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Self Pontificates and Subsequently Self is of the Existence

In Game On, Thoughts and Rants on 20 July 2006 tagged eets, games, grrlgamer, instant messaging, jamie, penny arcade with Comments Off

KC: y’know KC: i hate the tycho writing style sometimes KC: the whole “i shall use long words or confuse an otherwise simple sentence to make it look like i’m a better writer than i am” KC: “mallows of the marsh” JC: where’s he say “mallows of the marsh”?? KC: he doesn’t JC: but yeah i [...]

Wrong Window Redux

In Thoughts and Rants on 19 May 2006 tagged humour, instant messaging with 4 comments

Whilst procrastinating and chatting with Elea, she said “whoops” and that triggered a really old exercise we conducted here wherein we came up with really bad things to send to the wrong IM window.

I figure it’s time to try that again and see what people come up with. Only this time, try to stay away [...]

Destined to Ignorance and Darkness

In Uncategorized on 19 March 2006 tagged conference, iasummit, iasummit2006, instant messaging, presentation with Comments Off

PM: i might see your comics talk at Y! Berkeley…KC: in april?PM: yKC: why … ?KC: it’s the same as the one at ia summitPM: it’s the same day as a career day at cal, which i’ll be going toPM: well, in case i can’t make your talk (or, rather, maybe i’ll see something else [...]

Ending Conversations

In Thoughts and Rants on 25 March 2005 tagged instant messaging with 4 comments

Ever do that thing where you say a joke and everyone laughs nervously but either don’t really get the joke or think it’s not funny? The nervous laughter is inevitably followed by awkward silence.

In the land of instant messaging, laughing seems to be a convenient conversation stopper. Check your history or log files and you [...]