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The year was 1984 (oooh, how ominous!).  The place was Spokane, Washington (oooh, how ominous again!).  The man was Charlie Schmidt, the cat was Fatso, and the keyboard was Yamaha (the keyboard may or may not have actually been Yamaha).  Charlie’s boredom got the better of him, and an unwitting internet meme was born.  It was 23 years before Fatso met the Internet, long after he had already passed on to the great litter box in the sky, but in 2007, his soul-wrenching performance took the world by storm. Read the full story

Having had a Facebook account for a few years now, and in the recent year started to use it more, I’m really starting to get sick of it. I originally joined Facebook to make contact with friends I went to school with, and wanted something more mature than shitty Myspace. Myspace was filled with all of those stupid glittery .gif comments, so much spam, and nasty dudes trying to get their dicks wet. No thank you.

My initial impression of Facebook was positive. It was clean, I didn’t have to worry about decorating my profile so I could look cool, and it was less buggy. As time went on, Facebook started to become the same as other social networking sites. Random friend requests, shitty privacy policies, spam, and people having to change their passwords because their accounts were compromised. On the privacy issue, I’ve always had mine set to “friends only.” All of my information is “friends only” and so are my pictures. I value my privacy, and it is so stupid that Facebook makes it such an ordeal to ensure that I have the kind of privacy I want. I don’t want my pictures or information sold to third parties, nor do I want creepy people I don’t know looking at pictures of my daughter. It shouldn’t have to be this constant thing, and at times I have thought about cancelling my Facebook account.

The one thing that is really pushing me towards that decision is this: Apps. I am so sick and fucking tired of logging on only for my friend feed to be filled with status updates from apps. Sick. Of. It. To make matters worse, I then have to sift through and see all these posts of YouTube videos, what groups/pages people are ‘Liking’ and quiz results. I’m almost 28. Does it look like I give a rats ass about what Disney Princess you are? FUCK NO! I enjoy having fun on the internet as much as the next individual, and I will admit that I have played some of the games in the past, used some of the other apps, and have even done some of the quizzes when I’ve been incredibly bored… but here is what makes me different than the 100+ people on my page: I don’t publish it to my profile.  (Note: All images of FB posts are taken from my actual feed, but I removed the names to protect the privacy of my friends.)

It would be incredibly hypocritical of me to flood my friends feeds with my stupid shit, and then rant and rave about what they do. I make a conscious effort to make sure that the only things on my status are things I want up there. I don’t have a tab on my profile for boxes or other crap, I have only posted a YouTube video maybe once (and it was because I genuinely wanted to share it with people rather than say “HEY! Look at what I’m watching!!!11eleven!!”), and I don’t go and join all of these groups named shit like “Ever have a one night stand and then get some burly crotch itch?”

I went through my feed, and while I only counted how many application statuses I saw, it doesn’t include the 20+ YouTube video posts, the numerous “like” shit, and other annoying crap. So, here is what I counted so far:

Within the past 12 hours

Castle Age – 3 posts

Country Life – 1 post

Fish World – 11 (10 posts were straight in a row)

FishVille – 2 posts

Vampire Wars – 3 posts in a row

Zombie Farm – 1 post

Total posts in a 12 hour timespan: 21

I went further back and counted this:

From 5 to 8 PM

Castle Age – 1 post

Family Feud – 2 posts in a row

Fish World – 15 posts in a row

Happy Pets – 1 post

My City Life – 1 post

Save Shelter Dogs & Puppies – 2 posts in a row

Vampire Wars – 2 posts in a row

Zombie Farm – 3 posts in a row

Total posts in a 3 hour timespan: 27

So, in 15 hours, my friend feed was bombarded with 48 goddamn app spam posts. Ridiculous! I’ve had to delete a massive amount of people before due to privacy and not being able to trust them, so it’s really sad where I’m having to consider removing people (some who are yeeeaaarrrss older than myself) because of stupid childish crap. Maybe I’m just getting old, or maybe it’s because I joined Facebook to stay in contact with people I cared to associate with, not to constantly read shit about how you cleaned your fictional fish tank, but regardless it has to stop. Facebook should make it to where people can select which apps they want to see in their friend feed, because at this point the only option I have is to hide certain people and that includes every single little thing they post – I’ve already had to do that to two people already because I don’t care about their drama.

I just feel like I shouldn’t have to make decisions like ‘do I hide this person entirely, or do I let them stay and get annoyed by their shit?’ or ‘do I delete the person from my profile, and have to deal with drama?’ My 10 year class reunion is coming up this Fall, and the last thing I want to have to deal with is somebody coming up to me asking “Hey! Why did you remove me from Facebook?” because I can assure you, it would happen. If I were still in high school, OK, I could see this app behavior to be normal. If I were like 8-10 years younger, OK, still same age group, still immature. However, on the 29th of this month, I will be 2 years away from 30, so shouldn’t my peers have matured as well? I guess not.

If any of my friends read this, in which I sincerely doubt they will, but just in case, I’m not trying to be mean, I’m not trying to call you out, I’m just simply saying that if you want to play games, I don’t want to have to fucking read it because I don’t care. If you want to do a quiz, I don’t give a shit about the result, and do you really want every single person to know how bitter some of you can be with the groups you ‘like?’

The odds of me deleting my Facebook are slim to none because at the end of the day, there are some friends on there, friends I’ve had since I was 6, that I want to keep in contact with. Sometimes phone or email doesn’t always work because they live in different time zones, have families, work, and are busy. Facebook allows me to stay connected with them without having to be a bother, so I like that. I’m just at my wits end because as each day goes by, it’s just keeps getting worse. So, Internetz, please…. stop the insanity!

- Me

For the past couple of days, Twitter has been…unreliable. Sure we’ve had problems with Twitter in the past, and feel like the Fail Whale is a part of the family, but it’s getting to be a bit too much.

Last night the dreaded Fail Whale started making multiple appearances on peoples screens, when trying to tweet error messages were popping up claiming server and internal errors, and right now my Twitter stream went over a half hour without any updates coming through. Some of you might be thinking that my concern over 30 minutes of no activity is a little silly, but when I follow hundreds of people and everything has suddenly gone silent…. one begins to wonder if they are all alone out there on the internet.

Some are blaming the sudden increase in problems on the fact that Twitter recently said they changed their algorithm in which Trending Topics are chosen, due to the fact that Justin Bieber (just putting his name on our site makes me want to rinse my eyes out with bleach) was constantly up there, angering those who aren’t pedophiles and vapid teeny-boppers. Apparently Twitter angered the jail-bait natives, and they have been doing everything they can to get his name back up there, like changing his name to Bustin Jieber. Regardless, it needs to stop.

The stupid children doing this need to just suck it up because the adults are the majority in this. Twitter wasn’t created so that we had to deal with looking at the Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, and all of that other shit that has no talent. Twitter had other intentions, and it needs to have awesome things like Star Wars, Tool, The Tudors, Big Bang Theory, and others up there. It was a little late of Twitter to finally do something about Justin Bieber, but hopefully this is a step in the right direction, and hopefully they get their shit together because I’m tired of my Twitter going down *grumble grumble*.

- Me

If you’ve been living under a rock, then you wouldn’t know that the genius known as Tim Burton has been working on Alice in Wonderland.

If you are aware of Mr. Burton’s endeavours, then you probably know that today a trailer for it was released onto the internet. It spread like wildfire, only to be deleted by Disney (because they suck).

I did a little “Google Magic” and found a version of it on MetaCafe. In order to download it to my PC, I had to install a shitty program known as MetaCafe pro. After putting the video into the program, I put it onto my PC, and then uploading it to our Youtube account. See how much I love you guys?

So here you go, if I had a pair of testicles I’d tell Disney to suck on them. Hell, I hope Disney finds a pair to suck in my honor.

(oh, by the way… this trailer totally rocks my socks. I can’t wait for March 5th, 2010.)

- She Who Has The Last Word

One thing we’ve noticed about Moogle is how curious she is. She wonders what is inside a cabinet, wonders what is so awesome about the fridge, and other things. She has also taken a great interest in our laptop and PC. She watches how the mouse cursor flits about the screen, and will stare at our fingers as they click on the keyboard.

When Chris is at work, him and I talk throughout the day on AIM. Sometimes I step away from the keyboard because I am getting food, going to the restroom, getting the mail, or taking Donnie outside to do his business. Before Moogle, Chris would sit there with silence on my end. Now that we have Moogs, something new has been happening.

Before I go and do whatever I need to do, I tell Chris that I will “be right back” or “brb.” Chris will then see on AIM that it says I am typing, however I will not be anywhere near the keyboard. Some seconds later, a message will be sent to him that typically looks like this: a111111111111111111111111111111stjp.

Little Moogs takes it upon herself to walk across the keyboard and send her Daddy a message. She almost always hits the ENTER key as well, sending the message to Chris and him getting a laugh out of it.

Yesterday her keyboard escapades went a step further. A few hours after completing the blog about our forums, I went back to check and see what our viewer stats were. I was surprised to find the screen back on the blog edit page, and the title of the blog changed to “pppppppppppppppppppppp.” Our cat is so talented that she managed to get into the edit post mode, change the title of the blog, and she even SAVED it. Of course I changed it back, so I apologize to any visitors of our blog who saw the “Moogs Edition” of my forum post.

So from here on out, if you see anything silly going on our blog with words or sentences, you can pretty much guess who did it:

Lady Moogs, Slayer of Keyboards and Internetz.

- She Who Has The Last Word

Yesterday certain mother fuckers lit a fire under me over Twitter and now I get to properly express my true feelings to you – and not be restricted to 140 characters.

To Zut_Radio, where do you get off pointing the finger at others and thinking that you are so high and mighty? First off, you have the nerve to insult my intelligence yet you can’t even properly compose a sentence? Then after that you make ridiculous claims that I am all looks and that I will get nowhere in life. OK buddy. You tried to make yourself so mature in your posts and that your parenting skills were superior to mine yet after me only saying fuck twice you send me a direct message saying how you “dropped” me and how I need to think of the children over Twitter. Children don’t belong on Twitter and really don’t belong on the internet until they are much older. My daughter is not even 6 and her activities on the computer are limited. Why? Because of people like you, because of pedophiles, because of internet bullies, and I could go on and on listing reasons as to why children shouldn’t be on the internet – especially a site like Twitter.

Would you want your 6 year old on there only to have creepy old men following them? If the answer to that question is yes, then I feel sorry for your children for they are in the hands of a negligent parent. Would you want your 13 year old on Twitter? How about your 16 year old? Lets think about that for a minute. Around 16 they could become sexually active, which isn’t something I want for my daughter but that is besides the point. Have you seen some of the Myspace profiles a 16 year old has? How about some of the pictures? Imagine that on your beloved Twitter and then the MILLIONS of people who would have access to her. Mmmm… doesn’t that give you warm fuzzies?

Of course you could then say that it is up to the parent to monitor their child and then there could also be the argument that if the child is raised right that the parent should have none of these fears but the parent can’t control the people on the other side. On my Twitter I don’t mention my daughters name nor do I ever put up pictures of her because I am a good parent who is protecting my child. I don’t have any images of her on Facebook nor do I have any of her on my Myspace, again because I am a good parent.

I got a laugh at how you said you “tackled” me on the issue of using the word FUCK and that I didn’t like it. You didn’t tackle shit! All I got from you was a stupid DM and then you went on some rant thinking that it was making you look cool. Do you think anybody gives two shits as to what you think? NO!

Then… in which I thank you again for the laughter, you had one of your minions whom I have never seen in my life, send me messages in terrible English bashing me and saying how I am stupid, again that I am all looks and no brains (thanks by the way for making me out to be some supermodel with a below average intellect), how I don’t think of the children (look, I don’t claim to be kid friendly on my page nor should I), and I think at one point I was referred to as being both an ass and an asshole.

“@LindseySchaal He dropped U because U said Fing and that is not approrpiate in Twitter with children present ..U Dumb .Asshole !!!“

“@LindseySchaal And judging from your conversation with him ,.. U R STUPID as well …little knowledge about anything ..Looks but no brains !“

“@LindseySchaal Kindly Kiss My Ass …Thank U .“

Your statements towards me bash and slander me for using fuck yet using ass or asshole is kid friendly? Get the fuck out of here!

Also you later on send out a message asking people to re-tweet this statement:

“Folks: Please tell @LindseySchaal that children do have a right to tweeter just like adults . who made her the Twitter God ???“

Ok… I’m not like a majority of the voters here in California trying to take away the rights of others (Hi Prop 8, how’s it going?) but I am right in saying that they don’t belong on Twitter for the reasons I mentioned above. Also, if you wanted to further prove your point that you are smarter than myself, shouldn’t you have used the word Goddess instead of God? Seems gender appropriate, don’t you think?

I never claimed to be a God or Goddess of Twitter nor will I ever but again, I thank you for putting unnecessary words into my mouth.

Your plans of spreading your ignorance failed when only 3 people decided to lack critical thinking and further your absurd message. One of them, shockingly, was your little ZooYuku minion whom I dealt with personally. Of course that was what prompted the name calling and boy, it sure was nice getting treated like I was in middle school. Your maturity astounds me!

I wasn’t surprised to see that ZooYuku decided to share my messages to him/her/it nor was I surprised to see that he/she/it edited my remarks.

Originally I sent this:

“@ZooYuku First off, children have no place on Twitter so if their parents are allowing them on a site like this then it’s not my problem.“

“@ZooYuku Second, you are bashing my intelligence? How about learning proper grammar and spelling. When you learn that, then talk to me.“

“@ZooYuku Third, I can say whatever the hell I want. It is my Constitutional right as an American and if you can’t deal with that too bad!“

What was sent out to their list of so-called friends was this:

“Quote from @LindseySchaal @ZooYuku First off, children have no place on Twitter (and who said they had no place …Lindsey is an IDIOT !!!)“

Hmmm…. funny how the rest of what I said seemed to have disappeared.

“2nd Quote from @LindseySchaal @ZooYuku Third, I can say whatever the hell I want. It is my Constitutional right as an American (Guns 2 ,,)“

Interesting, my second comment seemed to be disregarded and then my third statement was again butchered. Also, what in the hell do guns have to do with this? I never made any comments about guns nor would I ever. I don’t give a shit about guns and I will never own one.

I was then flattered by you, Zut_Radio, when you decided to make a blog post on your ridiculous site trying to make yourself seem better than others.

Four Letter Words

“Zut Radio unfollowed 3 Twitters yesterday for using the Big Four Letter Word. Why is that such a Big Deal you ask – because Twitter is in all Time Zones and is used by All Ages. It is inappropriate to use the Big Four Letter Word!!!

Either the Tweeter has no children of their own (in which case it makes them insensitive to others) or they do have children (in which case it shows their stupidity). One can always make their point about something without using that word. Using that word just shows others one’s own breeding or rather, their lack of breeding.

Zut Radio will not follow such people and will block them from receiving Zut Radio broadcast. There is enough crap in this world without what many folks consider to be extreme profanity.”

(Some of you reading this will get a kick at how they were so tactful and used the term “breeding” like human beings are animals…. I however found it to be offensive yet it seemed appropriate for cretins like themselves)

Oh Zut, Zut, Zut…..your attempt to make yourself look cool on the  internet (because it IS serious business) only made you look like an even bigger ass. Oh noes! The BIG Four Letter Word! Is it like in Harry Potter when Voldemort is constantly referred to “He Who Shall Not Be Named”? Is that what’s going on here? Your capitalization skills make me truly shudder. I guess up in Halifax they don’t really teach proper English do they?

Choosing to use profanity doesn’t make the person insensitive if they haven’t had any children. It makes them a human being. I say what I want because I can like I stated earlier when I made a reference to my Constitutional rights being an American citizen (guns too I suppose… YEE HAW!).  Just because I have a daughter and because I make the conscious choice to use words like fuck, shit, bitch, piss, cunt, ass, and many others doesn’t make me a stupid person. I bet that you are the type of person who assumes that because I use words like that on the internet that I use those words around my child. You are highly incorrect with that assumption. I don’t even use damn, hell, crap, or any lesser forms of profanity around her because unlike yourself, who consciously chooses to use words like ass, asshole, and crap around these invisible Twitter children, I am not a fucking moron.

I hope for the sake of the world that you and your pathetic following have no children because people like you shouldn’t be allowed to spawn (sounds MUCH saucier than breeding, don’t you think?).

Also for those of you who have a problem with what I have to say, tough. I don’t force you to read what I have to say, I never forced you to come to this blog nor did I force you to follow me on Twitter. Hell, some of the people I follow talk about shit that I really don’t care for but you don’t see me acting like I’m 12 and un-following them. I have follow people who are highly conservative and bash my political beliefs on a constant basis, who throw their religion and their God in my face through tweets, and who make ignorant statements about homosexuals and their life choices. All of those people have a right to say whatever the fuck they want and while I don’t agree with 99.9% of what they have to say, when I have talked to them they have been great to converse with.

All in all, if you are going to be a hypocrite on the internet please do not associate yourselves with me because frankly I don’t want to have to deal with your stupidity.

Thank you,

- She Who Has The Last Word

P.S. – Thank you to @jonathandmiller for having a brain and saying this:

@ZooYuku, you should watch what you say. Seems to be you are badgering and threatening @LindseySchaal with violence. That is NOT acceptable!

I really appreciate it.