December 2011
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Got an email from the sysadmin in the middle of...
“Unless you think you’ll be needing them again I’ll be locking your accounts tomorrow night/sometime over the weekend.” I guess this is it!
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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“Personally I take medicine homeopathically all the time. I can’t hardly move...”
– Jenna Moran
Dec 28th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
The Mountain Goats (73) Low + Dirty Three (36) Robyn (31) Low (29) Bon Iver (24) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 28th
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imathers replied to your post: postscript re introversion Tell me more about the high price of Google Talk… I was about to install it on my phone. Hah, the price I refer to is a general instant messaging thing and also fairly me-specific, but: Instant messaging takes a lot more mental energy for me than more asynchronous communication, but I really like it. So I tend to chat forever and...
Dec 25th
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postscript re introversion
Addendum to my last post: I feel like mentioning that yesterday I had perhaps the best non-Christmas-celebrating-introvert’s Christmas ever. I stayed home, caught up on some internet things without trying to use instant messaging,1 played some video games, listened to music, worked on my mix CD for this year, and when my housemate went out I did some merry dishwashing2 and continued to do...
Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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andrewtsks: insomnius: I love One Week One Band, but a whole week stuffed with Spotify links is a bit of a bummer. Agreed. This better not become the default mode of operation for the site. Not everyone has, or is interested in getting, Spotify. JUST SAYIN! I’m in Australia, so I don’t even have the option of getting Spotify (at least, not without a whole lot of proxy-related...
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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I love One Week One Band, but a whole week stuffed with Spotify links is a bit of a bummer.
Dec 23rd
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“… the true story cannot possibly be told, […] it can only be...”
– Joerg Colburg (“Jim Goldberg and the Struggle of Photographic Storytelling”)
Dec 22nd
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racing like a pronoun
One more week.
Dec 22nd
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a different coworker on the downward slide to...
Me: COULD HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY, BUT NO
Coworker: whO COULD HAVU GUEOSSED THUF'D MATH TO NEW THAT
Me: :O
Coworker: Wow, math instead of wath
Coworker: want
Coworker: I AM EATING A SMOOZE
Dec 22nd
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
The Mountain Goats (54) Tim Hecker (47) Cities Aviv (38) Robyn (30) Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx (27) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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“Amanda Palmer has done pretty much everything in the past year or so to lose my...”
– katherinestasaph
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Our office got reshuffled and now my coworker...
Coworker: Darn it! Now I can't watch your facial expressions
Me: Ha HA HA
Coworker: Brb, buying a mirror
Dec 19th
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nine more work days
and then I’ll be able to start being alive again.
Dec 18th
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five animals I would really like to pat, hug...
a tiger a tiny rabbit a large dog a purring kitten any other size or kind of cat
Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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Today in Restoring My Faith In Humanity:
erinkyan: fox-power: So my 13 y/o brother is on Xbox Live with his friends in the other room and the past 20 minutes I’ve heard him say Dude why do you use gay as an insult? You guys are fucking sexist, this is why I’m the only one of us who has a girlfriend Wow that wasn’t racist or anything No seriously gay does not mean stupid BOOMSHOT!!!!!!!!!! SO PROUD lsldkjfsldkfs all my...
Dec 16th
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“The most unpleasant sound online is the keening of the falsely entitled”
– Charles Arthur on The Guardian’s technology blog Referring to The Guardian’s move from Delicious to Pinboard (<3 Pinboard), but what a flexible and generally applicable quote.
Dec 16th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →
The Mountain Goats (100) Bon Iver (47) The National (36) Magi (34) Colin Stetson (30) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 11th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4) →
The Mountain Goats (49) Shearwater (30) Teenage Fanclub (26) London Symphony Orchestra, Steven Isserlis (16) P.S. Eliot (13) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 7th
imathers: porknachos: Watch John Darnielle Play Live in Chicago RIGHT NOW Managed to catch this: Riches and Wonders The Last Day of Jimi Hendrix’s Life No Children From TG&Y Dance Music My Favourite Things Going to Georgia The Boys Are Back in Town/Ignition (Remix) Enoch 18:14 So uh, that was awesome. Thanks a ton to porknachos for the link. Oh man, I would have loved to have...
Dec 6th
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Dec 6th
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Another perfectly normal evening at home.
Housemate: Helicopter.
Me: Heh. Heh heh. Heli-COP-THAT!
Housemate: What? What is that from?
Me (outraged): It's not FROM anything! It's from ME!
Housemate: Where are YOU from?
Dec 4th
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