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9th March 2010

Tumblrviews: Something Intellectual

Here at The ## we’re starting a new segment called Tumblrviews where we interview authors of popular Tumblrs. Our inaugural interview is with Jessica, author of Something Intellectual.

Your first post was about a year ago. What made you start tumbling?
I started Tumblr after I found myself going to different pages and just scrolling endlessly through the pages. I figured, “This isn’t so hard.”

How old are you?
I am celebrating my 20th birthday on the 15th actually!

How many followers do you have?
As of right now I have just a few shy of 17,000. (Who, let me just say, are the coolest, nicest people ever!)

Wow! Did you get all of those gradually or in big chunk(s)?
I usually have gradual spurts of followers.

Have you done any sort of conscious promotion of the blog or did it just sort of grow through Tumblr on its own?
No, I thought about designing a shirt and wearing it for shits and giggles, but I haven’t got time for such shenanigans lately.

Do you use Twitter? Is it connected to Something Intellectual or just personal?
I do, but I hardly use it. I made it with the intention of having it coincide with my tumblr, but I’m on too many networking sites to really get into Twitter. ;)

How many posts have you liked?
29,355! Wowzers…

Would you rather be reblogged or liked?
They’re both nice. I prefer reblogging, as so the content can be reached to more and more people, as well as the artist/musician.

Do you miss Tumblarity?
No. Not at all. Tumblarity was a bane to the whole site, and just created an influx of people posting worthless crap to get more and more people to be interested in them. I love being free to post however without having to be stressed out by it. My friends and I would joke about the stress it caused.

I see that every image that isn’t yours is linked to where you got it from— and of course any thing you reblog is automatically linked back to its source— but do you ever still worry about whether you’re properly crediting images that aren’t yours?
Oh, all the time. Though not as much lately as I try to find images from the original owner (makes for more interesting Internet digging). My earlier posts, perhaps, may not be properly credited. A little tick in the back of my thoughts, but I try my best these days to credit accordingly.

Do you use tags on your posts? How?
Sometimes, usually I use tags to express subtext to what I’m feeling. I contemplate going back and tagging all of my posts, but then I remember that would take too much work. ;)

How much time do you spend on Something Intellectual every day/week?
Hmm…I’d say roughly 1-3 hours a day (depending on how busy I am, and how anti-social I’m feeling that day). That’s not to say I haven’t spent an entire day riffling through my dashboard out of boredom, but on average just somewhere between 7-12 hours a week.

Do you have any other blogs?
Nope, this is my one and only. I’ve tried to have other blogs, but I’m not great at multi-blogging.

Have you edited the code of your template?
Yes. It was originally the “New Theme.” I edited most of the coding, changed some fonts, added a few homely touches, and presto!

Have you ever thought about trying to make money from Something Intellectual?
I would be an idiot if I hadn’t. Though, in the end I don’t try to, because in my mind that’s as if I went around selling other people’s things.

What does the title of your tumblr mean to you?
When I first made it, I really was only making a little thing to post random bits that may or may not make sense. So, Something Intellectual fit pretty well in my book.

Do your friends in real life know you run Something Intellectual?
I enjoy my blog, and I usually let people know about it. My friends from real life all have tumblrs, and the ones that haven’t yet usually ask me about it. If anyone really wanted to get to know me, all they would have to do is email me. I am Jessica hear me roar, I suppose…

(Both photos from Jessica’s Flickr)

Tagged: #blog culture #something intellectual #tumblr #tumblrviews

8th March 2010

Spring Break! Woohoo!

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Just a heads up: The ## team will be on spring break this upcoming week. We’re stocking the queue just in case the wireless on the cruise ship is flaky/we’re too ‘busy’ to blog.

Tagged: #excuses #spring break #cruises #America!#college!#internet connection #vacation

7th March 2010

Gwyneth Paltrow gives us an excuse to post about Lauryn Hill, Gwyneth Paltrow

Paltrow singing Lauryn Hill karaoke:

But what’s really sweet about G’s musical debut is the peripheral stuff it gives us an excuse to post…

(Hat tip Vulture, Videogum. Photos: via, via)

Tagged: #gwyneth paltrow #karaoke #movies #music #lauryn hill

7th March 2010

Danny Glover kicksoff Zoolander 2 Promotion

From Yahoo! News (Hi @agolis): Danny Glower is asking actors and famous people not to wear Huge Boss to the Oscars tomorrow night. Apparently the jobs of 300+ workers in Ohio are at stake!

Pretty sure this is part of Zoolander 2’s advertising campaign.

If you can remember, the first one has some moral message via sweat shops and children. Ten years later? The hot, ‘relevant’ issue is the American economy.

Psyched to see who Glover plays.

Tagged: #movies #theories #advertising #Danny Glover #Zoolander 2

6th March 2010

Attack on Am Appy’s Headyquarters

(via Free Billyburg)

The Village Voice picked up on a report by Free Williamsburg: Thursday night the American Apparel store in Williamsburg was vandalized. A witness told someone:

“There were about 50 guys dressed all in black, wearing masks, and causing total mayhem all along North 6th St, dumping out trash dumpsters and setting everything on fire in the streets, and then smashing all the windows of the American Apparel.”

Someone emailed the Gawker tip line to add:

“The the American Apparrel [sic] in Williamsburg was vandalized last night in an act of hipster rebellion. Both front windows were broken and the vandals unloaded a bunch of crap from a nearby dumpster, threw it in the middle of the road, and set off fireworks and smoke bombs on it. They then climbed atop and yelled out a hipster rebel yell of the revolutionaries. Just kidding about that last part but oh you could have fun with this.”

Oh yes, yes you could.

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Wonder what spurred the Anti-American hate. Hope this isn’t a sequel to Am History X (it was on FX earlier tonight #justsayin).

6th March 2010

A ‘Light Case’: Probably not What You Think It Is

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By now we’re all familiar with blog time. We use it all the time to measure time. But sometimes we use another measure of time, one that’s more applicable to certain situations. I’m speaking of “the case,” which is measured by how long it takes a given “room” of “heady bros” to consume one case (24 beers in these parts).

For the purposes herein we may assume that a “room” is “quorum,” which is approximately 5 or 6 “heady bros.” Thus, after much empirical testing, one case is roughly 30 minutes.

Sure, this is useful. “We’ll be there in two cases.” “That was so four cases ago.” You get the idea. But we still don’t have any measure of distance in our new system. Until now!

A light case - the distance light travels in the time it takes a “room” of “heady bros” (i.e. “quorum”) to consume a case of beer (not to be confused with a case of light beer).

Some math, courtesy of Barton Labs:

Light travels 186,000 miles per second.

It takes 30 minutes for “quorum” to consume case. That’s 1800 seconds.

186,000 mi/sec * 1800 seconds = 330,000,000 miles = 1 ‘light case’

Therefore 1 light case is equivalent to 330,000,000 miles.

Happy Fraturday!

Tagged: #blog culture #drinking #america!#barton labs #science #light case #blog time #math #drinking #college!#frat

5th March 2010

Reblogged from Nervous, Nervous Roy