Spider-Man Three Sucked But The PlayStation Three It Came Wrapped In Is Totally Freaking Awesome

Posted on April 29, 2008 by Gabriel...

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There is a brand new PlayStation 3 sitting on my coffee table. It came in a large box from a BestBuy in Toronto. It is black and shiny. When I turn it on rainbows appear in my apartment. And unicorns. And I’m pretty sure angels sing. And Princess Leia in her slave-girl outfit is pouring me a really large, really cold glass of 1% milk.

But I don’t see any of them because there’s a PlayStation 3 on my coffee table… and it’s black and shiny.

This. Is. Totally. Fucking. Awesome. x1000.

I’m trying to figure out how to describe… it’s like when Neil Armstrong turned around, looked up and saw what’s his name standing in the doorway, that’s how it feels now when I look at my PlayStation 2: “uhm, sorry… and what was your purpose again?”

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New WordPress Feature Inadvertently Bringing Trolls Directly To You

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Gabriel...



One filling and she removed a small piece of bone; April 25, 2008 — Self Portrait.

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WordPress recently announced a new feature it hopes will act as a catalyst for WordPress bloggers to get to know each other. Unfortunately there are people using WordPress who should never meet. Like racists and civil rights activists, or Sci3ntologists and people with mental health recovery sites.

But a few days into the launch and that’s exactly what’s happening, and the WordPress solution of “just turn it off” isn’t working because most WordPress bloggers have no idea how the feature got onto their blogs in the first place.

The new feature is called “Possibly related posts”, it’s a series of links automatically placed at the end of your posts. The links are supposedly random and are determined by the tags and/or categories you’ve chosen. So if you tag something as “photos of home” and choose a category of “photography” the links should take you to a WordPress site with similar interests and hobbies.

But if you’re writing about the corrupting influence of Sci3ntology (Co$), and tag it as such, there’s a very real possibility you’ll have Sci3ntology’s WordPress page linked to your page.

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Finding Myself Standing Alone On A Street Corner About To Respond To A Joke I Just Made

Posted on April 27, 2008 by Gabriel...



It’s the same nurse who let me do this the last time; April 22, 2008 — Photo by Me.

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I’ve been getting lost in conversations with myself. A lot. I’ve spent more time outside over the past ten days than I did all winter and I’m finding myself moving my hands, arms and even mouth all in reaction to my inner dialogue. I’m not speaking out loud, but I think I have been laughing quietly. I can be a funny guy.

This afternoon I had plans to take a shower, so I strip down and turn the water on but before I get in I think “music, I should turn on the stereo”. On my way to the stereo I start up a conversation with myself, and the next thing I know my pants are on and I’m pulling on a shirt with the intention of walking to the store.

I started talking to myself (not out loud) back in college. It was an intentional thing, I wanted to see how it made sense for some people to be talking to themselves… I had seen a guy gesticulating with his arms and his face was really animated, but he seemed to be having a really good time. When I first started doing it I’d make an effort to move my hands like I normally would in a conversation.

It’s not quite the same when I’m writing. When I’m writing something like this I don’t think of the person reading it as being a part of the discussion. Something like this is me working… maybe it is the same thing. I’m having a conversation with myself as I write this…

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Permanent Milk Moustache And Other Odds Ends And Oddities

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Gabriel...



Ants having a picnic on recycling day; April 23, 2008 — Photo by Me.

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I’ve been going grey for the past few months. I noticed the last time I grew a full beard… which would have been last fall. My hair is a light brown or a dirty blond but my beard is mostly black except for around my mouth and chin where it’s blond. And now grey.

I don’t mind at all. It would be nice if it was uniform though. My left eyebrow now has lots of grey in it, my right is still black with some blond. Going grey has never been a concern of mine… I’m not sure how I’m going to handle losing my hair though. I’ve never really given any thought to getting older, at least not until recently. After a certain age there’s not a lot of hair in my family.

As long as I’ve known her my grandmother has worn a wig. She has hair, just not a lot of it and it’s very blond. My mother’s hair is very fine and she started losing it in her forties. It’s stabilized now, but she still has to work to keep what’s left. My grandfather has hair around the edges, but the ridge has thinned until it’s mostly a ghost. My uncle’s hair is mostly gone as well…

As far as I can tell, except for some of my mom’s female cousins, I’m the oldest person in my family who still has hair. If I do end up losing it there’s no way I’m either combing it over or growing a ponytail.

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People Curious To Learn The Contents Of My Room Hit Me Three Times With The Same Meme

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Gabriel...

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Sometime, far in the future, someone will receive an invitation to a “meme” and out of curiosity they will track back through the links… and three years of constant investigation later they will find themselves staring at their own back and they will be so freaked out that will be the day they give up weed forever.

As far as I can track back this is how I received three invitations to this meme: Exact Science and Perfect Defect each received it from Experimental Chimp, all three tagged me with it. ExChimp was tagged by Dark2Light, who got it from MusEditions, who was tagged by Bloggin’ Cool and before them it was bloggerdygook then Ink Inc. and before her someone named “Cel”…

Ink Inc. doesn’t include a link to “Cel”, but I’ve asked her for it so I can keep going…

So those are just my branches of this particular meme tree, each of these bloggers tagged five people.

I think, from now on, the meme should include not only a list of the people we’re passing it on to, but also a list of the people who have received it before us… both to clear up any confusion so we’re not receiving the same meme, but also to see just how many links we can put into a single post before the Internet collapses.

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Protected: Some Photos Mom Sent Which Prove I Existed

Posted on April 18, 2008 by Gabriel...

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