ranty mcrant rant

Twitter is not a blog

by ZombieSkittles on November 3, 2010

I love Twitter with a passion. I’ve been using it for a while now and have made many friends from it, including the people I currently live with. It’s short messages of no more than 140 characters are something that I, as well as others, invest plenty of time in reading and replying to.

Today I want to talk about thrush a growing trend in tweeting. TwitLonger has been around for quite a while but luckily was never adapted that much, most people sticking with the limits of Twitter. TwitLonger is a website that allows one to extend their tweet past the 140 character limit in place. It does this by putting the tweet on an external site, then putting a preview and a link to the full tweet on Twitter. Not many people used the service, much to my happiness.

However, with it being integrated into more popular programs including TweetDeck and the official Android app, more people are letting their tweets extend the character limit. I’m slowly encountering tweets that are turning into full blog posts, and I do not like this.
If I want to read a blog post I will visit a blog for it. Twitter is for micro-blogging, and ideas like TwitLonger really bother me. If your tweet extends the 140 character limit it is no longer a tweet, and more of a post that deserves to go on Tumblr.

That was all a bit rambly, but this is a rambling ranty post. Basically, please stop using Twitlonger guys. Save those “tweets” for your personal blog.

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Urge to throw up, rising.

by ZombieSkittles on December 9, 2009

Past few days, seemingly without any reason, ants have been in my room. I’ll see one occasionally crawling along my screen, and it goes something like this:

Ant: Sup?
Me: ………*flicks*

And that’s how it’s been for the past few days. I cleaned my room but they were still around, so we’ve been living in harmony. Then tonight, while drinking my Iced Coffee, ants tried getting into it, but I held onto my glass the whole time to stop them. So it was fine, but that was when things went from worse, to worse than worse (ultra worse? megaworse? We need a word for this; an awesome word).

antsI finished my drink, and got another. I put away the milk, and came back to my desk (yes, I take the stuff to the glass rather than the glass to the stuff. I’m awesome) to find an ant crawling on the glass. I flicked it off and checked the drink, fuelled by my paranoia, to find a dead one floating on top. I’m not going to waste the drink and it’s just one ant, so I grabbed it out, flicked it away, and had a drink. I could still taste ant, so absentmindedly checked the bottom of the glass; revealing four motherfucking dead ants.
Calmly, I got up and sprinted to the sink. Projectile-spat what was in my mouth and tipped out the glass. That should of been the end of it, one crappy bit of luck when it comes to my drink. But no, it actually gets worse.

Still thirsty, I grabbed my glass and went to make another iced coffee. There were three ants sitting on the lid of the iced coffee, chilling out. I flicked them off, annoyed, and put the glass down. At that point, one ant appeared from under the fucking lid. An “oh god” actually escaped my lips, and I opened the bottle and looked under the lid.

I shit you not, ten dead ants. I sniffed the iced coffee; it smelled like ant carcass. I had been drinking ant carcass juice in my iced coffee.

I hate life sometimes.

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My Life Is Disappoint

by ZombieSkittles on December 4, 2009

Today got off to a bad start, when I discovered there was a site in the style of Fuck My Life and My Life Is Average that catered to the mentally sick people that us normal people (normal is a stretch, I know) look down upon on a day to day basis.

The site? My Life Is Twilight. And I am so sorry for linking you to it.

Yes, they actually have a website where people can talk about how their life is Twilight, and share experiences related to the overtly deplorable obsession teenage girls seem to forming around the stories, and it’s “perfect” characters.
All this website does for me, is to confirm that there are far too many people who take movies to heart, and not even good movies, or realistic movies, but movies about a romantically perfect sparkling vampire who obsesses over and stalks the main character of the books. Here are a couple of examples, which are also a couple of the top entries on the site, in case you don’t want to expose yourself to the whole site, and you know, get cancer or something (I hear that can totally happen).

Today I asked my boyfriend if he would hold ice to his lips for a minute before he kissed me, so I could pretend I was kissing Edward. He did. MLIT

Today I woke up from a nap on my girlfriends couch only to realize that she had covered me in Twilight body glitter while I was asleep. FML+MLIT

I have a life-sized cardboard cutout of Edward in my room. When I saw New Moon again I bought an extra ticket and had Edward sit next to me. Best date ever. MLIT

I hope these three girls (unless they’re all the same person), die horribly in a fire, after being stabbed in the face multiple times, plus a variety of other injuries (not bitten, because that would just make them happy). No offence to them, but they need to get over it. It’s a book.

My Life is Twilight makes me weep.

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