Raw News Material: Laurie Switzer or Steve Suslik blew it!

Yours truly was/is? on the USS Midway Museum email list for reasons, and after months of hearing nothing I get this. I get the feeling that I am on a shitlist (contact Laurie Switzer for more information) when it concerns this museum's staff (or at least with Switzer.)

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November 29, 2024 OFFICE DECORATING & UGLY SWEATER CONTESTS The 2024 Office Holiday Decorating and Ugly Sweater Contests will commence on Sunday, December 1, 2024.  Judging will take place on Friday, December 13, 2024. Bribes with sweet treats and non-alcoholic beverages only please. Don’t forget to wear your most creative and ugly sweater!  Happy Decorating!  Cheryl Carlson, Director of Events   OUR NEW F4U-4 Our own Rock Star Historian, Karl Zingheim, is helping make our new F4U-4 the most famous WWII Corsair in America. Multiple live and taped stories have appeared on KUSI and FOX. A small sample of the coverage is linked here: VIDEO 1 VIDEO 2 VIDEO 3 VIDEO 4 JINGLE JETS LIGHTS/DISPLAYS Please refrain from touching any plugs, mixing boards, or timers unless you have been authorized to operate them. Adjustments to these components have caused delays in our opening the past few nights. For reference, the light timers are set to activate between 4:30 PM and 5:30 PM and turn off between 10:30 PM and 11:00 PM. If the lights are still on when you leave the ship, don’t worry—that’s perfectly fine. MIDWAY CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY PARTY UPDATE Click below to double check your table assignment for the Christmas Holiday Party. If you intend to reserve a room at the Marriott, the group rate is only available until December 6 - BOOK A ROOM HERE. For complete details on the event, you can VIEW THE FLYER HERE. You can also download a parking voucher good only for the evening of December 17 (details for use printed on the ticket). Please send cancellations or questions to holidayparty@midway.org TABLE LIST (BY LAST NAME) TABLE LIST (BY TABLE NUMBER) PARKING VOUCHER NOTE: Board Members are not listed in the table lists STAFF AND VOLUNTEER NIGHT You and up to 5 guests may come for free on December 4 with a reservation. Did you know there are special, Christmas-themed rides for the VR (virtual reality) experience and simulators? Santa’s Christmas Rush Virtual Reality Ride: Jump onto one of Santa’s futuristic jet-powered recovery sleds and take a breathtaking VR journey through canyons of city skyscrapers to retrieve lost packages and gifts and ensure Christmas comes on time! The VR rides are available at a reduced rate of $5 per ride; the 360 simulators are discounted to $7 per person and requires two riders as always. Photogenic has reduced Jingle Jet entry photos to the member price of $34 for the prints and digital copies, and $30 for just the prints. To sign up for your free admission tickets to Jingle Jets, RSVP HERE. The password is Mingle. Remember that parking on the pier is not free; there will only be limited volunteer spots available. View the JINGLE JETS FLYER HERE. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR SELECT JINGLE JETS NIGHTS Ask your teammates how much fun it is to be part of the holiday excitement that is Jingle Jets! We are still looking for volunteers to fill positions. Get in the spirit! SIGN UP HERE PARKING TAGS FOR 2025 Please come swap out your old VOLUNTEER parking pass. They will be available through Saturday, Dec. 14, at the Museum entrance from 0800-1000 and from 1200-1400. If there are no changes to the vehicle you registered with Safety, no paperwork is needed. Simply trade your old tag for a new one. If you have any changes to the vehicle, you will need to complete a 2025 Parking Tag Request Form. To save time, download the form, fill it out and bring it with you. TOYS FOR TOTS The USS Midway Museum is proud to be an official toy drop-off site for the San Diego County Toys for Tots campaign! Dates: November 21 – December 20, 2024. Special Offer: Let your friends and family know that when they donate a new, unwrapped toy at the USS Midway Museum, they will receive a $2 discount on same-day museum adult admission. This offer is available exclusively at the ticket office. If you want to brighten the holidays with a toy for tots, you can drop your contribution off in the Visitor Information Center. MEDIA COVERAGE CONTINUES The Museum continues to enjoy coverage in our local media as well as around the world with articles about Jingle Jets. We were featured on the front page of the San Diego Tribune's Local Section. San Diego Union-Tribune https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/11/26/where-are-the-holiday-parades-and-festivities-across-san-diego-county-2024-guide/ https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/11/25/the-best-things-to-do-this-week-in-san-diego-nov-25-29/  Travel and Tour World https://www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article/san-diego-invites-visitors-to-enjoy-a-unique-winter-with-ice-skating-and-festive-attractions-under-the-sunny-holiday-sky/

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Infodump: list of people involved with the long-defunct "radioActive" internet/pirate radio station 2003(?)-2007

 For a project.

Everybody involved with RASD had handles instead of names, a practice passed down from the primary members' time with Free Radio San Diego (Bob Ugly had given them the boot for an alleged takeover attempt).

Primary? members (by time in)

"lotus" (stylized "lotu5" in fake leetspeak): Mika (formerly Michael) Cardenes [sic?], now a professor at some college. Hated my guts.

"Kat": Girlfriend of M. Cardenes. Actual name unknown, hated my guts.

"Onto the Ontologist": Jake [insert name here]. I knew his last name and forgot it. Was also the second tech guy after lotus.

Secondary? members (joined after RASD started)

"djette aporetics": Ashley Lukens, who now runs a promotional/think tank business in Hawai'i and is a Ph.D. May have been a primary member, was a friend of Kat's. Was probably doing her Masters at UCSD at that time. Like Kat, hated my guts.

"Al Uh Looyah": Allen M. Conrad, limo driver. Was hosting the 100 watt mono transmitter that transmitted on 106.9 FM ("Teenage Mutant Ninja Radio") at his house in Encanto. Found his name by searching the FCC "notice of apparent liability" letter (aka "the $10,000 threat letter") pages.

(document under construction.)

Doomed schmucks

That Black Guy: Did one show with Onto, played Michael Jackson songs, was booted after a rain-soaked meeting in the trailer for using anti-gay slurs and other verbiage on-air. I wanted to keep him and teach him, the group booted him.

Your Humble Narrator

God-Kings of Radio

That Guy Who Had Lived in Italy, Spoke An Italian Dialect Fluently, And Was A Punk: I can't remember his name or his handle, but he was a decent person.

"Bazooka Joe": Michael Aleo, and I feel sorry for naming him here. Was working with FRSD, did stuff with RASD when FRSD was raided by the FCC and had to relocate. Still doing radio last I checked.

Greg Eichelberger, 1961-2018

 His self-written obituary.

Miriam Raftery's take.

It's been five years since my former editor died, and I still can't get over that fact whenever I think of him. I knew him way back in the Steve Saint days of the East County Community Newspapers "mini-chain", before Jay C. Harn bought it out and combined it with the Daily Californian to form The East County Californian....which Harn had to sell because the costs were too high for him; he was also running The Alpine Sun at the same time. Greg was my boss at the EC Californian for about a year before he went back to Idaho, because The Management would not let him design the front page of the paper.

He deserved his own "Mormon Jeb Bush Conservative" newspaper, but actual ownership never seemed to be his goal. He could be an annoying dork, but the world is smaller without him.

Notes.

VALLE DE ORO COMMUNITY PLANNING GROUP HOLDS MEETING IN AN ODD LOCATION; SPRING VALLEY CPG CHAIR REVEALS WHY HIS GROUP IS STILL MEETING ON ZOOM

by Jake Christie

At their last fully staffed meeting (date?), the Valle de Oro Community Planning Group had a special meeting at the large but echoey multipurpose room of the Hillsdale Middle School on Brabham St. in the Rancho San Diego community of unincorporated El Cajon. This meeting was held in that location due to a holiday cancellation, thus only the people involved with the various action items on the VDOCPG agenda were present.Too much emphasis on where they meet and you mention this again at the end. This should be discussed later.  The lead paragraph on this story should be something like, “At its September ___ meeting, the Valle do Oro Community Planning Group took action on a revitalization plan for Campo Road and proposed changes to a pickleball court and club, also hearing a county presentation on local impacts of SB 9, a new state law that makes it easier for most homeowners to split their lots and build homes to help address the statewide housing shortage.”  Change the headline, too.

This is an example of a meeting that shouldn’t be covered in chronological order.  Instead, the lead should be whichever was the most controversial item or the one of broadest public interest, probably the Campo Road plan approval.  We need much more detail on what this includes. In earlier stories by other writers, there was talk of adding a roundabout, angled street parking, bike lanes, a center median with trees, connections to a nearby park, new building facades and maybe retail with residential above up to 3 stories. I don’t know how much of that made it into the pre-Final draft but to run this story we must have more info.

Then on the SB 9 “change” we need to explain what SB 9 is. When you say change, do you mean SB 9 requirements for communities?  I have no idea from your story what changes this planning group area is required to have or what the whole goal is or any issues.  Or what’s a covenant and what’s the relevance of that?

Before the action items, the floor was opened to Nathan King from the County, who made a presentation on new guidelines following the Senate Bill 9 change. Explain for those not familiar with SB 9. These concerned lot design and layout and would not involve historic homes. VDOCPG member Baillargeon pointed out that the area lacked a covenant. I don’t understand.  What’s relevant about a covenant? After a number of questions and answers, King’s presentation ended and the action items began.

The forthcoming El Pollo Loco at 9714 Campo Road (formerly Gina’s Treasures) requested a minor deviation to the sign rules so they could put up a 41 inch tall sign. The Pollo Loco representative, Tim Seaman, got his approval and left after the papers were stamped.Put this after all the other issues at the meeting, say something like, “In other business, the El Pollo Loco on Campo Road was granted a minor deviation to put up a 41-inch-tall sign.”  This should go after all the other more important issues that the public would care about, including after the Hub.

Next was Mike Madrid for the “Pre-Final Draft of Campo Road Corridor Revitalization Specific Plan” concerning the business/rental area of Casa de Oro.  VDOCPG member Herron was the lead on this issue, and after a long discussion the item was approved. “People don’t want to go to Casa de Oro,” said VDOCPG member Hermann. Can we please have significantly more details on what the Campo Road Corridor Revitalization plan, as approved, actually includes?  We’ve had other reporters do very lengthy stories on the early proposals, but I don’t know what’s changed along the way. People care about this. Shouldn’t this be the lead and title?  VALLE DE ORO PLANNING GROUP APPROVES CAMPO ROAD REVITALIZATION PRE-FINAL DRAFT?

The final issue was a change to the still-under-construction “The Hub San Diego” pickleball court and club at 9545 Campo Road, formerly the Helix Tennis Club and a short-lived hemp dispensary. The owners of the all-new site wanted to covert part of it to self-storage or mini storage. According to a letter drafted by VDOCPG Chair Oday Yousif to the County Planning Commission: “….the use under the Specific Plan would allow for the use of as a pickleball club as well as for housing and retail. The Hub seeks the support of the VDOCPG for an alternative use for the parcel (and possibly neighboring parcels): self-storage or mini storage…..the [planning group] appreciates any attempt to improve the parcel, which is an eyesore for the Casa de Oro Community and for all those who can see the property from the westbound side of Highway 94.” The letter was approved by the group on September 13, 2022.

No business was undertaken at the Valle de Oro meeting in October because the group lacked a quorum.

Add a subheader such as “Why is Valle de Oro holding live public meetings, while Spring Valley’s planning group is only on Zoom?”

In related news, the Chairman of the Spring Valley Community Planning Group responded to a question during the meeting?  From ECM via email or phone?  as to why his group was still meeting on Zoom. He replied that this is mostly due to older members of his CPG being unwilling to meet in person due to COVID-19, also the Helix Water District was still not allowing outsiders to use their facilities.

The Valle de Oro Planners have been meeting in the Community Room of the Rancho San Diego Library,which is open to the public, but as of press time the Spring Valley Community Planning Group iss still meeting by Zoom. I think this paragraph should go above the one above it.  I was confused at first and though the Valle de Oro group was still meeting on Zoom. 

Finished variant of story: https://www.eastcountymagazine.org/valle-de-oro-community-planning-group-approves-pre-final-campo-road-revitalization-draft

 https://www.eastcountymagazine.org/why-spring-valley-community-planning-group-still-meeting-zoom

 

 

 

We are still out there.....

 .....over at http://wikipedia-sucks-badly.blogspot.com/.

Things found online....

TV screenshots of the various weird hats ol' Gene Scott wore in front of a TV audience. Bizarre but true.

Storify version of "How to Get Thrown Out of a Wikipedia Conference in Three Easy Steps"

Because Storify is going out of business (or changing models, it's vague to me), here is that blogpost I converted into an article.

How to Get Thrown Out of a Wikipedia Conference in Three Easy Steps

An article so caustic it was rejected by numerous publications, the following is what happens when you try to enter the bubble of Wikipedia.

byStrelnikov a year ago 

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1. The setup was very simple: register under a fake name, take photos and video claiming to be this person (who is a journalist), conduct fake interviews, stay as long as I can, then send the information (photos, videos, notes) back to the guy who requested that I play Secret Squirrel in the first place, and the whole thing is done.
   No such luck.

1. 
   It began simply; I had gotten involved with a message board of ex-Wikipedians (Wikipediocracy) because the allowed discussion of non-Wikipedia online nonsense, and I had gone through a rough time with Reddit, so I brought that up. Unfortunately what I didn’t really know about Wikipedia was that it is an “online dramah” factory, and the people over at the Wikipediocracy message board were the sort of private email poison pen types who took to disliking people pretty quick and making certain they can ban or harass off anybody they didn’t take a shine to. I wasn’t liked for having a life outside of talking about Wikipedia, for taking about things in the “offtopics” subforum, etc. My leaving Wikipediocracy was annoying, and in reprisal I started a blog titled Wikipedia Sucks! (And So Do It’s Critics.) I had made friends with Eric Barbour* on Wikipediocracy, he had written a book with Professor Edward Buckner and had this massive treasure trove of Wiki style articles in a private Wikipedia of all the miscreants and he would send me info and leads and I would turn that,plus some minor research angles done by myself, into articles for the blog.After two and a half years, I had cranked out 80-or-so articles on Wiki-pedophiles, ban warriors, sockpuppeters, Jimmy Wales’ goofy attempts to capitalize on Wikipedia, the paid-editor problem**, the war they had over Scientology articles, the smaller war they had on Lyndon LaRouche articles and a LaRouche supporter editor, etc. I had guest writers hammer away at their own targets, and I went off occasionally to deal with Reddit or Tumblr Nazis (yes,Nazis on Tumblr are a thing) and I ironically found out that more people are interested in Tumblr craziness than Wikipedia nonsense, which makes sense because Wikipedia has lost a large part of its pre-Great Recession luster; a lot of the edits are now done by programs called ‘bots, many of the old-timers from the golden period of 2003-2006 have ditched “the Project”, the newer people are constricted by the binding-but-not-binding reams of online “WikiLaw” and unwritten custom.

1. 
   Mr. Barbour had clued me into the then-forthcoming Wikiconference North America, to be held inside the San Diego public library. Unfortunately, after I had left Wikipediocracy’s message board and started blogging the work of Buckner and Barbour, one of the spookier/ultra-paranoid members, whom we only know as“tarantino” (no capitals) decided that this writer having a blog and being involved with a message board named after the blog (I didn’t set up the forum)was juust a little too much to take,and the scum outed me – my real name, my Wikipediocracy handle, my blog handle,one of my email addresses. The sysop, a San Diegan named William Burns (Wikipedia handle “StaniStani”; WO handle “Zoloft”) did nothing to stop the“leak”, even though I was no longer a member, or in contact with his group.Thus I had the problem of showing up to this conference….but as whom? I kicked around being Greg Eichelberger, a former editor when I worked at The East County Californian, the El Cajon-based successor of the venerable Daily Californian. The only trick was that Eichelberger was hip-deep in the Mormon hinterlands and would have no reason to drive or fly 3,000 - 4,000 miles to a Wikipedia conference in a county he was sick of. And so I came to Joe Naiman, presently a writer at ECC, which was the worst mistake I could make.

1. 
   Joe Naiman and I had worked at Steve Saint’s East County Community Newspapers chain in the mid-90s; Saint though that Joe was good at covering water district board meetings and Santee little league baseball games, but he found Joe’s attempts at doing restaurant reviews comical because he focused more on the silverware and wall decor then the actual food. I think Naiman is an extremely hard worker (he writes for three or four small news publications) , but blinkered; he lives with his brother and yet gets around by public transportation and bumming rides even though his sibling has a car! Not that he can drive it; the guy doesn’t have a driver’s license! The good thing was that Naiman and I resemble each other (if you have bad vision and are looking at an ID photo of either of us without your glasses); Caucasian, dark hair, dark eyes, he has a beard but I don’t (and I could explain away any differences by saying I had shaved it off). I both left answering machine messages and an email outlining the plan with Naiman, but he never wrote back. I decided to continue the ruse anyway; I set up a fake email account, and Eric Barbour (via a cut-out) sent Eventbrite the $25 to cover the full event.
3. 
   
   Saturday, October 8. I could have showed up at the Balboa Park meet they had on Friday, but I was busy. Instead I showed up at the library after lunch that day, only to find after I had parked in the basement that the front patio was empty of people wearing Wikiconference lanyards. I tried to take along shot photo, sans flash, of a Wikipedia speech in a ground-floor conference room by the bookstore but the lighting conditions (high contrast) made the photo a blur. After that, I walked across the courtyard to the amphitheatre where a large Woman in Grey was signing in a thin black lady who was wearing“conference semi-formal” clothes: dark jacket, black slacks, white shirt –which was interesting because it was a hot weekend and I was sweating wearing a sportcoat and slacks. When it came to my turn I told the Woman in Grey that I was Joe Naiman, she fumbled around on the table, “fooling around” with the tablet she was using for record keeping. She handed over an envelope with the name Joe Naiman – inside were some stickers, a black lanyard, and a plastic nametag to hang off the lanyard. She then told me that a person needed to speak with me. Very quickly the rotund figure of James Alexander appeared wearing jeans and a red-white-blue tartan shirt. Unfortunately the “hidden” pen-camera I had in the front jacket pocket hadn’t come on when I mashed the RECORD-STOP button so I have no recording of our conversation, but it went something like this:
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   Him:We know you are J--e C---e and not Joe Naiman, please show your ID.
   
7. Me:I am Joe Naiman, and I don’t drive! [True for Naiman, not for me.] There’s been a mistake!
   
9. Him:We have a letter for J--e C---e [white envelope with the name in ballpoint pen], here is a copy of what is in the envelope [holds out crumpled sheet saying I was banned and other key things I didn’t completely read].
   
11. Me:I’m not J--e C---e!
    
13. Him:[Back to the line of questioning like a good cop.]
    
15. Me: [More denials of my name.]
17. 
    ….And on it went for at least five minutes. All the while a street-looking guy tried to defend me, with Alexander ignoring him completely. Man’s name is Paul Rollins and he’s allegedly on Facebook. His photo is on my blog.
19. 
    Pretty much Alexander (in the strongest possible unspoken way) did not want me to go into the library, but I told him I was going in anyway and thus the Great Chase began….. Wikiconference North America had a small number of Redshirts ,docents/unarmed security guards/general flunkies each wearing black pants and the red Wikiconference t-shirts. I saw three Redshirts: the Filipino (?) guy whose name I never got, the older blonde Sydney Poore (“FloNight” on Wikipedia;she hails from Kentucky), and the brunette Rosie Stephenson-Goodnight. They chased me from floor to floor, trying to get me into a corner where they could“force” me to get into a down elevator and out of the building.Along the way I noticed some of the Wikiconference attendees: the boyish Caucasian man with Downs Syndrome happily flipping through a smartphone, his lanyard signature unreadable; the wandering gangs of rail-thin Indian startup hipsters, all wearing the same dark t-shirts, jeans, and beards; the greybeards who seemedaloof from all of it. Finally I went to the top and went into the Wangenheim “Room” where I ran into Paul S. Wilson, aka “Paulscrawl” prepping for his presentation that day. I kept on saying that I was Joe Naiman and that there had been a mistake. He was completely baffled by the response of the organizers to keep me from attending the conference. After a short conversation he excused himself to return to his presentation prep. I decided to sit down at a table across from the Wangenheim collection and shoot photos with the camera sitting on top of my backpack. Nobody cared because it was a mixed crowd of civilians and Wikipedians. I got to see Karen Ingraffea (“Fluffernutter”) in the flesh,and the event organizer Kirill Lokshin hit the roof with the two female Redshirts after the Filipino Redshirt left (he called them on his cell phone.)Lokshin said nothing, just gave me that “you’re ruining things, please get the hell out” look Eastern Europeans seem to have gotten down to an art form. When one of the Redshirts asked for ID, I took out their plastic badge with Naiman’s name on it, and Syndey Poore grimaced. I switched sides and took more photos,then left the floor.
21. 
    Every time I moved floors they followed me, Mz. Poore constantly pleaded “Sir, please follow us to the lobby.” I ignored her, kept on trying to find more vantage points inside the building to take photos of Wikipedians. It didn’t work very well. Also I was on a time deadline; I only had about two hours before I had to start paying for parking,so I was running around like a madman. Remember that this was a public library I was being chased around in; it was a space they didn’t own in a town they didn’t have an office in – it is my town and my taxes paid for the library! Atone point I misplaced the camera and had to run two floors up to get it back. It was a hot sweaty grind running and taking photos.
23. 
    Finally I figured that I had done what I could so I let them escort me to the lobby in an elevator filled with Wikipedians suffering halitosis. On the ground floor Poore and Stephenson-Goodnight told me to wait….and Kirill Lokshin stormed up with James Alexander in tow. Kirill tried to “forehead press” me by taking his head and trying to press it against my forehead so he could menacingly state into my eyes and close range***, but I was wearing a baseball cap and he mashed his forehead into the brim. I was sarcastic the whole time while Lokshin was furious, and Alexander dour-faced. I can’t remember what I said, but they wanted me to LEAVE IMMEDIATELY and claimed they were “close to calling the police” even though there was a security guard less than 100 feet away and Sydney Poole was still there. After a lot of back and forth that I wish I had on tape they literally walked me to the metal detector like some Scientologists throwing and undercover reporter out of a special event; Lokshin and Alexander mad-dog stared at me until I was out the door. As Poole stalked away I yelled “The money will run out! The VCs [venture capitalists] and the fanatics will stop giving you people the money!” Sydney gave me this smug smile and walked away; Lokshin and Alexander had already faded into the crowd.
25. 
    While walking to the garage from the outside there was this short man wearing both suspenders and a belt, bringing to mind that line by Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West “…the man can’t trust his own pants!” He was talking to this tall, tall guy dressed in black – of course that short guy was William“Monty” Burns. I shook his hand and said “I send greetings from the Man in Hell. I am not him.” Then I walked off, leaving him perplexed.
27. 
    I called up Barbour and read the letter, a letter drafted by James Alexander which bans me from any editing of Wikipedia websites foreign or domestic, bans me from using the Wikimedia Foundation’s computers, and bans me from attending any Wiki-meetings in (implied) perpetuity. No mention of Wikipedia Sucks!, no long list of crimes, no claims that I was this handle or that sockpuppet – which makes perfect sense, because I never edited Wikipedia once. On Monday I called Joe Naiman and he was in, which is a rarity. I asked him if he had told Wikipedia that I was coming and he said “You went?” Pretty much he was obsessed that I was going to do something that would ruin his reputation, said “I don’t do undercover work – you do the undercover work” among other whinges and dodges. I sarcastically responded “thank you for nothing” and hung up.
    
29. Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation have been around since 2001 – they have had fifteen years to get their act together concerning awful members, conferences,and dealing with a hostile press. I don’t think they have actually had to deal with somebody like me at a conference: a person whom they denied entrance and yet hung around taking photos for an intolerable 90 minutes or less. Looking back on it, I think I would have been better off just showing up as myself, not trying to enter the conference, taking photos on the sly, and playing dumb if they asked. That they made such a massive deal about me does not say good things about the Wikimedia Foundation; I did not disrupt their speeches, interrogate their guests, or play the showboating activist – all I did was take pictures.
    
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    * This is the Eric Barbour of Metasonix, the rack-mounted tube distortion and tube synthesizer company. He got sucked into the wooly world of Wiki-criticism dealing with the idiot kids editing articles on radio tubes (British readers call them “valves”) and other technical subjects Barbour knew something about (he has a degree in Electrical Engineering). He does not suffer fools gladly, unless they are buying his equipment. In bulk.
31. 
    **One of the many “crimes” on Wikipedia is to edit articles, usually articles on corporations or the biographies of famous/”notable” people, for pay as a ghostwriter. Wikipedia critic Greg Kohs has admitted to doing such editing,while people like Edward R. Fitzgerald have tweaked articles to the breaking point in order to promote their bosses (in Fitzgerald’s case it was off-Broadway dancer/choreographer David Gordon of the Pick-Up Performance Company, which employs Ed Fitzgerald as a stage manager.) Things that would be thrown out of a real encyclopedia for crossing lines of notability are included in Wikipedia under the insane concept that it isn’t a paper encyclopedia. More serious is the issue of Wiki-pedophiles hanging around the website trying to“groom” 10-year-old-boys and using the image subsite “Commons” for exchanging child pornography, but the WMF and Wikipedia have been desperately burying that sordid activity.
33. 
    ***I wish that stupid pen camera had worked well. I should have turned the other camera over to video mode, and just let the chips fall where they may.