"Davey Zimmerman #274" <
Chadweasel274@zoho.com> wrote in news:
XnsB08AC21F810E4ReallyNotChad@135.181.20.170:
"John Henry
2 hours ago
okay, deep breath and....
Yeah. Ended up spending quite a few hours yesterday getting the
storefront tightened up and launching a new design. You'll find prices
have been adjusted downward, in some cases significantly; this was due
to a calculation error on my part, but fortunately nothing had been sold
yet so no harm done."
Nobody wanted John's name plastered all over them and would pay for it
too? Colour moi the shockiest.
It's a job of work to buy something from his storefront even if you wanted to. You'll need to hover over "support & merch," click "The JH Perk Store" and navigate to a new page, click "Merchandise Perks" and navigate to a new page, click one of two designs ("The Revolution We Need Is In The Mirror" or "Don’t Trust Anyone Who Thinks You Can Beat Orwell's Boot By Wearing It") and navigate to a new page, click one of two options ("Accessories" or "Clothing") and navigate to a new page, click one of many specific items (including stickers - back by popular demand!) and navigate to a new page, pick your options, pay, and
as simple as that you're the new owner of a sticker with an enormous JH: An American Legend - johnhenry.us logo ($11/sticker if you'd like a smaller logo) and an awkward saying with lots of garish graphical effects applied to justify an
Adobe subscription even though it looks suspiciously like something you could generate with MS Paint.
His design ideas are lacking. For instance, on the Orwell options page:
https://johnhenry.us/product-category/merch/orwell/
The wall of text on the mug is nearly illegible thanks to the color gradient... but it's better than the t-shirt model, who just looks like she got blue paint thrown at her.
He calls "Don't Trust Anyone Who Thinks You Can Beat Orwell's Boot By Wearing It"
a "motto," but it isn't concise, it isn't forcefully expressive, and it isn't even affirmative. Imagine attaching this rambling kludge to a heraldic design? "The Revolution We Need Starts In The Mirror" is better but it's a dull, pedestrian bromide. Neither really seems like the work of a genius and expert in
political science, communication, and human psychology.
I guess when Krusty laid into him about not knowing how to use color, laying off
unnecessary bells and whistles, and being inconsistent, thoughtless, and bereft of design sense (cf. Griftipedia, "Lowgenius Web Design") the constructive criticism didn't stick.
At least he's getting to mess around with perkies again, even if they are his own.
"Feeling a bit out of gas today, low energy. Likely due to a marked
lack of funding to do things like buy food. It has been my habit to
blame this sort of thing on "depression," but let's be real: you tend to
be less depressed when you know when and what you're going to eat next.
Still don't know exactly how this living situation's going to work out,
but we're working on it."
Who are you begging next, Moocheroni? You've already fucked over your
family.
A casual "we're working on it"? Shouldn't alarm bells be sounding?
"JH: Just History" is looking thin right now because I got started on it
and then got distracted with the store. I have a spreadsheet I need to
make for that stuff, but that'll take like half an hour. After that I
start digging in for items for JH:JH; I want to go through and get like
two weeks of just basic entries done ahead of time, then I'll go back
and make them prettier, write associated articles, add graphics, and so forth."
Yawn, another time waster. Winter is coming.
He's spending the two homed months he has left on yet another project to automate
and recycle even more content? Who wants that? Is he trying to drive the 150 new
subscribers he attracted from his hit viral meme away?
He should just buy an AI content spinner, set it and forget it, and toss his computer back in the dumpster.
"The grocery situation is getting dire. Like there's nothing to eat
here that isn't special stuff for my roommate. Desperately need to put
a couple hundred bucks together so I can just order online and have
stuff delivered, then I'm not worrying about how to maximize my grocery dollar when my only options are a convenience store and a dollar store
that's an hour walk (and you're not carrying a whole bunch of groceries
when you're walking)."
Has his host cut off the free food?
Nice to know John isn't getting to use Mona's car. I guess those
beefaroni cans do get heavy. Someone ought to mention that there are
things called carts that have wheels.
There's also the food bank, which he used last year. IIRC, he complained publicly
and shamed the delivery driver for not delivering during a blizzard. I think he also wasted an entire frozen turkey because he couldn't figure out how to get it
cooked.
"That's me today. Let me get on the ball, here, in another day or two I should have JH:JH lined up properly to start autoposting the relevant
links there and be able to count on content showing when you click it ?? There's tons more stuff planned and in the works, but I'm only one
person so I appreciate your patience."
Sure sounds like he's really worried about getting tossed out into the street. Dress warmly, freeloader.
If he doesn't have something lined up then his priorities are in insanity territory. Maybe Tsujimoto-sama is right about the lithium.
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