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omg not quizzes

seriously, i don’t believe i did these:

NameThatSerialKiller.com - The Serial Killer Test

NameThatDisease.com - Identify The Disease

NameThatDrug.com - Identify The Drug

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nevermind.

Technorati Profile
just doing the technorati claimy thingy. in case i ever use this for anything.

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simko:

Kor One water bottle, designed by RKS

i love seeing things my coworkers designed getting passed around the interweb. makes me proud :)

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today i sat in soft sand not twenty meters from the ocean, and i observed some things. for the most part i was observing bathing suits, and reasons why they were or were not o.k. vis-a-vis body type. i was generous in my judgements but still, there was much wrong.

but that’s not my point at the moment (reserve the right to bring back up the whole fat americans thing at a later date). my point, and i do have one, has something to do with the family directly between us & the water.

as i mentioned, i sat in soft sand. but 5m or so in front of me was a patch of pure pebbles - an ugly place, unattractive, uncomfortable, not something you’d want to walk on. yet there was a family that had set up beach camp, including but not limited to a makeshift canopy made of sticks & towels. they picked this hardscrabble patch of beach & made it their own, in spite of the fact perfectly comfrortable fluffy sand surrounded them on all sides. the adults sat steadfastly in the shade of the raggedy towel, between the propped up sticks, but some of the children spread themselves out on the bare sand some two meters to one side, defiantly choosing sandy soft sunlit comfort over rocky shade.

i found it odd, the whole thing.

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ennui

so i went domain-peeping, looking for ennui dot something. in lieu of all the standard domain names (unavailable), godaddy offered me these:

Premium Domain Names
    IFeelViolated.com $488.00*
    ITradeWireless.com $1,000.00*
    ITradeWirelessly.com $1,000.00*
    IForgotWhatIWasGoingToTellYou.net $5,000.00*
    IForgotWhatIWasGoingToTellYou.com $5,000.00*

    IWillRegretThis.com $5,000.00*
    ThingsIAmNot.com $5,000.00*
    OlderThanIWantToBe.net $5,000.00*
    OlderThanINeedToBe.com $5,000.00*
    OlderThanIWantToBe.com $5,000.00*

no word on what wireless trade has to do with ennui, but whatever, it doesn’t matter.

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science

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ADD & Wikipedia

i have ADD, and i have Wikipedia, and i had a moment today when i questioned the way I’ve written the & my whole life. i was making notes on code fixes and suddenly the ampersand was all wrong, all wrong.

i learned: in everyday handwriting, the ampersand is sometimes simplified to a backwards 3 superimposed by a vertical line, this seems to be a contraction of the Latin et. sometimes it appears as nothing more than a “+” sign, or a t with a loop (a remnant of a lowercase e). this type of ampersand may actually be a rendering of the “+” sign, or of the Tironian “et”. these forms are all generally acceptable and recognized, but some might view them as sloppy or casual. the handwritten ampersand also looks like ɬ, the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative symbol.

so i know i used to write it like the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative symbol, but then i very deliberately decided to change to the more formal contraction of the latin “et”. and that neither of these things look anything like the keyboard symbol, and that that’s ok.

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my contribution to Darren Rowse’s Twitter video…

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