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random ramblings of a designer in the valley

IM conversation of the day

In regards to my low energy & lack of sleep:

(10:31:49 AM) nano: you need more sleep
(10:31:51 AM) nano: lunesta maybe
(10:34:39 AM) Steve: or maybe just watch the commercial for it like, 1,000 times
(10:34:40 AM) Steve: that’ll put me to bed
(10:36:10 AM) nano: its so peaceful
(10:37:14 AM) Steve: so very peaceful
(10:37:17 AM) Steve: or viagra commercials
(10:37:42 AM) Steve: ironically, for a commercial about a product that cures erectile dysfunction
(10:37:46 AM) Steve: it’s also very good at inducing it
(10:37:57 AM) Steve: watching a middle age guy tossing a football through tires repeatedly…
(10:38:02 AM) Steve: is just… too.. depressing
(10:40:08 AM) nano: hahha
(10:40:12 AM) nano: so true.

Brilliant religious advice of the day

Courtesy of my dear friend Colin at: A)bort, R)etry, F)ail.

Stick to your cat, it’s not religiously judgemental, so long as you worship it.

Indeed, Colin, indeed.

My talent

Last night, my best friend informed me that she thinks one of my best talent (at least I hope it’s not my only talent) is being a critic. I think her exact words were something like:

“you are a very good critic, b/c you are able to articulate your likes and dislikes very very clearly… especially the dislikes”
“If you don’t like something, you will find the best words to say it… and say it in different ways 200 times”

I guess nothing illustrates this better, than a recent email that I had to send off to my housemates. I hate to admit this is almost the best writing I’ve done in … a long time:

Hey gang,

I noticed that the lint filter is sometimes being left full of lint after a load. Please take the small bit of time to clean after your lint. I don’t really mind cleaning out the lint before using the dryer; but it’s just a nice common courtesy to clean after your own lint, rather than having your lint being cleaned after.

Another issue of mine, is the amount of time that’s been taken up to do laundry. IMO:

  1. It really shouldn’t take multiple days to do laundry, unless you’re doing laundry for a family of four or five (I do remember the good ol’ days when my aunt always seemed to be doing laundry.. but that was a family of five).
  2. Even if you separated all your colors & whites & delicates

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Asian chicken salad

During the tedium of the work day grind, I have all sorts of weird IM conversation with my friends. While we’re talking about what we had for lunch today, I brought up one of my minor annoyances with… I’m not even sure to whom this one would be directed.

Why do we have asian/chinese “chicken” salad? Our cuisine covered an entire spectrum of all sorts of dead animals, why “chicken”? Is there a perception that Asian people only eat chicken, or somehow the only ingredient that you can mash into a salad from the entire range of Asian cuisine is chicken? Why isn’t there Asian barbecue pork salad? Asian fish salad? Well, if you really need to stay within the realm of poultry, how about Asian duck salad?

Of course, the mere fact that we have a certain salad created to cater to our culture is funny. I mean, growing up in Taiwan and all, Chinese people don’t eat salad, ever. Salad is clearly not a part of our traditional palette. So first we have our named tagged onto a type of food we don’t make, then have it limited to only one type of meat.

There is one possibility I have yet to consider though, maybe all Asian chicken salad strictly forbid the use of any other type of chicken excepted the ones imported from Asia…

Wow, that’s a whole ‘nother mess of complications.

PC = Steve Jobs?!

This is the video clip from WWDC, so hilarious~

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Enjoy!

Microsoft introduces: Ofone!

It’s rare that Microsoft comes up with something truly funny, but this parody is really, actually, LOL-kinda good. Which makes you wonder, if they had this much time to make this parody… where is the ZunePhone?!

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Testing thumbnail viewer

Puppy!

Another miscellaneous test for a WordPress plugin, with a cute picture!

More than one way to play a Hunter…

Found this post on WoWinsider:

Instead of going for the usual hunter staples of agility, intellect and attack power, Grimhorn has invested entirely in green plus stamina armor… This has given him a whopping 1074 stamina, which means he has 17134 health (at last count.)

OMG… are you kidding me?!

Following that into the forum thread where he talks about how he plays, you can expect that his pet does most of the killing; but several good points were also made, that many of Hunter’s abilities doesn’t really scale with their stats. For example, all of their stings are just as usable, and even Aimed Shot doesn’t scale much with AP.

This goes to show, with some classes, thinking outside of the box really works well. Perhaps more than anything, it also shows how overpowered Hunters are, in that they actually have the flexibility to persue such an endeavor.

Via WoWInsider

Phallic logo contest

Oh, this is just too, too good.

B3TA : FEATURES : Phallic Logo Awards

The game designers across the nation are playing is; can they design a logo and get it approved without the client realising it’s a big spurting penis?

We asked our readers to send in the best cock logos from around the world for our team of experts to evaluate. Now we present to you the very cream of the cocks.

ROFLMAO!

Bushisms~~~

I <3 George W. Bush

And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I’m sorry it’s the case, and I’ll work hard to try to elevate it.

“This business about graceful exit just simply has no realism to it at all.

You know, when I campaigned here in 2000, I said, I want to be a war President. No President wants to be a war President, but I am one.

You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror

The Complete Bushism - By Jacob Weisberg

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