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12/28/2006 I must be getting oldBecause I truly cannot understand the logic behind videotaping yourself assaulting someone and then posting that video on the internets.
But what is REALLY disturbing me in this article is this little aside:
Is that really true? It's a crime to use a cell phone on school grounds in New Jersey??? My dudely brainI just finished taking a "brain sex" quiz at the BBC science website and found out that I'm slightly dudely:
I think my dudeliness stems from my mathiness - I scored 16/20 on one set of spatial reasoning problems, and 12/12 on a set of 3-D shapes rotation problems (this second score was so high, they suggested I had transcended gender and was likely to have a science/engineering background - true!). Naturally, I still have a lot of babeliciousness too - I scored high in empathy, in the ability to discern emotions from looking at people's eyes, and in verbal fluency. I also prefer men with masculinized faces, and my ring and index fingers are nearly the same length. I'm so cool. 12/22/2006 "Those people"It was only a matter of time, I suppose, when my alienation from mainstream culture would finally get me branded as one of "those people":
Here's what he's referring to. Well, ya caught me! 12/18/2006 A girl after my own heart12/5/2006 ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygodIt's posts like this that reaffirm my undying love of Go Fug Yourself. I actually yelped in horror upon seeing the first picture, and got a bad case of the giggles upon seeing the second one. Lord help us all.
11/26/2006 Internet rubberneckingI've become enthralled by a blog called Pink Truth, formerly called Mary Kay Sucks. My interactions with Mary Kay Cosmetics haven't been too detailed - in my lifetime I've known three women who are consultants. Two I only knew tangentially. The third is "my consultant", though I don't order very much or very often. I use their skin care and some of their makeup, although their makeup is nothing special and I'm not all that into it, so I'll probably not buy any more. My consultant is typical: MK-obsessed, a little crass in her show-offy materialism, a little off-putting with her weird MK-approved outfits and way too much makeup, and a little creepy in her forced cheerfulness, but I always shrugged it off and considered it a small inconvenience. Reading about the experiences of former consultants and directors has been fascinating; I never realized that Mary Kay is basically a barely-legal pyramid scheme - otherwise called "multi-level marketing" (MLM). Similar to Amway and evidently most MLM companies, I have learned, Mary Kay employs a variety of manipulative and deceptive techniques to envelop the consultants in a fog of devotion to the company and to induce them to do things that would otherwise be contrary to their self interest (e.g. repeatedly ordering lots of product that they probably won't be able to sell, and going into serious debt to do so). There's so much that seems horrifying about MK; one that sticks out for me is the "fake it till you make it" doctrine. Under the guise of encouraging consultants and directors to think positively, this practice encourages them to deceive others about how much they are truly making - perfect for ensnaring a new crop of fresh meat into the system. Like I said, I can't look away. I just thought you should know how I'm spending my time :-) What sites or blogs are you currently obsessed with? 10/20/2006 UnforwardableI've been debating, and I've decided that this just isn't a cartoon you can forward in the workplace: http://www.asofterworld.com/soft_sep8_2006.htm
10/16/2006 Lies! Lies!I know my last name is not *that* common, but according to this website, http://ww2.howmanyofme.com/, even *I* don't share my name with myself. While over 1 million women have my first name, NO ONE IN THE U.S. has my last name?
I live in the U.S., as do my mother, brother, great aunts, and some random cousins in Ohio. We all have the same last name. Hell, I can search Google and find other people with my last name. The website disclaimer is:
All numbers estimated based upon statistical and
demographic data from US Census Bureau. For entertainment purposes only. Uh-huh. 9/5/2006 Spammers, part 9Sigh. Three weeks of collecting spam, and only 9 are even worthwhile. Again with the blank subject lines. I heard from:
8/15/2006 Some spammers want me to hate myselfI'm getting a lot more spam lately than usual. I had to delete a whole bunch of less interesting stuff to be able to showcase the good stuff this time. I whittled my collection down to two types: my good friends with the funny names, and those who used strongly-worded imperative subject lines that were designed to appeal to my worst fears about my appearance, I guess.... Let's start with the latter group:
Sheesh! That's a lot of preying on my insecurities! Meanwhile, in the why-bother-with-a-subject-line department, I heard from:
Good job, guys. I think Omitted I. Electroencephalograms is the best so far. Maybe I should do a little retrospective and start a hall of fame or something. 7/25/2006 DIXIE?!?!?!?!?!?I don't usually take too many goofball internet quizzes, but I enjoyed this one:
What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
10% Dixie? really? I've no idea where I would have picked that up. And I wonder what I picked up while living in Michigan to yield that 5% Upper Midwestern. But mainly I wonder why the percentages don't add up to 100%.
theCultFigure scored quite differently, as you might expect, given that we grew up thousands of miles apart:
Again with the not adding up to 100%.
There were a couple of questions to which I didn't really have a firm answer. For example, basement vs. cellar. I use both terms. But the main reason I'm excited about this quiz is for the new phrase I learned from item #11:
THE DEVIL IS BEATING HIS WIFE?? I must know who says this!! Where are you from? Who's spamming me now Part VII?Finally, some spam we can mostly be proud of again! Several spammers with good names, but again they were too lazy to think up an equally entertaining subject line. Sigh. Well, baby steps.
And I shouldn't fail to honor two spammers with great subject lines, but mediocre names:
Well played, thinks theyre, well played. 7/10/2006 Who's spamming me now Part VI? yawn.I'm really disappointed in this latest batch of spammers. In ~2 weeks I only got 2 spams from funny names. The rest were just true junk. AND, the funny-named spammers are barely trying to entice me - neither one even had a subject line, for crying out loud. What is going on here?
6/13/2006 Spam: the gift that keeps givingThis weeks' spammers break some new ground and return to some familiar territory. The most recent innovation is to use a subject line that poses a question but without using a question mark. These messages were all sent from single-name senders:
That's okay, but kind of boring, don't you think? I'm most pleased about the return of spammers with hilarious names and vague come-ons:
5/31/2006 Who's spamming me now? Part IVThe last few times I peeked in my Junk Mail folder, it had lots of spammers with hilarious names with a middle initial, like "Gestapo Q. Rental". This time it's more full of names that look like a baby or cat typed them by smacking the keyboard:
Honorable mention goes to
5/25/2006 I don't even know what to make of thisAmazon launched a Grocery category tonight. NINE of the ten best-selling items are diapers. The other is a fertility monitor thingy. Yeah, it's the first day of the store, and top sellers are updated hourly. Still! As my grandmother might have said... "Jesus Mary and Joseph!"
5/20/2006 Don't read this. Seriously you guys.My guess is that MSN Games would rather you didn't read the EULA for the Gaming Zone. Why else would they put it in a wee little text box that scrolls vertically and HORIZONTALLY? 5/15/2006 Crazy spammers, IIINot as many spammers with cool names lately, but here's the latest batch. They're hawking similar wares as the last group:
5/10/2006 Irony-free zoneTake a good look at this article being promoted on MSN.com today.
Let me get this straight then: you are being encouraged to read an article on the internet that will help you diagnose... whether you overuse the internet to diagnose your health problems. |
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