I was actually pleasantly surprised - there were maybe 3 posts that I pulled down.
It was a quick gloss-over, but by and large I don’t think I’ve left too many ass-holeish things up on the site.
If you see one, though, let me know, I’ll make it right.
I posted this previously on Jordan’s blog as a comment, but it seems relevant, so I’ll repost it:
Yeah, when I saw that the light had been shone on the RCG main page, I thought it was time to do some tidying up. The trouble with blogs is that your old posts, and your old feelings, are sitting there right next to your current posts.
Anyone can come in, and read a post you made from 4-5 years ago. If they don’t know any better, it would be so easy to assume that that old post still reflected your feelings today.
I’m sure I’ve posted things, long forgotten, that centered around small spats or in a fit of some passing anger. I wouldn’t want anyone to think that what I said 5 years ago (practically an eternity) had any relation to the person who I am today.
I’ve tried to be careful in the last few years - to not post in anger, to not post things that I wouldn’t feel comfortable putting on the back of a post card, but I can’t be sure of that.
So I’m trying to review, to make sure that old posts are merely historical curiosities at best, to ensure that the me of five years ago, who was still in highschool in the small town of Stratford, could not be mistaken for the me of today.
I wonder if we’ll all be in these within the next 20 years…
There seem to be two warring factions - on the one side technology SHOULD be letting us live wherever we want, but more and more often it seems like we’re drawn to the cities for jobs.
With the price of fuel, it’s expensive to commute, and with the price of real estate, it’s expensive to live within the city… A really tiny place might be the solution.
For a young professional, if you’re working 12 hour days, all you probably do is go home and flop into bed. You hardly need a penthouse apartment for that. I think that might be an interesting market in the future - clean, neat, “high end” apartments, that are ridiculously tiny.
This seems stupid.
They want to send boxes and boxes of pencils to some “media moguls”… why?
To try and “force” the media companies to “bargain in good faith” (I assume that roughly translates to “bend over”).
This, to me, is a private disagreement between labour and the companies they work for… NBC is not a crown corporation; if they do something stupid I’ll punish them like I punish any other company I find unethical… take my business elsewhere. Ethics hardly seem to come into play here, though - this isn’t a giant company with sweatshops that employs children and whips them if they don’t work hard enough, this is a group of unionized workers and some strong companies. I think both sides have the other by the balls; there’s no clear victim here.
I donno; maybe I don’t care enough about TV, or maybe I just don’t get it - a private group of companies is in a dispute with a group of unionized workers over largely financial issues is not something that I think deserves big, flashy, shows of support and public outcry. If having no new TV shows for next year isn’t hurting Fox, sending a billion pencils won’t do anything either. Likewise, if the writers don’t feel like picketing anymore, then it’s time to call it a day and get back to work.
This is a negotiation between two sides that BOTH want something - I have trouble seeing either side as angelic. If either side really, truly wanted this to end for “the good of the fans” or some other nebulous concept, here’s what you do - you GIVE IN and everyone gets back to work. That goes for studio execs AND writers.
Wired ran a competition for saddest cubicle.
And then we wonder why the suicide rate is so high…
Let’s face facts - the Wii IS the most powerful system of this generation.
I mean, come on, that just displays incredible versatility. “If all you have is a hammer, everything else starts to look like a nail” - The 360 and PS3 are big, giant hammers. The Wii allows for diverse (better?) solutions to problems.
More experiments from this dude.