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Professor iPod Discusses Device's Social Impact
PurdueGraphicsMan writes "There's an interesting story over at Wired News, involving an interview with UK university professor Dr. Michael Bull, apparently the 'world's leading expert on the social impact of personal stereo devices,' according to The New York Times. The piece also mentions: 'Bull, a lecturer in media and culture at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom, is the author of 'Sounding out the City: Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life', a book Bull calls the 'definitive treatment' of the impact of the Sony Walkman and its descendants.'"
Some street urchins tried to beg some loot from us the other day (while I was down in Nakhon Si Thammarat, in the south of Thailand). Normally they just sit there, wai, and wobble back and forth..but these two fucks actually walked up to us.
The first kid waied and then approached us..we walked by him with minimal body contact, but the second kid approached us with his hands out like he wanted to give my woman a hug. Little fuck came a little too close and violated our personal space, so i stepped in for a leg sweep and gave the fucker a jab in the shoulder, sending him the fuck out of our way.
Note to beggers: get the fuck away from me and if you touch my girlfriend I'll fucking jack you.
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hey guys,
:) if you're reading this, i look forward to meeting you in person, john!
i'm not sure exactly what i'm doing here. so...bear with me!
i clicked "geeky" on my match.com personals profile, thinking that i'd maybe get hooked up with somebody who was into math or some kind of toy train hobby or something...boy howdy was i in for a shock! i went on 4 dates with guys who all got on match.com because of osdn personals from slash-dot! 4 guys!
anyway, it didn't really work out with any of them, because it seemed like they were all under some kind of mind-control robot or something! i was like "what do you think about office? office 97 is enough for me, but there are some things about xp that are cool too...." the first guy i asked that to exploded on this tyrade about how office was evil, and that it uses html that's invalid...blah blah blah, whatever...i figured "ok, this guys a freak, but i'm not giving up that easily." so guy number two and i are having dinner, and just as a test i bring up office, and he says the *exact* *same* *things* the first guy said! it was like he was reading from a script! i'm thinking to myself "is everybody from slash-dot programmed to say the same thing or what?" i decided to do a bit of investigation.
i actually surfed over to slash-dot and read some of the articles...mostly they were pretty boring, and the comments were just like i expected judging from my previous past experience: scripted!!! just when i was about to completely write the whole thing off, i found a post from some guy who's with anti-slash, some kind of anti-slash-dot website. i mailed him and was all "i so agree with you guys, look at what sheap these slash-dot people are!" he wrote back and made some funny comments (funny and so *true*!...that is soooo the best kind of humor...but i dirgress...) and guess what? this weekend i'm supposed to meet him for dinner
anyway, that's my story. ladies: if you're looking for the real cool geeks, check out anti-slash. and fellas, you should check it out too and maybe use to to break out of your mind-control suits!
ok see ya later,
cyndi
Forgot to mention that those images came from this article in Something Awful's Comedy Goldmine. So funny.
before its too late.Why would anyone choose a gay lifestyle? They say they are born that way so identify the "gene" and abort 'em.If everyone aborts their gay baby we can end homosexuality in a politically correct way.After all what is more politically correct than abortion?Sure bigoted Christian fundamentalists wil oppose it they hate abortion while merely dissaproving of homosexuality but fuck 'em.ABORT GAY BABIES1
hey guys,
:) if you're reading this, i look forward to meeting you in person, john!
i'm not sure exactly what i'm doing here. so...bear with me!
i clicked "geeky" on my match.com personals profile, thinking that i'd maybe get hooked up with somebody who was into math or some kind of toy train hobby or something...boy howdy was i in for a shock! i went on 4 dates with guys who all got on match.com because of osdn personals from slash-dot! 4 guys!
anyway, it didn't really work out with any of them, because it seemed like they were all under some kind of mind-control robot or something! i was like "what do you think about office? office 97 is enough for me, but there are some things about xp that are cool too...." the first guy i asked that to exploded on this tyrade about how office was evil, and that it uses html that's invalid...blah blah blah, whatever...i figured "ok, this guys a freak, but i'm not giving up that easily." so guy number two and i are having dinner, and just as a test i bring up office, and he says the *exact* *same* *things* the first guy said! it was like he was reading from a script! i'm thinking to myself "is everybody from slash-dot programmed to say the same thing or what?" i decided to do a bit of investigation.
i actually surfed over to slash-dot and read some of the articles...mostly they were pretty boring, and the comments were just like i expected judging from my previous past experience: scripted!!! just when i was about to completely write the whole thing off, i found a post from some guy who's with anti-slash, some kind of anti-slash-dot website. i mailed him and was all "i so agree with you guys, look at what sheap these slash-dot people are!" he wrote back and made some funny comments (funny and so *true*!...that is soooo the best kind of humor...but i dirgress...) and guess what? this weekend i'm supposed to meet him for dinner
anyway, that's my story. ladies: if you're looking for the real cool geeks, check out anti-slash. and fellas, you should check it out too and maybe use to to break out of your mind-control suits!
ok see ya later,
cyndi
In communist Russia the iPod doctors you.
You only make 250 bucks every two weeks? You should-
a) Work more than 20 hours a week
or
b) You should find something better than McDonalds.
Last week at BestBuy I found a CD player for $20.00 that reads MP3 files on CD-Rs and CD-RWs.
I got one and it plays my 15 cent CD-Rs with ten hours of music just fine. (although slow to start MP3 disks).
I had to replace to weird AC adapter connector though, because it was impossible to find a cheap AC adapter that fit the custom connector on it.
anti-slash.org
HOLLAND, MI - A man faces child endangerment charges after allegedly showing up at a Roman Catholic school clad in a diaper and pink stretch pants.
Rob Malda was wearing an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs when he appeared Tuesday in Superior Court in Morristown. Judge Salem Vincent Ahto wanted to make sure Rhode understood the charge lodged against him.
Rhode nodded his head when the judge asked if he understood the charge. Ahto then ordered him returned to Morris County jail in lieu of $75,000 bail.
Rhode is scheduled to undergo a psychiatric evaluation on March 12.
Police said he showed up at Holy Spirit School at dismissal on Feb. 13 seeking a job application. When his request was denied, he defecated in the diaper and fled on foot, police said.
You laugh now, but tomorrow the Indians will take away your posh job.
"eclectic online rock radio".
Request your free CD of my piano music.
The brave crew manning the Mount Washington Observatory in North Conway, NH are in severe peril. Due to the extreme temperatures, they have not been able to actuate a team rotation for the last week.
If this cold snap does not moderate soon, they are in danger of exhausting their entire food and oxygen stores!
Just last night, a member of the observation team became trapped behind a shack fifty yards from the observatory deck, because of the unrelenting 100+ mph winds.
Read more about it here
And here is a picture of some of the observation team members who were forced outside -- all with bare skin exposed to the sub-zero cold -- to escape a deadly carbon-monoxide leak emanating from the building's only furnace unit!
my girlfriend can fit two of them up her pussy. it's red-hot ipod sex.
we're going to see just how many we can stuff in there before she shrieks in pain. then she'll let me see if I can put a broom handle up through her pussy and out her mouth. "CHOKE ME FROM BELOW BABY!" she says.
the karma. But I have been on slashdot for over 4 years now and this is the first story I have seen about my old University.
Point of interest:
One of our Profs got the (joint) Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for Buckminsterfullerene - the third form of solid carbon. My final year project was based on the stuff. Woo!
Yay to Sussex - it is a lovely place and some of the happiest times of my life. Any campus with 8 seperate bars has to be a cool place to spend a few years.