Glad to have provided a laugh. As I was just telling someone else, I worry that I might come across as the cranky old IT guy sometimes.
Other times, I just accept it and move on.
thesecretlifeofafabulouskilljoy:
Fact: Kids today and kids in 10 years may not know what these things are and…
To the original poster, I gotta say, ‘Bitch, please. That’s a Super Nintendo. At least use an original 8-bit. Or how about a 2600? And if you’re thinking of using that cassette tape for music because you think the 5-1/4” floppy is the oldest computer storage (non-punch-card, of course) then you never had an old Apple ][ or TRS-80 (pronounced “trash-eighty”), whence you had to save your work onto a cassette tape. And 35 mm film? What? How about large-format film, huh? And a swanky, new-looking JVC turntable? (Probably ridiculously fragile. Oh Technics, why did you stop production on the 1200?) How about the ones that were the size of cabinets? How about old reel-to-reel tapes? They’re newer than records but older than cassettes. And where’s the word-processor? You’re going for typewriter and old computer technology, but skipping the word-processor?’
Geek rant over.
aaaand now i want peeps
www.peepsandcompany.com - you can order ‘em online if you want.
Right now, though, check out www.sweetnesstour.com and see if they’ll be in your neck of the woods. They’re coming through Chicago over the weekend. I am so finding them and taking excessive quantities of photos!
…that I’m supplementing my dinner with a package of semi-stale Peeps (exactly as FindingSherlock would like them) and some orange soda. Don’t mind me, I’ll be over here twitching along to Crystal Method.
This. I will consider. But, remember, most of my favorite songs are drum ‘n’ bass, with very scattered rhythm. That might be a good challenge, but it might also drive me crazy.
I will take this opportunity to ask anyone if they think it might also be good for me to include poetry reading as part of National Poetry Month?
OK, I don’t know Jo very well, but FindingSherlock has adopted her as our internet daughter, so I’m going to take this moment to point out that her school counselor is a perfect example of the dumbassery that happens when people try to pretend that they’re “color-blind” in their treatment of people. I’ll also add the annoyance of the presumptive genderizing of her behavior.
In any case, when someone wants to think they’re a good person (and the Republicans/Tea-Baggers/conservatives are really up on this shit), they like to say they’re not being racist because they act “color-blind” and treat everyone the same.
This is dipshittery. You are human. You have prejudices. I have prejudices. We all do, and until we face them, own up to them, and learn to analyze our reactions to them, we’re going to erase the reality of the situations that people like Jo face.
This was a big thing for a lot of people to handle in my Social Contexts of Urban Schools class while I was getting my MA in Teaching. It’s hard for a lot of people to face this kind of thing. It’s hard for a white, middle-class male like me to remember that the situation of my students, most of whom, in an urban school district, will be poor, Black/Hispanic/Asian, come from single-parent/multiple-job families, or some combination thereof, unless I work to remind myself of this.
This kind of thing just generally pisses me off because it’s symptomatic of institutionalized racism. And it is particularly insidious because it is invisible, for the most part, to the perpetrators. Whitey can’t see why he’s being a prick because whitey has never tried to put himself on the other side of the issue. (Yes, I intentionally used masculine pronouns there.)
That is my rant. Read it. Learn something.
Sorry, Jo, that’s just sincerely fucked up. Katya thinks you’re a wonderful person, and her opinion matters infinitely more than a bunch of childish pricks.
i’m fucking crying now because my dad asked me how things were going in school and i told him, and then he said, “well i heard that you just had a secret crush on these boys and that’s why you’re not telling the teacher.”
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. YOU…
At this point, I wish I had a good image for this, but:
It’s on!
Paulo Freire in Pedagogy of the Oppressed (via dharieth)
Freire’s work on pedagogy and resistance is inspiring.
Y’all can have Script Frenzy, NaNoWriMo, and all that jazz. I’m considering doing something crazy for National Poetry Month, just because I’m a poet and I can.
The haiku project would’ve been good, but I’m too close to done. (Only 20 or so haiku to go.)
Attempt to compose an epic poem? A long-form poem a week? Ideas please, to the ask box.
Using the self-presentation of the “gender” of the toy in TV ads for young, school-age children, (if ad had girls, words were recorded in “girl ads”; if ad had boys, words were recorded in “boy ads”) researcher makes a quick mash-up to suggest that further investigation might be useful and interesting. As fascinating as the word-clouds themselves are is the reactions of some of the people, even the process is explained, to the potential for circular argumentation.
For reference:
Girl-portrayed-ads:
Boy-portrayed-ads:
Y’all can have Script Frenzy, NaNoWriMo, and all that jazz. I’m considering doing something crazy for National Poetry Month, just because I’m a poet and I can.
The haiku project would’ve been good, but I’m too close to done. (Only 20 or so haiku to go.)
Attempt to compose an epic poem? A long-form poem a week? Ideas please, to the ask box.
An…interesting…use of the Instagr.am API.
