i thought i would have to push out another moraff update but

no scrint, there weren’t smartphone APPs 250 years ago? how did folks know how many steps they took? how did they watch cat videos? how did they find out how to respond if someone asked them for an opinion? how did they automatically generate artwork and possibly all other components for shoddy little articles like this? (the room’s back corner doesn’t work, the human has marionette hands and i can’t tell what the weird double chained pocket watch/jeweler eyepiece thing on the far left of the desk is).
oh borax, how did *I* know what the weather was just 25 years ago? I’m almost as old as america and i don’t remember! nerfs i don’t even use smartphone APPs now; how do i know ANYTHING?
I can’t tell if the people who write this sort of thing ARE that dumb or just hope everyone else is, or perhaps aims to exclude anyone who isn’t. certainly the level of edutainment on cable channels –and weather.com was in fact exclusively tied to The Weather Channel– has always been written to appeal to the dumbest of the dumb, including whatever trash i got that “bat selfies” line from a few posts ago off of. when my father was dying of prostate cancer toward the end he just watched television every waking hour since cerebral ataxia also made his hands shake so much that he could not hold reading material steady, and we didn’t have specialized streaming channels, so he often had on documentary-style material, but most of the time it was just trash timeslot filler trying desperately to appeal to social media brain-slaves and young housewife domestic slaves, and whatever else was directed at preschool children, those assumed to not be in school or a job during early-mid day if you are outside major buying demographics nobody makes broadcast television for you. we could make fun of him for watching “bones” and “castle” reruns when those came on but merely through having a paper-thin plots those were several stairwells up brain-stimulation-wise from the spider-web-thin stories for shows about the knights templar or ancient aliens or the incredible dr. pol

beside the point but every time Sean Connolly music comes up in my playlist i see that little picture in the last.fm window and think he is wearing a paper hat as if he works in a 1970s mcdonalds or the swiss army or something but upon closer inspection, and apparently also as it appears on this website due to last.fm ignoring the magnification settings that apply to my web browser it appears to be a standard baseball style hat. the light blue and dark blue with a bright yellow stripe between them at small size make make the hat appear to be angular and peaked, and the other dark blue part blends into the background and makes the hat seem smaller and stupider. also i deliberately took this picture during the track with the stupidest name. despite sean connolly making perfectly listenable music for a terrible game based on the mediocre film “surf ninjas” which features locations called

the Village of MeeGrob,

the Caves of Kwantzu and

Vindaloo the Blacksmith,

his music files are just called surf_ninjas.scn and two of them that for the sake of my own sense of coherence i labeled “ninjaing around” and “in the jungle” cover the entire remotely interactive portion of the game.
Also as far as i can tell “Vindaloo the Blacksmith” is NOT a character in the film and was invented by the game developers, elsewise they were actually given an early draft of the script to base the game on that included elements which were later cut, in which case i am astounded that the script had more than one draft. grahamted i only saw the movie once on vhs when it came out, so long ago that i absolutely have no recollection of Leslie Nielsen being in it despite The Naked Gun being my favorite movie, but i DO remember copious sega game gear product placement. the game gear adaptation would have a hard time being worse than the one for amiga cd32 but if there’s any japanese console that can make a worse game than the ones on amiga cd32, it’s the sega master system, but the game gear is very similar to that.

oh yes also
last.fm is a website i use to obsessive-compulsively catalogue what music listen to, how much of it and by whom. This actually HAS had some practical value as it has made me pay more attention to who composes what music and leads to me looking for more music by the people i actually trust to make music i want to hear. Gee how did i ever listen to music before there were APPs for that? admittedly i would probably have gone mad with monotony if i was stuck still listening to music off of cassettes that could only have contrain whatever was officially published and sold or that i could stand to make personal bootlegs of, but as previously noted (more than once) i have been hoarding audio since plenty before dumb little phones

apparently there are people who have even more pathetic uses for last.fm than i do; somebody decided that “mcdonalds” counted as a music artist and added a picture for it, which will show up briefly if i try to show someone hokey old mcdonalds ads on youtube. that is still probably a better use of my/their time than going to mcdonalds.