The following is a four part series originally posted at www.dearthey.tumblr.com. Part One: On Cloud Computing And Why I Was Wrong I laughed when Chrome OS was announced; A great big hearty mwah ha ha. Why, I pondered (as I choked on the effervescent bubbles of funny rolling up from my belly), would anyone spend [...]
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On Chrome, Clouds and the Future of Computing: A Crosspost From the Tumblogs
Posted: September 6, 2011 in Culture, TechnologyAll Those Things I Can Do…All Those Powers; Impotence, Fear and Happiness In The Face Of Death
Posted: April 28, 2011 in Culture, Random ThoughtsTags: Dashiell Hammett, death, Dylan Thomas, Grandchildren, Grandparents, Homer, identity, Superman Quotes
My grandfather is dying. Cheery, I know. I’ve had a…problematic relationship with family during my life. I moved out when I was fifteen due to a near fatal combination of my teenage rebellion and my mother’s hellish and sadistic early menopause. My brother and I have different fathers; his tried to be a parent to me [...]
I’ll Be A Good Cyborg As Soon As I’ve Finished Vlogging: How Digital Power Has Become The New Opiate
Posted: April 7, 2011 in Culture, Politics, TechnologyI haven’t been here for a while. I mean, I’ve been here, sitting in front of my computer, doing…stuff (yes, fine, there’s been some porn involved) but I haven’t been blogging. And it’s not because I haven’t had anything to say; I’ve drowned Twitter with my inanity and the things I’ve learned just at my [...]
Stop Democracy Before It’s Too Late: A NEW New Deal
Posted: August 8, 2010 in Culture, PoliticsTags: conservative, governmental overthrow, gun control, lesbian porn, liberal, lottery, Prop 8, voting, zeitgeist
Unless you live in a bubble, you can’t help but be aware of what happened this week. That’s right, for the first time ever and in defiance of all the odds, an article written by me had over four hundred hits and Oh, right. Deep breath. (Not everything’s about me. Not everything’s about me. Not everything’s [...]
I’ll Get You Next Time, Costner: Recon From The Culture Wars
Posted: August 4, 2010 in Culture, MusicTags: Big Valley, Concert, Country Music, Culture Wars, Kevin Costner, Rednecks
I’ve been reeling for a couple of days. I woke up Sunday with a noble purpose. Infiltrate an enemy camp, isolate the most dangerous thespian of our time, and lay mighty waste to his vulnerable bits with the Thunder Staff of Walrus. I had a cover for this mission; my daughter’s dance class was performing [...]
Government Assasinates Ninjas To Catch Pirates: It’s Not Stealing If It Isn’t Real
Posted: July 29, 2010 in Culture, TechnologyTags: copyright, crime, Download, library, Limewire, Movies, Ninjavideo, Piracy, theft, TV, Vuze
Three years ago I went on a crime spree. It started with a simple mugging; a cab driver. I pistol whipped him in the head from the backseat of his car and bolted with his money clip. The police became involved rather quickly and, in order to escape, I shot a couple of officers; young [...]
Buffy Lost Her Battlestar: How Geek Culture Is Killing Geek Culture
Posted: July 26, 2010 in CultureTags: Aintitcool, BSG, BtVS, Buffy, Geeks, Harry Knowles, Harry Potter, Joss Whedon, Nerds, SDCC, Star Trek, Twilight, Uncategorized
It’s far easier for an astronaut to impersonate a caveman than vice versa. Unfortunately, that doesn’t change the fact that a caveman would kill and eat the astronaut before he ever had the chance. Anonymous Geek I heard a “reporter” refer to the San Diego Comic Con yesterday, as a “former geek fest.” Once my [...]
Did Britney Kill The Music or Should We Just Kill Britney?
Posted: November 1, 2009 in CultureTags: Uncategorized
I am a 1999. If you’re over…let’s say 25, you know what I’m talking about. 1999 was the year I stopped caring about the NEW. Especially NEW music. My fashion sense hasn’t changed much over the last decade; I still wear jeans that are a little too baggy*, and a hoody and t-shirt combo does [...]
Eeny Meeny Miny Emo: How Counter Culture Became Consumer Culture
Posted: September 15, 2009 in CultureTags: Uncategorized
Forty years ago, my mother was a flower child. She put daisy rings in her hair, went to protest rallies, and (according to some sources) smoked a lot of hash. Now, she wears flower print dresses, votes NDP and has given up any real hope that the world will change for the better. But, if [...]
Anonymous, Anonymity, and Animosity; The Future Of The Interwebs And The Ways We Interact
Posted: September 18, 2011 in Culture, TechnologyTags: anonymity, Anonymous, commenting, Google+, privacy, real names, social conventions, zuckerberg
The Whole Sort of General Mish Mash (WSOGMM) is the sum total of all the different ways that exists of looking at things, or more specifically, all the different probabilities that exist through which you could look at things. The Whole Sort of General Mish Mash is a metaphor created to help people better understand a part [...]