June 2010
2 posts
Gumtree Weirdos
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Santiago Beckham wants us to move into his flat, which has a seaside view apparently… in Shepherd’s Bush of all places!
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Hi Rosairo
Thanks so much for your massage and intrest,first of all am so sorry for any mistype it 2bedroom flat not 1 and the 900pounds include council tax,internet,water and gas all it left for you is to pay 1 month with the...
August 2009
2 posts
July 2009
2 posts
Gauging Your Distraction →
Thanks Rey for the link! This is eerily similar to the study I was going to do previously, minus the texting.
There are two prisons near my new flat. Hence,...
Nina: so i wonder if holloway prison is a women's prison. so that must mean pentonville is men.
Mark: pretty much. why, do want to have a secret lover in prison?
Nina: ooh, oscar wilde stayed at pentonville for awhile. as well as amy winehouse's (ex?) husband? and boy george this year. wheeeee.
Mark: what a meeting of minds that would be
Nina: let's go visit boy george.
Mark: ok. then what? free him?
Nina: nooo... he's been released! :'-(
Mark: you're not planning on going to prison now? for a crime that you didn't commit?
Nina: i'll just run to the nearest police station screaming "I DIDS IT!!!!!!!"
Mark: ha!
Nina: although i may get sent to the mental hospital instead :-/
Mark: they'd then put every unsolved crime on your head.
Nina: "I DIDS ALL OF IT!" whilst doing a victory jig.
Mark: I must see this victory jig in action
Nina: maybe i should just commit attempted murder on my boyfriend. you can come with me and make a statement.
Mark: yay!
Nina: unless that's category A
Mark: nina in prison!
Nina: in which case i should just do something annoying and mildly violent. a public fight perhaps.
Mark: like punch a nun
Nina: ooh, where's the nearest nunnery?
Mark: no idea
Nina: there's a sister act musical opening soon... i can just punch one of the extras there. same diff.
June 2009
10 posts
“Focus! Don’t let your mind wander to the haggis!”
– Cindy, giving words of encouragement in a scottish accent to Andy Murray
Michael Johns - To Love Somebody
"nom nom nom" as explained by urbandictionary.com →
The rules for balancing technology and... →
remind us of anyone we know?
WatchMark testing my new Samsung NC10’s webcam with poor lighting conditions and cheesy background music.
May 2009
18 posts
My Dating Site Thinks I'm a Loser: effects of... →
I found this while looking for HCI articles on satisficing.
“Ray tracing has established itself in recent years as the most general...”
– Heckbert, P. S. (1988). Ray tracing jell-o brand gelatin. Commun. ACM, 31(2):131-134.
“And no, children are nowhere in the near future for us. We flip flop between...”
– Yorkey Ng
Friendship and Intimacy in the Digital Age →
Jenny Lewis - The Next Messiah
ACS Practice Essays
#1. In this paper, I will shit out a discussion of human error. This shit is great, just you wait, you will love it. Okay, here’s the shit, are you ready? SHIIIIIIIIIIT. That’s the end of the shit. Thanks and bye. #2. The internet has rendered me incapable of writing a coherent argument, so I will express my ideas in tweet format. @HumanError FTW! Oh shit, I just wrote two essays on...
Kris Allen does an acoustic cover of Kanye...
ZOOB →
“Ikea effect: “the experience of coming to the end of a complex assembly...”
– Zacks & Tversky, 2003
Review of Lutong Pinoy by Earls Court (with... →
Chicken Adobo, Ginataang, and Coconut Juice in a can… oh my, I think I’m having a foodgasm.
WatchI wuvs her! Allison haters: shush.
(From rickey.org: http://www.rickey.org/?p=15675)
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are...
April 2009
14 posts
“Parnell, M.J. Del Rosario, N, Marry, F. (2009). How to be a massive dork. Dork...”
– Mark Parnell
“If you throw away the messiness, you throw away the suffering.”
– Paul Cairns on research
Nina: btw, wasn't sure if i needed to make it explicit... i'm happy to have photos of me public... assuming they aren't nina-stupidly-drunk photos! ;)
Boon: i'm not mark
Nina: he thinks they'll be legal tender someday.
Boon: his personal collection
Nina: he has weird hobbies, that boy.
“It was kind of weird to be ‘cruised’ by a woman, because in real life almost...”
– Mel Slater, quoting a participant from “A Preliminary Study of Shy Males Interacting with a Virtual Female”
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/S.Pan/PanandSlater.pdf
“My interest is not how to make robots indistinguishable from humans, but rather...”
– Cynthia Breazeal
WatchFace Reader: Do Want.
If Your Prototype Explodes in the Forest, Will... →
1. Good title.
2. Does he use enough question marks… ?
3. Author’s picture? Dead sexy.
A poem I wrote in 2001 whilst bug-testing an...
Soup is good. Soup doesn’t ask you to clear your browser history. Soup doesn’t lock you out for 15 minutes. Soup doesn’t say, “its up… uh… its down… uhh… oh wait, its up again!” Soup is simple. I love soup.
Kris Allen - Falling Slowly
Watch“Whateva! Whateva! I’ll do what I want!!”
Regina Spektor - Samson
March 2009
2 posts
Ralph Stanley - O Death
