11.11.2007

press ESC to exit full screen mode

Has anyone else noticed how every flash player, no matter how different they look, shares the same message when you go full screen in that same oval box :"press ESC to exit full screen mode." I'd like to know who came up with that and how much money they're making existing everywhere on the internet.

11.09.2007

http://my.nba.com/thread.jspa?threadID=400022301

Gilbert Arenas won "Best Celebrity Blogger." in the 2007 Weblog Awards. He beat out all sorts of famous people, probably because people actually read his blog and its incredibly entertaining. He got like 10,000 votes in 2 days. He beat some guy from Star Trek. STAR TREK. Computer people voted for an NBA player over a guy from the holy grail of geekdom.

Agent Zero is the man.

11.01.2007

halloween fun

here’s a great story about my favorite Halloween.
I dressed up like a scarecrow (i.e. stuffed my pants and sleeves with newspaper and wore a weird shirt that only a scarecrow would think about wearing), and sat in a chair on my porch, with a bowl of candy on my lap. (this leaves room for sick jokes, but halloween is a kid’s holiday, and I didn’t do anything sick). For some of the trick-or-treaters, I would sit perfectly still. and listen to them ask their moms if I was real as they walked away. “Of course not.” was my favorite response from the mothers. I was doing my job well. Sometimes, I scared people as they grabbed the candy, and some people were too scared to even get candy from the bowl, fearing that I mights scare them to death. I felt really accomplished.