Thursday, March 31, 2005
New Office Slang
404 - Someone who is clueless. From the Web error message, “404 Not Found,” which means the document requested couldn’t be located. “Don’t bother asking John. He’s 404.”
Cobweb - A WWW site that is never updated.
Dead Tree Edition - The paper version of a publication available in both paper and electronic forms.
Generica - Fast food joints, strip malls, sub-divisions as in “we were so lost in generica that I couldn’t remember what city it was”
GOOD job - A "Get-Out-Of-Debt" job. A well-paying job people take in order to pay off their debts, one that they will quit as soon as they are solvent again.
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UPDATE: September 25, 2005 11:42 pm
Although this was originally sourced from an email (no author mentioned), several readers have commented that much of this was originally in Wired Magazine.
If someone would be so kind as to point me to a link, I could credit them (I couldn't find any comprehensive post at Wired.com).
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I'm a Cappucinno
"What Kind of Coffee are You?"
You're a Cappicinno!
What Kind of Coffee are You?
brought to you by Quizilla
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Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Photo Caption Time
This Photo comes from Le Monde:
via Name This Thing
Caption away!
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Honey, we're out of SBG
Is this a real product . . .
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. . . or merely an invitation to discuss branding and marketing ?
Via Wordlab
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What time is it?
How cool is this?
Its 12:34 . . .
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Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Dog Kisses
Click photo for movie
very funny . . .
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Terri Schiavo's Blog
Terri Schiavo's Blog is as offensive, obnoxious, insensitive -- and outright hysterical -- as anything you ever saw on South Park.
Typical posts are things like mmmmmnegh and nggnugh.
If you have no concern for your mortal soul, then be sure to read the comments . . . Warning: If you laugh out loud at anything posted there, you will burn in Hell forever.
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Monday, March 28, 2005
Video iPod ?
The Linux-based MediaREADY FlyBoy™ Portable Media Player records up to 80 hours of video, stores over 200,000 digital pictures, or holds up to 740 hours of music on its 40 GB hard drive. Internal USB 2.0 hard drive allows the Flyboy to receive files from any PC, or VWB's MediaREADY 4000 or 5000.
Heres the press release.
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3.5 inch LCD screen 0;
80 hours of video;
12,000 MP3s;
200,000 Pictures;
Digital Voice Recording;
Data Storage;
built-in speakers;
40Gig HD;
MP3; RM;
Custom Linux OS;
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Price? $349
Impressive stats given the price . . .
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Electric Scooter
A company named Vectrix has a new Electric Scooter coming out:
The stats on the bike are pretty cool:
On sale in Europe late this year;
25% cheaper Cost of Ownership;
lower maintenance costs ;
zero spent on gas;
nickel metal hydride batteries cost fifty cents to recharge;
top speed > 60 miles an hour;
range is ~68 miles at 30 mph;
recharge time is ~two hours;
The rechargeable electric scooter will cost $10,000; Parker Hannifin is an investor in the firm. Granted, its not a $300 scooter, but its still pretty cool looking . . .
Source:
Electric and Fuel Cell Scooters on the Horizon
March 20, 2005
http://www.carbuyersnotebook.com/archives/2005/03/electric_and_fu.htm
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Sunday, March 27, 2005
Jews & Jesus
So I am having a pre-Easter conversation with a friend who grew up in a very Christian mid-Western town. Until he moved to New York, he had never met a person of Jewish faith (No, we never had a "dude, where are your horns?" moment).
He's now a very urbane New Yorker . . . Yet he's having a hard time wrapping his brain around the whole "Jesus being just another person of no particular religous significance to us Jews" thing.
I explain the whole waiting for the Messiah (Jewish) versus waiting for the Messiah's Second Coming (Christian).
He still doesn't get it.
He's a huge baseball fan, so I try to use the rooting for the home team analogy. After explaining that most of the world looks at Jesus that way, i.e., as just another philosopher, and that two thirds of the planet are not Christians, he starts to get an inkling of understanding. After all, you may not root for the other team's slugger, but you appreciate his RBIs and Home Run totals.
"So what is the Jews relationship to Jesus?" he asks.
"He was traded for a player to be named later . . ."
That he understands.
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