Are you as confused as me? Look at this POS website. I built this POS website. And by built I mean I bought some stuff on siteground, picked a template and spent more hours than I care to admit trying to turn it into our own website. I’d like to take this opportunity to applaud all of the people who understand web design, coding, html, etc. I’m talking about the types of people that say, “I am good with excel” and they are actually good with excel. Im NOT talking about the delta chi bro who googled a vlookup formula and pasted it into his spreadsheet one time for Econ 101 and now he lists MS excel as a skill on his resume. I’m talking about the people who actually open up that terminal box or whatever it’s called with the windows 98 looking font and type shit in there which then somehow tells the computer exactly what to do. I’m NOT talking about the guy that got on a college course waitlist and set up text alerts to tell him when a seat opened up so he could sign up to take TWO separate “intro to web design” courses as his gen eds because he heard they were alarmingly easy.

Why did I build this website? Because I have some very important thoughts that I feel need to be heard and two podcast co-hosts who are too busy with their real lives to record with me. For the record I am giving them accounts on here but I don’t expect to see them post (this is a personal challenge @stapes @zig). So what’s a better medium than a long form blog?

You’ve probably already noticed how sloppily written this is and saw typos but I couldn’t care less. I think this is the first time in my life ive ever wrote something outside of a text or a tweet that won’t be judged by some English teacher looking for rhetoric and composition. And it feels good. I probably won’t even break for a new paragraph for the rest of this post. And there’s no one to stop me. A little known fact about me is that I am such a good writer that I was once accused of cheating when I turned in my own genuine work. I remember it like it was yesterday. 7th grade Language Arts with mrs curtis. We had been instructed to write our own version of one of those blurbs that you find on the back of a book. Google just told me they are called “dust jackets.” When I turned in my own version of the dust jacket for the book I read, Frindle, the teacher called me up to her desk and drew a circle around the words I wrote. “Do you have anything you want to admit?” I just stood there trying to interpret the disgusted look on her face. Like she had asked me a riddle and I didn’t want to get the answer wrong. I had entered into a standoff for the ages and I didn’t even know it. I don’t even think I said anything. I just kept standing there as she just started typing in the words from my paper and rifled through google results looking for the smoking gun. The irony of the situation is that I was nervous that she might call me out for cheating when I turned in that assignment. Not for plagiarism, but for choosing the book Frindle. Anybody else remember Frindle? It’s the one where the kid with the red hair invents a new word for pen to piss off his teacher. The words Frindle and 7th grade don’t belong in the same sentence. I probably read Frindle when I was 7 years old, but not in 7th grade. The night before the assignment I probably just grabbed the thinnest book from my basement bookshelf, skimmed it and wrote the blurb. After watching her google for a few minutes we went both went our separate ways. She was convinced she had me on the ropes, but she couldnt prove it in a court of law. I bet she still loses sleep over it. Here’s where the paragraph break shoulda went. The point is – That’s Garbage Media’s website is alive. We told you the website was coming soon and you didn’t believe us. Another empty promise fulfilled. I’m pumped to share some of the stuff I have in the queue and I hope it brings you some enjoyment “during these uncertain times.” Is anyone else tired of reading junk emails from multimillion dollar corporations reassuring you that they are “here for you” during the coronavirus?

So welcome to the dump. Your one stop shop for all things garbage (most likely just sports stuff and me making fun of people and also complaining about things that don’t matter).

PS – the intro to web design guy was me and yes I snuck into the class roster in BOTH of them in the same semester and yes I got As in both courses and yes I completed one of the courses in a single all-nighter. Shoutout to Jerry maddox best professor I ever had.