You know you're living in 2005 When:

  1.  You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.

  2.  You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.

  3.  You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.

 4.  You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

  5.  Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.

  6.  You go home after a long day at work and you still answer the phone in a businesslike manner.

  7.  You make phone calls from home and you accidentally dial "9" to get an outside line.

  8.  You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.

  10.  You learn about your redundancy on the 11 o'clock news.

   11.  Your boss doesn't have the ability to do your job.

  12. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.

  13. Every commercial on television has a website at the bottom of the screen.

  14. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic

and you turn around to go and get it.

  15. You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.

  16. You start tilting your head sideways to smile.

  17. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.

  18. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.

  19. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.

  20. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this list.

Oblique Strategies - Dashboard - Games

Dude! This is great. I love this Oblique Strategies, and was always thinking about making a set or buying a set. Now, I dun't have ta!Oblique Strategies - Dashboard - Games

Wired News: Privacy Guru Locks Down VOIP

Wired News: Privacy Guru Locks Down VOIP: "Like PGP and PGPfone, which he created as human rights tools for people around the world to communicate without fear of government eavesdropping, Zimmermann hopes his new program will restore some of the civil liberties that have been lost in recent years and help businesses shield themselves against corporate espionage."

wonka kids all grown up

Mainly cause my kids love the old movie. I like the new one better. :)


wonka kids all grown up

flickrcard

flickrcard
Originally uploaded by roblef.

Finally! Finally! I am a TRUE GEEK! I have a flickr card. A card to hand out to people when I want them to be able to hook into my flickr account. it's even showing a specific tag i want to use, say for an event or some such, that people can then click through to see only pictures i want them to see! cool!

more from the mind of mimi smartypants

mimi smartypants:

I know i quote WAY too much of this woman's writing, but you have to read the whole thing to get it. MY GOD she's funny. I wish I were this cool about my kids.

"MASTER OF PUPPETS You may remember the 'Hello, I am a nose' routine. Well, everything is now a puppet. EVERYTHING. Nora's puppet-love has gone way beyond her small collection of finger and hand puppets, and now it is not at all unusual for her to pick up a rock, introduce it in a funny voice ('Hello, I am a rock'), and then badger me into picking up another rock ('Hello, I am another rock') and acting out some awkward, inane dialogue. (Truly, there is not much to say when you're a rock. Although I did teach Nora to exclaim, 'I'm igneous!') It becomes tiresome after a while, but for the most part I am totally down with Nora's lively world of talking inanimate objects.SCENE: Nora is eating peanut butter from a bowl, fingerscoop by fingerscoop, which grosses me out but it has been a 'choose your battles' kind of day. Suddenly she raises one finger-glob of peanut butter into the air and says, 'Hello, I am peanut butter!''Hello, peanut butter!' I reply. 'How's life treating you?''Fine,' says the peanut butter.We attempt some more small talk, me and the peanut butter glob---Nora has him (?) say, 'I came from a bowl' and 'I am sticky and good for your body,' both of which phrases I mentally resolve to try and use the very next time some drunk idiot chats me up in a bar. Then Nora suddenly puts the glob in her mouth, pulls her finger out, and yells in the peanut-butter voice, 'Ahhhh! Where is me?' That, my friends, is Dadaist puppet theater at its best---when the puppeteer suddenly chows down on the star of the show. The end! Curtain! House lights up! Thank you for coming!"

children show freakout

ok, so there are two characters on the tv that my kids watch that freak me out, each in their own special way.

1) the damn alligator on Maisy. Maybe he's a crocodile. I dunno.l I think his name is charlie. he has this fucked up, crazy, person-who-has-mental-retardation voice when he does the sort of talking that passes for conversation on the show. he makes me feel weird.

2) stephani, on Lazy Town. the show itself is a bit strange, since they're always going on about the need to exercise, and not watch tv or play video games (you're a TV show, DUH). they call apples "sports candy." But the girl character makes me feel funny. down there. you know hwat i mean. should I get help? i don't look aat underage porn. teen sites are stupid. i can barely tolerate women my OWN age. why does this slim hipped, pink haired tom-boy waif engender this feeling. dunno.

you can call the police now.

Griffin Technology

Have to remember to grab this when the iMac gets back from service.

Griffin Technology

Morgan Spurlock Watch: Why Does Morgan Spurlock Hate Recycling?

From a blog that purports to debate the Spurlock.

Morgan Spurlock Watch: Why Does Morgan Spurlock Hate Recycling?: "Rendering is recycling. In fact, it's a much more efficient, productive, useful way of recycling than, for example, putting your bottles, cans, and paper in separate bins at the end of the driveway each week. Not only does rendering turn waste into usable consumer products and put fat and protein to new uses, it safely eradicates between 40 and 50 percent of post-slaughter animal waste. It breaks that waste down, kills off pathogens, and puts it to new uses. Were it not for rendering, we'd have twice as many cow, pig, and chicken remains we'd need to find something to do with -- likely disposal in a landfill."


Here's Morgan Spu8rlock's blog. The first few posts just make it look like a thinly veiled marketing thingamabob, but I'll have to dig deeper:

Blog of the Spurlock

The MDI Air Car - the world�s cleanest car.

This has got to be the coolest idea. I doubt it will ever catch on, but it's neat. I just watched a 30 Days episode in which they took a couple of NY city folk who live on the grid, and sent them to Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage. Cool episode, and it had bits on fuel cell cars, and veggie powered deisel cars. Anyway, here's the MDI Air Car - the world's cleanest car.

Guardian Unlimited Politics | Comment | Mark Honigsbaum: Magic mushrooms are harmless

Guardian Unlimited Politics | Comment | Mark Honigsbaum: Magic mushrooms are harmless:

"The Aztecs referred to them as 'the flesh of the gods'. Lewis Carroll based whole passages of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on them. And the Glastonbury organisers have found that, unlike Ecstasy, 'shrooms' (as the psychedelic fungi sold across the country are known) do not fill the medical tent with dehydrated zombies.Indeed, magic mushrooms seem to have no adverse health consequences (unless you take them while operating heavy machinery). Which makes it curious, as Alice might have put it, that next month's Glastonbury will be the last where devotees can journey to the spirit world without fear of ending up in a prison cell."

Sex with Dolphins - "How To", and a Personal Viewpoint...

OH, jeebus. Check out the guy's name, too. :)

Sex with Dolphins - "How To", and a Personal Viewpoint... :

"Q2) How do I know if a dolphin wants to have sex?

A2) There are various ways a dolphin has of showing that she or he is interested
in sex.

Males are probably the easiest to detect. They will swim around, sporting an
erection (anywhere between 10 to 14 inches long for a Bottle-nose), and will
have no bones about swimming up to you and placing their member within reach of
your hand. If you are in the water, they may rub it along any part of your body,
or wrap it around your wrist or ankle. (Dolphin males have a prehensile penis.
They can wrap it around objects, and carry them as such.) Their belly will also
be pinkish in colour, which also denotes sexual excitement.

Females can be a little harder. The most obvious way a female dolphin has of
displaying her sexual interest is the pink-belly effect. Their genitals become
very pink and swollen, making the genital region very prominent. They may be
restless, or they may be acting as normal. If you are out of the water, they may
swim up to you and roll belly up, exposing themselves to you, coupled with
pelvic thrusts. If you are in the water, they may press their genitals up
against yours, nibble your fingers, nuzzle your crotch, or do pelvic thrusts
against you.

Each dolphins way of expressing sexual readiness varies, so the longer you know
the dolphin, the better you will detect when they are sexually active."

Boing Boing: Help name Downhill Battle's video tool, win $1000

Boing Boing: Help name Downhill Battle's video tool, win $1000:

"Downhill Battle's new project is the Participatory Culture digital video project, a tool that lets you publish, receive and play back video by using BitTorrent, RSS aggregation, and the multi-format video playback engine VLC -- all packaged together in an easy-to-use parcel that can be readily used by information civilians."

Book - Free Software for Busy People

Book - Free Software for Busy People

House of Cosbys #1

Viewing House of Cosbys #1

Explosions plunge London into chaos from Guardian Unlimited: Newsblog

Are we going to start calling this 7/7?

Explosions plunge London into chaos from Guardian Unlimited: Newsblog:

A series of co-ordinated bomb blasts have hit central London today, at the height of the morning rush hour. The most recent confirmed toll is 33 people killed, although this number is likely to rise. More than 1,000 have been injured.

"0851: First incident between Moorgate and Liverpool St. An explosion hits the train 100 yards from Liverpool St, in the tunnel. There are seven fatalities.
0856: The second blast happens on a tube train between King's Cross and Russell Square. 21 are confirmed dead.
0917: A third blast, this one at Edgware Road. It was powerful enough to blow a hole into another train, with three trains in all involved. Five dead.
0947: The fourth blast, this time on a bus in Tavistock Place. There are no numbers on fatalities from this attack.There was no warning, and no claims of responsibility yet.
DAC Brian Paddick: 'This was clearly a callous attack on purely innocent members of public clearly designed to kill and injure members of the public.'"

gibson on remix

Wired 13.07: God's Little Toys: "Our culture no longer bothers to use words like appropriation or borrowing to describe those very activities. Today's audience isn't listening at all - it's participating. Indeed, audience is as antique a term as record, the one archaically passive, the other archaically physical. The record, not the remix, is the anomaly today. The remix is the very nature of the digital.

Today, an endless, recombinant, and fundamentally social process generates countless hours of creative product (another antique term?). To say that this poses a threat to the record industry is simply comic. The record industry, though it may not know it yet, has gone the way of the record. Instead, the recombinant (the bootleg, the remix, the mash-up) has become the characteristic pivot at the turn of our two centuries."

talkie talk talk

da weather? nah.

shyness is tricky. i'm shy. I'm not comfy aropund new people, or new situations. yet I know it's vital to my growth as a human being to be around them. but i also believe that being around people that are not supportive or willing to engage with me can be unhealthy for me, too. it's a balancing act. how do you figure out who to hang out with? do you stick to the people you know, and like? if so, do you risk becoming like the safe people? the ones who hang out with friends from high school well into their thirties, talking about shit that went down in 1989? Or do you branch out, meet new people, with all the uncertainty and lack of trust that goes along with it? it's a dance i tell you, a DANCE!