Twitter Grab Bags

Cuz Ashley publishes my good ideas before I do.  Since I stopped making my twitters into asides on this post, these are the things you’ve missed by not following me on twitter.  I’m going to post them twenty at a time.

• 03:03 PM September 12, 2007: I’m going to post an update of what I’m doing… coincidentally, what I’m doing is updating my Twitter.
• 09:58 PM September 06, 2007: Pixelation is celebrating Ramadan this year, not because he’s muslim, he’s not, but just because he likes fasting.
  
• 11:56 PM September 06, 2007: Collecting sick children coaster profiles from St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital… they’re hi-LAR-ious!!
• 11:11 PM December 25, 2007: It’s not gay if you close your eyes and think of France.
• 12:02 AM December 26, 2007: If my relationship wasn’t a joke, why was there a punchline at the end?
• 09:44 PM December 31, 2007: I think super speed would suck if you still got tired like normal..
• 01:13 AM February 17, 2008: Why does the Wikipedia article for Anne Frank not have any ‘Criticisms’ section?
• 04:46 AM February 17, 2008: Life is too short to listen to anything but the white stripes
• 04:34 PM March 21, 2008:My brain: “Pixel’s going on a date? Huh. I always thought he was gay. I wonder how much he’s paying her.”
• 06:00 PM April 04, 2008: Have you ever wanted to thwack a smarmy bastard so hard it made him cry? Yeah, i guess i deserved that.
• Phenomenology. Why does something i care so little about have such a cool name? 08:07 PM April 04, 2008:
• 10:43 PM April 04, 2008: An example of political suicide: “Yeah, well maybe Martin Luther King was ASKING to get shot.”
• 06:43 PM April 05, 2008: The order is bitch to yourself, joke to others. I always get the two confused..
• 04:38 PM April 06, 2008:
  1: would you ever hit a lady with a baby?
  2: Of course not, I’d hit her with a brick.
• 10:10 PM April 06, 2008: Drinking makes the world go round… Wait, stop! Why is the world going round??
• 02:29 PM April 07, 2008: It’s almost 1 o’clock, why don’t I have pants on yet? This isn’t an episode of Cops!
• 02:47 PM April 10, 2008: I’ve been offered four jobs so far this year: each one better than the last. I wonder how long I have to wait to be offered ‘President.’
• 09:00 PM April 14, 2008: ‘code three to register one?’ Man, why don’t they call them something awesome, like ‘code ninja to register gorilla’?
• 11:31 PM April 16, 2008: *Phew!* My to do list is almost finished. All I have left is “Learn French.” … Aww, crud.
• 12:53 AM April 17, 2008: Wait, the pope is Catholic? Since when? I’m surprised that’s not a bigger news story

September 21, 2008 at 5:15 pm | In goodie grab bag | | 3 Comments

My titles are often six words

So, I’ve been a big fan of Clarity Sage’s Six Word posts for a while. I liked One Sentence.org and Post Secret and Group Hug.us, so maybe I just like people that do a lot with a little. But recently, it occurred to me that we could start turn her six word posts into a group blog of sorts in which a buncha-buncha people (4-7) would update.

The idea (as it now stands, possibly to be revised soon) is that everyone’s posts would just be really short, pithy six word stories.  Haikus was also thrown out as a possibility.  Either way, it would be regular updating in some constrained writing of some sort.

So the call out is this: Who would like to participate?  I mean, I’m not silly, I still remember the last time I tried to organize something in the internet and it failed miserably… because of my own inability to organize.  But I think this could even be better this time.

I mean: how could it not?

September 19, 2008 at 10:35 am | In reader response | | 7 Comments

Logical Fallacy Sheet

So, you might be wondering what I’ve been doing since this post.  If you guessed reading and studying for some major things I have to do…. you’re WRONG.

I’ve been making a Spot the Logical Fallacy Cheat Sheet for my party in two weeks.  Actually, the idea has been pinging around the Internets for a little bit now and people seem to really be responding to it.  I’d link to the sites, but I don’t want to connect my professional life with my blog in any serious way.

Anyway, I should probably go do something productive…

This should be fuuuunnnn

September 12, 2008 at 9:27 am | In pixelated gaming | | 1 Comment

Spot the Logical Fallacy

While I was watching the political convention last week (and the week before as well, actually), it astounded me at how often the speakers would resort to obvious logical fallacies.  I counted five false dichotomies and four straw men within the Sarah Palin speech alone.  Now, just to not be political: I’m sure Joe Biden also committed a whole bunch of logical fallacies, I just didn’t think about it until I heard Sarah Palin ‘poison the well‘ against Barack Obama.

As a result, I’ve decided to throw a ‘Spot the Logical Fallacy’ party during the first debate September 26.  You can participate too, but I probably won’t be paying as much attention to you as I will to my guests.  I’ll come up with a list of logical fallacies, along with their definition, and print them out in a handy two-sided sheet.

Here are the rules:

1. The first person to spot a logical fallacy must exclaim it, but only AFTER the speaker commits the fallacy.
2. The winner is the person who catches the most logical fallacies.
3. After the debate, a discussion on psychological, rhetorical, and propagandistic techniques will commence, but nobody is allowed to have a debate over the issues, unless there is a direct appeal to their logical consequences.
4. No headbutting is allowed.

Update: Wow, speak of the devil.  Someone seems to have come up with the same idea at around the same time as me.  Weird..

September 8, 2008 at 9:11 am | In pixelated gaming | | No Comments

100 Things about Me, pt. 100 of 100

100. I have no middle name, but the middle letters of my first and last name are “arlo” “arisca.” That amuses me because it over emphasizes the a’s.

For the previous one hundred posts, I posted one new fact about me just so that you could get to know me better. I hope it helped. If I missed anything you want to know, let me know, I’ll go rewrite some of the 80s and 90s. They were pretty lame. Comments and complaints are appreciated.

Note: I wrote this post three months ago, if some new fact about me came up since then, it is not reflected in this 100 things about me list.

September 5, 2008 at 12:19 am | In note to self | | 4 Comments