05.22.08
Posted by Varies at 8:17 am in the internet
Having no internet at the apartment has given me some time to think about things. For example, I thought about how life has changed since the internet became something convenient to use.
Back in fourth grade, we had to write a report on an animal of our choosing. The rubric stipulated that we were to use something like 4 sources of reference such as books, encyclopedia (print or electronic), and the internet. I remember looking at the rubric and thinking dang, I’m gonna need to find 2 books. Because, you see, 56k was as good as it got back then, and besides that, I doubt anyone in my class knew how to use the thing back then. These days, I bet 4th graders are using the internet to raise all sorts of hell. Man, how times have changed.
And remember how if you wanted to use the internet, you’d have to lose the use of your phone line? And how the rich kids and their rich parents could afford to have TWO phone lines so that they could use the internet all the time? Those crazy rich folk!
I guess that if it weren’t for the internet, I’d have fallen in love for real. I’d have used the phone more and spent less time in front of a monitor. But hey, at least I went through 14 years of my life without it, right?
The old man laughs.
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04.26.08
Posted by Varies at 7:11 am in the internet
“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.”
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04.03.08
Posted by Varies at 12:49 pm in the internet
See what I did there? I know, right?
I don’t know how many times I’ve heard people use these stupid “copy pasta” phrases, but it’s had to have been be over 9000… and I’m starting to get a wee bit tired of it. It seems that some people aren’t attuned to the infinite generativity that makes language so dang fancy. You see, words can be combined in new and exciting ways! You don’t have to hitch your nice boat to the latest memes or popular catchphrases. I know it’s fun to try them out once or twice (I do so myself, from time to time), but isn’t there a point when you should move on? And I don’t mean that everything a person says needs to be totally unique. I’m simply suggesting that there are cleverer ways to be clever than using stupid phrases that aren’t quite as fresh as people would have you believe.
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12.01.07
Posted by squidink at 7:46 pm in lists, Technological Advances, the internet
TEST TEST TEST OKAY!
This is an official post.
You may notice that the blog has received a huge facelift. Among some fancy changes include:
- a new fancy sidebar
no actual meta link, crudely solved by me with an Account Options page (under pages in the fancy new sidebar) DISREGARD THAT I MADE IT SHOW UP- HOLY COW AUTHOR NAMES SHOW UP!
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09.17.07
Posted by Bowman at 11:00 pm in media, parakeets, the internet
Today, my Dell Inspiron 1520 Notebook, named Mercy, greeted me with a message; it said, in an all too convenient little text bubble, that today was the day I could effectively solve “the problem with Windows Vista.”
The first three things that popped in my head with that little remark was this:
- Inaccessability of the option to record the computer’s stereo mix (unless using specific audio cards)
- Heavy reliance on CPU-hogging background programs
Parakeets The disposal of Robert Fripp’s contributions to the Vista system soundtrack
I looked closer at the little text bubble though, hoping to see a message along the lines of “We’re sorry we fucked with all of you King Crimson fans out there, it won’t happen again,” only to discover that it there were no notes. No mention of a critical update or driver issues or all that programming “stuff” for lack of a better word. Not even some gimmicky Windows Media Player upgrade or something. Only the open-ended note that it would solve “the problem with Windows Vista.” So I clicked the bubble. A little help page appeared. I looked at the first three lines. And what did I find?
Follow these steps to solve the problem with Windows Vista
This problem was caused by Windows Vista, which was created by Microsoft Corporation.
A solution is available that will solve that problem.
Oh FUCK no. Demon motherfucking voodoo. Read the rest of this entry »
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