April 2009
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The first step is admitting you have a problem.
I say “cool beans” way too much.
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Last night, one of my old classmates from the 5th grade posted our class picture to Facebook. Within a few hours, 13 of the 37 students had been tagged and it had 20 comments. Someone decided “We should totally email our old teacher and get together with her for lunch or something!” Why do I feel like this sounds like the setup for an awkward sitcom (aside from the fact that there was...
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copycats:
Bridges and Balloons by The Decemberists...
Trailer for The Hangover →
I can’t breathe and their are tears in my eyes.
Thank you, esandberg, for the heads-up.
See also: alt trailer.
Watchrickyv:
Real Life Twitter by Dan.
“Just got to New York City. What are good things to see and do here?”
HUUUGE respect for Dan; that took balls.
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Hunkering down for Hamageddon. Flushing bacon, duct taping windows, stocking up on batteries and ammo.
It’s times like these when I can’t even imagine being married to anyone else.
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I haven’t watched last night’s episode of Chuck, yet. I’m saving it for lunch. Has anyone seen it? Am I going to set my desk on fire?
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Oh, good: the itchy phase of my sunburn has arrived. I was worried my body might decide to skip that step and go straight to the beautiful, golden tan phase.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-26) →
Say Anything (54)
Stars (27)
The Weepies (19)
Ra Ra Riot (12)
Voxtrot (7)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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copycats:
Oops! I Did It Again by Laura Tsaggaris...
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Three awesome blasts from the past via a Last.FM neighbor’s station:
“Why Don’t You Do Right” - Rasputina
“I believe In A Thing Called Love” - The Darkness
“Add It Up” - Violent Femmes
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“If, in two weeks, that is the last episode of the show to ever air, it will be...”
– Can ‘Chuck’ Be Saved? Even Josh Schwartz Isn’t Sure - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
Listen up, NBC bigwigs. Listen HARD: if you cancel Chuck, I will set your living rooms on fire.
I started watching the show on Hulu a while back when I caught bits and pieces of an episode in my doctor’s...
Watchjakeandamir:
Brother Part 4
The following conversation was copied from my AIM logs dated 4/21/2009, 11:49am:
me: Did you watch the latest J&A? I think this experience is going to bring them closer. Adam: lol Adam: are you kidding? me: Amir will be there to pick up the pieces Adam: no Adam: their relationship won’t change me: it goes through waves. sometimes it changes for an ...
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New Affliction: Phantom Clipboard
This occurs when I believe that I’ve copied something to the clipboard—usually something perceived to be important—but I can’t remember what it is or where I intended to paste it. To be on the safe side, I open up a text editor and hit paste, but there’s nothing there.
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The Fratellis - “Flathead”
Say what...
“my favorite acquired dumb talent:
I can identify any person in my office...”
– Bob (via email)
I seriously have the best friends in the world.
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Dear Last.FM,
While I appreciate eclecticism, Andrew Bird’s “Dark Matter,” should never, under any circumstances, be followed up by Chaka Khan’s “Ain’t Nobody.”
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“Stanton filed her lawsuit against Meyer in Utah last Tuesday, alleging idea...”
– New Moon ‘Halted Over Lawsuit’
File this under: Really? and OMG, are you serious?
Bitch waited until last Tuesday?! Look, if I had written a short story about a certain subject in college and then found out that my college roommate got a book about that same subject published, I would...
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WatchLess than 50 days until Weeds comes back on.
Watchsmartblonde:
DREAM JOB MONDAY: professional slow loris armpit scratcher. strayyytch, little dude, straaayyytch!!! get that itch out!
(if his satisfied little face doesn’t make you smile, i’m not sure what else i can possibly offer you that’ll do the trick)
Face at 0:42: “Are there no moar scratches?!”
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-19) →
Tegan and Sara (84)
The Weepies (67)
Stars (58)
Say Anything (52)
The Kooks (45)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Standing in line for barcamp registration. I’ll bet all my money they didn’t print any small shirts.
EDIT: I’m now broke, but at least I have a shirt!
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Eating nearly an entire box of ice cream sandwiches in a week is only one of my talents.
Doing me the simple favor of picking something up at the store IS NOT.
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It’s 10:02. Adam is 2 minutes into his final meeting in a 3-interview process. I’m an atheist so I’m not praying, but I’m thinking REALLY hard about him right now.
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Watchpre-durst:
Next: “Too Close”
Where Ginuwine draped his insatiable sexual hunger in a thinly veiled equestrian metaphor, the gentlemen in Next cut right to the chase. There’s no beating around the bush in “Too Close.”
Although the smooth groove of the song is a bit disarming, the song was seemingly innocuous enough for it to be permitted at my middle school dances, and it wasn’t until years...
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“To tell the difference between a hipster and a homeless person, check to see if...”
– Jeffro’s Indie Rawk Blog - Anatomy of a Hipster
My new favorite thing. I wish there was a way to follow a tag.
WatchLook, I know 7 minutes is a bit on the tedious side as far as web videos go, but please trust me on this. You need to watch the whole thing. You keep thinking to yourself, “OK, I think I’ve seen enough; how could they possibly top that last move?” But then they do top it, and it’s glorious.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-12) →
Bloc Party (7)
Joanna Newsom (6)
The Weepies (4)
Anberlin (4)
Panic at the Disco (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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AS3 Tip
With AS3.0, we’ve been given a pretty cool new method for the TextField class: getCharBoundaries. This method returns the bounding box (in the form of a Rectangle) for a specified character in the TextField.
Here’s a way to animate a TextField to make it look as though it’s being typed, letter by letter, onto the stage:
/**
* Create a "typing" effect on a TextField instance
*...
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atomatic:
Unemployed amusement of the day: Roomba vs Cat http://twitpic.com/3b8oj
And then he wonders why Squee (the cat) sleeps on my side of the bed.
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I don’t know if anyone at my office has noticed, but I have: I’m kind of becoming a zombie when I’m here. Not in the “BRAINNNNNSSSS” way, just the “going through the motions” way.
So now I’m making a conscious effort to be more happy and up-beat. Just now, I grabbed a banana from the kitchen and attempted to jovially flip it up in the air and catch...
Sonofabitch. I’ve been spelling “heads-up” incorrectly for years.
Watchatomatic:
New Mike Judge movie, staring Jason Bateman. YES please.
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“But Pattinson was forced to take time out from filming when he damaged ligaments...”
– Pattinson’s Twilight Injury
New dream job: Robert Pattinson’s official butt-massager.
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SOH-CAH-TOA
Every once in a while, I get a chance to brush off my math skills and use them at work.
Today, for example, I had to place a bunch of MovieClips vertically along a 3-degree angle. At first, I thought I was going to have to place them manually on the stage using the Flash IDE, but then something inside of me said “Why don’t you just use trigonometry?” followed by an even louder...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-5) →
Joanna Newsom (53)
Mates of State (22)
Joe Purdy (15)
Ani DiFranco (6)
Modest Mouse (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Outkast - “Hey Ya”
Why? Because...