the internets, who knew it could take over my life even more!!

there is twitter and tumblr and good old trusty pals gmail and blogger. soo much! too much! and of course there is google wave that is suppose to solve all my problems but instead only makes my browzer slow and reminds me of aol from the early 90s....

google wave is like me building a rocket ship out of toilet paper rolls and telling everyone that it was a real rocket ship. wtf google!

meanwhile a woman at my work actually came up to thank me for sending a link to a blog - both because the blog was interesting (work related) and because she claimed to HAVE NEVER SEEN A BLOG BEFORE. uhm?? this woman is not even close over 50. but she is a fucking republican - i think there might be a link.

joan rivers - i kind of love her

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/01/22/greathomesanddestinations/20100122-away-slideshow_index.html

shes crazy and she went to barnard.

sometimes it seems like life is just a traumatizing series of events strung together

and then you die anyway.

blogger vs tumblr

interface: okay, tumblr is "coolr" to look at but the layout isnt as user friendly and if you want people to be able to comment you have to hack in and add a comment app. wtf. a pro is that it can do more things that resemble tweeting with the content but whatever.

tumblr also lets you call a message in that then posts to your blog. this feature screams "hipster blogging!" so loud i think it made me deaf. hate.

actual blog look: blogger, i love your l.l.bean functionality but tumblr kicks your ass in the easy breazy style department.

so in summary: blogger is truly completely functional, its easy to see posts, tell when your queue will be posted, figure out what you have posted and allow comments. however blogger is fug.

on the other side of the ring, tumblr is more a pretty face, it cant do comments and its interface is like a tween: awk. but we do like pretty faces. sometimes a pretty face can also be smart, but tumblr is not one of those.

still, i cant quite get that pretty face out of my head. so im using both.

this is why i love the internet, i can have my cake and eat it too!

this is what happens to you when you get old

an excerpt from an email from my oma:


We had to go to Conn. for our friends funeral which was very sad. We
were friends for 55 years.Oh well, nobody lives forever, right?


kindasortaalmost made me cry.

an exciting new tag category

"those were the days" - a collection of posts from 05 and 06 when we were hilarious drunks and not much else.

also, i cant believe i ever forgot the international sign for lets have sex again - even for one second!

and remember this: http://www.evany.com/sleeptest/index.htm

its as if i really have become some boring old fucktard that works too much. horrors!!

men: still insecure d-bags

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/us/19marriage.html

but nice to see that some of them are finally coming around.

its probably not true but im still going to point to gay marriage and gay couples in general as for putting the who is the main breadwinner question in a different light. two ladies or two men - one will be, one wont.

probably more likely cause - single moms and deadbeat dads.

fuck you massachusetts - you selfish prick assholes.

first of all, fuck you to the democrats for blowing the race. second, fuck you to people who made a statement by voting for some dude who doesnt believe in global warming and probably has 4 brain cells. brilliant statement assholes.

also, a big fuck you goes out to all the whiny liberals who despite theoretically being "educated" missed the whole part where we dont actually live in a fairyland where people pass perfect legislation. -- im pretty sure that these are close to the same liberals who think immigration in a black and white - legal v illegal issue.

and a big, standing, fuck you goes out to all the conservative assholes that refuse to support health care. i hope you get laid off, get swine flu, get hospitalized and loose your life savings. i have been trying to not wish ill on people but seriously - people who think poor people dont deserve health care - who basically are wishing misery on others, deserve to get fucked.

the ridiculous part is that it doesnt even make sense in a pure dollars and cents way - who the fuck do these people think is paying for uninsured people now? their cats? no fucktards, its the rest of us. we are going to pay either way so why not make it less shady.

and dear baby boomers - good luck when medicare goes bankrupt just when you need it most. i for one will be voting against bailing you assholes out. you can all eat cat food.

and a general fuck you to this country. i mean seriously, how much inbreeding has been going on? why are people so ass-backwards ignorant as to how the mysterious world works? nooo we dont need health care, nooo we dont need abortion, noo we dont need immigrants, noo we dont need to concern ourselves with the environment. uhm - what the fucktard.

seriously i think we might be better off if we let peoples dogs vote.

annoying people ruining environmentalism

nytimes: new this week! boring yuppies and their problems with being green. joes girlfriend patty wants him to be more eco-conscious, apparently many couples have this problem. this article was so stupid i couldnt get beyond the first paragraph. i think my time was actually better spent looking at pics of the golden globes than reading this crap.

i mean really? nytimes, was there reallly nothing else worthwhile to report on?? i mean nooothing else? at other times i might buy that - but not this time. nytimes, we all know that haiti has been taking up all the coverage - as a result there has to be stuff out there that hasnt been reported on because everything has focused haiti. so there is NO EXCUSE for crap like this. or is it that all the normal reporters are covering haiti so you were left with only weirdos to cover "non-haiti" stuff?? hmm...

gender issues in schools

some town in texas or somewhere has its undies in a bunch because some weird hippie parents wont make their son get a hair cut. the kid may or may not have weird issues but im pretty sure that a hair cut isn't going to change that. also im pretty sure that if kids in that boys class aren't paying attention its because their teacher is from 1940.

and really, its long hair on a boy. who cares?? the 50s/60s were uhm well over 50 years ago, its time to get a grip. (i love how the school helps to prove that its utterly stuck in the past by referring to it as beatles haircut. wwhhat?)

if girls can have long hair than so can boys. the old folks need to get over it.

mindblowing - haiti

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/assignment-19/

damn.

libarians and their temperature

librarians in manhattan have it in their contract that they get comped if the temperature is 65 or below - or if its too hot. uhm its not like they are doing hard labor...

"The issue is how bearable it is in here," she said. "The problem comes when it's not workable. We shouldn't be working in those conditions."

"those conditions"? seriously?? my office was 65 last week and let me tell you it was cold but its not like i was about to keel over and die of hypothermia. it wasn't even cold enough to warrant going home early. i grew up in a house where we werent allowed to turn the effing thermostat above 65 because if we were cold we needed to put another sweater on!

do the librarians realize that their contract makes them look insane and petty? i mean the city is no prince charming but at least have it be 65 or below for more than one day before you get comped?

twittter aka the end of the civilized world - maybe its not that bad

twitter is kind of entertaining. also its a good way to obsessively check the news without having to always check the news. and if you are a company or an org its a good way to remind people that you exist. but it also gives a really limited view of what is actually happening.

i hate to admit it, but i love it, mostly. and i still somewhat hate it just because i can.

also the twitter technology is kind of/really ghetto. whats up with that? do they have rabbits doing the programming? it would be a super useful tool if they would just sell it it and let someone with lots of engineers build out the functionalities.

i mean, think of how much more useful it will be once they figure out how to integrate it with gmail/google wave.

mortgage defaulting isn't bad

interesting nytimes piece calling bullshit on businesses saying that home owners shouldn't default because its immoral - while businesses don't think twice about defaulting.

the underlying issue is that its in business' best interest for joe and sally local to eat the costs and not default because if enough people default then its going to screw the businesses. but seeing as how banks are happy to screw their customers every chance that they can get - why should people not stick it back to the banks. that is how capitalism is supposed to work. convincing people to do what is not in their best economic interest isnt capitalism. its trying to fuck with the markets to prevent the basic - if you suck then you get fucked mechanism.

octopie! i love octopuses!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/12/091214-octopus-carries-coconuts-coconut-carrying.html

they are so smart!!