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I'm just too good to be true. Can't take my eyes off me. I'd be like Heaven to touch. I wanna hold me so much. At long last love has arrived And I thank God I'm alive. I'm just too good to be true. Can't take my eyes off of me. I like to play a little game called "Songs For Egoists." The rules of the game are as follows: take a popular [...]
I want to thank my Legos
Now that the thrilling 6 weeks of NBA playoffs are over, with the victorious Lakers vanquishing Satan's team and restoring the natural order of things, it's safe to resume suspended activities... like Lego-ing. Any excuse I had for ignoring the pleas of my five-year-old ("Hey, we can't play with Legos — those green ones look like Celtic [...]
Sorry, He Lied*
CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized this week to Facebook users in a Washington Post editorial, conceding "we move quickly to serve that community with new ways to connect with the social Web and each other. Sometimes we move too fast." That's quite an apology — saying sorry for not going more slowly while betraying user trust. As the Wall Street [...]
The Onion calls out Foursquare
Often imitated, but seldom surpassed. New Social Networking Site Changing The Way Oh, Christ, Forget It
People Peephole
Three weeks ago, Facebook implemented their ironically titled "Open Graph," reneging on their original privacy promises, converting what you originally thought was your private profile (your name, the city you live in, names of your friends, photos and causes you believe in) into public by default. Remember when Facebook positioned themselves as [...]
It’s Not You Foursquare, It’s Me
I've tried... I've really tried to engage with you Foursquare, making a commitment to "check-in" as much as possible. And, while it was fun (for a little while) to enter the "WABAC machine" and compete against my network of friends for badges and Mayoral status from my favorite places, this "game" didn't have the same immediacy as the schoolyard [...]
Praise the Lard!
For my friend Adi in Israel, in celebration of the iPad's new "kosher" status. Reading that the most chosen of all products (at least, by me) has received a "heksher," led me to ruminate on my second most coveted product. Hint: it's sow sow good. Tough to argue with Dahlia Rideout's meaty logic, "bacon is the great equalizer in American [...]
Game Boy
This New Yorker cartoon seemed to perfectly capture the world I'm living in right now — an overwhelming bombardment of real-time information and ubiquitous social network connectivity. Sadly, it also sums up the early performance of my fantasy baseball team, The Mar Vista Droppers, who combine a devastating pitching staff with anemic [...]
Flash Fried? Savor Every Byte
After reading the Los Angeles Times take on how hardcore foodies and bloggers are the new paparazzi, I decided to do an analysis of my daily habits in search of my true "foodiness:" However, time spent eating doesn't accurately reflect time spent preparing to eat — reading food blogs and pondering my next culinary adventure. The general [...]
Blogger Rehab: The iPad Edition
Unless you've been living off the grid, you know Apple launched the iPad last week. And, for the first time in many years, I didn't wait in line, run to the store or pre-order a new Apple product. Oh believe me... I wanted to... I practically need a 12-step program to keep me away from an Apple Store (hello... I'm Lloyd-O and I am an Apple [...]
