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Self Pontificates and Subsequently Self is of the Existence

Kevin Cheng — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:18:47 +0000

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 agree
KC: this grrlgamer is clearly influenced by that style
JC: oh right
KC: “The possibilities are of course quite endless if not better described as limited, ”
KC: wtf does that MEAN?
JC: i think she meant unlimited
KC: “The possibilities are of course quite endless if not better described as limited, or this would not make for a great puzzle game.”
KC: no i don’t think she does
JC: oh
KC: oh…
KC: maybe she does?
JC: i don’t know
KC: i dunno
JC: HAHAHA
KC: but you get my drift
KC: fucking retarded
KC: if it’s better described as something else
KC: say that first
JC: you mean retarded of the highest level
KC: hahaha
KC: nono
KC: i mean fornicating intellectually challenged
JC: fornicatingly intellectually challenging
KC: self pontificates and subsequently self is of the existence
JC: fornicatingly intellectually challenging of the highest level
JC: sounds like we fed it thru babelfish a few times
KC: yeah
KC: i think i shall have to blog this
KC: i’m sorry i mean
KC: i am seriously contemplating the documentation of this conversation via an online journal

Wrong Window Redux

Kevin Cheng — Fri, 19 May 2006 08:31:00 +0000

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 from the sexual confessions (at least the obvious ones implying you slept with someone your own gender or with a goat) and let’s see what comes up.

I’ll start:
“wow, is this the most boring presentation ever or what?” sent to the presenter’s IM on the projector
“i called in sick. wanna go out?” sent to your manager
“”i love you” sent to anyone other than the intended recipient

go!

Destined to Ignorance and Darkness

Kevin Cheng — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 01:50:43 +0000

PM: i might see your comics talk at Y! Berkeley…

KC: in april?

PM: y

KC: why … ?

KC: it’s the same as the one at ia summit

PM: it’s the same day as a career day at cal, which i’ll be going to

PM: well, in case i can’t make your talk (or, rather, maybe i’ll see something else at that time!)

KC: hehe

KC: i won’t make your plenary unfortunately

PM: ASSHOLE!

PM: something better than MY BRILLIANCE?

KC: yeah, a flight

PM: LAME

PM: you will not receive the PEARLS OF MY WISDOM

KC: yeah yeah i know

PM: you will be forever destined to live in IGNORANCE

PM: abject philosophical DARKNESS

KC: i am so blogging this

PM: GO AHEAD, BLOG ME

PM: let it be a WARNING to all those not attending my plenary. RUINATION UPON YOU!

KC: dang. i thought saying i’d blog you would shut you up

PM: Have you not read my “conversation” with GK?! I HAVE NO FEAR OF PUBLIC RESPONSE.

PM: REPROBATE!

Update: Our flight was delayed by four hours so we managed to catch the plenary after all. SALVATION!

Ending Conversations

Kevin Cheng — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:23:55 +0000

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 will probably find many conversation threads that end with “hehe”, “lol”, or “:)”.

Next time, if you’re IM’ing with someone who you can’t seem to get rid of, try it out.

hehe