Things That Are Cool

This Timeline is funny and cool and funny.

So, Facebook’s new Timeline is live, and is pretty much mandatory for everyone to have by now. It’s new, and you hate it. Well, maybe you do. You see, once or twice a year, Facebook makes some change(s) to its design to better your experience, and a swath of people get their panties in a bunch about it. “O M G FACEBOOK Y DO U HAV TO MAKE MY CHAT LYK THAT?!?!,” something along those lines. It’s only natural, I suppose, but change is inevitable. That’s why Buzzfeed FWD’s collection of people hating Facebook in Timeline format is hilariously ironic.

These are real comments and groups made by real change-haters. It’s fun to look back at how much our favorite social tool has changed over time, how much we hated it, and how much we don’t even know why Facebook would ever look like that. I look at the old designs and see an outdated system, but we loved it then.

Give it a look, feel the nostalgia. 

Google Drive is cool.

There, I said it. And I’m sorry, but let me get this nerd post out of the way now so we can get to more radical things as soon as possible. 

On the real though, Google Drive is super cool. If you’re not sure what Google Drive is, let me knock that out for you: it’s like Dropbox but different. 

Here’s what makes Drive cool:

Automagical syncing with folder on your desktop, Clean and uniform applications for your mobile things, cross-platform, ability to upload anything, 5GB of free storage, affordable storage upgrades, super simple file sharing, offline collaboration…

The list goes on.

Cloud storage seems to be a major trend in internet-oriented companies nowadays, and Google’s offering does not disappoint. Personally I will be taking notes for classes saved to Drive and studying them anywhere I please, but there are tons of practical applications. 

If you are interested, here’s a link for you to sign up for your very own Google Drive account. 

Summer is cool.

So is the above stock image of some long-haired hooligan Superman-ing that lake thing. He looks like he’s having fun, don’t you think?

So as you probably haven’t noticed because of your lack of care, I have not posted to this here website in over a month. That’s partly because school is hard, and college is fun, but mostly because I suck. 

So, while this is not necessarily a reflection of what all future posts will be like, it is definitely forewarning that there are important, and cool, things coming. Also, this post is a notice to my surprising international readers that I have not, in fact, died. 

Thanks for reading, and be sure to click the next link of this sort that spams your Timeline-feed-list-thing, because I assure you, it will be cool. Now go belly-flop into a lake, it’s summer after all!

James Cameron at the bottom of the bottom of the ocean is pretty cool.

I wish the above picture were not of James Cameron emerging from his pressure-resistant deep-sea submersible. I wish the above picture were of some sort of horse-frog hybrid creature or something that Jimmy brought back from his expedition, but it’s not, and apparently I don’t know a thing about what deep-sea life is like. 

Well, James Cameron did venture to the deepest of depths, the Mariana Trench, in an expedition that can only be referred to as “like The Abyss, but deeper, and with less aliens.” His intentions were to capture video footage for a future documentary on the Trench and to return to the surface with samples to be analyzed for new microbial species and what not. 

As it turns out, part of the hydraulic system involved in bringing samples into the safety of the submarine malfunctioned during the dive. Cameron returned to the surface after scavenging the sea floor capturing film, with a sample that had been mostly washed away during ascent, but nonetheless. 

Cameron plans on making a number of trips to the Challenger Deep’s depths (the deepest realm of the Mariana Trench), hopefully with more success in bringing samples aboard. All-in-all, this is super badass. A manned trip to the bottom hasn’t been made since 1960, wherein the deep-sea vessel involved kicked up so much sand that seeing anything was pretty much impossible. I personally am looking forward to hearing about exactly what was found down there, and seeing the photographs that were captured. 

Dan O’Leary is a fucking champion, not to mention way cool.

That guy up there, Dan. He is a champion. 

Dan O’Leary was City Manager for the City of Keller, Texas until this past Wednesday. The reason he is no longer employed? He was laid off, by himself. Yeah, O’Leary recognized that three City Managers for the small town of Keller were unnecessary, so he went ahead and resigned, and suggested to City Council that his position be eradicated after him. Bold move, O’Leary.

Dan had previously earned $176,000 a year, and hopes that cutting his position will result in a stronger economic foundation for the city.

So you might be wondering why this is such a big deal? Dan is the polar opposite of all those big-bank executives and corporation heads that stuff their pockets every day. We need more people like Dan. 

This is so stupid, it’s cool.

Alright, you’ve got the iPad! Awesome! You’re a winner! One of the more valid questions to ask yourself is: what are you going to dock your radical new tablet into when you want to go hands-free? I know! A human pelvis!

Yes, the human pelvis bone is the perfect shape for mounting an iPad apparently. All Dublin Design Lab had to do was add some little mounty-thingy and there you have it. 

Okay, now please disregard every positive thing I have said about the pelvis dock so far. It is stupid. Don’t try to argue with me. It’s called the Hipster, which is ironic, because it is apparently hip to buy things that have basically no practical use whatsoever. I guess you could say that it looks like it rocks back and forth, and that is a plus. But now I am just grasping for straws. Yep, it’s just stupid.