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Re: dotlizard

dotlizard — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:02:33 -0000

well i was considering coding my own, but why when these are so neato? seriously.

Re: dotlizard

dotlizard — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:22:00 -0000

ahh, i see -- to get video uploaded to here from my cell phone i have to send straight to vimeo and include the vimeo RSS feed in here. kinda screwy but hey.

Re: dotlizard

dotlizard — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:33:40 -0000

you know by "these" i mean, these comments, yes?

also, yes, i kinow i'm talking to myself here. it's called testing, ok? when no one even knows you have a tumblelog, and you install shit, you have to test said shit all by your lonesome.

yeah.

Re: lizard.be - ennui

dotlizard — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:35:32 -0000

oh my god it's my first comment. aside from talking to myself. woohoo!

Re: lizard.be

dotlizard — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:22:32 -0000

it's Ventura, CA. and, it's more now :(

Re: lizard.be

dotlizard — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:59:35 -0000

yeah, but the kids weren't even sitting in it - they were over to one side, where the sand was soft.

actually i just saw some parallels to my own choices in life, how i seem to choose to do the equivalent of sitting in rocks when there's comfort not far away. it seems such a simple thing -- if you're uncomfortable, don't sit in rocks! but maybe it's not as easy as it sounds?

Re: Preschool Politics

dotlizard — Tue, 06 May 2008 01:39:23 -0000

omg. funny and heartbreaking all at once...

Re: Her political career is over (Scripting News)

dotlizard — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:22:57 -0000

please, please be right about her career being over. i am so afraid that (since there is nothing too low for her to sink to) that she will somehow steal the presidency.

Re: Comments switching to Disqus

dotlizard — Sat, 24 May 2008 22:18:47 -0000

i use disqus on my seldom-used tumblr blog, and i am completely happy with them -- over there. on my MT blog, which i did lose quite a bit of comments in the last import, i'm glad that somewhere in a text file on my hard drive i DO have everything archived.

i'd like Disqus to offer a local backup option (even though i admit the thought of having to work out something to DO with such an archive would be daunting, i'd still like the option).

Re: 4-8-92: Bill Clinton is the Democratic Nominee

dotlizard — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:05:14 -0000

at this point i'm pretty sure she's an actual pathological liar - she's not so much telling untruths, as she is unable to differentiate between reality, and her own version which makes a better story. i have known pathologicals. they can't even tell you the truth about whether or not the clothes are in the dryer. and even if the answer doesn't matter & the lie is definitely going to be caught, they still just tell the version that most appeals to them rather than the real one.

either that or she's just evil. but the shit she makes up is so refutable, so well-documented, so absolutely blatantly made-up stories, that she'd have to be crazy to lie about it, you know?

Re: Hot Dog

dotlizard — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:38:03 -0000

ohhhh such a cutie pie! sorry, i'm a random stranger who wandered over from Plurk and is now ogling your dog. isn't that weird when that happens?

Re: Willy Nilly Day

dotlizard — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:40:34 -0000

well sorry to hear about your roommate's job, but, yay for amusing cell phones & other assorted toys we have now that make getting unexpectedly stuck entertaining. back in my day (oh here i go) we just had to sit there. maybe read the car owner's manual :)

Re: lizard.be

dotlizard — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:26:53 -0000

well, the company i work for designed it. and we sent it out to a few of the right design blogs and created a publicity storm like you wouldn't believe. it was the right thing at the right time to fill what was apparently a crying need for something cool & desirable to replace the addictive plastic water bottles we've all been hauling around and tossing out. there's a huge crisis of plastic, and this is an elegant answer. also i am proud that i re-blogged a re-blog of this thing my company created, which was discovered by design blogs here at tumblr.

Re: Twitter’s New Redesign

dotlizard — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:35:48 -0000

i think the screenshot provided represents a vast improvement in their UI, and i hope to see it return soon. oh, and they always showed how many DMs, it just wansn't really somewhere you'd notice that much.

Re: I’m In Another Onion Radio News

dotlizard — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:47:04 -0000

classic Onion. well done!

Re: Birthday me

dotlizard — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:45:11 -0000

better a birthday shirt than a birthday suit, i always say! or, was it the other way around?

anyway, happy b-day!

Re: Lumpit - the way it is, randomly

dotlizard — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:10:26 -0000

totally mad. also annoying, for those of us who choose to participate in sites one site at a time, and therefore see the same message over. and over. and over. enough!

meh. or not. i suppose it's ... whatever. i don't like it, but don't feel i should poop on other people's multi-posting parties.

Re: Twitter bombing #dontgo and false grassroots movements | LizaSabater.com

dotlizard — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:47:47 -0000

this is just such awesomeness. i wish i had more time that i was not beset with work, to participate in this delightful uprising. who said being revolting was a bad thing? not me!

Re: PETA, You Just Make It So Easy

dotlizard — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:20:54 -0000

the worst thing about PETA, beyond their blatant exploitation and twisted body-image messages, is that they could be doing something constructive and good with all the money they apparently have (those ads ain't cheap!), rather than act like terrorist hypocrites. they could do actual good for animals. they could support rescue organizations and low-cost spay/neuter clinics and use that ginormous PR budget to educate people on being rational, caring, responsible pet owners. as to the fur/skin issue, they could easily hire a good agency that is skilled in influencing public opinion and convince people that it is uncool to wear fur without sinking to the oldest trick in the book -- "hey, let's use a naked chick". it's been done people, it's been done and done and done some more, it's the ad agency version of the no-brain campaign. they have enough money to be more creative.

but instead, they are using their money, power, and influence to perpetuate stereotypes, insult women, and contribute to the already overwhelming pressure young girls feel to attain an unrealistic body image. for shame, PETA, for shame.

as for myself, i don't wear fur but i do wear leather, because i also eat cows. i'm an omnivore by birth, and i'm ok with that. i have a lot of pets, all but one lizard and the toads are rescues, i believe in rescuing, and i do what i can to support local rescue agencies.

and the pig image pisses me off beyond all belief. omg. omg. those assholes.

Re: PETA Makes Light of Cannibalistic Attack

dotlizard — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:34:55 -0000

i'm disgusted but not surprised. as PETA has proven time and time again, they have absolutely no limit to how low they'll go to - they have no standards, no ethics, no taste, and no class. they show an overwhelming disrespect for their fellow humans, and in this case, for the murdered man's family. http://www.timmclean.org/ http://www.myspace.com/1083... if i was Mr. McLean's family, i'd be suing like crazy. http://www.canada.com/winds...

Re: Why Plurk Rules The Micro-Blogging Universe

dotlizard — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:44:24 -0000

You've distilled the appeal of the Plurk into what I believe to be the most succinct and insightful post I've seen yet.

I believe there's also an addictive factor, which applies to those susceptible (as is true with all addictions) -- a combination of the demanding Karma system, and the immediacy of the AJAX updates in the lower left corner of the timeline, new Plurks, new responses, always "just one more" before you click away. I base this belief, in part, on the fact that I know many very avid social media users who checked out Plurk and said "meh -- I don't get it". This is probably a lot like trying coke or heroin for the first time, not everyone proceeds to become a cokehead or a junkie, but those who do, oh, they "get it".

Welcome to the subset of online social folk who "get" Plurk, we're always happy to add another addict to the fold.

Re: Creating Comments Cautiously

dotlizard — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:00:26 -0000

My advice would be to make the effort to craft a thoughtful comment that directly addresses something in the post. If you don't have anything to add to the discussion in general but want to encourage the blogger, for instance in this case if I hadn't had this to add, I might have said something like, "I always enjoy your posts, they are well thought out and clearly written. Thank you for taking the time to put this together, I think everyone who blogs and comments can benefit from this advice."

Re: Paying Atenshin to Speling,, Grammer and, a Punctuashin,./

dotlizard — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:25:52 -0000

I have an excellent command of written English, but when writing casually I love to play fast & loose with things like capitalization, fun made-up words, and of course my beloved ampersand. I actually think all-lowercase looks calmer and prettier, at one point on my blog I would only create captial letters by using a span style = text-transform:uppercase. I'm not making that up.

But now I feel completely self-conscious here, like I need to follow the rules to prove I know how :) (since so many do not).

Perhaps when we get to know one another better, I can let my capital letters down and it'll be OK? But not if it drives you crazy. I am at least respectful enough to hit that shift key at the appropriate moment, it's the least I can do.

Re: Sarah Palin is Not a Feminist

dotlizard — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:04:20 -0000

i could not agree more without spraining something. and it's not just her views on denying women their reproductive rights, supporting oil, and being pro-war -- it's the thought of someone with NO foreign policy experience WHATSOEVER, not even a little bit, being a heartbeat away from having to lead this country and keep us out of World War Three, which you can't tell me isn't looming right here in front of us. North Korea? Russia? Iraq/Iran? Israel/Palestine?

And the corruption allegations that have already surfaced in her brief tenure as Governor are very worrisome, as they speak to the kind of cronyism and old-boy networking that has been so disastrous with the current administration. and when you consider the oily company she keeps, i don't even want to think about the back-room deals that would be struck.

if McCain would be Bush, continued, McCain/Palin would be Bush squared.

the only hope would be that her lack of experience at high-level corruption would prevent her doing too much damage. i mean, sure, she's bad, but she's no Dick Cheney.

Re: And She Did So Much While Pregnant! Right?

dotlizard — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:30:04 -0000

my biggest worry on all this speculation, is that it could backfire horribly. i mean, we know this has all the signs of a classic teen pregnancy cover-up, but with only this circumstantial evidence, it's a huge risk. if the embattled Mrs. Palin were to come forward with medical records refuting these allegations, the backlash would be severe, and a terrible public relations disaster. the sympathy that would be afforded Mrs. Palin and Bristol could easily sway a significant portion of the undecideds.

i would hope that, as this story spreads across the internet, the Obama/Biden camp should step forward and issue a strongly worded statement condemning those making the allegations. i'm not saying you, or the diarist at Daily Kos, or any of the other hundreds of bloggers out there digging into this deserve condemnation, just that the campaign must make sure to steer clear of any connection.

if it is true, then there were a good number of people involved in the coverup, and chances are someone will succumb to the intense pressure (or a huge chunk of cash) and give some hard evidence.

until then, i think it's important to tread lightly on this, if only to avoid burdening the Obama/Biden campaign with the potential consequences. but, it's probably a bit late for that, eh?

between this and Michael Moore's HUGE faux pas on the Olbermann show in which he implied that the hurricane bearing down on New Orleans was proof there was a God and he was punishing the republicans in the week of their convention, the left has given Fox News enough ammunition today to do some serious damage to the Obama campaign. this could not be worse timing, on the heels of a powerful convention.

i am not blaming you, i am glad that there are people willing to put themselves out there to expose corruption and dishonesty. my best hope at this point is that someone does come forward with hard evidence, and that this turns out to be true.