I am nobody.

December 16, 2009

I had some related but scattered thoughts about posting my writing online… “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.” -Al Franken as Stuart Smalley on SNL There’s something goofy about the Internet’s effect on the ego. “Shout out to my new followers. I will try to entertain and bring you [...]

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How to go crazy in one simple step: Stand still.

December 11, 2009

I was thinking about the issue of collecting experience that I discussed a few days ago. I realized that the most important assumption is “life is a process”. Life is is not a single decision. This is a reason why I am uncomfortable with absolute rules. An absolute rule treats life as a single decision. [...]

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Collections

December 4, 2009

Post a video about gay marriage, have a few conversations with people on facebook moments later about it. Best: I got to talk to people who both agreed and disagreed. It reminded me that you need to always collect. Always ask. Always listen. Or to steal quotes from conversations last night: In other words – [...]

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Completionist

December 2, 2009

In video game jargon, a “completionist” is a player who will continue playing a game until they have finished every level, found every secret, maximized their final score and have (essentially) consumed every single experience that a game has to offer. Book Completionist Last night, I was on Amazon looking for gifts for the coming [...]

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I, Wikipedian (finale)

December 1, 2009

Yesterday, I was thinking about how everything I post here (or on facebook or twitter or …) has a life of its own. This site is durable in a way that only digital things can be durable: infinite copies, nearly no value, ephemeral yet eternal. Not everything I’ve done online is here or places like [...]

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In the future, we’ll all be naked.

November 30, 2009

Swing, batter batter batter….swing, batter. Grady Sizemore took photos of himself in nearly naked states of undress, sent them to his girlfriend and then they were “leaked” to the internet… …and nobody cared. (Corrected: …and nobody cared except for Grady Sizemore groupies.) In one entire day, not a single “Sizemore” related joke was told in [...]

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Unexpected F/M/K Responses

November 23, 2009

So after my post about F/M/K I played a few games with friends. The problem: I didn’t know my friends as well as I thought because their replies were…um… Example one: Me: “OK, F/M/K: Ghandi, Mother Teresa, Idi Amin” Not-Me: “Can I kill them all?” Me: “I changed my mind. We aren’t playing this. Let’s [...]

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F/M/K – better than budgeting

November 2, 2009

I found an old chat log that was created a few years ago. It was called Budgeting IM – Key Budget Factors and had several hundred lines regarding serious business matters. It was hiding this wonderful diversion, nestled between discussion of depreciation, appropriate estimating procedures, and other gripping material. The lesson: Budgeting discussion encourages you [...]

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