Holy crap! I clicked on the link and , well.. umm.. lets just say, thank goodness I was home alone and, the kids didn't/couldn't yell "what the hell!" LOL
I'm always here, just always late (and lurking). Lately, my phone won't let me post to blogger. Don't know what that's about. Congrats on your teaching accolades! I bet you are a kickass teacher!
PS speaking of reddit SS and SOA--I received a huge Jax banner from my secret Santa. Seriously, the thing is 8ft by 6ft (or close). I have no where to hang it up. If anyone wants it, email me the address you want it shipped to (tackyfries@gmail.com), and I'll send it free of charge(domestically). First come, first serve.
If you live in a hurricane zone, it's a great website - it gets info from a bunch of other weather sites, including NOAA and helps you keep track of storms or potential storms. It's run by a guy who relies on contributions, it's sort of a hobby with him. He's branching out into covering winter weather as well and has good links to a bunch of local weather sites. Highly recommend!
I like Dlisted but the comments sometimes annoy me. The people are nice and everything but it is like they hate everything and everyone that is posted about. Its like what do you people ACTUALLY like? and then Michael K will post a picture of like Kelly from Saved by the Bell and everyone will be all "oooh ahhhh she is AMAZING!"-- a little immature for me......
we are a fickly group BUT we do like somethings and some people. An example is GIRLS. Michael K will post something and get 250 comments all saying the same thing and some brave soul will be like "hey I like that show!" (not me I never posted there haha)..and it will be cricket central. Or Angelina Jolie everyone hates her she has not talent blahblahblah and they will just go on and on....At least here we can debate why we like something and we are just a little more ummm positive!
Based on your posts about Dlisted, I don't think you've spent much time in the comments section. Especially Open Post. They have a lot of incredibly witty commenters.
I very rarely read comments on Dlisted. I don't know why...i just don't. Gawker/Jezebel and Anarchy are really the only sites where I pay attention to the comments.
@Rose, me either. I think that if I read the comments on Dlisted, I would never get to anything else. The comments are funny when I do check them out, but all of a sudden an hour of my day has disappeared and I'm on the same article!
OMG. Really?! Thank you. I'm always shocked and awed when my friends - in real life and on the internets - tell me they actually cook my recipes and read my blog.
No kidding, I have been craving soup and first thing I see is hot and sour soup! I'd replace the tofu with miracle noodles (tofu and I don't get along so I sub miracle noodles which are basically kelp so the same thing, haha) and then you did a scallop dish and you love Barefoot Contessa. We are sisters from other misters!
My blog still has a meatball soup and a Thai chicken soup that I adore on the front page. I need to get that puppy fixed because I made seafood papparedelle the other night and 6 layer lasgana last night. I'm doing a rump roast cooked prime rib style tonight along with sweet potato gratin and cranberry spinach salad.
@Susan: You have a lovely cooking blog. I will have to try some of your recipes out! But your Seven Emotions of Wasting Food posts read like my personal journal! Keep it up, hun! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much!!! Seven and Lady - You are so sweet for checking it out! Seven, I hope you get yours fixed up. Blogging is so low on my to-do list, but I love doing it. Is is kind of like keeping a journal. And it's great for me because my friends and family in real life always want my recipes, so I just refer them to my blog. I just wish I had more hours in the day to make it nice nice. We're hosting a party this Saturday. I just finished work. I'm wigging out. LOL. It's the cleaning that drives me insane.
Is starting a blog easy?? I thought about doing one on food and hotels but I'm terrified it's to hard to figure out how to get it started. . 7. What was that template link you had the other day.. Susan I will check your site out in the morning. I'm in bed on phone trying to get cranky sick puppy to sleep and stop fidgeting. .
I use Blogger, which seems to be a bit archaic now. (I started my blog like six years ago after I fled the newspaper industry to turn my piano studio into a full-time business. I had worked two jobs forevs. I had a lot of downtime in the summer, and I love to cook and write, so it just made sense. Plus, food blogs were like all the rage then. LOL. Fast-forward to having a baby and ... free time. Um, what's that? I don't think blogging is hard because the tutorials for figuring out the coding are not the crazy. And I am not exactly a techie person. Some things were tricky, like figuring out how to get the Pinterest Pin button on my posts. When I finally did it, I felt so accomplished. My blog design is kind of lame. I really just run my blog for fun. I share it on my Facebook page and things like that. It's not like I make any dollas dollas off of it.
Blogger is a great place to start. My real life job involves techie stuff, so my websites all use WordPress. It's actually really easy to use - I teach workshops on it, including using WP as an actual website and not necessarily a blog. If you want to give it a test drive, go to wordpress.com - you can start a free blog there (like yourblog.wordpress.com) and see what it looks like under the hood. I always recommend WP. :)
Dollars for Docs - just type in your doc's name and see how much money they're getting from the pharmaceutical industry. I think of it as ID-a-Whore. http://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/
@kno thank you!!!!! I just looked up a doctor that screwed me after ten years. Long story short he wouldn't request an MRI which when I finally got it years later showed that I need a joint replacement. He just wanted me to stay on a million pills that made me a useless, obese couch potato with no energy or feelings. I knew he was getting kickbacks because there were always drug reps in the office who seemed to be very close with the entire staff. Much more than any other doctor I've seen. Wow you really just blew my mind thank you so much for this!
@Kno- I remember NPR did a bunch of cool stories and updates on Dollars for Docs. If I remember correctly, the founders received a shit ton of death threats and have been socially exiled from the medical community.
The one thing that concerns me about this website is the potential for patients to doctor shop for physicians who take payoffs from certain companies and seem likely to prescribe whatever drug they are seeking. However, they will find other ways to do that, and the benefits clearly outweigh this. There needs to be more accountability for this shit.
Haha! I don't think anyone calls for CDaN anymore! I do miss FrenchGirl.
Didn't the Bookiewookie club go private? Am I misremembering?
I watched The Fault in Our Stars and while I found the book rather cheesy, they did a decent job with the movie. Shailene Woodley is a fantastic actress.
OK, I lied but unintentionally. The main character, a teenage girl, has to explain to her mother what Magritte's "this is not a pipe" means using a t-shirt as an analogy. Seriously, adults are not the idiots you seek.
Hey Meanie! I confess I posted a sympathetic reply to French Girl over the shooting in France just today. Used my usual Sherry but they wouldn't post it. Arseholes.
STFU parents...amazingly snarky roundup of all the insane, annoying, and ridiculous things parents share on social media. I love it (and I have kids...still funny!)
I am a maj Pinterest whore. That is totally where I go to decompress while watching Wendy Williams on my DVR and drinking wine until midnight. I have no shame.
AV Club and Hitflix are my favorite. Do you follow Alan Sepinwall? He recently posted how he was "done with Homeland" and was going off about it. Love that guy.
Oh oh oh ....http://thebloggess.com... she is HYSTERICAL!!!!!!! "I wrote for the Houston Chronicle, but I needed an uncensored space to say the f-word and talk about ninjas so I started this blog."
I like app or site quora. Someone asks a question like how did russia not cave in in WWII and what wld have happened? Then these incredibly smart people write yhe answers. I find it very absobing.
Myhappyplace is fun. When Game Of Thrones is on, a few days after, they do the episode as if it was being played out on Facebook. And it is pure genius. If you are a fan of the show (and Facebook) I do highly recommend! They changed to a shitty ADD-like format (lot of that going around), but it's worth it just for the GOT posts.
Dlisted. Hilarious guy blogging about celebs. He has a filthy mouth and mind and I just love his site.I have been reading his site for many years. Laineygossip. Witty Canadian blogger. She sometimes has scoops on things that is not out there yet....
Another one that's good for some laughs is Suri's Burn Book. I haven't been there in awhile but if you have a few hours to kill you should "Cruise" on over and read it. http://surisburnbook.tumblr.com
I love that so many of my favorites are on here! I have to add NYMag.com, funny, smart writers covering everything from politics to fashion to Housewife recaps to food. For lifestyle, decorating and entertaining i love OhHappyDay.com and SFGirlbyBay.com. Susan, can't wait to check out your site! And Seven, make your food blog happen! I need that in my life!
beautypedia.com---it gives reviews for skin care products and tells you which ones are junk and which ones work.
ReplyDeleteAlso ewg
DeleteGuysWithiPhones.com.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome! :)
lol! I just use a mirror honay!
DeleteLooks like most of them have the 6 Plus.
DeleteHoly crap! I clicked on the link and , well.. umm.. lets just say, thank goodness I was home alone and, the kids didn't/couldn't yell "what the hell!" LOL
DeleteMy cervix already hurts just LOOKING at some of these photos.
DeleteNow I know why I don't have an iphone..
DeleteA few of these are terrifying!!
DeleteLifehacker
ReplyDeleteI suspect I'm about 20 years too old to answer this question
ReplyDeleteBesides Anarchy, right?!?
ReplyDeleteDListed, Reddit, Buzzfeed and Project Free TV are daily habits
I have also recently discovered the Journal of Universal Rejection, which cracks me up...
www.watch-tvseries.net
Deletereddit is pretty much hourly for me =\
Delete@LadyH & Kno--did you participate in this year's Secret Santa exchange? This was my first year, and I really had fun buying for my giftee!
DeleteNo I did not
Delete@TACKY FRIES!!!! I was just wondering how you were earlier today. I miss our SOA chats :(
I'm always here, just always late (and lurking). Lately, my phone won't let me post to blogger. Don't know what that's about. Congrats on your teaching accolades! I bet you are a kickass teacher!
DeletePS speaking of reddit SS and SOA--I received a huge Jax banner from my secret Santa. Seriously, the thing is 8ft by 6ft (or close). I have no where to hang it up. If anyone wants it, email me the address you want it shipped to (tackyfries@gmail.com), and I'll send it free of charge(domestically). First come, first serve.
Deletehttp://spaghettimodels.com/
ReplyDeleteIf you live in a hurricane zone, it's a great website - it gets info from a bunch of other weather sites, including NOAA and helps you keep track of storms or potential storms. It's run by a guy who relies on contributions, it's sort of a hobby with him. He's branching out into covering winter weather as well and has good links to a bunch of local weather sites. Highly recommend!
Um. This one. I do love me my Dlisted, too.
ReplyDeleteReality Tea is good for Housewives recaps and I like The Berry for oogling cute guys. Anarchy rocks tho!
ReplyDeleteI like Dlisted but the comments sometimes annoy me. The people are nice and everything but it is like they hate everything and everyone that is posted about. Its like what do you people ACTUALLY like? and then Michael K will post a picture of like Kelly from Saved by the Bell and everyone will be all "oooh ahhhh she is AMAZING!"-- a little immature for me......
ReplyDelete@derek, be honest - isn't that what we used to do at CDaN? :b
DeleteI always hated when Enty would fawn over RDJ like Himmmm was really a thing and not a ratings ploy.
we are a fickly group BUT we do like somethings and some people. An example is GIRLS. Michael K will post something and get 250 comments all saying the same thing and some brave soul will be like "hey I like that show!" (not me I never posted there haha)..and it will be cricket central. Or Angelina Jolie everyone hates her she has not talent blahblahblah and they will just go on and on....At least here we can debate why we like something and we are just a little more ummm positive!
DeleteBased on your posts about Dlisted, I don't think you've spent much time in the comments section. Especially Open Post. They have a lot of incredibly witty commenters.
DeleteI very rarely read comments on Dlisted. I don't know why...i just don't. Gawker/Jezebel and Anarchy are really the only sites where I pay attention to the comments.
Delete@Rose, me either. I think that if I read the comments on Dlisted, I would never get to anything else. The comments are funny when I do check them out, but all of a sudden an hour of my day has disappeared and I'm on the same article!
DeleteI like Jezebel and Gawker.
ReplyDeletewoot.com
ReplyDeleteOh also i09 because I'm a geek and Earth Porn for amazing photos
ReplyDeleteI like DListed but it very closed, a lot like Jezebel. They're nice enough, though.
ReplyDeleteI feel like I should pimp my cooking blog but I STILL haven't found a theme that fits perfectly. Grr, argh.
So, Etsy. Friend of mine sells her jewelry there and I'm in love.
+1 for etsy! I will always miss those crochet vaginas from regretsy though. That site was gold!
DeleteSeven - let us know when you have a cooking blog! I will so check it out. My cooking blog is jerseygirlinthekitchen.blogspot.com.
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Delete@Susan, you anarchist, I have been bingeing on your blog!
DeleteOMG. Really?! Thank you. I'm always shocked and awed when my friends - in real life and on the internets - tell me they actually cook my recipes and read my blog.
DeleteNo kidding, I have been craving soup and first thing I see is hot and sour soup! I'd replace the tofu with miracle noodles (tofu and I don't get along so I sub miracle noodles which are basically kelp so the same thing, haha) and then you did a scallop dish and you love Barefoot Contessa. We are sisters from other misters!
DeleteMy blog still has a meatball soup and a Thai chicken soup that I adore on the front page. I need to get that puppy fixed because I made seafood papparedelle the other night and 6 layer lasgana last night. I'm doing a rump roast cooked prime rib style tonight along with sweet potato gratin and cranberry spinach salad.
@Susan: You have a lovely cooking blog. I will have to try some of your recipes out! But your Seven Emotions of Wasting Food posts read like my personal journal! Keep it up, hun! Thanks for sharing!
DeleteThank you so much!!! Seven and Lady - You are so sweet for checking it out! Seven, I hope you get yours fixed up. Blogging is so low on my to-do list, but I love doing it. Is is kind of like keeping a journal. And it's great for me because my friends and family in real life always want my recipes, so I just refer them to my blog. I just wish I had more hours in the day to make it nice nice. We're hosting a party this Saturday. I just finished work. I'm wigging out. LOL. It's the cleaning that drives me insane.
DeleteIs starting a blog easy??
DeleteI thought about doing one on food and hotels but I'm terrified it's to hard to figure out how to get it started. .
7. What was that template link you had the other day..
Susan I will check your site out in the morning. I'm in bed on phone trying to get cranky sick puppy to sleep and stop fidgeting. .
I use Blogger, which seems to be a bit archaic now. (I started my blog like six years ago after I fled the newspaper industry to turn my piano studio into a full-time business. I had worked two jobs forevs. I had a lot of downtime in the summer, and I love to cook and write, so it just made sense. Plus, food blogs were like all the rage then. LOL. Fast-forward to having a baby and ... free time. Um, what's that? I don't think blogging is hard because the tutorials for figuring out the coding are not the crazy. And I am not exactly a techie person. Some things were tricky, like figuring out how to get the Pinterest Pin button on my posts. When I finally did it, I felt so accomplished. My blog design is kind of lame. I really just run my blog for fun. I share it on my Facebook page and things like that. It's not like I make any dollas dollas off of it.
Deletethanks susan good info..
Deletei think most are going to word press but i have to find out how to navigate that too..
Blogger is a great place to start. My real life job involves techie stuff, so my websites all use WordPress. It's actually really easy to use - I teach workshops on it, including using WP as an actual website and not necessarily a blog. If you want to give it a test drive, go to wordpress.com - you can start a free blog there (like yourblog.wordpress.com) and see what it looks like under the hood. I always recommend WP. :)
Delete@ Susan I love your site! Can't wait to try the scallops!
DeleteDollars for Docs - just type in your doc's name and see how much money they're getting from the pharmaceutical industry. I think of it as ID-a-Whore.
ReplyDeletehttp://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/
@kno thank you!!!!! I just looked up a doctor that screwed me after ten years. Long story short he wouldn't request an MRI which when I finally got it years later showed that I need a joint replacement. He just wanted me to stay on a million pills that made me a useless, obese couch potato with no energy or feelings. I knew he was getting kickbacks because there were always drug reps in the office who seemed to be very close with the entire staff. Much more than any other doctor I've seen. Wow you really just blew my mind thank you so much for this!
DeleteAwesome site @Kno!
DeleteThat is a great site! I choose my docs with great care and love both my family doc and MS specialist. And neither of them have anything listed!
DeleteThank you for posting that link, Kno Won Uno. I had no idea such a site existed.
DeleteThis one I will definitely visit!
DeleteThanks! Great site. I just checked on some of my docs and none came up. I've bookmarked it already.
DeleteBrilliant @ Kno Won Uno
Delete@Kno- I remember NPR did a bunch of cool stories and updates on Dollars for Docs. If I remember correctly, the founders received a shit ton of death threats and have been socially exiled from the medical community.
DeleteThe one thing that concerns me about this website is the potential for patients to doctor shop for physicians who take payoffs from certain companies and seem likely to prescribe whatever drug they are seeking. However, they will find other ways to do that, and the benefits clearly outweigh this. There needs to be more accountability for this shit.
What, no calls for Crazy Days and Nights?!
ReplyDelete:D
the bookiewook club!
DeleteHaha!
DeleteNo. No thanks, doll!
Haha! I don't think anyone calls for CDaN anymore! I do miss FrenchGirl.
DeleteDidn't the Bookiewookie club go private? Am I misremembering?
I watched The Fault in Our Stars and while I found the book rather cheesy, they did a decent job with the movie. Shailene Woodley is a fantastic actress.
OK, I lied but unintentionally. The main character, a teenage girl, has to explain to her mother what Magritte's "this is not a pipe" means using a t-shirt as an analogy. Seriously, adults are not the idiots you seek.
DeleteI miss Sugar. She was here for a while, then poof. Gone. Makes me sad.
Delete@Jessi. Aw, I miss her, too...little ray of sunshine, that one!
DeleteHey Meanie! I confess I posted a sympathetic reply to French Girl over the shooting in France just today. Used my usual Sherry but they wouldn't post it. Arseholes.
Delete@Sherry, typical. It's OK to call someone a fag but heaven forbid you post something nice that doesn't get a gazillion clicks.
Delete@Sherry: WHAAAAAT?!? That is disgraceful.
DeleteWTF @ sherry?
DeleteBesides twitter my fav sites are elanaspantry.com, grainfreefoodies, and balanced bites.
ReplyDeleteKat in light of your suggestions...have you ever seen againstallgrain.com? I like her recipes.
DeleteThis site tells you all the bad stuff found in your dog's food in good detail and gives you great options for switching to something better.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/
I love that site
DeleteSTFU parents...amazingly snarky roundup of all the insane, annoying, and ridiculous things parents share on social media. I love it (and I have kids...still funny!)
ReplyDeleteYes@Colleen! Bitchy,judgey and funny.What more can you ask?
DeleteI must check this out. Thank you!
DeleteI love that blog. I missed the holiday updates, sometimes I head over to Mommyish for her column. Even though I am no mommy.
DeleteCouchTuner.eu or CouchTuner.com
ReplyDeleteClick the title of the show you want to watch.
Click the episode you want to watch.
Click the link after the yellow words, "Watch it here."
But you didn't hear this from me.
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ReplyDeleteI'm a total Pinterest whore. Foxella & Jezebel are good (of course Anarchy).
ReplyDeleteI am a maj Pinterest whore. That is totally where I go to decompress while watching Wendy Williams on my DVR and drinking wine until midnight. I have no shame.
DeleteStardate.org. I love meteor showers.
ReplyDeleteJBE's website The Gossip Fox :p
ReplyDeleteTHANK YOU GINA!!!!!
DeleteI like Wonkette. It's one of the few sites that actually (besides this one) make me laugh out loud.
Smashwords is great for eBooks, you can get them in almost any type of file.
ReplyDeleteaveryspecialpodcast.tumblr.com is a podcast about classic tv.
It's pretty immature but when I need a good laugh on a bad day I'll scroll through "failbook" a bit...http://failblog.cheezburger.com/failbook
ReplyDeleteAnother alternate gossip site I lurve is The Hollywood Sigh. Megan got her start over on Dlisted.
ReplyDeleteI really like some the sites posted here. Great topic, Outie.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.grammarbook.com Terrific site for grammar and punctuation.
THE A.V Club is awesome. They have reviews of pretty much every TV episode that aired in the last 20 years. Its easy to waste hours on there.
ReplyDeleteAV Club and Hitflix are my favorite. Do you follow Alan Sepinwall? He recently posted how he was "done with Homeland" and was going off about it. Love that guy.
DeleteDerp, *HitFix*
DeleteOh oh oh ....http://thebloggess.com... she is HYSTERICAL!!!!!!!
ReplyDelete"I wrote for the Houston Chronicle, but I needed an uncensored space to say the f-word and talk about ninjas so I started this blog."
This one is hysterical too....
ReplyDeletehttp://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/?m=0
As u can tell I'm all about the laughs :0
I like app or site quora. Someone asks a question like how did russia not cave in in WWII and what wld have happened? Then these incredibly smart people write yhe answers. I find it very absobing.
ReplyDeleteMyhappyplace is fun. When Game Of Thrones is on, a few days after, they do the episode as if it was being played out on Facebook. And it is pure genius. If you are a fan of the show (and Facebook) I do highly recommend! They changed to a shitty ADD-like
ReplyDeleteformat (lot of that going around), but it's worth it just for the GOT posts.
http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/
ReplyDeleteDlisted. Hilarious guy blogging about celebs. He has a filthy mouth and mind and I just love his site.I have been reading his site for many years.
ReplyDeleteLaineygossip. Witty Canadian blogger. She sometimes has scoops on things that is not out there yet....
All smart games, when Im in the mood for a game
ReplyDeleteAnother one that's good for some laughs is Suri's Burn Book. I haven't been there in awhile but if you have a few hours to kill you should "Cruise" on over and read it. http://surisburnbook.tumblr.com
ReplyDeleteThat Drone Show (mine) and Go Fug Yourself
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ReplyDeletehttp://laughingsquid.com/
ReplyDeleteFor a little bit of everything geek
I love that so many of my favorites are on here! I have to add NYMag.com, funny, smart writers covering everything from politics to fashion to Housewife recaps to food. For lifestyle, decorating and entertaining i love OhHappyDay.com and SFGirlbyBay.com. Susan, can't wait to check out your site! And Seven, make your food blog happen! I need that in my life!
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