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sparklingdazzling: DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS? Yes, Funimation...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:45:33 -0500

DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS? Yes, Funimation has a Tumblr. A very Tumblr-y Tumblr at that. You all should follow. <3

Rojas is also a very rad dude. Forever reblog.

funimation:

In prep for our Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker booth for SXSWi 2012, we brought in castle set complete with a large foam dragon. We couldn’t resist inversely recreating a Homestar Runner oldie but goodie.

I said consummate V’s! CONSUMMATE!!!

luciwithani: Happy Groundhog Day!

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:22:44 -0500

luciwithani:

Happy Groundhog Day!

ilovecharts: People Who Use Pinterest I don’t want to start...

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:56:12 -0500

ilovecharts:

People Who Use Pinterest

I don’t want to start using Pinterest. Stop trying to make me use it, Internet!

Truth.

thedailywhat: Purrfect Prank of the Day: Redditor frackyou’s...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:42:01 -0500

thedailywhat:

Purrfect Prank of the Day: Redditor frackyou’s little cousin posted his phone number to Facebook along with a status update informing everyone that he was bored.

Cat Facts to the rescue.

[reddit.]

Cat facts!

ilovecharts: Can you help Lou Bega reconnect with his...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:40:33 -0500

ilovecharts:

Can you help Lou Bega reconnect with his ladies?!

Lou Bega is trying to get the band back together for one last reunion tour. But first, he has to remember what he wants a little bit of from each of his ladies. Can you help Lou out? Connect the lady to the lyric and picture reply your answer. No cheating!

[Answer here.]

Let’s see what I can do from memory:

A little bit of Erica in my life
A little bit of Jessica by my side
A little bit of Rita’s what I need
A little bit of Tina’s what I see
A little bit of Sandra in the sun
A little bit of Mary all night long
A little bit of Monica, here I am
A little bit of you makes me your man!

::checks lyrics:: I mixed up Erica, Jessica, and Monica, but everything else is correct.

theonion: BREAKING: Witch Who Granted Beyoncé Fame Returns To...

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:52:22 -0500

theonion:

BREAKING: Witch Who Granted Beyoncé Fame Returns To Claim Firstborn Child

thedailywhat: Getting The Band Back Together of the...

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:12:21 -0500

thedailywhat:

Getting The Band Back Together of the Day: Influential post-hardcore legends At the Drive-In will reunite this year after an eleven year hiatus.

An official website has been launched, along with a Twitter account which confirms the band’s reunion.

The announcement comes two days after Mars Volta frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala — the man responsible for ATD-I’s 2001 breakup — announced that his band’s sixth studio album was nearly done and would be released this year.

TMV’s other At The Drive-In alumnus, guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López, previously stated the band’s next album would be their last, but added that an ATD-I reunion was not forthcoming.

Shows what he knows.

[altpress / nme.]

The news was transmitted from a one-armed scissor.

NYC Mayor Bloomberg Vows to Learn Code in 2012

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:15:00 -0500

NYC Mayor Bloomberg Vows to Learn Code in 2012:

More than 170,000 people have signed up for Codecademy’s challenge to learn how to code in 2012, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is one of them. The challenge, Code Year, was launched by New York-based startup Codecademy on Sunday and quickly took off as Twitter and Facebook users adopte…

When I tutored Computer Science back in college, I came to one conclusion: There are just some people who are unable to code. You need a certain switch to be flipped in your brain to be able to do it, and there are some people just don’t have it.

That is why I have never suggest coding to someone who isn’t a coder. If you are really good with computers and have that coding switch on in your brain, then you have probably already dabbled in a little HTML work or backend modifications. But if you never had the urge to find out how computers tick, then I doubt that you will be able to pick up a language just like that, Mr. Bloomberg.

thedailywhat: RIP Society of the Day: In case you had any...

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:10:33 -0500

thedailywhat:

RIP Society of the Day: In case you had any lingering doubts that 2012 was truly humanity’s last year on Earth, I believe the $23 “Social Shower Curtain” from Spinning Hat should be able to offer a sufficient response.

[craziestgadgets.]

Yes.

Xbox Live 'FIFA hack' concerns continue to escalate, Microsoft states Windows Live ID not compromised

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:59:39 -0500

Xbox Live 'FIFA hack' concerns continue to escalate, Microsoft states Windows Live ID not compromised:

About a month ago, I had noticed that my Xbox account showed FIFA and some other unfamiliar games in my recently played games section. My first thought was that someone had hacked into my account. I looked at my Microsoft points balance, and sure enough, all the $40 worth of credit I had on the account had been used on some “GOLD PACK” thing in late October.

“It’s that darn FIFA game again!” the Microsoft tech support rep said when I called them right after making the discovery.

“Oh?” I inquired. “Has this been happening a lot?”

“Oh yeah. I’m really starting to hate that darn FIFA game these days.” He got my information and then deactivated my account while they investigated the issue. Towards the end of December, they reactivated my account, restored my $40 of credit, and even gave me two month of free Xbox live for my trouble.

The rep had asked me if I gave my account information to anyone else online, and I honestly don’t believe I had. I fell for a phishing scam back in my freshman year of college, so I know exactly what to look for with the scam and how to avoid it. Even so, I checked my email archives and found nothing asking me to sign into my Xbox Live or Microsoft account.

It’s possible that they brute forced the password to my account, as it wasn’t the most complex string of characters to figure out. I made sure that my password is much harder to crack now. But there might be something else going on here that Microsoft needs to investigate and address. Don’t these people leave any sort of paper trail when they’re making these fraudulent transactions?

urlesque: 2011: In MEMEoriam. A look back at all the memes we...

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:58:03 -0500

urlesque:

2011: In MEMEoriam. A look back at all the memes we lost in 2011. Rest in peace.

Pour some out on the sidewalk, ya’ll.

[via theidiotking:tremendosaur]

Oh hai.

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:50:41 -0500

Oh hai.

The previous Google commercial about the man documenting the...

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:19:59 -0500

The previous Google commercial about the man documenting the life of his daughter was sweet and heartwarming, but this new ad for Google+ just paints a very unfavorable picture about women… and the men who creep them out.

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Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:46:50 -0400

urlesque: slacktory: I am the 2%. nvr4get

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:51:35 -0400

urlesque:

slacktory:

I am the 2%.

nvr4get

pantslessprogressive: Who Are the 1 Percent? Keeping in mind...

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:57:44 -0400

pantslessprogressive:

Who Are the 1 Percent?

Keeping in mind that the top 1% are millionaires:

1) How many millionaire coders are there? Is that 4.6% just Zuckerburg?

2) There are actually millionaire farmers?!

The city of Boston was a gigantic iPod ad in September of 2005....

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:22:00 -0400

The city of Boston was a gigantic iPod ad in September of 2005. Apple must have had struck a major deal with the MBTA that season because everywhere you went, you saw those iconic silhouette over bright color ads posted. Hell, South Station was practically wallpapered in those ads.

I was visiting my girlfriend at the time with hopes in trying to mend our failing relationship in its waining hours. As we were walking around the city, I couldn’t help but to joke about the excessive advertisements making me feel like I was walking around “Boston - Brought to you by iPod”.

“You know,” I said in a serious tone, “I think I kinda want an iPod.”

“Yeah,” she said looking at a gigantic ad, “I do too.”

By the end of that day, we were in a Best Buy. I had just started working for Colgate at the time so I had no money yet, but she had quite a bit saved up from a good paying summer job. So she bought herself a fourth-generation iPod… and she bought one for me too.

Yes, in our final weekend as a couple, I let her buy me a very large and expensive gift. In hindsight, this was probably the reason why I was failing as a boyfriend. But while that event signaled the end of one relationship, it also started another.

Starting from that bus ride home from Boston, I was forever attached to an iPod.

I commuted to all my classed around the Rutgers campus wearing those little earbuds. I commuted to work with the iPod connected to my car stereo via a tape deck adapter. Whenever I had to eat a meal in the dining hall by myself, I had the iPod there to keep me company.

And in order to keep that iPod filled with fresh content, I got into podcasts, mostly tech related ones. Those podcasts highly focused on new Apple products, particularly the launch of the iPod nano and 5th generation iPod (now with video!) in November of that year.

When I came home for Christmas that year, I had accidentally dropped the iPod in a parking lot of a drug store, only to come out to find it crushed from being ran over by a car. On the one hand, I felt really bad that I had accidentally destroyed this expensive gift from an ex-girlfriend. On the other hand, I saw this as an opportunity to get the newest fifth generation iPod. I had money now, so why not spend it on a device I would carry with me everywhere I go?

That January, Apple introduced the intel-based Macbook Pro laptops, and of course, the tech podcasts were buzzing about it. So a few months later, I ditched my Windows desktop computer and bought one of these laptops.

From that point on, I was purely a Mac user. In fact, since I left my job at Colgate that summer of 2006, I have only a Windows PC only a handful of times. My main home machine went from that Macbook Pro to an iMac desktop in 2007 back to a simple white Macbook again a year ago. I also bought an additional Macbook Air and a Mac Mini to play around with during that time.

When I started working my first full time job after graduation, I asked to for large Macbook Pro as my work machine, making me the first (but not the last) person in the office to have a Mac. And when I started my new job earlier this year, I also asked for a Mac, making me the only person in the office right now with a Mac. This is how I managed to go without Windows these past five years.

The reason why I downgraded my home machine to a basic laptop now is because something else came that replaced my desktop for me. I carried around that 5th gen iPod with me for the rest of my college years, but in January of 2007, Apple announced the dream machine that was the iPhone. I longed for that phone for those last six months of senior year, working out all the scenarios and ways that I would have it when it comes out. But I had to wait until I had job to get it.

Fortunately, I received a job offer just two days after the iPhone was released. As soon as I saw what my starting salary would be, I drove to the Apple store and bought my first iPhone. Since then, I have gotten every single iteration of the iPhone either on or near launch date. And I’m planning on getting the new iPhone 4s in the next month or two.

Like the iPod, the iPhone became a part of me. I carry it with me everywhere I go. It is my primary link to the internet and web browsing, thus replacing the need for a home desktop. I use it to listen to podcasts and music while I work every day. I listen to audiobooks on it to lull me to sleep most nights, and I wake up to its alarm every morning. This one little device controls most of my life, and I love it for that reason.

This is why I cried tonight over the death of Steve Jobs. His style and products have shaped the way I’ve lived my life since that trip to Boston six years ago.

I don’t know what his death will mean for the future of the company, but even if my Apple fanboyism ends next week, one thing is for sure:

I will forever look at him for inspiration as I strive to create a product that means as much to my users and his products have meant to me.

My response to the whole Occupy Wall Street nonsense.

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 13:11:29 -0400

My response to the whole Occupy Wall Street nonsense.

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Sat, 01 Oct 2011 09:16:38 -0400

Internet Creations Blog

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 09:14:15 -0400

Internet Creations Blog:

This is my company’s brand new salesforce blog. I will be writing articles in it every few weeks on coding apex and visualforce in Force.com platform. I’m actually really excited to be blogging again.

I apologize now if my upcoming links to my articles appear spammy and self-promotional, but this is the kind of stuff that pays my bills, so it’s kinda important for me. ;-)