Under the Fuzzy Green Hat

Dryck Lingon Yes, juice boxes are for kids, but drinking...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:26:00 -0700

Dryck Lingon

Yes, juice boxes are for kids, but drinking lingonberry juice makes me feel like a kid again. It’s just that good.

Things I will miss about working at the Gateway: collaborating...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:29:19 -0700

Things I will miss about working at the Gateway: collaborating using the staff wiki.

This Place Is Death One chip: needed a sip of water. Two chips:...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:25:00 -0700

This Place Is Death

One chip: needed a sip of water.

Two chips: needed a glass of water.

Three chips: my nose is now running and I don’t think I’ll be able to taste things again for a week.

Still: for $1.50, pretty good deal.

(And yes, I know water doesn’t technically work for this kind of thing, but whatever. MY BLOG, MY RULES, MY TRUTH. NO-SPIN ZONE)

Sarah, in some classic office shenanigans.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:57:56 -0700

[Flash 10 is required to watch video.]

Sarah, in some classic office shenanigans.

HP’s Slate ad Compare/contrast with Apple’s iPad ad...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:25:30 -0700

HP’s Slate ad

Compare/contrast with Apple’s iPad ad shown during the Oscars. It might be just the editing on this, but everything seems just a tad too artificial and rough in this promo for my liking; especially on the Google Maps zoom.

Also, how high do you have to be to put a loading screen in the middle of an ad for a product that’s meant to be seamless?

They Might Be Giants — “We Live In A Dump”...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:54:08 -0700

They Might Be Giants — “We Live In A Dump” (Demo)

Unlike much of my Giants collection, this track was actually self-discovered; four years ago, during the summer, I called into the now-defunct TMBG Dial-A-Song using Skype, and recorded this song.

Unbeknownst to me at the time, it would be the last song ever played on the service before its death.

Anyway. Enjoy.

Likes on spec

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:24:01 -0700

Likes on spec

Forced Picture of Your New Haircut for Your Mom Monday!

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:33:44 -0700

Forced Picture of Your New Haircut for Your Mom Monday!

“Would you say classy?” “I wouldn’t say...

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:31:00 -0700

“Would you say classy?” “I wouldn’t say classy.”

I was just re-listening to classic YLNT episode “The Sake Period”, and found this glaring continuity error. I’ll let you try to find it for yourself, but I’ve put the answer upside-down below if you’re still stumped.

¡ʇɐɥ ɐ ƃuıɹɐǝʍ ʇ,usı uılɹǝɯ :ʇı pǝssǝnƃ noʎ

(feat. Ryan as the iPad-doubting non-believer)

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:19:14 -0700

(feat. Ryan as the iPad-doubting non-believer)

On Track 2

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:40:19 -0700

On Track 2

World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums -> Hotkey bug!

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:06:10 -0700

World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums -> Hotkey bug!:

From user “Kwakmeister” of the World of Warcraft Forums:

Ok im new to hotkeying so im most likely doing something wrong. I can hotkey alt to anything but the function keys. I can do alt+f1, f2, f3 but when i get to f4 it crashes my game EVERY TIME! Its annoying because I have to reset all my hotkeys cuz a game crash doesnt save them. Please fix soon!

Since my audience tends to skew nerd-supernerd, let’s have a quick laugh before I start pontificating. “Ha! What an idiot! He didn’t even know that ALT+F4 quits a program in Windows! No wonder he couldn’t bind that hotkey! Strike down with the cluehammer, and roll out the ASCII Picard Facepalm! L.O.L!”

Okay. Now that our schadenfreude’s been satisfied, let’s get serious. Under what insane mnemonic shortcut system does ALT+F4 mean “quit program”? I’m guessing it’s some holdover from the DOS era, or from Windows 3.11 for Workgroups, but why some programmer analyst would pick it over Control+Q is baffling.

So, I open it up to you: instead of trying to scientifically Google something, why not just make stuff up? What’s your ALT+F4 origin story?

They Might Be Giants — “Snowball In Hell”...

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:55:39 -0700

They Might Be Giants — “Snowball In Hell” (Demo)

From the Infamous WFMU Tape.

Audio • Vidéo, Radio–Canada. How do it know? frostalgia: My...

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:40:51 -0700

Audio • Vidéo, Radio–Canada. How do it know?

frostalgia:

My desk and I made the news today. Only, it was in French… alors, mon bureau et moi ont fait les informations du soir. Aussi, un cameo par Luças Wagneur.

Also, there was a story or something involved. There’s no possible way I could remember what it was, though.

Fun story: I came into work half an hour late this morning, only to find my co-editors speaking in French to a camera crew in the middle of the office. I rarely have cause to freak out, but I was freaked out as all heck because I had no idea what was going on.

Come to think of it, I still don’t.

Also featured: my poor posture, my cluttered desk, and my blank Safari tab because I got nervous with reporters looking over my shoulder.

Tumblr for iPhone is one of those things that I use all the...

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:12:58 -0700

Tumblr for iPhone is one of those things that I use all the time, despite the fact that it makes me cry myself to sleep.

Exhibit A: you can’t sanely reblog something unless you have 20 minutes to kill and the fingers of a finger-gymnast.

I wish it could be better. I wish there were a way to make it better. But until then, I just have to write my ideas reblogged upon the shoulders of giants down somewhere else and reassemble them once I stop moving — often, long past its relevance.

I’m Thinking Nightmares

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:25:20 -0700

I’m Thinking Nightmares

Well, glad that’s over with.

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:15:53 -0700

Well, glad that’s over with.

"Life is incredibly long! Hold grudges, hate people…"

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:55:36 -0700

“Life is incredibly long! Hold grudges, hate people…”

- Ryan

LAN Admin Jay Spoils the Ballots

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:58:02 -0700

LAN Admin Jay Spoils the Ballots

"Unrelated: Am I horrible for wanting to draw Roger Ebert as one of the special infected from L4D?"

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:49:44 -0700

“Unrelated: Am I horrible for wanting to draw Roger Ebert as one of the special infected from L4D?”

- Mike, who is horrible