Day: February 7, 2016, 10:19 AM

Out of touch

Chill Uncategorized

This article is way out of touch. At first I was interested. Then just annoyed.

Now, there isn’t anything particularly unusual about young white kids identifying with hip-hop culture. That’s been happening since the beginning. But the performance of hip-hop culture as a normalized part of white identity is fairly unusual.

That’s been happening since the 1990s. Probably since the 1980s, but went mainstream in the 90s. Vine and the internet had nothing at all to do with that.

The part about black contributions being downplayed or minimized is correct, though, and has been happening since forever.

Bye, Twitter

Chill Uncategorized

If Twitter implements this, the few Twitter feeds I pay any attention to will be deleted from my bookmarks and I won’t go back there again.

An algorithm-tampered timeline is completely useless and is another concession to the moron contingent — the same ones who can’t stay off Facebook — and not something that I’ll find usable even as an observer (I do not and never will have a Twitter account myself).

Like Firefox, Twitter seems hellbent on destroying its one (in this case, small) advantage over other services.

Good luck to them with that.

For reference, this is how goddamn clueless the Twitter engineers are about their own product. Comically idiotic.

Dia 6

Chill Uncategorized

Feb 6 viands:

  • 1 Starbucks 9.5 oz mocha drink.
  • 2 small dark chocolate peanut better cups.
  • 1 cherry cheese danish.
  • 1 small bite of pretzel (my partner’s).
  • 1 large coconut juice drink, shared with my partner.
  • Hamburger with cheese and seasoned fries (ate a little more than half of the regular size fries), and a large sweet tea.
  • 1 small chocolate/peppermint bar.
  • Medium plate of cheese grits.
  • Large piece of fudge chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream.

As I said, the tally of Saturday is much higher — I eat basically whatever I want that day and consume approximately the daily average calories of a normal American diet — but I only do that one day a week instead of all of them. That gives me the ability to control my intake far better and just generally works great for me.