The City of Santa Barbara wishes you and your family a happy and healthy holiday season, lock up your shit.
Reddit Secret Santa 2009 – Oh my.
Dec 15, 2009
1:49 PM
This year, kickme444 and an assorted group of Redditors decided to put together one of the largest communal holiday gift exchanges on the internet for the Reddit community. This was no slap-dash operation, it led to the creation of redditgifts.com with over four thousand members participating in the exchange. You can read more about it at the website and on the /r/secretsanta subreddit. And yes, I finally sent mine today, so please stop sending me guilt-inducing emails, kickme444.
Today, I received a nondescript brown parcel from the UPS guy. Little did I know that it was in fact my Secret Santa gift. Please join me in the unboxing, don’t skip to the end – spoilers stink.
Sure thing, internet stranger.
It’s a book. Not another copy of “Freakonomics”, please.
This poorly written dialogue looks familiar. I’m glad somebody finally found a good use for a printed copy of Twilight.
Sh**, it’s the third Twilight book. Dick move, sir.
Erroneous Tweet Summary for December 1st through 6th
Dec 6, 2009
11:11 PM
- Mildly humorous idea I don’t have the initiative to follow through on: Shakespeare’s Othello reimagined as YouTube comments. #
- Lala might be acquired by Apple; hopefully they don’t destroy it in the process. It’s a gem in a sea of Web 2.0 mediocrity. #
- I’m currently staring at a PowerPoint slide with a wall of text fourteen continuous lines long. Jiminy. #
- 6 months in, it’s time for an “Operation End Fat-Assery Now” status update. Discarded 75 lbs, trimmed 8″ off waist, decidedly less jolly. #
- Be kind this holiday season, friends — otherwise you’re all getting gifts from Regretsy. #
- App Store reviews are the new YouTube comments. #
- There have been six seasons of “Dog the Bounty Hunter”; but I’m sorry — I interrupted. Please tell me more about this “God” you speak of. #
- @Mike_FTW Is that why Alyssa Milano is listed as an advisor for Square? in reply to Mike_FTW #
- WolframAlpha proves useful to the extent that it negates the six seconds it would take to launch Mathematica, and that’s about it. #
- Alan Greenspan is wearing his blue beanie for Web Standards Day – http://bit.ly/3dvtUG #
Note: this post was erroneously generated by a new plugin, but this post has comments foreshadowing to the gift described in the next post, so it stays.