I’m pretty sure I’ve listed some fake computer related disease on here before.  If not then I’m sure you will hear one.  Writing an email back to someone is quite fun, unless you have absolutely nothing to say.  Then its kind of awkward, and awkward emails are well… awkward.   Lately, I’ve suffered from what I call EOS, which stands for Email Overwrite Syndrome.  It’s the exact opposite of having nothing to say: writing a whole short story in an email, and ending with:

“I’ll get back to you on that.”

I could piece my emails together and get a short epic novel.  (Maybe I should do that.) Anyway, here’s my short guide to diagnosing and treating EOS.

Symptoms

• When you say you’re going to write an email, everyone else sits down to watch TV.
• You can’t explain why the letters on your keyboard have rubbed off.
• Your friends have found it faster to drive to your house than to email you.
• You write an email containing the phrase “lalala” in it at least 3 times.
• Every email you write contains Re: in the subject.

Those are just a few of the EOS symptoms I can say on here.  After reading those you may think, “Oh my goodness!  How do I get rid of EOS?” Well, here’s my list of short cures.

Cures For EOS

• Type with your forehead in violent motions.  In this manner, you will become unconscious after the first sentence.
• Watch a TV show in slow motion.  This will…
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Do you know your professional audio products from your hair care products?

That’s essentially the question being posed at the amusingly named blog Ridiculous Fish. Go ahead and take the quiz and see how well you know your shampoo and conditioner from audio production applications. For what it’s worth, I got 12 right out of 14 the first time around. I am neither a musician nor a hair stylist. Make of it what you will…

Thanks to John Gruber for discovering this gem!

Now this is downright scary and sad.

CNET editor James Kim and his family are missing. Last weekend Kim and his family were headed to Seattle from the San Francisco Bay Area. They have not been seen since Saturday evening in a hotel in the area of Gold Beach or Portland, Oregon.

They were last seen driving a silver 2005 SAAB station wagon with Califonia license plates reading “DOESF”.

I you have seen the Kim family or know anything about their whereabouts, you are urged to immediately call the San Francisco Police Department at 415-558-5508 (after hours please call 415-553-1071) or Portland Police at 503-823-4000.

All of us here at Deep Thought hope and pray that James and his family are safe and sound and that we’ll hear from them soon.

UPDATE:As has been reported elsewhere, Kati Kim and the children were rescued Monday.

We learned not long ago that James Kim’s body has been found in the Oregon wilderness. Our hearts and prayers go out to the Kim family.

Since it's 5 am and I can't seem to go back to sleep (instead of still being up for a change), I thought I'd write something silly. These are the top ten problems with top ten lists, in no particular order.

1. Thinking of ten things to say

   With a top ten list, the biggest requirement is ten unique, relevant points on the topic. If you can't come up with ten points, you could sit around for hours trying to think of something else to add until the topic's freshness has expired. And if you absolutely can't think of ten points, you'll look like an idiot posting "Top 7 reasons anteaters are cool" because these lists have to be in multiples of five or ten: top 5, top 20, top 740, etc. (No comment on why you're writing about anteaters in the first place...)

2. Expanding on your points

   A good top ten lists gives reasons why something's in the top ten. That means you have to have a reason for every single point you wracked your brain to come up with about why anteaters are cool. If you're barely squeaking by with eight points and are throwing two more bullshit reasons in just to make ten, you're going to have a very hard time explaining those last two reasons.

3. It's a fad writing style

   Top ten lists may have been around for many years, but that doesn't mean they're not a fad. One writes a top ten list when one is tapped

I’ve always been big on sportsmanship in everything, and being a geek is no exception. Some events of this past week have lowered the world’s opinon of geeks. We saw the release of the PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Wii this week, with chaotic masses surging to get their hands on a scarce geek toy. There were shootings, tramplings, muggings, and murders. All I have to ask is… WHERE HAS THE GEEK SPORTSMANSHIP GONE?!

We can’t let things like this happen anymore.

For goodness sake, it’s only plastic and silicone. Why are we rioting over it? There will be more PS3’s made. We all know this. Is greed such an almighty force? Why are we doing this? Why?

On a better note, one group of people has realized the technical greed of everyone. With that they created sites like smashmywii.com and smashmyps3.com. Hooray for those guys. To those who read this and were part of those riots I have only shame. You have disgraced your geek brethren, and fed more power to evil corporations. This leads me to my third point.

I once took a class in economics. I hated the teacher, he was a @#$%, but that’s not the point. I learned that if the whole nation waited to buy a PS3like, if no one bought one for monthsחthen the price would not be 500 bucks; it would drop like bricks. So why shouldn’t we create an artificial market recession? Look at Sony, they are creating a market shortage. This…
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