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like ham, but not

jinkies — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:05:54 +0000

I do love reading some of the blog comment spam I get. While thousands of them are just links and more links, some of it is just “flattering” text, generally as a test to see I’m spammable. My favorite this week is:

Your site is a refreshing change from the majority of sites I have visited. When I first started visiting web sites I was excited by the potential of the internet as a resource and was very disappointed initially. You have restored my enthusiasm and I thank you for your efforts to share your insights and help the world become a better place.

I’m glad that I’m a refreshing change. Oh, and I want to know how people are searching for a specific four-word phrase (which I’m not putting here, lest someone search again) having to do with porn and arriving here. Must be all that porn I post… I thank Akismet for catching 206,914 spam comments/trackbacks/pingbacks since I last reinstalled it.

o rly

jinkies — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:56:27 +0000

Apparently some of my writing is being emailed around? HA! I’m glad I could entertain. Am I providing insight? Humor? Inspiration?

In any case, I’ll use this time to bring your attention to the late Katie Reider, whose music and life should inspire you. For $1 you can own some of her music and give to a good cause.

waffling

jinkies — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:43:21 +0000

I seem to have fixed a lot of the things that were driving me batty about this particular theme. With very little work, I might add. I still feel like I need an image in the upper left, but don’t have anything that strikes me as “the one” for use in that size.

Less annoyed with the layout, still unsure. That’s the state of the union.

no day but today

jinkies — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:49:35 +0000

Though more will come on the topic soon, I’d like to announce that today was my final day at my old job. Quitting was a long time coming (mostly) and I’m so excited to be starting my new venture. Whew!

your time to shine

jinkies — Sun, 25 May 2008 03:02:23 +0000

Congrats to my friends who graduated this weekend. I love you guys and had a great time watching you walk across the stage, pose for photos, and hanging out during the not-graduation times. Thanks for coming to the beach with me, eating breakfast with me, and being awesome friends.

Now I need a nap. Helping other people graduate is exhausting!

Brass and kreece: You guys are awesome! I’m so proud of you! =)

wouldn’t you like to be a pepper too?

jinkies — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:37:54 +0000

In addition to have a top 5 lifetime sandwich today (thanks Gina at La Villa), I also got to have a little treat. A bottle of Dublin Dr Pepper which uses cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup. Yum!

drink the crack

jinkies — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:00:26 +0000

An article regarding Abraco, the closet coffee place I loved in the East Village.

I got a freshly roasted (less than 48 hours old) bag of \m/etal at Barefoot tonight. I can’t wait for a French press pot of this stuff tomorrow morning.

a bit of video

jinkies — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:08:08 +0000

A video to give you something to do that’s not watching the Super Bowl. I don’t know much about DJ Scriv, but I find this video mix to be enormously fun.

hammer time

jinkies — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:32:31 +0000

The latest by Improv Everywhere. They have 207 people frozen in place in Grand Central Station for five minutes. [via]

going on a picnic

jinkies — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:01:15 +0000

[via] Instapaper is a great little tool for marking websites to read later. Why? Because it’s not del.icio.us? I’m using it to mark non-news I want to read later, that I doubt is interesting to many other people (like a Wired article on bike wheels or stuff I want to share at work) and which doesn’t require me giving out my email info and which I can access at any computer. (Much like how I use Bloglines as a feed aggregator instead of a desktop client.) I sit at a computer for many snippets of my day, it just isn’t always mine. Now I’m not emailing myself links back and forth between my work and home computers. Whee!