I cannot wait to see the True Hollywood Story about TakeiCo. Operating from a dank warehouse without climate control outside of Los Angeles, a bunch of grad school graduates spend hours crafting the perfect 127 character* witty tweet. Another team is in charge of finding funny content on other sites and posting them to TakeiCo's Facebook page. At the end of the month, Each team member is paid 50 cents per retweet, like, or share. CEO George Takei neither owns a smartphone and maintains a basic ...
A tribute to webcomics
I love the Internet. I really do! One of the things that the Internet has given me is a broad supply of new comics to read! I especially enjoy Girls with Slingshots, NPC Comic, Two Lumps, Natalie Dee and Married to the Sea. (some of the above NSFW, language) But for every professional, dedicated web comic artist there are hundreds who call themselves comic artists but fall short on the dedication scale. For example, there's a weekly webcomic that I used to follow that lets weeks go by without ...
Weekly tasklist
My goals for this week, scribed here so I'll always have a reminder of failing... 1) Make two doc appointments: one for the eyes and one for the neglected thyroid. About the eyes: I think I haven't had an eye appointment in 2 or 3 years. About the thyroid: I feel fine..light-years from how I felt on the levothyroxine last summer. But the worry of something being wrong is still in the back of my head. Could I feel even better than what I consider fine? I'm skipping my primary physician for ...
RIP, Leslie Harpold
A few times I've linked to Leslie's Advent Calendars. I've been following them since 2003 or so. Each day was a delight. During the year, I'd visit her site and read some of her writings and savor every word. But on December 1st of each year, she became the first stop on my daily web travels. The creator, blog and web design groundbreaker Leslie Harpold died this weekend. She was 40. And although I never met her or even emailled her, I'm just terribly floored at the news. Thank you, Leslie, ...
Dead modem
From my cell phone!Multimedia message Dead modem. No tv. No phone. No internet. Cable rep is coming tomorrow. Im twitching. ...