DLD 12/31/08: Last DLD of the year

by doctorK on Dec 31, 2008 11:42 AM PST Comment 44 comments

Here's our last chance for a DLD until next year.

The last minute of 2008 will actually be 61 seconds long in order to get our clocks back into sync with the sun.

SF Weekly decided for some reason to do an LOLcat-style Bay Area year in review. I found this link at FARK.com where it was labeled with the STUPID tag, which may be the most appropriate use of that tag ever. One image did work, however:

via media.sfweekly.com

The rich may be getting richer: Red Sux are looking into getting Hanley Ramirez.

Dump away!

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Last DLD of the year

I laughed. I cried. I ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. To keep from crying.

I'm here to talk about the past.

by 67MARQUEZ on Dec 31, 2008 12:25 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

{licks peanut butter and jelly from the corners of 67M's eyes}

I'll send you a postcard from Space Mountain. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Dec 31, 2008 1:17 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Is this a Fellini movie?

I see a deranged rabbit, on fire, cowering away from a vagina. I await the results of the Rorschaschererer. -Nico

by Leopold Bloom on Dec 31, 2008 1:59 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm not crying...

I’ve just been cutting onions. I’m making a lasagna… for one…

Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"

by Poppy on Dec 31, 2008 3:18 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

mmm...lasagna...

feel free to send some to Florida.

I see a deranged rabbit, on fire, cowering away from a vagina. I await the results of the Rorschaschererer. -Nico

by Leopold Bloom on Dec 31, 2008 3:53 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Since it's a lasagna for one, I'd have to send all of it, wouldn't I?

Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"

by Poppy on Dec 31, 2008 4:02 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Hmmm.

Good point. Also, I usually consume more than one serving of lasagna.

I see a deranged rabbit, on fire, cowering away from a vagina. I await the results of the Rorschaschererer. -Nico

by Leopold Bloom on Dec 31, 2008 10:39 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

one of my favorite videos of the past year

big lady, big fall

"My group runs some frogloks down the hall to finish them off and POP! RASTER! If there was a way to scream louder than caps in EQ I was doing it. Man I am straight panicking because I know I have NO CHANCE soloing and the party has run off. I'm in my hotel room; it's like 5am, and I am straight hollering, in EQ and in real life. Bottom line is the group comes back, heals me, and kills Raster! WOOT!" -Curt Schilling on his favorite memories in the video game "EverQuest"

by travdog6 on Dec 31, 2008 12:58 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

i was going to post the one second thing

but i’m going to go for this, instead

what i’m planning on doing next soccer season should anyone cross me

and a happy new year to all, etc

I have no solutions, just rejoindres

by alea iacta est on Dec 31, 2008 1:26 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

Goat — it’s what’s for dinner.

by Englishmajor on Dec 31, 2008 1:53 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

So will Nico be aroused or offended? Or possibly both?

I see a deranged rabbit, on fire, cowering away from a vagina. I await the results of the Rorschaschererer. -Nico

by Leopold Bloom on Dec 31, 2008 2:00 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

About the same as you would be if you ate a hooker

I like Cindi. A. She never pretends to know more than she does. B. She has unbridled enthusiasm for her "Hotties," and isn't afraid to show it. -IM4Oakgal

by Nico on Dec 31, 2008 7:27 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

So both, then.

I see a deranged rabbit, on fire, cowering away from a vagina. I await the results of the Rorschaschererer. -Nico

by Leopold Bloom on Dec 31, 2008 10:39 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

In case you were looking for something to watch

this holiday weekend. The A.V. Club has posted this. Yay! Dr. Horrible made the cut!

Happy New Years ANers!

This party's over

by lynnzgal on Dec 31, 2008 2:14 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

favorite videos from 2008

Some links to my favorite music videos from 2008 enjoy!

Cold Play – Viva la Vida
Kanye – West Heartless
MGMT – Electric Feel
Smokey the Giant – Natural Disaster

by Peeping Tom on Dec 31, 2008 2:18 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

good point

i’d like to add

florence and the machine – dog days are over

I have no solutions, just rejoindres

by alea iacta est on Dec 31, 2008 2:22 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

First time I saw that video

Pretty good, but I think I need to be on some psychadelic drug to get the true effect of the video.

by Peeping Tom on Dec 31, 2008 2:29 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

yeah, the video is a bit eh

but man… FatM are going to have a big year next year

I have no solutions, just rejoindres

by alea iacta est on Dec 31, 2008 5:27 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Illegal Fireworks are bad

And in Naples, can result in you sleeping on the couch…

There's no crying in baseball!

by gigglingone on Dec 31, 2008 2:31 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

Aristophanes

… revisited.

Some things never, ever change.

The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus

by The Dogfather on Dec 31, 2008 3:16 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

facepalm.jpg

by Zonis on Dec 31, 2008 3:39 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

Buried somewhere else. Place here as well.

Will Work for Praise: The Web’s Free-Labor Economy
This online business model has Americans happily toiling for attention on for-profit sites that don’t pay them money
BusinessWeek
By Stephen Baker
December 28, 2008

Here’s the last paragraph:

But Gould, who tends to view his labor force statistically, has a theory. He thinks his superstars rise from the pack and then—with time—fall. Maybe they get tired or bored, or others get bored by them. In any case, mavens tend to revert to the mean. This means that one day Sweet will tumble down those charts in San Francisco, Washington, and Denver. Her reign can’t last forever. The trick in the volunteer economy is less to keep a superstar from quitting than to make sure that plenty of eager volunteers are ready to work to take her place.

Sound sort of familar? You’ll have to read the piece to gleen just who Gould and Sweet are.

by LowcountryJoe on Dec 31, 2008 3:52 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

You mean like this place?

facepalm.jpg

by Zonis on Dec 31, 2008 4:05 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, this place is exactly like this, too.

In fact, this place is a whole lot more in line with what the article was conveying than what I was thinking when I posted. I was thinking about this baseball team and its young players under team control.

There’s a pretty good PodCast that discusses this phenomena [as it relates to this site and the Baker piece] more.

by LowcountryJoe on Jan 1, 2009 7:08 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

if tattoo-covered pigs are not a big holiday gift item this year, laura sweet will quit.

A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05

by xbhaskarx on Jan 2, 2009 4:13 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

The pizza one could very well be staged,

but that proposal one is BRUTAL.

I see a deranged rabbit, on fire, cowering away from a vagina. I await the results of the Rorschaschererer. -Nico

by Leopold Bloom on Dec 31, 2008 10:59 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

The proposal was faked.

http://www.fanhouse.com/2008/02/18/where-failed-marriage-proposals-happen/

Say something funny.

by muffinpryde on Dec 31, 2008 11:41 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I feel so...

used.

I see a deranged rabbit, on fire, cowering away from a vagina. I await the results of the Rorschaschererer. -Nico

by Leopold Bloom on Jan 1, 2009 12:08 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

ditto

I should’ve figured most everything on Failblog is bogus.

"However, at Elias, I think they keep track of the amount of sunflower seeds spit in a dugout each night." - Brad Ziegler, 8/7/08

by doctorK on Jan 1, 2009 2:55 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Is this a generational thing?

Am I the only one who thinks it’s weird that anyone’s “favorite” videos could be about people being humiliated (whether real or staged)? To me that’s just icky. All videos like this just make me cringe, and they aren’t fun to watch at all.

What is the appeal? Seriously, can any of you young folk explain it to me? I don’t get it at all.

"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk

by iglew on Jan 1, 2009 1:04 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

all of my "favorite" posts at AN could be about people being humiliated (whether real or staged)

I'll send you a postcard from Space Mountain. @('.')@

by monkeyball on Jan 1, 2009 9:56 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Not generational for me

In my case, it probably has something to do with having little if any life, so anything that makes someone look even more pathetic than me is likely to score high on my list.

"However, at Elias, I think they keep track of the amount of sunflower seeds spit in a dugout each night." - Brad Ziegler, 8/7/08

by doctorK on Jan 1, 2009 2:54 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

That's sad

I’d rather be inspired by feel-good stories of people doing things right.

I used to love those TV commercials for the LDS Church, which were sort of like the opposite of failblog. (Yeah, yeah, I know. Prop 8 and all that. Even so, I still love those TV commercials.)

"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk

by iglew on Jan 1, 2009 4:40 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

LSD Church?

facepalm.jpg

by Zonis on Jan 1, 2009 4:56 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

That looks normal to me

I like Cindi. A. She never pretends to know more than she does. B. She has unbridled enthusiasm for her "Hotties," and isn't afraid to show it. -IM4Oakgal

by Nico on Jan 1, 2009 7:11 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs