Yesterday was the International Workers’ Day (May Day). We not only got that day off, but today as well. Don’t tell anyone, but I still logged in and worked on Yahoo stuff both days. Just don’t let Sarkozy know, I’d hate to have my visa pulled for not taking the required time off.
Today I used my extra time for shopping. I was hoping to buy an Aeron chair for work, as the provided chair is killing me. I could buy an Aeron off ebay in the US for about $600. It costs about $400 to ship it. But, could I get a similar price in france? $1,000 is roughly equal to about 650 euros right now. The same chair in a Paris store is selling for only 1,700 EUROS! Ouch!
Needless to say, I didn’t buy anything during my shopping expedition. I did look around. More importantly, I walked around, enjoyed the weather and got this great shot of Pont Neuf.
MyPlayList is a new web site that lets you search for a band and sit back while it finds music and images off the internet to create a playlist. The images come from Flickr and the music comes from wherever it can find good stuff.
The playlist options seem to be limited to bands with a virtual presence on Flickr. I couldn’t make one for Alice Donut or Three Mile Pilot. However the recent revival tour of Slint allowed the following play list to arrive.
I could go on with the rest of my life without hearing a sarcastic mention of “fail” this, that or full of “fail”. Ok, it was funny for about 5 minutes.
But you are sending me back to bad high school memories when the girls would constantly say “Trick!”, as in “Ted’s cute… Trick!”
Back then I pulled out my hair when I heard that stupid ass term. Now I have less hair to pull. I still feel a wretching feeling when I hear otherwise semi-rational people use the term “that’s full of fail” with an ounce of self-assured humor.
“Fail” is now banned from conversation. Let’s shitcan the tired Lolz cats and “pwnd” while we’re at it.
This reminds me of the fat blocking diet pill that potentially caused explosive diarrhea. I worked great for about a week. I ate sensibly until I couldn’t live without a burrito. That’s when I realized it didn’t have the side effect on me. Instantly it became a morning-after drug. I ate my typical mexican food and popped a pill. Eventually I ran out and didn’t bother buying any more.
My friend Heather the Hussy said it caused here to leave salad dressing in the toilet. A little oil and vinegar anyone?
I hate VI, no, I really hate VI. Can I say that any more succinctly? VI is a command-line editor for Unix that lets you edit a file on the server. It’s great if you are a masochist with an anal-retentive personality. It’s torture for anyone else. So, imagine my surprise when I noticed a link to this site that recreates VI functionality with JavaScript!
I found this site about Albumen prints at Stanford while discussing the use of paper vs. glass in photography to a co-worker that had no idea what I was talking about.
