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12/19/08
back in 2005 I was contracting through a recruiter who sent me to Tribal DDB in Dallas (in the .. Omnicom building!) to work on this horrible Mountain Dew/traveling basketball neighborhood hoops-thing web campaign. The place so wanted to be one of those web firms from 1999 with the beanbag chairs and lava lamps and shit, little hipsters rode around on razor scooters and the meeting rooms had stupid e-ironic-corporate-cool names like "Thinktank B" etc. They kept the lights off and everyone there had their cubes decked out in stupid pop culture tchotchkes, old 1930s movie posters, or anime crap.
Anyway, the guy in charge of me would constantly be on PokerStars while I was slaving away at this site.. and during "lunch" him and like 6 other hipster dudes would play one of those multi-player shooting games.
It's like that at a lot of those firms but that place pulled in HUGE clients (Air Force, Pepsico) and I was really surprised to see the fuckoff level so high there..
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12/18/08
no, gawker has not seen fit to unlock my old profile (even though I thought the conspiracy theory idea was charmingly machivellian, and slightly admired them for it - until they shitcanned me)
so, whoever you are, have fun with the old screenname (you don't seem to be doing any harm), IT'S NICE TO SEE YOU ALL MISS ME AND I'D LIKE MY OLD PROFILE BACK, and most of all watch out for WOOKIE !!!
12/18/08
and what is your point? you have been on gawker for a long while now and you are not me. you have 100s of friends of your own. leave mine alone dearie.
12/18/08
Follow these steps and learn how to identify trolls who impersonate Gawker commenters.
The user on this page going by the handle "Minsley Tortimer" is not the "real" or original Minsley Tortimer.
1. Go to the page where Minsley Tortimer was executed.
2. Click the link where it says Executed: Minsley Tortimer.
3. You will see that this users ability to comment is still not enabled.
4. Now, look at the URL of the real Minsley’s page. It should be this:
http://gawker.com/people/azoth/
Why azoth? Because that is evidently the user ID that the real Minsley Tortimer entered on registering several months ago. Now, click on the linked handle of the recent comments by the fake "Minsley Tortimer," and you’ll see that the URL of this user’s page is:
http://gawker.com/people/MinsleyTortimer/
Not the same URL = not the same user. The imposter stole the name and her avatar, but he cannot steal the username, and thus the URL is not the same. You can use this technique to ferret out trolls who impersonate other users on this or other Gawker websites. Simply find a comment that you know to be authentic, click the handle of that comment, and check the URL of the user’s page.
5. Question: Who is the user glitter.panda, who claims to be the real Minsley Tortimer? Answer: The same troll. By means of obfuscation, he hopes you’ll think either his "Minsley Tortimer" or "glitter.panda" is the real Minsley Tortimer. He doesn’t care, as long as you’re fooled.
A message to the glitter.panda et alia: I really don’t give a shit, actually. I’m just outing you for the lulz.
12/18/08
Reason for Minsley Tortimer's execution: Too many conspiracy theories. Ha!
I thought you were JupiterPluvius/VenusCloacina.
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do i need to be able to take dictation to get the job?
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@Don Is: seriously so serious.
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12/18/08
They got off.
Okay that was bad, but it's after 4, I'm dragging, and sometimes I can't help myself.
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