in life, in wonder, in people

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Michael

in discovery, in love.

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My favorite Charlie Sheen quotes

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Michael

These past couple of days have been magnificently entertaining to me.

I am on a drug. It’s called Charlie Sheen. It’s not available. If you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded bodies.

and

I’m not fair game. I’m not a soft target. It’s over. There’s a new sheriff in town and he has an army of assassins.

and

Look what I’m dealing with, man. I’m dealing with fools and trolls.

He must have been blogging when he said that last one.

They lay down with their ugly wives and their ugly children and their loser lives and they look me and say, “I can’t process it!” Well, no, you never will. Just stop trying. Sit back and enjoy the show.

And my all time favorite…

I have one speed. I have one gear: GO.

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Not okay, Facebook

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Michael

Facebook wants to once again screw with everyone’s personal information.

Facebook announced today in a letter to Congress that the social-media platform is moving forward with plans to give third parties access to user information, such as phone numbers and home addresses.

In a letter to Reps. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Tex.), who both expressed concerns over Facebook’s plan to make such data available, company officials reiterated their now-familiar pledge to leave it up to users to decide whether they want their personal contact information to go out to app developers and outside websites. Markey has previously said that “Facebook needs to protect the personal information of its users to ensure that Facebook doesn’t become Phonebook.”

I discovered a few weeks ago that my number was actually posted on my profile. Presumably it happened when I got a BlackBerry and added the Facebook app. I’ve looked and seen that other friends with smart phones also have their numbers available; I doubt most of them know. And now Facebook wants to take advantage of this fact. It’s horseshit. I’ve removed my number, and I never had my address up there in the first place, but this is much too far. Facebook needs to pull itself back. It has 500 million users – there’s plenty of ad revenue to be had. There is no need to give seedy companies access to this sort of information.

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More racist teabagger rants

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Michael

As if the Teabaggers didn’t have enough trouble with that little issue of racism, one of its biggest leaders came out and said this:

The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn’t you were just a citizen and you got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. But one of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you’re a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community. If you’re not a property owner, you know, I’m sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners.

Uh-huh. This would also “make a lot of sense” if you didn’t want poor minorities voting for Democrats.

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How to be a Facebook creeper

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Michael

We all have a little creepertude within us. Facebook sort of demands it. I mean, within the average network a person has 97,000 pictures available for viewing. And who doesn’t like pictures. But therein lies the problem. There are some people who will “like” too many pictures. Or status updates. Or they’ll go just over the line. It may not always be a clear line, what with the newness of the whole thing, but there are a few things that are clearly on the wrong side. And isn’t it always a guy that’s doing the line crossing? (Hint: Yes.) Okay, that may be a little hyperbolic because, yeah, women surely are guilty of being over-the-line creepers, too. But that sort of fairness doesn’t grammatically work for my top three creeper signs:

  • He “likes” a picture of her from 3 years ago.
  • He makes his status updates about her interests, not his.
  • He starts talking to her immediately after her relationship status changes to “single”.

I see that final one the most. It’s like there was a metal cage protecting a slab of meat from a pride of lions and all of a sudden it gets lifted. ATTACK! Come on. First of all, since single women aren’t actually a slab of meat, being the first to pounce isn’t going to work. I’ve rarely seen That Guy in a relationship, in fact, and never with his slab-target. Second, have some class.

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Thought of the day

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Michael

Sometimes I think to myself that college basketball couldn’t possibly get more boring. But then they go and devote a whole month to it. That’s compound boredom right there.

When is Opening Day again?

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