So, if you read my AIM away messages, you already know my feelings on PAX. And in case you don't, I will boil it down very simply: it sucked. Seriously, it was incredibly lame. I'm just so glad it's finally over.
I really don't want to go into all of the reasons of why I felt that this con just didn't do it for me. I mean, between the lack of content, the disorganization of the staff, and the really awful venue, I just wanted to be gone. What’s worse, was that I just didn’t care about being there. I was talking to a friend of mine from Sakura-con and she made the comment about how it was supposed to be work mixed with fun. Yet there wasn’t anything fun about my job. It was just work. And work that wasn’t engaging. It was just tedious.
But it’s over. Plus I got to watch the artist get his Photoshop on, so it wasn’t a complete waste. Well, that and I learned to play War Machine. So I did get something out of it.
But yeah, it’s now out, which is great. Because my life is going to finally slow down. Seriously, this was the last thing that really was kind of crazy. Now, everything I do is going to be scheduled and rather chill. I’ve been looking forward to this for a while. Sure I have football, but that’s the most committed thing I have. Everything else is relaxed, and come as it does.
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So I'm probably going to head over to PAX in about 30 minutes. If I weren't so tired, I'd probably be more excited. Instead, I'm just kind of…eh. It also doesn't hurt that my back is bothering me. We'll see how I'm doing on Sunday, hopefully with a full rant.
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Another not so restful weekend. Yup, stellar. I lost Saturday to CPR training. After nine hours of some of the most boring training ever, I can now say that I am ready to give CPR. I did a lot of movie watching, which was cool, but I didn't get as much rest as I wanted. It's a shame, because rest would have been good considering PAX is coming up. Oh well. I'll rest labor day weekend. Awesome.
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So this was put up on Slashdot yesterday. I’ve already started to look through the draft and my only opinion is that this is just a stupid idea. The drafter is basically wants some internet standard that he can be the ÒcreatorÓ of. Now I use quotes there because RSS 3.0 is basically RSS 2.0++. It’s just RSS 2.0 with some additions.
Now personally, I think this is just asinine. There are already three major feed types. Hell, I support all of them. I’m not even sure why Atom really exists. I personally think that the W3C needs to get together and just announce which version they support. Right now, the biggest pain is on developers. It’s up to the person creating the validator to be able to deal with all these standards.
Thankfully, I don’t think anyone is going to latch onto this particular type of feed. Since it follows a lot of what RSS 2.0 follows, it’ll probably be pretty niche. Especially since it isn’t supported by any of the major blogging software packages out on the market. And it doesn’t seem like anyone is interested in picking up the standard, given the reaction by the creator on his blog to some of the responses. (My personal favorite is someone saying he should be stabbed for doing this.)
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So I'm watching the reruns of the VH-1 race special on inter-racial dating, and it's very interesting how racist this show actually is. The things that are being said are based entirely on stereo-types, it's almost tasteless. At the same time, some of the things they are saying are things I've seen in my own life. So it's kind of a strange situation. Part of my laughs, and part of me is offended.
Sigh…it's kind of a strange situation. Then again, it's like any race related show that involves humor. The humor is going to come from laughing at common stereotypes. What seems to make it funnier is when the stereotyped people are in on it. It's kind of like black people getting together talking about black stereotypes. It's just kind of, interesting.
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