A dumping ground for miscellany; the amusing, the thought-provoking, the otherwise memorable.
This showed up on Facebook re: Flickr hiring: You might’ve seen it there, too. Being the nosy SOB that I am, I clicked on the image. First I was wondering: is that really the Flickr dev pod? And sure enough, it is. Or was? I noticed on the user’s profile that he used to work […]
A brief interlude while we continue to wait for our home Interweb connection…
A friend asked me today: “On IM, when you type ‘haha’, does that imply that you actually laughed?” I answered immediately: no. The “haha” and “hehe” strings imply that you got the joke, that you’re reading and comprehending the humor, that you believe the preceding statement is funny – but it doesn’t necessarily mean that […]
Dear Comcast: Since it seems we’re going to be starting up that provider/customer relationship again, it’s probably best that I tell you now (before I’ve even signed up) that we’re not off to a good start. We’ll be moving soon (my family, that is) and the little bit of research I’ve done thus far indicates […]
Original on Flickr.
Original photo on Flickr.
Do I get extra nerd points for getting this joke immediately? Original Tweet here.
Marvelous. Even in translation, I true spectacle of language. Time-twisting and reality-bending. At several points while reading I thought to myself: I can see why Danielewski cribbed so heavily from this for House of Leaves. A copy should be on the bookshelf of every aspiring novelist. (Yes, it requires some extra cognition to get through […]