If you’re at the CSUN conference this week, you may not be reading this because looking at that schedule of events tells me that holy crap, there’s a lot going on down there. But if you have managed to find a couple minutes of free time to play around on the internet, allow me to …
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Reach Out And Touch Yourself
I’m not sure whether I haven’t been paying the sort of attention that I should be paying or if Adam Smith is opening up new frontiers in the obscene phone call space, but this is new to me. A Florida Man admitted that he was naked and masturbating when he dialed “numerous random phone numbers” …
Hey! Newsflash! It’s the *World Wide* Web!
Here’s a rant for people who build an online shop, and then forget what that www at the beginning is all about. Let me just describe five incidents I have had where I have wanted to buy something for someone in another country, and I couldn’t do it, because I didn’t live in that country. …
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Dear Google:
I don’t care how many times you ask me (it’s been three today alone), I am not turning on the fucking vignette ads. No, not even if you predict that my revenue will go up by 20% were I to do so. There is also no need for you to explain to me what they …
Breaking News Is Broken
This has been slowly driving me around the bend, so I had to write it down. Plus I wanted to know if other people felt the same. People have lost touch with the meaning of the phrase “breaking news.” They use it on news that isn’t that important. Some update on the state of the …
Happy Booirthday!
I have to write about this, because I ran into two creepy instances of this in two days. Yesterday, when I was finally updating the singing screen readers post, I was trying to look up Chris Skarstad’s name. I knew the probability was good that I would screw it up. I stumbled across his Twitter …
Facebook Is Garbage, Part Whatever
There are a lot of reasons to hope that Facebook will just go ahead and die right along with Twitter, and this here is definitely one of them. Under our rules Donald Trump is a politician because he announced that he is running for president again, and as such our fact checkers are no longer …
Twitter Is Doing Great. If It Could Tweet, It Would Tell You As Much
The Elon Musk takeover of Twitter is going even better than I expected. Hate speech is on the rise, advertisers are leaving in droves, half the company got fired and then some of them got asked to come back because they were either laid off by accident or found to be more important than anticipated, …
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I 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ Percent Don’t Get It
I don’t know if this is going to wind up being my inner old person, my inner blind person or both talking here, but let’s go. I don’t mind emojis when they’re used appropriately. By appropriately, I mean in moderation. That much is definitely my inner blind person. If you put 13 😂 emojis in …
I Think I Know This Guy
A few of him, actually. And some of him didn’t even bother with the fall out of touch part. Just skipped straight to the “What in the goddamn hell happened to you, dude?” phase somewhere during the pandemic while everybody was distracted. HELLO, WE USED TO KNOW EACH OTHER AND NOW I’M A TOXIC PRESENCE …