Comments for John Zeitler

Comment on For Tomorrow We Diet (Part Two) by Josh Miller

Josh Miller — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:09:05 +0000

You may find the paper diary works better. My efforts to count calories on my phone and to track workouts with apps have essentially ended up in the relm of “It’s not complicated but it’s more complicated than it needs to be” so it ends up being a total failure.

YMMV of course.

Comment on Whuffielupagus (Part One) by Josh Miller

Josh Miller — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:41:51 +0000

In an effort to make this post worth reading, I just wanted to say that I had to disable comments on my blogs because I got tired of cleaning out the spam and getting notifications of it sent to my email. Basically, I just left a note that says “give me feedback on twitter/email”.

Comment on Saturday Music: Angel Out Of Hell by Slipgate

Slipgate — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 21:41:54 +0000

That’s not really its name… is it?

Comment on Whuffielupagus (Part Two) by Slipgate

Slipgate — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:18:04 +0000

People will make logical fallacies, like that Netjak person did. Also, there is Gabe’s Greater Internet F***wad theory to contend with.

As I read the start of your post it struck me that you’re talking about Sturgeon’s Law. 90 – or in this case 99% percent of science fiction is crap… and really, for the same reason, 90% of anything is crap.

I think, however, that as true as it is for science fiction it’s true for other things. Sure, lots of worthless stuff is on the Internet. Lots of worthless stuff is in the whole universe. The stuff that matters still matters.

However, “Internet Exhaustion” as I once termed it, or whatever you want to call it when the 90-99% is getting to you in something else Sturgeon’s Law applies to, can certainly start getting a person down if they’re not finding their 1 to 10% and they feel surrounded by the crap. Whether it’s all the interesting fanfiction for a show being lost against WAFFy material that all starts to blur together in your head (resulting in any given story being the same as any other and no reason to read on)… or whether it’s the noise of the people around you, sometimes if you can take a step back and focus on just the people, or things, you like, you can make it. And at the end of the day, that’s the only way you can do anything, really. Just like how you won’t get along with ‘everyone’ you know, and you bother to foster your friendships with the people you do.

Comment on Game Cleared: Kid Icarus (NES) by Slipgate

Slipgate — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:51:33 +0000

Holy crap!

Comment on Punk’d (Part Four) by Slipgate

Slipgate — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 02:03:47 +0000

I want to save a copy of this entry. This is amazing. (Also, you know my love of Star Trek.)

Comment on Punk’d (Part Two) by Josh Miller

Josh Miller — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:26:40 +0000

Apparently your area doesn’t have “Farm Stores”.

Though I doubt any of them here have aisles of Buggy Whips. Ok… they may not even carry them, I don’t go into such stores more than like once a year to maybe get some plants or replace the dog bowl (they sell the best sturdy bowls for cheapest).

Comment on Some People Have Real Problems by Josh Miller

Josh Miller — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:23:27 +0000

Yeah, the public school system is just getting worse and worse. There is less focus in general on educating the kids, much less supporting students with a diverse area of ability.

Basically, everything anymore has to be cookie cutter so no one “feels left out” because heaven forbid someone occasionally have their feelings hurt. Not to mention that the school is increasingly relied upon to police what kids do inside and outside of school.

The other day Tina and I were looking at the online thing the school put out for the kid’s grades and they get like 15 assignments in a class per quarter, half of which seems to be things like “Class participation”. So in 9 weeks you’re looking at like one real graded assignment per week? Really? I’m not real sure more homework is the answer to a better education but it certainly feels like there should be more.

Comment on Comfortably Numbed (Part Four) by Slipgate

Slipgate — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:52:31 +0000

Can I just say your blog posts so far this month have been amazing? And that this series of four has put their finger on something I have been unable to put into words myself before?

I can? OK, I will.

Comment on Getting Linked by Jonny

Jonny — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:10:11 +0000

Over here, “Getting Linked” means you had casual sex. :-P