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Erica Firment — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:36:08 +0000

Who needs the bathroom mirror when you’ve got a built in camera on your laptop?

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Nerdcore Rap Battles in which I have participated…

Erica Firment — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:06:59 +0000

n my new role as a user experience goon at Second Life, I’m often called upon to participate in rap battles with other employees.

Because we’re all busy, rap battles tend to be text-only and asynchronous, conducted over IRC, twitter, or instant messenger.

Past themes have included: My prowess as a Developer, My (imaginary) Car, Linden Lab Office Culture, and Various Programming Languages.

Below are a few examples of my amazing rap power, mostly gleaned from IM logs. Enjoy responsibly, and please remember check yourself before you wreck yourself.

Killing jira issues like Rambo kills commies / Tasks and subtasks crying for their mommies /As&Os got me going mental / Yoz wants to rap but he’s too CONTINENTAL

Chillin wit’ Jonhenry / Talking ’bout JIRA / Drank me some coffee / Wish it was a beerah

open up email to try and cat-heard / 60 threads later / time is going backward / I just get in when wham! it’s lunch / wtf have I done besides data-crunch?

think you bad / ’cause you so much taller? / you may be blue / but I’m white collar / rollin’ in my office working on a search / you think you’re rapping but its SO MUCH WORSE

Kickin’ it smoove in my GTO / ops wants to have a meeting / but I’ve got ta go!

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14 Weird things I’ve learned this week

Erica Firment — Fri, 18 May 2007 20:06:16 +0000

Queen Bees are expensive
It’s damned difficult to find a cat-sitter in Ithaca
Johnathan Lethem’s You Don’t Love me Yet is, so far, an absolutely perfect book
Tom Phillips is an artist who did a really great book painting featuring fictional books with titles stolen from Shakespeare
Roccapulco is a salsa club in San Francisco. I’m going next week with my friend Jake
The Lunch Meeting is the gold standard for interviews at eBay

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You can randomly teleport somewhere in Second Life and end up getting juggled by a large pink elephant
Hotels in San Francisco are way cheaper than hotels in NYC. Jobs in San Francisco pay way better than jobs in NYC.
All it took for me to get my finances in shape was to get some software with a decent interface
The only cure for pregnancy-induced hypertension is childbirth (hi clay!)
My friend Josh has taken over things digital at the NYPL
Adobe CS3 will steal your soul with its compelling beauty
Google Analytics has a new interface that will steal whatever bit of your soul is leftover after Adobe gets done with you
Half of you people are still using Internet Explorer. I’m saddened. Please, for the love of all things holy: Use

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