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John Green says something.

(From the TFiOS audiobook. No spoilers.)

I was hoping someone was gonna post this!

Real human being.

Hashtag Real John Green.

This might just be the most inspirational and beautiful thing I have ever heard John say, ever.

So I hit play, and I was like “Wait, I’ve heard this before…” then I looked at the URL and I was like AARON, LOOK HOW MANY NOTES YOUR POST HAS. And then I was like “I wonder if he’s all proud that of how many notes this has gotten, or if he’s just like This is what I will be remembered for on tumblr till the end of time?” And then I thought AARON HAS YOUR FACE HAD ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT THIS YET? And well, that last part only makes sense to like 3 people…

So I got way behind on tumblr and kinda quit checking it while I was crazy busy during my last semester of college, and then I went to Disney and was working nonstop, and so I still didn’t have time for tumblr.
But now I’m back home and jobless and bored, so I was like “Well, now would be a good time for getting back into tumblr, right?” WRONG. It seems Donna Noble doesn’t agree with me.
Donna is my laptop. She’s started doing that thing again where she just turns off at random times while I’m in the middle of doing things.
Which leads me to screaming things like “FUCK YOU DONNA, YOU WHORE!”
At my computer.
Alone.
At 1:30 am.

You’re just as sane as I am

ok, maybe not.

Storytime!
So a couple weeks back, I was at the Walgreen’s across the street from my apartment complex here in Disney, just buying some easymac or whatever, when this gum display catches my eye. I realize it’s Kristina Horner in the picture. Not only is it Kristina, I recognize the picture as an old stock picture from her DeviantArt (Click through to see the original).
I’ve been kinda out of the loop with a lot of internet things lately, so I wasn’t sure if she’d gotten some contract with Extra, or if they’d bought the rights to that picture and I just hadn’t heard anything about it, or if someone had found this picture online and just decided to use it for their chewing gum campaign. Either way, I thought it was interesting, so I decided to take a picture of the ad.
Fast forward to earlier tonight when I finally get around to uploading all the pictures I’ve taken in the past month or so, and there’s that picture of the Extra ad (Yes, that means it’s in the middle of an album of me & my friends being weird in the parks). So I upload the picture and tag Kristina, and a few minutes later, I get a comment. Turns out she wasn’t asked by anyone if they could use her image, and she didn’t even know that it was being used.
I’m reminded of the Viacom/YouTube debate awhile back: Yes, individuals on the internet steal from from major corporations, but that doesn’t mean that major corporations don’t steal from individuals on the internet, too. Usually all of this piracy takes place online though, I never expected to walk into a random store and see a picture of someone from the internet. The whole thing is so weird and interesting.

So, two questions:
Have you seen this extra ad with Kristina’s face on it anywhere (other than the Walgreen’s next to Vista Way)?
Have you seen any other examples of things like this? People and things from the internet appearing in things outside the internet without proper permission/compensation?

mikelombardomusic:

I posted that my album “Internet: A Series of Tunes, Vol 2” was free for thirty minutes.
It’s a collection of songs I’ve released for youtube and thus has a much lower cost overhead than my studio albums.

I wanted to see how many people would check it out.
At the time of posting, I had 6213…

Belated semi-meaningless Thank You! I love your music, and I love free things, so your music for free is extra awesome. A friend of mine posted the link in the DC Nerdfighters facebook group (which has nearly 500 members), which is might be where some of those anonymous downloads came from. I liked the post, but didn’t reblog it because I thought the half hour was nearly over, and posting links to free things that aren’t free anymore makes me sad.

I love that the primary advice I got from both people who responded to the DCP post was “STAY CALM.” You know me too well. I should go dins something to drink that isn’t chock full o caffeine & sugar…

Also, I saw Aaron coming out of the South Campus Diner wearing the Pizza John Shirt, and totally just pointed at him & shouted “PIZZA JOHN!” Other people probably thought I was insane. Then we ended up talking for like 20 minutes, and now I kinda really want our Official Club Name to be #UMDFTBA.

UPDATE:
I just got off of the phone interview. i think it went well? But I’m also REALLY terrible at telling those sorts of things. The woman on the interview seemed really nice and enthusiastic, and I really liked her. Her name was Claire!
I don’t think I did a terrible job of answering any of the questions, I just hope I wasn’t too rambly & long winded in some of my explanations. Y’all know how rambly I can get.

So I’ve gotten a bunch of new followers recently (I think a lot of you are from the DC nerdfighters group…um…hi!), and that kinda coincided with me posting very very little lately, which really wasn’t intended.
I just got back from being on vacation in Alaska for the past 10 days (Twas fun, took bunches of pictures, I might post a few on here), and so I’ve been pretty much 100% absent from tumblr for over a week.
The best part of this whole thing is that I’m taking the GREs on the 26th, so I probably [hopefully] won’t be on tumblr a whole ton for the next 10 days either. Lovely.

Basically, I know I’ve been absent of late, but hopefully that will change soon.

So I always thought no one cool or interesting shared a birthday with me (I blame USA Weekend. Martina McBride is just not acceptable.) Then last year I found out that Wil Wheaton was born today as well. So now, I decided to do some more digging…

Top 5 most awesome Non-Caitlin people to be Born on July 29th (This is obviously a super objective list.):

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The most aggravating thing to me about this dumb Pottermore site (besides the fact that it won’t take my freaking email address; to quote Ali “Pottermore, you are drunk.”), is that I absolutely love that background image with the stone and the desk and the candles and the owl and I just want to STEAL it so badly! And it won’t let me! And I’m too much of a failure at source code to figure out why I can’t find it. But I love it. And I want it. If I can manage to get it, I’m gonna use it for everything, the way I did with the Dr. Horrible background.
Also, if you go to the video on YouTube, its unlisted. And the pottermore channel is “unavailable.” Weird.

tl;dr - If you can get that background image and send it to me, I will love you forever.

Rambly flailing livebloggage of A Good Man Goes to War under the read more

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I was going through the “downloads” folder on my computer where everything gets sent when I save it without paying attention, and I notice this folder that’s just called “Tumblr_files” that I’ve never seen before. Its filled with like 679 items, mostly .gifs, but also png & jpg pictures too. Also things like people’s avatars, and other weird things…its like I at some point just rightclicked+saveas and it just sent EVERYTHING that was on my tumblr at the time to this random folder.
At first I thought it was just things I’d been saving on purpose that had been accidentally sent to this random folder instead of my pictures folder, but then I noticed things that I definitely didn’t save, things that I wouldn’t have saved, and got confused. I still don’t quite know how it happened…
Has anyone else ever done this before? Its super weird.

I found them all in my pajama drawer while moving bedrooms today.

I win at organizational skills.
This is almost as bad as the time I couldn’t find my socks, but I could find my box of bandaids. Totally an acceptable substitute.