02.20.07

Just. Shut. Up.

Posted in Rants at 12:33 pm

A good friend of mine asked me why I continue to go to sites that piss me off. Specifically he mentioned Digg and Slashdot, two sites that have had news I’ve been interested in for a while. My rationalization has always been that I like the news that the sites offer, but not the commentary from the vast majority of the trolls populating the ranks. Of course, this doesn’t exactly hold water because it’s very nearly impossible to read the news on the site without naturally gravitating to the trolls.

Which makes my decision much, much easier.

No more Digg. No more Slashdot. Both sites are now blocked from my browsers. Headlines are going to be read through RSS only and through Google Reader at that. If the City of Heroes dev tracker was available by RSS I’d add that too; it’s not, so I just closed up all of the CoH forum blades except Development. I need to find a good, commenting-minimal source for tech news, so I’m open to suggestions.

The big idea is to reduce the amount of stress I accumulate while I’m ostensibly trying to relax. Hopefully this will work as well as I want it to. It’ll take some time to get used to but eventually I should be free of the influence of idiots with agendas, even if that agenda is nothing more than to piss me off.

Wickedpedia

Posted in Rants, Writing at 7:08 am

I went to Wikipedia to look up a quick fact on the function of the US Secret Service for Inconsequential. An hour and a half later I closed it in disgust with myself after learning that the last Volkswagen Type 1 Beetle was nicknamed El Rey by its Mexican assemblers.

DAMN YOU INTERNET!!

Anyway, in more pleasant news, 10K Commotion updated for the first time in months. Finally, conflict! Finally, climax! Finally, a reso–whoops, that’ll be a little while longer. Still, the story’s getting very good now, and I still stand by my remarks from four years ago– as soon as this is in print, as soon as I can buy a physical copy, I certainly will.

Inconsequential Update: 18 scenes left to go, with 77,777 words written. Exactly. I am still a major slacker about it, though.

Oh, and Kanon: Saw to the end of Episode 12 last night (the middle of Mai’s arc). Of course, the end of Makoto’s arc did to me what it always does. I have to go back over it sometime to see what’s changed, though I do think there’s been a couple of changes. Overall, though, I was pretty sure that Mai’s arc unfolded very differently… we’ll see.