Author Archives: John Wallenfeldt

Ode To The Internet Surliness Providers – All Tech Considered – Technology News And Culture Blog : NPR

Frankly, I love this story. It is about a Japanese fansub site that knows how much to abuse their customers and get away with it.

I’ve been working in IT or just technology for basically the past 13 years or so and you’ve got to understand that most of us view the rest of humanity as a pack of mouthbreathing dimwits. The things we say about you would make you cringe. I mean, in the main, you’re dealing with simple machines and the average user can find ways to cripple an application or bust a printer than ever an entire tribe of chimps on roid rage and ecstasy couldn’t if they really, really tried.

So to see a company actually embrace that antipathy just makes me smile.

Political Irony › Conservatives Remaking God In Their Own Image

Here’s a good roundup article on the bizarre and blasphemous attempts by conservatives to destroy Christianity and mold it into their own hate-filled, bigoted creation.

So these guys are fine with Saudi intolerance, polygamist FLDS child diddlers, repression of basically anyone but they really, really feel that God is too tolerant of people and his words need rewritten.

Genius!

John Gary Maxwell: Health reform from my side of the surgery table | StarNewsOnline.com | Star News | Wilmington, NC

“Americans have no sense of community welfare, no willingness to be discomforted in the least for the greater good of the entire population.”

– British woman lamenting our health care system to the author

Here’s a reasoned and moral editorial on the need for health care reform from a former surgeon. Give it a read please.

Let Our Powers Combine! Cheese Jerky!

Yeah, I said it. Cheese AND Jerky in the same tube! The Cheeseheads have done it again. Whether *it* is a sane idea or not is up for grabs. Available in regular and peppered. More info here.

And hell, how can you go wrong with this knowledge: “NO JERKY FROM KNUCKLES, GRISSLE, OR TENDONS!” Mmmm!

UPDATE: Sadly this did not last to the modern era, where they REALLY would have seen supply chain interruptions.

There is a video series. Here is the first episode.