Archive for November, 2005

Shopping.

Published by
iMorph
at November 23, 2005 in General. 2 Comments

Odd.

Canadians make the most unusual purchases.

  • HER: I finally got myself an IBM laptop for 20,000 yen!
  • ME: That’s great! Let me check it out.
  • HER: You can’t right now.
  • ME: Did you leave it at home?
  • HER: No, it is here in my bag.
  • ME: …..
  • HER: It doesn’t work.
  • ME: *Tilts head in that cute, confused puppy dog way* Doesn’t work?
  • HER: It needs a new battery and the power supply is broken. It is going to cost me about 35,000 to 40,000 yen to have it repaired.
  • ME: But, but it doesn’t work.
  • HER: I know, but it was cheap.
  • ME: I see.

That is what I call a Canadian Purchase.

Canadian Purchase:
an item purchased based on price instead of usability.

Ah, The Internet.

Published by
iMorph
at November 21, 2005 in Computing. 0 Comments

Odd Requests in #mac: 

Him: hi
Me: hi.
Him: I need some help downloading the internet in os x
Me: you want to download the entire internet?
Me: You are going to need a fair amount of HDD space for that.
Me: Oh, and, time.
Him: I've heard there is roughly 3 mb of information on the internet
Me: only 3 MB?
Him: where do i go?
Me: I don't think I can help you.
Him: where do i get the latest intel build for os x
Me: sorry, cannot help you with that either.
Him: where can i get windows for my mac?
Me: jradd, please read the channel topic.

####################TOPIC####################
Please be respectful and watch your language
and discussion of illegal activities.
####################TOPIC####################

Me: I feel useful now.

Hmmmm.

Published by
iMorph
at November 11, 2005 in General. 3 Comments

He Loves You.

Quotes from the man himself:

Found Item.

Via this flickr photo, I ended up at amostrado’s home-page. I feel it symbolizes one man’s bitter struggle to deconstruct societies definitions of beauty and romance that are dictated by the corporate heads occupying fashion magazines.

Lust.

Published by
iMorph
at November 9, 2005 in Computing. 0 Comments

REALITY DISTORTION FIELD.

Score: 0
You are descending the stairs to the first floor of
Biccamera. Before you, you see the Apple section.
Like a bright camping light, the shiny goodness
of the new iMacs lure you closer. Unfortunately, before
the iMacs are able to draw you in completely, something
else captures your attention. A VIDEO iPOD.

SCORE: 0
%: Look at Video iPod.

SCORE: 0
It is thinner than you expected.
%: Pick up Video iPod.

SCORE: -1
Taken.

The cool, sleek exterior slips easily over your
skin and sends an electric pulse coursing
up your arm and in to your pleasure center.
%: Examine Video iPod.

SCORE: -2
A familiar interface greets your fingers.
The familiarity whispers, “Play a video”
% Play a video.

SCORE -7
Sharp moving images fill the screen as you
allow a lustful sigh escape your lips.
% Plug earphones in to headphone jack.

SCORE - 17
Sound and motion. Yes, this is what you have
been looking for. Though the screen’s dimensions
do not match those of you PSP, they will do.

GAME OVER. YOU HAVE SUCCUMBED TO LUST.
QUIT? RESTORE?

%Quit.

YOUR FINAL SCORE: -25.

Comments.

Okay, I was wrong. The Video iPod is yummy goodness. Feel free to send one my way.

Runner Up?

Published by
iMorph
at November 9, 2005 in General and Japan. 0 Comments

Darwin Award: Entries #43, #44, and #45.

#43 Tokyo, Japan: Gambling With a Young Life.
A young father speeding in Kei car, while holding his young child in his lap.
#44 Tokyo, Japan: Man vs. Machine.
Female senior citizen using her hands to physically push a moving vehicle, in an attempt to signal her husband to stop backing up.
#45 Tokyo, Japan: Fashion Accessory or Protective Gear.
Male teenager motorcycle rider with his helmet RESTING on his head, zooms in and out of traffic and crosses the centerline.

Email.

Published by
iMorph
at November 4, 2005 in General. 2 Comments
Back Channel: noun
a secondary or covert route for the passage of information : the agency offered a reliable backchannel to Washington.

Back channels have probably been around for ages. You know, Thrag and Hnagaf were meeting out back, behind the boulder, for a quick hit of wacky weed. They probably made plans on how to get Felkaa and Blenka back to their cave for some thigh rubbing. What Thrag and Hnagaf needed were cell phones and SMS.

Back Channel: Experience.

Some people who have experienced the phenomenon cite a speech given last year at a computer industry conference by Joe Nacchio, former chief executive of the telecommunications company Qwest. As he gave his presentation, two bloggers — Dan Gillmor, a columnist for The San Jose Mercury News, and Doc Searls, senior editor for The Linux Journal — were posting notes about him to their Weblogs, which were simultaneously being read by many people in the audience.

Both included a link forwarded by a reader in Florida to a stock filing report indicating that Mr. Nacchio had recently made millions of dollars from selling his company’s stock, although he complained in his speech about the tough economy. ”No sympathy here,” Mr. Gillmor wrote.
”When Dan blogged that, the tenor of the room changed,” Mr. Doctorow said. Mr. Nacchio, he said, ‘’stopped getting softball questions and he started getting hardball questions.

Time-Shifting: verb
[ intrans. ] move from one period in time to another.

Time-shifting comes in two flavors:

  1. Now-Later: Think TiVo.
  2. Later-Now: Classroom lectures and conferences with WiFi and laptops open and the audience IMing and Wikiing away about the lecture at hand.
Bonding: verb [ intrans. ]
figurative establish a relationship with someone based on shared feelings, interests, or experiences.

Time-shifting & Bonding: While You Were Sleeping.

Hikaru usually sleeps the morning away while I net. Sometimes I run across sites or find pics in iPhoto I think she would like, so I send them to her. After I have run off to work, she usually checks her mail and either calls me or mails me back. Sometimes she doesn’t say anything at all.

Back-channel: Ice Cream!

To: Hikaru.
From: D.L.A.
Subject: ICE CREAM!
Body:
I want ice cream? You want some?
--------------------------------

To: D.L.A.
From: Hikaru
Subject RE: ICE CREAM!
Body:
Yes! Haagen Daz!
--------------------------------

To: Hikaru
From: Derek
Subject: RE:RE: ICE CREAM!
Body:
Okay. Going shopping!

This cuts the kids out of the yummy ice cream. Sometimes we need to have ice cream time together.

Questions.

  • Do you email your spouse?
  • Romantic or practical subject matter?
  • Do you email while you are in the same room?
  • When did the mails go from romantic to practical?
  • Have you ever used email to resolve domestic issues?