Smiley Smiles' Online Emporium

The collected ramblings and wanderings of Smiley.

Dec 5, 2009 11:39am

Watching Deadwood and reading the latest Wheel of Time book before bed last night produced some very interesting dreams.

Dec 5, 2009 11:39am

Now I want to see a WoT TV series, Deadwood style. With all the swearing, violence, politics, and sex of the western.

Dec 3, 2009 9:24am

I’ve seen my fair share of snow growing up in northern Michigan. The sun was shining today, but there is a good chance we’ll have snow on the ground by the end of the week. My favorite things about snow have always been making snowmen, building snow forts, and having snowball fights.

Many of you don’t get a chance to experience the fluffy white stuff, so we’re bringing snow to WordPress.com like we’ve done the last two years. What do you like about snow?

To make it snow on your…

Dec 3, 2009 7:22am

For the coders among you, you may already know that posting source code is really easy here on WordPress.com thanks to the sourcecode shortcode. You just wrap your code in [sourcecode] and you’re good to go — no code escaping or anything.

If you are one of those code posters, or are looking to become one, then you’ll be happy to know that we’ve updated the feature allowing more flexibility as well as adding support for additional coding languages like Bash and SVN diff.

See for…

Dec 3, 2009 5:22am

For the coders among you, you may already know that posting source code is really easy here on WordPress.com thanks to the sourcecode shortcode. You just wrap your code in [sourcecode] and you’re good to go — no code escaping or anything.

If you are one of those code posters, or are looking to become one, then you’ll be happy to know that we’ve updated the feature allowing more flexibility as well as adding support for additional coding languages like Bash and SVN diff.

See for…

Dec 2, 2009 10:01pm

Jobs I would have wanted had I known they were real jobs: materials researcher.

Dec 2, 2009 6:45pm

Just realized all the advice I was given as a teen can be distilled into how to fit in or how to stand out. #minorepiphanies

Dec 2, 2009 6:45pm

Adult life, on the other hand, seems to be fought in the middleground. #uselessepiphanies

Dec 2, 2009 2:43pm

http://twitpic.com/rsoes - Got fed up with the school lunch today. Had this instead. Was god.

Dec 1, 2009 9:42pm

My new life goal: http://bit.ly/8S8XTH

Dec 1, 2009 9:39am

Good lord. Showered, dressed, breakfasted, now just ready to go back to bed. Blech, day 2.

Nov 30, 2009 11:44pm

Your daily dose of perspective: there are approximately 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in our universe. #perspective #wolframalpha

Nov 30, 2009 11:44pm

Relatedly, can’t figure out if I’m actually sick or just suffering from general malaise.

Nov 30, 2009 9:37am

Nothing worse than taking a sick day because you’re actually sick. Blech.

Nov 28, 2009 6:07pm

Xmas: Little blue box for her equals Pandora’s box for my wallet. One opens while the other closes.

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