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Happy Thanksgiving

ADDENDUM: This clip contains video of Adam K's fantasy bride, a competitive eater named "The Black Widow". He mimicked her chipmunking technique over turkey at Thanksgiving last week.

We're Like Whitney and Bobby

Everybody wants pictures, and after about a month of promising to do this, here you are. Peeectures. I recently parted ways with almost 2 feet of hair, so don't be startled those of you who I haven't told yet. I came home one night and lopped it off myself in the bathroom on a whim and then ran screaming to the ironically-named Marvin the hairdresser who pronounced it "salvageable" and styled it for me 2 days later. Why did I do it? Well, why not?... is my only answer. I can only tell you that the urge was overpowering and I had no choice but to succumb to its hypnotic effect. I think I just decided that I needed a change in my life. So I cut my hair off instead of really doing anything. It took me about 5 hours to part with it all. I should have saved it and donated it to one of those cancer wig foundations, but got freaked out about joo-joo (people are always casting spells with hair) and decided to bury it in the backyard instead. I'm sure there's a bald child with leukemia somewhere that wants to cast a spell on me now after reading that. I'm sorry.

Anyways, here's what I look like now, as promised. Decided to pose with Fiki cuz he makes me look good. We like to cuddle in warm laundry piles cuz we're cats like that. He got annoyed with me taking pictures and grunted after a little bit... so many ups and downs in our relationship. We're just like Whitney and Bobby.

The Peanut Butter Manifesto

I love it when Yahoo!s dirty laundry gets aired in the press. It's hilarious. My 2 cents seem to be summed up by another employee that left this comment on a blog post about the memo:

Subject: oh god, please please please

oh god, please please please Yahoo. Lay me off and let me get my severance. Better yet, if and when you do, please ask for volunteers...Just make it snappy, because I need to decide which of my outstanding offers I have in hand to take.

First off, things are so frickin disorganized in the Product Management, I'm surprised you're able to get this far. Does anyone have the concept of a "Plan of Execution", or are decisions made by just playing spin the bottle in a boardroom????

And what's up with hiring more "managers" then there are workers? Does it take like 3 managers to manage 1 worker-bee? I guess everyone just likes telling others what to do but no one really likes to do real work.

And man, some of the Yahoo Techie workers in HQ (the ones that aren't lazy and still do work) are like a blast from the past. A bunch of 90ies BSD hackers that rather hack away trying to optimize a few lines of BSD kernel code than do anything really useful for the business. Then techies from acquisitions are much brighter than these old farts.

BTW: Yahoo, you stink when it comes to software process, or product management process, or shall i say lack there of. It's no surprise you can't execute on sh*t. You lack any vision, you just react to what has already happened.

See you in a couple of years (months possibly) along with Netscape.

Entropy and Quantum Fluctuation

I was out surfing and watching the sun go down, thinking about how big and beautiful and strange it all is. When it occurred to me. What the problem is. Everyone goes around thinking that they're the gardener. But you're not the gardener. You're the flower.

Cant Figure Out If Its Cool or Annoying

Lady Sovereign. We'll have to wait to see how this one plays out. I hope she's got enough nutter in her to live thru all the Hollywood crap thats about to happen to her to still have some left over when they're done.



There is something satisfying about her kicking the banana in the gut, though.

Um, This Band Rocks

Imagine Ladytron's sensibilities meets the Pixies exotic rhythmic hooks and layer on David Bowie's lyrical delicacy and you might start to approximate how much Metric rocked the house tonight at a music festival downtown. The lineup was a mixed bag, one especially low note being a balding white rapper who had painted a comb-over on top of his head who tossed celery and croissants at the crowd during his set - you think i'm kidding. But then Metric took over. I'm an audiophile who is rarely impressed by bands but these guys rocked with a spontaneous, feverish, passion-ridden chemistry that you dont really see that often in the jaded and poseurish world of indie rock. Thanks for making my night! Check out their music on the Metric myspace page. (Monster Hospital and Dead Disco are my favorite).


Shout out to mashup artist Girl Talk, too.

Painting By Numbers

Somebody showed me this website for buying and selling arts and crafts online - Etsy.com . They even have this cool Flash-driven tool that lets you choose art by color scheme, for happier home decorating.

The portrait above is of the singer Neko Case. My friend's wife won't let him buy it but I think it's pretty cool. Link

Griffin

"An aggregrate creature made of pure hatred."


How one of my fellow teammates at work characterized our product this morning, which is internally-named Griffin.

How Could Eight Drugs Not Be Enough?

That was the poignant question my co-worker asked as we read Rick James' prolific post-mortem tox screen from wikipedia.

"Toxicology revealed the presence of the following drugs,

* Alprazolam (Xanax),
* Diazepam (Valium),
* Bupropion (Wellbutrin),
* Citalopram (Celexa),
* Hydrocodone (Vicodin),
* Digoxin,
* Chlorpheniramine,
* methamphetamine, and
* cocaine

Give it to me, baby!