December 2008
21 posts
Great work Israel... great work
ojacko:
Hamas launches scores of rockets into Israel from Gaza and kills no one. Israel retaliates by killing nearly 200 people including women and children. Way to combat terrorism responsibly Israel. Way to go. NYT
Bad PR and clearly not the proper way to bring about peace, but this quote from the article stood out to me:
“Expecting some kind of Israeli response, the Hamas leaders in...
The end of IRC
Luke: IRC has become an interesting place
Nate: haha
Nate: why's that?
Luke: there are no longer people around, it appears to be a vast wasteland of bots
Nate: oh yeah
Luke: i went into #orangecounty
Luke: 3 people greeted me
Luke: alysa: "hello sine909"
Luke: mike42: "hey sine909, whats up?"
Luke: rhinoman "yes hi sine909"
Luke: but i soon realized they were in fact not real people at all
Luke: but rather baddly coded scripts meant to emulate real people
Luke: for what reason i do not know
Nate: ahh
Nate: at least you didn't start conversing with them
Luke: yes i did.
Nate: oh
Nate: heh
At least Bush gave us laughs
Nate: SFA's President Jim McCarthy said, "choking is a possibility with any solid food and can happen to anyone." SFA is aware of no specific concerns regarding pretzels and incidents of choking.
Nate: SFA hopes President Bush will continue to enjoy pretzels and other savory snacks.
Nate: http://www.sfa.org/BushPretzel.html
Luke: hah
Luke: serious PR hit for the pretzel industry
Luke: bet they had emergency midnight damage control meetings
Nate: seriously
Nate: haha their conference is called the SNAXPO
Luke: wow....i wanna go
Web development, 6 years ago
Numair: any thoughts
Nate: it's good
Numair: would it work with IE4?
Numair: very simple CSS
Nate: not sure
Nate: i would think so
Numair: it looks fine in IE5.2 / Chimera
Numair: IE4 supports CSS right?
2002, and still applicable
Numair: i guess we are in a down time
Numair: all around
Numair: bad economy, bad government, bad media
Nate: heh
Nate: yes
Nate: but we can get going again
Numair: what's the use
Numair: there'll be nobody at the party
Nate: well
Nate: what other choice do we have?
Nate: just sit back and say fuck it?
Numair: we have no choice
Numair: we are alive
Numair: we must try to rebuild
Nate: thats my point
Numair: it will be years before it comes back
Numair: by then we will be old
Nate: not if we are the ones helping bring it back
Nate: not everything is gone
Nate: i just can't believe it's over
Nate: that would suck
Nate: the good times can't be done
Numair: i miss 1999
Numair: we thought were touching the future
Numair: we thought the millenium would usher in a new era of enlightnment
Numair: we were so fucking wrong
Numair: the weird thing is
Numair: if 1999 had happened today
Numair: we would have been so. fucking. right.
Numair: 3G / GSM is finally coming to the US
Numair: broadband is finally working
Numair: etc
Nate: yeah
Nate: but now everything is shrouded
Nate: in doubt
Nate: fear
Nate: depression
Six years ago
Numair: i wonder why USVI are so expensive
Numair: a 157 acre island in USVI is $25m
Nate: i've spent a lot of time thinking the last couple of months about what i truly want
Numair: what do you truly want
Nate: at first i thought it was a simple answer..but it's a lot more complicated than that. the pieces just have to be put into place. for the last few months i've been absent, because i keep thinking i haven't found it yet. but i just need to work to build it.
Nate: i want to have fun
Nate: do what i'm good at doing
Nate: build things and watch them grow
Numair: heh
Nate: what i want is to have a dream, and make that dream come true..that's what it's all about
Numair: yeah
Numair: exactly
Numair: i want to chase the sun
Nate: yes
Was going through some really old chat logs
sine909: you lowercased your name
nateiu: yeah
sine909: big change for you
sine909: i like it
sine909: the girls will flock now
nateiu: thanks
sine909: i've been sportin the lower case for a while now... working out really good for me
“Bailing out Detroit would be a bad use of public money. It would be bad in...”
– The Economist
Watchjoewilcox:
I’m usually critical of ad campaigns produced by Crispin Porter + Bogusky, the agency Burger King and Microsoft use. This Whopper marketing video is unusual for its cross-cultural approach. That I like.
But there are negative anthropological, cultural-pollution aspects that bug me. The marketing video and supporting Website demonstrate lack of understanding or respect for the people...
