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As with a low sucking sound it slowly disappeared again, Starbuck still gazing at the agitated waters where it had sunk, with a wild voice exclaimed—“Almost rather I had seen Moby Dick and fought him, than to have seen thee, thou white ghost!”
“What was it, Sir?” said Flask.
“The great live squid, which, they say, few whale-ships ever beheld and returned to their ports to tell of it.”
Moby-Dick, 1851
4-21-08 FURL
Uhmm, apparently archives haven't really been working since late 2006. THANX for the heads up guys! They are temporarily fixed, and will stay temporarily fixed until I migrate to new software/layout. I have said some hilarious things in the last 7 years, that future generations will feel lucky I preserved. Go check them out.
1-18-08 new iPhone icon
Woah, it's been 3 years since the last news update! Fuzzysquid now has a webclips icon for your iPhone! It'll automagically show up when you add FS to your home screen. Atom and RSS feeds have been available for a few years now, but I never made special mention of it.
1-14-05 LJ images
Since it seems to be popular, and it's been linked in a lot of different places besides here, I've decided to post the LJ Images page. At least in the news, at least for now. It's also getting some Google ads because you LiveJournal people are sucking up all my bandwidth (35% for that one page!)
4-02-04 FURL
Check out what I've been browsing: FURL.net bookmark archive. Not much commentary, relevance, or sequitur—but it's what's keeping this blog from turning into a meme dumpster.
12-04-03 the web sucks, again
Ok, I need to apologize for the guestmap below. It's hosted off site by a very dubious company. They've always had pop-up ads, which didn't bother me too much since I don't use IE, and don't see them. But now they're being really obnoxious, so it's on the way out.
3-24-03 pin the tail
I now have a guestmap
12-19-02 i'm going back to cali, cali
photos from my cross country roadtrip are now up here. in celebration, i've switched all the timestamps to log as PST. take that, east coast!
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- TONMO - The Octopus News Magazine Online. Invaluable.
- Angrywhale - Meet Leonard. He's an angry sort of whale.
- The Squid Blog - From the Laughing Squid people.
PEOPLE I KNOW
- Moxyberry - Where the cousin is at. Her bookmarks here.
- Cranky User - Brian's bookmarks. Updated, unlike his site.
- Rosenstock - Her other ride is your mom.
- Lauren - Wet Hot Singaporean Blogging.
- Universal Donor - Like the prime number shitting bear, but with terrible back pain.
- Olivia - Who receives special dispensation from our usual policies.
Friday, May 09, 2008
dannyboy 6:12 PM
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dannyboy 10:51 AM
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"Some people are just able to look at the game and in less than two minutes, get to the top score," said (UW associate professor of computer science and engineering) Zoran Popovic. "They can't even explain what they're doing, but somehow they're able to do it."
One of the most interesting parts is that they've incorporated competition into the game: between gamers playing for a high score, and actual research groups.
One of the questions I think about a lot is how graphic/visual/interaction design could change the world; it's interesting to see how game design could change the world.
Monday, April 21, 2008
dannyboy 1:26 PM
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To me, this reeks of intellectual dishonesty, with a nice helping of sour grapes on the side. If you don't eat meat for ethical reasons, you can eat vat grown meat with a completely clear conscience. If you still have a problem with it, your reasons for being a vegetarian/vegan have absolutely nothing to do with ethics*. Sucks when science pulls the rug out from under your belief system, but I have as much sympathy for you as I do for the Catholic Church sending Galileo to house arrest for heliocentrism**.
I'm actually impressed by PETA's stance, as it is refreshingly shrewd, and I practice Realpolitik in most areas of my life, cuisine included. This is not to absolve them of their grievances against humanity and reason, of which there are legion. But they recognize that their mission to prevent cruelty to animals is NOT the same as the collective vegan/vegetarian agenda.
* "Meat is icky and I'm better than you so I get to tell you what to do."
** In all fairness the church did officially concede that the Earth is not stationary. In 1992.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
dannyboy 5:29 PM
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Seems like they solved one issue while creating an even worse one.
Joe - 4/18/2008 3:01 PM
That's what makes this interesting for me; that the form her "solution" takes to hostile product design is more product design, something of an arms race.
(And it's a "solution" much the same way Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal was a "solution.")
dannyboy - 4/18/2008 5:55 PM
Anyway, here is one artist's response to the same: "Archisuit consists of an edition of four leisure jogging suits made for specific architectural structures in Los Angeles. The suits include the negative space of the structures and allow a wearer to fit into, or onto, structures designed to deny them."
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Malb 10:06 AM
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008
dannyboy 6:24 PM
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joeflet: (y)
joeflet: that was supposed to be thumbs up
dkuo: uh
dkuo: it looks like a lady's vagina
joeflet: nice
Monday, March 31, 2008
dannyboy 9:36 AM
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Folks, you know how I feel. But allow me to bring out the horse once more so I can just link to this post next time someone brings up veganism/vegetarianism. And it should be noted that the majority of my ire is aimed at vegans, and you will understand why shortly.
Here I will explain all the reasons why veganism is an affront to my sensibilities and intellect.
1. Veganism as morality
Not really worth discussing as there are clearly no absolutes when it comes to moral values. But my personal belief is that it is not immoral for people to eat meat any more than it is immoral for a lion to prey on a gazelle. To deny this part of our nature is to deny we are part of nature, much in the way evolutionists claim that we are too special to be mere animals. It disconnects us from the larger whole. This is why I advocate that everyone who eats meat kill something for food once in their lives, so that you can really understand what it means for something to die so you can live.
2. Veganism as ethical behavior
Animals bred for food can and should be treated in an ethical manner. The problem with veganism is that it is almost always fundamentally militant. Kind of like saying you're a Christian, but you're not pushy about your faith? Well ultimately, Christians still believe that they're the only ones in the room going to heaven when they die. You can obscure that all you want, but at its core, veganism is about being better than other people. If your goal is to prevent unethical treatment of animals, being a vegan will do more to counter that goal than any hamburger, ever.
3. Veganism for environmentalism
Which is worse: a hamburger from grassfed beef raised 30 miles from your house, or organic out of season produce from halfway around the world? I'll give you a hint, the one that doesn't require petroleum based fertilizer, and need to be shipped across the ocean, then trucked to your door. And all the packaged meat replacement products? Did you think about the oil used in processing and packaging your fake meat?
Eating local is way more important than organic for both meat and produce--and once you start eating local, it naturally scales down the amount of meat you eat, which is good for the next point...
4. Veganism for health
Basically, read a Michael Pollan book or two. "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants." YES, American eat way too much meat. We also eat WAY too much corn.
5. Yes but how does it taste?
Vegans are, tellingly, universally defensive about their food. When one claims things like "it tastes just as good as meat" or "I don't miss chocolate at all", it is no longer about taste, it is about a self-conscious posture that focuses on meat-substitution rather than the natural merits of your ingredients. Why must you eat tofutti (and insist it is as good or better than ice cream) when there are delicious sorbets and granitas available? There have been people on this planet eating meatless for thousands of years, who have created some of the richest culinary traditions in existence, and yet you insist on making a meatless meatloaf? Yes, I would have a Napoleon complex about my food too.
6. So why are people vegans?
I can only offer personal anecdotes here. Consistently, all the vegans I have met have recited the same talking points that you get with your cruelty-free welcome packet. But underneath it, I have always seen at least glimmers of ulterior motivations. I think as a food philosophy, it draws for much the same reasons that religion is attractive—some people need structure, answers; others want to be righteous; for others it's outright social pressure. Many have had control issues across the board, and food was only one expression.
This is obviously not to invalidate an entire category of people wholesale. Just as it is with religion, there are really good-natured people who are in it for exactly the reasons they profess. But just like religion, is it really wrong to assume the worst of people when the majority set out to prove you right?
7. Who ARE vegans anyway?
The Dali Lama, and white affluent hipsters on the coasts. Ok just kidding! The Dali Lama eats meat. No, seriously—all the Tibetan monks do, and they pray for each animal that they kill.
8. But beyond all this talk
there is the actual experience of hanging out with vegans. Eating is a huge shared experience, one of the few universals that we as a species, and really all animals, have. It is how we express love, friendship, and merriment. It is as basic as you can get, bottom of the pyramid.
Vegans are a pain in the ass to hang out with. It is not impossible, but even in eating disorder friendly Northern California, it is a serious logistical overhead. This unfortunately, is why vegans are biased to spend their time with other vegans, at really terrible restaurants, further isolating themselves from the rest of the world.
9. Okay okay.
This is the paragraph wherein I backpedal and acknowledge that some of my best friends are vegetarian, etc. I have friends who do not eat meat and I respect their choices. It is not a choice that I could ever seriously consider. I enjoy trying new things way too much to ever choose to categorically limit myself to a subset of all possibilities. Others derive their pleasure by other means, and more power to them.
I respect those who don't define themselves by what they eat, their diet being simply an expression of who they are.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
dannyboy 12:33 AM
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I will make more soon don't judge me it's late
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
dannyboy 11:44 AM
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YOU ARE! YES YOU ARE!
Saturday, March 15, 2008
dannyboy 5:59 PM
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Monday, March 10, 2008
dannyboy 8:42 AM
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Thursday, March 06, 2008
dannyboy 3:18 PM
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So for the record: goat cheese continues to suck.
Friday, February 29, 2008
dannyboy 10:09 AM
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
dannyboy 5:58 PM
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- 2/26/2008 12:24 AM
peeingdog: I am bleeding
peeingdog: like, a lot
suzy_turtle: yikes!!
suzy_turtle: why did you do that?
peeingdog: I had it upside down!
peeingdog: I was pushing down on it so the point would retract!
suzy_turtle: do I need to come over and apply a tourniquet?
peeingdog: no you need to explain why this god-damned pen is so sharp!!!
suzy_turtle: it's unfortunate that fat-tipped pens are called 'sharpies' and sharp, pointy pens are not
suzy_turtle: but honestly, do you really want to side w/ the people who need warning labels on their coffee cups explaining that the contents are hot?
peeingdog: why does a pen need to be so pointy that the force required to click the button is also the minimum force required to drive the tip deep into my flesh??
peeingdog: AND GOD-DAMNIT don't get me started on tort reform
peeingdog: everything you know about that coffee lawsuit is corporate propaganda!!
Thursday, January 31, 2008
dannyboy 12:09 PM
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Brian - 2/01/2008 5:50 PM
- 2/08/2008 9:29 AM
dannyboy - 2/09/2008 9:57 AM
Emily: whaaat
Emily: that was super fast
me: now I need to make my apartment hot and humid
me: if you know what I mean
Emily: i.e., take off your pants?
me: that's the step 1 of all my gardening plans
Monday, January 28, 2008
dannyboy 10:56 AM
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My car was broken into this weekend, and the thieves took $15 worth of kitchen supplies I had picked up from Sur La Table. Completely ignoring the $350 iPod that was sitting out in the open. People don't take any pride in their work these days.
So I need new glass for the window they broke. There are none in North America. It is being special ordered from Germany.
Yes wait for it... AND THE GERMANS SCREW ME AGAIN
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
dannyboy 10:57 PM
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Emily: omgz your resume has a legend
Emily: 
Thursday, January 10, 2008
dannyboy 9:49 AM
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moxy - 1/12/2008 1:24 PM
dannyboy - 1/13/2008 11:36 AM
dannyboy - 1/18/2008 10:03 AM
1. In my enthusiasm, I may have neglected to think about the physical logistics of deploying 7+1 speakers in my modest living room before clicking on 'buy'.
2. Living so close* to one of my favorite bar/restaurants in San Francisco is not going to be good for me, my liver, or anyone.
*I've moved! If you didn't get my announcement email and want my new address, let me know.
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
dannyboy 9:40 AM
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Thursday, January 03, 2008
dannyboy 10:38 AM
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And so my new year's resolution: to get my actions in line with who I want to be.
Happy New Year, folks.
Thursday, December 20, 2007
dannyboy 11:18 AM
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
dannyboy 5:24 PM
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- 12/18/2007 12:52 PM
dannyboy - 12/18/2007 6:29 PM
- 12/30/2007 1:47 AM
Someone once said something about a life unexamined, but my memory of that is all compressed and pixelated...
Thursday, December 06, 2007
dannyboy 8:30 PM
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moxy - 12/08/2007 2:31 PM
- 12/12/2007 3:37 AM
dannyboy - 12/12/2007 5:49 PM
Friday, November 16, 2007
dannyboy 10:44 AM
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SFO
TSA screeners, actually reading and verifying documents, notice when a traveler's ID and ticket destination are the same, and wish them a nice trip home. Also often heard saying mahalo to us, just for showing our papers.
EWR
TSA screener yells at me for having my hands in my pockets as I go through the metal detector, and yells at me again for not having my boarding pass taped to my chest, even though we are 50 feet and direct line of sight from where the last guy checked my boarding pass.
Thursday, November 01, 2007
dannyboy 10:31 AM
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scottsmig: that looks amazing
peeingdog: that would be ridiculous, just lying under the machine waiting for it to drop a donut in your open waiting mouth
peeingdog: like some kind of magic animal that pooped delicious hot donuts
peeingdog: why can't we genetic engineer that
peeingdog: I want a pet pygmy elephant that poops donuts
peeingdog: "I LOVE YOU SO MUCH MR. TINY TUSKS!!"
scottsmig: it would still be gross though
scottsmig: I wouldn't eat a donut from anything's ass
peeingdog: even if it was the best donut you ever tasted?
scottsmig: no!
peeingdog: damnit, we have the technology!
scottsmig: you're telling me you can look at a elephant's butthole and accept your food from that?
peeingdog: we find it disgusting now because we know what comes out of it currently
peeingdog: I have a vision
scottsmig: ugh
peeingdog: we can make it better
peeingdog: for our children's children
scottsmig: why don't we just eat the donuts out of the machine, and forget about the buttholes?
peeingdog: but I want a pet elephant!
scottsmig: you can have that!
peeingdog: yes but it will poop everywhere and currently that poop is not a delicious breakfast pastry
scottsmig: I still don't buy that you would eat those donuts
peeingdog: there would be NO trace of doodie; just donut
peeingdog: ants do it all the time, they drink stuff out of an aphid's butt
scottsmig: ok ok
/ atom + rss