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Re: Engadget Giveaway: win one of three Nexus 7 units, courtesy of Poweramp!

Ramidi — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:59:34 -0000

Mmm, free.

Re: Engadget Giveaway: win one of four Nexus 7 tablets, courtesy of NVIDIA!

Ramidi — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:44:04 -0000

Free stuff.

Re: Engadget Giveaway: win a new iPad (32GB with AT&T), courtesy of Rebtel!

Ramidi — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:07:58 -0000

Free stuff.

Re: Engadget Giveaway: win an 11-inch MacBook Air pre-loaded with Parallels!

Ramidi — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:19:36 -0000

Woo free stuff.

Re: Engadget Giveaway: win a new iPad, courtesy of puzzle app Triple Entendre!

Ramidi — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:40:00 -0000

I'll take two.

Re: Engadget Giveaway: win one of two PlayStation Vitas, courtesy of Tanga!

Ramidi — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:05:27 -0000

Woo free stuff.

Re: Engadget's Holiday Blues-buster 2011: win an iPad 2 16GB WiFi, courtesy of Broadcom!

Ramidi — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:47:57 -0000

Woo free stuff.

Re: Engadget giveaway: win a white T-Mobile G2x prototype!

Ramidi — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:23:51 -0000

Prototype? I'm in!

Re: Just trying out this "post by email" thing...

Ramidi — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:54:17 -0000

It's like twitter! Except not retarded!

If I am coming to read a blog, I expect more than a headline.

I cant tell you how old that makes me feel to say that. (With the accompanying background thoughts running through my head)

Post on, good sir! And may your posts be more than 160 characters long! Fight back for the lost content, relegated to the sidelines due to the ADD of an emerging society!

Re: My sentiments exactly, Dang, I'm up to 36 sub-tumblrs

Ramidi — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:02:39 -0000

Maybe you just need a tumblr devoted totalking about sub-tumblrs?

Re: My sentiments exactly, ‘Dave’ ambigram by mattmcinerney

Ramidi — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:00:05 -0000

When that animated gif spun I read it as 'wimp'.

Re: I just had an idea...

Ramidi — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:39:55 -0000

I love that idea! I think I will give it a try soon.

Re: My sentiments exactly - Rather than pouring our efforts into two hours of...

Ramidi — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:23:43 -0000

EVERY sunday, my roommate would get ready for work and would become downtrodden. He was normally happy and could shrug off anything.

But every sunday he said, "Great, gotta go deal with the church crowd."

And I went with him once to see what he meant. I personally try to be extra nice to people in service industries. 1, they have access to my food. 2, really, how hard is it to be nice to someone who has a hard job?

What I saw did shock me. Very large groups of people. His smallest table was a pack of 12. Many, many children and all of them ill behaved. Throwing food, dropping items.

It took him two hours of constant attention between two tables. Waiters make their money by serving lots of tables. So two tables in two hours takes him down to minimum wage.

Neither table, after demanding his full attention, for groups that were huge, left a tip.

And I knew both families. Good, sweet, loving people form my own church. Turned into demanding, upset, unruly folk.

Re: My sentiments exactly - Kubrik with Keir Dullea & Gary Lockwood on the...

Ramidi — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:10:37 -0000

Kubrik seems to fit in perfectly to that scene.

Re: My sentiments exactly - VEX by kielbryant See? This is the kind of...

Ramidi — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:27:39 -0000

NASA Vex.. I'm Vex'd, terribly Vex'd!

Re: My sentiments exactly - Comic Con costume posted for Ken photo by...

Ramidi — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:26:40 -0000

Is it just me... or does his ear kind of look like a giant strip of bacon?

Re: My sentiments exactly - Google Maps Captures Bike Path Street Views in...

Ramidi — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:53:56 -0000

I had no idea every time we dragged that little yellow guy somewhere on Google Maps that we were ordering a solitary man to exercise!

I am torn between never using Street View again and using it all the time to exercise him to death.

Re: My sentiments exactly - sds: Holy cow. Anyone remember these movies? Are...

Ramidi — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:32:57 -0000

Dave, so much of what you post here is what the little kid voice in my head always wants to say!

Re: My sentiments exactly - heather-rivers: I have the occasional hobby of...

Ramidi — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:29:21 -0000

I too want to do this!

to this day I have been unable to bring myself to be able to actually damage a book to do it though. :/

Re: My sentiments exactly - Classic kids’ TV shows adapted to film by Dan Meth...

Ramidi — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:57:41 -0000

Dave, you make the world a better place.

Re: My sentiments exactly - Grundtvigs Church by Kim Holtermand via...

Ramidi — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:44:40 -0000

I find these cathedrals both fascinating and a bit 'off-putting'. On one hand I find them beautiful and amazing to take in. But on the other, I find it hard to see why someone would build something that, to me, seems so impersonal.

Re: My sentiments exactly - via deadashistory: theduty

Ramidi — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:10:18 -0000

After a good chuckle when I read the punch line, I re-read the comic. Every panel I could hear a little 'whoosh' in my head as the cookies disappear!

Re: My sentiments exactly - I appreciate this sign and the sentiment behind...

Ramidi — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:18:54 -0000

Another aspect that has troubled me for years is the jargon.

I enjoy words, their meanings, understanding their history and use. I also enjoy computers and technology that comes with it's own set of terms and definitions that often do not align easily with common thought processes.

One of the aspects of the aforementioned 'fan club' is often a vocabulary that ends up being exclusive rather than inclusive. This concept came to the forefront of my mind when I saw a man wearing a sandwich-board sign that declared "Jesus Saves!". Having been brought up in the church my entire life I was easily able to decode and recognize this message. And that's what it comes down to. There is a lot of meaning packed into those words. The small phrases that we banter about.

To the outside world it is like approaching a computer for the first time. They have heard of this device, been told of some of the features but there is not an intimate knowledge of the proper or effective ways to interact with it. I understand the message on the sign because I have the background knowledge that is associated with it. A person off the street might not have the reference points to interpret the message.

They may still come to find out more out of curiosity, but it adds a layer of complexity to the situation that doesnt need to be there. I firmly believe there is a disconnect between how we communicate with people and how we should communicate with them.

Proclaiming catch phrases and easy rhetoric is often the most visible form of outreach in the communities that I have seen.

And I am sorry for diverging from your original idea. I feel like this concept may also play a part and hope it might be integrated into the discussion as a component.

Re: My sentiments exactly - Energy Secretary's White-Paint Proposal Puzzles Climate-Change Experts

Ramidi — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:33:23 -0000

We worked hard to take this land from the plants and you want to give it right back to them?

What are you, some kind of triffid lover?

Re: My sentiments exactly - Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach...

Ramidi — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:11:04 -0000

Build a man a fire, he is warm for a night.

Set a man on fire, he is warm for the rest of his life.