Monday, October 31, 2005

Bryant Young, today you are my hero

As of today, early and oddly enough, late though it may be, today bryant young is my hero. Tomorrow who knows who it could be, a moldy bagel maybe (that reminds me I have to throw those bagels out!) but for the next as long as I can remember mr. young is cool in my book. Not only did he single handedly win the 49ers game today (kick ass by the way) he also apparently called all the season ticket holders and got them to actually wear red to the game (it’s a little embarrassing and disheartening when more people show up to your home game wearing the opposite team’s jersey) and he yelled at the defense (he usually is not much of a yeller) halfway though this week’s practices. Both paid off big time. the defense finally held a team to less than two scores (only one of which is a td) and the stadium was actually full of 49er fans for the first time in a while. He could have just stopped with those hefty accomplishments, I certainly would have, but no not today’s hero, Bryant young, he managed to win the game three times and collect two sacks. So congratulations mr. young you have joined the prestigious ranks of being my hero for today. You are up there with guy who gave my a penny in line so I wouldn’t have to get change, and horse who kicked that one guy in the nuts-hilarious by the way. So enjoy it mr. young, for today you put a puppy in a blender and drink it in front of the 5 year old owner and you would still be cool in my book.

Sunday, October 23, 2005

Hmmmm... THE OTHER

Hmmmm…  When the Blogger plug-in for Word first appeared I tried to download it, but was unable to because it was blocked on this network.  However, I am an optimist, so I tried again when werdnA pointed out that there might be some benefits to a spell-checker such as that built into the behemoth program that is known far and wide as Microsoft Word.  Well, my optimism was well rewarded as I am currently making my second (that’s correct—2—read ‘em and weep!) post using this fine addition to the behemoth program known far and wide as Microsoft Word.
Now, if I have several third-party toolbars and plug-ins sitting in my behemoth program does that make it behemother or just bigger??
Enough of this jackassery!  Time to point out that what Apple REALLY needs to do to make Front Row cool is to upgrade that little remote.  The buttons on that thing are just like those on the iPod shuffle; what you really want is a click wheel!  If you have a bunch of tunes or movies or photos to scroll through on your TV (HDTV that is) while sitting on your couch—you want to go fast and you need a scroll wheel for that—just a friendly suggestion…  And, it the remote had a little color screen that displayed the choices that would be cool too…

Friday, October 21, 2005

Reciprocate THAT!!!!

Please allow me to agree with the most honorable representative to my bottom (hehe bottom). Also, although this is almost entirely in reference to the post down there, I plan on sticking with tradition and posting this as if it were and original idea or something unique. However I will slightly break with radiation in order to appease the internet gods (who in anger struck dead two first tier backbone servers toady) by posting this in the comments section as well.

Mr. jobs obviously does agree with me that video is not as great a feature on a mp3 player as people tend think. There are many issues and problems with watching video on a portable player that just don’t exist when it comes to listening to music. First is that you have watch the thing. I know that is a very well hidden problem so let me explain. When you watch video it is usually customary to watch the video. With a portable device that means not only that you have to hold the device for however long you are watching that tiny screen but you have to hold it out in the open. The ipod ear buds are a nice bright “mug me” white already, think of the attention you would get walking around staring at your $300 video ipod. Part of the reason I like my mini so much is that I can keep it in my pants pocket and I never have to take it out. That is also what makes the incredible nano (and I have used one and it is freekin incredible!) so great is you would barly even notice you had it with you.. Also video has the problem of taking up a lot of space, even with low bitrates so often times you end up with a video that is no where near that of dvd quality (which in turn is not theater quality) playing on a small screen. In fact portable video is just not as great as it seems in almost any form, except maybe a laptop where you can play the high quality videos on a big screen..

Front row is indeed extremely cool and very uber sexy, especially with that simple little tiny six button remote man is that excellent. However I have to say it feels weird for apple to be playing catch up. I mean Microsoft has had a media center pc out for a very long time and for apple to be playing catching up to microsoft in software terms is a little unnerving. Plus there isn’t even a tv tuner in the computer to watch tv with. Then again watching live tv on a computer is never a very satisfying experience. The software suck, the quality is awful and they audio and pic never really sync up because the computer cant process the video and audio fast enough. Still windows does still let you watch and record tv shows. But I will admit that part of apples appeal is that they may not always be the first on the market with a new technology, but once they sink their teeth into something new they make it so oogles better and much easier and intuitive. Which is, of course the opposite of Microsoft that finds a new promising technology, hijacks it, destroys the dreams of the original creators through threats, manipulation and a borg-like efficiency, then fills the hijacked technology with bugs and security holes forcing you into an endless spiral of patches and plugs and malware removal tools until the next interaction of the software comes out and the process gets repeated for more money. Plus, like you said, a mac mini with frontline would be so sexy it would surpass sexy and go into the realm of randy. I mean a box that is two inches high and slightly bigger than a cd, with frontline, attached to a tv, hell an hdtv, with a hdmi output. Oh man that would be great. Maybe at mac world expo.

Well neD that post did belong in another century because it was from a much more barbaric time, the recent past. And for my own btw, that “o” was for extra security y protection and was specially placed to ensure total confusion and chaos.

Oh and tell me about that blogger spell checker, but then again as we all know it is kinda of sacrilege to edit and proofread and spell check something on the internet. But then again if I didn’t do some spell checkin on my post , well they would worse they are and that is a very scary though, like an apocalypse causing thought.that is why I use the blogger plug in for word. It’s a nice little toolbar that once you are done writing you enter your user name and password and hit post, done. No web browser no nothing.

Well see you in the trench

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Realize THIS!!!

The iPod nano is pretty bitchin'. The iPod with video capabilities is interesting; although I tend to agree with Mr. Jobbs that watching video on the thing isn't what people really want--at least, I don't want to do that. But, the fact that it is so damn thin is very impressive...
But, what is REALLY impressive--and I mean REALLY, REALLY impressive--or, at least it has the potential to be REALLY, REALLY, REALLY impressive--is the new Apple version of the media PC--little remote control with just a couple of buttons that can control your computer from across the dorm room. Perhaps I was wrong--that isn't impressive--that is sexy!!!! The remote will even work on the new iPod docking stations with built in IR receivers...
This little innovation is only available on the iMac right now (which isn't a bad thing), but when it is available on the Mac mini (G5 or intel version) I will have one in every room in the house--two in the bathroom (don't ask)...
BTW, werdnA, you DO have an "o" in one of your names--you may want to let the guy that wrote that well-thought out response know that it has to be re-thought out in a more well fashion... Perhaps while living at the bottom of the ocean...
Oh, while I am commenting on previous posts in a post instead of doing the more appropriate comment--which is an unfortunate precedent that has been set on this blog, and I can only hope that the benevolent and omnipotent (and damn good-looking) blog owner/god forgives us for--let me point out that the original vitriolic post that caused the hiatus (not hiatal hernia) of sraeB ad was not, in fact, removed, but had the date changed to something in the previous century... The blog god has a sense of humor...

BTW (2), if you run a spell-checker on your post you may notice that the dictionary that blogspot/blogger/google provides doesn't recognize the word "blog"--how is that for whacked!?!?!?!?! Please leave your comments below (or above)...

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

I just realized something

As you probably know (and if you don’t, its ok you can now remove the yams from your eyes and the mashed potatoes form your ears) apple just released the new ipod (and no I will not mention the video capabilities because this is just an ipod that happens to have the ability to play video, instead of and actual ipod video) well I think the biggest thing about this new ipod is how frekin small it is. I knew it was a lot thinner but I didn’t realize how much smaller until just today. Apparently the new ipod is in fact thinner than my ipod mini. and we are not just talking about a thousandth’s of a millimeter here, the new ipod is a full .07 inches thinner. Now that’s no ipod nano (which is crazy small and kickin some serious ask key) but it is still an impressive feat considering all the stuff in there. alright apple, i am impressed.

Sunday, October 16, 2005

5 in one night

Hey I just realized that I just posted to the blog five times in one night. Sure some people may say it is cheap to count the announcement of the 5th time but those people are obviously idiots (because they disagree with me of course!) and should be treated as such. So this is my fifth post in a single night. Not too bad considering I should be concentrating on an essay about how ads suck my mind away form me. But that’s ok because that’s what tomorrows were invented for. I don’t think this is the first time I have done a 5 for 1 but it has been a while. Hey maybe I will be able to take over the hope page tiny again. That was fun and filled with an empty satisfaction. So onward to that goal.

Wow it has been a while

I have not put a post up for a long... long time, in fact this blog hasn’t seen a new post since last month. And man I have to say it feels good to finally post something a gain. I cant even remember what the last thing I posted was about. Something smart and very intellectual I am sure. For those of you who had read my previous posts, sorry but you knew this day was coming. The good times cant go on forever. I am sure it has been a great, non-IQ destroying few months but i need to waste some time again and sorry but this is the best place to do it, where i can hurt the feelings of widest variety of people and do the most damage in the widest area. I see there are a couple new members to the blog and may I warmly say welcome to you. I just hope you remembered to wear your special patented moff pirate eye patches while reading the moff blog. No? oh well the I regret to inform you that you have a 76.159505% chance of lupus between now and febuary 3rd. don’t worry because that also means you have a 28.84049% chance of not getting lupis between now and then. Well what do you want me to do about it? i mean how much more obvious can we be? What else can you think a pirate eye patch means? It is obvious that it is to protect you from blog post induced lupus occurring on or before the 3rd of febuary. Well anyway best of luck with that.

a snake oil salesman's quote of the day

Wow ummm so anyway the guy who has the best selling book in the nation right now was on tv. I know a little bit about this man thanks to the daily show doing a repot on him a few weeks back. Well I turn on cnn this afternoon and they are doing a report on this guy. They mention how his book, “natural cures what they don’t want you to know about”, managed to knock harry potter off the number one spot in the best sellers list despite that fact that the guy is not an author, not a doctor, and not even a scientist. They ask him why he thinks doctors are questioning the cures in his book. Well the answer he gives is somewhere in the vicinity of, “Because my book is exposing all the crooks and robbers in the medical business (his emphasis not mine). I am showing the medical business for what it is, fraud.” It was at this point that I was yelling something at the tv as the daily show popped back into my mind. I cant be sure because I don’t record my self speaking but i believe that it went something like this, “Oh yes you would know something about fraud wouldn’t you you devious little basted.” I say that because of the daily show report, and right hen I say it pala zon’s voice over comes back on mentioning, and I really like this line, “And fraud is something he knows a lot about. In 1991 he served a two year sentence for credit card fraud. He also has had several run ins with the federal trade commission over false claims. In 2003 he was fined 2 million dollars over claims made form his coral calcium supreme. He was banned from selling any products in infomercials and he was banned form selling any health products in any form. He is the only person in America banned form selling products on tv. However thanks ot his right to free speech he has been allowed to sell his book and newsletter on infomercials.” After this narrative came the obvious question form ms. Zon, “You’re the only person ever th have been banned form selling a product by the FTC, you have absolutely no medical training, you’re a convicted felon, why should anyone listen to what you have to say?” man finally an excellent and hard hitting question from a news person. I especially like it wasn’t just why should people still buy your book, but rather, why should anyone even listen to anything you have to say. Now then what he had to say next in response to the questioned poised, is actually the quote I wanted to share. It is pretty incredible. His response was “Well (pause) why should anyone (pause) listen to a medical doctor?” he then rests his head on his hands and acts like he just nailed that question out of the park. There is a stunned silence from palua zon which I take advantage of to shout at the tv that you listen to your doctor because they went to friking school for over a decade to learn how to become a doctor. I mean wow, the people should obviously get their medical advice from a snake oil salesman of the worst kind instead of a person who has been learning how to do this for a long long time and actually has some knowledge on the subject. Once ms. Zon recovers she follows up with a well controlled (compared to my yelling at the tv which brought my roommates into my room to check that I was ok) follow up response to his question. “well you would assume they have training…” He shoots back, “well yea you would assume that but these are the same people that advised us to use viox that killed a 150,000 people and these are the same people who kill 900,000 people a year.” My first reaction, WTF, I mean seriously wtf. And then paula’s narrative pops back in, “none of those claims can be verified.” The interview goes on for a little while longer and gets more and more ridicules, including a virtual shoting match between him and palua over how he wont respond to some of the criticism of his book and website (like for example committing fraud); but you get the idea. If you see it on cnn check it out.

What is the deal with that guy…..?

I realize that this should go in the comments section but apparently we have given that up so I just want to ask what is up with that last post? I don’t who that guy thinks he is but that was one ridicules post. He certainly has a high opinion of himself. First off he should realize that calling your post a well thought out response invites certain expectations, like, oh I don’t know, a well thought out response for one. The last post was many things, well thought out was not one of them.

Apparently this guy seems to think the blog actually revolves around him, despite several testimonies (including an excellent debate between Galileo and Copernicus) and just plain common science pointing in the opposite direction. But then again if we live in a world where half the people don’t trust evolution and wont trust a scientist then I suppose people have to be very skilled at ignoring facts and that annoying little voice that keeps screaming “LOGIC LOGIC, USE LOGIC YOU FOOL!” over and over again.. This person was no exception.

What’s up will all that ohh-no-my-wounded-ego-it-hurts-so-bad routine. I mean first of all what is the point of responding to a post that no longer exists, if it ever did at all, and then waiting several months before saying anything about it. I mean for all we know that post in question could have been a very scrumptious recipe on how to bake banana slugs into a lemon-meringue π when short on lemons. However since it has been so long and as you claim the post has been “removed” we shall never know what really happened. In effect this could just be some random complaining for the internet masses, which is really something that belongs someplace more sympathetic to your plight, like a truck stop bathroom. And then there was the whole part about not being able to post without responding first. Now there are many excuses for laziness, I should know I have used a lot, but blaming some tiny post on a website located somewhere out in that vast disgusting cosmos that is the internet is really a poor excuses.

I think what I am trying to get across is tha was a poor excuse for a post and man I sure am glad I was not the author. If I was my first action after writing that would probably be to build a submersible craft and go out and live at the bottom of the Mariana’s trench for a year or two. Then again that would probably get you in al the record books and tv shows and give you a great book deal as well as a movie deal based off the book which would become the greatest grossing psychological thriller in years earning you fame and fortune….huh, that sounds pretty good actually, I might acually live at the bottom of the ocean for a while.

A well thought out response to earlier hate-mongering by a certain moff member

The moff blog used to be a place of happiness, sunshine, and diabetes-inducing sweetness (although that could just be a fake memory I have created). When I visited it it always made me feel good. Then not too long ago (as geologic events go) things changed. New members, specifically one, made moff a place that was cringe inducing and vein popping. It was not as fun anymore. But then again, what does my opinion matter; as it has been pointed out by this same member I really am not a member of moff, but I am related to one and I was invited for the beta testing (which if you ask google is the same thing as the final version). Maybe I don’t belong here and once the real moff members arrive I can make my presence less known if requested. However thanks to a spirited and quick defense by the actual creator of the moff blog I will stick around until such a time. this post should serve as a well thought out and clear headed response to a noob’s attempts to create a flame war on the moff with hate mongering and Mongol hords.

Some of you may have noticed (and if you have then you have been paying way to much attention to this blog and I feel sorry for you) that I have not contributed a single post or comment to the blog for a long time. The reason for this occurred a long time ago. For a long time, almost from the first day of inclusion, this member of the moff blog had been going after me, in a vaguely shrouded attempt to lure me into a flame war with him. Now I easily could have entered the conflict (police action) but I purposefully chose to ignore it and try and take the higher road for if I did enter into the war I would have easily destroyed and crushed my opponent and I wanted to try out a new found role as a firefighter instead of a flamer. However this “member’s” attacks grew more vicious and frequent, finally culminating but not ending with a massive hate filled post (which part of this post will take the time to refute) against, as Ignatius would say, your poor working boy. This post has thankfully since been removed by the blog’s graceful and benevolent (omnipotent?) admin/founder/ruler. however in its aftermath the blog changed and I was left without the ability to post for a long while. Not because I could not post or I didn’t want to post but because I had to take my time in responding to it. I even wrote a few posts down on paper and on the computer that I never put up. I thought about just immediately responding with a truth filled post on how I know he is but then what may I inquire am I? However I had spent too long and went through too much to sacrifice the high road now. And thanks to a quick defense by the admin I was not pressured into responding immediately. I knew I could not just go on posting without first responding to this vicious attack. I was forced to put off all my ambitious post plans in order to take the time to cool off and find just the right moment to respond. I just want you to know that that list of post I intended to do earlier in the summer was real, I even had a really good one that I was going to post but because of everything I had to put it off.

So time has past and the blog has deteriorated. Also now that I have school to work on I finally have time to put off work and procrastinate with the blog. The time is right for a response so I may finally resume my influenza causing posts. Please allow me to start with this so called, “ssakcaj a “ main argument that I should just shut up. Now it would be correct and well within my rights to respond with an appropriate, well why don’t you shut up!. However instead I will just say that yes I could shut up if you like, however until I get a mandate form the entire moff group demanding my mouth be sealed shut with frozen sea-horse tails I am afraid I will have to keep on talking It is not because I want to keep talking, it is more that as a member and one, who you so gracefully pointed out, is not an actual moff (in fact I don’t even have the letters m, o, f, or even f in any of my names) I have to keep posting in order to not become an outlaw. This brings me to your next point naneek, your point that I am not even really a moff. This is completely true and I cannot deny it. However as I stated above I was invited to join by the founder of the blog and asked to participate in the beta stage so as to prepare it for the arrival of the moffs. As soon as the moff blog is fully set up I will, once surrounded by the pitchforks and torches of the moff asking for my leave, then I will gladly be on my way, no hard feelings no good-bye cake, no nothing(although cake is good at any occasion, except for a pie convention).

Now to move on from the core issues and complaints brought up by the spiteful post, allow me to switch over to the more troubling section of the post that contained the smaller attacks that I feel did the most damage. One of the accusations is that my posts are totally random and make absolutely no sense whatsoever. I would tell this naneek that if he were to actually read any of my posts he would see that all of them alone made perfect sense or, if they were on the stranger side, they would always be preceded by a post specifically designed to explain he next post. Related to this is an insult of my security system that I have implemented into my posts to ensure member’s security in this mixed up crazy llama eat llama world of ours. The key to the security is to write the person I am mentioning name backwards. I feel I adequately explained my reasoning and how it would work in a lengthy earlier post but apparently naneek decided not to read that post. He then went on to criticize the lengths of my posts as well as the nasty aftereffects of my posts. Now I have never denied any of the ill effects of my posts, unlike the author of the offending posts. I let it be known that it had been scientifically proven that the moff posts, especially his posts, caused cancer. I accepted this fact willingly while “ssakcaj A” lashed out and denied the link any chance he could get. While grasping for something solid to deny with he eventually decided to just blame my posts for everything. This continuing denial came to the surface again in naneek’s infamous post so I will not spend very much time defending myself, instead I will just direct people to look at the scientific evidence and decide for themselves. To move onto one of the most disturbing of criticism, that my posts are obscenely long, I would have like to have just said, “yea sooo…and what’s your point?…is that supposed to be a bad thing or what?” however that would not be a well thought out or developed response so it would not belong in this post. I will respond by saying that none of my posts have been unusually long, I would go so far as to say that your one line or sometimes even no line posts are the unusual length. I wish I could say more on the subject but I fear that doing so will compromise the integrity of this response.

Well that may not be all that I want to/can say but this is where I will end this post for fear of making it too long. But it feels good to start again and now that I have stuff I can easily procrastinate with I may post more than just this one. Then again I am as crusty says, a very lazy guy so then again this could be all you hear form me for another few months. Luckily this blog has grown so not hearing from me would probably be a very good thing.