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I found this in an old notebook of mine, probably from around Christmas given some other stuff. I'm posting it here because you lot might get all the references:
"Whoa. Spelled HTML right. You wouldn't believe how many I get where they're like, 'Hey, what's so great about the hum-til editor?' or 'How do I make an lj-cut using Hamlet?'"
Massive bonus points for identifying where the joke is heading.
I have a few dear principles. One of them is that you aren't allowed to be obsessed with showtunes from a show you haven't seen live. I am in danger of violating this principle.
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I'm watching Survivor online, in the ad-supported official streaming way. They've recently been trying new ads, these interactive ones from one of the cell phone companies; there was a pop-up at the end asking me to fill out a survey about them, so I assume it's an experiment.
The funny thing is that they all talk about having a better cell plan for "the holidays." I was totally planning on getting my friends some Presidents' Day gifts; new phones hit the spot!
Two different cnn.com headlines today invokes Scientists. Not geologists or environmental scientists, just Scientists. What does this say about our society?
Poll #1 is for straight females, poll #2 is for pretty much everyone else (The idea's to separate out my target audience, so if you're a bi female, answer #1 as you would for a guy, I guess. If you're more confusing, just pick one). If the answer's both, pick the one that's more important and explain the nuances in comments.
(Edit to clarify- "date" here means "be in a relationship with")
Poll #1330407 A survey- straight females version
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None
Would you rather date a guy who is:
Relaxing
2 (66.7%)
Exciting 1 (33.3%)
Poll #1330408 A survey- everyone else version
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None
Would you rather date someone who is:
Relaxing 5 (83.3%)
Exciting 1 (16.7%)
Tanga is a website that does deal-of-the-day stuff like Woot except that they sometimes have board games, which means I follow them and occasionally actually buy stuff. Like Woot's Bag of Crap, they sometimes do a grab bag, which they call Tanga Trash- a little pricier than the BoC, but it doesn't sell out so fast as to kill their servers. I missed out on the last BoC, but I did get a Tanga Trash in around Christmas, and here's what I got:
•An extendable light-up cone that says "Warning, Children at Play"
•How to Host A Murder: Class of '54
•Dead Hand Chaos Poker
•Head to Head Sudoku Game, slightly dented.
2/4 things I might actually use (How to Host a Murder and the Chaos Poker, at least as a grim poker deck), whose list price would have about covered the cost of the box. I think I know someone who'd like the sudoku game, and then I just have to pawn off the cone or something... a half decent haul, I'd say.
I'm at home now, on break. And you know it's not a very exciting day when the best thing to share is actual challenged ballots from the Minnesota senatorial election recount, stolen from one of the other blogs I've got in my RSS reader, I think.
(And no, it doesn't help my posting frequency that The Editor That Must Not Be Named supports Safari now. I still need to getting around to setting this account to default to HTML sometime)
Now that people (Like two people, but still) actually IM me when I'm not around to see if I'm here, I should probably start using my away message rather than just always leaving Adium open and letting people figure it out.
In order to continue to be my friend, you need to go play World of Goo. There's a cross-platform demo. I'll wait.
It's one of those building/physics puzzle games, with the twist that, from what I've seen so far, every level is based on a good idea of how to apply the physics. Some of the ideas are downright brilliant, and having it all click as to just how you're supposed to get from point A to point B with the tools given is an amazing experience. Plus it's relatively inexpensive, and can be enjoyed in decent-sized chunks of time, and gets all the small interface things right. (I went from "Hey, I want to buy this now" to actually having it in less than five minutes, and had my save file from the demo still there so I can start playing right where the demo left off. To name two.)