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The update on the journey...

If I knew him, I'd call him Guy Smiley!

I copied and pasted this story from Yahoo, who did the same from Wired.Com

1982: At precisely 11:44 a.m., Scott Fahlman posts the following electronic message to a computer-science department bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University:
19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-)From: Scott E Fahlman
I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:
:-)
Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use:
:-(
With that post, Fahlman became the acknowledged originator of the ASCII-based emoticon. From those two simple emoticons (a portmanteau combining the words emotion and icon) have sprung dozens of others that are the joy, or bane, of e-mail, text-message and instant-message correspondence the world over.
Fahlman was not, however, the first person to use typographical symbols to convey emotions. The practice goes back at least to the mid-19th century, when Morse code symbols were occasionally used for the same purpose. Other examples exist as well.
In 1881, the American satirical magazine Puck published what we would now call emoticons, using hand-set type. No less a wordsmith than Ambrose Bierce suggested using what he called a "snigger point" -- \__/ -- to convey jocularity or irony.
But the modern emoticon does trace its lineage directly to Fahlman, who says he came up with the idea after reading "lengthy diatribes" from people on the message board who failed to get the joke or the sarcasm in a particular post -- which is probably what "given current trends" refers to in his own, now-famous missive.
To remedy this, Fahlman suggested using :-) and :-( to distinguish between posts that should be taken humorously and those of a more serious nature.
Fahlman's original post was lost for a couple of decades and believed gone for good, until it was retrieved from an old backup tape, thus cementing his claim of priority. (WIRED.COM)

He kinda looks like a babbbyyyy, Oh Aigh, Baby... the other other white meat!

He's Pingping from Inner Mongolia, China's autonomous region, the world's smallest man sits underneath Svetlana Pankratova from Russia, the Queen of Longest Legs, as they pose at Trafalgar Square in London, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008. Pingping, born with primordial dwarfism, holds the Guinness World Record for the smallest man at 74.61 cms (2 feet and 5.37 inches) and Pankratova holds the Guinness World Record for the longest leg of any woman at 132 cms (4 feet 4 inches) in length.
On that second pic when you can't see how old the lady is, those legs look kinda nice right? Don't lie, you know you like it.

N.E.R.D. & COMMON @ the Wiltern Sun Sept. 14 08'

Just got back from the NERD & Common concert....
Very very very good show. I had seen NERD at the Kanye West concert earlier this summer but I was late (go figure) and they opened so I caught the tail end of it. However, I'm not a HUGE fan of NERD so I only knew like four songs of theirs which were great. Common ripped it though. Like, man, such a great show. He did a lot of his back in the day shit, from I used to love her to his more recent shit like cuts off Kanye's first album all the way to stuff off of BE and of course the new album.Special guests included of course as I expected Pharell, and unexpectedly Will.I.Am showed up at the end. Pharell sang a hook or two and then kinda danced around a lil. He kept leaving the stage and then would randomly pop back in. It was kinda dope on universal mind control he came back out and did a Michael Jackson MTV awardsish Robot (pop&lock) which was pretty fresh. Common fuckin' threw his mic and started breakin'! It was awesome. He did a lil footwork and then busted out some spins. Very enjoyable.Then at the end after the always predictable encore and introduction to the band Will.I.Am Shows up on stage. He just started freestyling for like 5mins straight. A lot of it was inaudible but still cool to see. Then Common freestyled, awesome. Such a great show, even though I paid 50 bucks for like the last row at the top! I bought tix at the door and went with my cousin Jess and we both had a great time.The theatre was pretty much exactly like the State Theatre in Detroit, kinda gave me that "at home" feeling. :-)