4 Things
Posted 04 Oct, 2006 at 10:15 by brent in /Chatter | Permanent link
Four Jobs
- Dishwasher (Golden Griddle)
- Dickie Dee
- Test Lead at Xbox Live
- Senior Programmer at BioWare
Four Movies
- Incredibles
- Shrek
- Gattaca
- Shawshank Redemption
Four Places
- Waterloo
- Ottawa
- Seattle
- Edmonton
Four TV Shows
- The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
- The Colbert Report
- Mythbusters
- Mantracker
Four Vacations
- Florida
- Algonquin Park
- Hawaii
- Banff
Four Websites
- Sluggy Freelance (http://www.sluggy.com)
- Penny Arcade (http://www.penny-arcade.com)
- Order of the Stick (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/ootslatest.html)
- Megatokyo (http://www.megatokyo.com)
Four foods
- Deviled eggs
- Pecan Pie
- Dark Chocolate
- Bacon
Four Places
- Visiting Friends
- Australia
- Italy
- New Zealand
Four bloggers (might be a stretch...)
- Sky
- Lisa
- Justyna
- Nikita
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4 Things
Posted 30 Sep, 2006 at 08:49 by blue in /Chatter | Permanent link
A little something...
Four jobs I’ve had in my life
youth counsellor
farm hand
business process re-engineer
product manager
Four movies I can watch over and over
White Christmas
Shrek
Sound Of Music
The Fifth Element
Four places I have lived
Orangeville, Ontario, Canada
New York, New York, USA
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Waterloo, Ontaio, Canada
Four TV shows I love to watch
(this is very hard for someone without a TV)
CSI
Firefly/Babylon 5/ST:TNG (and various other extinct sci-fi shows)
Discovery Channel
Music Videos (MTV, MuchMusic, VH1)
Four places I have been on vacation
Mardi Gras, New Orleans
Signal Hill, Newfoundland
Highlands Backpacking Trail, Algonquin
Cat's Pyjama's B&B, Lion's Head
Four websites I visit daily
Questionable Content
Jay Is Games
CNN
Travian
Four of my favorite foods
Pad Thai
BBQ T-bone steak and a baked potato with butter and sour cream
Pie (and other pastries)
Fruit (almost any kind)
Four places I would rather be right now
camping
someplace new/on an adventure
playing ultimate
anyplace with friends
Four bloggers I am tagging
Matt
Kael
Brent
Wendy
If you've been tagged, the only rules are you must answer the same questions, and you must tag 4 new bloggers.
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Elvish
Posted 16 Mar, 2006 at 16:21 by kael in /Chatter | Permanent link
Here's a site that lets you get down to writing in Elvish right quick.
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The 39 Dollar Experiment
Posted 03 Mar, 2006 at 07:36 by blue in /Chatter | Permanent link
IN keeping with my previous post about $2 bills, here is another fun sort of experiment you can run.
Tom Locke, average Joe, took $39 in stamps and e-mailed companies to see what sort of free-bee's he could get... with the hope of improving on his $39 investment.
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Happy V-day!
Posted 14 Feb, 2006 at 08:05 by kael in /Chatter | Permanent link
For those of you desperately searching for cards, and with access to colour printers, you might want to try something from the following for your special someone:
- Dilbert
- Firefly Set 1 and Set 2
- Law and Order: Special Valentines Unit
- Some random, Design Contest cards
- And last, but not last, Penny Arcade (Okay, so it's not a card)
So, for all of you, have a happy smoochie sickeningly sweet Valentine's day!
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One Red Paperclip
Posted 08 Feb, 2006 at 07:49 by blue in /Chatter | Permanent link
What would you trade for a red paper clip?
Would you trade for a cube van?
That is so far what this guy has been able to do.
Starting with a red paper clip and trading up for constantly bigger and bigger things has thus far netted him a cube van. His goal? A house. Personally, I'm curious to see if he can do it.
So... umm.. I've got several red paperclips... what will you give me for them? ;)
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Max Stevens...
Posted 02 Feb, 2006 at 11:52 by blue in /Chatter | Permanent link
... you come across people in the strangest places...
While looking for information with regards to Internet Explorer 7.0 I came across a familiar name to many here who read this.
I feel like breaking out into a chours of It's a Small World...
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pr0n
Posted 14 Dec, 2005 at 23:30 by kael in /Chatter | Permanent link
Someone who's been trying to be helpful has suggested this site to me.
<rhetorical>It really makes me wonder whether people think I have a fetish for this stuff.</rhetorical>
For the record, I don't.
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Because smaller is better
Posted 28 Nov, 2005 at 12:40 by wendy in /Chatter | Permanent link
Check out the new iPod Zepto. Even smaller than the Nano...you may have some trouble locating it. This reminds me of the Onion's article on 5 bladed razors several years ago...
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Automotive Gods
Posted 12 Nov, 2005 at 18:56 by blue in /Chatter | Permanent link
So you say you don't believe in God?
What about the god of money? The god of big business? The god of modern medicine, fast food, alcohol and television?
Is the car-god any less demanding of sacrifice than the God of Abraham? Abraham was only asked to give up a son. 42,636 people were killed in 2004 in vehicular accidents in the United States alone. Rows of temples to the god of the combustion engine rise in every two-bit town big enough to support a bypass... we call them AutoMalls as we speed by. We pray to their acolytes, "Just stay green a little longer! No no! Don't turn red yet!" (oh c'mon, tell me you haven't mentally said that prayer at least once!)
Have we really moved away from one god, only to supplant it with a host of others who clamour for our attention? Are Tony the Tiger and Trix the Rabbit just different faces of the same god?
And what of the old gods? The ones that came before. Can Hermes and the television carry the same message? We can look back and think of the ancients as foolish for their beliefs, but would they not look forward at as and think the same?
Who will you make your sacrifice to this year?
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The Analog Hole
Posted 01 Nov, 2005 at 17:56 by blue in /Chatter | Permanent link
Some interesting reading about yet another RIAA/MIAA move to pass legislation in the US.
Personally I liked some of the entertaining comments people had written. The one making the case about the Harley made a good point in some respects... but missed the obvious fact that you can sell the original item you bought... even for a profit and 'added to'. You just can't sell "copies" of it... and I think Harley would object if you started selling knock-offs of their product too.
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Tim Burton's Oyster Boy
Posted 31 Oct, 2005 at 10:53 by blue in /Chatter | Permanent link
One last little season treat... Tim Burton's Oyster Boy and other stories
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The Internet is for Porn
Posted 25 Oct, 2005 at 09:04 by wendy in /Chatter | Permanent link
I'm sure that you all already know that The Internet is for Porn. But I'll bet you didn't expect to hear Cookie Monster singing about it! You'll need to have the sound turned on for this...not entirely worksafe (unless your coworkers have a good sense of humor).
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Some MPA humour
Posted 20 Oct, 2005 at 17:12 by blue in /Chatter | Permanent link
(This is largely tongue in cheek... or me finding humour on the MPAA site. If you don't see humour in it... don't worry... it's just you. ;) )
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Robot Wars
Posted 16 Oct, 2005 at 18:50 by blue in /Chatter | Permanent link
Robot Wars was a cool name for a game, or a TV show... where homemade robots duke it out for a prize.
But am I the only one scared by the way this article talks about how 'robots will be able to fight our wars without endangering a single soldier'. Umm.. I hate to say it, but do they really think that when one country's 'robot's are lying broken on the field they will just say 'Ah, dang it. Okay... you can half the country and all our money.'
A little naive I feel. And a little bit scary. Arming a bunch of robot who are able to perform tasks without any human commands. Hmmm...
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Is true genius a group or individual talent?
Posted 15 Sep, 2005 at 11:55 by blue in /Chatter | Permanent link
Is it just me or do you question the 'public knows best' concept of many of the reality TV shows.
I'm speaking of the 'Choose the next... (Popstar -- Apprentice -- Boy Band -- and most recently -- movie'
It principle it seems like a sound enough concept. Gather a bunch of talent and put it out to the public to choose their favorite... after all, shouldn't the one that gets selected be the most comercially viable because it's the most popular? And in the end of the day, that is what pop music, pop culture etc is about?
The thing is... I don't buy it. I think the really pop stuff comes not from what the public things is cool at the moment, but rather that unique genius that simply does it and manages to swing the mindset of millions.
But just my opinion.
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Web Comic Telethon
Posted 14 Sep, 2005 at 08:56 by blue in /Chatter | Permanent link
To support relief efforts in the southern states, a group of well know comic artists (Kim Deitch among others) have organized a (web comic telethon. If you're big into web comics, as several of you are, you might enjoy it. Even if you aren't... it's kind of an interesting social/political medium through which to witness the hurricane.
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Ah, Google
Posted 09 Sep, 2005 at 13:06 by kael in /Chatter | Permanent link
Seems that typing "failure" into google and hitting "Get Lucky" links to G. W. Bush's biography.
Someone obviously has a sense of humour....
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In a New York Minute
Posted 31 Aug, 2005 at 11:16 by blue in /Chatter | Permanent link
This is kind of a neat site that lists things overheard in New York...
Do a text search for javelina and read that entry... sometimes this is exactly the sort of approach I would love to take with people harassing me for change.
What about you?
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What do you want from life?
Posted 31 Aug, 2005 at 06:03 by blue in /Chatter | Permanent link
What do you want from life?It's an easy enough question to say, and I suppose if you give a flippant answer, it's an easy enough question to answer too.
However, if you put some serious thought behind it, it suddenly becomes a much more difficult and personal question.
Many of us are afraid that by acknowledging out loud what we truly desire out of life, in some ways it will jinx it. Others are simply embarrassed to admit what they want to others, since by admitting they want it implies that they don't have it already. It's a sign of vulnerability. After all... who really wants to admit that they want a pair of pink fuzzy bunny slippers?
Yet again... maybe by saying what you want you would discover either someone who has it and is willing to share... or simply that you aren't alone in your quest. I expect many of us want the same things.
So... what is it that you want from life?
Comment on this post and list your top 5. Feel free to comment on why those 5 or not. And if you are afraid... don't attach your name to the comment.
They could be material goods... (a house, a son, a firetruck with real flashy lights)... intangibles (to be loved, to be famous)... or something inbetween (to be healthy, see my grandchildren graduate).