babies are scary enough without being cannibals

what's this subscribe to rss feeds feature?

No thanks, I'd rather watch something decent, like Santa's Slay or something.

@BalknChain: RSS? What do you mean?

@ian spiegelman: on my profile it says "subscribe to BalknChain's RSS feed." Just wondering what that is/means? I'm still a bit techno-backwards.

@BalknChain: Er, I dunno... hit it and see!

@ian spiegelman: I just tried your's and nothing happened. Oh well.
Having a good weekend?

@BalknChain: You're asking the guy who just got an avatar yesterday, thanks to my tutelage?
You need to use an RSS Feed reader. Google some how to stuff for RSS Feed readers and you'll catch on pretty quickly. (Some people swear by 'em, some think it's all a big PITA.)

@BalknChain: @ian spiegelman: It's just an RSS feed of all the comments you or whatever commenter you want to stalk has written. Very simple. And only a little bit scary.

@BalknChain: Just wanted to say that I'm thrilled that I'm not the only one who's as dooofy with web tech. It's kind of cute that the weekend Gawker is stumbling around trying to get it together as much as I am. Heartwarming, in fact. @ian spiegelman: Love your Sunday work, Spiegs. You're as committed yet sleepy as the rest of us (and I'm very impressed that you show up at 11, or rather at 10:59 every Gawker working day. Good Queens boy that you are.)

@Hez: The fact that I have an avatar proves that I am now an Internet genius!

@BalknChain: It's pretty good. A couple of douchefaces said a couple stupid things, but aside from that everything's been swimmy.

@oneninesevenfour: I use an RSS feed thingy with like a zillion feeds to find stories for this here site... just didn't understand it in this context. Or something.

@SarahHeartburn: Thanks! And I'm grateful that anyone shows up and bothers to comment. Except for this dicks.

This is a very refreshing change from the finicky brats one encounters all too often nowadays. You know, the tykes who refuse to eat anything other than fast food or store-bought frozen pizza.

So this kid has a healthy appetite. So what? At least he won't grow up brain-damaged because he was too goddamn spoiled to eat any protein.

@SarahHeartburn:

Sweetheart, would you please tell a fat middle-aged Jew with poor eyesight and bad nerves what the hell that empty "My Activity" box is for on my profile page?

Also, the whole "followers" thing. I can't make sense of the order in which mine appear. Any thoughts? Explanations?

@Hamud: I see you've been starred, well done.@ian spiegelman: Douchefaces always say stupid things; it's an upkeep thing ;)@SarahHeartburn: Oh, Sarah, how I miss a really good FNFF with you. I've been so frimping busy. FYI, I love antiques, not so much technology. @oneninesevenfour: @Hez: His avatar is very becoming.

@oneninesevenfour: that was supposed to say "thanks for the tip." My computer is eating words again.

@Hamud: There is no sense. I think sometimes the way they appear in your list has something to do with when they last commented, but I can't be sure. I do wish there were some way to find out who your most recent followers are, and to see some indicator that showed when you had personal messages waiting to be read on your profile page.

The box on the Activity page (how nursery school that sounds!) is where you would theoretically create your own blog entries (it's how I made my infamous Bikini Bloggette), if it were operational, which it currently isn't. So far whatever you type there seems to just go into some abyss until they decide to turn it back on. I don't know why it's there if we can't use it. But I remember the glory days...

@Hamud: I think it's time for the Gawker imperial administrative ruling staff to put in a permanent link on how to understand the whatthefuck. I still want to know what the "Connectiveness " means on the star.@BalknChain: Spring is here, babes. One of these Saturdays we'll both have enough free time and Bloody Mary's in the central nervous system to do a Thelma and Louise style carom through the FNFF. Right now, I'm off to bed here in GMT+1 (tho I think in spring it's called GDT+1). Love to you all and the sneezy pollen on the east coast!

@SarahHeartburn: *sniff* bye Sarah. Wow, just caught the "Connectedness Index." Is it like one of those Kevin Bacon numbers? I look forward to a T&L weekend with you. I'll be blogging about progress on my house soon. That's what's been eating all of my free time.

@ian spiegelman: I figured you knew what a RSS feed is, but I was trying to give you context. Perhaps I should have given you more and then you would have realized that I don't think you are an idiot.

@BalknChain: No problem.

@BalknChain:

I explained in another post that "Connectedness" has to do with the sale and transfer of nuclear materials and technology by non-state actors.

@oneninesevenfour: Oh hey I wasn't saying you were saying I was an idiot. But I don't quite understand how the feeds work for commenters... or I didn't until you explained. I also didn't realize that HTML was a code until I actually took this job... seriously, I thought it was like HTTP! So never underestimate my techie lackings.

@ian spiegelman: Techie Lackings? Isn't that the Norwegian entry in this year's Eurovision Song Contest?

@Hez: That's Techie Lickings, silly.

@Hez:

"The box on the Activity page (how nursery school that sounds!) is where you would theoretically create your own blog entries (it's how I made my infamous Bikini Bloggette)..."

Why, for the sake of all that's holy and good, would you ever think I'd look fetching in a bikini?

Good God, woman. Have you lost all reason?

Would you have me hauled to The Hague to stand accused of crimes against humanity?

Sure, OK. I pack considerable heat. Even awe-inspiring were one to believe the more generous reviews. (And who wouldn't want to take such praise to heart?)

But a bikini?

I'd as soon wear a dirndl and go-go boots.

@ian spiegelman: I think I have a new drag name...

@oneninesevenfour: Dammit! You people keep stealing from me! And I was all set to hit a piano lounge on 7th Avenue South tomorrow night!

@Ian

You'll be pleased to learn that there's a whole new experimental movement called "stealth drag" that's somewhat less demanding, but equally as subversive, as old-school gender-play drag.

"Stealth drag" requires not an artful disguise of gender, but the studied adoption of a benign and entirely plausible social identity other than your own.

For example, you could "stealth drag" as a landscape architect from Sacramento or as a 7th grade social studies teacher from Houston. For a sadistic frisson you might pose as an assoociate tax auditor for the State of New York.

It really doesn't matter what identity you choose. The thrill is passing in public for someone you're not.

You'd be surprised by the number of pundits and politicians who were stealth drag's earliest pioneers.

sober, and sunday

@Hamud: But none of those let me wear makeup. And I didn't spend three summers in theater camp with Zach Braff for nothing. Well, okay, it was only two summers. I got kicked out of Stage Door in 1989. I spent 1990 at a summer stock in Hampton Beach New Hampshire.

That trailer, for whatever reason, scared the bejesus out of me.

It also used the score from 'Signs' which I liked.