Some want kittens, some want dragons. I’d be happy with a beatboxing bird.

We were all online and video chat seemed to be the only option. Did you know you can share pictures and videos via iChat? I (joel) DID NOT AND IT IS AMAZING! Also, we danced:

Also, we Photoshop’d our eyebrows off. Gross! Thank god we all have eyebrows. Don’t you think that Chance looks like Old Biff from Back to the Future 2?


(Old Biff from Back to the Future 2)

If you’re curious what a Loris is, Wikipedia won’t help much.

dear chance: stop sending us that creepy clown animation, or there will be more where THIS came from.

lurv, emma and joel

I’m sure you all heard about this recently in the news. Where are we going to get all of our candy from now?

Both candy holders and some CandyShare supporters see possibilities in the verdict handed down Friday in the CandyShare file-sharing case.

The large penalty–$3.6 million in damages to be paid to the candy holders–will likely have a discouraging effect on illegal candy sharers, according to those in the chocolate business. Four defendants also were each sentenced to a year in jail.

“I hope this is an important signal to all parents, workplaces, and schools that candy sharing is illegal and that the economic consequences can be severe,” Per Sundin, managing director of M&M Mars, told the Swedish national daily SvD.

The International Federation of the Candy Industry expressed hope for new candy sharing services to replace Candy Share.

“This is a very interesting signal to the entrepreneurs who are about to launch better services that are legal so the consumers can get even better alternative,” Ludvig Werner, chairman of IPFI Sweden, told Swedish Public Radio SR.

The Candy Party political group–which has been supporting Candy Share and thus has gained popularity among the large number of file sharers in Sweden–also sees the verdict as an opportunity. The verdict is the “ticket to get elected to European parliament” in June, the Candy Party said in a press release.

An estimated one in 10 people in the Nordic country engaged in candy sharing last year.

The Anticandy-piracy Agency, an organization based in Sweden that’s supported by a consortium of Flan and Gummy organizations to fight Candy piracy, welcomed the verdict and wants the authorities to finally act on the actual CandyShare site, which for the moment is still up and running.

“Now it is an urgent matter for the authorities to act on CandyShare’s illegal activities,” Henrik Pontén, a lawyer at the Anticandy-piracy Agency, said in a press statement after the verdict. “Today’s verdict clarifies the legal position.”

Original article found here: Copyright holders cheer Pirate Bay verdict

I’ve been watching Mythbusters via Netflix Streaming all month and I love these guys.

Apparently!

Lindsey and I live in apartment 12, our mailing address is apartment 11, and our shipping address is yet another address (at least for packages and wireless modem/routers). The online helper-chat guy apparently didn’t know what to do so he told us to call the local Verizon people tomorrow.

But what’s up with this?! “Have a blessed day!!”?!?!

Yeah, okay thanks Pope Phelps of Verizon.

So… I might have talked about this to you before but I want it to be public and I want everyone to know.

I love filling out forms. Seriously. It’s like a test and I know all of the answers. First name? Easy! Mother’s maiden name? Yup! Last four digits of my social security number? Got it! Address of the house I grew up in? Oh… crap. UUUUuuuummmm-I remember!

Because of this, I sometimes get into trouble. For example I now have a subscription to Real Simple magazine. (It’s interesting to browse, though I don’t really need a subscription.) I also have a lot of online profiles. Sure I’m a tech-nerd-geek and I like to be an early adopter, but mainly it’s because I’ve run out of forms to fill out so I’m constantly searching for something new. I sign up to new social networks where I don’t know anyone just so I can make a profile and forget about it a week later when I run out of things to fill out.

Today I got home from a movie (Coraline – totally awesome see it!) and had some mail from Citibank. Opened it up and found A FORM! I didn’t even read what it was I just grabbed a pen and started filling shit out. My name, my routing number, my account number, social security, checked “yes i would like to give you all my money” and– wooooah. I caught myself. What was I filling out?! I didn’t even know. It was like waking up, cold and alone on the floor of a dark bathroom, seeing drug paraphernalia scattered around and thinking “my god, what I am I doing to myself?”

Okay, so maybe it’s not that severe, but it’s definitely a problem.

It all boils down to this: Am I alone? Do other people have these problems? Is there somewhere I can find a bunch of harmless forms that can be filled out again and again without ever having to worry about subscriptions and other disastrous consequences? Thank god tax season is almost here, I don’t know how long I can hold out for.

(Just found out that jimmycarter over in LiveJournal-land also shares my obsession.)

So I’ve got a Wacom tablet at work.  And I love the shit out of it.  It’s not like a do a ton of drawing with it, I mostly use it when I’m working in Photoshop (which makes sense) and it adds another layer of control that I wasn’t previously used to.

Another thing, using a trackpad or mouse with my right hand all day is bad.  I didn’t used to notice it but over the last five or six months I’ve noticed a dull pain in my wrist.  This is an early sign of RSI (repetitive strain injury).  As a heavy computer user I’m well aware of this problem.  Wait what the fuck just happened. :B I somehow fell into a PSA about RSI!  Haha, I honestly didn’t mean to do that.

I think my point was that using several different types of input is a good way to vary.  So I use a trackpad, mouse, keyboard shortcuts, and now a tablet.  Apparently you can also add testicles to your mouse a la “MouseBean.”

The main point of this post was LOOK AT THE DUMB THINGS I DO WITH THE TABLET.

Also a secondary point I’d like to make.  I took these screenshots with a program called Skitch.  It’s totally awesome!  I didn’t like it at first but now I do.  You have to register to be able to use it, but don’t fret!  It’s free!

So I had some time to kill today and I really like the “Weirdmotes” smiles set that you can get for Adium.  Now we’ve got them on Shambot!  If you’re using the Visual editor there is a smiles button that you can click.  Other wise it will reinterpret most basic (and complicated) emoticons.  These also work in comments and there are little emoticons to the right of the comment box that you can click on to add them to your comment.

:O :B :A :C :c :E :S :U :0 :[ :L :X :I :F :G :H :} c: C: :/ :J :K :M :N :^ D: :. :} :Q :R :{ :T :q :V :W :, :Y :Z

Next on my list is to add avatar support into the comments!  (no anime, plz :c )

Thoughts?