Conversation
Thu Mar 11, 2010 at 9:19 PM(Comments, 1 note)
- Hauk: You going to kill me now, Snake?
- Snake: Not now, I'm too tired. Maybe later.
![In case anyone doubts me when I say I work way out in the boonies, take a gander at this.
To supplement this, here are a few other salient points:
The gas station is also the town’s restaurant and, since New Year’s when it opened, also the town bar (Ladies night is Tuesday!)
They have no way of knowing how much gas you put in your car from inside the store, so you need to remember the cost and tell them yourself.
While waiting in line to pay today a self-professed former(?) meth head struck up a conversation with me, and when he reached the counter asked if his elderly mother had been in the store (“You’d know here cause she’s only this tall [indicates a very short person] and she’dve asked for help carrying the case of beer out to the truck”)
EDIT: Stupid Tumblr not recognizing orientation from the camera…)](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz3gne45li1qz74zro1_r1_400.jpg)
In case anyone doubts me when I say I work way out in the boonies, take a gander at this.
To supplement this, here are a few other salient points:
The gas station is also the town’s restaurant and, since New Year’s when it opened, also the town bar (Ladies night is Tuesday!)
They have no way of knowing how much gas you put in your car from inside the store, so you need to remember the cost and tell them yourself.
While waiting in line to pay today a self-professed former(?) meth head struck up a conversation with me, and when he reached the counter asked if his elderly mother had been in the store (“You’d know here cause she’s only this tall [indicates a very short person] and she’dve asked for help carrying the case of beer out to the truck”)
EDIT: Stupid Tumblr not recognizing orientation from the camera…)
President Barack Obama to deliver University of Michigan Spring 2010 commencement
So will it be President Doctor Obama? Or Doctor President Obama?
Dammit! I got Jeff Daniels for my commencement. He was quite good, but not Obama level. Double Dammit!
Quotation
Wed Mar 10, 2010 at 11:34 AM(Comments, 11 notes)
Ombudsman Blog - Readers react to photo of two men kissing
At a paper I worked at not far from D.C., I would field complaints every time we put a picture of a black person on the front page. And I got yelled at when we did a Black History Month story.
The moral, of course, being: Newspaper readers are often reactionary idiots, particularly those who call in to complain. If they’re uncomfortable, that’s a good thing.
(via jamiek)
The moral we can draw? Only old people and idiots read the newspaper :)
Ken Fisher of Ars Technica on How Ad Blockers Hurt Revenue
From Gruber: “I have no easy answer, but I will point out that there’s no inherent reason why ads have to be something people are tempted to block. It’s not enough to ask readers not to block ads — you’ve got to work hard at providing ads that readers actually enjoy, or at least aren’t tempted to block.”
If publishers realized that and stopped the “Punch the Monkey/Bin Laden/political figure” then maybe they’d see revenue go up.
This is such an interesting problem. I use an ad-blocker and have for a very long time. It makes my internet experience a lot quieter, and it bugs me when I have to use a browser without one. I spend quite a bit of time on Slate, and when you have to visit that page without an ad blocker, man is it obnoxious.
That said, the ad blocker does it’s magic on every site I visit, so any ads that are caught by the filter subscriptions I have are just invisible to me. I don’t ever think “well, I should look at the ads on this site just to see if they’re not the same as every other site serving doubleclick (etc.) ads”. I treat any ads that are caught by blocker as equivalent to shoot the monkey or teeth whitening ads.
I don’t think that’s fair, but at the same time I don’t think that subjecting me to 75 ads per page is particularly fair, either.
Gruber also linked to Rob Sayer at Mozilla talking about why people use and like ad blockers. In the article he suggests that more careful attention to the ads being served (i.e., fitting the ads with your content rather than using a syndicate like Doubleclick or Federated Media which just throws ads out there). But the problem there is a logistical one. How do individual sites negotiate for ads, how do they assure themselves they get the best rate possible, how do they even get in contact with people to convince them to place ads?
Are ad networks like The Deck the answer (looking at kottke.org I see that deck ads are not blocked by my filters, which is something)? And how does that type of system square with larger sites that currently serve many more (and more intrusive) ads?
Who, me? Just wearing my awesome shirt with a complete map of human chromosome 1 on it, no biggie.
Your shirt is invalid.
(via eyeonspringfield)
Bob: Oh Cousin Merle, really!
Cecil: Now, now, you know Cousin Merle ain’t been quite right lately.
I’ve got a hot date tonight
I better not have shaved my legs for nothing!
