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Living Buddha

My navlopomo video, day 2. As I was making tea this morning, I noticed Arnold - the house cat - outside the kitchen window, sitting in wooden altars made by my housemate for Buddhist statues. I took a few moments of film of it.

The Battle of Agincourt Redux: Academy vs. Technology

Purdue Tlt 09 Robbins

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Separated at Birth? Lauren, She of the Cheap HP

TechCrunch gives us the goods on that "sassy Lauren, she of the cheap HP" - Ladies, it's all about the glasses. Pace Dorothy Parker, it there anything sexier than an intelligent woman in glasses? No. Thank you Lisa!

Meanwhile - Separated at birth - Shelley Fabares and the unglassed Lauren?

Bollywood Blackboardwala Rides Again!

Blackboard is at it once again, suing Desire2Learn. My, my, seems like only yesterday (though it was February of 2007) we had the trial. In return, Desire2Learn has this counter proposal.

Slumdog Millionaire, anyone?

And I have another chapter in The Adventures of Bollywood Blackboardwala.

• Ep. 10 - My Lawyer Made Me Do It

(Embed is pretty funky, so link above is your best bet.)

What Would Ajax Do?

[UPDATE: On March 31 Twitter changed the URL for post method which breaks this workaround, by adding the path "/timeline" before home. So the workaround to the workaround is to use the form https://twitter.com/timeline/home?page=# instead.]

I got so tired of that new dysfunctional "More" button in the Twitter web interface, I finally made my own menu of pages in Firefox 3 using the Bookmarks Toolbar.

Each page entry points to the old URLs in the form https://twitter.com/home?page=#  https://twitter.com/timeline/home?page=# where # is the page number to load.

Just as long as they don't take away that post method, I'm good to go.

I'm sure Ajax would approve the brute force approach.

The Future of Social Networking

From Woody Allen's film Sleeper (1973). A prediction about social networking in the year 2173. Might be sooner than that, the way things are going.

D: "Do you believe in God?"

W: "Do I believe in God? I'm what you would call a teleological existential atheist. I believe that there's an intelligence to the universe, with the exception of certain parts of New Jersey."

D: "Why is it I never understand what you're saying?"

W; "Why? Do you believe in God?"

D: "Well, I believe that there's somebody out there who watches over us."

W: "Unfortunately, it's the government."

I'm sure there's a joke in here somewhere about Our Leader's nose and Facebook, but I will, as usual, refrain.

But Who Will Robot the Robots?

(Hat tip to @academicdave; apologies to Juvenal)

iPhone a phish

Who Am I? I'm...

Happy New Year!

According to the "Which Big Lebowski character are you?" quiz:

Still Tweeting 4U

I suppose it had to happen - what with inspiration by @ggatin and his rendition of Your Tw33ting Heart, and other Twitterati - here's a late night performance of previously blogged "The Failwhale of Love."

It has has been retitled "Still Tweetin 4U."  I did rather have to rearrange the lyrics to get it to make a good tune. 

Doing my best Loretta Lynn / Slim Whitman impersonation, it will help a lot if you just imagine some nice weepy pedal steel playing along.  It is supposed to be a bit over the top.

Also, though it may appear so, I am not a lefty (manually speaking anyway) -- PhotoBooth is the lefty. You'll have to watch it in a mirror if you want to see it "correctly".  Key is C, with the usual 3 chords.

The direct YouTube link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4dKr_PDrq8

As far as I know, so far, these two songs by @ggatin and myself are the only members of a tiny genre: Country Twitter Comedy. Hopefully, it will stay that way.