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Posted on 10/18/08 @ 12:01 am

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Posted on 09/28/08 @ 10:07 pm

Turns out one of you lovely readers out there (thanks Jasher!) submitted me for inclusion into Alltop — Guy Kawasaki's uber-aggregator of "all the top" sites on the Web in a number of categories. And now, I'm the newest site added to the GLBT Alltop! Well, maybe not at the top…scroll way down to the bottom and there I am. So all you new readers who shimmied on over from Alltop…welcome! Traipse through the past five years of BGB.com and enjoy. Leave a comment! Friend me on Twitter! Send me $20!

I'm for real about that $20. I've got student loans to start paying off.

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Asides #49

Posted on 09/28/08 @ 12:37 pm

I hear Lil Wayne is blogging for ESPN. I guess if the king of autotune can sell a milli albums in a week, his social media game should be as successful. Sike! We all know he abandoned that Twitter account of his months ago. Good luck on the ghostwriting, son.

I got an e-mail the other day for donations from some folks trying to name a species of monkey after the blogosphere. Now I've asked about the whole "monkey" meaning before — and in the tech sphere, "monkey" usually doesn't have a very favorable meaning either (see code monkey, for example). So I have to ask…why a monkey for this project? How about a spider? Or a gopher? Or you know, an animal that has a name which relates more closely to the web than a monkey.

Oh, now that I have technology on the brain, I should mention that I'll be at the 2008 Webmaster Jam Session next weekend. I do hope to see both minorities and females represented well as attendees (it is in Atlanta, after all), but we'll see if that's the case. Which reminds me…I need to get some cards made! I've already been caught assed out with no business cards at two conferences this year. Third time's the charm…or the last strike.

In less than 24 hours, I seem to have misplaced both my social security card AND my birth certificate. I probably stashed them somewhere in my apartment, but they're not in my files (nor are the high-res PDFs I thought I made). This is going to put a kink in my current job search streak since, y'know, they tend to ask for copies of that stuff. Replacing the social security card will be free, but the birth certificate will be $27. One dollar for each year! Lucky me.

I bought "Sex and the City - The Movie" from Amazon; they let you download it to your PC, mobile device, and/or TiVo. As soon as I bought it, it would not download to my TiVo, did not download to my PC, and I couldn't get my money back for a faulty download. Thanks Amazon…I'm getting it illegally now. Go electronic media distribution!

Buffy has been twisting my arm about trying to start another young Black gay male social group thingie. "We don't have anything to do here except go to the club and have sex." Now there are plenty of things to do here besides those two, but perhaps they aren't as explicitly Black and gay. Maybe that's where the problem lies. Atlanta is a huge city with a vibrant social atmosphere, but are singles (Black, gay and/or otherwise) limiting themselves socially by marginalizing their options to such a narrow scope?

That evening, after Buffy and I went to Piedmont Park to scope out the drunk, uncoordinated kickball league and the non-score taking, might-be-gay flag football league, I had the pleasure of meeting and hanging out with the bloggers behind The Excitable Bore, Forever I Love Atlanta, and From The Desk of Pimusique. I had a great time meeting them, even though I was sleepy and trying to avoid the big-tittied butch queen behind me from blowing smoke into my hair.

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The Second City: Too Busy To Hate…Too Hard To Commute

Posted on 09/20/08 @ 1:35 am

The Second City: Too Busy To Hate...Too Hard To Commute

Poking fun at Atlanta is sort of like someone poking fun at your mother. Sure, you can do it, but damn it, no one else better say anything wrong. However, in a city with high foreclosure rates and mortgage fraud, extreme debt, crumbling sewers, traffic snarls and unaccredited school districts, shouldn’t we laugh a little at it (if only to keep from crying)? A troupe of talented improvisational sketch comedians from Chicago’s famous Second City Theatre brings that much needed laugh with The Second City: Too Busy To Hate…Too Hard To Commute.

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Password-Protected Work Posts Return

Posted on 09/17/08 @ 10:11 pm

I've decided to bring back the password-protected work posts. With all the madness and crazy shit going on there daily, I feel like I have to say something about it. Before, the passwords were contained in the blogcasts, but now that I've put away the mic indefinitely, I'll have to think of a new method (maybe I'll post it via Twitter).

And I know what you're thinking: "Why even talk about work?" Well, I could talk about work, or I could tell you about what I'm learning in school. I'm not dating anyone right now, so I can't really talk about what's not happening. Outside of work and school, I'm usually asleep. That wouldn't really make for a good blog post now, would it? 11pm - 4:45am: knocked the fuck out. Comments: 0.

So yes, password-protected work posts are coming back. Until then, I'll tell you what happened today.

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