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kegs wrote: And now I'm just catching up on this weeks episode of The Strain and wondering why there is no Last Week Tonight on sunday.
rkwsuperstar wrote:Wedding was Saturday. I won't bore you with the boring-ass wedding details, but it went fairly smoothly. It got over fairly early (10 p.m.) and some of us in the wedding party decided to go out, including the bride and groom. It was weird going to the bar in a bridesmaid gown. One of the groomsmen was the groom's boss. He was VERY wasted, and spent a lot of time trying to convince me to have a 3-way with him and his wife (I don't believe his wife was aware of this offer). The rest of the time, he was trying to hook me up with some guy he knew that was already at the bar. Despite his claims that this man was into me, any time I attempted conversation, he would take his phone out of his pocket and start texting. Thanks. However, as we were leaving, he gave me a hug, said it was nice to meet me, and asked what I was going to do when I left. Uh, not go anyplace with you.
How was everyone else's weekend?
kegs wrote:rkwsuperstar wrote:Wedding was Saturday. I won't bore you with the boring-ass wedding details, but it went fairly smoothly. It got over fairly early (10 p.m.) and some of us in the wedding party decided to go out, including the bride and groom. It was weird going to the bar in a bridesmaid gown. One of the groomsmen was the groom's boss. He was VERY wasted, and spent a lot of time trying to convince me to have a 3-way with him and his wife (I don't believe his wife was aware of this offer). The rest of the time, he was trying to hook me up with some guy he knew that was already at the bar. Despite his claims that this man was into me, any time I attempted conversation, he would take his phone out of his pocket and start texting. Thanks. However, as we were leaving, he gave me a hug, said it was nice to meet me, and asked what I was going to do when I left. Uh, not go anyplace with you.
How was everyone else's weekend?
At least it's over and done with.
I ended up going to a funeral of a friend I had known for 40+ years. He was the neighbour to whose house I would spend and hour or so each afternoon having a beer. Due to a mistake on the time I ended up getting there 15 minutes before the funeral was over. I think he would have liked that. And now I'm just catching up on this weeks episode of The Strain and wondering why there is no Last Week Tonight on sunday.
rkwsuperstar wrote:Wedding was Saturday. I won't bore you with the boring-ass wedding details, but it went fairly smoothly. It got over fairly early (10 p.m.) and some of us in the wedding party decided to go out, including the bride and groom. It was weird going to the bar in a bridesmaid gown. One of the groomsmen was the groom's boss. He was VERY wasted, and spent a lot of time trying to convince me to have a 3-way with him and his wife (I don't believe his wife was aware of this offer). The rest of the time, he was trying to hook me up with some guy he knew that was already at the bar. Despite his claims that this man was into me, any time I attempted conversation, he would take his phone out of his pocket and start texting. Thanks. However, as we were leaving, he gave me a hug, said it was nice to meet me, and asked what I was going to do when I left. Uh, not go anyplace with you.
How was everyone else's weekend?
kegs wrote:James.k.Polk wrote:Land of the Lost: Circle, by Larry Niven and David Gerrold
Will finds an underground cavern while the family is swimming(?!)
They decide to explore and find the tunnels are full of dormant Sleestaks.
Not so dormant...
And Enik's back!
And Enik thinks the Marshall family's presence in the LOTL is the reason he cannot open the time portal to go home. Enik reveals that the Marshall family actually died when they fell down that waterfall and that their continued existence is a paradox he must resolve.
When I read LOTL I think Lord of the Lings.
On a scale of 1 -10, how good is LOTL and is it one of those shows that MUST be watched? Like Doctor Who, and Undergrads.
James.k.Polk wrote:Land of the Lost: Circle, by Larry Niven and David Gerrold
Will finds an underground cavern while the family is swimming(?!)
They decide to explore and find the tunnels are full of dormant Sleestaks.
Not so dormant...
And Enik's back!
And Enik thinks the Marshall family's presence in the LOTL is the reason he cannot open the time portal to go home. Enik reveals that the Marshall family actually died when they fell down that waterfall and that their continued existence is a paradox he must resolve.
James.k.Polk wrote:Yes. Reason number 4. Generic and uninteresting site redesign. Optimizing everything for mobile devices may de rigeur but it makes for boring page layouts and a kind of pitiful sameness to the site. Weird anarchic web design can work and does work for a lot of bloggers. Harry Knowles at AICN is one example. His site glories in the fact that it's layout hasn't changed substantially. Matt Drudge is another example. Love or hate his politics, you have to admit his plain white screen with black headlines works for him. Changing site layout just because "that's what one does" does not give me confidence.kegs wrote:James.k.Polk wrote:I posted this in Jack's Poll about Toplessless robot. I'm copy/pasting it here in case some people don't visit that old poll...
One of us ought to write (and submit for publication) a blog post or essay titled "Ten reasons why longtime readers are unhappy with the changes at Topless Robot that have nothing to do with Misogyny"
I'll start:
The name Topless Robot reflected the kind of humor found on the site. It was naughty. It was subversive. But in the end it was just a name. We were all in on the joke and even if we had to explain to our boss or an IT department that there was no porn to be found here it was all OK. Now the world has changed and we can no longer have the name because we're afraid we'll be called misogynistic? As Penn and Teller would say-- "that is bullsh*t"
Speaking of humor...
Where has it gone? I'm not one of those people who bitch that "the site sucks since Rob left." I Like Luke. I was one of the first people who insisted that we should give him the chance to make the site his own without being compared to the editor who'd gone before. I do wish, however, that Luke would invest in some more humorous articles from his contributors. I miss the bad movie FAQ articles. I'm fully aware that copying that would be a borderline case of intellectual property theft, but I still think a stronger attempt to make with the funny is in order.
Corporate Weenieism
Remember when Luke's corporate weenie bosses invited us all to an open thread where we spitballed ideas to make the site "better"? Remember how they said our community was unique among the Intertubes and they wanted to nurture and encourage that spirit? That all seems pretty patronizing considering how ever since that moment they've done nothing but dismantle the functionality that encouraged our participation.
I get that Livefyre was too expensive. But replacing it with the most generic and glitchy Facebook comments system was the dumbest thing I've ever seen. How can they not see that inviting us to use a platform that mimics the features they deleted only reminds us that we DO NOT NEED their comments sections to communicate with one another. It would be like me telling my customers at Celll Phone Mining Corp, Inc that AT&T also offers some pretty cool iPads and while I'd like to continue being their phone provider, they should probably look for tablet solutions elsewhere.
OK that's three reasons. Someone get me the other seven and we'll submit it it. Hell you can even have the byline and the "paycheck" if the article makes publication
Nicely said.
Reason 4: My father is colourblind. I am not. When I look at that logo, I envy my father.
We need 6 more reasons and we got our article.
Yes. Reason number 4. Generic and uninteresting site redesign. Optimizing everything for mobile devices may de rigeur but it makes for boring page layouts and a kind of pitiful sameness to the site. Weird anarchic web design can work and does work for a lot of bloggers. Harry Knowles at AICN is one example. His site glories in the fact that it's layout hasn't changed substantially. Matt Drudge is another example. Love or hate his politics, you have to admit his plain white screen with black headlines works for him. Changing site layout just because "that's what one does" does not give me confidence.kegs wrote:James.k.Polk wrote:I posted this in Jack's Poll about Toplessless robot. I'm copy/pasting it here in case some people don't visit that old poll...
One of us ought to write (and submit for publication) a blog post or essay titled "Ten reasons why longtime readers are unhappy with the changes at Topless Robot that have nothing to do with Misogyny"
I'll start:
The name Topless Robot reflected the kind of humor found on the site. It was naughty. It was subversive. But in the end it was just a name. We were all in on the joke and even if we had to explain to our boss or an IT department that there was no porn to be found here it was all OK. Now the world has changed and we can no longer have the name because we're afraid we'll be called misogynistic? As Penn and Teller would say-- "that is bullsh*t"
Speaking of humor...
Where has it gone? I'm not one of those people who bitch that "the site sucks since Rob left." I Like Luke. I was one of the first people who insisted that we should give him the chance to make the site his own without being compared to the editor who'd gone before. I do wish, however, that Luke would invest in some more humorous articles from his contributors. I miss the bad movie FAQ articles. I'm fully aware that copying that would be a borderline case of intellectual property theft, but I still think a stronger attempt to make with the funny is in order.
Corporate Weenieism
Remember when Luke's corporate weenie bosses invited us all to an open thread where we spitballed ideas to make the site "better"? Remember how they said our community was unique among the Intertubes and they wanted to nurture and encourage that spirit? That all seems pretty patronizing considering how ever since that moment they've done nothing but dismantle the functionality that encouraged our participation.
I get that Livefyre was too expensive. But replacing it with the most generic and glitchy Facebook comments system was the dumbest thing I've ever seen. How can they not see that inviting us to use a platform that mimics the features they deleted only reminds us that we DO NOT NEED their comments sections to communicate with one another. It would be like me telling my customers at Celll Phone Mining Corp, Inc that AT&T also offers some pretty cool iPads and while I'd like to continue being their phone provider, they should probably look for tablet solutions elsewhere.
OK that's three reasons. Someone get me the other seven and we'll submit it it. Hell you can even have the byline and the "paycheck" if the article makes publication
Nicely said.
Reason 4: My father is colourblind. I am not. When I look at that logo, I envy my father.
James.k.Polk wrote:I posted this in Jack's Poll about Toplessless robot. I'm copy/pasting it here in case some people don't visit that old poll...
One of us ought to write (and submit for publication) a blog post or essay titled "Ten reasons why longtime readers are unhappy with the changes at Topless Robot that have nothing to do with Misogyny"
I'll start:
The name Topless Robot reflected the kind of humor found on the site. It was naughty. It was subversive. But in the end it was just a name. We were all in on the joke and even if we had to explain to our boss or an IT department that there was no porn to be found here it was all OK. Now the world has changed and we can no longer have the name because we're afraid we'll be called misogynistic? As Penn and Teller would say-- "that is bullsh*t"
Speaking of humor...
Where has it gone? I'm not one of those people who bitch that "the site sucks since Rob left." I Like Luke. I was one of the first people who insisted that we should give him the chance to make the site his own without being compared to the editor who'd gone before. I do wish, however, that Luke would invest in some more humorous articles from his contributors. I miss the bad movie FAQ articles. I'm fully aware that copying that would be a borderline case of intellectual property theft, but I still think a stronger attempt to make with the funny is in order.
Corporate Weenieism
Remember when Luke's corporate weenie bosses invited us all to an open thread where we spitballed ideas to make the site "better"? Remember how they said our community was unique among the Intertubes and they wanted to nurture and encourage that spirit? That all seems pretty patronizing considering how ever since that moment they've done nothing but dismantle the functionality that encouraged our participation.
I get that Livefyre was too expensive. But replacing it with the most generic and glitchy Facebook comments system was the dumbest thing I've ever seen. How can they not see that inviting us to use a platform that mimics the features they deleted only reminds us that we DO NOT NEED their comments sections to communicate with one another. It would be like me telling my customers at Celll Phone Mining Corp, Inc that AT&T also offers some pretty cool iPads and while I'd like to continue being their phone provider, they should probably look for tablet solutions elsewhere.
OK that's three reasons. Someone get me the other seven and we'll submit it it. Hell you can even have the byline and the "paycheck" if the article makes publication
kegs wrote:Patch wrote:
Patch wrote:
James.k.Polk wrote:Here's a Polk Tale Follow-up.
I am finally able to make some sense of the motivation of the lady who came in my store and jumped my ass saying she could have bought the phone $150 cheaper a month ago.
She turned up in the store again a couple of days later asking to speak to the technician. Turns out she had water-damaged the phone (there were water droplets under the camera lens which is a 100% indication that the phone has been submerged at some point.
Her tirade a couple of days earlier was a gambit to get me to take the phone back as a return, maybe rattling me in the process so I wouldn't inspect it carefully and notice the water inside it.
It's the only way any of it makes any sense. Especially because I still don't believe the online price was any cheaper than the price we sold it at.
Anyway.
NebulaJack wrote:Another day, another new poll, and now my head is filled with vision of purple bird poop.
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