Topic: Re: Blog Thread IIIb : Look Who's Blogging Now (Read 250630 times)

Lines · « **Reply #1600 on:** 13 Dec 2011, 07:26 »

When I went from single to a relationship, I automatically started getting engagement ring adverts, wedding dresses, and offers for loans for unwed mothers. The last one I really don't get.

Carl-E · « **Reply #1601 on:** 13 Dec 2011, 07:27 »

Yeah, the implications are pretty disturbing...

Dazed · « **Reply #1602 on:** 13 Dec 2011, 07:57 »

Whenever I become single on facebook it immediately bombards me with pictures of ex-girlfriends and ads for Christian dating sites. It's awful.

benji · « **Reply #1603 on:** 13 Dec 2011, 08:18 »

I'm listed as married and I still get adds for Christian Dating sites. Maybe it's keyed into the fact that I'm a seminary student?

pwhodges · « **Reply #1604 on:** 13 Dec 2011, 08:21 »

Quote from: Dazed on 13 Dec 2011, 07:57

... facebook ... It's awful.

Dazed · « **Reply #1605 on:** 13 Dec 2011, 08:31 »

I suppose that is a simple yet accurate reduction of that statement, yes.

Jace · « **Reply #1606 on:** 13 Dec 2011, 10:02 »

Oh you guys, I bought a new car yesterday. I no longer drive a 2002 VW beetle that is like, light seafoam green. Now I drive a grey-blue 2007 Chevy Malibu. I'm really excited that I don't look like a guy driving his girlfriend's car around.

Papersatan · « **Reply #1607 on:** 13 Dec 2011, 10:13 »

You know what is a good use for a new car?

ROAD TRIP!

I hear Michigan is nice.

snalin · « **Reply #1608 on:** 13 Dec 2011, 10:19 »

I used to get some google ads from gaychubbydating.com. Apparently my search history is somewhat different from what I thought it was.

Papersatan · « **Reply #1609 on:** 13 Dec 2011, 10:20 »

Yeah, now that I am married it is mostly baby ads, and things for "Moms".

Funny thing about targeted ads, about 5, 6 years ago my dad was showing me a video on CNN.com and the ad before it was for a car. I mentioned that It was a nice change from all the Army ads. Turns out he wasn't getting army ads, he said his ads were always for cars or investment services. Mine were always for the Army. That was the first time I understood the extent of targeted marketing. I mean, I don't sign in to CNN. This was before Facebook had a deal with everyone to keep track of and post what you are doing, I didn't have a Twitter... It knew I was eligible for the army and that he was not and I have no idea how.

Skewbrow · « **Reply #1610 on:** 13 Dec 2011, 10:42 »

Would disabling cookies help? Except for the sites that absolutely need them. Like this forum.

bainidhe_dub · « **Reply #1611 on:** 13 Dec 2011, 11:01 »

I like the ads on Gmail, because when it can't get anything worth advertising about from the content of the message, it gives me ads for Rosie the Riveter products! (because of my name)

Papersatan · « **Reply #1612 on:** 13 Dec 2011, 11:02 »

Probably. I don't really mind. Just at the time I hadn't realized how much "they" can tell about you. I mean, I am older now, and the wars are winding down... My ads are for cars, and liquor, and grad schools, Oh, and products in online stores I have recently visited. "Oh... you looked at this rug 3 times, and then left.... Have another look. You waaaaant it." oooo crafty, you know how to tempt me.

It is the most noticeable when they get it wrong. Someone linked a light called "The affinity wall sconce" somewhere, which is a joke for people in my program because we spend weeks in assigned groups making "affinity walls" I clicked it once and it was on my banner ads for a month. Light was ugly. I live in an apartment. I am not in the market for lights.

DrPhibes · « **Reply #1613 on:** 13 Dec 2011, 11:12 »

addblock which blocks even google adds. get it.

Carl-E · « **Reply #1614 on:** 13 Dec 2011, 11:17 »

My favorite was when this very website was getting memcheck errors.

All the ads on the comic page were for flash drives and portable memory backups...

I took a screenshot, I'll post it when I get home.

Papersatan · « **Reply #1615 on:** 13 Dec 2011, 11:39 »

I read an online fiction thing for a while that was set in a fantasy world and featured characters in open relationships, gay relationships and D/s relationships, the banner ad once was selling me Ann Coulter books.

valley_parade · « **Reply #1616 on:** 13 Dec 2011, 12:06 »

The weirdest one was getting an email from Amazon advertising "games for your new xbox 360".

I bought a used 360 off eBay the day before. Creepy.

Sorflakne · « **Reply #1617 on:** 13 Dec 2011, 17:45 »

Hey guys, what's-

Whoa, post 10,000. Wow.

Jimor · « **Reply #1618 on:** 13 Dec 2011, 18:25 »

And keep in mind that this is thread #3, and that the others were even bigger, IIRC.

Hmm, for actually bloggy content. My brother is visiting from Japan, it's been a couple of years since I've seen him, so that's nice.

My class on Adobe After Effects is over with, and I'm pretty happy with what I've been learning (I'd taken other classes for it before). I can't wait to get a new computer that can run the full Adobe Production Suite I won a couple months ago. I'll probably have to force myself to come up for air once in a while as I play with all the new toys as much as I want!

In other video news, I'm editing the music video that I shot with a friend (talked about in an earlier post). It's not the ideal situation for a number of reasons, but I'm making the most of it, and learning some new techniques as I try to work out how to do this. What I'm really excited about is that I'm going to be shooting/editing a REAL music video with a local artist in the next few weeks, where we're actually working together from the start on concept, performance, filming and everything else.

And a short film that I'd been helping out on finally had its LAST shoot. I volunteered to help out, using my camera, back in April... of 2010! It was supposed to be a 3-month shoot, ha! But since I was principle camera person and my camera was the only one available, I got stuck in what overall was a bloody mess with very little organization and "vision" with the script and scenes changing all the time. The writer/director is a nice enough guy, which is why I stuck with it, but man, lesson learned.

For that and other reasons, I'm done for now with working on other people's shit until I get a chance to at least get a few of my own projects going and finished.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #1619 on:** 14 Dec 2011, 10:12 »

I keep getting banner ads for unicorn-related paraphernalia (because of me) and for wanky tech-metal (because of my ex-girlfriend).

My father's accused me of deleting his porn from his computer (which I have no recollection of doing, but apparently he named it all "trash"), and I've met a three-legged dog that inadvertently does cartwheels when he pees. It's the cutest way to urinate, for sure. I dare any of you to try it.

Carl-E · « **Reply #1620 on:** 14 Dec 2011, 11:14 »

"What are you doin' in town, three-legged dog?"

"I'm-a lookin' fer the man that shot my paw."

Sorry, sorry. Just... sorry.

DrPhibes · « **Reply #1621 on:** 15 Dec 2011, 09:46 »

I've read almost the top of the iceberg about what there is to know about medieval castles in England and Wales. That's about 100 pages of godly information about Motte-and-Baileys, Hall-Keeps, Curtain Castles, Towers and more. Why is this the tip of the iceberg? I got information about how much money each castle received between a period of time. I got a book about Dutch castles. Another about castles in general and two papers about two individual castles and why those are so damn great. Even then I haven't started on every aspect of what's inside a castle and where about it's situated.
And I only read this to write a 3000 word article about castles.

Lines · « **Reply #1622 on:** 15 Dec 2011, 10:48 »

I am making brownies for a Christmas party tonight and there's a dessert contest for the best themed desert. The theme is "favorite Christmas specials from your childhood." My Christmas special is A Christmas Story.

Move over, Frosty, make room for the Leg Lamp.

Carl-E · « **Reply #1623 on:** 15 Dec 2011, 11:05 »

They've made it into a musical. Complete with a kick-line of leg-lamps...

Lines · « **Reply #1624 on:** 15 Dec 2011, 20:22 »

HA!

Well, only two people (including me) ended up participating and I was beaten by a nicely crafted Snoopy-sleeping-on-his-house-with-xmas-lights rice crispy treat. Which is ok, because it looked awesome and I had a looooong day today and didn't really have the time to make a cake like I'd wanted so I kind of half-assed the leg lamp in icing on the brownies. But my leg lamp did get several laughs and I got a gift card to BW3, so, woo! Success!

Except I had too much sugar and now I feel kinda blegh so I'm going to bed.

Carl-E · « **Reply #1625 on:** 15 Dec 2011, 23:56 »

If you crash from too much sugar, do you have sweet dreams?

Zingoleb · « **Reply #1626 on:** 16 Dec 2011, 11:52 »

I just got a card from my grandmother, who knows I'm an atheist, that says,

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Lestie,

Glory to GOD in the highest, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.

Love always Grandma xoxoxox

...I love you, Grandma, but you can't even spell my name right.

Papersatan · « **Reply #1627 on:** 16 Dec 2011, 12:37 »

My Aunt has spelled my name with a 'C' instead of a 'K' my entire life. It used to drive me crazy, but I just gave up.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #1628 on:** 17 Dec 2011, 03:55 »

Well! It's 4 AM and I'm just getting home from a party.

If you know me, you would realize how insane that is for me to say. I don't party. I stay up late, yes, but that's killing bad guys, not partying. Not at parties involving Nitrous, pot brownies, many shots, and sugar cubes of acid, no, and especially not at parties resulting in makeouts with a super cute (bi, poly, geeky, gamer) girl, who turns out to be one half of a (bi, poly, geeky, gamer) couple, who have invited me to their house for geekery/sex.

...My life is win! My life is full of so much win!

DrPhibes · « **Reply #1629 on:** 17 Dec 2011, 04:29 »

Sounds... kinky

For tonight's being DJ at a gala I still have to prepare and burn CDs and stuff. with a splitting hangover from last night

Carl-E · « **Reply #1630 on:** 17 Dec 2011, 08:58 »

Grading. Fielding emails.

Gripe, gripe, complain, gripe, bitch and moan.

Not sure if that's me or the students. Probably both...

whom · « **Reply #1631 on:** 17 Dec 2011, 14:07 »

Quote from: Zingoleb on 16 Dec 2011, 11:52

I just got a card from my grandmother, who knows I'm an atheist, that says,

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Lestie,

Glory to GOD in the highest, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.

Love always Grandma xoxoxox

...I love you, Grandma, but you can't even spell my name right.

My grandparents frequently mispronounce my name

smack that isaiah · « **Reply #1632 on:** 17 Dec 2011, 14:28 »

my dad and my uncle have each misspelled my name on gifts.

pwhodges · « **Reply #1633 on:** 17 Dec 2011, 14:58 »

Until I was 45 no one ever succeeded in mis-spelling my first name (nor ever formed a nickname from it). But then I married a woman whose brother-in-law has the surname Paull [sic]. Guess what...

LTK · « **Reply #1634 on:** 17 Dec 2011, 15:20 »

I knew a guy named Tom in school. A classmate told me he thought it was written Thom, because every person he knew with that name spelled it Thom. And every person I know with that name spells it Tom.

Also, the reason I use the name LTK is that people on the internet would persistently misspell my actual first name. Initials are easier.

pwhodges · « **Reply #1635 on:** 17 Dec 2011, 15:23 »

Of course, I wasn't counting the Norwegians I used to work with who sometimes wrote it Pål or Paal - that was fair enough from their point of view, and I actually rather like Pål.

LTK · « **Reply #1636 on:** 17 Dec 2011, 15:29 »

Yeah, it can be interesting what foreign languages do to your name. My mother worked in the UK for a number of years and went by Joyce, seeing how her real name is Joke. (That's actually two syllables)

Barmymoo · « **Reply #1637 on:** 17 Dec 2011, 15:29 »

I am always amazed when people misspell my name, because although I realise there are several spellings of it (Mae, Mai... that's all I can think of actually), the correct one is the most common one. I've never met anyone who spells it with an i and only ever heard of one person who spells it with an e.

Carl-E · « **Reply #1638 on:** 17 Dec 2011, 15:51 »

The only misspelling of the first name that I ever get is with a K.

My last name, on the other hand, is old high German, seven letters and only two vowels. The middle is a four consonant cluster, the classic German "tsch", and it's constantly mispronounced. It's a soft ch, like in church, but most people see the sch and do the hard ch from school. When I pronounce it, it usually gets misspelled... back in college I covered my dorm room door with misspellings of my name from pizza box labels, because I would just tell them what my last name was and let them figure out how to spell it...

A few years ago, I discovered a different spelling of my name that ensures accurate pronunciation; I just pretend it's Italian, and replace the "tsch" with a double c, then end it with i to get the long final e pronounced correctly. Now when I give that spelling to the host or maitre d' at a restaurant, the name is pronounced perfectly!

Yes, this is a real issue. We've waited for a table before and been skipped becasue the host mangled the name so badly we didn't recognize it. When no one answers, they just go on to the next person on the list...

pwhodges · « **Reply #1639 on:** 17 Dec 2011, 15:57 »

My wife's surname is Sieber, but people who know the drugs company often write Ciba. OTOH, if they see it written correctly, they usually pronounce the ie like "eye" rather than "ee".

My daughter-in-law's surname is Blase, pronounced like "blaze" (her father is American and her mother Dutch), but when she moved to Germany she changed it to Blaise - because Blase is not such a nice word there, as well as being pronounced quite differently

nekowafer · « **Reply #1640 on:** 17 Dec 2011, 16:23 »

My first name (Elesia) is almost always mispronounced and misspelled. My own mother pretty often misspells it, but doesn't mispronounce, because she calls me Ellie now.

Most people don't even bother saying my name. Either they call me a nickname, or I'm "hey you".

Zingoleb · « **Reply #1641 on:** 17 Dec 2011, 17:06 »

Hey You is an increasingly popular baby name lately, it seems.

DrPhibes · « **Reply #1642 on:** 17 Dec 2011, 18:23 »

my last name dorigo is normally okay but when i tell them what my middle names are: Valentino Arnold people are like... wtf... why arnold? It's because my grandma was named Arnolda. I always called her granny and nothing else untill I heard she didn't like her grandsons named after her in anyway. My parents thought differently and named my third name Arnold in respect to her

Skewbrow · « **Reply #1643 on:** 17 Dec 2011, 22:48 »

Mispronounciations/misspellings of my name? Never happened

My first name (Jyrki) gives speakers of many a language a headache, so there is nothing to do but be understanding. If I tell a speaker of German to replace the 'y' with 'ü', then they get it about right. English/French/Spanish use 'J' so differently, and the phoneme corresponding to 'ü' does not exist AFAICT, so I just gave up. I suppose I should have searched for an English word that comes close

The only time I was mildly miffed was when the professor I was TAing for used incorrect initials in his messages. Come on! I know that it is easier for you to pronounce it, if you assume the 'j' is not there (we pronounce 'j' the way English pronounces an initial 'y'), but look it up from the label of my pigeonhole in the mail room, please.

nekowafer · « **Reply #1644 on:** 17 Dec 2011, 23:21 »

In my head, your name is Jerky. Like beef jerky. Please enlighten a stupid American?

Zingoleb · « **Reply #1645 on:** 17 Dec 2011, 23:36 »

I'm pronouncing it more "Yorkie".

Carl-E · « **Reply #1646 on:** 17 Dec 2011, 23:38 »

Yurkey, more like turkey.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #1647 on:** 17 Dec 2011, 23:46 »

That makes sense, why did I pronounce it the way I did? ue...

Skewbrow · « **Reply #1648 on:** 18 Dec 2011, 00:00 »

Quote from: nekowafer on 17 Dec 2011, 23:21

In my head, your name is Jerky. Like beef jerky. Please enlighten a stupid American?

Absolutely no reason to feel stupid. The most ~~likely~~ useful foreign languages for an American are French and Spanish (arguably Chinese might become more useful soon), and in all those the letter(combination)-phoneme correspondence differs here. This is just one of the downsides of coming from a small group languages.

Quote from: Carl-E on 17 Dec 2011, 23:38

Yurkey, more like turkey.

Reasonably close. The rhythm is correct (syllable break between 'r' and 'k'). The first vowel not quite, but I think it does not exist in English. Thanks for your effort. I may use this to guide strangers some time

Akima · « **Reply #1649 on:** 18 Dec 2011, 04:48 »

Quote from: Skewbrow on 18 Dec 2011, 00:00

This is just one of the downsides of coming from a small group languages.

Whereas, if you come for a large linguistic group like me, everyone will pronounce your name correctly. Oh wait...

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