Sims 3: Random pics of randomness

[madame_ugly]

My home machine does have internet access but no anti-virus software (oh, the drama that's causing right now).  Now I wasn't going to bother using and flash drive to move pics BUT. . .some fun stuff happened when I was playing last night so I just had to take a few snaps and then (of course) I had to share them

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[madame_ugly]

You're not alone. It took me a bit to "get" tumblr. It is a LOT of photo posts but you can make long test posts (journal style). To follow a story you'd have to follow that tumblr account (or you could follow a tag, but I'm not sure if you can do that or how).

Part of what I hate is how it is visually. It scrolls newest on top which is backward if you want to read a chronological story (for example). There may be a way to change that setting, though (never bothered to look). There's just no way I could follow a story if I had to scroll backward. (and to be brutally honest, once I started writing my own sim stories I stopped enjoying reading them for the most part)

It is super easy to post pics there, you don't need something like photobucket. Just grab them right from your computer. THAT I do like. And I do enjoy photos of cats doing dumb shit and silly crap like that.

Pinterest is full of. . .ok, I'll just say it. Crazy mommy bloggers who really don't have anything else to do all day but use the internet to compete with other bored mommies (I swear, they post all those "perfect" pics just to fuck with each other--very disturbing). And have you noticed how many of them are Mormon (nothing against mormons, mind you, just an observation--I guess a lot of them don't work outside the home and they do have, on average, a lot of kids so it makes sense). I follow a lot of sewing/craft blogs so I get to stand on the shores of Blogger Mommy Survivor Island and watch the wtf-ery.

As for facebook, I at least can see a use for it (to keep track of friends/family if you're into that sort of thing) but it ceased to be "cool" when the local shitty dry cleaner (and every other grubby local small business) started hanging "Like Us On Facebook" thumbs-up signs in their crusty windows. And I knew it was totally O-V-E-R when I saw the "follow us on facebook" in the signature line of one of the irksome researcher groups I (in a round about way) work with. Who the ever loving hell wants to follow a medical research team? Give me a fucking break.

The only thing I still use facebook/pinterest/twitter (etc) for is when I enter online drawings. There are a ton of giveaways on the crafty blogs I follow and you can get an extra entry if you follow their (fill in the blank). Hey, I like to try and win free fabric.

[psitticism]

I guess I'll play around with tumblr a bit more and see what I can do with it. But you know as soon as I figure it out, everybody will move on to the next thing, anyway.

Yeah, I do some crochet and such and I like to cook, so I see a lot of the mommy wars with some of the blogs I follow, too. And I actually do want kids in the near future (I think this is the part where we might not be the same person, right?), so I really don't mind posts about parenting, gadgets that make parents' lives easier, etc. I just don't get all the people who brag about things like making Swedish Fish from scratch. I mean, why would you make Swedish Fish from scratch? Who are these people? Don't they have kids to go parent?