Adium
at least it wasn't cheese
New Media Douchebags Explained
It would be wrong of me to use this as the
promo video for Ignite on the DNA calendar.
That would be wrong.
fabrication
I have an Illustrator file. I wish to have the outline therein manufactured into a flat plastic object. Say, 1mm thick. It's basically a comb for holding some small components at a fairly precise spacing, say, ±0.2mm tolerance. (Nevermind what it's for.)
I believe that here in the future, there should be some web service where I upload my .ai file, and then my object arrives in the mail. However, the only one I know of is Ponoko. Which sounds like exactly what I want... except that they're in New Zealand, a fact which they only cop to after you've gotten almost all the way through checkout and only then discover that their shipping rates are insane (like, I think you can put payload into orbit for less.)
It seems like most people who have cutters and fabricators are from the last century, and want to spend a bunch of time talking about it and holding my hand and writing me a personalized quote for the work and asking me about my feelings or whatever. Screw that. I just want the Kinko's of fabbing. Where is it?
Galactica
- I still don't understand how Twitter is in any way superior to posting one-liners to Livejournal.
I'm also not clear on how it's any better (or even any different) than idling on IM.
I barely use the thing, but @rstevens said my name the other day, and I immediately got 50+ new followers. Then I mentioned it here in passing and I got 150+ more. I think half of them signed up an account 30 seconds before that. Who the hell are you people? No, don't answer that, I don't really care. Jesus.
Those of you who post daily dumps of your twitter messages: fucking knock that shit off. It's annoying.
In re point #1, I will now make a policy of posting more one liners to LJ. Possibly even from my phone.