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(no subject) [Sep. 6th, 2007|01:31 pm]
Just a quick note about [info]daveatom, and LiveJournal's syndicated feeds in general. I've started breaking up links into their own posts instead of the aggregated daily digests. The post volume ends up being too much for LJ IMO. I recommend checking out Google Reader. It's a much more civilized way to read feeds than using LJ's syndicated accounts, if you find yourself reading a bunch of blogs, anyway.
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On Vox: Disinformation [Jul. 20th, 2007|11:17 am]
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In college we used to like to make up believable lies and spread them around campus.If you were to spread a fake spoiler about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, what would it be? "Hermione dies" seems a little too...

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On Vox: One last post about Civil War [Mar. 12th, 2007|05:05 pm]
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Novak and I were talking about the difficulties of due process in super hero worlds the other day. I'd imagine if you were a defense attorney in a comic book world, you'd have a pretty cushy job. You see Batman...

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On Vox: 300 [Mar. 9th, 2007|08:03 pm]
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Growing up during the rise of violent video games like Mortal Kombat, in a post A Clockwork Orange era, with such movies getting critical acclaim and enjoying commercial success as Pulp Fiction and Silence of the Lambs there was much...

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On Vox: More on Cap [Mar. 8th, 2007|09:52 am]
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I went to the comic book store last night to get my books. I usually go every 2-3 weeks and was planning to go last night before the big news broke. I've been reading Captain America as it gets collected...

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On Vox: Spoiler of the Week: New York Daily News [Mar. 7th, 2007|09:34 am]
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Pick up your copy of Captain America 25 fast. The New York Daily News has already spoiled the ending, and I'd suspect some other news sources to follow suit. If you really want to know what happens, here's the article.

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On Vox: Nothin' but the rain [Mar. 6th, 2007|02:27 pm]
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Sunday's episode of Battlestar Galactica (don't worry, no spoilers) brought back a nice little cadence between Adama and Starbuck that goes back I think all the way to the mini-series:Adama: Mornin' Starbuck, whadya hear?Starbuck: Nothin' but the rain.Adama: Then grab...

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On Vox: Laugh Tracks [Mar. 6th, 2007|09:55 am]
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Watched pilot episode of The Winner last night. Rob Corddry is a funny man, but I just couldn't get past the laugh track. After a sitcom diet consisting of Arrested Development, Scrubs, and The Office, and 30 Rock, it feels...

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On Vox: Let's Go to the Mall [Feb. 28th, 2007|05:09 pm]
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This article about networks retooling TV shows reminded me of a great sequence in a recent How I Met Your Mother. Robin, one of the main characters, is a TV news anchor. She also happens to be Canadian. The entire...

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On Vox: Apple says "hello" [Feb. 25th, 2007|11:12 pm]

During the Academy Awards telecast tonight, after Wes Anderson's wonderfully quirky American Express ad, Apple showed a commercial for the iPhone...

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(no subject) [Jul. 6th, 2006|10:07 am]
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This is an excellent piece of writing about writing online. If you're reading this, you probably write online, probably on LJ. Take a second to read it.

I'm in the same boat as what Anil is writing about. I've been writing online for a while, and it's become hard to share personal things as my readership grows, because those people don't know me IRL. But on LJ, where we have a community built, it's much easier to write and share. I haven't seen [info]sportyanne in person in a few months, but I know what's going on her with her life. Ditto for [info]ediblemouse, [info]sandswept, and even people who I see more frequently and only live a few miles from.

But looking back over my LJ friends page, where most people DO know me, post frequency has decreased dramatically since 2004 or '05. Clearly LJ isn't dying out, and indeed I think there's been in increase lately of posting activity, but still, I think there are needs that it's not serving.

This is why I've been digging Vox. It makes it more fun to write. When it's more fun to write, more people write. When more people write, more ideas get shared, and the community is better for it.
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Desmond had a black light party [Mar. 30th, 2006|09:42 am]
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Lost keeps throwing out indecipherable clues. Here's some "investigations".

the numbers are retired Yankee jerseys... )
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It's totally the other dude's kid, right? [Mar. 23rd, 2006|12:51 pm]
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People keep asking me where I think Lost is going, and I really don't know.

Rosebud = Verbal Kint )
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Phriday Phunday [Mar. 17th, 2006|12:14 pm]
Holy crap. Photoshop Phriday usually has good stuff, but this, man, this... check out the second pic here:
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=3640&p=7
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Jokes that have never produced laughter [Feb. 23rd, 2006|03:39 pm]
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When a few people in your office get pregnant, and someone says "there must be something in the water!"
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A big day [Feb. 14th, 2006|01:42 pm]
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Oh, I forgot to post it here, but Sunday was
someone's special day )
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A tale of sweet revenge [Feb. 1st, 2006|01:50 pm]
This story courtesy Dandelion, one of our friends in WoW:

The other night I took my 38 Tauren hunter, Kukui, to Thelsamar to get a coin from the elder there. It wasn't any trouble getting the key and getting away from the guards, but after they had leashed back I noticed that a 46 male human warlock, Aauron, had followed me outside of town, flagged, and was generally jumping around and looking for a fight. Although he had 8 levels on me and I'd not yet even done a single duel with my hunter, I figured it would least be an education. And it was: I took off maybe 10-20% of his hp before he killed me.

Cool, now I know not to attack warlocks who are 8 levels above me. I return to my corpse, res, and start to heal myself but am immediately attacked again! Apparently this guy's ego wasn't sufficiently satisfied by demolishing someone 8 levels beneath him, he had to corpse camp. I felt like I had shown this guy respect by obliging his desire to fight, and he had betrayed it by being an jerk.

Filled with anger I logged on my druid and made my way from UC all the way to Loch Modan. Not for a minute did I both expect to find him and find him flagged, but..I dunno, maybe I could pester him or something. I wasn't really thinking. When I got to Loch Modan, I logged in an Alliance alt to see where he was and found he had moved down to Redridge. Sigh...I told myself I'd quit if he left Redridge before I got there, and made the trip.

When I got to Redridge I figured he must be in town if anywhere, as 46 is pretty high for that zone, so I stealthed, turned on the Track Humanoids, and headed into town. Almost immediately, I picked him up on Man-dar, appearing to be in the inn! Feeling simultaneously excited for finding him and stupid for knowing he wouldn't be flagged anyway I headed into the inn. Didn't appear to be downstairs, so I headed to the second floor. What I saw there put my brain into WTF-lock for several seconds:

He was lying in a bed...
with a female nelf lying on top of him, and...
......he was still flagged.

After I recovered from my shock I spent the next 3 seconds getting the most satisfying kill I've had in this game.

Aauron: thank you, thank you, thank you. If I had caught you checking your mail or doing some other boring task I imagine it wouldn't have been a tenth as satisfying. Nothing can compare with ganking you while you were in the middle of "making out" with your "woman".


http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-realm-whisperwind&t=70232&p=1&tmp=1#post70232
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If you're as obsessive about this as I am... [Jan. 10th, 2006|12:25 pm]
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http://www.macrumorslive.com/web/

Edit: http://www.apple.com/ has everything now.
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Lights [Dec. 10th, 2005|09:29 am]
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In case you haven't seen this. It brightened my morning as I sat grumpy getting ready to go into work today.
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books [Nov. 23rd, 2005|09:30 am]
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Someone at work is buying books for some charity thing, and needs suggestions for the teen boy category, I'm guessing 16 or so.

I'm trying to think about what I was reading then, aside from school stuff, and I'm drawing a bit of a blank.

Thoughts?
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