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Spam of the Day

I just received this from one “Nitai Gouranga”, whose email address is nitaigouranga@aol.com:

Call out Gouranga be happy!!!

Gouranga Gouranga Gouranga ….

That which brings the highest happiness!!

I dunno, it doesn’t have the same ring as Badger Badger Badger.

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…And you may say to yourself, "This not my beautiful PowerPoint slide!" [Updated]

I’d read that David Byrne had been getting into PowerPoint as an art medium lately, but this chat with Liz “mamamusings” Lawley was a total surprise:

Here’s a transcript for those of you who can’t see the image (a good number of you read me via RSS):

Liz: i saw david byrne give a talk on friday on his work with powerpoint, and he showed your “why i dumped you” powerpoint slide during the presentation!

Liz: nearly fell off my chair

Me: Whoa!

Me: That’s hilarious!

Liz: guess he found it online. he was showing examples of both intentionally funny ppt and unintentionally funny

The Talking Heads were a big influence on me, so finding out that David Byrne used my stuff made my day. Thanks for the heads-up, Liz, and thanks to you too, David!

(My “Why I Dumped You” PowerPoint slide appears in my July 30th entry, The Breakup Style of PowerPoint.)

Update: Here’s the page for David Byrne’s exhibit, which is titled Trees, Tombstones and Bullet Points.

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The Birthday Party: Your First Warning!

That time of the year is rapidly approaching…

Photo: Me (drinking a cocktail straight out of a bottle of Stolichnaya) and some of my guests in the hot tub at the 2003 party.

Last year’s party included the now-infamous hot tub on a truck!

The 2004 edition of my birthday party takes place in a month. Details are forthcoming.

In the meantime, you may want to check out the photos from last year’s hot tub — check ’em out in either album or slideshow form!

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Has it really been a year…

…since Skadz and I went out and painted Beantown red?

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Boston This Weekend!

I’m off to Boston this weekend to celebrate The Redhead’s

30th birthday! As is the tradition on this blog, I like to accompany

Beantown trip announcements with my favourite photo of Boston Common…

The city of The Red Sox, the Bruins, Ally McBeal and Fried Dough (“It’s wicked fried!”). It’s also the first North American city I lived in.

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If you’re taking a University-level math course, read this comic

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Workin’ Away…

Getting a software release to work — especially a web application

under Windows — is such a royal pain in the ass that reading the

comment threads to my LiveJournal Childfree Community entry and the Childfree Community’s response entry is pretty relaxing in comparison.

(I don’t worry too much about arguing on the internet; they often heat up to ridiculous degrees, as this Red vs. Blue movie [21 MB QuickTime] points out.)

Maybe I should go annoy the Furries next.