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I got myself a Tumblr log. I like it.

I’m not sure who this Penelope Trunk chick thinks she is, but her “advice” is some of the worst I’ve ever read. She seems to be as shallow as a saucer, and I find her columns to be laughable most times. This one is extra shitty. I spoke at BarCamp Nashville just before she went on stage, and I found her to be quite unpleasant. It is an opinion many have formed.

She writes to be provocative, for its own sake, it seems. This woman is all about promoting herself by means of being outrageous. I notice the folks at Yahoo disabled the ability of readers to comment on her drivel because most of the response is so negative. No surprise. She relies heavily on stereotypes, and even encourages women to flirt with their male counterparts in the office. Her message often seems to be: “Sexism and discrimination exist. Deal with it. I did! *wink*” Why anyone takes advice from a failed executive who had to file bankruptcy is beyond me. This is a woman who used to sell advertising on her tits and ass while playing professional volleyball–an accomplishment she is quite proud of, even traveling the globe to tell eager men people all about it. She seems to rely heavily on her appearance to get ahead, since I can’t quite figure out what she’s actually done that warrants her attempt at career adviser. In the past she has viciously called out detractors as fat in a most brutal way, only to later delete said post, I assume out of embarrassment:

“This woman,” Trunk wrote, in a blog post she’s since deleted and replaced with a sorta-kinda apology, “”is walking around telling people you have to have a career while you’re raising kids in order to take care of yourself, and she is obviously not taking care of herself. Look, I wouldn’t be harping on this if she weren’t so fat…”

And this attitude seems to run rampant with her. “Flirt with bosses, don’t be fat and skip hard work in favor of social interactions at the office.” Brilliant! No wonder she failed at business and had to take her sad act on the road.

Thankfully I’ve come to the realization that Penelope Trunk is just doing what Ann Coulter does so well: outrage for the sake of her own career. If you think this woman has any concern whatsoever about your job trajectory, you are mistaken. Katherine Coble sums up best why you should ignore this incredibly superficial, yet widely read, woman:

I consider her to be a narrow-minded opportunist who doesn’t account for differing personalities and the vagaries of situations. Everything I’ve ever read or heard from her seems predicated upon the notion that her experiences are the only valid ones and her diagnosis of situations are therefore the Righteous Truth. It strikes me as odd simply because it’s the point of view one most frequently encounters in children younger than six. Yet she’s been able to parlay her bizarre sense of object impermenence into a series of paid speaking and writing gigs. … Penelope Trunk is a master provacateur. Her entire careeer is built out of marketing herself in any way possible–whether that means selling ads on her bikini, billing herself as a “career expert” or parlaying prejudice into some sick form of abusive advice. Penelope Trunk isn’t interested in helping anyone other than Penelope Trunk.

Amen to that.

I set up a non-refreshing, non-streaming webcam. Because I could.

One of the reasons I love the internet like Juliet loved Romeo is because there is so much free learning. Want to read every article written by the New York Times in 1935? NewYorkTimes.com can do that. Want to read classic novels without paying a penny? Hit up Read Print. Now you can get lectures from UC Berkeley professors available on YouTube. You can get smarter while sipping a smoothie on a sunny porch somewhere.

Here, watch a lecture by Google co-founder Sergey Brin:

Never before released Twin Peaks music?! @!$#&*@#^!*&#@*&# YES!

You suck. You suck the suck of a million vacuum cleaners. You spit out at me entries written in October of last year. You feed me blog posts from a blog you haven’t been aggregating for months all at once, filling my folder with unread entries from weeks and weeks ago. You seem to have no rhyme to your reason. You just present blog postings all willy-nilly, as if it is not your JOB to display information in a logical manner.

I never switched to Google Reader because I’d filled you so full of all my reads. Well, the jig is up. I will be moving to Google Reader if it takes me two weeks. And then I will be through with you.

And don’t call me up two weeks later talking about wanting to show me movie listings or dinner plans. I’ve already dropped you, zero, now I’m getting with a hero.

This is it,

Brittney

Hey, did you know that I have 56 videos on YouTube for you to peruse and point and laugh at. Most of them are original content, too.

My comment spam has gotten more voluminous of late, but much more entertaining.

I just bought a membership to Media Bistro’s AvantGuild, which made me realize how few websites I actually am willing to pay for. I’ve paid to be a member of DavidLynch.com, and was a TypePad customer for years. Other than those two things, and the AvantGuild, the only other premium web service I pay for is Flickr Pro. What about you? What web content or service do you pony up dough for?

Bonus question: Have you ever “tipped” a blogger using one of their presumptuous “donate here” options?

I miss Twittering, and I want to go back. I’ve been trying to log in for two days. No luck yet. The front page loads fine, but after entering my email and password, I get endless loading.