I don't know how horribly relevant this is or how many of you read comic books anymore (yes, they still publish them and yes, some of us still read them) but I just wanted to make good on the old adage about telling 100 people when something goes wrong as opposed to telling 10 when it …
At first I was all excited about Live Nation… someone was competing with Ticketmaster! This had to be a good thing! There was no way it could go horribly wrong! Then I tried to buy some tickets to see Los Campesinos in February. $7.00 surcharge on $14.00 tickets. 50% markup. 50% markup! Unbelievable. UPDATE I worked the math, and …
Why are the only Beastie Boys songs I ever hear on the radio here in eastern Massachusetts "Sabotage", "She's Crafty", "Fight for Your Right to Party", "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" or "Intergalactic"? 20 god damned years putting out records, something like 15 radio singles, and these are the ones I hear over and over again on local …
Behold, a startling tale of awful tech support staff, too little too late management strategies, and verbose tirades of daring do that was supposedly done did! Since January, my virtual private server account with Tektonic has gone down more than a freshman sorority pledge. Every time, I have had to play this two-step swinging game with them to …
Matt Ball has posted a sizable write-up which neatly sums up the rising tide of backlash against the so-called "Delicious Generation" of software developers currently bilking milking abandoning their installed base every 6-to-8 months. I had been working on something similar, though admittedly much, much less details when this dropped. My interest in this was strictly …
February 23, 2008 – 11:35 pm
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By Ryan
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Posted in applications, diatribes, shit stirring
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Tagged austin sarner, bilking, catalog, horseshit, motherfucker, phil ryu, rage, ripped off, spite, vitriol
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I no longer define my class standing in terms of the money I've made or the things I own. It's not even something as pedestrian as the neighborhood I live in or the car I drive. I now define it in terms of how much time I have to spend in laundromats.
Rick Marshall has a story to tell. After "parting ways" with Wizard Magazine earlier this month, Rick has been blogging about it very publicly for the last few days. The online comic book industry sites seem to be supporting this, and it doesn't seem like it's simply because they've all hated Wizard for years. For the …