This was saved on my Myspace account from Sept 2008. I just remembered it tonight and thought that it was worth moving over. It’s offensive if you’re offended by the word fuck. If not, then please, carry on.
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the fuck you rant
i wrote this in december of 2007 on mnvibe. i feel like this again today, so i dug it up. who knows how long it will stick around there, so i’ll put it here to share.
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i wanna fucking stab someone, and this felt like the best place to say it.
fuck this bullshit. fuck your newspaper articles, and your fucking clothing sales, your fucking neon sign and your radio stations, fuck YUMI and his retard diamond commercials, and fuck this mouse that works MOST of the time, fuck your amazon order, and fuck your fucking Wii, fuck FedEx and fuck the crazy lady who can’t do math at the post office, fuck the writers strike - i need steven colbert back on the fucking air NOW!, fuck empty hand soap dispensers and sneeze guards on the salsa bar, fuck slush and sleet and late buses and wet pant legs, fuck Macy’s and the fucking fuck fucks that populate the downtown area, don’t fucking look at me, fuck you and your fucking hair and your lack of hair and your briefcase or your backpack, fuck not getting laid, fuck quitting smoking, fuck getting fucking fat and fuck this fucking styrofoam fucking culture, fuck mnvibe and fuck the shows and the clubs and the scene, fuck the IRS and taxes and the election and the fucking iron triangle, fuck canada and fuck france, fuck ex girlfriends and fuck future girlfriends, fuck your face and his face and her face and this computer that doesn’t fucking work, and fuck Firefox and it’s inability to do the things I need it to do in order to get paid, and fuck the internet in general for giving me a false sense of knowledge when all I really know is that we’re all fucking doomed and there’s no fucking harddrive big enough to fucking save us all, fuck dandruff and saggy man boobs, fuck empty fridges and friends who work nights, fuck this horrible feeling of sloth that keeps me annoyed at the world and utterly fucking useless.
I’m an SVN user, and for the most part, it makes sense. Seems that developers lately are all-about Git because Linus Torvalds himself designed and developed it for his own use in Linux, and it’s the best thing ever.
This article by Ted Dziuba is a great read for nerds who have ever used SVN and tried to wrap their heads around Git.
“The problem isn’t that Git is to hard, it’s that smart developers are impatient and have exactly zero tolerance for unexpected behavior in their tools. While Git is the trendy thing right now, perhaps some day you will come across a grizzled developer who is using SVN, and when you ask him why, his answer won’t make sense, because it’s a Zen thing.”
(This is my second time linking to Ted Dziuba, seems a smart guy who isn’t afraid to be honest and funny.)
Beautiful!
THANK YOU!
I can’t believe how many people out there are making a living and running successful businesses by ripping people off with fake knowledge. Seriously, if you are an “SEO Expert” and you offer “SEO Services” without a background in web development or web design - then you are a HACK.
We received a 6-pound bag of PHONEBOOKS the other day. Such a waste of energy/paper/man hours/everything. Get with the times phone companies, the internet has replaced you. You are now obsolete.
I’ve been using Pandora for years, and when they announced in 2009 that they would be offering a pay-service for a standalone Adobe Air app, I was ecstatic. For $36/year you get 192kbps streaming audio, no commercials, and uninterrupted listening for 5 hours. The unpaid version requires some interaction to make sure that you are still listening, but as a member I can just turn it on and let it play.
The standalone Adobe Air application is nice too. It’s small (in size and in memory usage), nicely skinned, and allows quick access to the basic controls very easily. Since I’m a web developer, occasionally I’ll have dozens of tabs open at the same time - which eats up system resources. With the web-based Pandora player, that means additional browser resources just to play music. The Pandora Air app doesn’t run in the browser, so my music is safe from browser crashes.
I use Pandora every single day, it exposes me to great new artists, and it’s ridiculously cheap at just $36/year. For that cost, and as much as I use it, I figure I’m paying just about 1.5 cents per hour of music.
In my opinion, it’s worth every penny.
No more status updates or application messages from people I’ve hardly ever talked to in real life. No more worries about what Facebook is going to do next with my personal information.
It’s amazing how annoyed I get at people that I genuinely love, just based on their Facebook habits. So, now I have 14 days until Facebook REALLY deletes my account.
Good bye Facebook. It’s been pretty awful to tell you the truth.
This article spells it out pretty much exactly as I see it. Shady CEO has access to millions of users’ private data, is making a ton of money on your naivete, is potentially breaking the law with their uncouth privacy practices, etc.
And here’s a nice little followup on the original post:
