- Look. I know my tweet volume is driving people away, but #xkcd is new to me, and I laughed for twenty seconds at this: http://bit.ly/4luOwu #
- Oh, hey, that's a great opening for a film! Violence against children! A girl, no less! In a small box filling with sludge! [sigh] #WalledIn #
- I've frequently thought that if I wanted to target only a sophisticated web user on the cheap with Google Adwords, I'd bid on Rot-13ed words #
- RT @DawnReneCano: "Thanx Cousin Joshua. I'm starting a "pretend" family. Anybody need a family member?" — Any McGees want to help her? #
- RT @algore: President Obama should go to Copenhagen http://bit.ly/Pjc5k #
- RT @NYTimesKrugman "There’s a persistent delusion … that we’re … having a rational political discussion" http://bit.ly/uYZdl #
- It's not Friday, but: @shitmydadsays #
- And I thought it was a good idea putting my bed next to my computer desk (true): http://xkcd.com/490/ Gah, xkcd has hover-captions! 450 in! #
- Sign I'm getting old: almost saying "So's your mom!" to a friend whose mom is dead. Moms just get fewer from here on out. #
- Can't confirm the accuracy of the translation from Arabic. I can confirm my nausea. http://bit.ly/4pTdmU
#islam #feminism #domesticviolence # - RT: @mwmicrobrews: Feel good about your number of followers? Kimmy from Growing Pain has over 11,000 (@andreabarber). How do you feel now? #
- According to #WillSmith, "2+2 is gonna be what I want it to be." Oh, and he wants to "represent magic". WTF? http://bit.ly/2PLMro #
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Oh, hey, that’s a great opening for a film! Violence against children! A girl, no less! In a small box filling with sludge! [sigh] #WalledIn
I should elaborate on this. As frequently discussed on this site (no link) I’ve become engrossed in the academic study of horror films. The tweet here is referring to the 2009 film Walled In. I knew almost nothing about it when I rented it. I knew it was horror — I assumed there was something about claustrophobia in the plot — I knew it had Deborah Kara Unger (with solid indie cred to her name) in a lead role — and I knew that it was partially funded by Canal+.
Canal+ (pronounced ‘canal-ploo’) gets essentially a free pass from me. And I don’t really know why. I’ve observed that money from Canal+ tends to correlate well with my enjoyment of a picture. But my sampling has been haphazard, and is not backed by actual evidence. According to the Wikipedia article linked above, “StudioCanal’s most notable productions from its early years include JFK, Basic Instinct, Cliffhanger, Under Siege, Free Willy, and the original Stargate movie.” I didn’t know this. I do now. I don’t — how to put it — especially like those films (?). Something a little bit stronger, maybe? Something like “Except maybe for Basic Instinct, I’d probably prefer to watch the slaughter of rabbits set to saxophone music”?
But I think Dave has seconded my high-correlation, so: help?
Since you’re at risk of becoming one of those guys who relates everything in life back to an XKCD strip, I figured I’d throw you some other webcomics that I consider to be at least as good.
1.) A Softer World (has rollover): Probably my favorite of the set. Sometimes sweet, often a little bit disturbing, usually strangely beautiful.
2.) Dinosaur Comics (has rollover): Never has so much been conveyed with so little. Six panels every strip, with artwork that never changes to any great degree. Discussions of philosophy, pop culture and stomping ensue.
3.) A Lesson is Learned but the Damage is Irreversible”: ALILBTDII ended quite a while ago, but it’s probably the most bizarre of the set. Definitely contains some of my favorite webcomic concepts.
4.) Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: Just funny. Also, updates daily, which is nice.
5.) Dresden Codak: Started off aping A Lesson is Learned, but has kind-of found its own voice since then. Had a miserable run in the middle where the author decided to tell a not-terribly-interesting epic about transhumanism, but it is now back to being funny and enjoyable. Arguably the best-looking webcomic out there.
To continue from my last comment…
I think any of the comics listed above benefit from being read from the beginning, so I’d suggest digging into the archives. For some, this is an extremely daunting task, but this is one of those situations where you can make your insomnia work for you.
I figured I’d throw you some other webcomics that I consider to be at least as good.
Truly, the amount of online content you are able to consume, process, be clever about, and access at will is staggering. You have every meme before I, seemingly don’t get overload from MeFi (?), and still maintain a gadfly’s social life. Since you have a full-time job and are decent about personal hygiene, I am constantly wondering where do you get the time?!
Not to mention books, movies, museums, IDEFK.
Oh, and drugs. Drugs also.
Oh, hey, that’s a great opening for a film! Violence against children! A girl, no less! In a small box filling with sludge! [sigh]
Oh, and the sludge was supposedly cement. And the filmmakers filled the box in which the 11-year-old (maybe?) was trapped to just below her ears, her face upturned in a scream, calling for her “daddy” (how they were allowed to get that past child labor restrictions is beyond me.) Oh, and, no, I didn’t finish the movie.
Since you have a full-time job and are decent about personal hygiene, I am constantly wondering where do you get the time?!
Honestly, the ability to not “get overload from MeFi” really helps. MeFites are notoriously prone to internet memes (yo dawg, I heard you like the ‘Filter, so I put a filter on your ‘Filter so you can filter the ‘Filter), so that covers where I hear those. Also, not watching television (another popular MetaFilter meme) really helps. If I hear that a show is good, I wait until a couple of seasons are out on DVD and then watch all the episodes in a single weekend. If a show isn’t interesting enough for me to sit through 48 straight hours of it, it’s not worth my time (speaking of which, condolences regarding Dollhouse; I know that you enjoyed :: parts :: of it). Reading happens on the bus, which gives me a solid two hours of it a day. That gets me through one or two books a week. Movies and museums are things that I overlap with my social life; I seldom attend either without company.
Oh, and drugs. Drugs also.
I’ve been more or less completely sober (minus a couple of raging drunks a month) for over five years now. That’s freed up a considerable amount of my time.
OK, thanks for the explanation. I don’t even own a television any longer, but there are a few shows I’ll watch on hulu (or, um, with other technological assistance), generally in fits and starts (a pause, and then six at a time, say). It’s been Dollhouse, Fringe, and Lost of late. Nerrrd!
But I’ve been thinking that a lot of the reason why my data absorption is (relative-to-you) low efficiency is the amount of public radio / BBC that I listen to on any given day. Such streams only communicate as quickly as the presenter can speak, and there’s not a lot of option for skipping through bits that are uninteresting (which, on the shows I attend to, is a fortunately rare occurrence.)