| Rasputin's daughter on a 1935 Wheaties box |
[May. 18th, 2013|05:54 pm]
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"Europe's Sensational Wild Animal Trainer, Fearless Daughter of Russia's Mad Monk." I learned about this existence of this wonderful artifact and wonderful kook from Bess Lovejoy's Atlas Obscura talk at DNA Lounge last week, which you should surely attend in the future. She also later co-authored a cookbook, which includes recipes for jellied fish heads and her father's favorite, cod soup. She also worked as a cabaret dancer in Bucharest, Romania, and then found work as a circus performer for Ringling Brothers Circus. During the 1930s she toured Europe and America as a lion tamer, billing herself as "the daughter of the famous mad monk whose feats in Russia astonished the world." She was mauled by a bear in Peru, Indiana, but stayed with the circus until it reached Miami, Florida, where she quit and began work as a riveter in a defense shipyard during World War II. Mirrored from jwz.org. |
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| Fucking Zynga |
[May. 18th, 2013|12:39 pm]
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Dear Lazyweb, can anyone tell me how to disconnect my Words With Friends account from my Facebook account? I'm sick to death of it sending me push-notifications that someone I'm friends with on Facebook but have never played Scrabble with has played a word. There seems to be no way to turn this shit off. Things I have tried: De-authorizing the Words With Friends app on Facebook. This causes the the iOS app to go into a loop demanding that you re-authorize it. Deleting and re-installing the iOS app. That stops the auth-loop, but does not stop the "notifications about non-friends" issue, and also makes it nag you daily saying "Hey, you used to log in with Facebook! Log in with Facebook okay??"
So I guess I can't do this myself, since it's stuck in their DB. I'll just mail them and ask them to delete that. Ha ha ha. - This joke appears to be the closest thing to a non-FAQ support page.
So I go to their Facebook page hoping to message them. There's no option to message them. There's no option to post a question on the wall except as a reply to a previous post from them announcing an new feature in a different game. WTF. So I waste my time trying to strip my complaint down to 140 characters and ask them on Twitter. To the shock of nobody, I get no reply. Then on a completely different, unlinked web site, I find this page. I get a brush-off auto-reply saying "update to the latest version of the app, which will direct you to the FAQ instead of letting you actually contact us."
The fact that they are still nagging me with updates about my Facebook friends when they no longer have authorization on my Facebook account means that they have stored an offline copy of my friends tree, which I'm pretty sure is against Facebook's application terms of service. I'm sure both parties care about this a lot. Yeah yeah, that's what I get for dealing with amoral scumbags like Zynga in the first place. I even paid them money to make the ads go away, so I'm part of the problem. But hey, I like playing scrabble on my phone. Remember when a paying customer could actually email support? Those were the days. Previously. Mirrored from jwz.org. |
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| HMS Glorious |
[May. 18th, 2013|11:17 am]
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In my dream last night, the admirals came to tell Elizabeth I that the Spanish were invading, and she said, "Well, repel them." But as the admirals were leaving, she added, "Wait, come back. I have invented a submarine, and I think this would be the best chance to test it in action. I shall call it HMS GLORIOUS." So HMS Glorious was built, and Elizabeth insisted on being the pilot. It carried no torpedoes, for they had not been invented, but instead it had a sharp point at the front which was used to ram the Spanish ships (yes, you're welcome to give a Freudian reading to this). And as the Armada sank ship by ship, the sailors would cheer and say, "Well done, your Majesty! Er, I mean, well done, mysterious sailor whose name we forgot."
This entry was originally posted at http://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/276740.html. Please comment there using OpenID. |
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| Picasa |
[May. 18th, 2013|02:30 am]
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Dear Lazyweb:I face-tagged a zillion faces in desktop Picasa while "Store Name Tags in Photo" was unchecked. Now I have checked it and I want it to write all those tags back to the EXIF. How? Alternately: I just want to extract a map of filename → face-names, and then I can take care of business myself. Where's the API? Previously. Mirrored from jwz.org. |
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| News Post: Video Content |
[May. 17th, 2013|10:46 pm]
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http://penny-arcade.com/2013/05/17/video-content Gabe: We had some technical difficulties this week and the result was that a couple of our shows ended up being late. I apologize for the mess up. Here’s the new episode of Gabeart that should have gone up yesterday. And here’s the latest episode of Strip Search that should have gone up earlier this morning. Sorry about that. -Gabe out |
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| News Post: Increasingly Damn Late |
[May. 17th, 2013|07:05 pm]
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http://penny-arcade.com/2013/05/17/increasingly-damn-late Tycho: “Too Damn Late,” like Strips Which Include Div, is a specifically Gabriel form. I relent when we are exposed to a glut of news which might individually make for thin gruel, but leveraged in this context are appropriate. The cadence is also fun to model. Anyway, the stars were right. Electronic Arts has dicussed the wealf they’d stacked as a result of Online Passes, part of Project Ten Dollar, which was itself a kind of retail counterinsurgency. With the advent of new consoles, cost conscious players will almost certainly stay or adopt the existing… |
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