Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category
November 24th 2007
My boyfriend just got an email forward from his Catholic family saying to refuse the new dollar coins because they took off “In God We Trust”. Christians are the majority of America and that’s fine. Atheists, agnostics and whoever else doesn’t believe in “God” want to actually enforce separation of church and state. That’s their prerogative. So what do I have to say about all of this?
In God We Trust wasn’t an original part of the United States. It became the national motto in 1956. That’s 51 years ago. Do you know what was going on 51 years ago? We were scared of communists. That’s right. We adopted God to protect us from communism. Like that is really what kept us from being overrun by them. In 2001, Florida added the motto to their state flag (and seal) and in 2003 Georgia followed. The phrase was added to different coins in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s and was on all of them by 1938, even though people, including Teddy Roosevelt protested.
I think anyone who wants that motto to be taken off our currency and off anywhere else it is has a good stand. It goes against the Constitution to have any government organization supporting any deity, regardless of whether or not the majority of this country believe in it. It’s just ridiculous to think about how most Christians are so narrow-minded. They preach about openness and acceptance, but when you try to express a belief that disagrees with theirs, it all goes out the window.
Think I’m an atheistic moron? Think I have no basis for my claim? Beside recounting every personal example of this hypocritical behavior, here’s some proof you can watch for yourself. Morgan Spurlock, the guy who ate McDonald’s for 30 days created a tv show, ironically called 30 Days and in one of the episodes, an atheist spends a month in a Christian household. You can watch the entire show on You Tube. It’s broken up into 5 different parts. Here’s part one. Anyone who thinks I’m wrong, go watch that. It’ll blow your mind.
Disclaimer: I know all Christians aren’t bad, blah blah. Stereotypes are bad, blah blah. Stereotypes are that way for a reason. Most blonds are dumb, there are more black people in prison and most Mexicans are illegal. The fact is, most Christians don’t even know that much about the crap they preach. They haven’t read the whole Bible (it’s not that long, maybe you can’t memorize the whole thing, but you can certainly read it, especially if you’ve read the Harry Potter series), they don’t know what they’re arguing about. Hell, most of them don’t even realize Protestantism was formed because King Henry wanted to get a divorce and the Pope wouldn’t let him. Anyone want to argue? I’m up for it.
October 15th 2007
It never ceases to amaze me that adults can still be childish morons when they’re online. In the “Wordpress community”, there are some designers that are apparently big shots, although how one of them has come to this conclusion is beyond me. These designers created a friendship and ended it rather quickly and why did such a relationship end? Because one of them is a baby.
One person posted a review of the other’s designs and the guy took it extremely personal. Now if he wasn’t trying to sell these designs, I could see where his feelings would be hurt, but since he’s selling these premium Wordpress themes at $80 a pop (to multiple people no less), criticism is exactly what he deserves. I personally like some of the designer’s work, but some of it isn’t good quality, not even close to what I’d pay $80 for. I wouldn’t pay $5 for some of those designs.
What gets me the most is that a friendship was ended over criticism. And the one who ended everything is an adult. A frickin adult. It just amazes me. This guy burnt a bridge he’ll probably need later on because he takes his work too personally. When you’re a professional, taking your work personally is just stupid. Your clients will criticize. They are going to want things to be a certain way and if you don’t like it, they’ll find someone else who does.
June 14th 2007
While at work, I’m not allowed to use my beloved StumbleUpon because it’s blocked by our filters. I am however, able to view Digg. While I am not a big fan of Digg, I do want something to keep me occupied while I’m working. So as I was browsing, I found this article. This idiot commented on her article saying how right she was. I just wanted to rant myself about how stupid they both are.
If you haven’t been living under a rock, you would know that OS X came out long ago. And I mean LONG ago. Vista was just released and now the new Leopard, coming out later this year, has been accused of being a Vista copy. The features coming up in Leopard that Mary Jo Foley claimed are copies of Vista were almost all in Tiger. There are a few that aren’t included in Tiger, but that were mentioned before Vista was released, just in time for another one of Vista’s delays.
How interesting…
April 10th 2007
So this guy emailed me a few days ago asking to link exchange. I’m a semi-nice person so I checked out his site and besides it being a monstrosity of a design, his content wasn’t very good either. It’s not just pointless, but offensive. But don’t worry, he has a disclaimer on it saying “If you don’t like, go fuck yourself,” which I could agree with. I do agree with it actually. It’s his site, he can do what he wants with it. But since this is my site, I can do whatever I want with it, right? Well, I don’t want to link to someone like that.
Another sin he committed in my book is that he direct-linked. On purpose. He wasn’t just ignorant. There was a little disclaimer as he called it, “i will usually direct link your button until you add me, once you add me i will save your button to my server.” So he knows that most people don’t like that. And yet he does it. For what? I don’t know. But that’s the reason I gave him for turning down his link exchange.
So he emails me back, not once, but twice. Calling me names, insulting me, and saying he’s a real designer and I’m an idiot. And do you know what the worst part of this whole thing is? He’s 21. He claims his website has been around since 1999. You’d think he’d have learned a little something about the web since then.
P.S. Someone help me figure out why the hell my layouts never work in IE. I almost don’t even want to fix it since my stats show the top five browsers are different versions of Firefox.
January 26th 2007
The girl I complained about a few posts ago, had left some comments on my site:
you’re a fucking loser. if you actually looked you would have seen they were ganging up on me. drown yourself. your site sucks and you do too. slutttttt.
also, your layout looks like it was designed in paint by a 5 years old. HAHAH, no talent much? whore.
someone is jealous 
that someone being your ugly ass.
She left her name, email, and website, not fake ones, which is a good thing, I think. I don’t know why she’s like this…maybe crazy? Maybe starved for attention? I thought about blocking her, but then she wouldn’t be able to visit my site since she loves it so much to stalk it. So I’m going to let her stay and read my blog entry about her pitiful self.
I had forgotten I still had comments on moderation, unless the commenter had a previously approved comment, so Dorie’s were let through. Then Christy u2ued me at SNOG! saying she commented…now that I have Akismet, I think I can let comments be free. Yay.
I’ve gotten two offers to help me code, which is lovely. Thanks, by the way. I think I might take them up on it. I’m having some real trouble with this new layout. I think it’s really cute and I love the colors. It’s very pixelly cute. Well, I better get back to coding.
