Loose your job? Sig. Other break up with you because you caught them cheating on you? Spend countless hours with WhoIs to find out who MagnoliaLover is?
Well, now there’s a new way to let them know just how much you care. Ok, so its been around for a while, but its new to me. I just ran across it today.
This is kind of funny, mostly because, well, I’ve never cos-played, I don’t plan on cos-playing, and if I did, I would pick a costume that takes into account my not insignificant bulk.
Wait, fat, ignorant American isn’t considered a costume at Otakon, is it? Cuz I know I’ve seen them in an anime or two (or most of them).
(Found via a blog that was around before the word blog was, Random Drivel)
As if we all didn’t know already, Firefox kicks ass.
Oh yeah, so does Google.
I had the TV on while I was doing homework, and a commercial came on for Burger King’s Enormous Omelet Sandwich. I didn’t really notice, as I was doing homework, untill I heard one magical word come from the tv…
“Meatnormous”.
I don’t really know if this sandwich is any good. Given the fact that I don’t like any of BK’s breakfast stuff, I’d doubt it, but I figure I might just have to try it after giving me such a great new word.
More intentionally horrible poetry:
Oh, myriad-color fluid that liveth
In the nose of my soul
I am entirely ensorcled with
This mucine conept on the whole
Your moods are many.
White for Freedom, and carefreeness
When you visit despite lack of illness
Yellow for Wisdom, and ambiguiety
Let sleeping dogs lie in my belfry?
Green for Assertiveness, to forge onward the mucus
Of my illness in a manner most non-ambiguous
Red for Courage, oh gods I’m bleeding
Not to pick, my failures of heeding
Now I’ve shown your breadth of colour
And established your virtues, Anon!
If so like a rainbow your allure
Where is my fucking leprechaun
Interesting that former Malaysian prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, sees the United States heading towards financial DOOM because GWB chooses not to value the repayment of debt. As he stresses a change of leadership in our nation, we find evidence of yet another foreign country who wished they had a say in our election. He propses the utility of returning to the gold standard, too bad this is so impractical its laughable, or basing our currency on the Euro, too bad we’re way too arrogant to do something like that. ‘Tis better to die trying and whatnot. Just something I’ll keep in the back of my mind 3.5 years from now if we last that long.
Continuing today’s theme of “politics via other blogs because I have nothing else to do”, an interesting article discussing Karl Rove, and his impact on the Republican party.
(Hat tip to Andrew Sullivan at the Daily Dish.)
Your neighborhood friendly admin speaking.
Since I have a job that consists largely of being paid to sit on my ass and refill the printer paper once every three hours, I reworked the categories. Several have been renamed and reclassified to fit more thematically. Several have been added. These should all be relatively self-explanitory.
I want to encourage people to correctly categorize their posts, and to avoid the “General” category unless it’s something so tangential that it truly doesn’t fit anywhere else. This makes several things easier, including my life.
I also want to thank Climb to the Stars for the truly excellent and profoundly useful Batch Catagory Wordpress plugin, without which this would have taken days.
While I’m on, I also want to point out to all Ziggurat contributors the WordPress bookmarklet at the bottom of the page you use to write a new post. It is your friend.
Back to your lives, citizens.
An interesting little article by Rich Karlgaad (publisher of Forbes) on Silicon Valley politics.
I think it overgeneralizes, as most such articles do, but there are a number of cognizent points in there. In particular, I think he does an excellent job of capturing the somewhat peculiar gestault of issues that the tech-happy branch of libertarianism tends to follow. It helps that I’m solidly on their side, of course. Should be read.
(Picked up via VodkaPundit.)
RFC #1 on ZoD Categories Listing:
Should we or should we not create a general “Reviews” category, with less general “tech review” and “media review” subcategories? This would require actual effort, as we’d have to delete the old categories and recreate them as sub-categories of “Reviews”, then re-mark all the old posts in those categories. But it might save us from having 117 categories, and give a useful heirarchy.
Thoughts?
So, I have to say, I think this one’s a keeper.
First off, it takes up SO little room on the browser’s frontpage that I initially didnt think it was installed at all. However, down in the bottom right hand corner of my screen, in the status bar, there’s a little box that says “alive.”
Thats it. Just “alive.”
Until, of course, you click on it. Then it has useful options like “Recheck Abe Vigoda’s Status,” “Visit AbeVigoda.com,” and links to the IMDB and Wikipedia entries on Abe Vigoda.
I’m rating this one +2, Handy.
It seems, at the time of this posting, Abe Vigoda is alive. This can’t last. Look at the guy. He’s old.
Well fortunantly, there’s a firefox plugin that will keep you up to date on Abe’s condition.
Before I start showing flaws in the system, I must say that I am thoroughly pleased with this technology. The programmers at Google have got to be some of the best in the world. Maps are scrollable as they should be and entering logical search strings to the effect of “store-name in zip code” or “store-type in city, state” produces exactly what you’re looking for: a map of that location with all the stores highlighted. Its when you put in the unusual, unexpected things that maps.google flips.
For example, try: “pornography in cleveland”. Notice who is 1st on the list. Notice who is 4th.
Remember all those “3-D Tetris” ideas that mostly sucked? Well, now we have 1-D Tetris. Enjoy.
Wired has an article - its another come-from-behind story where the mexican illegal immigrants kick MIT’s ass in a robotics competetion.
However, even though the team of misfit geniuses got the gold, there’s not really a happy ending for them. They cant get any scholarships or Student Aid to go to college, cause they’re illegal immigrants. So, sucks to be them.
(There’s also a link where you can send a check to help the kids get a college education. I’m sending one.)
I haven’t watched most of Utena, so I can’t fully appreciate this, but here’s Utena Thumbnail Theater
The final report on our favorite digital plagerist.
If it had been an April Fool’s prank, that would have been lame.
This conclusion is infinately more satisfying.
Looks like it whack a seal time again, and time for the greeny weannies to come out of the woodwork.
Mabye greenpeace will protest. Mabye the’ll get their asses kicked. We can only hope.
Why you don’t ask random people on AIM to write your college papers for you.
Ah, funny-stupid. I like it when stupid people make me laugh (as opposed to making me fume with rage, compare Intelligent Design article below.)
This time, they admit it: Fundamentalist intelligent-design advocate states that “We’ve been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of the culture”. Well, yea. We’re right, asshole.
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