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Random Geeky Thoughts

True Obs.essi.on

Lisa was telling me that we ought to netflix Veronica Mars, because Joss Whedon loves it, and as I’ve discussed previously, we love Joss Whedon. I was doing something on del.icio.us at the time, and I thought, how awesome would it be to find Joss Whedon’s tag stream on del.icio.us?

Yet I don’t want SuprGlu

I am actually spending (wasting?) time on these questions:

• Should I use my pet-idea domain name for a personal wiki or a tumblelog?
• Will 12frogs morph into a tumblelog, get a focus other than “whatever the hell I feel like going on about” or just stay the way it is?
• Do I keep up spotted in its current incarnation, or do a pony up for a flickr pro account?
• What is more appropriate for a given web-geeky thing, posting here, behind the firewall, or both?

If you talk geek, you’ll get to The Simpsons eventually

I am still happy about an insightful pair of blog posts comparing the presentation style of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. All I could come up with when you saw the the Windows! Live! hoopla crap was “holy hell PowerPoint ugly.”

Presentation Zen does much better than that, and still manages to be funny:

One unfortunate habit he has is constantly bringing his finger tips together high across his chest while speaking. Often this leads to his hands being locked together somewhere across his chest. This gesture makes him seem uncomfortable and is a gesture reminiscent of The Simpsons’ Mr. Burns.

There really is no need to clarify the “he” above, is there?