"Those are the people we aim to serve" -- probably just meant as a joke, but this is a vast misreading of your customer base. The front pages of yahoo, comcast, huffpo, youtube, exist to serve that demographic. Neatorama exists to serve the eternally curious who like broadening their knowledge into new subjects. Never lose track of your audience.
I've long wondered how exactly someone re-enters life after serving time: renting an apartment must suck, getting a job must suck, finding love must suck... I'm not surprised criminals commit crimes again, even if just for the stability of life on the inside.
Thanks Eddie, I love the articles, though a quick note about the beer: the fermentation process made unpotable water into something drinkable, especially important in the days before community sewer systems. It wasn't just for drunkenness.
And it's long overdue, but thanks for Wargames. Programmers still put in backdoors. :)
I'm stunned West Coast Customs still get work after being on TV -- even after seeing the slapdash last-minute-firedrill of cutting corners and screwing up and insufficient planning for the last customer, someone would say "yeah, those goofballs should work on my car".
Saw a few episodes and liked it enough, but never enough to dedicate 22 whole minutes of my life to it every week.
Notice a trend? Folks liked early shows but not later shows -- same story as The Office. The UK version of The Office ran for 12 episodes then done; the US version redid most elements from those shows to great fanfare, then it turned into The Jim And Pam Show and people stopped caring.
Maybe we should just get used to ten to twenty good shows from any idea before it's same old boredom and hey, stop while you're ahead?
What I saw in one of the comments is that they forgot The Feast of Alvis! Next you'll tell me that they forgot Chrimbus, too.
And it's long overdue, but thanks for Wargames. Programmers still put in backdoors. :)
"Uh, make my ass look just as disproportioned as yours! Kthxbye!"
Notice a trend? Folks liked early shows but not later shows -- same story as The Office. The UK version of The Office ran for 12 episodes then done; the US version redid most elements from those shows to great fanfare, then it turned into The Jim And Pam Show and people stopped caring.
Maybe we should just get used to ten to twenty good shows from any idea before it's same old boredom and hey, stop while you're ahead?