http://memethief.com Being the thoughts, musings, aggravations and sarcastic whinings of the local god Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:31:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Seriously, though, Venn diagrams are a concise and satisfyingly geeky way to convey complex information. Instead of writing a paragraph about how some of the people in my life are geeks, and some of the people in my life are artsy, and explaining that those groups overlap , and further ... http://memethief.com/2008/07/27/venn-diagrams-ftw/ I wonder who would be elected president of the US if the candidates were: a black baptist lesbian a straight white male atheist Assume the candidates have equivalent platforms, and neither is trying to cover up their identity. On the one hand, atheists are the most selected-against demographic in US politics. On ... http://memethief.com/2008/07/15/an-idle-thought/ Weedmaster P sets us straight. When will the rest of us learn to see the world as clearly as Weedmaster P? When we look at it through a red-eyed pot haze I suppose. Also, if you don't already read Overcompensating by Jeffrey Rowland you oughta. http://memethief.com/2008/06/27/as-usual/ It's been a while since I've raved about seeing a t-shirt or some other swag that I want to own. Okay, so it's also been a while since I blogged anything with content. But here, check this shit out: http://memethief.com/2008/06/16/my-latest-consumerist-yearning/ I've been toying with this idea for a while, and hopefully this summer I'll get to work on it more. The idea is that I create a database-driven comic strip. All the characters, plots and so on are stored in a MySQL database, and get interpreted by PHP and turned ... http://memethief.com/2008/04/25/php-generated-comic-test/ It's like the webcomic author knows me! http://memethief.com/2008/04/15/must-be-fate/ is awesome. I love this bag: it is rugged, has six compartments, sits flat on the table -- beautiful. And it's 10$, which is nothing to sniff at, but isn't as much as I would have expected. Of course, it's meant as a utility item, not as a luxury, so that ... http://memethief.com/2008/04/09/rob-donoghues-dice-bag/ Last night I was given a fortune cookie. The English side was a little harsh: "Enjoy your own company. If you don't, who will?" But the French side was sexay: "Il faut savoir se plaire à soi-même. Sinon, qui d'autre peut le faire?" http://memethief.com/2008/03/16/gained-in-translation/ ... because Gary Gygax has appparently gone to meet his player. Yes, the honcho of hack-and-slash has failed his final saving throw, and the dungeon crawl has lost the head of its pantheon. No word on how he died, but I'm assuming it was a band of flumphs led by a ... http://memethief.com/2008/03/04/get-out-your-black-d20s/ Note: this will probably be of interest only to UTSC students. So I've gone ahead and started circulating a petition around campus. It lists the ways in which the current VP Students & Equity has not been doing his job properly, and demands that he resign. If he doesn't, it demands ... http://memethief.com/2008/02/14/vpfh-petition/