Tag Archives: Internet

Winter Break

Posted on December 15, 2008 by Torrie Fischer

Whew, end of the fall semester. It seemed to fly by rather quickly. So anyways, I’m finally at home and able to do some full-time KDE hacking. I originally came home wednesday night, and found that Kuiper (my firewall …

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Hi, I’m Trever Fischer and I play WoW.

Posted on October 22, 2008 by Torrie Fischer

I’ve succumbed to the disease. After watching @keylynn play MapleStory for hours on end, I realized that I wanted to play a MMORPG really badly. The last one I played was Final Fantasy XI, and that was years ago …

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A negative of the social web

Posted on September 21, 2008 by Torrie Fischer

Sure, the social web is great and all with everyone sharing stuff and syndicating content from everywhere, but it makes things pretty damn hard to find. Out of curiosity and bored, I did a google search for linux boredom. …

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Domo-Kun at Target

Posted on September 18, 2008 by Torrie Fischer

Nuts&Gum

Yes, Domo-Kun is now at target. I-Mockery said it first. Its a shame though that they don’t sell a Domo costume there. I’d like to see all this in person, but the local target out here in Akron doesn’t …

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The Timeline of Internet Memes

Posted on August 7, 2008 by Torrie Fischer

First, as /b/ would say, “This is the cancer that is killing /b/.”. True enough, I believe.

Second, the link.

I haven’t been on /b/ in ages, but I still think that the general public shouldn’t be allowed to comment on …

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Another Twitter Video

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Torrie Fischer

From Twitter themselves, a good video of people who actually use Twitter and why. I previously mentioned “Twitter in Plain English”, another video that explains what twitter is to newcomers, and I think this testimonial format does it just …

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My Twitter Follow Rules

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Torrie Fischer

Brandice posted an interesting writeup explaining her ‘policy’ for following people on twitter. I figure I might as well write mine down:

Why I follow you
I personally know you
Only 2 of my real world friends use twitter on a regular …

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Where the Hell is Matt?

Posted on July 1, 2008 by Torrie Fischer

A pretty cool video of Matt, dancing around the world.

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

The best is him dancing at the Demilitarized Zone.

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Twitter Service Directory

Posted on June 19, 2008 by Torrie Fischer

With Twitter’s ever growing reach and limitless possibilities, I thought it’d be handy for the world to have a simple little list of all the robots, services, and otherwise non-human twitter users. A few minutes ago I finished just …

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Posted on June 2, 2008 by Torrie Fischer

BoingBoing discovered The Ladybird Book of The Policeman today. My favorite bit is the 66 foot tall police man.

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