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Category Archives: Computers
Ubuntu Unity — Worst GUI Evar?
There’s only one thing that can get me blogging again, and that’s an opportunity to rant on a terrible distribution of Ubuntu. And boy howdy, is Ubuntu 11.04 bad. I suppose we should have seen this coming; I mean, this … Continue reading
Posted in Apologies, Computers, Insane Screed From Cabin, Music, This Insane World
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Why I, Of All People, Got An iPhone
After three fine years of service, my Blackberry Curve 8310 finally kicked the bucket. I had to physically push the charger plug into the phone and sit there holding it, otherwise it wouldn’t charge. Obviously, not even a person with … Continue reading
A Small Portion of the Copyright Post I Always Told Myself I’d Write
I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m confused by copyright in the US right now. I’m a child of the 80′s — an era where magnetic tapes time-shifted anything and everything, from song mixes for would-be lovers to Thursday night’s … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, Music, Television, This Insane World
Tagged big business, catching a deluge in a paper cup, CD, copyright, DMCA, DVD, MPAA, net neutrality, Obama, pointless blather, RIAA, The Man
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A Little Rant About The Job Situation
I’ve been looking for jobs for a long time now, a process I’m just terrible at. It involves wasting copious amounts of time on dead ends and red herrings. It puts me in uncomfortable situations. It forces me to spend … Continue reading
Posted in Apologies, Computers, This Insane World, Work
Tagged Computers, evil, hire me, jobs, rant
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Twitter: What Does This Mean?
You hear it all the time out there in the world of ever-opining media: Twitter this, twitter that, it’s revolutionary, it’s sucky, it’ll be gone in two years, it’ll last forever like KISS, etc. Nobody really knows what to make … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, This Insane World
Tagged funny, journalism, lies, reporting, self-deprecating, truth, twitter
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Funny Things Week: Know Your Meme
We continue this week of stuff that makes me laugh with knowyourmeme.com, the internet repository of knowledge about itself. Did you ever see a term on the internet that made you scratch your head? Did you ever wonder where videos … Continue reading
Funny Things Week: Microsoft Fune
I found this funny:
Posted in Computers, Insane Screed From Cabin, This Insane World
Tagged fune, microsoft, ucbcomedy.com
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Tweeting Too Hard
Now this is a good idea — cataloging (catalogueing?) self-important tweets and re-tweeing them for purposes of mockery. I present to you: tweetingtoohard.com There’s lots of fun stuff there, to be sure. The site doesn’t seem to recognize when people … Continue reading
Driving From Dallas To Milwaukee
I’ll be live twittering my trip from Dallas to Milwaukee tomorrow. I’m driving because I have to cart some stuff back from the soon-to-be-sold parents’ house. This would seem to be what twitter is made for, and since my phone … Continue reading
I Now Think in Twitter Tweets
Here’s the funny thing: I was resistant to the whole idea of Twitter at first, as I think everybody is. It’s like facebook without anything but status updates, and those updates are limited to 140 characters. But in its simplicity … Continue reading
