Waxy.org is the sandbox of If anyone out there can get me a guest pass into E3 or wants to loan me their own badge for the third day, please let me know. I'll happily take you out to lunch.
May 12, 2004: I'm all set for Friday! Thank you so much (you know who you are).
I'll Kiss Asses for E3 Passes
Posted May 6, 2004
May 15, 2012
Austin Seraphin on learning echolocation
— he's a real-life Daredevil
Mat Honan's feature on Yahoo's mismanagement of Flickr
— a depressing read, especially while seeing the team release great new features
May 14, 2012
Make interviews Bunnie Huang on the end of Chumby
— sad end to a promising product, I received one of the prototypes at Foo Camp in 2006
Rebecca Sugar's Singles
— file under: scenarios I'd like to play in a videogame
SMBC on hell
— sounds about right
OAuth Is Your Future
— Dan Hon snaps some screenshots from the near future
May 13, 2012
Fracuum
— winner of Ludum Dare 23; every winner is worth playing
May 11, 2012
Welcome to Life
— "the Singularity, ruined by lawyers"
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BusinessWeek on the post-Kickstarter life of Diaspora
— the founders talk about the Ilya's tragic suicide for the first time
Anachronism detection in Mad Men episodes
— language studies from the person who did the frequency analysis for Downtown Abbey
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Verge feature on Scamworld, the inside look at Internet scams
— incredibly deep investigation and short film, brilliantly made
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Hartverdrahtet
— amazing 4k intro from the PC demoscene
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Mike Birbiglia's short film from This American Life
— starring Fresh Air's Terry Gross
Chris Poole's talk on the shifting meme landscape at ROFLCon
— the shift away from interest-based web communities towards social networks
Robot butt that represents emotions
— I'm hoping someone turns this into a drone
May 10, 2012
Gina Trapani on the failings of "brogrammer" culture
— holy hell, the comments are awful
Dustin Curtis on pixel fitting rasterized vector images
— best explanation of a long-standing issue I've seen
Mitt Romney bullied gay students in high school
— people change, just so long as he takes ownership of his actions; oh, wait
Walt Disney's Taxi Driver
— the scene starting at 3:45 is like a parallel universe remake of Roger Rabbit
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Ben Jackson on memes, the Internet, and the divine
— "The memes we choose to elevate to Internet fame are the product of the purest form of democracy ever invented"
May 9, 2012
Recursive Drawing
— watch the video or it won't make any sense
The Forger
— for fans of Kutiman's ThruYOU, found footage beat mashups from Meat Beat Manifesto's Jack Dangers
May 8, 2012
Steve Albini AMA on Reddit
— "There won't ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that's fine with me"
Maurice Sendak, rest in peace
— goodnight, Max
May 7, 2012
Tinkercad
— amazing WebGL CAD designer that prints to Makerbot, Shapeways, and Ponoko
Mechanizing a miniature Main Street Electrical Parade
— wonderful attention to detail; watch the finished parade
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LA Times on American Airlines' attempt to revoke its all-you-can-fly passes
— the company regretted its short-sighted decision to offer lifetime first-class travel
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3:16 PM
It's been a dream of mine to go to E3, someday. Unfortunately, I'll have to time being in the area with mooching a pass somehow.
5:02 PM
Supposedly, I am getting a few passes from vendors. Drop me an email and if they come through, I'll get you one.
8:00 PM
For some unkown reason I got a pass to E3 last year. I'm only a simple network admin at an ISP in Louisiana, yet I got a pass. Of course I couldn't use it becasue I didn't have the funds to fly out and pay for a hotel, as I'm sure I won't this year. So if I happen to get another one this time consider it yours.
11:31 AM
If you get in, say hi to the Io guys who're over there and tell them to give me a raise ;)
2:54 PM
E3?! It's a freaking videogame convention. What's the matter with you? Eveyone knows real men go to Comicon dressed as Obi Juan Kenobi. Seriously though, be careful as conventions are cracking down on illicit badge trading. At the last convention I went to they took my picture at registration that subsequently popped up on a handheld when they scanned my badge at the door. Very creepy.
5:24 PM
This is the first year my company has not provided us with passes for friends (normally 10 or so per person). We did get our own badges, which I'm told I have to pick up at the convention center. This leads me to believe they're going to photograph me.
I don't know if this is E3 doing this, or our company just didn't get the passes this year, but it sucks.
1:13 PM
It's always been a dream of mine to go to E3, but I highly doubt I will this year as my network is hardly prestegious enough to be taken seriously by anyone.
9:03 PM
I am so still kicking myself for not going when I had the chance. So young! So foolish!
3:41 PM
Wait, 'Obi Juan Kenobi'? Please say that that's not a typo, because that's the funniest thing I've seen in months.
7:57 PM
I gotta say.. I'm cracking up over "obi jaun" too. Thanks for point that out Nick.
12:05 PM
WATCH OUT, E3 is taking dna samples to enable one to pick up badges this year......EEKS!!