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December 21st, 2007 at 8:53 am
lol, noob.
December 21st, 2007 at 8:54 am
Doesn’t that just mean your friends are 1337? Although, I suppose that makes you 1337 by association.
December 21st, 2007 at 9:13 am
Ha! Thanks for the morning chuckle, Phil.
By the way, I tried to add you as a friend on Myspace, and it says you don’t accept invitations from bands. What’s up with that? Technically I’m not in a band anyway, I’m just an independant composer.
December 21st, 2007 at 9:13 am
I second Gonzo’s movement to declare you a n00b of teh intarwebs. First case in point: a MySpace page. An AOL account will be considered incontrovertible evidence of your n00bitude and you will be sentenced to ten lashes of a CAT5 cable.
December 21st, 2007 at 9:14 am
To bad it’s not 1138! That would certainly have some meaning for the conspiracy nutjobs.
*Michael sobs as he realizes how utterly meaningless his life is as his MySpace friend list tops out at 14. However the BA is in that list!
December 21st, 2007 at 9:16 am
Obviously Phil is taking a miss as a hit, his friends should all be upset over their thunder being stolen
December 21st, 2007 at 9:27 am
A noob? Me? I was masterfully and meticulously flaming twinks on rec.arts.startrek.misc while you were still trying to figure out how to mark all messages as read.
As for having a MySpace page, I had to. When some app or social net looks like it will take off, I generally get an account using The Bad Astronomer as a username to reserve it, just in case. It only takes a sec or two, and can save me grief later. But most of these sites are coded so poorly it aggravates me.
I have a flame post about MySpace, Facebook, and other lame social networks sitting on my drive. I may post it someday… but I don’t want to sound discourteous to people who add me as a friend. It’s complicated, but a lot of these social nets put people in awkward positions (like, I want to use Facebook to keep track of my actual IRL friends, but I get a dozen people a week I don’t know wanting to add me; I may need to set up a second personal account just for those IRL friends).
December 21st, 2007 at 9:28 am
I just sent an add invite. Way to ruin things huh?
December 21st, 2007 at 9:31 am
I am not on Myspace anymore. It irritated me too much. And these days I only use Facebook as an online address book. I’m not hard to get a hold of anyways, so I find this arrangement works quite well for me.
December 21st, 2007 at 9:42 am
Robert: actually, I drafted up this post a few days ago, and since then I’ve had a few more invites. i was holding off accepting them until I posted.
December 21st, 2007 at 9:57 am
Doctor, Doctor, we tease.
It’s okay. We still love you and respect you as a person.
December 21st, 2007 at 10:25 am
Well, while we’re on the general subject, what does “teh” signify?
(Oh, yes, I’m quite the noob, with 17 Myspace friends, 6 of which are my favorite bands.)
December 21st, 2007 at 10:39 am
It’s a common misspelling of “the.” Usually used to indicate interblag tardese.
Example: “omg i r teh r0×0rz” “nu u r teh sux”
December 21st, 2007 at 10:46 am
Hehe you’re so 1337 you’re actually 1338! Congrats, dude!
^_^J.
December 21st, 2007 at 11:16 am
…MySpace?
Unclean! Uncleeeeeean!
That is one of the cooler numbers, though.
December 21st, 2007 at 11:59 am
If I ever get enough cash to buy a house on my own private road, I’m totally going to live at 1337 Leet Street.
December 21st, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Absolutely, teasing only. We all know, no way could Phil be a noob, or a n00b for that matter.
December 21st, 2007 at 2:27 pm
At the risk of appearing ignorant, what is the significance of 1337? And what does “woot” mean?
December 21st, 2007 at 2:32 pm
nevermind, I googled it.
December 21st, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Heck, never mind Google, you can even find w00t in the Merriam Webster dictionary now…
December 21st, 2007 at 11:12 pm
I mostly set up a myspace page to show off my photos, but lately I’ve switched to flikr.
All I get from from myspace anymore is friend invites from people who direct me to the adult sites where their “real” picts are posted.
December 21st, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Happy birthday!
Though I swear you don’t look a day over 800.
December 22nd, 2007 at 9:58 am
I only have 3 friends, the automatic guy and the two pages of the friend who had me sign up to access her music pages. I tried to send a friend request to BA and received this message:
“We weren’t able to find a ” Bad Astronomer ” on MySpace.com” That is pretty freakin’ impressive! I am going to MySpace for all my space related needs now!
December 22nd, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Art, yeah that Tom guy is really popular on MySpace. So w00t is in the dictionary? O RLY? You’ve been pwnd. LOL!
BTW, I’m so ashamed… one of my friends is, how do I break this news? Uhhhh, “Coast to Coast AM”. Between that page, William Shatner’s page, Stephen Colbert’s page, I get my laugh fix for the day. Besides, somebody has to be a spy in the camp of de enemy!
December 23rd, 2007 at 2:06 am
Phil’s been on Coast to Coast a time or two. Entertaining show, though I liked it more with Art.