Wait you hate all hats? I like hats so long as they are serving their primary function of protecting you from weather and sun, which means you gotta take that shit off inside. Your hair situation needs to be able to accommodate both hat on and hat off.
That being said I don't wear hats due to having a fro making most hats look like bowling balls. Big floppy rasta hats aren't my thing either.
I didn't realize I was making everyone hate me as a person in the process.
Nowadays I don't wear the hat. I dress fairly anonymously, using clothes I've had since college or I bought at Target. Thermals, cargo pants, jeans. Nothing I'd describe as "bad", nothing as I'd describe as "nice".
I didn't realize I was making everyone hate me as a person in the process.
I thought everyone else had better things to do with their lives than give two shits about my non-existent fashion sense.
With the exception of work and in some cases even against that, I determine what I will wear based off of what I like wearing, and damn the man that says otherwise.
the weirdest thing about that is that you immediately have a large number of photos of "self in hats" readily accessible on the internet
The earliest most immediate form of humor babies understand is "Look their's some weird shit on daddy's head. That shouldn't be there. That's pretty funny." I find the humor holds true at later ages as well.
That's a pretty solid strategy, yeah
baby-chair-as-helmet is also pretty good armor, but I hear you need to have the full set to get the melee kills bonus
the weirdest thing about that is that you immediately have a large number of photos of "self in hats" readily accessible on the internet
The earliest most immediate form of humor babies understand is "Look their's some weird shit on daddy's head. That shouldn't be there. That's pretty funny." I find the humor holds true at later ages as well.
My daughter likes it when I throw pillows at her. My wife hates it.
Also, Bebarce, as a man with two daughters -when did you notice that your girls were interested in girly things? My daughter LOVED the alphabet song on the iPad until I downloaded some princess things for her and she will play them over and over acting like the princesses.
Does this interest happen so early in their development?
Man, the more I think of the admissions interview I did the more shitty it seems. My brain just couldn't catch up with the conversation with how anxious I was and I ended up delivering all these retarded answers. Fucking hell...
the weirdest thing about that is that you immediately have a large number of photos of "self in hats" readily accessible on the internet
The earliest most immediate form of humor babies understand is "Look their's some weird shit on daddy's head. That shouldn't be there. That's pretty funny." I find the humor holds true at later ages as well.
My daughter likes it when I throw pillows at her. My wife hates it.
Also, Bebarce, as a man with two daughters -when did you notice that your girls were interested in girly things? My daughter LOVED the alphabet song on the iPad until I downloaded some princess things for her and she will play them over and over acting like the princesses.
Does this interest happen so early in their development?
We tried to keep away from Disney princesses for as long as possible, because my wife wasn't too thrilled with the whole "the perfect princess has long luxurious straight hair" scene. By around 2ish my older daughter started getting into the whole princess thing but it was balanced against her interest in pirates. But as time went on she got more and more gifts from people featuring the Disney princesses, or meeting other girls that loved or talked about princesses, my older daughter dug deep into it. My younger daughter came into it a lot sooner, but more so because she wanted to emulate her older sister. By 4 though my older daughter had mostly switched from princesses to fairies. At 5 going on 6 she seems like she's hovering over the next "big thing" to be obsessed over (Hello Kitty was a very short phase.)
Princesses adoration is like a path that your daughter eventually falls into due to these like Naturally Selective Environmental Trends. Puffy dresses on special occasions, drowning in pink, the constant crown and gown imagery all put them into a channel that eventually leads to wanting to be a princess. Myself I try to fight the tide as much as possible, which is kind of a bullshit statement because I could have always painted her room blue instead of pink, and picked rocket ships instead of gilded accents, but I alone am not the sole force in her life. Nor should I be since then I'd just be pushing my values on them as well.
They would ask me for stories all the time, and if they didn't involve princesses they could care less. So I started making up princess stories that were actually scientific lessons. I'm currently working on self publishing one of them now with Melting Doll. It's called A Princesses Primer to the Theory of Evolution.
I figure the best I can do is be one of those Environmental Trends that tweaks the process and keeps her on a path that at least accepts the ideas and iconography that I value. Keep her open to the idea that she doesn't have to fall into similar patterns in order to be happy. I'll play the Beatles whenever possible, or use the girly Lego's to build a Tie Fighter. Throw out history lessons whenever possible, encourage them to create art, or run an experiment. I make sure they've gone out for every Free Comic Book day since she could read, and in general act like a big geek myself. But it means also showing that I support the things they like, as you see in the princess pirate tea party shot where I have a tutu around my neck.
There will probably be several phases and fads that they'll run through. Trick is to minimize the ones that could possibly make them feel self conscious, and focus on the ones that will lead them to be more independent.
Man, the more I think of the admissions interview I did the more shitty it seems. My brain just couldn't catch up with the conversation with how anxious I was and I ended up delivering all these retarded answers. Fucking hell...
You probably did better than you're stressing about now. We seem to always view the past interviews through shit colored glasses.
The tumblr buy is a mind boggle. Tumblr already has its CEO the starry eyed young man hanging one knot from a noose because he hasn't monetized for his investors. He's "not interested in making money". Its a company running on ideals with no market strategy to build defenses against the next big social media whatever. Yearly profits just top $100 million, and the site infrastructure is not well suited to typical monetization.
If you throw a crap ton of mandatory ads all over Tumblr, half the populace will just leave. If Yahoo tries to do the same mandatory integration crap they pulled with Flickr, half the populace will just leave. There just isn't enough to make Tumblr distinct and viable apart from "social media picture fad #15". Why in the hell would Yahoo want to pay a billion dollars for this?
If Tumblr wants to monetize, I think they'd have fantastic success doing cooperatives, art contests, and community engagement management between companies and individuals. Deviantart dabbles in this stuff with their drawing contests, but Tumblr has the speed and lightweight interface to do it faster and easier. (Of course, Tumblr might also be able to convince companies to use less draconian rules on the contests, ala the "anything you submit is ours forever"...not that they will.)
So its one ailing tech company snatching up something "young and trendy" in an attempt to revitalize themselves. Its your dad wearing his hat backwards and saying "sup" with a straight face.
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When I was little, I can vaguely remember being into "girly" things, but it never felt like I became obsessed with any of it. I can't remember ever going through a "princess" stage - I think I wanted to be a badass more than anything else. I can remember my mom making me a Supergirl costume for Halloween one year, and then in other years I was a ninja, and then witch. I think one year I wanted to be a knight.
Hmm, let me see if I can remember all my Fastelavn (Halloween'ish, yet not) costumes:
Cowboy
Power Ranger
Clown
Knight
Buzz Lightyear
Hitmonlee
Dragon
Elven
Samurai
Mad Professor
Frodo
Frodo
Frodo
there were probably a few more. All of them (except Power Ranger, Knight and Cowboy) were made by my mum and as I got older I gradually joined more and more in.
I was a power ranger when I was in 3 grade, they ran out of costumes at the store though so my mom actually made it. (It was apparently really bad but I didn't notice).
In the 1st grade my parents didn't seem to understand Halloween. I wore this blue paper costume that just had a poster grab from the movie Willow. I guess I thought it was supposed to mean I was Mad Martigan. I told my dad that I didn't have a sword, so he said he'd get me something, and drop it off at school before the parade.
The next day my teacher brought me a shopping bag filled with items...
I said I wasn't going to wear them but she told me I had to because my dad brought them in.
There was extra large glow in the dark glass frames, a sparkly wand, a tinsel wig, and bright orange matching elbow/knee pads....
I then had to do a Halloween parade, confusing every person that saw me.
Hm, my Halloween costumes were always a little different when I was a kid because my mom was a total "make it yourself" diy hippy who was actually good at it (several years in a row she won "Best in Show" at the county fair for the blue jeans she made for us as kids; she basically knocked off a pattern based on real Levi's and they were nice)
There was a several-year streak of characters from Alice in Wonderland; that was the closest I ever got to wanting to be a "princess," I think-- and usually I was the Cheshire cat or the White Rabbit. ha.
Nowadays, my costumes are a little more involved, being that it's one of the things I do for fun, but I never understood the off-the-shelf costumes as a kid; I guess I was a bit of a snob about it because it seemed so obvious to me that a homemade costume of something you REALLY wanted to be was a lot cooler than settling for whatever your mum picked up at Walgreens or whatever.
Reasons I occasionally wear a fedora.
1 Because people think trilbys are fedoras and fuck those guys.
2 Because it's hard to smoke a cigar without one.
I overlap a bit with you @m3nace
Pumpkin
Cowboy
Cowboy
Shark
Bald eagle
Ballerina Hippopotamus (thas' wassup)
Kangaroo
Dragon
Demon warrior guy
Tennis Pro
Rod Stewart (yeah, I have no idea)
Bam Bam
Frodo
I wear hats basically 24/7 in the winter because if my ears get cold I get a terrible headache.
I don't think I ever had a princess phase. I had two older brothers and we liked ninja turtles and street fighter and final fantasy, that was our thing. I loved me some Lisa Frank though!
Last night I got to hang out with EWA for multiple hours. We colored and he drew me some awesome art and you are all jealous
Yeah, growing up in Colorado I wore hats aaaall the time. I still do a lot in the winter but I'm not allowed to wear a hat at work unless I'm golfing or shooting golfers.
And I'm like the jealousest right now of both MTD and EWA. I bet you guys even used crayons too.
The tumblr buy is a mind boggle. Tumblr already has its CEO the starry eyed young man hanging one knot from a noose because he hasn't monetized for his investors. He's "not interested in making money". Its a company running on ideals with no market strategy to build defenses against the next big social media whatever. Yearly profits just top $100 million, and the site infrastructure is not well suited to typical monetization.
If you throw a crap ton of mandatory ads all over Tumblr, half the populace will just leave. If Yahoo tries to do the same mandatory integration crap they pulled with Flickr, half the populace will just leave. There just isn't enough to make Tumblr distinct and viable apart from "social media picture fad #15". Why in the hell would Yahoo want to pay a billion dollars for this?
If Tumblr wants to monetize, I think they'd have fantastic success doing cooperatives, art contests, and community engagement management between companies and individuals. Deviantart dabbles in this stuff with their drawing contests, but Tumblr has the speed and lightweight interface to do it faster and easier. (Of course, Tumblr might also be able to convince companies to use less draconian rules on the contests, ala the "anything you submit is ours forever"...not that they will.)
So its one ailing tech company snatching up something "young and trendy" in an attempt to revitalize themselves. Its your dad wearing his hat backwards and saying "sup" with a straight face.
Not to mention that I doubt Yahoo will allow porn to be hosted on any website they own, considering they don't even allow swearing on Yahoo answers. Like it or not, that's a major part of tumblr's userbase gone right there.
I'm concerned because If there is a mass exodus from tumblr right now there isn't really a good place for them to go (Pinterest? Back to DeviantArt?), but chances are another trendy startup will comes along to siphon off tumblr's userbase, negating the point of Yahoo's purchase in the first place.
Yeah, growing up in Colorado I wore hats aaaall the time. I still do a lot in the winter but I'm not allowed to wear a hat at work unless I'm golfing or shooting golfers.
And I'm like the jealousest right now of both MTD and EWA. I bet you guys even used crayons too.
The tumblr buy is a mind boggle. Tumblr already has its CEO the starry eyed young man hanging one knot from a noose because he hasn't monetized for his investors. He's "not interested in making money". Its a company running on ideals with no market strategy to build defenses against the next big social media whatever. Yearly profits just top $100 million, and the site infrastructure is not well suited to typical monetization.
If you throw a crap ton of mandatory ads all over Tumblr, half the populace will just leave. If Yahoo tries to do the same mandatory integration crap they pulled with Flickr, half the populace will just leave. There just isn't enough to make Tumblr distinct and viable apart from "social media picture fad #15". Why in the hell would Yahoo want to pay a billion dollars for this?
If Tumblr wants to monetize, I think they'd have fantastic success doing cooperatives, art contests, and community engagement management between companies and individuals. Deviantart dabbles in this stuff with their drawing contests, but Tumblr has the speed and lightweight interface to do it faster and easier. (Of course, Tumblr might also be able to convince companies to use less draconian rules on the contests, ala the "anything you submit is ours forever"...not that they will.)
So its one ailing tech company snatching up something "young and trendy" in an attempt to revitalize themselves. Its your dad wearing his hat backwards and saying "sup" with a straight face.
Not to mention that I doubt Yahoo will allow porn to be hosted on any website they own, considering they don't even allow swearing on Yahoo answers. Like it or not, that's a major part of tumblr's userbase gone right there.
Yeah it's going to be... interesting.
But ultimately probably pretty depressing.
Like a misguided rich sitcom-grandpa deciding he's going to buy Coachella to impress his grandkids, and replacing all the acts with Buddy Holly cover bands.
From recent experience i have discovered that a lot of women are against men wearing hats of all sorts. Well we're all adults here and neither sex has to dress to impress 100% of the time, so do whatever you want. My girlfriend doesn't like me wearing hats but im still gonna wear one when i feel like it, because sometimes i dont want to put product in my hair, and maybe sometimes i just want to wear a Red's hat dammit. But since i know she doesn't like them, if we go out or i want to impress her, i dont wear them. Simple.
Mynt you look good in that hat, and Moly you can do whatever you want.. There's no doubt that there is a social stigma surrounding fedora's now, however its not like you don't know it.
That being said, i wear fewer hats these days, and instead have started spending more money on nicer shoes and other clothes.
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And 'lo the Lord said,
"MAKE IT WORK"
That being said I don't wear hats due to having a fro making most hats look like bowling balls. Big floppy rasta hats aren't my thing either.
I didn't realize I was making everyone hate me as a person in the process.
Nowadays I don't wear the hat. I dress fairly anonymously, using clothes I've had since college or I bought at Target. Thermals, cargo pants, jeans. Nothing I'd describe as "bad", nothing as I'd describe as "nice".
I didn't realize I was making everyone hate me as a person in the process.
I thought everyone else had better things to do with their lives than give two shits about my non-existent fashion sense.
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Uncanny Magazine!
The Mad Writers Union
The earliest most immediate form of humor babies understand is "Look their's some weird shit on daddy's head. That shouldn't be there. That's pretty funny." I find the humor holds true at later ages as well.
baby-chair-as-helmet is also pretty good armor, but I hear you need to have the full set to get the melee kills bonus
Uncanny Magazine!
The Mad Writers Union
My daughter likes it when I throw pillows at her. My wife hates it.
Also, Bebarce, as a man with two daughters -when did you notice that your girls were interested in girly things? My daughter LOVED the alphabet song on the iPad until I downloaded some princess things for her and she will play them over and over acting like the princesses.
Does this interest happen so early in their development?
We tried to keep away from Disney princesses for as long as possible, because my wife wasn't too thrilled with the whole "the perfect princess has long luxurious straight hair" scene. By around 2ish my older daughter started getting into the whole princess thing but it was balanced against her interest in pirates. But as time went on she got more and more gifts from people featuring the Disney princesses, or meeting other girls that loved or talked about princesses, my older daughter dug deep into it. My younger daughter came into it a lot sooner, but more so because she wanted to emulate her older sister. By 4 though my older daughter had mostly switched from princesses to fairies. At 5 going on 6 she seems like she's hovering over the next "big thing" to be obsessed over (Hello Kitty was a very short phase.)
Princesses adoration is like a path that your daughter eventually falls into due to these like Naturally Selective Environmental Trends. Puffy dresses on special occasions, drowning in pink, the constant crown and gown imagery all put them into a channel that eventually leads to wanting to be a princess. Myself I try to fight the tide as much as possible, which is kind of a bullshit statement because I could have always painted her room blue instead of pink, and picked rocket ships instead of gilded accents, but I alone am not the sole force in her life. Nor should I be since then I'd just be pushing my values on them as well.
They would ask me for stories all the time, and if they didn't involve princesses they could care less. So I started making up princess stories that were actually scientific lessons. I'm currently working on self publishing one of them now with Melting Doll. It's called A Princesses Primer to the Theory of Evolution.
I figure the best I can do is be one of those Environmental Trends that tweaks the process and keeps her on a path that at least accepts the ideas and iconography that I value. Keep her open to the idea that she doesn't have to fall into similar patterns in order to be happy. I'll play the Beatles whenever possible, or use the girly Lego's to build a Tie Fighter. Throw out history lessons whenever possible, encourage them to create art, or run an experiment. I make sure they've gone out for every Free Comic Book day since she could read, and in general act like a big geek myself. But it means also showing that I support the things they like, as you see in the princess pirate tea party shot where I have a tutu around my neck.
There will probably be several phases and fads that they'll run through. Trick is to minimize the ones that could possibly make them feel self conscious, and focus on the ones that will lead them to be more independent.
You probably did better than you're stressing about now. We seem to always view the past interviews through shit colored glasses.
This does not bode well.
Is it time for a daughter photo dump?
She loves the moon so we went to a NASA exhibit so she could touch a rock from the moon:
It was pretty cool:
She still likes dress up and princess thing too, here she is wearing my hat:
She also finished swim lessons the other day and was super pumped about it:
The tumblr buy is a mind boggle. Tumblr already has its CEO the starry eyed young man hanging one knot from a noose because he hasn't monetized for his investors. He's "not interested in making money". Its a company running on ideals with no market strategy to build defenses against the next big social media whatever. Yearly profits just top $100 million, and the site infrastructure is not well suited to typical monetization.
If you throw a crap ton of mandatory ads all over Tumblr, half the populace will just leave. If Yahoo tries to do the same mandatory integration crap they pulled with Flickr, half the populace will just leave. There just isn't enough to make Tumblr distinct and viable apart from "social media picture fad #15". Why in the hell would Yahoo want to pay a billion dollars for this?
If Tumblr wants to monetize, I think they'd have fantastic success doing cooperatives, art contests, and community engagement management between companies and individuals. Deviantart dabbles in this stuff with their drawing contests, but Tumblr has the speed and lightweight interface to do it faster and easier. (Of course, Tumblr might also be able to convince companies to use less draconian rules on the contests, ala the "anything you submit is ours forever"...not that they will.)
So its one ailing tech company snatching up something "young and trendy" in an attempt to revitalize themselves. Its your dad wearing his hat backwards and saying "sup" with a straight face.
Cowboy
Power Ranger
Clown
Knight
Buzz Lightyear
Hitmonlee
Dragon
Elven
Samurai
Mad Professor
Frodo
Frodo
Frodo
there were probably a few more. All of them (except Power Ranger, Knight and Cowboy) were made by my mum and as I got older I gradually joined more and more in.
The next day my teacher brought me a shopping bag filled with items...
I said I wasn't going to wear them but she told me I had to because my dad brought them in.
There was extra large glow in the dark glass frames, a sparkly wand, a tinsel wig, and bright orange matching elbow/knee pads....
I then had to do a Halloween parade, confusing every person that saw me.
The old man really fucked with me that day.
Hm, my Halloween costumes were always a little different when I was a kid because my mom was a total "make it yourself" diy hippy who was actually good at it (several years in a row she won "Best in Show" at the county fair for the blue jeans she made for us as kids; she basically knocked off a pattern based on real Levi's and they were nice)
There was a several-year streak of characters from Alice in Wonderland; that was the closest I ever got to wanting to be a "princess," I think-- and usually I was the Cheshire cat or the White Rabbit. ha.
Nowadays, my costumes are a little more involved, being that it's one of the things I do for fun, but I never understood the off-the-shelf costumes as a kid; I guess I was a bit of a snob about it because it seemed so obvious to me that a homemade costume of something you REALLY wanted to be was a lot cooler than settling for whatever your mum picked up at Walgreens or whatever.
Uncanny Magazine!
The Mad Writers Union
Reasons I occasionally wear a fedora.
1 Because people think trilbys are fedoras and fuck those guys.
2 Because it's hard to smoke a cigar without one.
I overlap a bit with you @m3nace
Pumpkin
Cowboy
Cowboy
Shark
Bald eagle
Ballerina Hippopotamus (thas' wassup)
Kangaroo
Dragon
Demon warrior guy
Tennis Pro
Rod Stewart (yeah, I have no idea)
Bam Bam
Frodo
I liked animals when I was a lad.
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I don't think I ever had a princess phase. I had two older brothers and we liked ninja turtles and street fighter and final fantasy, that was our thing. I loved me some Lisa Frank though!
Last night I got to hang out with EWA for multiple hours. We colored and he drew me some awesome art and you are all jealous
Hats: totally okay to wear in the winter, I never leave without the chullo my mum made for me when I was 11.
No, a fedora and a t-shirt don't go good together.
edit: also, I wish I had some home-knit caps
And I'm like the jealousest right now of both MTD and EWA. I bet you guys even used crayons too.
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Not to mention that I doubt Yahoo will allow porn to be hosted on any website they own, considering they don't even allow swearing on Yahoo answers. Like it or not, that's a major part of tumblr's userbase gone right there.
I'm concerned because If there is a mass exodus from tumblr right now there isn't really a good place for them to go (Pinterest? Back to DeviantArt?), but chances are another trendy startup will comes along to siphon off tumblr's userbase, negating the point of Yahoo's purchase in the first place.
Absolutely we did!
Yeah it's going to be... interesting.
But ultimately probably pretty depressing.
Like a misguided rich sitcom-grandpa deciding he's going to buy Coachella to impress his grandkids, and replacing all the acts with Buddy Holly cover bands.
Oh wait shit, someone buy www.answr.com right now.
Mine is less for style and more for a security blanket. Best $10 that I've ever spent.
I am imagining their trademark yodel being converted to the new r model:
PS someone call Rich and let him know I used his pic, dude knows how to copyright
Mynt you look good in that hat, and Moly you can do whatever you want.. There's no doubt that there is a social stigma surrounding fedora's now, however its not like you don't know it.
That being said, i wear fewer hats these days, and instead have started spending more money on nicer shoes and other clothes.
I'd wear less hats.
Seriously it was as bad if not worse than the May 3rd tornado. 51 people killed, including 24 kids from an elementary school.