Archive for February, 2015
Gimcrackery
Why I Don’t Have AT&T UVerse (Yet)
This post is not anti-AT&T or any other provider. It is simply a factual comparison of prices for various cable/Internet services, which is a pretty hot topic right now. Hotter than your mom.
Blogging
If You Could Have One Superpower…
I just installed a new Wordpress plugin called Intense Debate. Have you ever posted a comment on Digg.com or some place that has a great comment system that lets you reply to peoples' com...
Twitter Sucks
Twitter Can Be Bad For You… Part VI
By now you know I'm against tweeting on Twitter (I don't have a problem if you use Twitter to follow interesting/professional/famous peoples' tweets, though). I have always been adamantly opposed to the shift in our society tow...
Twitter Sucks
I’m Anti-Twitter; Part V
People (Ashton Kutcher) say that Twitter is great because it lets us become the sources and broadcasters of news. Well, who is "us"? If "us" means "regular people", then my response to that is: we already do! If my regular old ...
Twitter Sucks
Twitter Is Still Rahtarded – Part IV
Sadly, most people on Twitter are tweeting because they are narcissistic and think people care about every mundane detail of their lives. To this day I have no idea how so many people became like this. There is a way to use ...
Sports
OK, Enough With The Roller Derby Stuff
I feel like roller derby thinks it's going to rise up and become a prominent force in our society much like NFL or McDonalds or Paul Walker (just kidding) and I want to sit roller derby down and say to her "you are tenacious bu...
Movies
The World’s Perception Of Evil Is Mostly Wrong
Take this Antichrist trailer for instance. Watch The Exorcist or any other horror movie about "evil". That's what people think evil is. They think it's blatant, violent, frightening imagery and that demons are ugly, ferocious b...
Amazing
Mythbusters Pancakes A Car
Do you sort of watch Mythbusters if you happen to flip to it when there's not really anything else on and then you keep watching because you enjoy how much the chick looks like the annoying Progressive commercial lady and how s...
Movies
Moon Trailer
I have always liked Sam Rockwell. He was good in The Green Mile, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and Matchstick Men. Apparently he is going to play Justin Hammer in Iron Man II. But what I want to focus on now is this trailer ...
Blogging
The Gimcrack Miscellany Turns 2 Years Old
Two years ago today, on April 4th, 2007, the Gimcrack Miscellany (at that point named "B") dove into the annals of Interwebbery with its firs...
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