So, I've decided to move The Blog to Wordpress sometime soon because Blogger and I don't always get along (sometimes, I tell it to do things and it has a nasty habit of not doing what I tell it). The only trouble is that if I'm going to have a new start, The Blog needs a new name. After all, it's bad luck to captain a new boat without a name. I mean, that was the whole moral of Forrest Gump, right? That's what I took from it. Well, that and maybe "True unconditional love is when you love someone despite the 70s."
Have I ever told you people how hard it is to name things? I mean, honestly, I didn't realize how hard it is to figure out what to call something when you're actually TRYING to name it. The first time I saw Avatar: The Last Airbender, I immediately knew...."Hey, that's Kung Fu Jesus." When I watched James Cameron's Avatar...you know, the Great Epic Space Opera About Tree Gods And Cat People That We've Never Seen Before Except When It Was A Disney Movie Called Pocahontas....I immediately knew to call it Pocahontas In Space. I'm just trying to come a name...Just A Fucking Name....and I got nothing. It's a little aggravating.
On my better days when I'm not doing the day job, this blog or writing for Black Nerd Problems, I moonlight as a blog consultant and I have this friend, a fellow blogger who is, more or less, MY unofficial consultant (by that, I mean there's all kinds of crazy shit on the internet and she's usually there to tell me when the crazy shit I discover has been there for years). I was talking out the whole "It's a little weird that I can't name something" thing the other day and.....
Me: I need to step up The Blog content. It's looking more and more like that's going to be the new name because I can't come up with a better one.
Friend: Well, that's cool.
Me: Amazingly enough, it's not taken as far as I can tell.
Friend: Wait....really?
Me: I shit you not. I typed in theblog.com and came up with nothing.
Friend: You typed it in...where?
Me: The first thing I do with random domain names I joke about is open up a new browser tab and type "whatever".com.
Friend: Nah, Oz, you need to go to a registrar. Go to GoDaddy. Aren't you a blog consultant?
Me: Hey, that doesn't have anything to do with this. I'm a blog consultant. Not a name consultant.
Friend: **sigh**
Me: Well, I'll be damned. It IS taken. Now, I want to find out who owns this name and troll the shit out of them.
Friend: For that, you go to whois.com.
Me: Oh, you REALLY shouldn't have shown me this.
Friend: Ha! Sorry.
Me: Are you?
Friend: No, I'm not.
Me: This is the sort of shit Morgan Freeman quit his job over in Dark Knight. #NoOneManShouldHaveAllThisPower
Friend: Bwahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
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Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Saturday, July 5, 2014
Saturday, May 17, 2014
The Thing About Internet Spoilers
I've been meaning to talk about this for a while now, but didn't really have a good example to springboard the topic. The best example in the past few weeks I can think of is probably the "Royal Wedding" on Game of Thrones. People lost their shit about the ending and set Twitter on FIRE. It's a pretty well known fact that Twitter knows no chill even on its slow days, but this was an especially HILARIOUS night to bear witness to.In fact, this is such a special spoiler, I'm not even going to talk about it until after the jump.
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