The Cynic Gazette

Moving to wordpress is something that I’ve been meaning to do for the better part of my blogging career, and you think that with web development as my career, my side job and one of my hobbies, I’d actually make some progress from time to time.

Well, it’s taken me just under a month to delete the “hello world” post and write something more meaningful, and while the word “meaningful” is debatable at this point, it’s better to have something than nothing, and this run-on falls under that umbrella. So horray for that.

Unlike the old cynicgazette from the days of old, and the myspace blog, I’m departing from the I-wish-I-was-Dave-Barry thing a little bit and I’m going to be as geeky as I want. I want to be able to geek out about photography, talk freely about web stuff I think is cool, bash pseudoscience crap that gives me a headache and … well, do the I-wish-I-was-Dave-Barry thing.

I’m going to note new posts here in my myspace blog until I set up a script to do it for me, but for the most part, I’m done blogging there. I’ll beautify this place soon enough, but in the meantime you’ll have to deal with it looking a little rough. Sorry. Think of it as a kickback to Thoreau’s “simplify, simplify, simplify” thing. You know, when he wasn’t going on about the damn bean farm.

On that note, I’m going to run down to Wholefoods for a congratulatory snack. It’s the most web 2.0 place to eat ever.

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…there aren’t any. Not as such by design, I just haven’t gotten around to it because I’m a pretty busy guy. I’m not against doing anything, I just haven’t really thought about it much more in-depth than “I’d like to have pizza at some point.” Currently the only thing I have planned for the weekend is to go to the motorcycle show tomorrow, and probably a little happy hour with Meg and her work pals today. 

So there you go. 

Oh yeah, I want to go to coldstone at some point too.

So, umm, yeah. Sorry for the anticlimax. Something will probably happen tomorrow night, and I might just call that the birthday night out. Or I might just hook up the VCR on Monday (actual birthday) and see who wants to come over and watch The Leningrad Cowboys Go America (I’m not kidding). We’ll see.

Joisey Mike 4th Wall me, yummy

Another case of workday ADD has taken a hold, so let’s review some of the hilights of my day. Oh wait, Emily (who declared me the guy who makes it cool to be weird) just emailed me, I’m gonna go read it. BRB. 

OK, I’m back. So, instead of taking screenshots of online textbook pages (oh, what fun!) I’m going to eat your brain. By eat your brain, I of course mean tell you about my day.

Random Insta-obsessions

Jonathan Coulton
Mike introduced me to his song “Re: Your Brains” the other day, so I did some research and bought the album it was on from iTunes. This guy’s great, the album, “Thing a Week Two” is part of his “Thing a Week” project, releasing a new song every week for a year. It feels like Ben Folds if you swiped his piano and gave him an acoustic guitar… really folk-rocky. And he does a cover of “Baby Got Back”, but that’s on a different album. I’m going to get it and see how it feels toe-to-toe against Richard Cheese’s cover.

Urban Dead
This massively multiplayer ***FREE*** browser based game has you as a survivor (read: living human) or a zombie (read: chainsaw fodder) in a city (read: cit… oh, right). I haven’t had the chance to play it yet, but I love the premise. From the reviews I’ve read, I’ve heard that it’s mostly text based with few graphic elements, which is cool since I was into oldschool Infocom games in the mid-80s like Zork, the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Wishbringer. Never MUDs though. That’s worse than Magic: The Gathering. How’s this game different from a MUD? Shut up, that’s how.

It’s gold Jerry, Gold!

My favorite definition of the word chode from urbandictionary.com:    

    “A chode is a bunch of people that sit around and argue over the definition of the word chode.”

Quotes

Dating advice given:    

    “[15:46] kincaidKMF: I have a rule of thumb I ascribe to pretty strongly: don’t listen to anyone who hasn’t been on a date with anyone new in almost 30 years.”

Commenting on walking to Best Buy on my lunch break, even though it’s pretty hot outside:    

    “I’d like to think that my legacy, once I’ve passed into the great beyond, is to be known as the kind of guy who would walk to Best Buy. As long as it’s not that far. And open.”

On the phone to an insurance adjuster:    

    “So basically I’m the first person this week not to use the phrase ‘lord have mercy’ three times already by this point during the conversation? I’m not to likely to clutch my pearl necknace and say ‘oh, my heaveans’ either. It’s not that I don’t think pearls make me pretty, but I’m not into wearing necklaces.”

Summing it up with H2 tags

Well, I’m gonna go home now. I think the fact that I just promised to set up a wireless printer for a friend the next time I’m in Vegas means that’s enough computer’n for the day. Sing it with me now… “All we want to do is eat your brains…”

Joisey Mike 4th Wall, Geek, Random Jonathan Coulton, me, zombies

Work ADD:

1. I like Illustrator better than Photoshop lately
2. Why does every icon I draw look so “Web 2.0″?
3. I need to go to Home Depot for another outside garbage can
4. I want magic low carb nachos
5. I missed coffee. a lot.
6. I need a white LED taplight from Home Depot too
7. Should I buy myself a Macro lens or a Super Wide Angle lens next?
8. I have to put those teddy bears on ebay
9. I need to build a lightbox to shoot the bears before I do 8
10. What would be a new myspace name that wouldn’t have people email me asking if I’m ok?
11. TROGDOR COMES IN THE NIIIIIIIGHT!
12. While I’m at Home Depot I can finally get stuff to refinish my Guitar Hero guitar
13. It’d probably be a good idea to write down ’s 3, 6, 9 and 12. 
14. I’m going to start telling people how the new Harry Potter book ends, since I only read the ending and will refuse to read anything else.
15. Why is every hardware shopping item a multiple of three?
16. I’m going home.

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