Gawker Media got some unwelcome headlines this week as bloggers on their site, Gizmodo (which I read pretty often) had the poor judgment to prank CES.

Kids, what were you thinking?! Someone’s getting banned and Giz might not be coming back either.

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Personally, I’m waiting with bated breath for the Apple thingie next week. I think my wee laptop is going to explode soon, and if they announce the touted supathin one, maybe I’ll be able to more easily see my way clear to a new MacBook.

(supposing it does now, that is)?

À propos of Wm Gibson’s latest blog entry, which links to yet another Gawker Media blog, this one sci-fi focussed (I’m not going to link, google it, lazy!)…when does it all just become a circular feeding frenzy?

I observed this in the small circle of gadget/cell phone/similar blogs when I was looking for my phone. The iPhone was about to come out, and there was an information drought pending the big announcement. The blogs all started referencing each other. No hard news, so let’s talk about each other. I’m not saying anything bad about Mr Gibson and his blog, I’m just commenting on some of the commercial sites.

I subscribe to a bunch of Gawker sites, don’t get me wrong. I find them of varying utility and entertainment. The whole situation of commercial, corporate blogs I find a little odd…I mean if it comes with a cnet logo, or a major media logo, you know what you’re getting. And I guess if it comes with a Gawker Media logo, you know what you’re getting, too. Sometimes all that the music blogs can do is talk about what each other are all talking about, too (grammatically, there are some problems with that sentence, but I don’t really see how to fix it without snooting it up, so sorry, just deal with it).

All’s I’m saying is keep your eyes open, kids!

I’m not quite sure how, with 364 days to prepare, this household can spend half of Christmas Eve and most of Christmas morning (it’s coming up on 11:30) wrapping presents. Hi people! we won’t get to breakfast until dinner time at this rate, and I want my Champagne!

Also, from what I’ve glimpsed about the place, I’ve already received approximately half of my presents at Christmases past. Hi, thank you, but you gave me that book last year. I enjoyed it, thank you. But I do not need another copy. Does this make me ungrateful? I think it’s more about shaking my head at the fact that it’s a desperate grab for something to give, here, I need to have this much stuff to give to you, and never fucking mind if you want/like/need/already have it, I have a need to have this kind of Christmas, and give you this much stuff, so this is what you will get. Also spending three hours wrapping a bunch of stuff in a bunch of stuff that will be in a trash bag in approximately an hour is just…sad. There’s a value when it’s all sitting under the tree for a day or week or something, and you can admire it, but when there will be approximately 2 minutes between the last present going under and the first present being opened…not so much. And we don’t even care enough to take a photo.

Bleah. And wait till you see the slippers! >_<

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Updated Christmas evening: Lots of stuff, only 7 repeat gifts, and the slippers, while beyond weird, are growing on me. :p

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Merry Christmas.

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Oh and this whole WordPress thing where it thinks it knows the format I want better than I do? BITES. Fuckin styles can blow me.