From our always-amazing inbox, a far-too insidery joke about another website, its laid-off American tech department and its current technical troubles: "Which web mogul, hungary for more pageviews, has made a goulash of his site's functionality, and something about paprika?"
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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In ancestral Hungary--this is what they call the cucumber season.
Czechmate.
Wait, who are we talking about?
OMG, I'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO GET THIS!
Things we ate that we hate.
Wah Wah Gabored.
Drudge?
bután néz (to gawk)
What about Kansas City?
It has to be Lindsey Lohan and Katie Holmes. It just has to be.
It seems his hungar for page views has gotten crossed up with his ambition to have a roundtable of Parkerian wits. You need all that script magic to keep the hordes in their greyed-out, non-featured place. And alas it's buggy!
I dare someone to email him "YOU SUCK, BRING BACK COEN" (Bakes, I'm looking at you)
You have no idea how many times I've received this. Commence utter bitchery further down thread...
Choire, you sent that to the Awl inbox yourself, didn't you?
Shayden Freud?
PS - Is the Jory okay?
The Jory was laid off last year, around the time of Sheila and Consumerist: http://jcksn.com/2008/12/18/denton-kicks-them-to-the-curb/
Financial times were looking real scary for millionaires you know and everyone else that was cool was cutting their staff and Nick Denton is a cool kid.
So no more tech beefcake. But are they missing the beefcake now? If we post complaints on a site and no one cares does anyone really Get Satisfaction?
Not surprised if you didn't know about Jory, Gawker Media never reports about itself any more, they are no fun.
Yeah, but their comments are now "like Facebook". So that's good, I guess.
Totally useful, like reading a book from back to front.
OK WTF? I thought Denton was from the UK...?
Yes, but IT jobs are often outsourced to the Land of Goulash.
Scadengoulash!
Is not Lord Denton of partly Magyar origin (his mother) ? MisterHippity is correct, several firms outsource not only IT but mathematical-type jobs to Hungary.
Several firms, including Gawker Media. From Nick Denton's message contained Gawker's July 9 post about the new commenting system:
"It's an enormous accomplishment by the tech team in Budapest, New York â€" and Kansas City."
Yeah, they hate it now but once the new functionality dies Gawker commenters will be all pious about the tragedy.
from that delightful site's comments: "Gawker Media has improved my productivity!"
I always loved goulash, actually.
Rum, sodomy and goulash.
What has been quite sad for me is that Mr. Lawson will be vacating premises soon to join tv.com, where I fear the loss of his open captions and the Dr. Suess's valley girl daughter style of recaps. I'm assuming they'll have to clean up a bit for tv.com.
Sigh. Well, my boss can be relieved - my productivity should skyrocket!
Once Richard Lawson leaves, there will be no reason to go to Gawker anymore. Just like when I cancelled HBO after Rome and The Sopranos went off the air.
no shit
I'll still be there for Pareene. Until he wises up and leaves.
SUCK MY WEEEEEEEEEENIE. You know what you get for canceling HBO after Rome went off the air? The missed opportunity to see balls on the short-lived but chronically underrated Tell Me You Love Me in which five different pairs of testicles sort out their relationship problems with their ball-handlers and a therapist. Which is kind of what AWL contributors Pareene! Foster! and Natasha! and Friend of The Awl John Cook! and are doing at Gawker: sorting out their relationship with things that most people just relate unnecessary soreness to, like a Nick Denton media property who's own soreness problems and the faded sentiment of wonder from others we're all fairly conscious of. So kindly give us a chance, because we want to show you that playing with balls can be fun, or something, and that we should all maybe consider the balls we were once previously fascinated with again, possibly by shaving around them, or maybe drawing a smiley face on them.
I've had hydrocele surgery twice and thus feel qualified to get lost in this metaphor. That is all.
Web 2.D'oh.
I deserve a 6 month chip or something, because apparently this is about Gawker, and I have no idea what the heck is going on, and I have no desire to go over there and look. Also, notice "go over there!!" Like typing www.gawker.com is equivalent to exercise. I am cured, but not.
Ooh! Is it time again for my boilerplate "people still read Gawker?" comment? I seriously never get tired of that one.
(FEK, Cajun and Ryan: you know I love you boys though, right?)
Looks like the Fancy Feast may finally be giving way to the Nine Lives.