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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.
LINKS
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SQUID STUFF
- 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.
Monday, November 24, 2008
dannyboy 1:51 PM
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Monday, November 17, 2008
Malb 4:48 PM
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Maybe it'll be good? I mean, I doubt it but all we can do is hope
dannyboy - 11/21/2008 1:07 PM
dannyboy 3:52 PM
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This one looks like a WALL-E robot.
This one looks like a Cylon.
This one kind of looks like a monkey.
This little guy looks like wants to hit me with his spoon.
This one has pastel flowers, looks like it is from the 80s, and reminds me of my mom.
But the one I am leaning most towards buying is... well, she doesn't look like much, but apparently she's got it where it counts. It was the cooker recently recommended by Cooks Illustrated. I call her "Helga".
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
dannyboy 8:12 PM
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Brian: You can now go with honor rather in disgrace.
Brian:And take off the Canadian flag on all your travel gear.
Brian: Are you out at a party?
me: Yes. It is not an awesome party though, as I am on my computer.
me: Q.E.D.
Brian: That is not really a party.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
dannyboy 5:15 PM
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dannyboy 9:53 AM
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Opinion 1: I would like to meet some proponents of Proposition 8 (the anti-gay marriage proposal on the ballot in California, sponsored entirely by an out-of-state religious cult that insists their members wear only church-approved underwear). I would like to have a dialogue with them on the subject of being assholes of the highest caliber. There may be punching involved.
Opinion 2: I all too often find myself in a situation where my behavior would be grounds for mockery by a second copy of me. THANK GOD WE ARE CURRENTLY UNABLE TO CLONE PEOPLE. For example, I was in a restaurant recently where I bristled at the complete lack of non-Californian wines on the menu. I BRISTLED. So basically the part of me that knows a small amount about wines, enough to know that all their picks were not very good, was having a fight with the part of me that doesn't want to be someone whose monocle-replacement budget is simply astronomical, what with the constant shattering due to shock!
Opinion 3: Why are all the games everyone is getting a boner over (c.f., Bioshock, now Dead Space) just not that interesting to me? Is it because I am better than you? PROBABLY.
Opinion 4: I LIKE ALL-CAPS BECAUSE MY POINT IS MORE SALIENT WHEN I YELL
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Malb 9:12 AM
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
dannyboy 11:14 PM
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me: so I just opened a brokerage account with the intention of shifting part of my portfolio into gold.
me: I think I am like, one bank closing away from buying shotguns
me: also I bought and ate a can of Hormel Beef Tamales to prepare myself for what the future will be like
Brian: ha
me: It is by far the worst thing I have ever eaten
me: and I have eaten some pretty terrible things
Brian: being Asian I can empathize
me: they were all perfect skinny rectangles of extruded tamale
me: and instead of corn husks it was wrapped in... waxed paper?
Brian: you are getting a lot of paper in your diet lately
me: I AM AWARE
Monday, September 08, 2008
dannyboy 6:02 PM
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Sunday, September 07, 2008
dannyboy 3:31 PM
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I was messaged by 'PolygonalCoho', and it looks like they're cycling through 'FooCoho's randomly. Sadly the people you get connected with aren't ever as interesting as the bots themselves.
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
dannyboy 11:10 PM
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I have no problem working for/with you, or taking the train with you, or being your neighbor, or whatever. But I don't want to make small talk with you, or have a drink with you, or be your friend in any small way. This is because all further interaction with you will measurably lessen the quality of my life, in much the way your political "beliefs" lessen the quality of our society at large.
Yup. This is divisive. Possibly elitist. But the only way I'm going to have compassion, the only way I'm going to be able to believe in America, is if I don't give you a chance to tell me not to.
*Because if you were actually a Conservative, you'd have stopped calling yourself that a long time ago.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
dannyboy 10:09 PM
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
dannyboy 7:37 PM
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- 7/27/2008 9:06 PM
To: 690 Stanyan Street LLC
Subject: I was undecided about your development plans until...
I hope you spent a lot of money on this short-sighted mailing, only to have it backfire spectacularly and cement all our opinions against you. I am certain that I am but one of many residents who opened their mailbox tonight to great mirth. I am simply amazed at who you must think lives in the Haight Ashbury, that you were convinced an appeal to commercial gentrification would work. Do you really believe anyone here thinks a bourgeois supermarket with 62 overpriced condos on top, and the flood of douchebags it would bring, is a good idea? One block from the RED Vic?
And this is coming from a douchebag who drives a BMW to the Whole Foods in SOMA!
I think I will write to Supervisor Mirkarimi, and urge him to do everything he can to block your development efforts. I will also encourage him to investigate the possibilty of legal action against 690 Stanyan LLC for slander against Mr Welch.
I wish upon you and your investors staggering financial losses, and much personal anguish.
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
dannyboy 8:38 PM
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Monday, July 07, 2008
dannyboy 5:25 PM
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Monday, June 09, 2008
dannyboy 6:53 PM
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This is surprisingly ingrained in me at times. I don't do it all the time, but when in doubt I often subconsciously default to this. There are other customs I have adapted and am very conscious of—I will recoil in horror if you don't take your shoes off in my apartment (I have carpet and you just walked off Haight St. for fruit's sake), but I never take my shoes off in a western home unless invited to because I understand you people are very ashamed of your feet. Or something.
Anyway, in conclusion, that thing I said about your mother was not actually offensive, but me being Oriental.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
dannyboy 10:56 AM
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Malb - 6/03/2008 2:15 PM
You can get your own log and grow them. I would recommend doing this in the fall or spring though, unless you have a basement that doesn't get too hot, and gets some light.
Re: bacon chocolate, I get them from a candy/magazine store around the corner from the office. I'm sure there are places that have them in NYC. No need to have them shipped.
Also, I tried the bacon lollipop yesterday. I don't like it.
dannyboy - 6/03/2008 2:40 PM
Malb - 6/05/2008 1:33 PM
Dudes, I love growing my own mushrooms. They smell and taste so good, and I have been there every step of the way, from spore to harvest. The only thing preventing me from naming them all and making a scrapbook is that I am certain some board of directors in the future will be mining this website for reasons to declare me unfit to lead the company.
dannyboy 10:34 AM
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Monday, May 12, 2008
dannyboy 10:57 AM
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YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP!! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!
Friday, May 09, 2008
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.
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