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Category Archives: Internet
Hashtag please stop
“So this SEO copywriter walks into a bar, grill, pub, public house, Irish bar, bartender, drinks, beer, wine, liquor” This is supposed to be a joke. But sometimes I wonder. WARNING: This post is going to feature my pragmatism in … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, random, The Lady
Tagged every other possible combination of hashtag, hashtag, hashtag hashtag hashtag, hashtag overload, hashtag saturation, i heart the oatmeal, in case you were wondering these tags are ironic because good luck finding this tag anywhere else, my goal in life is to use internet services literally in the opposite way they were intended to be used, quinnwitz ftw
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Moving
It sucks. Unless you love books, of course. Quite literally the morning after my successful thesis proposal, The Lady and I started the day-long process of moving our respective items from our respective apartments into our swank new two-bedroom pad. … Continue reading
Posted in Graduate School, i ken make living plz, Internet, Occupation, Real Life, Research, Running, the fam, The Lady
Tagged achievement unlocked: thesis proposed, awesome new apartment is awesome, internet owns, kitty invented a new kind of yoga specifically tailored for kitties, moving sucks, pad thai and beer, stargate atlantis, stargate makes unpacking just a little more bearable, stargate sg-1, stress
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Day 24: Really, CMU?
I give you an A for effort, but I’m quite sure that every single one of those memes is used incorrectly. Generously, I give you 50% on the victory kid meme. So basically, you got 0.5 / 5 correct. Surely there … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Photo, Internet, lolcat
Tagged "but it's so much fun to stay out of the IM leagues--NO", "joined an IM league. met my future wife.", "oh you've never joined an IM team? tell me again how you're staving off the freshman 15", carnegie mellon, cmu, cmu uc, see? those are just a few examples of how to use those memes correctly
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My 40-day Facebook reprieve
For the entirety of Lent this year (February 13 – March 30), not once did I log into Facebook. Only once did I post on Twitter, when I was having some Hadoop issues. Totally cold turkey. And you know what? It … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, lolcat, Real Life, The Lady
Tagged facebook, i acknowledge my experience may not be typical, i also acknowledge that facebook sucks, if you do it right lenten resolutions can be absofreakinglutely awesome, lent, moar liek antisocial networking am i rite, or you could be lazy and give up giving things up, poke wars are pretty awesome, social networking
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Secession Petitions
If you follow the site We the People, or any online news outlets, you’ve probably noticed the latest flurry of petitions from states across the Union. They all share a common theme: Peacefully grant the State of [STATE] to withdraw … Continue reading
It’s like LJ on WordPress
Taking a cue from Megan (and because I’m still in publish-my-research-yesterday mode), I’m boring you all with more details about my running experiences with a questionnaire that delves deeply into the personal and leaves no metaphorical stone unturned…or something. 1. Best … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Internet, Running, The Lady
Tagged canadia, goals, hooray injuries, i run so i can eat, personal records are made to be broken, philly marathon, running
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Tabs or spaces?
I know this debate is old as dirt, but it was resurrected on my Google+ stream not too long ago, so I wanted to poll the intertubes and see what it, the Font of Knowlej, thought. The Debate It’s pretty … Continue reading
Online services I don’t understand
When it comes to “social revolution”, I have to admit I’m pretty skeptical. Yes, I’ve jumped on the bandwagon of more than one social network (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn), have used them extensively, and still continue to do so. But … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Internet, lolcat, Real Life
Tagged 4square, change.org, facebook, google, instagram, lolcats, social networks, social networks as theoretical constructs are extremely interesting, social networks in practice are incredibly boring, the social revolution is kind of nauseating, tumblr, we the people, web services, what's the point
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The Internets are a Strange Place
I love reading Ars Technica. Their writing is exceptional and among the more unbiased. Granted, their specialty is technology and science-related material; they only report on politics and current events as it overlaps with the former categories. Their staff does … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Internet, Real Life, the dark side
Tagged also a lot of butthurt on the carreon end, bearlove good cancer bad, carreon, carreon's wife sounds like a real character, charles carreon, incredibly stupid and frivolous lawsuits, inman, matthew inman, theoatmeal, welcome to the internets
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Theatre of Consciousness 