Archive for May, 2007

Tom the MySpace Robot

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Today’s Myspace announcement by “Tom,” the robot behind official myspace user announcements, was chock-full of perfection.

For those of you who haven’t logged in recently, or don’t have myspace, here’s the segment of his message, verbatim, that I feel should be analyzed.

p.s. if you’re getting friend requests from people you dont know and it bugs you, go to your account settings and set it so they have to know your last name to send an add request.. that’ll slow that stuff down!

Tom Myspace

Mr. Myspace himself, said some pretty amazing things. Lets break down his complex and grammatically correct statement.

if you’re getting friend requests from people you dont know and it bugs you

Nobody should be getting spammed. There should be a registration filter, CAPTCHA script, or something logically created to prevent the creation of said fake accounts.

go to your account settings and set it so they have to know your last name to send an add request

Really? Well thank you Tom for such an insightful answer.

You know, I had never thought that, say, maybe it would prevent any legitimate people who weren’t high school pals, college room mates from being able to add me.

Myspace Logo

I think I will follow your solution and limit my friends to the closest most intimate people I know, ie. THE ONES WHO ARE ALREADY ON MY FRIENDS LIST.

that’ll slow that stuff down!

Hmm… will it… well yes, it will. For you. With less people complaining about how crappy Myspace is, maybe you can “slowly” build a simple preventative account creation feature into the website.

But wait, that would take too long, so I guess you need us to slow things down so you can take your time and re-invent the wheel.

Tom 2

As for everything else… I understand that a robot communicating with a bunch of ignorant Americans is probably not an easy task, but for Christs sake, clean up the pathetic attempt at “connecting” with your community.

I have never been more annoyed to read such poorly phrased crap. I am seething right now. Seething. Thank you Tom, you horrible P.R. device.

Work, Sleep, and Play

Monday, May 21st, 2007

I do a little of each, well, mostly the first two.

Here’s a photo of me at work, checking some lighting. Actually, it was a faked pose, I had already done the job and then I asked to have a picture taken. I know, I’m a liar.

Ian Checking the Lighting

On the play side of things, I am going to be buying a skateboard tonight, and then designing it this weekend. Rock on.

Photography: Part Duex

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Some more random photographs I’ve taken for work related things, and such. (Happy Birthday Pete)

Team Polizei144 Captain Alex Roy
Team Polizei Captain Alex Roy

Alex Roy in Action

Jalopnik.com’s Mike Spinelli
Mike Spinelli

Team Polizei 144 Leather Jacket
Team Polizei 144 Leather Jacket

And now for a change of pace… Pete’s birthday at work…

Pete
Petes Birthday at work
Liams Greedy hand

As always, check out the Fast Lane Daily flickr page for more photos I’ve taken for the show, and, watch the result of the above photos… in video form. (If you’re quick, you might see me zipping around in the background)

Photographing Randomology

Saturday, May 12th, 2007

The following are a series of photographs taken by me, and a few by others (the one’s with me in them). Enjoy.

If by any chance you want a full-res copy, contact me and I can send it.


Central Park: Blooming
Central Park Blooming 1

Central Park: Blooming 2
Central Park Blooming 2

David in Fight Mode
David Fight-Mode

Old Man’s Head
Old Man's Head

Tulips on 5th
Tulips On Fifth

Rodriguez
Rodriguez

Ian Orange (Taken by Andres)
Ian Orange