Posts by Bart Janssen
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Up Front: Oh, Grow Up, in reply to David Cormack,
A lot of our friends are now starting to have kids
Some of our friends kids are about to have 21st birthday parties!
That means I must be an adult right? I've worn a tie I think twice in my life. I don't own a business suit, but my brother wears one every day. I've only ever owned one house. I still like playing games. I still want toys for my birthday.
Adult? Me? wadryatalkinabout?
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sounds like you keep them locked in the basement…
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
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Hard News: My Food Bag: is it any good?, in reply to Hilary Stace,
A partner of a colleague who studies marine ecology (yes our network is like a complex family tree) made the comment that any fish farming that uses carnivorous fish is not very smart. The problem, as noted above, is the fish feed is not ecologically sound and most predatory fish aren't as happy in farm environments.
She suggest instead that we should be farming herbivorous fish, apparently butterfish would be a great option. It's also tastes good.
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Hard News: My Food Bag: is it any good?, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
I am pleased that we have now passed peak cupcake.
New technology makes previously unobtainable cupcake reserves economically viable
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This whole thing has been weird. The "debate" about the reviews has been full of what really looks to me like jealousy, "people got free stuff and I didn't, that has to be wrong somehow" seems to be a theme. That people get free stuff all the time gets dismissed. As far as I'm concerned if you got a free food bag, congrats. Yes I'm a bit jealous but it won't stop me from being glad people got some cool free stuff.
Then there's the outrage that someone is marketing food when ... people are starving. Again I don't get it, where's the outrage at Vogels making a new meusli? What makes this different? Sure this is targetted at rich people (well sort of rich), does that make it somehow evil? I really just don't get the outrage. People are not starving because we have food to sell to each other in NZ. People are starving because they can't grow enough food on their own land, the solution has nothing to do with food bags and certainly does not belong in this thread.
Then there's the outrage at the fact that you could just go shopping yourself and cook the meals yourself and this is a waste of money. Which is all a bit bizarre really. If you enjoy shopping for ingredients and making a fantastic (or average) meals, good for you. If someone else chooses to go out to Merediths that doesn't hurt you, it's their choice. If someone chooses, for whatever reason to let someone else shop and plan a weeks meals for them it's their choice and their money, how on earth does it hurt you?
Like I said the whole reaction has just been weird. For me this enterprise has two really good features. The first is it will work for some people, who for whatever reason just don't have the inspiration that week to plan meals, I fit that category this week because I'm writing grants and by the time I get home my brain is mush, I can still follow a protocol though. It seems priced somewhere between going out to a restaurant and getting takeaways, which suits my budget. So some people will enjoy the food bag idea and that will a good thing for them.
The second good thing is more important. For some people this might just replace takeaways. Instead of spending $30 at McDs they'll spend $30 on a food bag meal. A meal which is a hell of lot healthier. And a meal that might teach them how to cook, it might teach them that it really isn't that hard. That has to be good.
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Up Front: Card on the Table, in reply to Emma Hart,
The more I think about Bakshi’s speech, the angrier I get.
He and his ilk lost. History will prove them utterly wrong. His words now are meaningless and he is irrelevent to the future. It's time to relax and let him have his pathetic little whine, while we raise a glass to a slightly better New Zealand.
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Up Front: Card on the Table, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Seriously, Bart, I’d just take the win if DC hired a dozen more straight off-white guys and cis-women on an ongoing basis.
absofrigginlutely
I don't get why in 2013 we still have this shit going down and it's across the board. Doesn't matter which profession you are in white men in suits hold the power and reward white men in suits. If a women wants to succeed her best path is to imitate a white man in a suit ... headdesk
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Up Front: Card on the Table, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
non-straight, non-white, non-middle-class, non-cis-gendered non-male
That combo makes my head hurt ... you want a heroine who is black/brown/yellow or green (it is SF after all) who is obscenely wealthy or dirt poor but was born/hatched/decanted as male, but I can't figure out whether you want her to like boys or girls ... I need to lie down now
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Up Front: Card on the Table, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
a lifestyle choice
like skiing
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Up Front: Card on the Table, in reply to Emma Hart,
For a start, you don’t have to worry so much about the direct income stream. I mean, I’m a little surprised it hasn’t come up yet, but if the point where you get uneasy with him is the money, you can consume his art without giving him money.
If that were the only issue then you probably don’t have to worry about the movie. It’s quite likely he does not get residuals.