Things and stuff and happenings

Dan — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:54:57 +0000

Last night I went to see The National play in Louisville. The show was great! What really impressed me the most was their special guest, Owen Pallett. What he can do with a violin, and a mixer is pretty awesome. After his show, I went and got two of his albums. I’ve been listening to them since then! I should be uploading pictures soon.

Things I’ve been collecting over the last week. Posts that I thought were pretty interesting — to me anyway.

Building the Wall
I remember going to the Vietnam Memorial while we lived in Maryland — about 15 years ago. I don’t think it really meant anything to me, I just thought it was cool to see so many names on a shiny black wall. I think if I were to go now it would mean a whole lot more — after having served in the military.

4chan takes on the MPAA
So after hiring a company to DDoS bittorrent trackers who wouldn’t comply with their requests to take down certain material, 4chan had planned to DDoS the hired company. Well it seems that someone beat them to the punch. So what do the hordes of Anon at do? Go after the MPAA itself! It only took 8 minutes for them to take the site down. It made me lul.

From single-core to quad-core in less than a year
Multi-core phones would be amazing! That, coupled with the concept phone by Mozilla (linked below), would probably be enough for most people — who just surf the web, check email, and play Farmville.

Nifty Artwork
I think the fact that I’ve been watching Mad Men like a.. well.. mad man lately attracted me to this page. I want a suit like Don Draper.

Obama talks about taxes and strengthening the economy
While i don’t agree with everything this administration is doing / has done, I do think that taxing people more evenly would make things simpler and help bridge gaps between social groups. I’d like to see a day when we all pay the same amount in taxes, instead of this confusing system of earned and unearned income, capital earnings, donations to charities, etc. How about we all just pay 15 or 20 percent of our income? I think that would make things much easier, not just in terms of administrating and collecting, but also planning for what you’ve got to pay. But of course, a simple idea like this would probably just get screwed up by the government. It’s sad we can’t trust them to do something simple.

Paul Lekakis – Boom Boom
I lol’d at this, thanks Katie.

Wind Power!
Let’s see who else will pony up the big bucks and commit to something of this size? Or would there be more protests that a wind farm 20 miles off shore would disrupt the scenery?

Old People know stuff, kinda
I watched this video of Walter Breuning talking about his life, and what advice he has for the current generation. You’ll have to watch what he says though, some things are exaggerated a little. It’s still really neat to hear first hand accounts of times so long ago from someone who actually lived them!

Community Wi-Fi?
While the speeds are slow compared to N, the range is so much better. I could see community Wi-Fi or Municipal WiFi using this technology.

Phone of the future!?
How great would it be if your phone became the end-all-be-all tool you’d use? Instead of having to have a laptop, a phone, a projector, a watch, and a list of other gadgets, you could have one piece of technology to take many of those items and consolidate them into one. The big thing that really appeals to me is being able to carry your information in “physical” form around with you, instead of having to rely on some sort of “cloud” storage. With newer phones now also being multi-core, a phone like the Seabird would have more than enough power to handle web browsing, email, watching online videos, along with most office type applications.

Full Moon Beer
This sounds interesting. Being a lover of beer, I would definitely try it at least once.

I love fall weather
I think it’s the colors and lower temperatures. I can’t wait to get a motorcycle (something like this or this) and be able to ride around in this weather.

oh.. and this:

and this:

Web Lingo and Rules of the Internet

Dan — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:20:38 +0000

Warning!! THE LINKS LABELED NSFW IN THIS ENTRY ARE NOT SAFE FOR WORK (or those easily grossed out)!!

So i recently commented on a friends’ blog with some commonly used gamer and internet lingo just to be replied to with, “WHAAAAA?!?!” So I’ve decided to put together a quick list of expressions and abbreviations that are commonly used across these intertubes.

Interwebs – Internet
Intertubes – Internet
wtf – what the fuck
lol – laugh out loud
“WordPress is made of win and kitteh” – win refers to the fact that WordPress is awesome and is hense made of win (awesome things). Kitteh refers to the LOL area of the web and the religion born from there.
EPIC! – when something is epic, it’s well, erm.. EPIC?
fail (insert term) is fail – means something sucks horribly

Ok, on to rules of the internet.

Do not talk about /b/ (NFFW!!)
Do NOT talk about /b/ (NFFW!!)
We are Anonymous
Anonymous is legion
Anonymous never forgives
Anonymous can be a horrible, senseless, uncaring monster
Anonymous is still able to deliver
There are no real rules about posting
There are no real rules about moderating either – enjoy your ban
If you enjoy any rival sites – DON’T
Any carefully picked arguments can easily be ignored
Anything you say can and will be used against you
Anything you say can be turned into something else – fixed
Do not argue with trolls – it means that they win
The harder you try the harder you will fail
If you fail in epic proportions, it may just become a winning failure
Every win fails eventually
Everything that can be labeled can be hated
The more you hate it the stronger it gets
Nothing is to be taken seriously
Original content is original only for a few seconds before getting old
Copypasta is made to ruin every last bit of originality
Copypasta is made to ruin every last bit of originality
Every repost is always a repost of a repost
Relation to the original topic decreases with every single post
Any topic can be easily turned into something totally unrelated
Always question a person’s sexual preferences without any real reason
Always question a person’s gender – just in case it’s a man
In the internet all girls are men and all kids are undercover FBI agents
There are no girls on the internet
TITS or GTFO – the choice is yours
You must have pictures to prove your statements
Lurk more – it’s never enough
There is porn of it, no exceptions!
If no porn is found at the moment, it will be made
There will always be even more fucked up shit than what you just saw
You can not divide by zero (just because the calculator says so)
No real limits of any kind apply here – not even the sky
CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL
EVEN WITH CRUISE CONTROL YOU STILL HAVE TO STEER
Desu isn’t funny. Seriously guys. It’s worse than Chuck Norris jokes.
Nothing is Sacred
The more beautiful and pure a thing is – the more satisfying it is to corrupt it
Even one positive comment about Japanese things can make you a weeaboo
When one sees a lion, one must get into the car
There is always furry porn of it
The pool is always closed.

Guide to Internet Usage

So as you can see the internet is like another universe with it’s own rules and society. Interwebs are the future, and we must learn to lurk with the best or GTFO.

For more practice about how the internet works, you can always start trolling forums, or hell, 4chan

danielcolomb.com » 4chan

Things and stuff and happenings

Web Lingo and Rules of the Internet