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Archive for August, 2008
you had me at “cantenna”
In: geeeeeeek| girl meets boy| interweb
27 Aug 2008This is COMPLETELY TRUE. It also describes me and R….and at least half of our friends.
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- Tags: Comics, xkcd
the disco balls, where were they?
26 Aug 2008Last night, I was in Whole Foods in Chelsea, a very gay-friendly neighborhood in New York. As I was strolling around the store, the Village People’s “In the Navy” came on. At first I was all, “No way. They’re playing the Village People. In Whole Foods. In CHELSEA. How [...]
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- Tags: disco ball, sparkle
does this template make me look fat?
In: grrrl geeeenius| interweb| true life
19 Aug 2008As you all know (and if you don’t, check here and here), I’ve been trying to get my portfolio together. I’ve been using Backpack to organize my materials, which has been a tremendous help — it’s good to see what I’ve got all in one spot as opposed to scattered all over my apartment. [...]
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…so it wasn’t porn after all!
14 Aug 2008We’ve been experiencing major, major, MAJOR lag while playing Warcraft in our apartment. This started a few weeks ago. Since we’re on a cable connection, I’d figured that some young’un was home from school and had just learned how to download porn.
But no — no, it’s not just our apartment, nor [...]
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- Tags: World of Warcraft
…then you’re in the man from mars…
In: New York, New York| free association| gaming| photoblog| pretty pretty pictures
11 Aug 2008I saw a Space Invader on Friday! I snapped a pic of this little guy as I was leaving my InDesign training class at the Javits Center. I love his mirrored eyes. :)
Turns out, there’s a whole fleet of space invaders, not just in Manhattan, but all over the world. They’re [...]
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