Comments on: Douchebag of the Day

By: blogenfreude

blogenfreude — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:27:33 +0000

@Pedonator: Dunno - I was surprised to get the solicitation. If amazon wanted to impress me, give he half off my next piece of overhyped electronic equipment.

By: nojo

nojo — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:24:34 +0000

@Pedonator: Wired tried to present itself as a dot-com IPO a decade ago. When everyone saw through that, the investors bailed and Conde Nast scooped it up.

By: Pedonator

Pedonator — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:10:39 +0000

@blogenfreude: Why would a publication like Wired even bother with print editions anymore? It's one of the Mysteries.

By: IanJ

IanJ — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:11:30 +0000

@redmanlaw: Also, I thought you'd be interested to know -- I did end up getting a GSG5 a few weeks ago. Only had it out once so far, but it's pretty neat. I was getting all excited to bring it along to the local Friday night black-rifle nerdfest, until I discovered that it disbanded. Asked the dude at the range, and he said, "Yeah, we moved it to Sundays, and everyone stopped showing up." Duh. Maybe move it back to Fridays?

By: IanJ

IanJ — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:08:20 +0000

@blogenfreude: To quote Dr. Spengler, "Print is dead."

By: blogenfreude

blogenfreude — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:54:14 +0000

@redmanlaw: The mailboxes in my building are tiny, and I don't check everyday. Six days out of town last week - it was stuffed. I believe I chose correctly.

By: redmanlaw

redmanlaw — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:41:26 +0000

@blogenfreude: free online works for me

By: blogenfreude

blogenfreude — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:39:03 +0000

@redmanlaw: I bought some shit from amazon.com, then they offered me a free year of wired. I declined, preferring to read that sort of thing online. Does this make me a bad person?

By: redmanlaw

redmanlaw — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:22:59 +0000

@IanJ: defensetech.org is also pretty cool. I sent them some tips once when I was on travel from a local paper in MS about the problems the shipyards there were having with construction of the new coast guard cutters that they ran with. I think danger room may have used some stuff I sent them on Los Alamos. BTW, a lot of the work on the military "pain ray" was done down in Albuquerque.

By: IanJ

IanJ — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:58:59 +0000

@redmanlaw: I thought you might be interested to know that I wrote a bit of dialogue in my recent play directly inspired by you. It's about a guy one of the characters works with, who's mentioned in passing as always forwarding Danger Room links to his software team. Not that you're always forwarding stuff, but without your occasional linques, I might not know about Danger Room.