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[jazzfish]

Mistakes I've Made: Drinking Four Loko: "Four Loko Blue Raspberry is abhorrent and I can only imagine that these cans are filled by a long assembly line of Smurfs vomiting."

An Experiment in Accurate But Misleading Movie Descriptions: "Back to the Future: A bewildered teenage boy fends off his mother's disturbing and unnatural attraction to him."

Inventor's 2020 vision: to help 1bn of the world's poorest see better: "Silver has devised a pair of glasses which rely on the principle that the fatter a lens the more powerful it becomes. Inside the device's tough plastic lenses are two clear circular sacs filled with fluid, each of which is connected to a small syringe attached to either arm of the spectacles."

Geek Luddites: "The concept of computer has radically changed in that vision [of 'ubiquitous computing'] in a way which is much more than giving the navigation system the pleasant voice of Majel Barrett. We know this because if it hadn’t, a quarter of the fucking Enterprise crew would be the IT department."

Henge Docks: "Henge Docks has created the first truly comprehensive docking station solution for Apple's line of notebook computers." Mine's on preorder and will, I hope, be here by the end of the month. Not that I'll really be able to use it that soon, since as far as I know my desk chair hasn't miraculously gotten any less painful to use, but hey. Maybe I can figure out how to use it, with appropriate incentive.

I have never had a bad experience having lunch (or dinner, for that matter) at La Sandia, no matter the company. I should remember this more often. Meanwhile, thoughts on "friends" continue to bounce around my head and not settle out in any coherent fashion, as they're wont to do. The short version being that I'm not used to having "friends" anymore, if I ever was. Acquaintances and very-close-friends / sigoths / partners I can do, it's that middle ground where I'm uncertain. This has been a good year for fumbling through that uncertainty.

Comments

[rbandrews]

Henge Dock: well that's just brilliant. I want one, but with a Mac Pro, there's kinda no point. However, I've already decided this Mac Pro is the last desktop system I'll own, so, after it becomes useless, I'm definitely getting one of these.

Glasses: well that's just brilliant. I like that a lot of programs now seem to invest in the third world rather than dump money on the third world. I also like that I could get a pair of these and never have to spend $500 on a pair of glasses again. I'd look like a dork though.

Four Loko: well that's just... really not brilliant.

here's to the middle ground

[darkfyre-muse.livejournal.com]

which is where I typically fall. And yes La Sandia for the win!.

I'm still musing on a response to your other post. It may take awhile, here's to making me think.

[pictsy.livejournal.com]

My life has been a long story of unrequited friend-love. I'm trying to abandon the whole pursuit.

[daghain.livejournal.com]

Four Loko is de facto illegal now. The FDA ruled caffeine to be an unsafe additive to alcohol (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/17/AR2010111702634.html?hpid=topnews).

[selki.livejournal.com]

Glasses: very cool!