YOU'RE COOL

Recently I was reading up on e3, one of the largest video game conventions in the world. While reading, I noticed that several of Gamespot's writers thought that it would be pretty awesome if they were able to discredit themselves from any sort of journalisitc integrity in order to throw in a few of the internet's finest "memes." (The offending article)

You probably know a few memes even if the word is unfamiliar to you, and that is the purpose of this entry. Phrases like "facepalm," "EPIC," and "FAIL" are memes that hail from deep inside the asshole of the internet, and everyone using them hasn't the slightest idea.

It's kind of like that old MTV commercial. There are a group of people at a family dinner, and one of the older ladies says something about her new necklace, referencing it as "bling". Everyone laughs and keeps spouting the word bling, while the kids in the room sort of look at each other like "are you fucking serious?" The commercial concludes with something like the words "R.I.P Bling 1998-2002."

Basically, its like getting a friend request from your mom on Facebook (not that I had a problem with that, I love my mom more than you love yours). It is kind of funny, but at the same time, you can't help escape this feeling that Facebook just got a little less appealing.

Please, for my sake, the next time you want to talk about how funny a RickRoll is, or want to talk about picture from icanhazcheeseburger or FAILBLOG, don't. We'll all be better off. ALSO IF YOU SAY LULZ AND YOU ARE READING THIS I KNOW WHO YOU ARE. STOP.

An excerpt:



References: http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Old_meme and if you have no idea what I'm ranting about: http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Memes

HOW TO BE NEW TO UBUNTU

Recently installing Ubuntu on my recently acquired Asus EEEEEEEEPC (Everyone Everywhere Emits Exciting Excitations Everywhere Endlessly Emu Personal Computer) has given me some trouble.

I see myself as a rather competent user, and it is a bit disturbing being so unfamiliar with an OS. I've been a MICRO$HIT WINBLOWS (lol I'm hip) user since Windows 3.1, and I really feel like a fish out of water on linux. The little unix experience I've had has come through my intro computer science courses, but the unix commands aren't really in the scope of the course, just a bit of a byproduct of learning programming fundamentals and navigating day to day.

Anyway, the point of this post is to show my appreciation for Google. I'm not sure what I would do without it.

I wanted to customize my Ubuntu like the hipster I am, so I Googled

download ubuntu themes

Taking me to gnome-look, where I commenced to browse. I found a login theme that I thought was interesting, so I went ahead and downloaded it. I had problems because I wanted to edit it/add it to my login themes library, however it wasn't as easy as I expected. I won't spell out the story, I will let my Google searches tell the story:

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That last one was the finisher, helping me learn the whole command to copy a folder recursively with root permissions into my /usr/share/gdm/themes/. This whole Googling process was elongated by the fact that I was editing the image on a trackpad in GIMP on a netbook at the same time.

If you have any questions about this terribly noobish and obscure issue, feel free to ask me about it because I can probably help.

Moral of the story? The internet can tell you absolutely anything you want to know if you play a game of 20(+) questions with it.