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Hammershoi
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Other
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Rather like his work, brooding, atmospheric, and I admire him for generally not painting faces. The people - alien, distant, there's a tension in their action, in their turning from the painter. Brilliant.
Links: Wikipedia on Vilhelm Hammershoi & a BBC article
The Thoen Stone
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoen_Stone
Why don't we have this stuff in Canada? Time for a road trip...This is what keeps me alive...
YouTube: We gave you the problem, now want to sell you the solution
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Rants
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I'm growing a bit irate with YouTube, their whole "Buy a Subscription to remove the ads" strategy is pissing me off. A subscription for original content? Sure, why not. But monetizing each and every fucking video that goes online, then, after you've clicked past your 50th ad of the morning offering you a chance to upgrade to premium, without the ad, well, it's nothing short of insolence...It's not like they weren't making money, but greed always outs and 5 or 6 ads into a 60 minute video and I've had enough.
Google offers an interesting study, how a company grows from great ideals into the darkest of all possible dystopias, the same story with every tech startup (Apple included!!), how the desire to benefit users is perverted into the desire to make ever more money.
I'm glad I haven't thrown away my CD's...
The Theory
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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I've been working on it for a month or so, starting with the premise: "People are lazy, stupid, greedy idiots", generalizing it to a few industries, then working out how I might exploit that to my advantage.
Gathering data, surreptitiously, walk-through's and making notes, trying to be unobtrusive, if the theory proves itself I can arrange disguises, to be more discrete, will have to because I'll be upping the idiots game.
And, today, a quick review of the data. And I might - just might - be right. And there's the thrill when you discover something that you'd predicted, verified, and the payoff - well, it could be good, great even, but I'll only get a couple of chances...
So, for the moment, enjoy the theory, the possibility that I just might be right, tomorrow or the day after I'll have to make the trip to verify it, then maybe take it to the highway, fingers-crossed...
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