Archive for January 2006

Four Things

In Four Things on 25 January 2006 with Comments Off

I blame Storey.
Four jobs I’ve had

Collator. I assembled books made from Xeroxed copies by walking around a table picking up pages one by one, and then passing the stacks on to the binder. I always wanted to be the binder.
Tape duplicator. Put the master tape in one spot. Put a dozen blanks in the other [...]

Bring on the Ego Charting!

In Blogging, Fun, Internet, Technorati on 17 January 2006 with Comments Off

We released some cool new stuff over at Technorati last night. We now have interactive charty goodness for any keyword search, and we’re handing out the code to blog the graphs. For example, here’s the last three months of the word, oh, I dunno, how about … “Powazek”.

And with that, Technorati ushers in the age [...]

“It’s So Big!”

In Fun, Geek, Life, Photos, TV on 12 January 2006 with Comments Off

I have to say, hearing my wife come into the living room and say, “Oh my God, it’s so big,” gives me a certain manly geek pride I’ve never quite felt before.
She also told me it was well hung.

10 Notes for the Paris hotel/casino in Las Vegas

In Life, Travel on 9 January 2006 with Comments Off

We really appreciated the attempted Parisian accent supplied by the counter staff, but for that real Paris feeling you should ask them to speak only French and act as if they’re doing the guests a favor by being there at all. We recommend hiring out of Los Angeles.
The copious smoking among the guests of the [...]

My Flickr Top 20

In Flickr, Fun, Geek, Photography, Photos on 5 January 2006 with Comments Off

I try to be an intellectual. I try to an artist. But it turns out people just come around for the little dog photos.

This is a mosaic of the top 20 photos from my Flickr photostream, as picked by my fellow Flickrinos hitting that “favorite” button. Important stats:
10 little dogs
2 of my beautiful wife
2 zombies
1 [...]

JPGs in the Wild

In JPG Magazine, Photography, Photos on 4 January 2006 with Comments Off

JPG Magazine Issue 4 has been out for a couple weeks now, and the contributors are just starting to get their copies in the mail. This week, two of them took their copies out into the wild and photographed their subjects again with the magazine. And, honestly, it’s shit like this that makes this project [...]