Bank of America building in Celebration, Florida
Insane giggling
Que angelic choir singing in triumphant glee. I have found the lunchbox of my orgasmic dreams.
Don’t think I don’t see you down there, human. Don’t move a muscle or I will climb you like a tree and wear your ears like a hat. Nom nom nom this, em effer.
A useless letter to Match.com
Hello,
I am not a member of Match.com - this is a suggestion based on your advertising. I often see your ads on Pandora.com offering to help me find singles in my area.
I am happily married and monogamous so I’m not interested in finding singles in my area. Every happily married monogamous person not looking for a hookup will likely ignore your ads completely.
We can always learn to be better husbands/wives/etc so you might consider also offering relationship coaching and advertising that service - so everyone who is in a contented relationship could get some value from your ads (and you might make some more money out of the added users).
Thanks.
Now I know what I’m doing tonight!
Bwa ha ha!
yhf:
The study group at Greendale Community College, Team Avatar, and Harry Dresden.
Let’s do this.
Jack Reed & Elaine Barnaby, The Staff of the 9:30 Club, and Tumblr.
Yeah, today’s gonna be just fine.
Katniss Everdeen, Buffy Summers, and Super Mario. I kinda like my chances against the zombies.
Tina Fey, Dog the Bounty Hunter and I last played Zombie Island so an actual zombie! I’ve got comedy, brawn & insider info on my side. I think I’ll be juuuuuust fine!
Poppet, Widget, and Bailey from The Night Circus. Those zombies are toast!
Katniss Everdeen, Optimus Prime, and Master Chief. Think I’ll be okay. :)
John Egbert (aka ectoBiologist), Dr. Tachyon and Angel. If Liam gets the munchies or gets laid, we’re fucked.
Batman, He-Man and Phineas & Ferb. Party is at my house.
Captain Kirk, Maru, and Toru Okada (The Wind-up Bird Chronicle). So I’ll be sexually harassed by Kirk while Toru makes spaghetti, takes naps, and receives strange phone calls. At least Maru’s cuteness will distract me until my inevitable demise.
Charles Darnay, Nobody Owens, Sherlock Holmes. I think we’ve got a shot.
Let’s see, first I’ve got Ben Linus, Jesus and and all-knowing supercomputer (Person of Interest), then a Grimm and a werewolf (Grimm) and Peter, Walter, Olivia, Astrid, etc. (Fringe). Come at me, zombie bros.
Seriously, I’m lucky this wasn’t Elmo, DJ Lance Rock and Pinkie Pie.
The Doctor, Donna Noble, River Song. I’m feeling confident about my chances.
(Source: creaseintime)
Erm…
1) What’s up with Rhode Island?
2) What’s the opposite of ‘Nom nom nom*’?
*I do not think it is ‘mon mon mon’.
Baby’s first A.A. meeting. :( (Taken with instagram)
Note to self, send child to these meetings… (or just get the book)
Chopper Info and Review!
You should buy one.
My first remote control chopper! Cue the ‘Airwolf’ theme song…
Online Tracking + Disaster
One of my favorite podcasts is Spark from CBC radio. From the ‘About Spark’ on their website: “SPARK is an ongoing conversation about technology and culture and helps you navigate your digital life by connecting you to fresh ideas in surprising ways. We’re all about tech, trends, and fresh ideas. And we especially like robots.”
One frequent Spark topic is how we’re all being tracked online through cookies, social media, GPS location and shopping habits.
Here’s my personal take:
Overall, all of the tracking that goes on is what I’ll call ‘opportunistically neutral’. Companies don’t really care specifically who I am, they just want me to spend my money on their product. I’m 100% fine with this - the majority of tracking goes directly into giving me a better experience.
Online privacy concerns aren’t huge problems in our daily lives, until something major happens and that’s when things get interesting. The most dire repercussions of all this tracking only manifest after a national emergency - or several national emergencies in short succession - plague, natural disaster, terrorist attack, or outright war.
When the government of any country needs to tighten its grip to maintain order and safety, civil liberties may be put on indefinite hold ‘for the duration of the crisis’.
The next time it becomes necessary for any high-tech government to take strong action in restricting liberties, it will be interesting to see how they will use all of the online tracking tools at their disposal. Enforcing curfews will be easier thanks to location tracking. Rationing is easier to track. Purchasing history points law enforcement to the people most likely to resort to the black market. There are literally an endless list of tools that online tracking deliver in time of crisis, for good and bad.
If the disaster in question was a terrorist attack (by a citizen or from another country) what are the contents of their streaming TV queue? What have they purchased from online retailers?
I cringe to think about all the small ways my online history would line up with that of a crazy terrorist person. What happens when three or more items line up: everyone who’s read ‘The Hunger Games’, watched ‘Downton Abbey’ and signed up for the ‘Cheese of the Month’ club ends up on a special list of ‘people of interest’? When this disaster scenario algorithm spits out my name, how long until government agents show up to ask me a few pointed questions? It’s just a matter of time.
So what can I do?
Be aware and be careful online if just for identity theft reasons. And maybe cut back on the cheese.
The sun was waiting for me to get off work…
