Category Archives: Interests

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.

Las Vegas club agrees to halt promotion featuring live dancers on truck – Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 | 5:48 p.m. – Las Vegas Sun

So long stripper truck, we hardly knew ya.

Look, I’m pretty much a local here. I don’t go to the Strip much, if at all unless folks come to visit or we get really cheap show tickets.

And I definitely don’t drag my kid down there at midnight. But apparently the “moral values” dipshits think they need to shut down something that is making a local business some money. So, alas, the stripper truck is no more.

I hate it when uptight nitwits ruin a good marketing venture. I had no need to see the truck, so it didn’t bother me. No one was actually getting naked in it. The Strip is covered in ads for burlesque shows and clubs and whatnot that have scantily clad females on it. Apparently those are fine to the so-called Christians or whatever they think they are.

Look, it’s Vegas. The whorehouses are over an hour away. Stripping is legal, and I don’t want to know what goes on in the all-night massage parlors and 24-hour acupuncture clinics. If you don’t like what Vegas means to the rest of the planet, move back to Provo or Chico or Alpine, TX for all I care. But quit voting for a guy who cheats with his best friend’s wife and then get all irate over a girl in lingerie in the back of a truck.

Hypocrites.

In Sports, Red Is Winning Color, Study Says

Apparently you can trend success by uniform color. Granted, this didn’t work so well for the Phillies this year, but their loss had something to do with Blue blowing calls that got the Yankees to the Series more than anything else.

In most instances however, wearing red is usually the color of success for sports teams.

I found this blog entry that gives more examples of this (you’ll have to go halfway down the page):

  • Stanley Cup Champions (2000-2008): teams that wore RED won 4 of the 8 (Detroit Red Wings-2 times, New Jersey Devils, and Carolina Hurricanes)
  • World Series Champions (2000-2008): teams that wore RED won 6 of the 8 (Arizona DiamondBacks, Anaheim Angels, Boston Red Sox-2 times, St. Louis Cardinals, and the Philadelphia Phillies)
  • Super Bowl Champions (2000-2008): teams that wore RED (or have traces of RED) won 4 of the 8 Super Bowls (New England Patriots 2002/2004-2005 and NY Giants 2008)
  • NBA Champions:(2000-2008 teams that wore RED only won 2 of the 8 NBA Finals (Detroit Pistons and Miami Heat). However, keep in mind that RED was a dominant color in the 90’s with Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls
  • English Premiere League (English Soccer) (2000-2008): teams that wore RED won 7 of the 8 titles (Manchester United 5 times, Arsenal 2 times)