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Posted 11 months, 2 weeks ago at 11:50 pm. 3 comments
I wrote this post last Sunday, and on the same day Dred242 blogged about something really similar with the title, “I guess I’m just a social networking whore.”.
Wait a second, joining every Web 2.0-ish website does not make one a social networking whore. Sites powered with community-driven content != Social networks, according to my book. A social networking whore is someone who has 300+ friends on myspace, posts half-nude emo photos, and write to other people’s myspace with messages like, “I WANA HAVE YOUR BABY. XOXOX. ZOMG LOLz”.
Now, look at my myspace.
Read on to find out about my recent social networking adventures.
(Warning: I bored myself writing this, so here’ s an unrelated photo.)
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Posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago at 11:14 pm. 2 comments
My 15″ Macbook Pro arrived last week and I named it ProChicken. I made a trip to Richmond Daiso to get a $2 cushion case for this $2000 computer. It feels great to finally own a computer that can run Windows smoothly. Ironic. My last laptop was bought in 2003 before I went to Japan for co-op. It was a Sony Vaio (named “PurpleChicken”), which is still functional today. It was the cheapest and most low-end in store when I bought it. Even the default Windows XP bevel interface made it choke. Now I can run Visual Studio and all kinds of boring bloated applications.
I haven’t had a chance to really enjoy Joost until now (Mac version doesn’t run on PowerPC, and PurpleChicken is too slow). Using Joost on a wide-screen laptop is awesome. I watched a full documentary about chickens on the “Off the Fence Documentary” channel. Did you know the US Air Force shoot chickens out of cannons to simulate high-speed bird crashes on aircraft windshields? Dead and frozen, of course.