Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Monday, May 4, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
JK Harris
So while watching pitchmen tonight, I had no idea that the funniest part of the show would be a commercial. This commercial is for JK Harris tax people. I couldn't stop laughing at all aspects of this commercal.
Okay so first, is this woman so in debt she can't afford to turn on her lights while she cleans her pot? But then this guy talks for what seems like forever, and then jimmy the giant strolls on from stage left and totally overtakes the poor soul seated to his right. But the best part in my mind is that they don't even cut, they just slowly pan away while this poor guy stares at the camera saying "Please help me get away from this linebacker that just ran in and stole my thunder."
I couldn't stop laughing, I watched it about 20 times.
Okay so first, is this woman so in debt she can't afford to turn on her lights while she cleans her pot? But then this guy talks for what seems like forever, and then jimmy the giant strolls on from stage left and totally overtakes the poor soul seated to his right. But the best part in my mind is that they don't even cut, they just slowly pan away while this poor guy stares at the camera saying "Please help me get away from this linebacker that just ran in and stole my thunder."
I couldn't stop laughing, I watched it about 20 times.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Baby Roller Blades
Just heard I Get Around by the Beach Boys. To this day, whenever I hear that song, I think of the "baby roller blades" commercial. Drew had no idea what I was talking about, but a quick youtube search found the commercial, and not only did I remember the "BABY ROLLER BLADES" hook, but also about 90% of the rest of the song. I remember the weirdest shit.
Geocities Shuts Down
So Yahoo is pulling the plug on geocities. For those who don't know, geocities was the original social networking, they just didn't know it yet. There were neighborhoods (SunsetStrip for Music) street names (Palms, Alley) and then addresses (8871). Put it together (www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palms/8871) and this was your website. It had the social networking aspect, because drop your address and check the site of someone next door to you, and they also had a music related site. People made web rings, where you would join a ring and add your address and then you would have an ad on your site that would display a random site from the web ring.
I was in 8th grade. Instead of going to the cafeteria and getting fatter, I would head to the school library every afternoon with a few friends (Jeff and Matt) and work on my geocities website. You were presented with a text block full and you filled it up with HTML and published your site for the world to see. I can still remember my first site. It was a website for guitar tabs. It's first iteration had a pale orange and green tiled background. I remember spending a week wondering why the background wasn't showing up (I spelled it backround). There was no spell check, there was no color coding. This was the original days of HTML.
I never understood it, but Jeff's site got a shit-ton of hits. All the time his site was geocities site of the day. There was absolutely nothing on his site of value. He had a few paint shop pro tutorials, some information about his Everquest guild, it was all over the place, pointless worthless information, and people went to his site (I think this was the beginning of the blog)
My first redesign to my site added frames. The top half held the content, the bottom half was split into three sections. The first section was a midi player that played all the hip midi jams like sublime santeria. the middle section was navigation, an image map created in paint shop pro, portraying the "Got Milk" monster with a t-shit that said "Got Tabs". Back then there wasn't a tool to help with image maps, I had to write down cordinates and plug them in manually. The third section contained a drop down list to choose different songs for the midi player. The tabs on the site were all written by me, and were all half songs. Elastica - the Connection, for instance, contained the main riff (DA-DANANADA-DANANADA-DANANA-DA-NANANA)... you know the riff... that was it. And thinking back it was probably wrong. Salt and Pepper - Push It, had the same thing for the tab. Main riff (DA-NANANANANANANANANANA DA-NANANANANANANANANANANA) and obviously that was the whole song.
I ended a friendship over a geocities site. true story. Another friend started making a tab site as well. He spent much more time working on it, and looking back, his was better. He focuses solely on Nirvana tabs, and even had a Kurt Cobain tribute page with animated gif torches burning on either side of a picture of him. I was pissed he stole my idea and then did it better. Looking back, I was kind of like Cartman in the whole situation. He later abandoned his tab site since there wasn't going to be many updates to a tab site where the bands front man blew his brains out, and he made a southpark animated gif site. He drew the south park characters scanned them and then animated them, but our friendship was never the same, I kicked him out of my band, and started a 3 piece and he joined another band with Herb, who turned out to be a furry.
If you go to the internet archive and look at my old site, you will see that I never set a "noframes" page, so it wasn't archived. It makes me sad because I would love to rehash all that all code and see what I was doing. Another fond memory I have from my geocities page is showing my uncle who worked for a computer company. He asked how I wrote it and didn't believe I wasn't using a tool to make it work. He went on and on about how his company bought a program called frontpage that made their website a million times better and I should get involved. Luckily I decided on Allaire Homesite instead of Frontpage, which then transferred me to dreamweaver, with a short stop at GoLive in between.
I think back and if it wasn't for these experiences I wouldn't be in the career field I'm in now. I wouldn't be doing this for a living that's for sure. I owe my entire career to Geocities and Jeff for dragging me to the library and trying to teach me HTML. So geocities you will be missed.
GEOCITIES.COM
I was in 8th grade. Instead of going to the cafeteria and getting fatter, I would head to the school library every afternoon with a few friends (Jeff and Matt) and work on my geocities website. You were presented with a text block full and you filled it up with HTML and published your site for the world to see. I can still remember my first site. It was a website for guitar tabs. It's first iteration had a pale orange and green tiled background. I remember spending a week wondering why the background wasn't showing up (I spelled it backround). There was no spell check, there was no color coding. This was the original days of HTML.
I never understood it, but Jeff's site got a shit-ton of hits. All the time his site was geocities site of the day. There was absolutely nothing on his site of value. He had a few paint shop pro tutorials, some information about his Everquest guild, it was all over the place, pointless worthless information, and people went to his site (I think this was the beginning of the blog)
My first redesign to my site added frames. The top half held the content, the bottom half was split into three sections. The first section was a midi player that played all the hip midi jams like sublime santeria. the middle section was navigation, an image map created in paint shop pro, portraying the "Got Milk" monster with a t-shit that said "Got Tabs". Back then there wasn't a tool to help with image maps, I had to write down cordinates and plug them in manually. The third section contained a drop down list to choose different songs for the midi player. The tabs on the site were all written by me, and were all half songs. Elastica - the Connection, for instance, contained the main riff (DA-DANANADA-DANANADA-DANANA-DA-NANANA)... you know the riff... that was it. And thinking back it was probably wrong. Salt and Pepper - Push It, had the same thing for the tab. Main riff (DA-NANANANANANANANANANA DA-NANANANANANANANANANANA) and obviously that was the whole song.
I ended a friendship over a geocities site. true story. Another friend started making a tab site as well. He spent much more time working on it, and looking back, his was better. He focuses solely on Nirvana tabs, and even had a Kurt Cobain tribute page with animated gif torches burning on either side of a picture of him. I was pissed he stole my idea and then did it better. Looking back, I was kind of like Cartman in the whole situation. He later abandoned his tab site since there wasn't going to be many updates to a tab site where the bands front man blew his brains out, and he made a southpark animated gif site. He drew the south park characters scanned them and then animated them, but our friendship was never the same, I kicked him out of my band, and started a 3 piece and he joined another band with Herb, who turned out to be a furry.
If you go to the internet archive and look at my old site, you will see that I never set a "noframes" page, so it wasn't archived. It makes me sad because I would love to rehash all that all code and see what I was doing. Another fond memory I have from my geocities page is showing my uncle who worked for a computer company. He asked how I wrote it and didn't believe I wasn't using a tool to make it work. He went on and on about how his company bought a program called frontpage that made their website a million times better and I should get involved. Luckily I decided on Allaire Homesite instead of Frontpage, which then transferred me to dreamweaver, with a short stop at GoLive in between.
I think back and if it wasn't for these experiences I wouldn't be in the career field I'm in now. I wouldn't be doing this for a living that's for sure. I owe my entire career to Geocities and Jeff for dragging me to the library and trying to teach me HTML. So geocities you will be missed.
GEOCITIES.COM
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