Archive for March, 2008

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Google: Happy icing that covers a cupcake of (necessary?) evil

If you accessed Google via a web browser today, you probably noticed it looked a little different:

Earth Hour, for those of you in the dark, consists of the following:
On March 29, 2008 at 8 p.m., join millions of people around the world in making a statement about climate change by turning off your lights [...]

5 Comments » - Posted in the New World Order by nerdmeyr

Friday, March 28th, 2008

You say chhhocolaaht, I say choklit

A personality test which tells you what kind of chocolate you like.
It guessed correctly for me….
(David, there is no option for “I friggin’ HATE chocolate.” Do you know why? Because choklit-haters are not to be trusted anyway, so no one would believe whatever you responded anyway.

2 Comments » - Posted in Taxonomy by nerdmeyr

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Complications / Simplifications

I just had the completely annoying experience of attempting to install a new app on my system, only to run into an error when I tried to run it.
(Trying to install Eclipse with which to start exploring possibilities of ColdFusion and RIAs, since Adobe’s foray into RIAs, Flex, relies on Eclipse as your IDE [...]

4 Comments » - Posted in Folksonomy by nerdmeyr

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

I ran over a breakdancing squirrel because I was distracted by some frat boys reciting Shakespeare

BTW, I got the number correct but completely missed the other thing.

3 Comments » - Posted in Cabinet of curios by nerdmeyr

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Not even the Devil likes Heather Mills

I don’t even like the Beatles, and the only reason I like Paul McCartney is because he wrote “Live and Let Die,” but frankly, why couldn’t Mills have slimed her way into Dick Cheney’s heart instead?
Is it because, perhaps, Cheney is at least still on friendly terms with the Lord of Darkness while Mills is [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in Curation by k

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Frog and Toad are friends

I’ve just been virally introduced to the blog “stuff white people like.” Already bored with its obvious trajectory, people have taken to offering suggestions for future topics: things like 80s music and Jell-o, and, (because in this case “white people” is a euphemism for “college educated urbanites who oscillate between refining their consumer purchases and [...]

No Comments » - Posted in the New World Order by k

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

Hiking Robot

I credit growing up in the NW with my dislike of 1) all things pioneer, and 2) of hiking. For me, hiking has always been like going to church; while all the people around me were having spiritual experiences, I felt decidedly underwhelmed. And the more people tried to convince me that I should be [...]

4 Comments » - Posted in Autobiographical by k

Friday, March 7th, 2008

It’s identity, stupid.

It’s probably a little known fact (although perhaps not a surprising one) that I genuinely enjoy following presidential campaigns and particularly the strategies of Democratic hopefuls. The odd thing is that I was a more informed and involved party member when I was in high school and watched the Democratic National Convention for hours on [...]

2 Comments » - Posted in Curation by k