Filed under: Findings,Internet — Simon Fraser @ 11:20 am February 6, 2011
I’ve been on YouTube a lot recently, managing the user base for the Sexy Nerd Girl channel.
I’ve been monitoring who comments on videos and the SNG channel page. I go to their channel page, see if they’ve subscribed. If they haven’t, I’ll send them a friend request.
Judging by the content of their channel page – their favorites, their “about me” description – it is very obvious to me when a user is a teenager. I’ve been one myself. I know the score.
What I’m finding predominant is that when they lie about their age, they usually make themselves 20-years-old. I’ve seen hundreds of profiles in the past few weeks that list an age of 20, while it’s clear from all the signs that they are a teenager.
20 seems to be the magic age. Not so young that someone might think they’re lying about their age and not so old that they’d think they’re old.
It seems appropriate. When I was 13-17, I couldn’t imagine what 20 would look like. It was so far away.
Tumblr. I see that your page title is layered over top a graphic of a flip board that one might see at an airport, train or bus terminal. I take it that means you want me to sit here and wait for you to recover from all the mucky-muck in one of your database clusters.
Well I will then.
I’m sitting here and waiting for the message to flip over. And the light to turn green.
Filed under: Internet,TV,Videos — Simon Fraser @ 11:33 pm July 13, 2010
Web promo for the Bocche Fresche Comedy Show – August 6th, 2010 in Montreal.
Directed/edited by Simon Fraser; produced by Daniela Saioni; written by Sandra Battaglini and Daniela Saioni; cinematography by Emerson John; sound recording by Kathleen Shattock; hair/makeup by Maia Nicole Mitchell; music by Jim Clayton; starring Sandra Battaglini, Raffaella Diana, Daniela Saioni, Mark DeBonis, Marco Bernardi.
The 30-second spot plays on local Montreal TV in the weeks leading up to the event.
What is going on with God these days? I mean, isn’t God supposed to be all-powerful? And yet, if many of God’s followers would have you believe, God is about as powerful as a 98-pound wimp getting sand kicked in his face at the beach and as precious as a baby in a cradle hanging tenuously from a tree branch on the side of a cliff.
The guys from South Park got death threats recently because apparently they depicted Mohammed in a mascot bear suit. To the people who issued these death threats, I would love to ask, “Is the perception of your deity so weak that it cannot withstand mockery?”
After all, it is mockery – the second lowest form of comedy. And you want to kill someone over it? Really? I submit to you that perhaps you just want to kill someone. And South Park is simply your raison d’etre du jour.
Elsewhere, I read a comment in a discussion thread that sprouted from an article about Stephen Hawking’s recent revelation of his fear of alien contact. The comment was from a Christian who was complaining about all the heresy he had to endure in reading the article and the discussion that followed.
Again, just as with the issuers of Islamic death threats, I would love to ask Christians who complain of heresy, “Is the perception of your deity so weak that it cannot withstand an idea?”
After all, it’s only an idea – it doesn’t actually exist. No one’s putting your deity in the middle of a street in Pamplona, where actual trampling does occur. And you want to shut someone down about it? Really? I submit to you that perhaps you just want to shut someone down. And square pegs make for the easiest of targets, don’t they?
We can put a man on the Moon but we can’t cure the lowest common denominator.
