Tag: Instagram

Bucket

Okay, unrelated topic. What do we think of the whole Instagram-as-photo-hosting-site thing? I will always prefer Flickr, but is this okay? I’m thinking no.

Missed Chance

I cooked burgers on the grill tonight. Jen made the patties from a package of ground beef and some other awesome stuff and I grilled them.

I totally forgot to take pictures for the ‘gram. Like, dude… missed opportunity. They were really good.

My wife Jen is basically the most awesome awesomeness in awesome town.

Eric’s Birthday

Eric Clapton celebrated his 76th birthday today and I’m guessing he didn’t wear a mask.

I can overlook a lot of shit from my musical heroes, I’m looking at you drunken racist immigration rants back in the… whenever that was, but the anti mask shit you pulled recently… just fuck you, bro.

I still want to hear him play live again. Just one more time. That’s despite the anti mask shit. I mean really… fuck you, bro.

So instead of birthday wishes here’s a pic from 1966 with the legendary Marshall combo amp behind him, and the even more legendary, dare I say almost mythical, 1960 Les Paul Standard in front of him.

Assuming the Instagram link works, of course…

(The guy next to him is John McVie who about two years later became the Mac in Fleetwood Mac)

Widgets

Check it out, nerd boy is messing around with the layout on the page again.  I had this goofy idea to add a music playlist to the sideboard.  Just a few things that I’ve been in the mood for recently.  I already forget where the idea came from (blame old age).  Did I see it on someone else’s page?  I think so.

Anyway, I went over to Spotify and started a new playlist and added a couple of Robert Fripp and Steven Wilson things because that’s where my head has been lately.  I added a couple of Rush tunes too because RIP Professor.  Then I went looking for a widget…

…and I couldn’t find one.  Google to the rescue.  While I was looking I found an Instagram widget too.  I have a love/hate relationship with The ‘Gram.  I love the idea of it, but I hate the shitty interface and the shitty algorithm and the shitty owned-by-Facebook.  Oh what the hell, thought the social media whore, and I added the Instagram widget and a text widget with a Spotify tagger that linked to my new playlist.  I then added a few more songs to the playlist.  Prog and Blues, mostly.  Not the most palatable of combinations, but screw you guys it’s my brain I don’t care, whatever.

You can see both things over there on the right somewhere.  You might have to scroll down a little.   >>>>>>>>

I also added a Flickr widget which didn’t work, and a twitter widget which reminded me that my twitter feed is almost entirely links back to this page.  Can you say redundant?  I can, and often do.  I removed them both and moved on with my life.

Also, I totally forgot that you can’t actually play Spotify on an embedded playlist.  It links you back to Spotify itself (I think it tried opening the player app before proceeding to the web player) and I think you need to be signed in to hear anything.  Whatever.  It’s only there because I’m a nerd and like doing nerdy things.

What this means is that any minute now I’m probably going to be changing my whole page theme.  You have been warned.

Is Instagram’s stories function a shameless rip off of Snapchat?

The Onion’s Coverage of the Rio Olympics on Instagram

Is Instagram’s stories function a shameless rip off of Snapchat? Well sure, but it doesn’t matter because The Onion has already created the greatest story humanly possible.

I Hate Instagram

I have come to hate Instagram. It was such a cool thing when it was first released. It caught on so fast. I enjoyed it mostly for its ability to repost things onto different sites, but it worked well and it made me happy.

Then it went to crap. I’ve deleted it a couple of times. I keep going back to give it another try, but it keeps pissing me off. Forget the spam, forget the begging for hits, forget the way people try to use it like Facebook, forget the way they turned off their Twitter integration, forget the whole Facebook purchase and take over. The thing that pisses me off to know end is the way the interface itself keeps screwing up on me.

It’s built to run on touch screens. Why then does it mistake my scrolling gesture for a double tap? No, asshole, I didn’t just mark that photo as a favorite, I wanted to scroll passed it! One swipe is about as far removed from a double tap as you can get on a touch screen, yet I just fav’d a bunch of pictures as I was scrolling passed them! Scrolling passed is the opposite of Fav’ing! Scrolling means I DON’T want to see it again!

I deleted yet another account (my third, I think) and deleted the app yet again.

Hipstamatic’s answer to Instagram is Oggl. It has the huge downsides of not having anyone I know using it, and it crashes a lot. A LOT. It’s still better than Instagram. Socially speaking I use it the way I use Flickr these days. That means I follow every account I see but if I see anything remotely NSFW from anyone I follow they get axed. I guess you are innocent until proven guilty. Most folks seem okay though. I just wish it wouldn’t crash so much.