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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
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7:48 pm
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tarash
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We could do with a little more Olympic wankery, I figured!
NBC reporter attemps to interview Dutch gold medalist Sven Kramer after he won the 5000 meters speedskating event, and starts the interview with the question of who he is, and Sven wants to know if she's stupid.
Comments range from "She got what was coming to her" and "awesome stick it to the dumbass american media!" to "What an arrogant prick. I hope he realizes his 15 minutes of fame won't last long." and "what a douchebag. he doesn't even play a real sport."
I guess skating really really quickly isn't a sport, then. ANYWAY, yesterday, Sven Kramer had to skate again, and is pretty much the expected winner of the 10000 meters.
Until he gets disqualified for moving into the wrong lane. Quite a lot of the commenters, though, would still to talk about whether or not he'd been a rude arrogant douchebag and if the reporter was useless or simply doing her job. And some blame his parents: "I have never said anything so rude to another person, nor did I teach my children to speak to other people that way." and one person thinks Sven's coach should be given the medal, even though the coach was the one who told him to go in the wrong lane: "The GOLD medal should have been given to the coach for putting up with such an arrogant, cocky, mouthy and STUPID kramer"
And then there's some American-bashing: "Could the americans in this article, who didnt check their facts, stick to their own nations webpages and rant about their version of the truth?"
Ohnotheydidnt weighs in on the matter as well but it quickly goes into "he's good-looking enough that he could verbally abuse me and i wouldn't care, so long as i got to slap dat ass" territory. Maybe the skintight suits involved in speedskating bring that out in people.
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| Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
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6:34 pm - Yo Lysacek, I’m really happy for you, I’ll let you finish...
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12:09 am - Fugly Wank of the Day
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sadisticferret
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One fine day in February, every angry equestrian's favorite blog, Fugly Horse of the Day, had an anonymous guest blogger post about the many irritations of being a horse trainer, particularly when beginning riders are involved. Said post is very, very angry indeed, earning a figurative "you go, girl!" from Fugly herself. Opinions in the comments, however, are divided on whether she's 100% correct, right on several points but kind of snotty and condescending about it, or right on a few points but mainly just a wannabe know-it-all with a god complex. And they all lived angrily (but very happy about it) ever after.
I'll expose my bias and admit that I think that most of the wank is coming from the article itself, but there are a few gems to be found in the comments as well. But enough of that, have some quotes.
From the article:
I hate all of your tack. I swear every time I go to a new job I find the exact same crappy tack, tack that I wouldn’t put on my horses even with a gun to my head. It is the tack that your “friends” gave you because surprise they realized that it sucked so they gave it to you. The saddles you have are dry rotted and synthetic (I don’t care what you paid for them, a saddle that is $300 or lower new is crap), they nose dive on the withers and swim all over the back, so you have to cut the horse in half to get them to sort of stay on and then you have to balance the saddle on the horse while trying to ride, because it slides all over the place. A good western saddle new is $800 up, and tolerable one will be $500- $800.
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Your way wasn’t working, that is why you called me, so just shut up and listen. I love it when I get a new client who regardless to what I say or accomplish with their horse still thinks that they know what they are doing or their way is better. You don’t. That is why you called me in the first place.
From the comments:
I used to burst screaming into The Vapors song, “I Think I’m Turning Japanese”, grab my hair and stomp around when I finally snapped.
I was mildly famous for it.
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Well, I’m glad some people are keeping horse ownership to be something only the rich can afford. I’m so glad that the multitude of reasons I have a synthetic (including health reasons that preclude me from having a heavy and expensive “real” saddle) cause someone who has nothing to do with me or my horse so much grief.
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Newsflash to people who use the “life happens” excuse: Unless your job involves riding horses, NONE of us have time to ride our horses! We do it anyway. I’d rather function on 4 hrs of sleep than function in a state of bitchiness because I didn’t get to ride my horse.
Edited to make it a little clearer which quotes come from which section. Sorry for the confusion!
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| Saturday, February 13th, 2010
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2:59 pm
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ReadWriteWeb is a blog hosting articles about various internet products and trends, including social networking sites. On Wednesday they posted a short article about Facebook partnering with AOL.
Right now you're probably thinking the wank is something about the partnership. That wouldn't be nearly as funny as what actually ends up happening.
The first comment, while not wankish in itself, is a sign of things to come: "Ok If I have to I will comment,I love facebook so right now just want to log in if thats ok with you..lol Keep up the good work..."
Soon the comments start flooding in from people thinking that they're on Facebook and demanding to be allowed to log in, many jumping straight to rage against this new "redesign" such as this woman: "I am going to delete my account (IF I CAN EVER LOG IN) as this SUCKS BIG TIME ! If this does not get back to NORMAL you are going to lose a lot of folks who hate this and as you can see from all the comments they think it sucks too !!! facebook was great for connecting with old friends ...now, NOT SO MUCH. SO HOW DO I LOG IN ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????"
By page three people are wondering if the blog is being trolled, but one of the site maintainers has found the problem! Looking at their traffic stats, she's discovered that they're suddenly getting hits from a bunch of people searching Google for "facebook login". Yes, they're suddenly being flooded by people who don't know how to get to Facebook without searching Google for it. And the article was steadily creeping up the results list all day.
Around this time a big bold paragraph is added to the article informing people that the site is not Facebook, and providing anyone who needs them with links to get there and a suggestion to bookmark the real Facebook login page.
This doesn't help. And, though most people following the thread are amused by what's going on, at the same time the other side of the wank is forming; people who are getting increasing annoyed at the Facebook commenters for ignoring all the people telling them they're not at Facebook, for instance "Wow!
I mean just WOW!.... are people really this f**king stupid, and they rely so blindly on whatever the first link google throws up.
This is NOT facebook you clowns. How god damn retarded are you."
Three days, 27 pages later, and a smattering of news articles later and it's still going on, but at this point the people trying to get to Facebook have tapered off and it's just the people frothing at the mouth about them left.
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| Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
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1:02 pm - Voter Fraud and Internet Popularity in 140 Characters or Less
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The Shorty Awards is a contest to select the best of Twitter in certain topics... by encouraging folks to tweet (or post their votes via Twitter) their votes, where the top five will go on to judging. Yeah, you can tell this will end well. One of the awards is for Health (or #health -- the hashtags on Twitter let you search for certain topics).
Anyway, this seems to be shaping up into a wankstorm. Not really because of the health issues themselves, though that plays a part, but mostly the standard of 'cheating, vote solicitation, and conspiracies'. The nominal issue is whether the Science-Based Medicine (SBM) or the Alternative Medicine (alt-med) should take the Shorty, but... well, it stops being about the medicine and more about which side wins.
The Cast
Science-Based Medicine/Skeptic Movement
Dr. Rachael Dunlop/@DrRachie -- Skeptical podcaster and heart-disease researcher on Twitter.
Orac -- Cancer surgeon, vaccination advocate, and medical blogger.
PZ Myers -- Skeptic, atheist and biologist, known for 'pharyngulizing' internet polls, which basically means posting links to informal internet polls on religion, science and so on, with the intent that his readers will push them in unexpected directions.
Tim Farley -- Vaccine advocate and blog commenter.
Alternative Medicine
Joseph Mercola/@mercola -- Osteopath and webmaster of a natural health site.
Mike Adams/@HealthRanger -- Webmaster of NaturalNews.com, an alt-med news site with a bit of a reputation for conspiracy-mongering.
Going to apologize - I follow Orac's blog, so most of my commentary is from there.
( Twitter Awards are Serious Business )
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| Sunday, January 17th, 2010
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12:35 pm - So. Much. Stupid.
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| Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
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1:07 pm - Wind; hear my cry!
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| Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
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6:54 pm - Satanic ritual abuse wank
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I dithered about whether to put this in unfunnybusiness or here, but in the end Satanic Ritual Abuse is not real, and what the person who said it was said was so funny it belonged here.
People who blatantly deny the existence of ritual abuse after being offered solid resources to the contrary demonstrate that they don’t need evidence about its existence. Instead, when they continue to deny its existence in a seemingly obsessive manner, they are more likely trolling for new victims in hopes that responding survivors will – while more emotional – slip-up and provide vulnerable, personal information.
There you go. If you deny the existance of ritual abuse, it's because you're looking for new victims to ritually abuse.
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| Monday, December 14th, 2009
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5:45 pm - reviewer's of this ilk
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Why should ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif) fandom_wank have all the fun? This gem was reported on Dear Author, a romance novel review site, second story in the post.
The action takes place in the comments section on L. B. Taylor's customer review of Electra Galaxy's Mr. Interstellar Feller by Candace Sams. The review is titled "save your money" and concludes, "All over a sad excuse for romance, mystery, and humor. Save your money, you've been warned."
"Niteflyr One" comments on the review: "It looks like this reviewer has something personal against the author. Apparently, he/she doesn't know that most titles of this kind are written to please an editor these days and the editors are sometimes wrong in asking authors to re-write to 'their' specifications. But this review was more a diatribe on a comparison of 'other' stories the reader liked as opposed to reading the title and reviewing based on the new kind of work that it was meant to be."
Read it well, for these leitmotifs will recur for the next fifteen (and counting!) pages of comments: everyone who argues with Niteflyr has a grudge against her-- oh yeah, spoiler alert: Niteflyr is Candace Sams, the author, who'd have seen that coming-- personally and/or professionally; it's all the editor's fault for controlling the book down to the last micron; regardless of editorial tampering, though, people who don't like the book are just idiots.
( 'Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.' )
If you read this, get used to those repetitions and ellipses. There are lots of ellipses. And watch for other classic wank maneuvers you'll find along the way, including You're Just Jealous, You're All In On It, and The Lurkers Support Me In Email. Also keep an eye out for the glorious moment when she tells commenters they'd need Hooked On Phonics to be able to read her work.
One last treasure from Niteflyr: "Why not go after ST. Nick since you're all in such a festive mood." Hey, good idea. Has he written any shitty romance novels we can review?
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| Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
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7:36 pm - Ebook drama!
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This is *fascinating*. Really. I never get to see real ebook drama; it's usually "oh, I could never give up the smell of real books!" vs "umm, 300 books in my pocket, yay!" And then there's some mumblings on both sides, and they both move on and read books on whatever media tweaks their kinks. But not this time!
I bring you... Alan Kaufman vs Mobileread!
Who, you might ask, is Alan Kaufman? I don't know! Apparently, he's written some books. And he blogs about writerly things. And a little over a month ago, he wrote The Electronic Book Burning, in which he compares ebooks to Nazis:The book is fast becoming the despised Jew of our culture. Der Jude is now Der Book. Hi-tech propogandists tell us that the book is a tree-murdering, space-devouring, inferior form of technology; that society would simply be better-off altogether if we euthanized it even as we begin to carry around, like good little Aryans, whole libraries in our pockets, downloaded on the Uber-Kindle. Serious Godwin points for that. In an opening salvo, even. (It's okay, folks, he's Jewish, and that makes it okay for him to compare technological advances to the Holocaust. Erm.)
What's Mobileread? A website devoted to ebooks, ebook sources, ebook devices, and people who read ebooks. It's big. And active.
( Aaaaand they're off! In this corner, literary blogger Alan Kaufman. In that corner, the combined membership of Mobileread forums! )
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| Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
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12:14 am - Scrapple, it's what's for breakfast.
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Everyone loves vintage wank, and everyone loves food wank. So what happens when we mix the two of them together?
Pure Gold.
In thoroughly modern fashion, EPICURE’s recipe was almost immediately wikified. PORCUPINE warned against over-frying the scrapple, A HOUSEKEEPER swapped in Graham flour, and MIDDLETOWN gave her method for removing excess grease.
Only PHYSICIAN seemed content with the dish as it was, calling it “a positive luxury, throwing the Frenchman’s pâté de foie gras entirely into the shade.”
As always, the haters far outnumbered the fans: One reader declared that he’d just as soon fry bread in lard and eat it than partake in what others called an “abominable mess,” a “culinary fraud upon the stomach” and a great way to contract trichinosis.
Many thanks to the NY Times for the excellent wank report article.
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| Saturday, November 28th, 2009
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1:25 pm - NaNoWriMo: The Bannination You've All Been Waiting For
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marienbadmylove (profile now deleted) has been banned from the NaNoWriMo site for plagiarism.
i-rant-often had made a post dedicated to 'The Leech'. MBML took said post, ran it through his find-and-replacing and whatever other alterations he does, and posted it as his novel excerpt, thus violating the TOS of the NaNo site.
Part of the original rant: So far, this IDIOT writer of Marienbad My Love, supposedly the world's longest novel, has managed to attempt the weakest defense I've ever seen of his thieving ways. Of course, this comes in the wake of admitting to -- hell, I seriously think he was bragging about -- his methods of theft, and doing it on the NaNoWriMo forums.
MBML's alteration: TIRADE! To date, the MORON author of “Marienbad My Love,” allegedly the world's longest novel, has somehow launched the most pathetic excuse this covert government dream assassin has ever observed of these bold pilfering methods. Certainly, The Thug’s pleas and justifications are presented on the heels of acknowledging -- misery, I grimly believe he was swanking about – his methods of pilfering, and doing it on the Exogrid roundtables.
Protip: just because thesauruses exist does not automatically mean that using them is a good idea. Also, and this may seem obvious to most people, don't steal writing from someone who already dislikes you, as it is a recipe for banhammering.
In conclusion, i-rant-often dances on the grave:
At last . . . something remotely resembling justice!
(TRUE justice would require a steamroller with a defective transmission, several thousand wasps, a feather boa, a nest of red ants, an inept firing squad, a dull guillotine, eighteen metric tons of fecal matter from a pack of donkeys with gonhorrea, thirteen beautiful strippers unwilling to be touched by something as sick as the Leech, two dozen feral kittens and a catnip enema -- but I'll take what I can get!)
THE END (or is it?)
current mood: amused
current music: The Format -- 'Dead End'
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| Thursday, November 12th, 2009
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6:43 pm - Go Google Go!
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jkefka
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Be ye warned: This is an incredibly nerdy wank and will involve a lot of programming jokes. That said, it's also pretty damn awesome. Picked up originally by ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) platelizard in random_lounge.
Google, as we all know, is staffed by computer geniuses of the highest order, who program constantly. It seems that they found all the programming languages out there insufficient and clunky for their needs, so in a typically Google solution, they went and made their own. It even has its own mascot (the "Go Gopher"). Computer programmers everywhere jizz their britches, no wanking required. Google puts up an "Issue" form to report problems with the young language, and all is fine and dandy...
Until issue 9, titled "I have already used the name for *MY* programming language."
( 'Go,' 'Go!' and bad jokes no one will get )
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| Saturday, November 7th, 2009
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1:54 am - NaNo: not just for wordsmushing any more!
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| Friday, November 6th, 2009
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4:37 am - so wanky it's illegal!
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Lime Crime Makeup is a line of eyeshadow and lipstick by fashion blogger Doe Deere (Xenia), mainly known for its strong and unusual pigments.
Recently Lime Crime's come under fire for allegedly repackaging pigments by other companies such as Beauty of the Earth and TKB Trading. As more and more blogs post their own comparisons, others pop up to speak about past customer service experiences, including a post from Lillian who claims that Xenia called her mother an "asshole" for buying a dress of hers that was hemmed with duct/gaffer tape.
There is apparently a long history of Xenia's shenanigans, sparked by comments on an article on Lime Crime in the Examiner. The comments haven't all been positive (a lot of them have been deleted), but most damning is a comment allegedly by Xenia calling her customers stupid for choosing her overpriced products.
This saga inspires Lipsticks and Lightsabers to start be part of the Mineral Makeup Mutiny (edit: this comment by peonypavilion explains more) which highlights and supports companies that make their own mineral makeup. Meanwhile, there's been some investigation into her lipsticks, with Xenia's post on making lipstick (as well as the later one on making eyeshadows) attracting strong skepticism.
Yesterday, Xenia posted a video speaking out against the "haters", which rubs Lilian the wrong way as she feels she's unfairly being considered a liar. Xenia's response to her was (to Lilian's surprise) civil and composed; however, the same can't be said of Doe Deere commentor Mary, who thinks Lilian's only got a grudge because she's fat and that Lilian's on a power trip. (edit: Lillian's video about her issues with Xenia.)
Edit:
Xenia's entry with her video is closed to comments! (The ones already posted are still there though.)
eyeshadowsluts' posts about Lime Crime, as mentioned by eleutheria.
Blasts from the past via meanestbastard: The duct tape dress (Xenia's comments have been deleted), Where has the raffle money gone?, "violation of copyright", the mystery raffle winner, her journal's gone friends-only, relisting things that didn't sell. Oh and also Internet & copyright law fail.
Edit 2:
An insider's look at LBG drama. (The post itself is drama-free but does give some background.)
Edit 3:
A lone objective voice about this whole shabang-a-bang.
I'm somewhat surprised Xenia hasn't found this yet and threatened to take me down! does otf_wank do anon comments?
Edit 4:
I posted a non-wanky version of this on MetaFilter (mainly to highlight the video of Miss K/Aromaleigh making eyeshadow) and they call shenanigans:
( cut for length )
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| Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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9:07 pm - My word count is pastede on yay, back for 2009!
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ladylauren
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Some of you may remember this wank from last year, revolving around a certain individual who decided to claim he'd 'won' NaNoWriMo by copying and pasting pages from Wikipedia and so on into Word and then using find and replace until it was a 'completely new and unique literary work'.
Well, he's back. With his profile page proudly boasting of last year's 'achievement' thusly:
My debut with NaNoWriMo was in 2008, when I completed a 2.5-million-word draft titled "The President Who Exploded." This work is what I call a “non-linear literary collage.” It consists of materials I mined from various blogs, chat rooms and fan fiction sites. I'm a word rustler. I prowl the talk pages of Wikipedia, the reader comments on io9.com and various venues frequented by anonymous bloggers. I shamelessly plagiarize their words -- even their misspellings and gramatical errors -- then transform the stolen content into a new and unique literary product through a series of computer-assisted modifications (cut-up engines, Markov generators, search and replace functions, etc.) and combinations with recycled content from my own writings. These are techniques I first explored in “Marienbad My Love,” the world's longest novel. Released in 2008, this 17-million-word creation also sets records for the world's longest word, sentence and book title.
Which, notably, is copypasta from his own website. Self-plagiarism must be the literary equivalent of sitting on your hand until it goes numb before masturbating.
Modus operandi announced, he trots into the 'Reaching the MILLION ...... NaNoWriMo 2009' The following exchange ensues:
marienbadmylove: I logged 2.5 million words last year. I'm swinging for 999,999-plus again this time. Let the good times roll!
Kateness: you know I don't think your words count, on the basis of our disagreement last year.
BUT
because the rules explicitly say I can't call you a cheater, I won't, because god knows that rule has helped me in the past, and we'll just leave it at that. If you think it's a win, it's a win (Just kindly keep your hands off any excerpts I may post, and my blog if you're so inclined), and that's all I'm going to say about this.
marienbadmylove: Ah, but how can you stop me? *snip some drivel about William Burroughs*
Dragonchilde (forum moderator extraordinaire: OH NO YOU DIDN'T *cites rules stating why he can't threaten to steal other Wrimos' writing*
marienbadmylove: *more gibberish about Burroughs that is kind of really not applicable in this situation at all*
Rest of responses: *dogpile without explicitly calling him a cheater* The best of which is Angolera's: There's a huge difference between writing 2.5 million words and using 2.5 million words.
marienbadmylove: *disappears from thread*
But where is he now? Oh, here he is, announcing his intention to hit 50,000 words on Day One to give himself a 'little cushion' on his way to the million. Please note he never states he's going to write these words, and is yet to return to the thread to pass comment on whether he is typing these words or using a voice recognition system. Funny about that.
And it's not even November yet...
Edit: Classic response from painkillers regarding the need of someone shooting for a million to sleep: Sleep? SLEEP? sleep is for writers, I'm a conceptual artist I am. ga ga goo goo ga ga, gin gang gooly, see it is the conception of the words that matter, not the words themselves. i don't need to sleep, because i don't use my brain -- for anything.
Son of edit: He reaches 50K!
current mood: Dramatic
current music: Crowded House -- 'There Goes God'
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| Saturday, October 24th, 2009
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1:29 am - Ugly knit hats provide hope for the masses!
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Knitting Daily featured the Champagne Fizz Hat in its free patterns section.
Kristin@37 kicks off the comments:
I love to knit. I will knit practically anything. I will not knit this.
Too foul by far.
Some agree; others decry her negativity and ask where her sense of fun has gone. ShuriuL explains that the hataz are interrogating the hat from the wrong perspective:
Ladies! Everyone's missing the point! This hat was probably inspired by Diane Von Furstenberg's Fall 2009 Ready-To-Wear collection, which had lovely knit sweaters, knit tunics, knit scarves, and knit coats. Every model wore this hat with variations. The pompoms were much bigger and the overall silhouette made the models appear to be wearing hats similar to men's Renaissance hats. This collection was made touching and whimsical when most designers on either side of the Atlantic had chosen to make monotone, aggressive, boxy, conservative clothing that was more masculine and warrior-like than feminine and patterned. It was a seminal collection and spoke of hope, optimism, and fun when last year's collections came out in February and people were more depressed and scared than they are now.
As for me, I just hope I'm not on LynnR@15's gift list:
Oh, aren't some people just too precious for this rough world?
This hat is terrific fun! Not for everyone to knit, or wear. It is a technically simple knit, with plenty of scope in yarns and colour for some individual, creative expression. Daring older people will delight in shocking their stuffy peers and younger people will think it a cool novelty.
I shall knit loads of these for Christmas prezzies, for young and old alike.
Long live eccentric knitting! (Yes, I'm going to shock my peers!)
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| Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
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1:06 pm - Your bushes look like stupid lollipops
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If you need to borrow money from your neighbor but didn't get along with him too well, would you:
(a) Catch him on the street and ask him politely if he'd lend you a few bucks
(b) Knock on his door with a nice big slice of pie
(c) Tear out a sheet from your notepad and write a rambling, incoherent note to him in which you call him a whore and insult his shrubbery?
Link to the original note!
A transcript:
Carl
You make me sick. Your fancy house all that driveway, wowwy so long. Vacation wherever you want. Your bushes look like stupid lollipops, who does that anymore other than spoiled jerks with no taste.
I thought we were friends, when I had a job, right? I asked you to lend me money you said no. I was drinking, so what. I wasn't using so much drugs anymore. So what I had tires on my yard whats wrong with that? Those girls weren't hookers, they were friends much better friends than you, you're just a whore, a male whore. A more.
I can't stand you. You make sick.
Please I still need the money. Will you lend it to me? I will remove the tires, also the dishwasher.
Your friend friend
Steve
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| Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
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10:01 pm - Epic Smackdown!
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So, for those of you who were blissfully unaware of who Orly Taitz is, allow me to shatter the last vestiges of your faith in humanity via wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orly_Taitz
Orly Taitz is an Orange County, California-based dentist and lawyer who is a leading figure in the "birther" movement which challenges whether Barack Obama is a natural-born citizen eligible to serve as President of the United States; in addition, she promotes a number of other conspiracy theories both related and unrelated to Obama. She runs a non-profit organization called the "Defend Our Freedoms Foundation".
Choice quotes of hers about Obama include " "I believe he is the most dangerous thing one can imagine, in that he represents radical communism and radical Islam: He was born and raised in radical Islam, all of his associations are with radical Islam, and he was groomed in the environment of the dirty Chicago mafia. Can there be anything scarier than that?"
Yup. Her most recent project has been representing a soldier who did not want to be sent to Iraq b/c she felt that since Obama wasn't a real president, he couldn't tell her what to do. And thus it begun
So most of this is in Judge Land's beautiful opinion (which I strongly reccomend you read) but it's 43 pages of glorious smackdown, so I will summarize from it and cite.
http://ia311028.us.archive.org/1/items/gov.uscourts.gamd.77605/gov.uscourts.gamd.77605.28.0.pdf
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| Monday, October 5th, 2009
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6:50 pm - If a marathoner runs outside of Boston and nobody's there to hear it, does it deserve a purple bar?
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It's the first (mini)wank of NaNo 2009! *pops champagne* Tiny, considering that the wankery is contained entirely in RiddleMeThis like some kind of nuclear radiation coffin, but passably amusing.
Okay, you all know what National Novel Writing Month is, right? It's an informal contest where the goal is to write a 50,000+ word novel in the month of November. You're not competing against other people and you don't really get anything if you "win" (aside from a feeling of accomplishment and a little purple bar beneath your forum name) but it's competitive enough that some people get really touchy over what constitutes a victory. Some people think the goal is to write a novel, some people think it's just to get 50,000 words down. The general consensus seems to be that as long as you're not doing this you're fine.
User chet-a-box posts asking:
I'm 90% sure I'll be writing a non-fiction book about my passion for giant pandas.
Is that allowed?
There are three or four responses, primarily by a staff member (Dragonchilde) saying very nicely that nobody's going to stop anybody from writing what they want, but *technically* it wouldn't really be the point of NaNo seeing as how they define a novel as a lengthy work of fiction. (Of course it should be noted that NaNo is welcoming of flexible approaches to the contest. They have a NaNo Rebels forum specifically for people who want to do things like write short stories or screenplays for their challenge. Additionally, the rules state that if the writer considers it a novel, they consider it a novel too). chet-a-box seems a little disappointed but takes it rather well and it's a polite, respectful, wankless thread. The end!
Well, no.
RiddleMeThis posts a thread in the NaNo Rebels forum entitled NaNoWriMo's Discrimination Against Creative Non-Fiction, saying that, essentially, non-fiction should be allowed to count as a NaNo victory because the state of our nation demands it.
( I didn't think you guys discriminated against pandas. )
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