Yeah, this one really resonates with me.
This site is so much better than Stuff White People Like. Not Hating Just Saying is a pretty simple concept–a bunch of things that suck, and a description of in what way they suck.
Highlight: Diet Dr Pepper.
Highlight #2: Hipsters. Now, this is really just another Stuff White People Like, but I found it funny and this is my blog so I don’t care if it’s hypocritical:
Here is a perfect example: thrift store clothes. The stuff you are buying (overpriced, I might add) from a thrift store(or vintage) was shit that was hot 20 years ago, but you rationalize it by saying “it’s ironic.” You just picked up the scraps of some guy who is now 30 but wore that stuff when he was 17…oh wait you are 30 also. High school hipsters I get, but old hipsters? There ain’t shit hip about a 45 year-old in skinny jeans. Why don’t you just go to the kids you hated in high school’s old houses and raid their childhood closets? That way you can wear the very clothes of those that were such “jerks” to you in high school. How is that shit for ironic?
That’s a certifiable hipster burn!
Anyway. I like that site. Thanks for linking it, Lauren (ps, might be time for you guys to get a new URL).
If you don’t already know, Twitter is a silly little site that you update with 140 character (think text message length) “tweets”. They are generally inane little things–akin to the status messages on Facebook–but once you get a critical mass of friends in on it the site becomes pretty fun. And it can be useful, too–you can update it via text message, and you can set it up to have other people’s updates sent to your cell phone, so that you can keep up with your friends’ whereabouts when you’re away from the internet (e.g., Friday night at the bar).
For me, though, the greatest use is keeping up with people without phone calls/emails/telegrams. I like knowing what my friends in other cities are up to, but I’m a pretty crappy one-on-one correspondent. So I keep up best with friends who have blogs and/or twitter–all I have to do is check Google Reader or Twitter to see what’s new with dozens of people. It’s lazy, perhaps, but it works. And since clearly most of you are never going to start blogging, my best hope is that you’ll start twittering.
Now, I should warn you, despite its simplicity, Twitter is not necessarily easy to get into. At first, especially when you don’t have many friends on it, it seems like a serious waste of time. But if you stick with it for a week or two, I think you’ll come around–and the more of you that give it a shot, the better it’ll be.
C’mon, people. Get on Twitter. It’s time.
You can find my tweets @calamityjake.
A little less than three years ago, I was in the last few months of a job that I knew I’d be leaving. I didn’t have a lot to do (it was quiet–the doldrums of summer–and since I was on my way out, I hadn’t been given much work), and I spent a fair amount of my time starting at my computer waiting for the day to be over. The result of that time was this post about Minesweeper on my livejournal.
Now that I’m a month and a half away from graduating, I find myself unmotivated. It’s not that I don’t have much to do (quite the contrary, actually–I have a ton of work to get done), but I’ve been spending a lot of time screwing around on my computer–keeping up with my RSS feeds, playing solitaire, and, germane to this post, getting reacquainted with my old friend, Minesweeper.
Which is all a long way of saying, rather than write anything new today, I think I’ll just recycle that post. Enjoy this look back at July of 2005, and forgive my younger self’s ornate, doofy prose!
Man, last week’s episode of This American Life (aka, Radio Programs White People Like) is hard to listen to. I don’t have much to say about it, except that it’s a pretty harsh indictment of the current administration. Some of the behavior described in the (one-sided) reporting–like refusing citizenship to widows of Americans whose husbands died before the paperwork went through–truly boggles the mind.
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