Journal perfessor multigeek's Journal: Hello, goodbye. 8
Been quite a busy few weeks for me here in /.land. Some great issues getting a really solid working out. Sexuality, personal responsibility, what to do about terrorism.
For those of you who missed Trolling4Dollars 's thred on televison, p2p networks, Blade Runner, and off-grid life, I recommend it.
But I gotta go.
All the time I've been putting in here is shredding my income level. It was fine when I was sitting here coughing and wheezing but at this point I have GOT to focus on bringin' in the cash.
So I'm boppin'. You probably won't be seeing much of me until late April. It will take me that long to get caught up, let alone keep my promises to get my site updated and visit Craig.
So I will leave you with a few factoids and comments.
A.) Hit a few trade shows this week and found that at least one factory in China is now making bamboo fabric. Pretty nice stuff too and quite cheap.
B.) Hemp continues to normalize as an option for fabric, papermaking, and so on. Such materials as hemp, papyrus, bamboo, and coconut husk are now simply grouped under the heading of "alternative fibers" and incur no snide remarks at all.
C.) Fujitsu's pioneering small footprint desktop scanners with high-speed mechanisms and sub-thousand dollar price tags are inspiring a horde of imitators from the likes of Kodak, Panasonic, Xerox, and even corporate-only folks like Bell&Howell. None are as good as the Fujitsus and most are about the same price.
Spend the extra hundred bucks. Get the Fujitsu.
D.) The document management field is still hordes of expensive sales teams taking government contracting approaches to selling shitty software. Oh, I'm sorry. "Solutions". None of them deserve to be so much as a pimple on the ass of the Quark Publishing System
E.) On the other hand, when it comes to standalone layout applications, Quark's day has come and gone. Sure, it's an amazing package but InDesign is still a better choice.
F.) B u u u u t . . . . . I'm sticking to older versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, Painter, and the rest. This "for your own good" stuff to allegedly prevent counterfeiting, let alone all the bloatware, interest me not at all. I think design apps hit their high point around 2001 and that's just where my versions will stay.
G.) We've been skating around the issue of folks making non-standard choices. I gotta tell you, with the economy heading where it is, we're going to see a hell of a lot of people give up on building their lives around jobs and make some choices that will make the average American's head spin. After all, when you're skilled, bitter, and feel rejected by "respectable" society anyway, why not go entirely freakshow?
I fully expect to see stuff from polyamory to communes to cults to people living as household pets become a given part of the alternative scene from Austin to Madison to Amsterdam within two years. I also expect that almost all of them will jump right back into conventional lives if the real prospect of career-worthy jobs returns.
But until then, if it's been in an issue of Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, them somebody will be trying it.
Bring on the saucer cults!
H.) Like many others, last year I expected /. to collapse under its own weight, starting about now. After all, with frequent timeouts and waves of trolls and OSDN's uncertain status, things were about to go BOOM! Right?
Didn't happen.
Well, I'ld say that within a year at this rate Taco, Neal, and crew may actually start acting visibly like a responsible management team or will start partnering with somebody who can. Maybe we'll even see the implementation of a decent search function.
I.) Yes, it is significant that I have not again mentioned my favorite english professor. She seems to have dumped me. Not that she has said so per se but she's not taking my calls and some of the comments on her blog are flat out unsettling.
I guess that when she said that I made her deeply uncomfortable by complimenting her and taking her seriously, she meant it.
So I am now single and looking. May the cute, brilliant, oddball women of New York take heed.
J.) I am starting to take more material steps to move out to Portland, at least for part of the year. Now that this is no longer theory but has reached the stage of dividing up my stuff and arranging transport for the first round to head West, I am scared shitless.
Talking about living in transit is one thing. Shutting down parts of my very customized New York existance is another.
Enough for now. I'll drop in and post a bit here and there. See y'all on the flip side!
Rustin
For those of you who missed Trolling4Dollars 's thred on televison, p2p networks, Blade Runner, and off-grid life, I recommend it.
But I gotta go.
All the time I've been putting in here is shredding my income level. It was fine when I was sitting here coughing and wheezing but at this point I have GOT to focus on bringin' in the cash.
So I'm boppin'. You probably won't be seeing much of me until late April. It will take me that long to get caught up, let alone keep my promises to get my site updated and visit Craig.
So I will leave you with a few factoids and comments.
A.) Hit a few trade shows this week and found that at least one factory in China is now making bamboo fabric. Pretty nice stuff too and quite cheap.
B.) Hemp continues to normalize as an option for fabric, papermaking, and so on. Such materials as hemp, papyrus, bamboo, and coconut husk are now simply grouped under the heading of "alternative fibers" and incur no snide remarks at all.
C.) Fujitsu's pioneering small footprint desktop scanners with high-speed mechanisms and sub-thousand dollar price tags are inspiring a horde of imitators from the likes of Kodak, Panasonic, Xerox, and even corporate-only folks like Bell&Howell. None are as good as the Fujitsus and most are about the same price.
Spend the extra hundred bucks. Get the Fujitsu.
D.) The document management field is still hordes of expensive sales teams taking government contracting approaches to selling shitty software. Oh, I'm sorry. "Solutions". None of them deserve to be so much as a pimple on the ass of the Quark Publishing System
E.) On the other hand, when it comes to standalone layout applications, Quark's day has come and gone. Sure, it's an amazing package but InDesign is still a better choice.
F.) B u u u u t . . . . . I'm sticking to older versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, Painter, and the rest. This "for your own good" stuff to allegedly prevent counterfeiting, let alone all the bloatware, interest me not at all. I think design apps hit their high point around 2001 and that's just where my versions will stay.
G.) We've been skating around the issue of folks making non-standard choices. I gotta tell you, with the economy heading where it is, we're going to see a hell of a lot of people give up on building their lives around jobs and make some choices that will make the average American's head spin. After all, when you're skilled, bitter, and feel rejected by "respectable" society anyway, why not go entirely freakshow?
I fully expect to see stuff from polyamory to communes to cults to people living as household pets become a given part of the alternative scene from Austin to Madison to Amsterdam within two years. I also expect that almost all of them will jump right back into conventional lives if the real prospect of career-worthy jobs returns.
But until then, if it's been in an issue of Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, them somebody will be trying it.
Bring on the saucer cults!
H.) Like many others, last year I expected
Didn't happen.
Well, I'ld say that within a year at this rate Taco, Neal, and crew may actually start acting visibly like a responsible management team or will start partnering with somebody who can. Maybe we'll even see the implementation of a decent search function.
I.) Yes, it is significant that I have not again mentioned my favorite english professor. She seems to have dumped me. Not that she has said so per se but she's not taking my calls and some of the comments on her blog are flat out unsettling.
I guess that when she said that I made her deeply uncomfortable by complimenting her and taking her seriously, she meant it.
So I am now single and looking. May the cute, brilliant, oddball women of New York take heed.
J.) I am starting to take more material steps to move out to Portland, at least for part of the year. Now that this is no longer theory but has reached the stage of dividing up my stuff and arranging transport for the first round to head West, I am scared shitless.
Talking about living in transit is one thing. Shutting down parts of my very customized New York existance is another.
Enough for now. I'll drop in and post a bit here and there. See y'all on the flip side!
Rustin
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Re:Thanks (Score:2)
oh and re: slashdot and management technique -- Here's what they've achieved:
1) Created a web site which became hugely popular.
2) Sold it for big bucks
3) BUT managed to maintain complete control and get a salary for continuing to run the site
4) and managed to continue happily along, long after the dot com crash.
What about this chain of events would motivate them to change their approach? I certainly agree about the things that could use some fixing up, but as far as managing goes, they've got it
Thanks for the mention (Score:2)
Take care. [nt] (Score:1)
Commentary (Score:2)
I was wondering about that. Stop reading her blog. She English professor, you stalker. Ugh.
Portland will do you good. :-) CYA!
Whatever (Score:2)
In the meantime, do you have a blog somewhere else or something?
thats funny.. (Score:2)
As for your photoshop/quark/blah blah- once you hit the sweet spot there's very little to entice you to upgrade. Computers should be viewed as tools that provide functions, not things that constantly need to be upgraded. Its only draconian tactics like drastically changing a document format (cough MS Word Cough) to drag you along.
Re: English woman: Screw her, I hate those ivory tower lit fucks. (this is sarcasm.) (that was
Code for Content Aggregation (Score:2)
"Content"? Well, all puns aside, I am starting up a content sales company based on the strategy of optimized workflow behind several part-time paid human aggregators.
Fo