"Redditors = horrible, inhuman, conscienceless, sociopaths without a single shred of empathy or human decency."

Reddit experienced a bit of drama this week. User "CEO_The_Human_Fund" called Reddit's users out on their bullshit, and hardcore. He or she then put their money where there mouth was by deleting their two-year-old account. It's the best thing I've read on Reddit, though the bar is pretty low. I've long felt the same way, but I'm not able to express it nearly as well as now-former-user CEO_The_Human_Fund.

Looking through that interesting subreddit you linked to and I find a few things: This is a post about a guy brags about his attempt to rape an Asian girl, until he finds out she is trans and pulls a knife on her, and here we have a comment by a creepy mouth-breather who says that child porn is a victim-less crime and that reporting people for possessing child porn is a 'witch hunt'. WHAT THE HOLY FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? HOW CAN YOU EXCUSE SHIT LIKE THIS???

I spend a lot of time checking out links on Reddit, but seriously, fuck the commenters.

World's Greatest Post-Production Joke

First, drop a tape. Then shout "Oops! Drop-frame!"

The Coming Los Angeles Diaspora

Prediction: Improved video compression, cheap storage, expensive local production, and faster internet speeds will contribute to an exodus of creative professionals out of Los Angeles.

Travel to the future with me...

The shoot is to take place in Utah's Zion National park. The producer in New York hires a director from Taos, New Mexico, who hires a director of photography from Bozeman, Montana, and a Tech Supervisor from Boise, Idaho. An audio mixer flies in from Orlando, Florida.

A day's worth of footage is shot on reusable memory cards on location. At the end of the day, the footage is copied to two small hard drives. One of the hard drives is sent to an Assistant Editor in San Diego, who imports the footage into his editing system, and organizes the entire project for an editor. A copy of the imported footage and project are sent to the editor in Chicago, who cuts the finished product in a project he shares with the San Diegan Assistant Editor over Dropbox.

The Assistant exports rough cuts to Quicktimes and posts them online, to be watched by the Producer in New York, the Director in Taos, and the studio executives in Los Angeles. Once the cut is locked, the Assistant prepares an online sequence, audio mix-downs, and high-resolution media, which is sent to an Online Editor in Santa Barbara. An OMF and picture reference is sent over the internet to an audio mixer in Nashville. The audio mixer sends his mixed audio to the Online Editor, who lays everything back to tape. The tape is delivered to the network.

And no one had to live in Los Angeles.

Why Kansas City Is the Most Depressing Place I've Ever Been

Here is a quote from a friend of mine, who lives in Kansas City, that sums it up:

is there anywhere you wont go visit? haha i would never ever travel like this... im ocd and would not be able to be out of my element that long... I have a routine and I can't break it or i freak out hahaha

Every person I met in Kansas was completely drenched in this attitude. To travel and see places outside of Kansas was to suffer an unbearable gauntlet of punishment. Nicaragua? "Ew." Morocco? "You're crazy." Samoa? "That's too far!" And so on.

Advice from Kurt Vonnegut

I had a coworker who had the good fortune to meet Kurt Vonnegut a few years before the author's death. This coworker was about to graduate from college and asked for some general advice from Mr. Vonnegut. The author's response:

"Whenever you're masturbating, always remember that you have another hand."

Useful? Maybe.