Posted on: March 20, 2008 by Syzlak
March Madness has begun. I’m a little too busy in between work, the infinite madness and my intention to go see Obama speak tomorrow. So, I’m phoning in today’s post. Maybe you’ll like it, it’s me and SEOHack arguing about Tumblr, Rick Rolls and the state of the Web.
SEOHack: The more tumblr posts i read, the more i dislike it
SEOHack: rickroll?
Syzlak: i hate tumblr
SEOHack: wtf?
Syzlak: rickroll
SEOHack: me too
Syzlak: HAHAHAHAHA
Syzlak: did you get rolled?
SEOHack: i have no idea
Syzlak: that’s a meme btw
SEOHack: probably not. i don’t even know what the fuck it is
Syzlak: when someone makes you click a link under the belief that it’s for something else but in reality it’s rick astley
SEOHack: so, i’ve learned two things based on that
Syzlak: k
SEOHack: tumblr is worth even more hatred than i initially thought, and i really hate the interweb. we’re in a slow decline to becoming batteries. i’m going to improve my fence building skills
Syzlak: why is tumblr worse now?
SEOHack: check it out http://www.neimanmarcus.com/store/catalog/prod.jhtml?itemId=prod12650058&parentId=cat7970731&masterId=cat3520774&index=32&cmCat=cat000000cat000553cat3520822cat3520774cat7970731&ECID=NMAPRShopstyle
SEOHack: ignore the ugly ass url
Syzlak: but tumblr…
SEOHack: other than it being pink, that toaster is awesome
Syzlak: why MORE hatred????!?!?!
SEOHack: it’s one of those things that are hard to explain. i don’t know if it seems like tumblr is pushing tumblr or all the pissups they have or what El Tigre Hilker told me about how there’s argument in the tumblr community about the proper way to “tumbl” or not, but i just cannot bring myself to like it
Syzlak: ok
SEOHack: you know how there are just some people you don’t like, tumblr is a person i don’t like
Syzlak: i thought it was due to rickroll, cause i was going to say that has nothing to do with it at all
SEOHack: tumblr=criss angel
Syzlak: yes
SEOHack: i realize rickroll has nothing to do with tumblr, but it the fact there was a tumblr who tumbld another tumblr’s rickreel just caught my ire. rickreel is why i’m going to improve my fence building skills
Syzlak: i like it cause i’m an ass and i’d do that to somebody
SEOHack: you like the tumblr or the rickreel? i’m assuming the rickreel . . . .and yeah, it seems like fun
Syzlak: again, it’s: rickroll
SEOHack: but that gets more to the point that wikipedia devoted a long, detailed page to the history of the rickroll (and from what i understand, there are more detailed pages about it out there)
Syzlak: yup
SEOHack: it frightens me
Syzlak: you think they have a long entry about the practical joke?
SEOHack: i guess it’s something that i don’t care enough about, and i’m pissy about the fact that if i don’t know that rickreel is a fucking meme then i’m out of the loop and lousy at my job. it’s everything and nothing
Syzlak: Come on i bet you didn’t know about these, but you’d accept them
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock_knock_jokes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawyer_jokes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Yerevan
Syzlak: wikipedia is just fucked up dude
SEOHack: it’s more of a symptom of how i feel about where this cesspit is headed. i accept that wikipedia is a pop culture wasteland. it’s just one of those things that one feels. can’t explain it. it just is. there is no intelligent way for me to put it without sounding like a paranoid tinfoil hat wearing motherfucker…which i am…but still
Syzlak: hehehe, radio yerevan…
SEOHack: een Russia, jokes make you!
Syzlak: i was waiting for that
See you next week!
Posted on: December 28, 2007 by Syzlak
One thing that I have desperately tried to in my life is quash injustice. That’s a lie, but I’m not a fan. Which is why I was very upset to see that the Rubber Chicken Awards have decided to ignore fairness in order to pander to the same tired search crowd.
The injustice that caught my ire? The inclusion of posts from the same site. However, maybe that’s because in every list there has to be 3 from SEOmoz. For good measure, let’s throw in 2 from Sebastian’s Pamphlets so people don’t notice. While both are fine blogs, I think it is horribly unfair to the other nominations to be kicked out of the running by multiple posts from the same blog.
Am I upset that SEOHack’s posts were not considered? Sure, JDog from BlackBookData nominated the Worst SEO Blog Ever very early on in the competition. So was Streko! Funny fucking guy that Streko! Some of the posts were actually informative with hints of humor, or what my English teachers used to refer as ‘voice,’ rather than being simply “Bizarre, Funny and/or otherwise Irrelevant (or Irreverent)” as the rules had originally requested. Was Mystery Guest’s post on things to do when Rand’s at a conference very funny? Not really. It reminded me of those “40 things” lists (irritate roommate, you’d like to say at work, only happen in movies, ways to skin a unicorn, etc). Funnier would have been the ‘Things overheard at PubCon’ post by Rebecca…but I digress.
In the comments for nominees I saw maybe 20 links to unique websites, and maybe at most 30 links total. So obviously Mike had to work pretty hard to narrow the list down to the 10 finalists. Well, wrong again, as instead of doing the honorable and just act of creating a FAIR contest, we see that there are 15 finalists! Kudos for omitting your own submission, but un-Kudos (is that the opposite of Kudos?) for taking the easy route and going with 15 posts from 11 sites and ignoring the rest of the bloggers that work hard at creating irreverent posts to make our lives as SEOers just that much more fun.
Posted on: October 5, 2007 by Syzlak
Hey Reader! Did you know that SEOHack and I are good friends? It’s true, no fooling! In fact, sometimes we have spirited discussions about current events in the world of SEM. By spirited, I mean filled with dirty language; and by discussions, I mean bickering matches. So, for the first 7 things I learned this week, check here. As for the 8th, I learned the following:
- Picking on Rand gets you a lot of attention. Let’s display this with a chat from earlier
SEOHack: You see Sphinn (Ed: pronounced s-fin – don’t drink the Kool-Aid) has yet another story about SEOmoz and Rand?
Syzlak: No shit?!?!
SEOHack: Yeah
Syzlak: Good! I was hoping to read new trite.
SEOHack: Perfect junk for “what I learned.” Skitzzo is a silly dude. No, I take that back; not silly, just a dude.
Syzlak: Wha?!?!? Why is he teh fuck?
SEOHack: Because he’s like mvandemar but with less balls and trying to wrap himself in some sort of “hey man, I’m not being mean, but these SEOmoz people need to be taken to task!”
Syzlak: I think that his post is all one can do to try to attack Rand though. Disagreeing with rand is like disagreeing with Mr. Belvedere – no one thinks it’s possible, and if it is, they feel uncomfortable about it
SEOHack: heheheh. Mr. Belvedere. You think Skitzzo’s post was more of an attack?
Syzlak: No
SEOHack: I agree with him on Rand outing sites
Syzlak: No one attacks as much as mvandemar
SEOHack: True dat
Syzlak: Here’s my point – this guy attacked in the only way that will make people start thinking about SEOmoz’s actions, and he was totally right about the comment posts. Personally, Rand needs to reign in his employees.
SEOHack: Nah. Fuck that.
Syzlak: That was bush league. Might as well have just said “neener neener”
SEOHack: I guess I appreciate Rebecca’s loyalty to her boss man
Syzlak: meh. Fuck that shit
SEOHack: No way
Syzlak: It’s not loyalty necessarily. It’s petty name calling.
SEOHack: It’s like Lovitz, mvandemar is like fucking Andy Dick.
Syzlak: If she were to do it to his face, bitch him out, bring on the shame, pee on him and then claim him as property…then that’s something, but to sarcastically call him out when you know you won’t have to face up to it…no.
SEOHack: That would be awesome
Syzlak: So, we getting a 7 things I learned this week?
SEOHack: But she did though, it’s not like she’s an SEOHack. People know who she is. Most of the shit going on in Sphinn is inside the walls of a high school and no one on the outside reads it or cares…and yes, I’ll be doing a 7 things.
Syzlak: True – but if I were Rand I’d say post, but let’s not get personal, be above it.
SEOHack: If I were Rand, I’d say something how while I appreciate Rebecca’s comments and agree with them, this might not have been the place to air them especially in light of who is in this forum. I apologize for Rebecca calling mvandemar a ‘douche bag’ and will take this up with her in private.” Then I’d give her a raise.
SEOHack: Then when people say “she didn’t call him a douche bag.” My reply would be “oh, my bad.”
Syzlak: Fair enough. We won’t see eye to eye on that one. Still, although I get the actions being commendable, did you see Rebecca’s comment on Skitzzo’s blog? The attitude didn’t end with mvandemar.
SEOHack: I need to update the page…when I read it, it was only at five comments.
Syzlak: weewar is slow today – I’m gonna get a burrito
Time elapses
SEOHack: Maybe part of my problem with Skittzo is the whole condescending, disappointed father tone of his post and his comments.
Syzlak: http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2007/10/05/hey-rand-since-its-not-wrong
SEOHack: Oh for fucks sake! How about one of us Sphinn that with the title “More Rand Is A Lying, Thieving Asshole Fun-ness!”
Syzlak: Do it
SEOHack: yeah? Think I’ll hit first page?
Syzlak: No, but it’d be fun.
SEOHack: You got a vote for that comment!
Syzlak: ‘Tis a good comment
SEOHack: Tis! I especially love the “take search seriously” bit. Brilliant!
Syzlak: I’m so good but no one likes me
SEOHack: You are! As am I!
Syzlak: You’re ok
SEOHack: Yeah, I suppose you’re right. This is gonna die with only three Sphinns as well, isn’t it?
Time elapses
SEOHack: Can you find that submission? I think they scrubbed it. Holy shit they deleted it. I’m done with Sphinn.
SEOHack: Fucking weewar…
As you can see, 1 instance can snowball into grand misunderstandings and arguments the likes of which we may never resolve. I didn’t know it at the time and neither did he, but we were onto something more important that autumn. It seemed like a lifetime had passed since the beginning of summer when Winnie Cooper left for camp. She’d be back soon, and would have no doubt learned how to express herself in new ways. In the end, we all learned something really:
Not to pick on WeeWar – we really love our accounts. Please don’t block us
