@matthew This is precisely the sort of denial you'd issue if you were in fact about to deliver new site features, because we all know they'd be mediocre and you're trying to lower our expectations.
I love change, Irk. I mean, yeah, like everyone else, I get frustrated with it sometimes, but it's ultimately a great thing. I think this video is a subtle and snarky criticism of the people who are always bitching about change around here. That's how I'm taking it, so, yeah, from that perspective I love it.
@duodec That would be bad for everyone. Though I do think of my predecessors as old goats, goats emeritus, if you will. In my mind, they get residual blame especially for those lingering issues that never really rise to the level of being fully recognized or articulated. But don't tell them I said that; they might not like it.
@smilingjack if only they would abandon it. I'm 35, have never, and will never sign up or faceballs, and i keep missing out on stuff becasue my contemporaries seem to ONLY share on FB. I missed my class reunion last year, planed entirely on FB. not that i was entirely looking foreword to going any way, but still!
@earlyre@smilingjack There's certainly garbage on FB, but there are ways to filter (not as many as I'd like, but still several). The thing is, if you have an account, you're at least available for friends and family to reach out to you, kinda like email. It's really the main way I stay connected to my family and, honestly, I'm more up-to-date on my siblings and parents, not to mention aunts and uncles and cousins, etc., than I have ever been. I don't get the hate: I find it pretty easy to ignore most of the things I don't want to see on FB.
@earlyre I hate it too, but if the group as a whole has decided that's where they are going to post and plan, then if you want to be included you have to play. I only use it to see if events are coming up that I'm interested in...
@Headly I didn't now anything about planning. the only way I even knew when the reuinon was, was that a co-worker happend to be dating one of my classmates, and she asked me like the day before... oh well.
Here's the awesome Yeats poem Irk references. It's a personal favorite, full of apocalyptic and sinisterly messianic foreboding:
The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand; A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
@smoo99 Part of the joy of Irk's answering your question is his creative re-interpretation of your name. Think of it as a rite of passage, like certain Native American tribes do, or like Abram to Abraham or Jacob to Israel or Simon to Peter. Or Squatting Dog (my kid was a big fan of JTT).
@smoo99 It's totally an honor. And most certainly a weird honor. Though as a fellow mehican who, as it were, was granted audience with Irk, I feel I should point out that the selection must surely be arbitrary and doesn't imply anything about the quality of the question. Great question, btw (obviously). And great enhancement request.
@joelmw I assume nothing re the quality of the question but just take it as a most unexpected gift. Less than crazy about the gif but we'll just leave it there.
@smoo99 Yaknow, that's the thing about gifs. Now this one is starting to annoy me too (and that's not an uncommon experience--i.e., that I post one, especially with the animation like this, and it starts to bug me). I'm sorry. Truly. And I won't post a gif to say so. Sigh.
Clarification: IRK IS JUST TALKING SHIT, not announcing new site features. He doesn't know anything about what the code monkeys get up to.
@matthew uh oh! Did you let it slip?
@matthew This is precisely the sort of denial you'd issue if you were in fact about to deliver new site features, because we all know they'd be mediocre and you're trying to lower our expectations.
Wow, there's been a lot of Irk lately. Life is good.
I agree with irk... quit changing shot just too change shit.. unless it's awesome then change away
@Squid_07 I would expect any change to be meh. If I want awesome I'm looking elsewhere.
let's be real, no one cares what you write on your profile page anyway, you self-absorbed mehnnonite.
@etiRkca
Sounds familiar, Irk.
@Collin1000 Complaining about change is the only constant in the universe.
What beautiful hands, so strong yet capable of such tenderness
@matthew I like how you eventually transitioned in your career from showing your hands to finding a way to hide your hands.
@BillLehecka @matthew I was going to mention I could also see your hand and complement you on how real the videos seem now.
@Collin1000 At 1:27 you can kinda hear a foreshadowing of "meh."
We need more Meh goods in "Personal Business". It's kind of a beige.
@GiantTarget Also, anyone who puts Georgia Red as their favorite color instantly gets reverted to "Personal Business".
I like purple.
Irk loves beige.
I love purple.
@matthew Please tell Irk that his Friendster brilliance has most likely been archived for eternity.
I love change, Irk. I mean, yeah, like everyone else, I get frustrated with it sometimes, but it's ultimately a great thing. I think this video is a subtle and snarky criticism of the people who are always bitching about change around here. That's how I'm taking it, so, yeah, from that perspective I love it.
@joelmw After all just think if the goat were unchanging. Once the goat, forever the goat.
@duodec That would be bad for everyone. Though I do think of my predecessors as old goats, goats emeritus, if you will. In my mind, they get residual blame especially for those lingering issues that never really rise to the level of being fully recognized or articulated. But don't tell them I said that; they might not like it.
Oh no. I think just like Irk.
I can't even get use to forums like this instead of like that other place.
btw
With was friendster?
Where did all the kids (ok, I'm old, the 20 and 30 somethings) go now that they abandoned Facebook?
@smilingjack if only they would abandon it. I'm 35, have never, and will never sign up or faceballs, and i keep missing out on stuff becasue my contemporaries seem to ONLY share on FB. I missed my class reunion last year, planed entirely on FB. not that i was entirely looking foreword to going any way, but still!
@earlyre @smilingjack There's certainly garbage on FB, but there are ways to filter (not as many as I'd like, but still several). The thing is, if you have an account, you're at least available for friends and family to reach out to you, kinda like email. It's really the main way I stay connected to my family and, honestly, I'm more up-to-date on my siblings and parents, not to mention aunts and uncles and cousins, etc., than I have ever been. I don't get the hate: I find it pretty easy to ignore most of the things I don't want to see on FB.
@joelmw
Then I'll just stick with email.@hallmike These guys do email and dialup. I've heard they're the shit. ;-)
@earlyre I hate it too, but if the group as a whole has decided that's where they are going to post and plan, then if you want to be included you have to play. I only use it to see if events are coming up that I'm interested in...
@Headly I didn't now anything about planning. the only way I even knew when the reuinon was, was that a co-worker happend to be dating one of my classmates, and she asked me like the day before... oh well.
Here's the awesome Yeats poem Irk references. It's a personal favorite, full of apocalyptic and sinisterly messianic foreboding:
The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
@joelmw It is sublime.
Eek eek it's my question! Does this mean I am now famous-ish? And BTW that's smoo rhymes with moo, 99 as in just before 100.
@smoo99 Part of the joy of Irk's answering your question is his creative re-interpretation of your name. Think of it as a rite of passage, like certain Native American tribes do, or like Abram to Abraham or Jacob to Israel or Simon to Peter. Or Squatting Dog (my kid was a big fan of JTT).
@joelmw I actually do feel weirdly honored. :)
@smoo99 It's totally an honor. And most certainly a weird honor. Though as a fellow mehican who, as it were, was granted audience with Irk, I feel I should point out that the selection must surely be arbitrary and doesn't imply anything about the quality of the question.
Great question, btw (obviously). And great enhancement request.
@joelmw I assume nothing re the quality of the question but just take it as a most unexpected gift. Less than crazy about the gif but we'll just leave it there.
@smoo99 Yaknow, that's the thing about gifs. Now this one is starting to annoy me too (and that's not an uncommon experience--i.e., that I post one, especially with the animation like this, and it starts to bug me). I'm sorry. Truly. And I won't post a gif to say so. Sigh.
@joelmw No worries!
Whoa...
Hexagram 23.
That's deep Irk.
Dear Irk,
What is your planetary origin and have you considered seeing a dentist?
Sincerely,
Irishbyblood
@irishbyblood he's British, so they're supposed to be that way.