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:: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 ::

RIP jand

“to all the people that knew and loved jand. I am sorry to have to break the news that John, died 20/06/2008.”

I never met John Anderson. He was another one of my blogger friends that I never got around to hooking up with, despite a couple of email conversations attempting it. He asked me to contribute to his g3rm blog, later reborn as g3rmy, although I contributed only a tiny percentage of the content there, and most of that was cross-posted with this blog.

I was unable to make it to his funeral earlier today, but my thoughts are with his family and friends, especially to those who have had to break the news to others (via the blog and via facebook, the first time I’ve seem a death reported in the form of a friend request). Unless anyone convinces me otherwise I plan to leave g3rmy as it is as a memorial to John, an index of his thoughts and his state of mind. RIP.

Labels: blogs, g3rm, RIP

:: Dan 16.7.08 [Arc] [0 comments] [links to this post] ::
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I guess this is a meme in the original sense of the word. It shows how an idea has started in one place and been built on, developed and evolved by others. Traditionalists would call it a conversation.

From Octopus99

Dominic Zero says:
"I actually lost interest in Alias after Season 1 largely because for a hard-nosed uber-agent working undercover she seemed to spend an awful lot of the time crying and getting upset. Either that or she was in jeans and a tee shirt the whole time once her contract had been renewed and I no was longer fished in. Everyone knows female undercover agents have to dress up as either prostitutes or pole dancers or goths at least half the time. Just ask Heather Locklear."

El Duderino says:
"Actually if I ran an undercover espionage agency I would only hire hot chicks and dress them in rubber and lingerie. I mean it makes fucking sense, innit? Then I'd pray to god all the targets hung out at fetish parties. They'd really stand out in Safeway."

I say:
"Everyone knows they do. It comes with the territory. To end up in that line of work you have to take pleasure in role-play, dressing up in uniforms (sometimes cross-dressing), and knowing there is a serious threat of torture around every corner. How could you end up in that career if you weren't a fetishist? It just make sense."

Labels: blogs, Fetish, Literature, meme, Sci-Fi

:: Dan 14.4.08 [Arc] [0 comments] [links to this post] ::
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Originally a comment on Doppelganger

Whilst perusing the Bookbarn a couple of weeks ago I was disappointed that more than half of their electrical engineering section was taken up by books for CD radio slang. Useful as these may have been at the time they are of little but academic interest now. I’m sure large chucks of the web, currently filled with those occasionally useful and oh so funny slang translators will equally waste future achieve storage space. Unfortunately, unlike radio, the medium they are translating will also be archived (eg my myspace has long since fallen into disuse) and thus the wasted space increases exponentially.

If you do insist on using it, here are the top 5 things I have learnt from it that you may benefit from knowing:

1. Do not accept friend requests from people who send you pictures of their body parts, even if they do write you’re name across them. This is a thinly vied guise – that it looks like you have seen through already – to get you to look at something called “pornography.” Incidentally, looking at it is fine as it can be passed of as “ironic,” just don’t tell everyone that you do by advertising it in your friends list.
   
2. Following on from this. Do not add friends ironically. Irony, like sarcasm (see slang translator comment above), rarely works in writing and is even less likely to come across through pointing and clicking.
   
3. Do not agree to play gigs (or in your case take commissions) from anyone you don’t know without seeing money up front. myspace is awash with first time promoters whose idea of promotion is to put a flyer on myspace. That’s it. No one will come to the gig as they will have only told people they don’t know in other countries about it. It will get shut down by the management as they aren’t making enough on the bar to pay the staff. You won’t get to play, even to the 14 randoms who wondered in by mistake. You won’t get paid.
   
4. It can be handy for getting around office firewalls that block webmail. However, facebook has already succumbed here and I’m sure myspace will follow. Fortunately generalities have shown that middle class twits use facebook, hence it is blocked in my office, whilst chavvy urchins use myspace, meaning it’s probably blocked in call centres.
   
5. Don’t bother.

Labels: blogs, Humour, SocialNetworking

:: Dan 25.3.08 [Arc] [0 comments] [links to this post] ::
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Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise - Articles, a blog, and a book by the music critic of The New Yorker
Example: Revisiting Stockhausen

The Guardian: "Is Alex Ross the most exciting thing to have happened to classical music this century*? Alan Rusbridger meets a revolutionary critic, blogger and author. Listen here to Ross on his 'musical voyage'" [stream or 1.2MB MP3]

* It'll be a sad century if the most exciting thing to have happened to classical music is a critic.

Labels: blogs, Music

:: Dan 21.3.08 [Arc] [0 comments] [links to this post] ::
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Two great 2007 summary posts I've found on other blogs today:

Octopus 99 review of 2007
Quote:
"Maddie : So nobody else went missing last year then. Look out for the McCanns on next year's Strictly Come Dancing.
Best Event Of 2007 : The Spice Girls comeback single failing to make the top 10. How fucking marvellous was that? And it was a charity single. Oh, how I laughed. I still get a semi just thinking about it."

And coincidentally (I was actually searching for Girls Aloud photos but that’s another story): Project 76's other end of yeariness

Great for tearing apart the Daily Empress. Hopefully my mum will STOP READING it this year. I printed out a huge critique I found of it last year but it doesn’t seem to have done the trick yet.

Labels: blogs, Media

:: Dan 1.1.08 [Arc] [1 comments] [links to this post] ::
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G3RMY...Art.Code.Lit.Tech.Maths.Music...
G3RM is back! Well, jand is at least. I'm still only making a token effort to keep it running.

Labels: blogs, g3rm

:: Dan 4.11.07 [Arc] [0 comments] [links to this post] ::
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