Without Charlie Sheen (and others like him) everyone would seek higher degrees of education, greater knowledge, higher salaries, socialized health care and god forbid, a free thinking society…. The American dream would cease to exist, and in their usual show of maturity and sportsman like behavior, would undoubtedly drag the rest of us down with them.

so you see hash tags of #winning, #tigerblood and #checkit are more than mere lunacy in the twitter verse, they are the force behind American hegemony and social status.

besides, Sheen is the best new material to hit 4chan since the internet police.

for the lulz,

-Routhier

(i will concede however that 2.5 men is possibly the worst show of all time)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/25/business/media/25conan.html

“I hate my boss and work sucks” – get off your lazy ass and get a new job or go to school so you don’t have to continue flipping burgers or whatever.

“Damn custy’s be wanking on my jive” – if you don’t like the service industry, see above comment.

“My girlfriend is a bitch ” – well that’s just hurtful and likely not going to score you one in the sack tonight, however if that’s how you truely feel, similar to the above advice drop the bitch and get a new one, or be single for a while. If this isn’t the person you intend on spending the rest of your life with (or at least a significant portion of it) then you’re just wasting time anyways.

I actually think that 99% of what animates us is sheer animal instinct. What we see in any grouping of people (at work, the club) and what we’d like to think as stemming from millenia of human evolution is just plain low-grade animalism : social dynamics, hierarchy, courting favours, pecking order, getting laid etc, you can see all that around the water hole in the savanah and looking at who gets to de-louse who in the monkey pack.

What kills *me* is the vast amount of energy devoted to DENYING that this is what we are.

Back to scratching my balls.

As ever, it’s a question of terminology and the associated meaning. To the French-speakers, it’s not dirt, it’s “terre” (and someone in the marketing company should and problably does bloody well know). The WTF here is the inconsistency. That picture would have worked OK with “localement” or “d’ici” but not with “locally”.

What may have happened here is that the picture was created for the English market and some twit thought it would work in Canada not realising that the Anglos in Canada have adopted the term “dirt” with its negative connotations.

random thoughts …

I installed the server (or a mockup, it’s not clear exactly what it is) at home, and took a peek at what people were talking about on the forums (ok, ok, “fora”). It looks like the idea is that a company could install their own Wave server and hook it to the net or keep it completely in-house. I can’t comment on what kind of provision has been made by Google so far in the hooked-up-to-the-net scenario to keep purely in-house exchanges on the local server whilst allowing exchanges with the outside world. Not being an expert in the domain, for all I know this is covered by Java / networking / internet protocol policies.

On the wow-everyone-sees-my-every-keystroke point, that makes me chuckle. 1 keystroke = 1 “blip” (their very cute term) which is an XML doc. It’s not a huge XML doc (compared to x10 MB XML docs with insane namespaces I’ve had to handle in the past, etc) but it’s still a factor of ~200 (random guess, can’t be bothered to check right now) chars in the XML to the one keystroke represented. I know that broadband is a reality in 99% of the places that matter (if you don’t have broadband, you obviously don’t matter, pshaw) but the old fart in me still balks at the wastefulness. Oh well. I guess it’s pretty meaningless when you consider that 99% of all bandwidth use is kids on myspace with their “mood=wish my mom would die” and porn.

There, random thoughts. Must GBTW. Take care.

Cheers, Lambage!

I am ending this before I get completely offtopic. Just my 2 cents.

It’s a hard drive encryption login on boot, so the only way i could remember it before coffee is by setting it to “please let me on my computer”.

Also, who from Google is reading your blog? I see Mountain View “arrived” in your live feed.

So for me it’s twitter is full of my technical friends and facebook is just a random gathering of people I’ve met in life with no other real connections per se.

I can’t find a link to it on youtube So I guess this just proves Mr. Keen even “wronger”… Hah!!!

Also Twitter is mostly full of people who think so highly of themselves that they think that people actually want to know their every move. I mean having your own blog is egotistical enough but at least it allows you to voice your opinion and get things off your chest or have a creative outlet of some sort. Somehow I don’t think “Woke up. Found ham. Ate it. Rejoiced.” or “At Terminal 1. Guy in front is wearing a sombrero. He smells of lavender” has the same therapeutic value as a blog.

It can only be a medium of creativity or comedy. If I were to tweet everytime I actually did anything it would only be a hassle to myself. Noone would read it. Hey this just in. Sparkles ate a pizza. Hot off the intertubez. Shocking! I would only be contributing the vast category of topics on the internet filed under “noone cares”.

That is all…
-Ryan

Muslix rocks! The hair part.. I agree with everything.

bye bye babe

Not too many people equate Jesus with chocolate either.

Associating easter with chocolate eggs started in the 1800’s. Chocolate was all the rage. It was the treat of choice for most middle and upper class denizens. Chocolatiers sought to use the image of the egg as a way to celebrate Easter and sell their products.
http://www.failedsuccess.com/index.php?/weblog/comments/easter_candy_history/

There is a fine line between convenience and laziness… Which do you honestly think you are in?

I would be a drink chicken soup