A song with a twist
July 06, 2009 // Link
The Ross Sisters sing an odd ditty about potato salad and then launch into a jaw dropping (and spine-pretzeling) contortion act.
Clearly, somebody in 1944 anticipated the Internet; I’m surprised there isn’t a lolcat in there somewhere.
Thoughts on social sites
July 06, 2009 // Link
So, I just read that CompuServe shutting down. No, I didn’t realize it was 1985 either. I’m gonna watch MacGyver tonight!
It got me thinking: has anyone else noticed that Facebook is basically the new AOL? I’ve been around the net longer than most, and I went through all this the first time. A walled garden of social content, separate from the Internet, plus a focus on community features and celebrity? It’s 1990’s era AOL all over again, minus the landfills piled high with free CDs.
And as for that other hot social site, Twitter: it’s beginning to feel a little like the Golgafrincham B Ark. Handy tip for those who think Twitter is an appropriate place to incessently hawk your wares: “social” “marketing” “expert” is one of those phrases that needs quotes around every single word.
Wanna promote your business effectively on eithe of these sites? Pro tip: don’t be the guy at the party who wants to sell everyone insurance. You don’t sell at the party, idiot, you make friends at the party. Then later on, when the friends need insurance, they call you.
Then again, I ain’t planning to invite any “social” “marketing” “experts” to any party I’m hosting any time soon.
Then again again, I don’t actually host a lot of parties. Or any of them, to be honest.
Why yes, now that you ask, my plans for this evening do include video games. That’s just how I roll, ladies.
Shoe fly
July 09, 2009 // Link
The world’s largest fly is in my office. How does it stay aloft?! It’s like having an overripe blackberry float around the room.
Snakes and boogers
July 10, 2009 // Link
Via AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com
That’s not my family, but I kinda wish it was. I haven’t played that game, but I kinda wish I had. If I ever do get the chance to play it, I’m definitely taking a hint from the kid on the left and wearing awesome dinosaur pajamas.
Wait, I’m being silly. What was I thinking writing something like that? It’s redundant: there’s no such thing as non-awesome dinosaur pajamas. Roar!
With friends like this, who needs anomie?
July 11, 2009 // Link
If the atheists can have a bus, I guess the nihilists can too.
Motoretta is Italian for “indeterminate”
July 15, 2009 // Link
My cherished Vespa 250 is being serviced at Motoretta. Love ‘em, but I’m really not digging the one hour wait to get a part.
An hour doesn’t sound long to order a part, you say? Ha, that’s just because you don’t know where they’re ordering the part from: it’s coming from the other half of the same building.
Yes, the left side of the building has to “order” parts from the right side of the building. I’m sure it’s because Vespa Canada is one side and Motoretta is the other, but still... come on, set up a freakin’ parts counter.
Update: 1.5 hours and counting, still sitting here in Motoretta and waiting for a part to that had to be ordered from the other side of the same building. I feel like I’m in a Pynchon novel.
Cosplaying my heartstrings
July 31, 2009 // Link
Ah, the week after ComicCon, when the Internet is full of nerdy girls in scifi/comic/game costumes, and I fall in love 400 times a day.
Tip for gals looking to land a nerd (hey, there must be some of you out there, right? maybe?): the phrase “I’m thinking about what costumes we should wear to Comic Con this year” is as good as a proposal to a guys like us.