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July 23rd, 2005
If a tree falls in the forest without anyone hearing it — does it actually make a sound?
The answer of course, over time, has never been answered — but instead I have a better question that we actually can answer. A question related to the ever burgeoning communication circus called IM’ing. And that question, as eloquently as I can pose it, is this:
If an Instant Message is typed, then erased before you ever press return, does the person who was supposed to get that message know that you changed your mind?
The answer is a resounding, YES.
Posted under Instant Messaging, Web/Tech. | 17 Comments »
July 17th, 2005
I swung by the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf for a Saturday afternoon non-coffee ice-cream feeling drink yesterday when I found myself more interested in the man sitting in the high-back, soft-corner chair of the establishment. He was sucking down one of those vanilla-blended drinks and he was listening to an iPod.
The man was none other than Jon Cryer, these days known for the awfully generic “funny kid and two mis-matched male father figure” show Two and a Half Men (which ironically we saw when it was called My Two Dads and Airwolf). And while most people know him for his role as Ducky in John Hughes’ Some Kind of Wonderful Pretty In Pink, it didn’t really matter much because at that particular moment in time I had dubbed him “celebrity in the corner with the iPod.”
Posted under Celebrities, MP3, Web/Tech. | 40 Comments »
May 23rd, 2005
Yes, I am a pretty stingy bastard when it comes to providing links at the left of this blog.
People like Bryant Gumbel and Luke Perry and Lily Costner as of late have asked me why I keep the URLs to the wonderful blogs I read on a daily basis in private and secret from the world. People like Tony Pierce have an ingenious way of doing it — they just end each post with about three URLs that you should check out. Others, well, have lists longer than my excuses for not providing links.
Posted under Books, Web/Tech, Weblogs. | 4 Comments »
April 28th, 2005
There are websites, and then there are websites. And then, after you’ve looked at those websites they still can’t even hold up against this.
Seriously, kick-ass design and pretty damn original.
Posted under Web/Tech. | 2 Comments »
April 15th, 2005
For today’s “Words For Your Enjoyment”, WFME good friend Hilary asks the superbly-paraphrased question, “You know, so maybe if you could, why dontcha maybe possibly talk about how much of a time waster those damn web based games are?”
Boo-yah! Great idea.
In preparing to talk about time-wasting web entertainment, yours truly set upon a variety of research activities — all of which involved playing games. Oh, and I ate some candy, too — because as we all very well know, candy provides energy and energy provides excitement, and excitement begets more excitement which eventually causes you to seek out excitement when the previous excitement has ended, and since you have no more candy to fuel said excitement [as previously referenced in the earlier part of this run on sentence], you’ve got to find a web game to fill the void.
Posted under Games, Web/Tech. | 3 Comments »
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