Tagged With: internet
Clogged Tubes
The Internet is broken at work. Gmail works semi-okay, but I am having trouble with LiveJournal, Netflix, Blogspot, and several other sites that I know should be up. So I’m posting via email from my Sidekick instead. The hunt board is abuzz with people looking for my piece, it’s great fun to watch them! I … Continue reading
AllofMP3
I heard the song “Christmas Wrapping” (by The Waitresses) on the radio the other day, and I wanted to download it. I searched the web and couldn’t find it, and I didn’t feel like using a torrent or something like that. So I was about to open up iTunes and just buy it, but then … Continue reading
RockStartup
I finally watched an episode of PPP’s reality show, RockStartup. It was okay…it was about 10 minutes long, you can watch it below. I did learn a bit about the company, like in addition to having a Director of Customer Love (who owes me $5!) they also have a Director of Coding Stuff. It really … Continue reading
The Internet’s Holy Day
I got my DVD recorder and video stabilizer and set them up. I managed to get them working, but I didn’t have the remote control for the DVD recorder. It was mentioned in the auction as being missing, so that was fine, but it turns out a lot of the features are only accessible through … Continue reading
A Day of Sexuality
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I’m in Philadelphia
Today started out bright and early with a woot-off! Normally Woot has one item per day, but during a woot-off they post a new item as soon as the previous one sells out. I had actually dreamed about a woot-off last night (seriously) and I woke up this morning to find they were having one! … Continue reading
Viewer Discretion Advised
This link on Metafilter directed me to the online collection of exhibits from the Moussaoui trial. I was browsing the prosecution exhibits and I found the list of e-mails rather interesting; in them Moussaoui attempts to wheedle training materials from major aerospace companies. I clicked on the link for exhibit number FO05521.54, which was described … Continue reading
Everybody Shut Up
I am finally fed up enough with the usual Friday chattering and slacking at work that I have turned on Launchcast to try to tune them out. Music is not a major part of my life, so I almost never do this; I also have it incredibly low – I almost can’t hear it when … Continue reading
Kick the Internet
My net access has sucked all day at work. When I got here it wasn’t running at all – the DNS was down, something I deduced myself by successfully reaching imdb.com and a couple of other places but not getting anywhere useful. I was also able to ssh, so I got to use Lynx and … Continue reading
Surviving Without Ignoring
A bit of musing even though it’s 1:00 in the morning…and then I shall go to bed. Most venues for online interaction have a way of keeping a user’s input from reaching your screen. Many forums have an Ignore List feature, LambdaMOO has @gagging, instant messaging services offer block lists, LiveJournal has comment banning, and … Continue reading