Ok…so apparently Facebook changed the look of their avatars to match the Quest VR versions? And they clearly did this without anyone who works anywhere at Meta bothering to consult an actual cartoon, comic book, or caricature artist, or even just google “uncanny valley”? Because what the fuck is this?!?!? Seriously WHAT… THE… ACTUAL… FUCK……
Make no mistake, we live in the future. A lot of times I like living in the future. I have a giant flat TV with 3D projection software hanging on my wall that can pull up a million different movies at my instant command and I can control it with my watch. I own several computers…
I often like to say that in current social media landscape, politics is basically just football. The specific policies and actions don’t matter anymore. You pick your team and you stick to it and anyone that opposes your team is automatically an asshole and anyone who is for your team is automatically good. Logic doesn’t matter and…
Teaching English is a pretty cool job. But it’s probably not the job most people think it is. In a perfect world, every day of teaching English would be about giving inspirational speeches while making students jump up on top of their desks. Really though my fondest dream as an English Teacher is to make sure none of my…
It’s been a while since I did one of these, so we’ll jump back in with an easy one. At least, I think it is… whenever I think that though, people always think that they’re super hard. We’ll see. Ten points to whoever can guess the mystery clue before Jameel does. Timer starts now.
I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, hey Mav, since you are off of school and work this week and clearly just sitting around doing nothing, why don’t you hook us up with some Facebook Pictionary love? Well, except that I’m not doing nothing. I’m hard at work on a paper because I’m a grad…
Confessions of an insomniac. These are the things I think about at 3am. I saw someone on Facebook innocuously ask earlier “exactly how does dumping ice water on your head help people with Lou Gehrig’s disease?” and I therein realized a small flaw in the whole life-meme thing. It’s sort of just become like a thing now.…
Siren’s Song #25 (of 42) Models: Melanie & Jordan. Photo credit: Christopher Maverick ©2012 So initially I was going to write something entirely different here. I was going to complain about people complaining about sports. I was going to complain that people who complain about sports are being stupid. I was…
12-5-08 (Photo credit: chrismaverick) So people (and by people, I mean geeks… not real people) talk a lot about the dangers of Facebook storing all of your content. There’s the obvious privacy issue. But that never meant much to me. I’ve been blogging in some form or another for a decade now. And…
Day 466 of 365 More. Went to dinner with Steph for our date night. Had a nice lovely time. When we were done, what did we do? What does your favorite wild and crazy playboy wrestling photographer do with his special lady on a romantic evening? A walk along the beach? A broadway show? A…