via the Charlie Brown School of Dance
I love him just as much in this photo as I did when I was 14 and I had pictures of Jack Dawson all over my wall. He looks like an old Hollywood star in this photo, like Clarke Gable or something. I guess he is sort of our âmodernâ âold Hollywoodâ star.Â
Also I want to see this movie so much.
Buzzfeed Would of Course go on to Become a Highly Respected News Source (Hindsight in 2023)
For a long time, Iâve thought it would be my dream job to work at BuzzFeed. I mean, it wasnât really about BuzzFeed itself. Itâs more that Iâve always really wanted to be an Internet âcuratorâ, and BuzzFeed is one of the few sites that Iâm aware of thatâs successfully monetized the business of funny cat picture lists.
But today I read this, the Oatmealâs response to an article published by a staff writer at BuzzFeed. I love the Oatmeal website, I think Inman is a great writer, and a great comic. I was actually unaware of the ârape controversyâ that spawned the Jack Stuef article; I just read the comic, and thought it was hilarious. It was one of my favourite comics ever, actually, and I didnât find the last panel (now removed) unusually offensive - especially not by Oatmeal standards.
Sidebar: this is one of the things Iâve never understood about the Internet. I like the Oatmeal, so I read the Oatmeal. Things I donât like or care about - ultra-conservatism, sports, stocks - I donât read. If you find the Oatmeal so offensive, just donât read his comics! Why would you read them, and then get your knickers in a twist about the fact that they exist? The internet can be whatever you want. Just make that happen. Or go outside, or something.
All this is to say the Jack Stuef article is one of the worst researched, most poorly written things that has ever been called to my attention on the internet. I find especially baffling the repeated references to the Oatmealâs republicanism, since he is a very public Democrat.
Also, way to pull up some fake Oatmeal profile from a âsocial networkingâ site no one has ever heard of. Great move there. Did you have trouble finding his readily available verified social media pages? Or did you just want to ignore them because they didnât support your bullshit point.
Iâm surprised that there were no fact-checkers, no one to say âstopâ before this error-riddled article got published. But Iâm even more surprised I ever got excited about the idea of working for a place that would allow something so blatantly wrong to be published by a columnist. Poor job, BuzzFeed. If you want the Internet to look at your lists of cat pictures and cute animals, you should make sure youâre not also publishing âarticlesâ about something just straight up false.
definitelyraining: Whenever somebody tells me Vancouver has an amazing nightlife scene.
Pretty vegan cupcakes via DailyBuzz - Healthy Living
What the shit is this? Isnât the point of Cake in a Mug that itâs way easier to make than regular cake? What do I need cake in a mug mix for?
Yeah, of course I bought it. Duh. Shut up.
But why were we down on Geocities? Or people hand-coding? I regret this exchange in 2023
Me: I know you donât like, look at my twitter or whatever, but did you see this
Adam: holy shit that is geocities as fuck. I think thatâs indicative of something. itâs not that geocities cites are terrible by nature, itâs that people canât design for shit. and since geocities had no templates, like tumblr does, it was just abundant
Me: Yes. When people donât use templates, tragedy strikes.
Why do some tumblrs look like theyâre geocities pages from 1998? (note from 2023 Rachel - because they were rad)
Gateway 2000 Colorbook
Today I was remembering my very first laptop; a Gateway 2000 Colorbook that my father cast off and gave to me. I used it from about 1999 - 2004. All I remember about it is that it had a 512MB hard drive, a floppy disk drive, and Spider Solitaire, so it mustâve been running Windows â98. I mostly used it for word processing (and solitaire), and using it made me feel like a real writer (which I am not and have never been). I began many a terrible novella on that computer. I even used it to take notes during my first year of undergrad, although by then it was obviously past its prime. I bet it would still boot if I tried (/if I knew where it was).Â
My very _first _computer was a TI-99/4A, which I mostly used to play TI Invaders and Sneggit, and frankly I wish I could go back in time and not throw it away.
Having a meltdown over how cute these are. via Breakfast Buddies on Laughing Squid
This T-Shirt is like a Coffee version of our Cafe au Ladies project. (via laughingsquid)
