I’ll go first, to set the tone:
Tay Zonday of ‘Chocolate Rain’ fame used to follow me on Twitter. 💪
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For a long time I was in the first image result if ‘London goth’ was typed into google.
Many of the songs I ripped and shared via Napster in the late 1900’s continued to appear on legitimate platforms years later.
psst Hey, uh listen. We’ve all been talking and while, yes the term late 1900’s is factually correct, you can just not say it. Like it’s so easy, you don’t have to do anything or can do literally anything else.
I’m that person for the science series The Day the Universe Changed by James Burke.
How do you know they are the same files though?
Same bitrate, file size, and metadata (with my tags still included), along naming schemes and occasional misspellings.
I wonder how many of my Oink’s Pink Palace uploads are still around, or Waffles.
Kinda miss discovering music that way but don’t have the energy/time to spend on it these days. Maybe pick it back up when my kid leaves for college in about a decade.
🫡 Thank you for your song preservation service.
As a child I was body slammed on a bouncy castle by Weird Al Yankovic.
I won front row tickets and a meet and greet with him as a look alike contest! Because I was the only one that showed up dressed like him!
lol I wanna hear more about this story!
I kinda wanna reply with a shittymorph and how weird al ended up plunging 50 ft through the air onto him through the announcers table or something something. But I’m too lazy.
I worked with Linus Torvalds, met Carl Sagan, and caught a cold from Danny Elfman.
I ran in a 10km race and ended up taking a wrong turn. Everyone behind followed me. A small local newspaper interviewed me. I ended up in a quick tv segment and had a small write up in the paper.
Hahaha, that happened to me as well, although nobody followed me. I ended up in the marathon race, for which I hadn’t trained, so after 30 km (!) I had to finally give up and ride back in shame in the car they had at that station together with the others that didn’t made it.
I did run the marathon a few years later.
Oh man, what happened when you realized? Did you have to stop like Forrest Gump or could you lead them back on track?
I set up a SteamLink app onto a Raspberry Pi but I ran into a bug and couldn’t get it to work correctly. Valve acknowledged that they were looking into fixing it but after a few weeks of checking, I just put it aside and forgot about it.
Well nearly a year later, the thought randomly popped into my head that I should check to see if they had fixed it. I went to the Steam Link section of Steam’s forum, and sure enough, one of Valve’s devs had posted a new version that fixed the issue.
… 30 seconds prior to me checking the forum.
I’ve never had something like that align so perfectly, but also for something so ridiculous as that.
I had that with a GitHub repo seemed abandoned, only to get updated first time in 4 years just a minute before I checked.
I’ve vomited on 5 continents.
ESPN sent some poor intern to film a goofy segment at my college before a big game. People had no idea why he and the cameraman were there and were kind of weirded out by it, so I went up to ask what was going on. I thought I might have to tell them to leave. He explained that they were just trying to film something goofy so I volunteered to help and got a bunch of students in on it. The segment was as dumb as you would expect, but good enough to fill time on the Cold Pizza morning show. ESPN mailed me a tape of the segment to say thanks.
So I guess I was on national TV.
Many years ago I was on a Greyhound bus trip. I was traveling about 3 hours from my home & it was the easiest way to get to my destination for lack of decent air service Otherwise I would have simply flown. I informed the bus driver that a very odd passenger was having some intestinal distress & retreated to the lavatory. I was unfortunately sitting nearby when I knew that the driver should be informed of the potential degree of olfactory danger we were flirting with. It was a stormy night and that driver made the proper call to deal with the issue which caused us a slight delay. However, that little setback saved us from being caught in a landslide. The junkie crapping all over the bathroom was the hero. I was merely the messenger.
I have improved the lives of many people in small ways via my job as a therapist. The best part is that I know this for a fact by seeing the improvement over time. Therapy is, in some respects, about re-parenting people; the damage you help heal is intimate and permanent. You help people grow, literally. Very rewarding, again, in the long run.
Downvoted, not unimpressive.
(j/k, good on ya)
I encoded one of the very first mp3’s ever made, when it was still a “theoretical” model by Fraunhofer. I sung “I will survive” but in my very bad impression of William Shatner, accidentally posted it many years later on Napster, and found that copy following around many years after that on a torrent site. So, if you have a very old, very fake “Shatner” singing “I Will Survive”, it might be me.
It MIGHT be you? How many recordings like that do you think are bouncing around?
At least one other that I have encountered, and the band Cake also did the song and they almost sound like they’re doing a Shatner…
I wonder if they found yours and that inspired them?!
Awesome!
I am responsible for accidentally getting a landowner and big game hunter on the other side of the world investigated by the EPA for something he didn’t do, and a podcast episode was made about it. All I did was post a comment on Reddit.
I used to do a very niche job (that does not exist anymore) that required great skill, and I was so good at it, I was likely in the top 10 of all time. There were less than 1000 people qualified to do this job, and I was in the top 1%, AND those ~1000 people were the only ones to ever do this specific job out of the ~8 billion people on this planet.
Now I work a relatively mundane IT job, and no one knows or cares about what I have accomplished, except for my peers.
I am compelled to ask what it was… I need to know
The Daily Show flew out to my hometown for an investigative report on stolen Crimewatch signs.
I still have mine.
Jon Stewart or the others?
It was before Jon Stewart. And I’m pretty sure it was Colbert who actually did the on scene reporting.
Colbert started two years before Stewart?
Yes. Craig Kilborn was the host for the first 3ish years. Colbert was a correspondent from midway through Kilborn’s tenure.
The “Even Stevens” Stephen Colbert and Steve Carrell were both writers & performers for Craig Kilborn, and before that they were both writers on Dana Carvey’s short-lived sketch comedy show that had the fatal luck of being scheduled against a new comedy show called Home Improvement.
I spilled Diet Coke on Ann Coulter.
Good.
