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Jan. 5th, 2009

New shineys

I am posting this from my new Android phone!
However, since I don't want to change my current phone plan so it's basically like an iPod Touch -- useful only if there's a WiFi connection available. But... it has a camera!

Tags: android, google, phone, work

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Jan. 1st, 2009

O HAI

mood:

amused

I can haz year in review?

My personal year in review: Worked. Made money. Still have job. Yay!

Tags: lolcat, year in review

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Dec. 25th, 2008

PEBKAC

I friggin' hate keen.com right now. So far TWO of their idiot users have used my email address to sign up for their services.
I have had fun screwing with their accounts, and am likely to continue doing so to vent off all my frustration.

In other news, Happy Christmas! Some folks will remember how I was going off on how glad I was not to have an Android phone. Well, that's about to change, or at least it will when I get back to work...

Tags: fffffffffffffff, google, phone, stupid people, work

Dec. 15th, 2008

Yes We Can!

OMG NERD

This is what happens after I spend most of the day preparing pages for a launch tomorrow, and need to do SOMETHING THAT'S NOT HTML ZOMGWOW

Tags: da! desktop anime, design, obama, politics

Dec. 13th, 2008

I won't stop

music: Polysics - Black Out Fall Out

...until I bury Google in snowflakes.

EDIT: Also, if you missed, it, shinkansen doodle!

Tags: design, google, igoogle, work

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Dec. 3rd, 2008

Prop 8...

...The Musical

"JESUS CHRIST!"

Tags: humor, politics, videos

Nov. 20th, 2008

Not responsible this time

Since people have been pinging me all day about this, no, I had nothing to do with the Gmail themes announced yesterday. I did make a few themes to use internally, but not any of the ones on the public build.
If they make a Gmail themes API similar to the iGoogle one, you can be sure I will make these available. I have a
green floral (papercuts) theme, a glossy theme similar to the DA! v10 layout, and a port of the iGoogle Tetris theme.
Already, Hank has planted the idea of a LOLcat theme in my mind...
Also, I need to post my snowflake iGoogle theme...

Tags: design, google, igoogle, themes, work

Nov. 14th, 2008

More than you ever wanted to know

...about LOLcats...

Tags: google, lolcat, work

Nov. 13th, 2008

Check out my mail inbox!

location: Google

This is what happens when I have to take the screenshots.
Three years and I'm still subscribed to those Pharma emails...
Also, Scotch tape X-rays are like, the most awesome thing ever.

Tags: geek, google, science, work

Nov. 4th, 2008

Hot damn

Now the hard work starts.

Tags: politics

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Kinda late but...

VOTE YES ON MEASURE R!!!

...the best part about Measure R are the arguments for/against, and the rebuttals to the arguments for/against. I mean, when you get a haiku in your voter's guide, you know it's special.
Need Bush memor'l?
Sewage plant available
How appropriate
-- Brian McConnell, Chairman
Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco

Tags: politics, san francisco

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Nov. 2nd, 2008

Halloween come and gone

Someone got a photo of me as a LOLcat!
Quite a few people liked my "costume". All I had to say was "I'm a LOLcat!" and people would think it was awesomeness.

Tags: google, halloween, lolcat, work

Oct. 30th, 2008

Droids 4 Obama

Tags: android, obama, politics

Oct. 10th, 2008

Treats

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
ming-ling goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as LOLcat.
catsonmars tricks you! You get a scratched CD.
desslok tricks you! You get a block of wood.
hamusutaa gives you 17 milky white peach-flavoured wafers.
inversereality gives you 4 blue vanilla-flavoured gummy worms.
kiyone gives you 9 dark green cinnamon-flavoured nuggets.
kyburg gives you 9 tan watermelon-flavoured gumdrops.
motorbike tricks you! You get a wet rag.
servalan gives you 15 mottled green orange-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
skademonx gives you 9 mottled green lime-flavoured nuggets.
vibratingsheep gives you 8 softly glowing vanilla-flavoured gummy bats.
ming-ling ends up with 71 pieces of candy, a scratched CD, a block of wood, and a wet rag.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

Thanks for the somewhat scratched Mix CD,

catsonmars
Have wood, need sheep. I'm looking at you,

desslok

Tags: halloween, meme

Oct. 8th, 2008

Crud

location: Vancouver, BC

I can see a Book-off from the hotel lobby.
I have already bought $90 of Go!Go!7188 and Ellegarden CDs, and the cheerful staff has informed me there's a CD sale tomorrow.

I am doomed.

Tags: music, shopping, vacation, vancouver

Oct. 6th, 2008

Off for a bit

Going to be in Vancouver for the next week or so.

That probably means I'll be posting more, not less...

Tags: vacation, vancouver

Sep. 28th, 2008

Bored

This game is quite fun and cleverly put together.

Tags: politics

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I can has author talk?

So, I went to the LOLcats talk on Friday. The two cofounders of icanhascheezburger basically chatted about how their Wordpress blog for sharing funny images with each other ballooned into an entire social network with its own set of grammar rules. Each step was illustrated with appropriate LOLcat photos. It was much fun.
Also, I learned the new admin for ICHC has created a whole network of sites based on the captioned fun as ICHC, including one for politics (Pundit Kitchen) and, more closely relevant to my interests, GraphJam, although sadly GraphJam is focused more on expressing musical lyrics as graphs and not Internet Memes.
I now want to make a site called LOLgraphs.

Tags: google, graphs, lolcat, work

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Sep. 25th, 2008

Current Project

Understanding just what all these bond measures on the California ballot actually mean.
Well, except for the High Speed Rail one, which I'm totally psyched over :D New intercity transit infrastructure is the win.
Also, WHY is the Parental Notification for abortion back on the ballot? We voted against it TWICE. Three times is not a charm.

Tomorrow, LOLcats.

No really. Some folks who run Icanhascheezburger are giving a talk tomorrow. AWESOME. I can't wait.

Tags: california, lolcat, politics, voting

Aug. 27th, 2008

Chocofest

Sept 6 & 7
WHO'S COMING?!

Tags: chocofest, chocolate, san francisco

Aug. 9th, 2008

Now leaving Backwards Land

So it only took 120-odd pages for Genentech to get a mention.
In the same sentence as Wyeth. And Bio-Syn, which I'm pretty sure was the fake company that was behind the Jurassic Park shenanigans.

Also, AU Google now indexes pages of filetype shmtl!

What a trainwreck of a book. Thank Darwin I never actually paid for it (I got it from the book sale I volunteer at, and that's exactly where it's going back to, once my roommate has a good laugh.)

I was also amused by how many characters (and there were far too many characters to keep track of or even care about) named after famous, Nobel-winning biologists.
Watson. Koch. Sanger. Kendall. If they've won it, they've got someone named after them.

Tags: backwards land, biotech, books, fffffffffffffff, geek, novels, science

Aug. 7th, 2008

More adventures in Backwards Land

Holy crap, now a company named BioRad does paternity testing!

By the way, if you've ever spent any time in a bio lab, even just taking a class in school, you've probably used Bio-Rad equipment. Their stuff is EVERYWHERE.

Tags: backwards land, biotech, books, fffffffffffffff, geek, novels, science

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Aug. 5th, 2008

Somewhere In Backwards Land...

In the wonderful, mysterious alternate universe of Michael Crichton's Next, Amgen, the world's largest biotech company¹ is located in Los Angeles² and BioGen³ is a struggling biotech startup⁴ in Los Angeles⁵. Oh, and Huntington's disease has mutated into an autosomal recessive disease⁶.
Holy shit, I'm only on page 50.

( THIS BOOK IS AWESOMESAUCE )

Also, there are talking monkeys. BECAUSE IT'S NOT ABSURD ENOUGH UNLESS THE APES SPEAK. IN DUTCH.
I'm sure this will be ~~explained~~BS'd later on.

Tags: backwards land, biotech, books, fffffffffffffff, geek, novels, science

Jul. 25th, 2008

It's amazing we get anything done at this company

[During meeting]
(One engineer is VC'ing in from home)
Engineer 1 (looking at projector): What is that? Is that her cat?
Engineer 2 (on VC): *holds up cat and grins*
-after meeting-
E1: I kept IM'ing her and asking her to show off her cat more.
Engineer 3: I can show off my cats.
E1: Really?
E3: I think I have some photos...
E3 (displays photos of cats)
E1: That has icanhascheezburger written all over it.
E3: ?
E1: Do you know about icanhascheezburger? Quick, go to www.icanhascheezburger.com. It'll become a new addiction.
E3: OMG CUTE KITTIES
Me, E1 and E3 (stare at first page of blog)
E1: Hit the Next link! We still have 15 minutes left in this room
E3 (hits next link): OMG MORE CUTE KITTIES
E3: Okay, one more page and THAT'S IT. This is definitely going to be a new addiction.

Tags: google, lolcat, work

Jul. 21st, 2008

Just wanna have fun...

mood:

amused

music: Ego-Wrappin: Go Action

You know, listening to Yoshie Nakano sing Girls Just Wanna Have Fun is really, majorly trippy.

Also, I think the sketchy cityscape visuals in Go Action would make a kickass iGoogle skin. Way more fun than the current iGoogle cityscape if just for the more vibrant color scheme.

Tags: ego-wrappin'

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