engadget calls our attention to the stealth surfer, a usb device that will allow you to hide your web surfing activities…and get this – take the evidence with you. now horny teenagers everywhere will be delightedly burning these little guys in effigy, middle fingers in the air.

well, almost nothing. i laid around a lot and watched sex & the city and band of brothers. i ran a ton of errands while i had command of eric’s car. saturday night i hung out with my high school friends that live in chicago. conrad, brandon and i went to pat and jessie’s apt. and watched all of aqua teen hunger force. turns out that brandon lives all of 2 blocks away from me. 2 BLOCKS! we felt like total asses for not spending more time together over the past, uh…6 months…heh heh…heh… but we had a good sci-fi catch up (this is where we go on for hours talking about our favorite sci-fi shows and bask in our mutual nerdiness). he has an EARRING!! wtf?

greg storey at airbag commanded and i obeyed:

  1. grab the nearest book
  2. open the book to page 23
  3. find the fifth sentence
  4. post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

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I’ve got something in my front pocket for you
Why don’t you reach down in my pocket and see what it is
Then grab onto it, it’s just for you
Give a little squeeze and say, “How do you do?”
There’s something in my front pocket
There’s something in my front pocket
There’s something in my front pocket…

courtesy of the scriptorium.

today i received the copy of ‘the confusion’ that i bought for eric and i can’t wait to finish ‘cryptonomicon’ so i can move on to ‘quicksilver.’ though i do have to admit i’m really in love with ‘cryptonomicon’ and will be sad to leave it. wired is running this interview with neal stephenson about ‘the baroque cycle.’

check out the lego volvo that appeared at the ny auto show!

sometimes you’re just floating along, thinking everything is ok, you know, you’re just trying to maintain…then someone drops a bomb on you and you realize that you’re totally wasting your time and that essentially, you suck. such a time was last night when i got my first look at jon’s portfolio site, filament21.com.

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courtesy of cult of the dead cow, the lineage and development of the modern chopsticks wrapper as told by dildog. things of note: impressive character pictures and a nice little flowchart. is there a word for those character pictures?

i know this site has been farked and slashed to death, but still, check out this comic from the penny arcade remix project. it is my favorite so far.

Subarashii chinchin mono
Kintama no kame aru
Sore no oto sarubobo
Iie! Ninja ga imasu

Hey hey let’s go kenka suru
Taisetsu na mono protect my balls!
Boku ga warui so let’s fighting…
Let’s fighting love!
Let’s fighting love!

Kono uta chotto baka
Wake ga wakaranai
Eigo ga mechakucha
Daijobu! We do it all the time!

Hey hey let’s go kenka suru
Taisetsu na mono protect my balls!

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