May 2013
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Fish Fingers and Custard
I think that bit was stolen from an episode of QI where Alan Davies talks about consuming most of the fish fingers, custard, and baked beans he’s eaten as a child. So at least one of the writers on Doctor Who watches QI.
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Guess I'm Moving to 500px
After the recent Flickr update, I decided to re-evaluate whether or not to continue using Flickr. I’m a Pro customer, so I get to keep my account indefinitely, and I won’t be personally affected by the changes in the immediate future. However, free user accounts will be subjected to ads, which means I’ll eventually have to wade through ads to see what I really want to see on the...
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Finished the Dark Tower Series
So I finally finished my re-read of the Dark Tower series, which started at the beginning of March (or mayhaps the end of February). That’s 4,250 pages including The Wind Through the Keyhole, which King released last year.
I’m satisfied, exhausted, and have the compulsion to read as many books that touch on the series as I can right now. It (started and abandoned more ), Insomnia...
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Kobo Support Nightmare: Aura with Blown Pixels
I made the following post in the mobileread.com forums, but I wanted to also post it here, because everyone should be aware of the nightmare that is Kobo Customer Service:
I ordered an Onyx Aura HD on 4/20, and it took several days to get any answers out of the company about shipping, but it eventually shipped and I received it on 4/29. I opened it, took it out of the box, performed the software...
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Hugely Disappointing Flickr Upgrade Makes me...
Yahoo did a major Flickr overhaul yesterday, released a new layout, introduced new pricing tiers, and promised ads for free users. It also removed a lot of functionality that more serious (and analytic-minded) photographers used. So I figure it’s time to move. I think I’ll end up at 500px, because my portfolio is already over there. I think a lot of people will end up dumping Flickr.
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To All of the People Fleeing to WordPress
You are foolish.
We don’t (yet) know what changes will come to Tumblr now that Yahoo owns it, but chances are, no changes will come for some time.
Many news reports are stating that Tumblr will be run as a separate entity, and will not be built into the Yahoo ecosystem for the foreseeable future.
WordPress just had a major security kerfuffle and got bitchslapped by a botnet about a month...
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Petition Stop Yahoo! From Buying Tumblr →
This is petition for Stop Yahoo! From Buying Tumblr. Join the movement! Sign now!
I don’t know if this will help stop Yahoo from buying Tumblr, but it couldn’t hurt to sign it.
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Sheemie at Algul Siento
…that moment when Sheemie and Roland meet again, and you find out that Sheemie had been blaming himself for Susan’s death for ALL THOSE YEARS. Just as Roland blamed himself.
*sigh*
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Yahoo Wants To Buy Everyone, Tumblr Edition |... →
If you haven’t heard Yahoo is trying to buy Tumblr. There are also rumors that Facebook is trying to buy Tumblr. If either of those scenarios happen, Tumblr gets screwed. If Yahoo buys Tumblr, I fear it will get stale and moldy like Flickr, while it’s competition (500px and G+) make it look more and more prehistoric with every update. And If Facebook buys Tumblr, I just feel like...
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Dear Tumblr Android App Developers,
How hard would it be for you to ACTUALLY use Android’s notification system and tell me when I have notes, new followers, and messages via the notification shade? Why do I need to launch the app to see this?
Fix it already. Geez.
Thanks, -Every Tumblr Android App User Ever
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Baby in a Trench Coat
I was watching Supernatural on a slight delay to avoid commercials, and I felt a sudden disturbance in the fandom as though thousands of people all cried out at once.
So the lunatics running the asylum are all on earth now, and Cas is mortal. Ugh my head still hurts. It’s going to be a long summer. A REALLY long summer.
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Cowardly Parents and the Kindle Fire
I really detest that Kindle Fire commercial where the parent sets the amount of time that their kid can play games and read on the tablet. So essentially, when the kid runs out of play time, the Kindle cuts them off, “so you (the parent) don’t have to.”
So now gadgets are parenting children because cowardly parents are too scared to be the bad guy and set boundaries. Or even...
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Happy Mother's Day to All Who Have Spawned Tiny...
I was really specific in the title of this post, because I’m just not going to wish a happy Mother’s Day to pet owners.
If you’re brave enough to squeeze something the size of a bowling ball through a hole the size of a pea and raise it, you deserve a special day.
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Can't Wait to Get My Optimus G Pro in June
I am over this Galaxy S3, especially the camera right now, and I’m dying to move on. AT&T will let me upgrade on June 1st, and June 2nd is my birthday anyway, so I figure I might as well upgrade. If something comes out later this year that I fancy (like a Nexus 5 with 64GB of storage), I can always upgrade off contract.
But for right now, I’m just irritated with this phone. Meh.
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Voltron Dialog Gets Better
If you’re new to Voltron (Lion Force) it takes 8-10 episodes for them to figure out the whole “Let’s Form Voltron” dialog. It changes a few times, and I laughed at the first couple of tries.
Oh yeah and Sven got injured and was sent to another planet to seek medical care. Now we have the princess in the Blue Lion. Meh. I miss Sven.
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Too Many Spiders
I went to throw a plastic bottle into one of the recycling bins in my garage and out ran a ground spider roughly the size of a tea cup poodle. I tried to shoo it outside, but it was raining, so it ran deeper into my garage, and will undoubtedly end up in the comic book drawer boxes I have out there. Time to put those on Craigslist.
So I walk into my bedroom several hours later, and there’s...
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Pesky Mice
I decided to watch Voltron from the beginning, because I want to be eight or nine again, and not worry about compressor coil leaks and mortgages.
I completely forgot that it took four episodes for the new Voltron Force to even form Voltron thanks to pesky mice and a missing key. And the dialog in that first episode when they formed Voltron is just bad, but I suppose it could be kinda awkward the...
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BOOGER!
Is anyone else as excited as I am that Supernatural FINALLY introduced Metatron who happens to be played by Booger from Revenge of the Nerds (Curtis Armstrong).
And how cute is it that Metatron and Castiel are hanging out?!
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Babblr is Broken, so I Should Donate? Say What...
So Babblr had an embarrassingly bad launch yesterday. I was one of the early sign ups, so I was supposed to have access early (sans donation) which still hasn’t happened.
Babblr sends out an email with a status update today essentially begging for donations. To fix your failed launch, you want me to give you money to rehabilitate a clearly broken product? Seriously?
You must be...
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My Facebook Profile is Private and for Friends...
How is that so hard to understand? After shutting down my old Facebook profile and opening an account just to use Messenger with, I made it very clear to the people I added that this was to stay private and for Messenger use only.
A now former friend of mine invited me to work on a local magazine as a contributor. This is not a paid job, and I agreed to do it as a favor to him. After telling...
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Abercrombie and Fitch Would Rather Burn... |... →
So let me get this right. A major clothing brand would rather destroy “defective” clothes than donate them to the needy. They would rather have the less fortunate go naked than give them a handout, because they don’t want their brand to be worn by the wrong kind.
I haven’t set foot in an A&F store in about 15 years. I knew there was a reason.
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Babblr? WTF?
Would someone just tell me when Babblr decides to work?
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How to Not Be An Internet Troll
According to Craig Ferguson, there are three things you should ask yourself before you post anything on the Internet:
1. Does this need to be said?
2. Does this need to be said by me?
3. Does this need to be said by me right now?
Makes sense.
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What's up at Producteev?: To a great 2013! More... →
producteev:
Hi everyone,
Even though we’ve been a bit quiet on our blog since we’ve announced our acquisition by Jive a little over a month ago, we’ve been really hard at work.
Just thought I would update you guys on what’s going on.
BRAND NEW VERSION
Well, we’ve rolled up our sleeves…
This update from Producteev is still vaporware well into Q2. I’m looking for a new task...
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Wee Hour Wake Ups
So right after the Boston Bombings, my sleep pattern changed much to my dismay. I am waking up every night between 3am and 4:30am, and in almost all cases I fail to return to sleep even with the aid of Benadryl. I’m sleep deprived and it’s affecting everything.
I had similar problems after 9/11, but they were much more severe (I’d go up to 10 days on a total of about 4 hours...
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Summer Reading List
I invested heavily in my Kobo Aura HD and now I’m investing time in organizing my eBook library in Calibre. I’m also making my summer reading list, which so far consists of:
Song of Susannah (Dark Tower 6) - In Progress - Stephen King
The Dark Tower (Dark Tower 7) - Stephen King
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Nerd Do Well - Simon Pegg
American Gods...
April 2013
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A Haiku: Cloud Zombies
This haiku goes out for all of the people who blindly save all of their data to the cloud and trust the providers without reading their Terms of Service.
cloud zombie uploads everything to internet thinks he controls it
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More on Kobo and my Aura HD
So after putting the company on blast here, on Twitter, and on G+, Kobo CS investigated my case and responded via Twitter. A few minutes later, I got an RMA email stating that they were sending me a brand new Aura ASAP. This is the outcome I suspected, because this is their new limited edition, forspecial reader.
Anyway, as I was finishing Dark Tower 5 on it last night I discovered that with the...
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Dear College Students: LinkedIn Is Not The Same As... →
Even if they’re whizzes at Facebook and Twitter, many college students need help leveraging their professional social networking opportunities.
I know a lot of unemployed and underemployed twenty-somethings, and recently dated some with employment problems and sketchy work histories. The lowest common denominator among them is that none of them used LinkedIn.
Some have LinkedIn profiles,...
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Sheeple are Getting Their S4s Today
Everywhere I go I’m bombarded with more Samsung S4 marketing mush and excited sheeple gushing over their new S4s. In a few more days I figure I’ll start seeing all the posts complaining about the bugs and the busted apps that shipped with it from Samsung, and how there’s hardly any storage left on the 16GB model, because TouchWiz takes up 6-8GB of storage by itself.
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