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sunday, december 03, 2006

Prattle

[mood: schm':((((((ish?] [listening to: lost]

Prattle. Wtf is a prattle. It was on my SAT. I did alright, I guess. Better on math. Totally sucktastic on the essay. Oh well. Chuck over another $40 to take it again.

I got really nothing else to really update about. Eric's right, a lot of our readers are in debate; so the typical "heres what happened last weekend" post by Matt'll tell us readers are back.

40 deleted Family Guy scenes - Enjoy. From the DVD, I presume.

MISSING: Mr. James Kim - A fairly significant person in the tech industry has vanished. James Kim was the audio editor at CNET.com. He was the one that did all the reviews for MP3 players, headphones, and the like. Now he's missing. Audio reviews grind to a halt and everyone is trying to find out where they went. Very mysterious and haunting.

We Feel Fine - An amazing visualization of how the world is feeling. This site collects information from blogs and networks like Myspace, Friendster, Livejournal, etc, and if it runs across the word "feeling" or "feel" it takes the sentence and uploads it to the database and matches it against a set of 5000 pre-defined feelings. Or it just puts it up. Either way, its a very good visualization of the abstract. You can categorize by mood, geomap, age, gender, practically everything. Click on a circle to read their full bio and their full sentence. I don't know if it includes Facebook notes or not... but if it does, I may have to change "mood" to "feeling" and participate in this thing.

wii... ftl?

posted by dave on 12/03/06 @ 04:09PM | tags: sat life dailies social | 2 comments | permalink

thursday, august 30, 2007

Octopods

[mood: depressed, a little bit. don't know why.] [listening to: pianos]

Octopods. I decided I would register a new AIM handle today because I wanted one without a long string of numbers in it. "5756" isn't exactly the easiest number to remember. If you don't know the story behind my current screen name, it was made during fourth or fifth grade as a joke to spoof some other guy's screen name - dude5567. It worked pretty well. dude5567's mom is a whore. Remember that. And since then I've probably much stuck with dude5756. I'm pretty sure I had another one before that but I can't for the life of me remember what it is. I think I actually started out as an MSN kid, but then everyone used AIM. Oh, I also one with "wizard" in it for about a day. Then "wizards" all of a sudden were "gay" and "dudes" were so much "cooler."

Back to octopods. I couldn't get the one I wanted, dococtopi, so I tried "octopie" and stuff but none seemed to work. I tried octopods as a joke - what do you know. At least it'll be easier to give out than "5756."

But please don't message me on octopods. I created it just so that giving it out would be easier. I don't like the idea of having more than one screen name - I feel a bit dirty already knowing that I have two. If someone could explain to me the purpose of multiple screen names (at this point in lives, at least... work/family/friends SN's - thats a different story), they can win a prize. Do we really need to clutter up our contacts lists with three (or more!) of you (i'm looking at you, parth)? I for one miss cook e crumb 918, brownequeen917, and one who is weird. Although not xXnpOgipiNoyXx. No more names like that, please. I'm glad we're all most of us are out of that phase in our lives.

Keeping your old screen names makes keeping in touch easier. There's just something about that Rosalyn didn't understand.

Great Scott! - Marty!

What's really happening in Darfur? - I knew I've seen Good Magazine from Eric's post somewhere before. Here's where. A very nice summary of what is going on in Darfur right now. Sure everyone knows whatever is happening is bad, but this cartoon clearly sums up the political situation in a way that everyone can understand.

I show off my Xbox 360 game at Microsoft's X07 - That's right guys, I've been leading a double life. I'll finally admit it. Yesterday, I flew in to Canada to show off the new build of my Xbox game, WarPong. Awesome. Perhaps a little backstory is needed, though. Every weekend, I am a Canadian citizen that codes C++ on XNA for Microsoft's Xbox 360. And this is video of me showing off my game at their games conference, X07. Okay, well, not really. But this is about another guy with the exact same name as me that is the exact same age (close enough; same grade) doing the same kinda stuff I do (close enough). When I saw it, I jumped out of my seat. There are noticeable differences between us two, though. Well, difference. Mainly the hair. And the spectacles. And he can probably do calculus.

sh oc ker ftw

posted by dave on 08/30/07 @ 07:22PM | tags: life social dailies meta | 5 comments | permalink