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• Diamonds Suck! A Personal Essay on the Virtues of Moissanite & Why You Should NEVER Buy a Diamond. Engaged men will thank me. Engaged women will hate me.

  Wednesday May 31, 2006

• Simple Things You Can Do Right Now To Jumpstart Your Writing Efforts. The sad thing is they’re the same tips I hear over and over again yet never try.

  Wednesday May 31, 2006

I was recommending to my friend Laser (not the American Gladiator) to check out Serenity:

wtocs: does it have Storm in it? cause if it does I’ll totally watch it
wtocs: “oh no fog!!”
wtocs: “storm, can you do something about it?”
wtocs: as she looks into the sky
wtocs: GOOOOOOO STORM
valloq: lol!
valloq: man that was the first thing I thought
valloq: when they were on the lake
valloq: I was like, man storm, clear it out already
valloq: so lazy gotta wait for wolvie to ask you
wtocs: no kidding - what kind of super hero makes people ask her to use her powers?
valloq: that’s messed up
wtocs: I’ll tell you what kind, the overpaid stupid actress kind
valloq: lol!

• Alarm clock that won’t give up. If this guy makes millions off my idea while I’m still writing CSS, I’m gonna cry.

  Tuesday May 30, 2006

What follows is my review of X-Men: The Last Stand. It’s chock full of spoilers, so do not read on if you don’t want to be spoiled about the movie.

Continue reading “X-Men 3: The Last Stand”

• the broken laptop i sold on ebay. Revenge is always so, so sweet.

  Friday May 26, 2006

After much deliberation, I’ve decided to sell my (very lightly) used PowerBook and trade up to the new MacBook.

At first I thought it might be to my advantage to keep a slow machine, because then it might force me to use it for only writing (which it hasn’t). But at a cost of only $300-400, I could upgrade to a new machine that is far better than my current one.

So the auction is listed on eBay and ends this Sunday, and I’m just here shamelessly trying to promote the auction. If anyone’s interested in just outright buying it, I’m open to offers.

I’m also selling this wonderful Cryptex I won through the Da Vinci Code Quest on Google. It’s actually a nice piece and of much higher quality than I expected, but not something I imagine myself wanting in the future, so I figure I might as well sell it now while the market’s high. Again, if anyone’s interested just drop me a line.

And thus ends my shameless promotion. Next time I’ll be posting my Amazon wishlist on here and promising topless photos for anyone who buys me something on my list =P

• Yoda Plush Backpack. Must…control…geek urges…

  Wednesday May 24, 2006

• dragdropupload. Anyone who uses Firefox must download this extension.

  Wednesday May 24, 2006

I first learned of Oddica when I saw the link on Dan Cederholm’s site. At first Oddica looked like all the other (nearly) indistinguishable t-shirt sites on the web such as Threadless and Busted Tees, but Oddica is focused a lot more on the artists than the consumers.

Continue reading “Thread- who?”

• Jobsintown.de Ads. Reminds me of one of my favorite Calvin & Hobbes strips.

  Tuesday May 23, 2006

• Clearance // ShaunInman.com. It looks as if this could be a cure-all for most CSS positioning issues. Eric Lim: 1; Shaun Inman: 1.

  Monday May 22, 2006

• Thanks. No. So, if I send this link to all of my friends, does that mean they’ll send it back to me?

  Monday May 22, 2006

• Li’l Color Illusion. Neat.

  Sunday May 21, 2006

• Final Superman Returns Poster. If I were a bigger fan of Supes I’d be inclined to add this to my collection.

  Friday May 19, 2006

• Seamless pictures

  Thursday May 18, 2006

Banking

A nice feature of Washington Mutual’s online banking is how it will scan in deposited checks just to jog your memory of, “Oh yeah, that’s what that check was for.”

Of course, what’s even better is seeing what I put in the “for” field for the checks I write to my parents as part of my living expenses:

I’m waiting for the day when the Feds call me up about this.

Fed: Sir, we’re calling about this check you wrote for…hookers.
Me: Yeah?
Fed: Well, you wrote a check for…hookers?
Me: Her credit card machine was broken.
Fed: *Long pause* Oh.
Me: Yeah.

Chatting

Another nice, although seemingly worthless feature (to me at least) is Gmail chat’s ability to go “off the record” and not keep a log of a current chat conversation. This is the only real use of it I’ve found:

aadarab: i think its near mathematically impossible for me to fail out, but i don’t want to take property again
aadarab: that shit sucked
me: time for us to rob a bank
me: oh wait
You are now off the record
me: time for us to rob a bank
aadarab: hahahahaha
me: I love that feature

Mr. Bayati is convinced that going off the record actually forwards the conversation directly to the CIA.

• Valleywag: Designer resigns after redesign maligned. You don’t have to be familiar with TechCrunch to understand what happened; I just love seeing this soap-opera stuff unfold. Great write-up from Pearsonified as well.

  Wednesday May 17, 2006

• Trump gets fired up about design. “Graphic Design Lesson B: Touch a designer’s computer screen, and you will lose. Always.”

  Tuesday May 16, 2006

• MacBook. I can’t believe they’re asking $200 more for the black.

  Tuesday May 16, 2006