Archived News for June 2005
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Auction
SE > trademe, and so:
For Sale to the Highest Bidder (with Liberty, Justice and Other Capitalised Words)
A t-shirt. White. Any size. On the front are the initials SE in black - big. On the back, in the trademark SE blue, the url 'somethingemporium.com' along with a slogan of the winning bidder's choice - provided it'll fit. The ink is heat-set, so you won't have any problems with washing it. Justin and/or I will sign/pre-wear it if requested. Delivered to your door if in Auckland, otherwise buyer pays for shipping. The other option is I cut it up into little pieces and post it to you. Not exchangeable for sexual favours unless we say so.
Bidding takes place in the comments, and starts at $6 which covers costs (excluding ink). Minimum bid is $1. The money goes into the SE coffers for our next years hosting. Anything over this amount (I'm thinking of a number (and I'm writing it down)) will go to (an actual, proper) charity, to be nominated by you guys. I don't know how this all is going to go right now, so we might not reach this target, I'm not sure. I'll announce when we do. Bidding closes on the dot of midnight, on the night of Wednesday the 8th of June.
To protect the uniqueness of this opportunity, I'm promising to make at most 1 SE shirt a month - and even I don't have one yet! So get in there.
Reply to the news item, not other comments. Our hosting costs roughly US$18.75, but I'm thinking $25 cut-off.Dominic
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Mild Amusement
This may not be a huge news item, but it's all about quality, not quantity, right? I was bumbling around TradeMe when I came across this. I particularly liked the "86k in a 50 zone". Seems very proud of that - he even mentioned it on the other guy's feedback page too. Gutts.funkymunky
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Thanks Justin
What a weekend. If I put as much effort into my day job, who knows what might happen! What am I on about? Arcade machines ofcourse.
Justin (thanks for your help mate) and I made significant progress on my arcade machine this weekend. Let me see if I can sum it all up: We cut templates for the profile using which we cut the side panels, we put the top panels, the floor and the back in place, we put in the stainless steel toe-kick and lower control panel, got the door on complete with the coin mech in place and put together the speaker panel which sits in above where the monitor will be.
Pictures below are from Saturday night, prior to the door going on.
funkymunky
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PostSecret
Many are too blah and many are written by 14 year olds trapped in the bodies of 28 year olds. This one, and the one about poetry in library books are so me.Dominic
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Moving Offices
Our office is moving to new premises and I just love the instruction sheet we all recieved this morning:
Please don't write on the Atlantis cartons.
Mmmm, thanks. You could have told me that a week ago when you gave me the carton.
DO NOT pack your rubbish bin.
Oh? Are we becoming a paper-less office?
DO NOT pack your telephone.
Right-oh! Moving to a third world country, huh?
Remember to pack your mouse pad.
What mouse pad? You never gave me one in the first place.
darkclown
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Road Trip!
I'm leaving in about half an hour on a bit of a trip with work - down to Rotovegas for a day or two. I'll be doing this which should provide some good photos for the site! See y'all in a few days.
Justin - post something.Dominic
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Shirt Update
We're still missing the slogan that Tim wants - it's going to be really really hard to do. The small lettering it's going to need, combined with the length of the slogan...
Dominic
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!amazed
I'm looking at importing a shipment of 6GB Mini Ipods. Your choice of colour, $300 each. Comes brand-new, as if you were purchasing from a store. These Ipods retail for $420 in stores.
If you're interested, PM me or email - lexxzi@hotmail.com
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Moved Offices
So now we're in our new offices. Hmm, let's see.- The phones no longer have international access
- Email doesn't work
- Network access initially didn't work (but now it's just slow)
- There are 8 people working in a room about the size of a squash court.
darkclown
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3 Months Out: Who Are You Voting For?
"...the fact is that we used to have the reputation of being some kind of an antipodean Noah's Ark, which would from within its quite isolated, preserve, spawn a whole new world of realistic human kind. Now, the fact is that we know that that is not achievable. We know that if the nuclear winter comes, we freeze, we join the rest of you. And that means that there is now a total denouement as far as any argument in favour of moral purpose goes. It is a strange, dubious and totally unaccepted moral purpose which holds the whole of the world to ransom.
There is another assertion of the good moral character of nuclear weapons which holds that they are the armour of good against evil. The argument of the Crusaders; the people who took to arms. The evil which cannot be defeated by persuasion or example must needs be suppressed by annihilation. The obvious difficulty here is that evil has declined to be subdued; evil has not accepted annihilation.
The church and its representatives have been going at it now for 2000 years - and it persists. Every attempt to subdue it strengthens its resolve to arm itself further. And the will of the good in weaponry's terms is corrupted by the terrible force of the weapon, into the will of the evil."
Snap poll, reply in the comments. Also, name-that-orator.Dominic
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Slogans
What do you have to do to get slogans approved around here?
darkclown
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Members
There are currently 52 members. One for each week of the year. Which week are you?darkclown
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Reading:
Besides still being in the middle of Crime and Punishment, I'm also reading a set of essays by Jonathan Franzen collected as How to be Alone. According to the book jacket they deal with "the erosion of civic life and private dignity and the hidden persistence of loneliness in postmodern, imperial America" but as you could guess it's a little more complicated than that.
They really are very good so far. One in particular discusses the fact that we have more privacy in our day to day lives that ever before - it really puts the claims of privacy alarmists to shame. I'd like to outline the various points raised, but I wouldn't do it justice.
There was one particular essay that made references to the gulf war that were rather enlightening looking back from a post 12/9 perspective. Probably the only thing I find hard to deal with is his persistent reference to America as his sole setting and audience, but that's to be expected so it's not worth bitching about.
Anyway, definitely worth checking out.Dominic
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Pick it up!
robbie
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Homesick At Spacecamp
So I painted a logo on my amp. I had a really tough time deciding what to do. I went through stages of wanting to do a 48May skull, a Pacman and various other things. But luckily my band released an EP and I finally had a logo to spray on!
So check it out!
Justin
