Your mom is not my mom
Does anyone else find it a bit creepy and annoying when people refer to their parents as Mom and Dad when they're talking to people who aren't part of their family? You know, as if their names were in fact Mom and Dad?
I tend to think this is one of those George Bushian "you're either with me or against me" types of things. Either you are creeped out by people who do that or you are one of those people who do that.
And not to sound like a loser stand-up comic working a lounge at a Ramada Inn, but what the fuck is up with those inspirational posters that management types hang in their offices? I'm sure you've seen them; they sell them at all the office supply stores. One says "TEAMWORK" above a photo of a phalanx of fighter jets flying in formation.
I got nothing against teamwork, but the sentiment of those posters remind me of some fat sweaty motivational speakers that corporations hire to re-inspire their worker drones.
On a lighter note, dig this photo of the baby birds that hatched in Glenda's hanging planter yesterday. Cutest god damn thing I ever saw. The miracle of life and shit.
...and about the latest 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision regarding the Pledge of Allegiance, this person has crystallized my thoughts precisely.
Just a comment on the personal crystalization link you sent us to. Not on the link itself mind you... but does anybody think the names/terms associated with the internet are... how shall I say this... UN-SEXY. I mean "blogging" - how ugly a term is that? "Spamming" is another stupid term. I hate when people talk about being "spammed" in conversation. I would think the technophiles that came up with words such as RADAR and Subsonic or whatever crap like that could come up something better the "blogging". Is this a case where technology has been taken from the hands of the scientist-types and given to the public and we fucked it up with our wordsmithing. Is Yalestar a "blog" site? Fuck if it is Yale - get out of the business. Quick
- Rickles June 27, 2002 13:16I fucking hate the word "blog" with every bit of hate that I have left for this sort of thing.
The Yalestar site is in no way a blog. I decreed this on 14.May 2002, to wit:
But it's not a 'blog! 'Blogs are for fags. I prefer to call it a Life Newsletter. You can call it whatever you like, whatever makes you feel good, unless that means calling it a blog.
(I don't expect Rickles to have this bit of knowledge in his quiver since I know he was en route to 'Bama that week)
(Come to think of it, Life Newsletter is a pretty wack appellation for this site; let's change it to, ahem, "Networked Note-Passing")
"Spam" is gay, too- there really aren't too many of these Interweb neologisms that I can stomach. And I think the problem isn't that scienticians are handing us bunk terminology. Rather that the terminologizing has been entrusted to the plebes. You can always count on plebes to fuck everything up.
- Yale June 27, 2002 16:111) Does anyone know where the word "spamming" originated?
2) Rick- I had no idea that you were ever into the D&D thing. I spent a few summers with a couple of dudes playing D&D, Carwars, and Marvel while drinking stolen beer. Now everything seems to make so much sense........
3)I think I'm drunk cause I just stopped to collect my thoughts, and woke up an undetermined amount of time later with the screensaver on. Now I have to get up and go to the fridge, because it's hotter than fuck and I'm thirsty.
- Granite Crushing Natron June 29, 2002 01:58Spam is a Monte Python reference. The joke was that they repeated the word SPAM over and over again.
- Stan P. Spammer June 29, 2002 17:10