while I don’t quite get as angry about this as DRMed music it’s up there.
I take his statements about improved fiber and broadband backbone with a grain of salt as well as his opinions about the 700MHz spectrum auction. I believe telecoms are inclined to restrict usage and charge more for access rather than build infrastructure and content providers have already encountered problems. A good bit of fiber was laid down with dot.com bubble VC money, a trick that’s unlikly to happen again. While I appreciate the open access provisions beaten into the spectrum auction there are no guarantees that this amazing frequency band will go towards rural broadband.
Gizmodo Notes on FCC at CES
Gizmodo posted some wonderful notes taken from Kevin Martin at CES. Martin got some baleful glares for his pushing for his views on media cross-ownership. If half the stuff he mentions here is true I’ll be very happy. He’s profoundly outspoken on a la carte channel offerings for cable which would allow subscribers to buy channels rather than packages. Cable has naturally tried to drag its feet and while I don’t quite get as angry about this as DRMed music it’s up there.
I take his statements about improved fiber and broadband backbone with a grain of salt as well as his opinions about the 700MHz spectrum auction. I believe telecoms are inclined to restrict usage and charge more for access rather than build infrastructure and content providers have already encountered problems. A good bit of fiber was laid down with dot.com bubble VC money, a trick that’s unlikly to happen again. While I appreciate the open access provisions beaten into the spectrum auction there are no guarantees that this amazing frequency band will go towards rural broadband.
I shittin' next to McGuyver
I’m in the Great American with Whit and have to take a dump. I enter the bathroom, see the handicapped and non-handicapped stalls were both empty, enter the non-handicap stall and upon closing the door, before dropping my drawers stare in abject horror at the sliding door latch. It’s been completely removed. Only two screws in the entire bathroom are not one-way and those get removed so someone can prevent a shitter stall from closing, crap. I look at the hole, realize a pen won’t fit into the slider gap and close on the door-side opening so, thinking I clever, take out a key and try. No luck, to wide to fit in the gap. I drop my head in shame and enter the handicapped stall praying some fellow with ALS doesn’t enter.
A few moments after my opening colonic salvo someone walks in and immediately goes in the open stall (yes!) closes the door and sighs as he looks at the door. After a brief pause, I hear the jangling of keys and the metal on metal clink of failure and smile at his creative and our mutual defeat. After a few seconds of this, silence, and then I hear him drop his pants and remove his belt. Curious…. After more silence I again hear metal on metal click as the tab of his belt buckle is adeptly slide into the slot for the door slide sealing the slider allowing the McGuyver next to me to shit triumphantly.
Origin: Do Not Want
As a healthy consumer of lolcats I’ve always assumed ‘do not want’ was a lolcat-original phrase. Turns out I was as wrong at the Jehovah’s Witnesses that’ll never visit my house again. Wired magazine has finally given me the answer to the question, what is the origin of DO NOT WANT? Find out too with those fancy blue and underlined words.
More taste, less filling
As most of you know I don’t drink, much to the consternation of my family and Irish lineage but I nonetheless have a budding interest in mixed drinks. Diet beverages have been woefully under developed until the last 2 years and I’ve been searching for an improved diet creme soda and today I’ve done it.
20% Diet Orange Slice
80% Barq’s Diet Vanilla Creme
The day is mine
More taste, less filling
As most of you know I don’t drink, much to the consternation of my family and Irish lineage but I nonetheless have a budding interest in mixed drinks. Diet beverages have been woefully under developed until the last 2 years and I’ve been searching for an improved diet creme soda and today I’ve done it.
20% Diet Orange Slice
80% Barq’s Diet Vanilla Creme
The day is mine