Things to remember for the weekend:
Dear Other Guy,
Hey Other Guy. I see you shopping in the store with me. You acting all sluggish as you trail behind your girlfriend. Did that thing look good that she just picked up? Who knows, but I think you said yes. Did you say it with enough enthusiasm to get her not to question your response? Uh oh, looks like you missed that one. You'll have to get it right on the next item, oh, there it is.
Ah, you're getting better. Better get out your phone and see if you, uhp.. no, bars....
Hey, don't think I didn't just see you look around for something to sit down on, good luck, I've been looking since I walked in.
Woah other guy, slow down. When she heads off to the other end of the store, the end you walked past to get to where you are now, leaving you wondering why you walked past it if she intention to walk right back there, you don't need to stay close. You bet your ass she's coming right back, well, with a few circles around a rack of clothing she doesn't want, other than for an excuse to go back to, just to see if maybe that thing she saw was cute or not.
Ok other guy, I saw you just give her the glance while holding your watch near her. You know you just screwed yourself right? Now, even though you are right here shopping with her, and you'll probably go to 10 more stores, you are getting no credit. Sorry bud, you tried, but when you get home, all she's going to remember is that glance when she says something like "can we go back tomorrow to see if there's something I missed"
Uh oh. I've got to go to the try on zone. I'll probably see you in another store in a bit. You don't have to make eye contact with me, without words letting me know how you feel. I know how you feel.
Wish me luck other guy.
this actually looks good.
They will have to try pretty hard to top Street Fighter as far as video games movies go. tiger, uppercut!
so, where were we.
global warming, as sensationalized by any douchebag who wants someone to listen to them, is retarded.
I'm not saying that it's impossible the earth's average temperature is increasing every year. I'm not saying that it's impossible that humans could change the earth's climate. I'm saying, that any scientist, worth being called a scientist, would not give a definitive answer on this concept. They might say something like, if you take a small sample of recent history, blah blah blah. But if you hear "we [humans] are causing the earth's temperature to increase," seriously?, just laugh. What scientist makes a call without a control variable? Without a reasonable sample? I mean.. Come on? Really? Douche
Ok. So here's what I don't understand about this whole affair. They say that people claiming global warming isn't true, are big corporations that don't want to loose money by having to recycle or not dump waste into lakes. Ok, that might be true. I'm sure they don't want to loose money, sounds reasonable, they have something to gain by it being untrue. So you have those dudes on that side of it. -- Now, Who's on the other side? Hippies? Environmentalists? Where does this idea come from being for the idea that global warming is a reality? Do people side with this idea because there is no big company behind it; therefore, it makes them look good? Wait a second. What about the douche who's selling some lightbulb that "saves" a bunch of energy. Maybe it's huffy, who wants you to ride bikes so you'll buy more bikes. Maybe nike wants you to walk so you'll wear out your shoes faster. Maybe it's some solar panel company who wants to sell more of their product. Has anyone noticed, that no matter what side you pick, you are still going to "ruin" the planet?
a solar panel costs way more of the earth's resources, and way more money, that you will ever save during the entire lifespan of that solar panel (* I made this up, but it's probably true ) You burn more of the earth's fuel (food/food production) by walking to your destination that it costs to drive (car/gas/production) *
No matter what you do, or how you live, you are going to ruin the planet. No matter how much of a douche you are, you are doing something wrong, according to someone out there. So do you really want to spend your whole life walking around wondering what you are doing wrong, or would you rather make a few "earth friendly" choices when you can, and keep it to your freakin self
charter communications. The past few weeks, my cable internet has been sucking pretty badly. So I've tried calling into their tech support a few times. First time I jumped through some hoops and finally got a person on the line. After giving my name, the phone number on the account, and my address (and declining to give my social security number over the phone), i get this "I understand you are having internet troubles today. I would like to commend you on selecting our 3 meg internet package as this is our most popular package if you would like to hear about our other offers or to know about our current..." 'Sir' ".. rates we will be happy to talk ..." 'Sir' " .. about our current offerings that are more than..." 'Would you please listen to me? All I want to know is if there is an outage in my area' "ok. what's your social?" 'I don't feel comfortable giving that over the phone' "um.. umm." [5 minutes later] "hello? ok yes we are having an outage in that area." 'Ok. Is there an estimated time it's going to be back?' "um. 10 pm" (that's 7 hours away at this point) 'Ok, fine. Is there someone who I can talk to about being refunded for the time I've lost?' "um. oh. yes, bla bla bla bla something yes, ok, I'll transfer you to someone who can help you" [disconnected]
guy hung up on me and didn't help me. I really don't have any idea what this guy was thinking. wait, no, I don't have any idea what charter was thinking. why would they ever think that this was an acceptable way to deal with a customer? Here's my point
When a company becomes a monopoly, they don't have to give a flying crap about any single one of their customers. The only thing that will take their business away is some freak change in the industry of whatever they are peddling. Can monopolies be good? Most people will freak out and say "all monopolies have to be the devil, everyone who works there hates the world and the environment" not true. if a monopoly became a monopoly without the government making a deal to get them there, then it would have to have pleased people millions of times and kept doing that or everyone would jump ship. what really happens is some retard makes a deal with another retard and BAM, we all have crappy cable, for a crappy price, with terrible support and they could care less. Who just won? The cable company and the government. So why can't we have this? well. we're already really screwed from all the crap flying around. You would take away peoples' job and everyone would get all fussy and blame you instead of their inability to get a new job. just how stupid big companies complain when you tell them they are destroying the world and they'll have to spend an extra .01$/part to fix it. Man, whatever happened to making a fair profit from something instead of always ruining things just to help your bottom-line.
This will be my first in a series I'd like to call free-market-fridays.
this concludes my first week.
so anyways. Nikon just announced the d3 and the d300. What is it about these things that makes me say "yeah, I'll buy that." I have a d200, which does everything the d300 does, you know, minus maybe 3 features, that for some reason, I really want. Full frame? Self cleaning? Everything else? Sign me up. d3x has 9fps of 12mp, 25,600 ISO (so you can take pictures in a blackhole). What the heck.
what's the deal with taking on jobs that don't pay me. I typically get involved with stuff that never will pay me, but I think "hey, this is a future investment, and someday I'll be really rich because of the time I'm putting in now." 3 weeks of being up until 4 and not a dime in my hand is a little frustrating. I keep going to meetings where we talk and talk. "Would it be great if.." "Wow, we could really sell this if..." wtf guys. show me the money to quote the late cuba gooding jr.
and why do I bother with photography anyways. nobody pays me for it and if you want to be a pro, you have to start wearing a bandanna and buy a really crappy flash template website that every single other photographer out there is using, and for some reason everyone thinks they are hot shit when the one image fades to the next, but they don't even think that maybe the website could be a template. It's like buying a honda and telling people you made it, and for some reason, everyone says "how the hell did you fit all these injection molded parts into the engine? you must be hot shit"
i guess working for nothing, but doing something I like is better than making money, getting a d3x, hating myself and being miserable every second of my working life.
follow your dreams kids
oops, you're 25 now and still didn't do your thang, but instead, you are performing country covers in starbucks. at what point in your life do you say "oops" maybe the problem is that someone ruined your life first and you are just getting back at them. by the way, that's britney and tawny above (sorry about that link, but when the first result in google is a quasi nude picture of you at the playboy mansion, you made a wrong turn about 100 ft back)
so
Goto http://tor.eff.org/ Make sure you have firefox and download torbutton . Keep scrolling down the tor page and download the Vidalia client. Install everything.
Why?
Whenever you visit a page on the internet you are identified by something called an IP address. Sometimes you need to visit a page where you don't want anyone knowing where you are located. Bam, TOR (The Onion Router).
Remember every movie with a computer in it when they steal a bunch of money and then later there's some dude who's all
well. It's been over 10 minutes now, and I'm sad to say, I think blogging is finally dead. Turns out, nobody wanted to read anything in the first place. Maybe when this fad kicks back up, you'll see a new post from me. We'll probably be on blogger v73 by then, and you'll be pooping in your Google brand toilet, probably wiping yourself with a poo related advertisement (at least it's better than the iDiaper)
apparently, I've already tuned up my blog beyond anything blogging could have forseen. more to come
I guess i'm late to the party. nothinggoldcanstay.blogspot.com was taken. Why am i not allowed to use helvetica. this blog thing must be lame.
mac tip: open terminal. if you don't know where it is, just type terminal into quicksilver. you don't have quicksilver either? geesh. anyhoo, put this in terminal and push enter
say -vRalph Fun pewter is loosing power. standby. abort, abort, dying. your parents didnt love you
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