geekliness category archives
and keep your frenemies closer
Sunday 26 October 2008 | 12 cookies in the jar
How much time—if any—do you spend on the Web? Is it a distraction or a blessing? While I depend on the Web for a great deal…I think of it as a curse. I learned this again recently when a friend said I should hawk my poetry on Facebook. With trepidation I created an account, and [...]
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anatomy of a chaos suck
Saturday 25 October 2008 | 3 cookies in the jar
So I have this theory. It concerns a phenomenon most often witnessed where humans are gathered in groups: like, in parking lots, or at parties, or around photocopiers: I call it the chaos suck. The chaos suck is a brief manifestation of concatenating micro-disasters—not unlike a dust devil, maybe, or a poltergeist, only, per Lorenz [...]
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you’ve got the power
Thursday 2 October 2008 | 2 cookies in the jar
The comment avatar thingy still doesn’t work, but you can now post comments all by your ownsome, without any annoying intrusive editorial presence. The only thing is, WordPress does insist that you put in a name and an email address (which will still be invisible); web address optional, but always nice. So fire away! I [...]
this is your blog on downtime
Thursday 7 August 2008 | someone left a cookie
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the expression on her face at three minutes? pretty much sums it up
Thursday 7 August 2008 | I like a cookie
[Afterthought: Perhaps I should explain that the last movie which the Physicist and I ever watched together was, for no particular reason, Ghost World; and of course the opening scene of that film consists precisely of this, the galvanizing "Jaan pehechaan-ho!"—in which, as the fine writers of WFMU note, "Masked dancers bug out and go [...]
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broadband “service” provider 1, unnarrator 0
Thursday 10 July 2008 | someone left a cookie
This pretty much sums up our DSL connection (via thatwesguy).
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pardon our e-dust
Sunday 29 June 2008 | someone left a cookie
In the next week or thereabouts, not only will the promised humor edition materialize, but even more amusingly, there’s going to be some pretty violent perestroika as far as the layout/design of thisyar blerg thang. So in case you show up and there are suddenly eight orange-and-pink striped columns scarred with bright turquoise and violet [...]
in which my toolbar states the obvious
Thursday 26 June 2008 | someone left a cookie
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reinventing the wheel
Wednesday 11 June 2008 | 3 cookies in the jar
Slowly, slowlyslowly, as in “slowly the Ice Age ended,” this morning I remembered—hey, there’s a whole section of the DBT skills training manual on acceptance! Fireworks, bells, applause, cheering, cherry bombs. The all-caps in the following passage actually aren’t my affectation (anyway not this time); they’re the Guilford Press typesetter’s, or maybe Marsha Linehan‘s; but [...]
infamy is ours (and lots of links)
Sunday 6 April 2008 | 5 cookies in the jar
Supposedly taking part in the Great Interview Experiment (by interviewing Jen on the Edge, which we haven’t yet—bad Un, no infamy) means we also got interviewed ourselves, by the redoubtable Chris O’Rourke of cdcstudios.com; and you can read it…here. (Be sure you check out some of his brainy posts too, like the 5 Must-Have WordPress [...]
