I just read that Flickr has passed the 2 billion milestone in photo uploads. That’s definitely a lot of photos, and while most are probably blurry pics of somebody’s cat, the 2 billionth is actually quite pretty: So super, Flickr is more popular than Jesus. On some levels it’s absolutely awesome to be a part … Continue reading
I’ve noticed that I barely ever talk about my coursework here. I was talking with a few friends online last night, and it became clear to me that pretty much no one stateside has any clue how my classes are going. Fair enough. That’s definitely my bad. I know I’ve promised several times before to … Continue reading
My Wednesday afternoon class was cancelled, so I came home and had a heaping feast of sandwiches (salami, cheese, lettuce, tomato, way more mayonnaise than is socially acceptable) and a few beers. I’d just picked up a new case of my favorite beer, so I was ready to rock. I then decided that it’d been … Continue reading
OK, I’ll be honest and say that very little makes me happier than getting lots of comments on posts I write. I don’t care how crappy they are, comments are fantastic things. This video has gotten a lot of mileage lately, but I thought I’d post it here for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet. … Continue reading
Oh internets, you never cease to amaze me. Particularly because now I can have the headlines from my blog automatically superimposed on pictures of cats. Behold: http://lol.ianloic.com/feed/www.conorschaefer.com/blog/index.php/feed/ Go ahead, add it to Netvibes. It’ll work. And the cute pictures even link to my original posts, which I find pretty damn spiffy. Now that’s all well … Continue reading
Today I was listening to some Bloodbath and I noticed that it they had been tagged most heavily as “brutal death metal,” rather than, say, plain old death metal. I found this curious, and wanted to know whom else Last.fm users considered to be “brutal death metal,” so I checked out the tag page. This … Continue reading
I figured I’d start my Caturday off with an spiritually moving passage from the lolcats bible. The comes from Revelation 1, Verses 10-19: 10. One Caturday I wuz chillin an I heerz a gret big voice. 11. Teh voice sez “Rite what you seez an send it to the 7 churchez. In case you forgotz, … Continue reading
Anyone reading this via RSS feeds probably noticed I destroyed that functionality today. My bad on that. I was renaming folders under the blog settings and I thought that I could cover my tracks with redirects for backward compatibility, meaning old links–such as http://www.conorschaefer.com/Blog/index.php/feed/–would remain operational. But nay. Coming to the homepage of the blog … Continue reading
We’re taking a brief break from the class, and since my laptop died, I’ve plugged it back in and will try to charge it fully. The professor mentioned that there would be the opportunity this term to attend some conferences on the matters discussed in class, for those who are interested (that would be me). … Continue reading
I’m presently sitting in the only class taught in English I’ll be taking this term. It’s called “Looking at e-society from an international perspective.” I’m the only native English speaker in the class, and the professor is pretty psyched about having me here for that reason, let alone the fact that I study Anthropology and … Continue reading