Archive for February, 2007
Saturday, February 10th, 2007
Geeks in the hizzouse
I’m spending this lovely, frosty Saturday inside of doors at the first Southern Social Media Conference, or SoCon07. I’m not really sure why yet, though — probably to lend some credibility to my extracurricular (and all too often intra-curricular) online activities. (This is a career skill, damnit!) This afternoon I’ll be […]
8 Comments » - Posted in Culture, Geekery, Netroots by shelbinator
Friday, February 9th, 2007
get *anna*.jpg
So long, you big crazy lady. Back in the good old days of hunting the world wide web for 8-bit color nekkid pictures with Gopher and command-line FTP in Terminal windows, you were my first and favorite X11 desktop babe.
No Comments » - Posted in Culture, Geekery by shelbinator
Thursday, February 8th, 2007
Faking it
My sister graduated from NYU’s drama program just as I was embarking upon middle school, that magical step in learning in which you actually get to pick a couple elective classes all by yourself. I thought my sister and the whole notion of theater were both pretty nifty, so I kicked off fifth grade […]
6 Comments » - Posted in Introspection, Work by shelbinator
Sunday, February 4th, 2007
Blunders in grammar and race
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s already been beaten to death. Many of my colleagues have always said I was getting behind a guy they considered a “loser” for the ‘08 race, and now they’re adding more abusive words to the mix after the loquacious and often rough-edged senator apparently attempted, according to many pundits, to […]
10 Comments » - Posted in Culture, Politics by shelbinator
Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Craps in box
You know, cats have a funny way of showing their respect. Of course, I think cats have a funny way of doing most things, and I have a funny way of not liking them. But for this discussion in particular, I’m thinking about how cats will go out and kill some small creature […]
