Josh Oakes » Hilarity Ensues http://joshoakes.com constructive cynicism Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:12:43 +0000 en hourly 1 Cromulent Reading http://joshoakes.com/cromulent-reading/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cromulent-reading http://joshoakes.com/cromulent-reading/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:00:01 +0000 admin http://joshoakes.com/?p=672 The wonders of the internet recently brought me this fantastic article: Beyond beyond beyond beyond “Beyond embiggens and cromulent” by Heidi Harley of HeiDeas (if there’s a better example of blog name synchronicity out there I haven’t seen it).

Its part of an annual collection of linguistic jokes on The Simpsons.

You’re welcome.

]]> http://joshoakes.com/cromulent-reading/feed/ 0 How to Plan a Snack http://joshoakes.com/how-to-plan-a-snack/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-plan-a-snack http://joshoakes.com/how-to-plan-a-snack/#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:00:28 +0000 admin http://joshoakes.com/?p=476 Since no one asked…

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How to Plan a Snack

]]> http://joshoakes.com/how-to-plan-a-snack/feed/ 2 Signing Up for Yahoo ID http://joshoakes.com/signing-up-for-yahoo-id/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=signing-up-for-yahoo-id http://joshoakes.com/signing-up-for-yahoo-id/#comments Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:25:33 +0000 admin http://joshoakes.com/?p=295 Yahoo ID Sucks

Of course it isn’t.

I invested quite a bit of time trying to find a disparaging Yahoo ID username that communicated my highly nuanced feelings about needing yet another email address and ID to use flickr. It turns out Yahoo has some pretty sophisticated detection methods. The upshot of which is that I now have a Yahoo ID/Flickr account with a lost username/password/email address that I can’t get into. So I won’t be using Flickr.

Yahoo gets a lot of press within the Usability/UI world for the design pattern work and UI development. Sometimes business decisions override usability. In this case, the pain of a Yahoo ID does not outweigh the pain of not using Flickr. I hope someone takes this into consideration, but I’m not optimistic.

]]> http://joshoakes.com/signing-up-for-yahoo-id/feed/ 0 Good and Bad Ideas http://joshoakes.com/good-and-bad-ideas/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=good-and-bad-ideas http://joshoakes.com/good-and-bad-ideas/#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:39:13 +0000 admin http://joshoakes.com/?p=120 My brain never shuts up. No matter what I am doing, I am always doing something else too. Here is the latest fruit of that defect. I present the Comprehensive List of Humanity’s Good and Bad Ideas, 1st Edition. I may post revised editions in the future, but I don’t see many of these switching lists anytime soon, so changes would require Humanity come up with new, good ideas.

Humanity’s Good Ideas

  • Crop Rotation & Small Scale Organic Farming
  • Bread & Cheese, any combinations thereof
  • Storytelling
  • Shoes
  • Music and Musical Instruments
  • Hammocks
  • Wine
  • Clothing (admitted only begrudgingly)

Humanity’s Bad Ideas

  • Everything not on the Good Idea list.
]]> http://joshoakes.com/good-and-bad-ideas/feed/ 10 Crocs Gone Viral, More Reasons to Hate Them http://joshoakes.com/crocs-gone-viral-more-reasons-to-hate-them/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=crocs-gone-viral-more-reasons-to-hate-them http://joshoakes.com/crocs-gone-viral-more-reasons-to-hate-them/#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:13:09 +0000 admin http://joshoakes.com/?p=104 A few days ago I saw a dude in the “local” supermarket with crocs on. Orange crocs no less. And the thing about dudes wearing crocs is that dude crocs are huge even in normal sizes. Not huge like, “Whoa, this burger is huge!” No, huge like, “Everybody run it’s coming right for us!.”

So this chance encounter prompted the following tweet on The Twitter.

A few minutes later I received an email from The Twitter informing me that I had a new iFriend following me on The Twitter and this new iFriend was crocsinc. You know where this is going.

Clearly some marketing-bot intern over at crocsinc has been assigned the barbarous task of monitoring The Twitter for mention of crocs. The only logical course of action is to mess with crocsinc.

Which elicited the following inflammatory response from crocsinc:

Clearly, marketing-bot does not realize crocsinc is on a slippery slope to become a lightning rod for so much pent up misanthropy.

Stay tuned.

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