Day Fifty Four | Fun Fact?

Friday, March 6th, 2009

Doesn’t sound like a very fun fact to me…. I had some friends come up from Miami last night; they were on the way up to a music festival out in St. Augustine. A music festival I was going to attend, before my financial situation blew up in my face—thanks, shit economy!—and drained my cash reserves.

Still, it was nice to have an evening with friends. I don’t miss people often, but I missed my librarian friend from Miami, despite chatting with her daily. We all had breakfast at a chain called First Watch, and I thought this sign was pretty funny.

Album Cover Chain

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

I have just encountered the only chain-anything I’ve ever encountered that seemed remotely interesting. In it, you grab the first random Wikipedia article you get, the last four or five words of the last quote on the page of random quotes, and the third image you get on Flickr’s Explore. Those are, respectively, your band name, album title, and album cover.

And this was mine.

Oh, Wally Clune, we hardly knew ye!

Day Twenty | IKEA

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Day Twenty. I shot this from IKEA, and this is my first non-DSLR on-the-go shot in this series. Sadly, I just didn’t have the balls to walk into a store armed with a big ass attention-drawing camera.

If you look closely, you can see what appears to be a stick-figure mom tossing her stick-figure child into the garbage. And it kind of made my day.

I was at IKEA picking up a rug to go in my newly remodeled room, and damn, it goes well with that new wood flooring! It’s been a good Saturday, and I forsee the rest of the weekend going about as well.

Oh, and I wrote this whole post on my T-Mobile G1, too. Quickly. Can’t do that with your usual on-screen keyboard….

Status Message Chain

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Obviously we know by now that the internet has changed the way we communicate. Well, those of us who understand that evolution and man-made global warming are real, at any rate. So, a few friends and myself started a sort of status message chain with our AIM status messages about a certain inside catch-phrase “womp womp”. Enjoy.

Nick: womp womp

David: I refuse to womp womp. Not only is it not in my right to do so, it annoys me.

Lisa: David, my response to your away msg sir is a big “womp womp”. It’s appropriate and agitating, perfect.

Aileen: Only people allowed to say “womp womp”: Lisa, Kate, Fonz, Michelle. They don’t absuse it. Thanks, bahahahaha.

Me: I’m exercising my right to say “womp womp”.

Kate: You gotta fight for your right to wooooooomp!

This site was supposed to be depressing…

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Or maybe it’s supposed to be inspirational. Either way, a few clicks deep into this HIV spin on the HotOrNot meme called PosOrNot and I was laughing riotously. Thanks to this guy:

The quote accompanying this guy’s image—yes, he was HIV+—was this:

“I was 17 years old and it was 1984. It was part of a routine physical”.

That line is better than 95% of the sentence-long stories on Onesentence.org. By far. And yes, I choose to believe this was a story about how he got HIV, not how he learned that he had it.

Unintentional Robots

Friday, September 12th, 2008

I love it when I find unintentional robot faces in things. If you’re not sure what they are, think of your average three-pronged electrical outlet. Here are two examples I found from Target:

Trout

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Next time you get a message from someone you don’t recognize with the word “trout” in their name, expect to be confused while confusing a third-party. See, there’s a flood of AIM bots running around lately.

What these bots do is troll for AIM screennames, then send apparently send a message to a random AIM user from its list. When this user responds, it sends that response to another random AIM user from its list. Neither “victim” will see the screenname of the other person—each will think they are talking to one of the trout screennames. Much confusion or anger will then ensue. And then people will post memorable conversations on LiveJournal.

So, what was my conversation like? Once I realized this was not a person I know, I started telling them to fuck off and blocked them. Perhaps I was impolite.

P.S. If you think this whole “trout” thing is more annoying than humorous, you can send the code $optout to opt-out of communications with them.

Ghost-sex

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

So, a friend started drawing ghosts today and I thought they’d make a good comic. This is me putting my money (mouse?) where my mouth (Photoshop file?) is.

Webpage Farms?

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

I have the following comments: 1. These folks couldn’t come up with a name that better represents their business? 2. Has anyone even said the word “webpage” after, say, 1997?

Swedish Furniture Name Generator

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

I’ve got IKEA on the brain. I came across this name generator while perusing Apartment Therapy. Here’s what I got when I typed my (nick)name in: