A great plan foiled
Posted by Nathaniel.
If you read Slashdot yesterday, you might have seen a blurb about “People paying for friends on MySpace and Facebook.”
At $0.99, I figured that it was worth a try. 
I was going to do a blog post about how funny it was that a random robot was flirting on my wall.
Unfortunately, it looks like they just got shut down before they could do any business, so I don’t have a good story.
My $0.99 did get refunded though.
December 1st, 2006 at 6:18 pm Using
Would it have at least been a sexy robot?
‘Cause sexy robots are so worth $0.99…
In other news: does anyone else lament the fact that we have one of these “$” readily available, but that the higly useful “cents” sign has all-but-vanished from the keyboard in our modern era of hyper-inflated computerized economics?
I kinda miss that cheerful little c-with-a-slash guy. I’m sure I could summon up some code that would allow me to type him here, but it would be a lot more fun if I could easily find him. I vote for replacing the “#” above the “3″ with him, but maybe somebody has way more use for the pound sign than I do…?
December 1st, 2006 at 6:21 pm Using
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December 1st, 2006 at 6:24 pm Using
It is kind of a pain not to have an easily-accessible “cents” sign. option-4 will give it to you, but that’s not exactly the same thing.
I was debating just saying “99 cents” in the post, but it was too much of a pain.
December 1st, 2006 at 6:28 pm Using
Oh yeah, and it was definitely going to be a sexy robot.
December 1st, 2006 at 11:38 pm Using
Actually, I think the #-sign is pretty handy. Think of all the times you need to enter a number and you’re too lazy to type out the 6 letter word?
That said I think the most important keyboard change is/would be to move the @ to somewhere that doesn’t require a shift-. Granted that -<2> isn’t hard, but do we really use the square or curly brackets that much? Honestly I probably use the @ more than I even use a colon or semi-colon… dunno. what do peeps think?
And Nathaniel, sorry to hear about your loss of the cyber-girlfriend. Did she have high-calibre (caliber?) boobs? By “caliber,” of course, I refer to both the size of their gun barrels and the high quality of their characters… Two meanings… caliber… it’s a homonym… Forget it.
December 2nd, 2006 at 2:22 am Using
The # is particularly important for those who use Python, as it’s the symbol that marks a line as comment. Which may or may not be more useful to me in the future than the cent sign.
December 2nd, 2006 at 10:11 am Using
Yeah you use “#” as comments in a lot of shell scripts. Of course, if that character was replaced with a “¢”, you could just define it that the “¢” was the comment character.
I use curly quotes a lot for awk, definitely more than I use a semi-colon.
And yes, she was large caliber.