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Silly Accents

Michael Hartog — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:16:42 +0000

I have recognized after many years that every time I think or say something extremely ridiculous I think or say it with a Monty Python accent.

This subsequently feeds the whole silliness thing and makes the accent grow even more ridiculous.

I don’t think this is a problem but it might get me in trouble someday.

This Post is

Michael Hartog — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:17:50 +0000

This post is meant to be read from the bottom up.

How did you get here?

This post is meant to be read from the top down.

Shaving my face more often

Michael Hartog — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:35:54 +0000

Over the past few weeks I’ve noticed that my facial hair is growing a tiny bit faster and I need to shave twice a week instead of just once. As a blond man this concerns me. That is all.

Broken Picture Telephone

Michael Hartog — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:19:26 +0000

Remember that telephone game as a kid? One person would start a message and then whisper it to the next kid and eventually it would morph and change based on how they heard it? Now imagine doing it on the internet but instead of whispers you use text and pictures, alternating back and forth. That is exactly what Broken Picture Telephone is.

The concept is one almost everyone is familiar with, you can set it so you only have to write or only have to draw (I’m not much of an artist. And it’s not very hard to play. I write what I see in the picture, then a few hours later I get and email to say that it’s finished and I go back and read the entire thread from start to finish.

It’s just as humourous as when I was a kid except now you know if someone was being a jerk and randomly changing things. And then you report them and they get banned. Oh, and you can play like 15 games at a time. Definitely going to keep playing around with it until I get bored.

5 Best Memories from my First Year of University

Michael Hartog — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:35:07 +0000

I was on my way to work today when I thought this up. These happened randomly throughout the year and they all have some sort of story behind them.

Here we go:

5. Finding panties behind my bed a few month into first term.

4. Staying up until 4 a.m. and waking up at noon – for 4 months.

3. Playing Dungeons and Dragons with 2 separate groups.

2. A girl picking me up on my way home from playing Dungeons and Dragons.

1. Having a girl leave my room saying “And that’s why you’re still a virgin, Mike!”

Bookmarklets

Michael Hartog — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:46:08 +0000

Bookmarklets are little peices of javascript disguised as bookmarks that you can run on any site. They let you do things like Resize forms. You can test it out by dragging it into your bookmarks toolbar and trying it out on the comments section.

Other good bookmarklets I’ve come across are:

BugMeNot for getting past registration quickly on large sites.
is.gd for making urls smaller, similar to tinyurl except an even smaller url.
You can also download videos from youtube and other places with this link (not a bookmarklet)

Highschool Buddies

Michael Hartog — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:21:35 +0000

I have this friend from highschool who repeats conversations.

I’m not sure if he forgets that he’s said it or he just has run out of things to say.

Sometimes I like to play out the conversations differently to get a different reaction. You may call this cruel but I figure, why go through the same experience twice?

And if I did do it the same way more than once then I could start off by saying “Remember when you told me about…” and I’d remember he told me that twice, or three times.