Evolution of the Tag (the hash type)

The hashtag is the new language of 2013. It derived first from Twitter when Chris Messina (internet geek) proposed the idea of it with the hashtag "barcamp" as something he thought it would be similar to.  

It worked. After that, hashtags were a thing on Twitter. They thought it was a good idea, and so did everyone else. There's not really another source of the hashtag, except for a typo somewhere on the internet before, but Twitter made it #official. It's even in the dictionary, look it up. It also doesn't come up as a misspelling anywhere like a word document, or at least some. Hashtags got cool, fast. There's not an alternative hashtag for people who prefer something like % or ^ because that's just dumb.

 Hashtags also help people find what they're looking for too. It's not just a tag or comment at the end of a joke. It's to find topics, tweets or articles, making life easier; that's the point (for the one's who are unaware of this).  #realtalk

According to many social media sites, the most popular hashtag on Instagram is "love". It's pretty common, nothing out of the ordinary, but there are other hashtags that don't make too much sense like #jj and #a.

As for now, hashtags are here to stay. #forever

3 comedians who have inspired me to not be a comedian.

All comedians are funny, but some are way funnier than others. My philosophy on the amount of funny that comes out of a comedian is based on his or her childhood or young life. The harder it was, the funnier they are now. If their life was pretty much made (non-Jewish), they're not as funny. There isn't much to support this argument, but its about 95% accurate.

Now there are three people who were either Jewish or had a hard life, or both. These people are George Carlin, Bill Hicks and Lenny Bruce. I am neither Jewish, not grew up in a bad part of Chicago or NYC (yes there's a bad part, there's always a bad part) or any city, roughing it everyday on the streets.

Lenny Bruce being searched by the 5-0

Lenny Bruce was funny. He was someone that no one would feel comfortable listening to his albums with (like parents). But his life just really sucked growing up as a comedian. With drugs and stuff like that, it's not something that anyone would want to go through to be talking in front of a crowd at Carnegie Hall. Unless their into that sort of stuff, but it's not favorable. Lenny Bruce was also Jewish, which somehow is a boost to being funny for anyone, I'm not sure how.

George Carlin's life sucked very much as well. Even in his book, Last Words, he describes how bad his life got with drugs and how he, his wife and child went rock-bottom as he was starting out as a comic. Although he was not Jewish, he was one of the funniest Irish-Catholics OF ALL TIME.

Bill Hicks was just the guy that was really crazy and would win in a debate tournament with a Nobel Prize, but he'd probably get disqualified for racism, profanity and having offended every living person. Also having a mullet isn't the most popular hairstyle today. He's also not the most liked person at all. Even people who like him, don't like him.

So there's three comedians that have inspired me to never pursue the career of comedy. It's not worth it.

Cops don't like bikes.

Cops don't like bikes, and bike cops don't like cops (in a car). Not that I have a personal dislike of cops, they're actually really cool, only if you're cool with them. Or you could say something like "call detective X" when you get pulled over and have your relative come to the rescue. It doesn't always happen like that. So here's what happened

As I was riding down San Jacinto Blvd. a few weeks ago on a Sunday morning to grab some coffee that was made by some hipster on the street corner, I noticed that there was one of those signs that read "PARKING $5000" in my lane. So I had to make a decision. I would have to cut off a car (which is what I should've done, because they're all texting anyway), or hop the curb and get back in the bike lane. I like hopping curbs, and there wasn't anyone on the sidewalk, so it was safe. And suddenly, I heard someone scream as if they had just been shot. It was a cop. My coffee is long gone. So I get off of my bike in my spandex and wobble over (cycling shoes are for cycling) to the cop like HE did something wrong. I told him why I hopped the curb and said a joke and that was really it. Nothing of me showed up in their "database" anyway. No ticket, no warning, no problem. Plus, it's not like anyone would have some kind of warrant for hopping curbs around the city. But pedicabs are different, nobody likes them. Also the people that move slower than walking speed on their bikes, they're different too.

If the city is going to keep pushing towards a bike-friendly environment, keeping the bike lanes clean would've prevented the posting of this blog.

The breakfast taco.

It's no secret that Austin is the breakfast taco hub in the United States, maybe even the world (maybe). But there's something that very few have ever wondered, which hobo on SOCO thought of that?

         To clarify everything beforehand, it's breakfast TACO, not burrito, unless you're from NowhereLand where the eggs come from powder and you still can't decide whether to get the green sauce or red sauce.
So the breakfast taco, it's said to have come from miners in Mexico as the word "taco" was something that was used to blow up mines. It makes sense when you can see a taco that's filled with, well whatever you put in it.  but Austin seems to have claimed it today and that's that. But why? Food trailers are the answer. Food trailers are everywhere and they all somehow sell breakfast tacos. There's about 588 restaurants that pop up on yelp that sell breakfast tacos in Austin and there's probably twenty more trailers, like the ones that open at midnight and fill up quick. So how did they get here? Well it started out with places like Arandas and then across the street popped up a Torchy's Tacos which then evolved into a line of Airstreams claiming to be the most hipster and then the "taco" in taco sort of lost it's style. It's now a gluten free, vegan and 100% organic farm raised piece of, well you get the idea. The tacos are different, but not too different. There's still pioneers in breakfast tacos that remain on the streets of Austin and so far they're original. So just as long as a taco is still called a taco, everything should go fine.

Movie Op: Rush (2013)

Dir. Ron Howard, Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl, Olivia Wilde


 
The movie rush is a "based on a true story" movie where two Formula 1 drivers battle each other out through their racing lives in the 70's. 

The first ten minutes of the movie wants you to walk out because of how many times Hunt (Hemsworth) gets in bed with someone rather than in a car. It just goes from scene to scene with him in the hospital, airplane bathroom, and on the racetrack. Then the story goes to  Niki Lauda (Brühl), a mediocre new driver in Formula 3 (which isn't as cool as F1).  Most of the story goes fairly smoothly and instantly goes to the two going pro with no time at all to catch up on to what's going on in the movie. After what happens to Lauda during a crash is a part that wakes someone up during a movie and would be emotional and indecent to some people. The movie goes on to Hunt winning races with Lauda in the hospital and Lauda goes on to racing against Hunt in one of the biggest races of the decade. Unfortunately for Lauda, the roads are wet and he decides to bail out. Hunt goes on to be a world champ in F1 racing with Lauda sparing his live DNFing in the rain. 

The movie gets really exciting toward the end and does a good job on keeping the story together with a small new love for racing.

Is a child running Kanye's Twitter account?

Do people actually follow these kinds of stories? Yes, and this is another one. 

A scene from Jimmy Kimmel's interview spoof

This past week, Kanye West did a terrible interview on "dreams" with BBC which he claims from his Twitter account that it's "THE FIRST PIECE OF HONEST MEDIA IN YEARS". Since users are still unable to broadcast voice through their Twitter account, West had to type in all caps after responding to Jimmy Kimmel's skit which spoofs West's interview with kids repeating the lines. Along with the hateful tweets toward Kimmel, Kanye West tweeted indecent pictures directed towards him containing Spongebob Squarepants and Kimmel.

Some reasons why the whole interview wasn't taken very seriously was because West didn't take himself very seriously by mentioning "leather jogging pants" and referring himself as the "Number One Rock Star on the Planet".  But West actually has been working on a clothing line and says that he is "going to do dope things" like architecture and water bottle designs. Even though that few seconds of real words coming from Kanye's mouth was real, the rest of the interview was with him talking and ranting about things that didn't make too much sense. That's part of the reason why Kimmel had the idea to spoof his interview, just make it funnier than it already was. West also backfired at Kimmel mentioning Kimmel's daughter having her picture taken (which was a part that was needed explaining)  and repeatedly mentioned Kimmel's face and Ben Affleck suggesting that West have children say "YOUR FACE LOOKS CRAZY".


 As for now,  no one has been seriously injured.

Blogs: 2013 - 2014

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