A fun story on the background of horror hosts, including many I did not know about. Some are campy, some are edgy, even titillating – so be warned – but all are about having a good time with a genre that doesn’t look it on the surface.
Security issues
One new twist as I have gone through 2012 and going further into the past.
A lot of these old links have been built with old code, so they sure don’t look right sometimes.
Others, however, are bringing up security errors and browser warnings.
In those cases, I am not reposting them. The past can be dangerous and I’m not wrecking your computer because I wanted to remember a pithy comment over a decade old. It isn’t worth it to either of us.
The bittersweet reality behind chocolate
Even our simple pleasures mean a lot of work for somebody. And often, that work goes unrewarded.
Rachel Maddow on “Prequel” and the rise of the fascist movement in America
We have been here before, watching fascists rise. Hopefully we can do better at stopping them before the dying gets worse.
In France, workers build a castle from scratch the 13th century way
I am a sucker for folks using old tech to reproduce the past. This definitely fits the bill.
Progress redux
Still trying to harvest old posts. It stinks. That said, I have been utilizing Code Embed to get old videos and streams up (when it can). I may be using it all wrong but oh well.
Sometimes I can post videos but YouTube, CBS, and NBC hate to embed off their site. The Daily Show links are either dead or ad-blocked. Sometimes you’ll just see a Video Link entry. Use that.
Dead links mean either lost posts or edits. Bill Maher links are either dead or, since he’s become a worm, aren’t worth the work of recovering/redirecting unless the point was a very good one.
The work continues….
I lost my Shoe
I have been here at Red Wing Shoes since late January. I like it a lot. My coworkers are good folk and the work is entertaining.
That said, I recently ran into an old friend and coworker and – long story short – I will be back in gaming here in another week or so. I get to work with some folks I haven’t been around in over a decade. It is hopefully the right move for me and the family.
That isn’t to say I won’t miss this place.
Progress?
The more I recover from the old blog, the more I am limited by how technology ages and dies.
A lot of the videos I had posted were in Flash, which doesn’t leave a lot of link artifacts. Or when it does, it does not leave a lot I can point to new, fresher videos.
Also, pages die. And not even the Wayback Machine can account for all of that.
And then, proprietary rights. CBS, particularly Sunday Morning, has always been a source for me but good luck embedding any videos from there. They have about 10 years of stuff moved over to YouTube, which helps, except that I am into early 2013 posts now and the ship has sailed for the time being. And then, not *all* YouTube links go into WordPress properly, so sometimes you will see a link rather than an embedded vid.
Sorry.
‘All the Sugar and Twice the Caffeine’: The Electrifying History of Jolt Cola
If I have never posted this before, here it is. If I have, well, you get that I may have liked this stuff at some point in my life. And when it temporarily reappeared in dollar stores a couple years ago.
Listen to the Sick Beats of Rhubarb Growing in the Dark
The sounds…of rhubarb.