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It'd been a long time since I posted here. There's a lot more... stuff, I guess. Actually, I'm starting to get internet-old, telling stories to my peers about the days when the most animated thing on the intertubes were floating, rotating skulls; an example of kitch like bobble-headed dolls on the dashboard of your limo.
"I dunno." I thought at the time. "I don't want to say, 'these have no value', because someone clearly likes them. But I really can't imagine a time when I'd want low-res flames to be plastered on my website."
"What about ironically?" a friend asked.
"Even irony," I replied "can go too far." I don't know if I really believe that, of course, but it hardly matters. Only the lamest of luserz maintain these moving .gifs; these hard hat-wearing construction workers laboring eternally on someone's Angelfire account (in the production of a website that takes slightly less time to full construct - or sink to the bottom forever - then most roads seem to), floating skulls, or cut gems, gleaming plastically on an untextured black background are items of the past. Slick designs coming from out-of-work college grads or lucky (and likely hardworking) site programmers are the rule of the day.
This is probably the work of cheaper and more sophisticated graphics programs slowly but surely saturating the market until all anyone will ever know are the powerful and good-looking web designs that came with the inevitable taming of the internet, our very favorite system of tubes.*
Anyhow, I volunteered a little while ago to work on the areas charity drives. I'm not quite sure how extensive my planning is going to need to be and, in fact, some of the information had been given out before I volunteered. It looks like the first drive is going to the lupus foundation in the area, and I've spent some time trying to determine if they really do take non-money donations. Basically, I wasn't able to find out what kind of non-money donations (besides stock, surprisingly) they accept, so I wonder if maybe I ran into the wrong lupus foundation.
Before, I dunno, a few days ago, I guess the only thing I knew about lupus was that Dr. House rarely determined it to be the case. I'm operating on an internet meme, here, people. Afterwards, I thought it was super-rare, but ever since then, the number of cases that I've heard about in casual conversation have surprised me. I guess once you hear about something once, you're destined to observe it in your daily life; something I've noticed about my education as a whole. actually.
* Not like a big truck.
"I dunno." I thought at the time. "I don't want to say, 'these have no value', because someone clearly likes them. But I really can't imagine a time when I'd want low-res flames to be plastered on my website."
"What about ironically?" a friend asked.
"Even irony," I replied "can go too far." I don't know if I really believe that, of course, but it hardly matters. Only the lamest of luserz maintain these moving .gifs; these hard hat-wearing construction workers laboring eternally on someone's Angelfire account (in the production of a website that takes slightly less time to full construct - or sink to the bottom forever - then most roads seem to), floating skulls, or cut gems, gleaming plastically on an untextured black background are items of the past. Slick designs coming from out-of-work college grads or lucky (and likely hardworking) site programmers are the rule of the day.
This is probably the work of cheaper and more sophisticated graphics programs slowly but surely saturating the market until all anyone will ever know are the powerful and good-looking web designs that came with the inevitable taming of the internet, our very favorite system of tubes.*
Anyhow, I volunteered a little while ago to work on the areas charity drives. I'm not quite sure how extensive my planning is going to need to be and, in fact, some of the information had been given out before I volunteered. It looks like the first drive is going to the lupus foundation in the area, and I've spent some time trying to determine if they really do take non-money donations. Basically, I wasn't able to find out what kind of non-money donations (besides stock, surprisingly) they accept, so I wonder if maybe I ran into the wrong lupus foundation.
Before, I dunno, a few days ago, I guess the only thing I knew about lupus was that Dr. House rarely determined it to be the case. I'm operating on an internet meme, here, people. Afterwards, I thought it was super-rare, but ever since then, the number of cases that I've heard about in casual conversation have surprised me. I guess once you hear about something once, you're destined to observe it in your daily life; something I've noticed about my education as a whole. actually.
* Not like a big truck.
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