Pip and his Geeky Stuff

Continuing what I've been doing. Go visit GeekCubed.Tumblr.com for that site done the way I originally intended.

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And, it goes without saying, my new best friend, the laminating queen, five fat points.

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One of my favorite moments of the show. 

[fvckyouimaprophet]

For people who haven’t seen Riverdale, guess which plot is made up:

An organ-harvesting cult puts on Heathers: The Musical

The main character’s dog’s saliva has super-healing powers

Small Fry attempts to avenge the death of his father, noted mafioso Papa Poutine

A dad attempts to scare his son straight with D&D, the ROTC, and fake poison

One of the characters discovers she has serial killer genes

A straight girl kisses a lesbian to save the world and discusses queerbaiting

After a breakup, a lesbian isolates in her gothic mansion and draws a fursona

The teen gang joins a school drag show to sell drugs known as jingle jangle

A bunch of teenagers get into the tickle porn business

I’ve watched Riverdale and just want to see the results

Voting ended onFeb 27, 2023

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I am going to miss Riverdale.

[pharlapcartoonist]

Keep it up @neil-gaiman, it will be over soon

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Wil Wheaton trying to look good by telling us he quit years ago is crap. Dude, I remember when and why you quit. Twitter was quite popular at the time and he was stuck between legit criticism of sexually harassment and manipulative behavior and a close friend (Hardwick) who was guilty of that behavior. He bailed on twitter and ran away from the controversy. 

Now, I don’t blame him for refusing to respond to the questions, he was not an abusive asshole. But to take the moral high ground now about why he left twitter is just straight bullshit and I am not going to let it slide. Leaving twitter was a strange but fine thing to do at the time and for that reason.

He used twitter a lot, as did I, and he was a great person to follow. Just because history is messy does not mean we get to rewrite it. It is messy. life is messy. Don’t lie about it, don’t be slimy about it, don’t try to ignore the messy parts to look cool and above it all. 

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I’d like to start a crowdfunding drive to buy Tumblr. Think about what WE could do if WE owned this site? It could revolutionize social media in the way it needs to be revolutionized! 

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bless Scottish twitter

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Their autocorrect must have had an aneurysm. 

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I feel bad for all the people who made money from Tumblr. The artists, the theme designers, the plug-in developers. So many people made this site fun and made a living by so. I feel bad for the loss of all their income. 

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The Tumblr app is back in the App Store, so it’s time to bomb it with 1 star reviews.

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Daer @staff I’m deleting the app from my phone and will taking down every one of my accounts, due to the changes you are making to your adult content policy. May this change force the closire of your once fun website.

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© Becky Margraf

https://www.instagram.com/bargraf/

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OMG!!!

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Pokeball Pin made by Nikki Ward

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A-fucking-men

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It’s very seldom that my Google-Fu is so utterly defeated, that I’ve been reduced to this, but I need your help, gentle reader. 

Does anyone remember the period of fast food architecture from the late 1980s to early to mid 1990s when nearly all fast food restaurants looked like greenhouses, with huge, sloping glass windows that filled them with light? They were wonderfully warm and futuristic. I’ve been trying to find images of the “greenhouse” era of fast food restaurants, easily the high point of fast food architecture, even including the mid-century designs. It was the most elegant era in fast food architecture ever, and it’s like nobody realized it happened. I can’t find any images to illustrate what I mean and boy, have I looked. Anyone with images would be appreciated.

Like all great American art, we created something wonderful, then ignored it and thought it had no value because it was closely tied to commerce and “low class culture,” and didn’t even realize we did it at all (there’s a reason “film noir” is a French term - they noticed this stuff wasn’t “junk” but a genre unto itself long after the genre ceased to exist). 

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User @featherwurm had a strategy I hadn’t considered: use Google Street View and set it to as far back as possible, when a lot of the “greenhouse” fast food restaurants hadn’t remodeled yet. With it, he found an image of a San Diego Wendy’s from 2010. Not the most spectacular example of this kind of architecture, but good to illustrate what I mean by “greenhouse” Wendy’s. Thank you, @featherwurm!

A lot of the “greenhouse” fast food restaurants remodeled in the past 10 years. Smashed in, like they were trash and the owners probably didn’t think anything of it at all. It’s really a tragedy for a style to appear, then totally disappear and nobody noticed or cared. 

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User @sweetsonofabitch suggested using the search terms “solarium” and “sunroom” to find these types of fast food architecture structures. This is great because this is a phenomenally slippery search term. With that, I was able to find these:

It’s also very nice to finally have a term to use to describe this instead of “greenhouse fast food.” “Solarium design” sounds like an article in an architectural magazine, although “Sunroom” sounds more…Yankee, and less pretentious, which fits. 

When I started searching sunroom, a fascinating thing happened. I kept on finding upscale restaurants that, as a part of their architecture, use Solarium design or have sunrooms. This isn’t the first time some element of “low culture” is repackaged as expensive haute couture. 

[projectrooftop]

A New Fantastic Four by Calvin Lin!

http://www.tencentticker.com/projectrooftop/2018/10/13/a-new-fantastic-four-by-calvin-lin/

A New Fantastic Four by Calvin Lin!

P:R Pal Calvin Lin has not only redesigned the FF, he recast them! Here’s what Calvin had to say about his New Fantastic Four: I decided t

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Sign me up!

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