I found myself in what is called a “meme battle” on Facebook last night.
Considering it was Facebook, the whole battle thing was some dude and all of his stock piled memes. None had anything to do with the conversation. None of the memes had any consistency, other than name calling and cussing. There was no flow to his posts. Just cussing and posting about how bad he burned me.
I on the other-hand took a slower approach and told a story with the memes.
He never understood it. Probably because he is a Facebook user at the peak of his computer knowledge and meme understanding. In his crowd I am sure he is “Hax0r”. or some mislabeled glorified pointless identification for his blatant a.d.d. stream of turrets memes.
I never got around to posting an old article I wrote about having consistency and or originality to your meme usage. One of those “Woulda Shoulda Coulda” things. Random image guy on facebook
folks, if you intend to post memes on Facebook, be consistent, have a story and relate to the topic. Not just random onslaught of pictures that you think “burn someone”.
Category: RANT
About the New “Hoverboards” – Rant
So I saw this 19-20 year old dude with his dreadlocks weave thing in his hair, sputtering down the street blocking traffic at like 1 mile an hour. all I could see was his head and shoulders over the car in front of me. He looked to be about 7 feet. His head wasn’t bobbing like a person walking, and having long hair. His hair wasn’t swinging at all. I figured he must be on a unicycle and just poor at it,because he wasn’t going fast at all.
As I passed the guy I saw he was on this device that had only two wheels. One on either side of his feet. He was just standing on it and I assumed he was rolling down hill. Down a very shallow hill. He was just puttering.. Stupid slow.
I get home and forget about the thing. Until I see it again. My girlfriend is riding with me and she says ” Oh look a hoverboard”. Shocked I look around only to see some guy, on that same stupid thing. I said ” That’s not a hoverboard, that’s a skate thingy”. She looks at me like an idiot and we don’t discuss it again.
A week or two goes by and now it’s everywhere. Hoverbaord this, hoverboard that.
The thing does not hover.
The thing is not a board.
At best it’s a motorized skate stick.
A roller stick.
Now the thing is catching on fire randomly, and it is getting reported in all major news that this $400 skate stick is is a fiery piece of crap.
So now every parent has to buy their kid a skate stick. For Christmas.
So far the only thing I see that skate stick thing good for is… is a smooth ride so guys don’t mess up their man weaves.
Facebook Picture Tagging Issue
Facebook, the website that allows you to upload pictures, and videos. The website that allows you to connect with friends. This place has additional functions such as marking the location you are and tagging friends that are with you when you post. There is also the ability to tag a photo of someone.
You can tag as many people as you feel like tagging in one location or one picture or in a picture that also has their location stated with a check-in.
The Problem
The issue with pictures being tagged with unsuspecting people in them, is it’s never a picture the victims like. EXAMPLES: Facebook Etiquette
facebook picture tagging is bad and it is a horrible change in our culture where someone else can give up your privacy. Any respecting person would not upload anyone’s picture to the internet without their permission. It does not matter if the person/victim already uploaded that same picture to their own profile. It is no one’s right to take that picture and then upload it to the internet where it will sit until the person who uploaded the picture decides to take the picture down. Some of us if we upload a picture of ourselves, we should have full rights to delete said picture if some day we notice something we do not like about that picture. No one should have that over anyone on the internet.
Far too much bullying can go on with a picture of someone going live on the internet, and everyone seeing that picture until the victim logs in and goes through the rigorous steps to have that photo removed.
Misleading pictures can be uploaded and cause divorces.
Parents disowning.
Showing a stalker where someone is.
Showing a bully where someone is.
Giving a bully a picture to work with while harassing the victim
ETC
Collages of friends, are stupid.. Stop it.what is this, 2006?
The fix
The fix for most of the issues, is if someone tags you in a photo, that photo should not be allowed to go live until you accept it.
Basically, the photo just won’t be seen by anyone but the person who uploaded it, and the people that are tagged in the photo. Many may allow it and accept the tag, but it still will not be seen by the victim’s friends and family, until the victim allows it.
This would stop the tag spam too.
Wireless Wars
So.. I found that one of my neighbors (not sure which one) finds it funny to get into my wifi and reboot it randomly.
oh boy, so you can hack a wifi. You smart little wifi hacker you.
So…
I turned off the wifi broadcast for about an hour and headed to the garage.
Brought in my box full of wireless routers.
logged into each one, and gave them the name my wireless connection had.
and ran through them all turning wifi back on. then placing them around the house at all walls and corners I could.
Log back into my actual wifi, and turn off ssid broadcasting and changed password. ad changed the actual ssid.
So.. basically I gave my neighbor a hand full of routers that don’t have an internet connection at all, to my neighbor to pointlessly play with.
Takes one down, there’s 7 others.
stupid little twit.
I will if I have to, run to fry’s and load up on a bunch of 14 dollar routers and name each one after each of the signals I see broadcasting.
Houston Craigslist Clearly Not Moderated
Too many times I have searched Craigslst in Houston area for a car. and foolishly didn’t set my min max price search at exactly one dollar apart. I say this because you do any price difference greater than $10, you get a page full of rims and tires and seats in the car section. All the while there is a separate section specifically for parts, tires etc.
I report these parts when I see them in the section for complete cars. but to no avail.
If someone moderates that place. Please wake them up and make sure they get back to work.because the site is unusable like this. Please send warnings and notices to the repeat offenders. Use i.p. and account bans for the persistent offenders.
If it keeps up, I will start posting couches and dog clothes in the auto section.
Just because they say “F150 tires and rims” does not qualify it to be in the F150 searches. Seriously… anyone searching for an F150 most likely will not own an F150, and not need rims and tires. The person selling the F150 will most likely not be willing to invest into the truck so please.
And do not allow the searches to check dealerships. because you will get 10 versions of the exact same ad for the exact same vehicle. and then move to the next vehicle and get ten of each add for that one also.
“new 2011 Toyota Carola fresh red” next ad “2011 New Toyota Carola Fresh Red” and so on. Let’s not forget the “****l00k @t Thi$****” ads…. come on people… who falls for this crap?
STOP IT !
Mobile device and internet price
I read a post on reddit (which linked to this article) that covers a few of the topics I have covered before. This brought up an issue I am having. This issue is with my cell carrier charging me more for less.
Seriously I don’t see why so many people pretend this isn’t going on. My only guess is everyone really wants to pretend they are so wealthy, they don’t worry about stuff. Or they figure they can’t do anything about the issue so they won’t discuss it and assure someone else they notice the issue, so something can get started to solve it.
The issue. Is bandwidth limits. 4 gigs.
what can you do with 2-4 gigs a month?
Not dang thing.
Except check email.
Facebook has too many pictures. You should hit your cap before the end of the month all year round.
but the trick is, you upgrade your phone to a phone that can only use 4G and now your unlimited internet is capped at 2-4 gigs a month. and my carrier will not allow me to switch back to 3g for this phone. My cell phone provider says my phone won’t work on 3g because my cell phone is specifically made for 4g. So their website wouldn’t even let me register the phone I had until I would call and change my service plan. Since the 3g cell phone I had couldn’t use 4 g it wouldn’t let me change my plan. Imagine how those phone calls went when I was speaking to Stewy in the middle east..So now I am on a 4g plan that costs slightly more than my 3g plan was… Which was unlimited, and of course when I am in an area that doesn’t have 3g, the internet status on the phone shows that I am running at 3g or whatever is available.
Seriously. I do not see much difference between 4g and 3g. at all. Signal isn’t better. bandwidth might be a tad faster on the stats tests, but youtube still loads like hell.
Something posted on reddit on this issue.
They’re like drug dealers “here, have better stronger faster internets on your little squint device, at the same price as your home device… but you can only have so much a month, unless you pay more”.
This mentality is as if there is a limited amount of internet “sorry sir but your internet baggy is now empty, pay more and we will refill it for you, only so much per person”.
as if they are conserving something.
Truth is. If they leave their bandwidth at one current speed and not increase to faster,The more their use goes up, would reflect more customers are signing up. It’s not our fault they increased their speed.
I mean really , how fast do you need to load a 6kb m.xxx.com website?
The whole thing is a f-ing scam.
Someone seemingly fighting this battle all alone for a while now.
and it seems to be coming more and more true.
We’re all feeding a corporate beast in denial. To hide our sham e of being so gullible we tell ourselves we like it and need it and take it to the next level of upgrading and updating our phones and other mobile devices to the latest and greatest as soon as it comes out. That’s $400 each time. That’s two or three times a year. We want people to think we are on top of things and smart. Truth is, if we were smart we would know that these devices do nothing but waste our valuable time and ruin our eyesight doing it. Yet here we are. You on your iPad, either agreeing or disagreeing with me.
Facebook and the Etiquette Thing
You log into your Facebook account and look at all of the happy notices you have and you start clicking through them. This is your daily pop in and check thing. You do it once, twice, a few times a day. You leave your witty comment and you go about your day until you have a stale moment and you check your Facebook again and read your friends pages. You post a picture, you like a message, and sometimes you repost them. This is the daily thing. This is completely acceptable.
Where the issue begins.
Tagging
You post a picture of a duck and you tag all of your friends that you think would like to see this duck. Where that becomes an issue, is now your friend has to wonder ‘Should I untag myself from this duck? Will it upset my friend if I do that? Oh well I’ll just leave it”. Pretty simple solution right? Then the person does it again. Since you let it happen before, they see no reason that you’d care. Besides it’s kind of antisocial now to untag yourself. Oddly enough??.. Now your other friend sees you getting tagged in a picture and realizes that YOU like ducks. Now you are tagged in every picture on the website, as a duck.
Okay, ducks, big deal they’re cute. Right?. but what happens when it becomes “Please help the children of the nuclear plant explosion” See that one is tough. It’s a charity type thing… Right? but what if the picture is of these children with radioactive skin falling off? Poor babies. Right? Now you are the person who is into gore and death.
I can be close to vulgar in some of my posts, and I have a bunch of friends who are very vulgar in their posts. I do not want to be tagged in a vulgar post. I don’t want my mom to see it. Even if it’s a vulgar title to express a look on a puppy’s face in the picture. I don’t want it. Don’t do it!
Facebook etiquette
Yes I selected that picture because of the spammy link at the bottom.
Unauthorized pictures
You and your friend are at the zoo and your friend is taking a ton of pictures of you both. and uploading them straight to Facebook. all of these pictures, you have maybe a booger hanging out of your nose, and your friend thinks it is funny and will not remove the pictures.Or you are with a person you are considering to date, but uncertain, meanwhile there is another person you are considering to date. You get a photo of you with your arm around someone, that may turn out to be a bad date with in the next couple days. What does the other person you are seeing have to feel when they see this picture? It doesn’t make you a bad person to be testing out matches. Not at all. You aren’t bound to either of them. They’re still new to you. but jeese, you don’t leave them feeling insecure about you.
Since when did it become okay to post another person’s picture online?
Facebook Picture etiquette
Unauthorized Check-in
You have a stalker. and just don’t know it yet. and your friend is checking you in at the lingerie warehouse for obese people.
Someone does a check-in while in your house and labels it something like “TruXter’s party barn”.
It’s okay to do some of these things at appropriate times. but come on. Control yourself people. You don’t have to tag your friends in everything you do. This is spam. Where is the Facebook etiquette booklet?
- Can we please stop posting posts with hash tags on Facebook?
- Can we stop making our kids beg, holding signs saying they will get (enter gift here) if they get 100000 likes ?
- Stop posting that stupid post about Starbucks not supporting the troops. It’s fake. People do this just for the likes .
About Windows Patches and Service Packs
Windows Update has always been a great offer from Microsoft. You can just click a shortcut and install teh latest drivers that have been accepted by Microsoft, for your computer. Along with driver updates, you also get software patches and security patches. Many of these updates could very well be needed. And with lots of Microsoft software, You can not use the software without having automatic updates turned on.
The issues I have, is that your computer is constantly checking for update, or on set specific dates you have automatic updates configured to always check. Usually found control panel, but labeled differently depending on what version of windows you are using. If you have an internet provider with a limited monthly bandwidth, automatic updates could cause some issues. I have been using windows since 3.11, and since updates came about, I found that my computers always run their best and their fastest when I do a fresh install, turn off automatic updates and personally go to all manufacturer sites and get the drivers myself. So far the only operating system service pack I have ever used that worked well, was xp service 3. The first two patches nearly left my computers (at the times) crawling and needing upgrades just to continue being useable.
I don’t believe that every security patch scare is for the reason they claim. Otherwise they would fully announce that windows genuine advantage, actually gave you a genuine advantage.
If I can’t use software I paid for, with updates turned off, then I will not buy any products form that provider again. Easier explained, I have wine installed to my Linux partition so I can run some tools along side of some of the Linux tools I have, and well, without some of what the software may be looking for, it will not run.
I claim that from here on out, I will never buy software that forces me to turn on automatic updates. I enjoy my computer running at full speed. You can do what ever you feel safe with.
The Office Network
Well. The network here is fully, 100% in all ways….. Weird.
Our local I.T. guy has the company all stuffed into one blade with one single hard drive (on a blade that has optional 4 front load 3.5 hd). It’s not his fault. The company doesn’t buy new crap, and leaves him making it all work. Just sometimes, his issues could be avoided, if he would listen from time to time.
But some people have their own way to learn and do things, so they get into them and stick with them. God forbid they step out of their element.
So. Everyday I have to go reboot some wet fecal matter we call a peachtree server (it’s an old Pentium III single core green machine,pata only), and hope it makes it through the day without someone needing my assistance.
The user accounts on the blade, Could be a whole lot easier to set up, if the weirdo would stop deleting the icons off the desktop and start menu “recent” area. but again, he figured out how to work the server in this weird half fast way (yeah I know how to say it but this is a vulgarity free site), so if I do anything on it, yeah… it screwed up the space time continuum.
Sad thing is, I am the relief I.T. guy when he is out of the office. I fix anything, and he has no idea how I did it, space time continuum issue again. Shoe lace untied? space time continuum issue again because I worked something. power goes out in another state? Space time continuum issue again.
Sure would be nice if the high ups here would understand what I want to complain about. but again… It’s a job.
Why I Hate Youtube
Everyone wants to be “Ask a Ninja”
This man did it before anyone. and still does it.
But what brought me to this “Why I Hate YouTube” post.
Stupid Video
YouTube is full of idiots just like that. What do I mean by that? He is some clown who sees what is popular on YouTube, so he uses what ever program he has to download someone else’s video from YouTube, cut the crap out of the video and turn a 5 minute video into a small 3 second segment of the actual footage. But he “talks” okay, he actually screams into the camera giving some stupid description of the video, then he plugs some other “viral video” from YouTube, maybe one that was popular last month or what ever just so “you know that he can relate”. Then the clown turns around and uses the same tags from the original video and adds more to the tags field to insure top rank, and then he titles the video similar to the original but tweaked a bit to ensure more clicks.
Another Stupid Video
Same with this guy.
Sorry dude but your video starts out saying “Viral Video” right away, I don’t like you and I hate your scream thing you have going on in your video.
I don’t actually hate YouTube, I hate the fact they allow this to happen. They are doing it for the google ads. More power to you on collecting for your original work.. oh wait.. it’s not original. and it’s totally gaming Adsense and gaming Google’s search algorithm.
It’s the funding of these dill holes that is killing the income of the writers and news collectors and site owners and site designers who have original content that use the adsense market. It seems ever since they added the adsense feature to YouTube, the quality of YouTube videos has turned into regurgitated current news, while the pay and share of adsense has diminished.
Do we have enough Justin Beiber on YouTube?
hate,like,bash Justin bieber just to get a thumbs up? bug off with that.
Do a high pitched voice and act like your gender is unidentifiable? bug off with that.
Every single video on YouTube seems like some guy or girl commenting on a popular topic, they say one sentence with the camera back a bit, then they comment on their comment while making a wise crack about the comment, with the camera zoomed in, then they go back to camera one and say one sentence, one fricking sentence and then bam….. back to the zoomed in commenting on the last sentence.. What the heck ? !!!!! Do they all have to be like that? I mean, video after video after video, each one is the exact same format. STOP THAT, JUST STOP THAT!
Could you imagine if Friends used the same dull theme that Seinfeld used, or if Casper was like Popeye. Imagine if the whole world had no variety.
Please, if you are going to do something original, please use original content, and please try and add a taste of originality to your format.
Here is another dude regurgitating news.