POPe
Well, this is…something.
Claudia’s Re-Post-a-Palooza
I am BORED and NERVOUS FOR NO REASON, so you get old YouTube videos as my blog for today. I’ve posted the vast majority of these on there at one point or another, but I’m too nervous to think of anything interesting to blog about instead, so there ya go.
That is so old now, holy crap.
Historians around the world agree that that is the most accurate depiction of Hitler. And the way Captain Planet busts through that wall at 3:37 is still hysterical. They show an OPEN WINDOW at 0:59. Why didn’t he just fly through that? It would have hurt a lot less, I can guarantee. “CAPTAIN PLANET, HE’S OUR HERO; GONNA TAKE POLLUTION DOWN TO Z-oh, he’s unconscious after breaking through that wall.”
The rooster noises, oh my god.
YAY!
Duck Army
(note: all YouTube versions because they’re easier to embed)
Alright, so here’s another example of why I love the internet. Some guy uploads this Vine, right?
(Actually I think it was uploaded somewhere else first, but the Vine is what made it popular.)
You can always trust the internet to take things to the next step.
That last one is the best.
[vacant]
I feel like garbage, so have some internet stuff instead of an actual blog post.
Haha, what am I saying? You’d probably all prefer that to my actual blog posts, anyway.
This is Tumblr’s Fault
The internet.
The internet.
I have a couple Tumblr blogs that I “follow” (read: stalk but don’t actually follow Tumblr-style) and one of them has been consistently commenting “WHAT ARE THOOOOOOOOOSE” on every…I don’t know, 10th thing they post. It took me a little bit to figure out where this was coming from, but I found it: Vine, of course!
Here’s a compilation of “WHAT ARE THOOOOOOOOOSE” edits, with the original vine being the first video in the set.
It’s probably an annoying to most people but I just find it hysterical for some reason.
Edit: Hahahahaha, oh my god, this is the greatest.
Sometimes the Web is deep, man.
What the hell, internet.
In This Blog: Claudia Plugs Amazon Mechanical Turk
Ahoy again, faithful readers! (Who probably won’t see this until June when I finally post the damn thing…)
So there’s a site called Mechanical Turk that is run by Amazon. Basically, you can sign up as a worker and do tasks for requesters. Usually the requester’s tasks are things like answering survey questions or other things for companies/universities/etc. If you qualify and complete a task, you get paid by the requester.
So far this totally sounds like a “make money quick” website that’s in actuality a scam, but it’s not! It’s legitimately run through Amazon and you actually do get paid (without giving away your personal information or anything like that). I’ve been using it since mid-2014 (and I actually don’t know why I’ve never blogged about it before) and haven’t had a single issue with it being any sort of scam.
And while you do earn legit money, you definitely don’t earn a lot very quickly, especially if you just do the tasks in your spare time. For example, since the middle of last year when I started using it, I’ve earned a total of $171. The biggest payment for a task that I’ve ever done is $4.00, but most of the ones I do are worth a dollar or 80 cents or something like that. If you take a qualifying test you can be allowed to work on the audio transcription tasks, which are usually worth a lot more ($40+), but I haven’t done that yet because I’m too lazy to do transcriptions, haha.
But yeah, $171 is better than nothing, and it gives you something to do if you have a spare few minutes every night or something like that. And like I said, it’s actually legitimate, and a good way to earn a bit of spare money if you wanted to.
WOO!
TWIT!
AHEM.
Twittin’
Screw you, Twitter. SCREW YOU!
(That link takes your tweet nonsense and makes it into poetry nonsense.)
Finished reading
by Claudia
I can also feel it in my heart.
As I was waking up this morning.
Poop is a fantastic form of art.
Can’t need to CREATE!!
I am a bucket of sadness tonight.
“ICU” doesn’t seem appropriate…
I absolutely hate polar coordinates.
I am so done with this semester.
Good lord
Oh dear god.
Warning: It’s HowToBasic so…expect eggs and other weird stuff.
StumbleStuff
It’s time for the monthly (bi-monthly? Tri-yearly? Is that even a thing?) “Stuff Claudia Found via StumbleUpon” post.
Because I’ve been obscenely busy studying for my Stat 701 final and thus haven’t done anything else worth blogging about.
Planetary Glass Set (out of stock, unfortunately, but still!)
AAAAAAAAH I LOVE THESE (but especially the “Little Miss Sunshine” dress).
The elements of the Periodic Table as characters. The “next page” button is up at the top under the blog header.
I don’t know if anyone who reads my blog would ever need this, but if you ever need to create a bubble test sheet (like the ones for the SAT), here ya go.
Also, this is great:
Pope! Pope! Pope!
Good lord.
(Sorry, I’m super busy studying for Friday’s test)
I needed this today.
(Click on him and hold.)
[I totally forgot to post this and the next post back in November, haha. I just totally skipped over it.]
Yo Dawg…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, INTERNET!
In celebration, have some…um…internet! Most of these are classics by this point, but they may not have been seen in awhile depending on how much you internet reminisce.
Hamsterdance (closest thing I could find to the original site that would actually load)
And don’t forget old Google!
Enjoy.
Claudia’s Miscellaneous Blog of Blogging and Miscellany (mostly internet stuff)
Hello reader(s)!
I was on campus from 7 until about 5:45 today, so all I wanted to do was screw around on the internet tonight. Hence, you get yet another craptastic blog! I doubt you’re surprised. BUT…I’ll change it up a bit and give it to you in numbered parts, how about that?
PART ONE: Vines!
BAnanaNA!
PART TWO: USA
The last time I played GeoGuessr (a looong time ago), they just had the world map and I could guess with moderate accuracy.
But now they’ve got a United States map (among other specific maps) and I’m MUCH better at that.
PART THREE: YATTA!
I totally forgot to post Irrational Exuberance that day I posted all those early-2000’s videos.
OHIO!!!!
PART FOUR: JAPANESE HISTORY
Massive crab. Massive damage. (Sean showed me this like six years ago and for whatever reason it was brought to my mind again today)
PART FIVE: FartParty McGee
I REALLY want to draw, but I can’t think of a good enough idea.
THE END!
Do my crappy posts get you down? Don’t despair! I have a “serious” post I’m working on that I’ll probably post soon. Lucky you!
HAVE SOME POOP
YouTube poop, that is.
I love YouTube poop and you can’t stop me. It’s an art form.
Claudia the Bad Blogger Gives You YouTube Instead of Actual Content
Let’s bring back some circa early 2000’s internet, shall we?
Yay!
(Sorry, it’s been a crappy day)
Dinner and a Boobie
I got nothin’ so you get this.
Good day.
Swiggety swag, what’s in the ba-OH GOD BEES
In my obsession with the internet, I utilize StumbleUpon a lot. Since I started my account in 2009, I’ve Stumbled approximately 20,000 websites.
WOO!
Anyway, StumbleUpon gives you a little “DNA” that expresses which types of websites you tend to like. Here is the list of the 14 DNA categories:
Within these categories are a bunch of subcategories; for example, in the “health” category, both “aging” and “cancer” are subcategories. You can see how many people follow (that is, Stumble through) each subcategory as well (201,000 follow “architecture,” for example).
There are a BUTT TON of subcategories and I just finished going through them all and recording which major DNA category they fell under AND how many followers each has. There’s a LOT I want to do with this data, but since I should truly be spending my time packing rather than screwing around in R, I’ll just do the first very basic thing for right now.
Here is a graph of the average number of followers per subcategory for each of the 14 major DNA categories.
Like I said, I’m going to be doing more with this as soon as I’m no longer in a panic about moving/grad school/everything. Think of this as a little teaser!
L’eggo my…Legos?
I’m like 99% sure I haven’t posted a link to this on my blog, but WHO KNOWS, RIGHT?
I found The Brick Testament like 10 years ago…can’t remember how…but it’s still online and still awesome! I wish I had this many Legos, man.
The story of Caine and Abel is particularly well done, haha.
Internet NAUGHTINESS!
Has this ever happened to you: you’re on a school computer in high school or something and you go to search for something like “shitake mushrooms” but the results gets blocked because your search terms included the string “shit?”
Or maybe you’re typing an email and include the location of Lightwater in Surrey, England, and later find that your email was blocked because it contained the substring “twat?”
Turns out that such blocking of false positives by spam filters and forums has a name: the Scunthorpe problem—named after a 1996 incident where AOL’s profanity filter blocked residents of Scunthorpe from creating accounts because the word contains the subscript “cunt.”
Here’s the Wiki page if you’re interested in a few more examples; I just never knew that this problem had a specific name.
Eggs
If you’ve never seen HowToBasic’s videos on YouTube, you’re missing out, bro.
This was the first video of his I saw:
Then this:
This one really got me laughing when he turned on the scale:
And of course, you need the elders’ reactions:
And if you’re wondering, apparently he did a podcast in which he stated that he works at a supermarket and all the food he uses is stuff that has expired and would have been thrown away anyway. Not sure if that’s actually true, but that’s the general consensus. I haven’t heard the podcast myself.
But anyway. YouTube: bringing us to the next level of…“art.”
They Still Don’t Love You Like I Love You
ZOMG new favorite Tumblr.
Do you like maps? This is the site for you! Here are some good ones:
Hahaha, ouch.
Population of Wyoming by square mile; i.e., “No One Lives in Wyoming”
I want to live in Suddenly Bright Bosom.
Edit: Hahaha, Canada:
Here’s the link to a huge version of this map so you can read all the text.
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