Wednesday, August 22, 2007

No More Rain or Idiots, Please

The rain has me down. It is amplifying my friend Des's problems. Right now, I am trying not to scratch my eyes out at the horrific online class I foolishly enrolled in. (Although how was I to know how bad it would suck?) My only consolation is that I don't have to sit in the same room and try to not want to kill people. Instead, I can make fun of them on my blog. For example:

Instructor>> First, think of it as not just blogging, per se, but really, Web 2.0. It's not what it was when if first started - basically, online journaling that was oh-so-self-obsessed. Rather, it's now the accepted way of providign content on the front end, while outsourcing the back end coding to your blog provider.

Idiot #1>> thanks! Maybe I just need to be reading some of the better blogs, 'cause most that I've read seem to be more like journals

Instructor>> exactly, naval gazing is blogging 1.0 to a T. Its evolved tons past that!)


You know what? The best blogs are personal blogs. I hate this class. Someone help me. Please let it be sunny tomorrow. Des and I are planning to go see the life-size statue of a bull elephant with a two foot long dick at the UN Sculpture Garden, and we need to laugh. (Her more than me, but still.) Giant statue elephant schlongs are funny, even with rain, but much more hilarious in the sun with ice cream. I'm buying.

4 comments:

  1. Oops. You just reminded me that I myself have an online class now. And I've just missed the first discussion.
    Doh.

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  2. I had a professor in college that said per se, like every third sentence. And never once, not once, did he indicate that he knew what it meant or use it correctly in any shape or form. Not so much related to your situation, but a funny story nevertheless.

    And, me want to see giant pachyderm schlong...

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  3. Anyone remember Ferris Bueller's Day off? Anyone? Anyone?

    Yeah, I had THAT guy as a North Dakota History teacher my senior year. North Dakota History is a boring subject already and then we had a seventy year old man standing in front of us at eight am going, "Anyone? Anyone?" I thought I was going to die.

    Hope you make it through the class. Look at it this way, at least you're taking it for personal enrichment and not credit that will determine the rest of your life. You can be snarky if you want to be. You're paying for the class.

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  4. Wait, my blog is not good?

    Oh, kidding. The best blogs are the ones that are engaging and make you want more of whatever they're offering, be they personal, political, or product review sites.

    Saying that personal blogs are out is just like saying that the autobiography is dead.

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