instant messages

Contextless Content: A portion of a conversation, usually from an instant messenger platform.

brother-in-law: Unfortunately, a war on master bathrooms won’t attract the attention of any A-list superheroes
GatorDVG: That’s where you’re wrong.
brother-in-law: I’ll probably get someone like Black Vulcan, or the Panther, or Super Mario
GatorDVG: Isn’t Super Mario a plumber?
brother-in-law: Yeah….I’ll probably get him
brother-in-law: Or even his lame-o brother, Luigi
GatorDVG: I’m pretty sure your new wife has him on speed dial.
GatorDVG: I seem to remember them having a very poignant relationship several years ago…
brother-in-law: That would explain all the mushrooms in the closet

A few weeks ago my iPhone randomly decided to stop saving photos taken with its camera. It would act like it was taking a photo, but it wouldn’t actually save the photo to its internal photo file system. I didn’t realize this until I had taken a few dozen photos of my dad and me golfing in Connecticut, so I was pretty bummed. Since then I’ve been wanting to do a full restore to see if that would fix it, but I was afraid of doing that because I didn’t want to lose all my SMS conversations.

Enter Syphone. This little Mac utility will retrieve SMS threads from your iPhone and allow you to save them as PDF, txt, or XML files. It worked exactly as it claimed on the first try. (Reason #231297 why I am happy I switched from M$ to Mac.) I’m in the process of restoring my iPhone now.

GatorDVG: I didn’t know Elton John was gay until like 2002.
a.friend: well, i can see that. I mean in the ’70s (when I was listening to him) he was considered cool rock and roll
a.friend: still kinda is, just the gay thing never came up
GatorDVG: I just thought the Donald Duck costume was him being kooky.
a.friend: so did everyone else…sort of like David Bowie
GatorDVG: wait
GatorDVG: David Bowie is gay?
GatorDVG: are you serious??
a.friend: u said that like you were a kid who just found out about the Easter Bunny
GatorDVG: dude
GatorDVG: come on
GatorDVG: really?
a.friend: really

kelly: You eat cottage cheese?
GatorDVG: never
kelly: Ah. Too bad.
GatorDVG: as far as I’m concerned, it’s just some sort of cheese and spoiled milk combination. two of my least favorite things on the planet.
kelly: Excellent for breakfast and before bedtime. Just the right blend of slow digesting carbs, protein and fat.
kelly: I hear you. People either like it or loathe it.
GatorDVG: and, I can only assume, it’s produced in cottages. that can’t be sanitary.
kelly: They’re very clean cottages though. They sweep them with those handmade brooms, like in fairly tales.
GatorDVG: ahh

allison: did you know i also get earthquake text messages?
allison: anything over 4.0 in so cal
allison: bitchin
GatorDVG: so when the big ones comes and you’re lying under a pile of rubble, like five minutes later you’ll get a text message
GatorDVG: that’s great
allison: yeah well i’d like to know how bad it was
GatorDVG: you’ll be able to tell by simply counting how many of your limbs were severed
allison: totally
allison: but in numbers

David Vincent Gagne says:
you know what’s obnoxious?
ebay
ebay is retardo
they email me when I have LOST an auction

David Vincent Gagne says:
why the #$@* would I want an email like that?

a.friend says:
i don’t even have the energy to talk abt why I hate ebay
they send you might want to bid on ….

David Vincent Gagne says:
why the hell don’t they email me ten minutes BEFORE it’s over if I’m not in the lead?
THAT would be useful

a.friend says:
they should do that
yes
next time I see you I will tell you what happened with us
we were managing an ebay store for a client
we had 54k in products online

David Vincent Gagne says:
or at the very least they should have an “Add to Outlook” link on every item so you can store a reminder in your calendar

a.friend says:
they shut off the store

David Vincent Gagne says:
wow
what were they selling?

a.friend says:
dental supplies
everything was kosher
i will tell you in person

David Vincent Gagne says:
jewish dental supplies?

a.friend says:
i mean, it wasn’t black market

David Vincent Gagne says:
there’s your problem, dude

a.friend says:
we had invoices

David Vincent Gagne says:
NOBODY but NOBODY lets you deal in jewish dental supplies

Contextless Content: A portion of a conversation, usually from an instant messenger platform.

GatorDavid says:
wait a minute …

GatorDavid says:
I *do* have the irresistable urge to break into a zoo, jump the fence and try and french-kiss the pissiest looking polar bear …

Tober says:
you’re screwed dude.

You simply must visit AOLiza. I was in tears. You can read all about it at the site, but basically here’s the story: A guy took one of the original artificial intelligence programs (ELIZA) and connected it to an AOL instant messenger account. The account sits on line and people attempt to chat with it because they think it’s a real person. Some of the recorded conversations are laugh-out-loud funny.
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Alternatives to ICQ:

• KIM
• Trillian
• Odigo
• imici
• jabber
• Rival

Tools for ICQ:

• ICQ Tools
• ICQ Configuration Help

It’s raining. I can’t use icq. And now this. Can we at least keep the mini-wetlog?! Crap.

At least they got rid of that annoying twit Kimmie.

“I hang on the picayune details of your whirlwhind, jet-set bicoastal life.” - Brad Graham

I finally broke down and got an AIM account: GatorDVG

For some reason I cannot send eMail from my davidgagne.net account. I can receive eMail with no problem. If it takes me longer than you would expect to reply, that is the reason. Hopefully the problem is temporary and will resolve itself soon. <knocks on wood>

Sorry, Wrong I.M. - I am *so* glad I don’t have *this* problem!

Apparently I’ve upset some of you by working all day today! This, via ICQ:

Are you alive today?
Are you dead?
O! When will you blog
the crazy thoughts in your head?