Stuff I found that was funny.
My favorite productivity trick has got to be moving everything on my desktop into a folder to be looked at later and everything in my inbox into the ” refile” mailbox.
An empty desktop and a clean mail folder and all of a sudden you’re more productive.
I think the technical term for this is “pushing the reset button”, except in my version of it, there is no shutdown notification. (If I weren’t such a poser, I’d twitter it.)
I tried that today.
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In an e-mail recently someone used the phrase “fo’ shizzle.”
Now having worked at Plaxo I’ve heard the term and seen it used when we play Counterstrike and such, and it’s used on television more, but I never saw it written out. For some reason print or e-mail is different than chat or IM. I have a distinct recollection of when “da bomb” (1994) or “so ghetto” (1998) reached that point, followed by a quick musing of where the hell the term came from—I mean besides the obvious answer in this case: Snoop Dog.
Urban Dictionary provided it to me:
“fo shizzle ma nizzle” is a bastardization of “fo’ sheezy mah neezy” which is a bastardization of “for sure mah nigga” which is a bastdardization of “I concur with you whole heartedly my African american brother”
I love the internet.
Warning. This post is too geeky for words.
12:36:44 PM ed: I wrote a twitter client
12:36:51 PM me: Yes, I noticed
12:36:55 PM ed: that’s how I roll.
12:36:58 PM me: also changed some phpsecurity update thing
12:37:04 PM me: white and nerdy baby
12:37:31 PM ed: php security is for the squares, dude
12:37:50 PM ed: I roll with my globals registered and all that shit.
12:39:20 PM me: fuck that bitch, I say all ports open
12:40:09 PM ed: I ain’t afraid of yo buffer overflow!
12:42:16 PM me: Stick your buffer overflow in a box!
Which inspired me to rewrite this song in honor of Ilia’s new filter extension and all the hard work the PHP team in putting security fixes with the latest releases.
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At work one of the printers is named “paperjam” and the other is “treekiller.”
I printed out my stuff on treekiller.
Mischa mentioned that a bunch of Web 2.0 companies wanted to get in on the whole SuperBowl ad thing. Being Web 2.0 and not Web 1.0, they put their commercials on YouTube. Here is one from “the bunch of monkeys” I used to work for:
Their budget? $50 for the bar tab. Sure beats wasting 2 million bucks.
Web 2.0: Web 1.0, only cheaper.
I was reading Presentation Zen, when I happened upon this James Blount/Apple homage:
I’m not too sure what to think.
Bill sent me this video about talking smack in first person shooters.
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Dave sent me this link to geeky office slang.
We’ve heard them before (some from the Wired), but it’s fun reading them again.
The ultimate blog post (Digg).
via Balloon Juice.