WHATEVER, you guys (other than the lovely lady to whom I was communicating above). I know it’s stupid, but it bums me out that this just sits there with one star and people who find stuff like this funny never bother to RT me to their followers, some of whom might be empowered to include something I say in one of those “people we think are funny” lists I have never been on since I joined the infernal Twittering service in 2007. Is there not enough room for all of us on the internet and its concomitant listicles!?
Signed,
Irked Person At A Social Media Plateau For Like A Year, Writing A Post I Will Likely Delete Later Because I Sound Like A Stupid Gross Baby
Here’s a pro-tip: probably don’t watch this video on Valentine’s Day when thinking about your dearly departed mother, the only person who ever remembered to send you a card every year.
I’m useless now. See you on the other side.
In my mind The Stupidity of New York’s Long, Expensive and Ongoing War on Graffiti and How The Legal System Failed Aaron Swartz seem closely related.
Both seem to ultimately be stories about how authorities overreact to subversive cultural movements by artistic, creative youth.
I have no problem believing this. And the whole “war on youth counterculture” thing is extremely relevant to what we’re facing in my own city right now.
The official squeegee guy of the Seattle Seahawks.
FUN FACT: those are actually Starbucks lids in his ears! He’s just on Demi gauge now, but he’s gradually working his way up to Trenta.
I love Xmas, but the “Posting The Same Damn Screenshots From Love Actually” season can’t fucking be over fast enough.
GPOY
(Source: stabla)
First grade teacher Kaitlin Roig, 29, locked her 14 students in a class bathroom and listened to “tons of shooting” until police came to help.
“It was horrific,” Roig said. “I thought we were going to die.”
She said that the terrified kids were saying, “I just want Christmas…I don’t want to die. I just want to have Christmas.”
”| — | Twenty Children Died in Newtown, Connecticut School Shooting - ABC News (via 6od) Ughhhh. Get your fucking shit together, America. This is not how it’s supposed to be. |
| — | Fred Rogers (via crabcakes) |
“Love, Actually” is my “Breaking Bad,” in that I’ve avoided seeing it because everybody loves it… and it’ll probably make me crave meth.
What’s that, Los Angeles, you had a bit of rain today?
You people are ADORABLE.
Tweeted October 29th, approximately 9 pm EST. Humanitarian.
Slightly off-topic, but remember that time a few years ago when I misdirected my anger at someone else because of an insensitive tweet during the disaster in Japan and I ended up sounding like a pretty big asshole myself? GETTING BETTER AT NOT DOING THAT.
The brain of an undecided voter.
This is probably more accurate than we’d like to believe.
BUT WAIT HOW DO ROCKS WORK
Today’s fresh hell was somewhat expected, but no less devastating. I borked my MacBook doing some cowboy OS upgrade shit that will probably not be fixable, but at least I had backed up the majority of my files before doing it, and a very robust Dropbox folder of my most important stuff. Nonetheless, it sucks deeply and thoroughly, the only saving grace being the elderly iPhone I acquired recently (which I have yet to turn into a phone… because I was waiting on the OS upgrade to my MacBook that I couldn’t perform with my busted DVD drive) and the “move it and the screen goes black” PC laptop my roommate has graciously loaned me.
I had a big day today (more in subsequent posts) which took my mind well off things, so I’m just going to stay cool for now and focus on the positive.
Mike Richards and his dog, Arnold
New favourite lockout blog.
Could make some inappropriate jokes here but I won’t.
THIS IS ALL HOCKEY FANS HAVE NOW.