Archive for the ‘Stupid Things You Can Find on the Internet’ Category

Mistake #1. (and #2)

I logged into Facebook today. I know. I shouldn’t have, and it was obvious that I shouldn’t have. But I did. Then I posted a comment. (I know!) Now I’m sitting here with my blood pressure up because of an inane argument on Facebook with people that I don’t even know. Time to quit again.

January 25, 2012  Tags: ,   Posted in: Stupid Things You Can Find on the Internet, what are you drunk?  3 Comments

American entertainment

I ran across this on one of the St. Louis Cardinals websites the other day. One of the contestants on American Idol this year is the 15 year old daughter of Joe Magrane, who pitched for the Cardinals in the 1987 World Series. Here’s the video: So Steven Tyler thought it would be okay to [...]

January 24, 2012  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: culture, music, Stupid Things You Can Find on the Internet  2 Comments

Words I pronounce wrong–or is it wrongly?

My friend Sarah sent me a link to a blog post called “10 Words You Mispronounce That Make People Think You’re an Idiot.” I actually don’t mispronounce any of the words mentioned. Although he would disagree on prerogative. And I disagree on often – while I pronounce it the way he says it should be [...]

January 14, 2012  Tags: , ,   Posted in: culture, humor, language, Stupid Things You Can Find on the Internet  One Comment

Now it’s just getting silly

After last week’s performance, in which he threw for 316 yards (as in 3:16), the Tim Tebow mania had reached what I thought was its pinnacle. Today I heard that Tebow is now the most popular sports figure in America. Really? Okay, there are worse things than having a good role model be the most [...]

January 11, 2012  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Sports, Stupid Things You Can Find on the Internet  No Comments

Thou dankish doghearted dewberry!

How to insult like Shakespeare. (From Stephen Altrogge (by way of Neatorama)):

November 9, 2011  Tags: ,   Posted in: stuff I think is cool, Stupid Things You Can Find on the Internet  No Comments

Hate Facebook? Don’t care for Google+? There’s more!

The latest (as far as I know, anyway) to enter the social network fray is unthink.com. Unthink likes to bill itself as the anti-facebook. And from what I can gather on their website (without signing up, mind you) is that they intend to be a socially aware, socially active social network. Despite the stupid name [...]

November 7, 2011  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Stupid Things You Can Find on the Internet  4 Comments

How much Klout do you have?

What if every potential employer judged you based on your social media skills? Not just whether you are on Facebook or Twitter (or rather “and Twitter”) and maybe other social media sites, but how effectively you use those sites to influence people. Sounds like a great idea, doesn’t it? Meet Joe Fernandez, the creator the [...]

November 3, 2011  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Stupid Things You Can Find on the Internet, what are you drunk?  3 Comments

Wayback

Back in the early days of the World Wide Web (not the internet, which is considerably older), my college roommate and I jumped into the internet ocean and learned to surf. Our peers used to ask us silly questions like “what’s the difference between that and AOL or Compuserve?” (or Prodigy if they were very [...]

July 20, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: stuff I think is cool, Stupid Things You Can Find on the Internet  No Comments

The bleeding ugly meanderings…

“There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.” Attributed to sports writer Red Smith. I am not a writer. Even as I type these words I recognize the lack of quality in the style and words that I use. A real writer would not be satisfied, [...]

December 12, 2009   Posted in: General, Stupid Things You Can Find on the Internet  No Comments

Stupid things you can find on the internet

I’m going to start a new list.  You should be able to guess the subject (and title).  Here’s the first entry: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency (you could also try this link.  I don’t know what the difference is, but there is a difference). I don’t know what McSweeney’s tendency is, or for that matter who McSweeney [...]

July 28, 2009   Posted in: Stupid Things You Can Find on the Internet  No Comments