I going to fast this weekend. I started this morning and I'm going to try to last until Tuesday so four days max, wouldn't want to overdue it. I got some lemon juice to mix with water, I remember reading somewhere that that's what people that fast usually take, both for it's nominal amount of sugar which might help a bit with hunger and because the vitamin C and citric acid clean out your body. I don't have any big activities planned so I shouldn't get too hypoglycemic but I'll go for a walk or ride my bike a few minutes a couple times everyday as I understand it keeps the body from trying to shut down.
Anyone that has actually witnessed the quantities of food I consume will no doubt find all this amusing. I've been told that just one of my meals could feed a family of five.
Friday, December 30, 2005
Betrayed - The Bush vs Gore Election
Although this happened sometime ago I am reminded of it now. I not only voted for Gore in the 2000 election, I actually made a tiny contribution. I am very much a tight wad when it comes to giving money to organizations and charities and for good reason. But I really hated Bush's politics; so when the beautiful woman came to the door, for the first time I couldn't refuse.
But we all know how that election turned out. Florida was in a mess. The election was so close in that state that the normally nominal voting errors and corruption mattered. For the record it is clear that Gore actually and truly won that state but the voting procedures were against him.
A large number of people made voting errors in certain counties because of the ballots used. Pat Buchanan, a right wing extremist also running for President, conceded that a large number of votes (more than enough to undisputedly declare him the Florida winner) he received were obviously meant for Gore based on historical voting results, the liberal nature of the county and the screwy nature of the ballot used. But by and large they focused on questionable ballots and recounting the ballots by hand. The ballots were questionable in the sense of ballot machine error and determining what the votes were, from not thoroughly punched holes and "hanging chads."
The Governor of Florida, the one in charge of the executive branch of the state, was Bush's very own brother and quite naturally his officers were conservative republications that wanted the Governor's brother to win. The woman in charge of declaring the winner of the election made a surprising move to declare Bush the winner when the matter was still before the courts.
The matter went before the Florida State Supreme Court as it should and they ruled the matter unresolved. The court is the ultimate arbiter in the matter of elections. They make decisions as to the law and implement it, when the law isn't clear enough, it's up to them to resolve the matter. The judicial branch decided, the executive branch implements. What they decided and that which I disagree with is that recounting should continue. I didn't know how the recount would go at the time but I felt that it would probably still be so close that the final results would be moot. The writing was on the wall, what they should have done is immediately, especially considering the results of the counties with fishy ballots, was to invalidate the election results and reorder a statewide election to decide the winner of the presidential electors. They could have done this one week after the election when it was clear there were problems but they didn't and instead ordered that the recounts go on. A weak and indecisive decision.
But then the Unites States supreme court got involved, a republican controlled court I might add. They shouldn't have gotten involved because although it was a federal election it was a state matter. And ironically it's the Republicans on the court that are the staunch supporters of State seventy and rights. They strangely decided that state courts shouldn't be involved and that the executive branch of the state had the undisputed right to declare the winner of the election and as history records, Bush was sworn into office. But if the courts shouldn't be involved they why did they get involved? I disagree with their decision. They shouldn't have gotten involved but a better decision that would have resulted in Bush being sworn and the court retaining some credibility was to declare the election undecided and turn it over to the newly elected congress to decide which being Republican controlled would have resulted in the election of Bush. Instead they choose the quickest way to get their man sworn into office.
But Gore was the biggest disappointment of all. If it were as simple as whomever had the greatest number of votes naturally then Gore was the clear winner, more Americans voted for him. But instead we have a point system where points are divided up among the states and it's either a winner takes all situation or points are awarded according to the state rules and election results. And when it comes to intention, Gore did win Florida, but the powers that decided the confusing electoral ballots, the usual political corruption that usually doesn't matter finally did. But what did Gore do, the people choose him, did he in the least fight for us that voted him into office? Did he make a big stink about political corruption or take leadership in creating better voting machines and establishing nominal nationwide elections policies to at least address the problem? Did he trade his acquiescence for getting rid of the electoral process and going to a popular vote? Did he trade his acquiescence for a backroom deal for unofficial backseat powers and lessen Bush's right wing leanings? No he did none of this. He ran away. He betrayed me and the American people and he doesn't deserve to be president of this great nation. Because of him we had 911 and 8 years of Bush.
But we all know how that election turned out. Florida was in a mess. The election was so close in that state that the normally nominal voting errors and corruption mattered. For the record it is clear that Gore actually and truly won that state but the voting procedures were against him.
A large number of people made voting errors in certain counties because of the ballots used. Pat Buchanan, a right wing extremist also running for President, conceded that a large number of votes (more than enough to undisputedly declare him the Florida winner) he received were obviously meant for Gore based on historical voting results, the liberal nature of the county and the screwy nature of the ballot used. But by and large they focused on questionable ballots and recounting the ballots by hand. The ballots were questionable in the sense of ballot machine error and determining what the votes were, from not thoroughly punched holes and "hanging chads."
The Governor of Florida, the one in charge of the executive branch of the state, was Bush's very own brother and quite naturally his officers were conservative republications that wanted the Governor's brother to win. The woman in charge of declaring the winner of the election made a surprising move to declare Bush the winner when the matter was still before the courts.
The matter went before the Florida State Supreme Court as it should and they ruled the matter unresolved. The court is the ultimate arbiter in the matter of elections. They make decisions as to the law and implement it, when the law isn't clear enough, it's up to them to resolve the matter. The judicial branch decided, the executive branch implements. What they decided and that which I disagree with is that recounting should continue. I didn't know how the recount would go at the time but I felt that it would probably still be so close that the final results would be moot. The writing was on the wall, what they should have done is immediately, especially considering the results of the counties with fishy ballots, was to invalidate the election results and reorder a statewide election to decide the winner of the presidential electors. They could have done this one week after the election when it was clear there were problems but they didn't and instead ordered that the recounts go on. A weak and indecisive decision.
But then the Unites States supreme court got involved, a republican controlled court I might add. They shouldn't have gotten involved because although it was a federal election it was a state matter. And ironically it's the Republicans on the court that are the staunch supporters of State seventy and rights. They strangely decided that state courts shouldn't be involved and that the executive branch of the state had the undisputed right to declare the winner of the election and as history records, Bush was sworn into office. But if the courts shouldn't be involved they why did they get involved? I disagree with their decision. They shouldn't have gotten involved but a better decision that would have resulted in Bush being sworn and the court retaining some credibility was to declare the election undecided and turn it over to the newly elected congress to decide which being Republican controlled would have resulted in the election of Bush. Instead they choose the quickest way to get their man sworn into office.
But Gore was the biggest disappointment of all. If it were as simple as whomever had the greatest number of votes naturally then Gore was the clear winner, more Americans voted for him. But instead we have a point system where points are divided up among the states and it's either a winner takes all situation or points are awarded according to the state rules and election results. And when it comes to intention, Gore did win Florida, but the powers that decided the confusing electoral ballots, the usual political corruption that usually doesn't matter finally did. But what did Gore do, the people choose him, did he in the least fight for us that voted him into office? Did he make a big stink about political corruption or take leadership in creating better voting machines and establishing nominal nationwide elections policies to at least address the problem? Did he trade his acquiescence for getting rid of the electoral process and going to a popular vote? Did he trade his acquiescence for a backroom deal for unofficial backseat powers and lessen Bush's right wing leanings? No he did none of this. He ran away. He betrayed me and the American people and he doesn't deserve to be president of this great nation. Because of him we had 911 and 8 years of Bush.
Thursday, December 29, 2005
Tech: Rant - Stupid Programmers
I expect open source code to be crappy but it just keeps on surprising me with how bad it is. I am quite anal retentive, it's either all or nothing, whether it comes to life or source code, but particularly source code.
I am currently working on setting up cross compiling on my Freebsd box so I can have a unified programming environment. I also am getting into embedded programming and need to be able to compile for various processors and gcc is wonderful in this respect. But you programming ignorant people out there have no idea how brain dead the gnu development tools autoconfig and automake are. Mix in the ignorant programmers trying to use them and you might get part of the picture.
Case in point. GCC itself wants to compile it's Gcclib library. This is a library which modules use to access OS dependent functions such as exception handling and threads but that's neither here nor there. Why it isn't considered part of the runtime I'll never figure out. But in order to compile this Gcclib library and finish compiling the compiler you need the OS and runtime libraries. But to compile them you need a working compiler! Brain dead. To throw even more fuel onto the fire, the mingw32(windows) platform, which is one of the platforms I'm targeting, has a separate runtime and OS libraries that depend upon each other!!! People, this is the equivalent of a surgeon leaving medical instrument inside a patient after a surgery. I'm am convinced that the people composing these programs and libraries don't even bother compiling them to see if they work.
I am currently working on setting up cross compiling on my Freebsd box so I can have a unified programming environment. I also am getting into embedded programming and need to be able to compile for various processors and gcc is wonderful in this respect. But you programming ignorant people out there have no idea how brain dead the gnu development tools autoconfig and automake are. Mix in the ignorant programmers trying to use them and you might get part of the picture.
Case in point. GCC itself wants to compile it's Gcclib library. This is a library which modules use to access OS dependent functions such as exception handling and threads but that's neither here nor there. Why it isn't considered part of the runtime I'll never figure out. But in order to compile this Gcclib library and finish compiling the compiler you need the OS and runtime libraries. But to compile them you need a working compiler! Brain dead. To throw even more fuel onto the fire, the mingw32(windows) platform, which is one of the platforms I'm targeting, has a separate runtime and OS libraries that depend upon each other!!! People, this is the equivalent of a surgeon leaving medical instrument inside a patient after a surgery. I'm am convinced that the people composing these programs and libraries don't even bother compiling them to see if they work.
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Mame - Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
I've known about this program for many years. It's a arcade machine emulator. What it means is that if you download and install this program and can find ROMs in the underground scene then you can relive great arcade games of old right on your home PC. From Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Centipede, to any of the more modern games. ROM trading is currently illegal but hopefully they will get a clue and we'll all be able to legally purchase and download these old classic games in an iPod like manor sometime in the future. I particularly enjoy finally beating games I pumped hundreds of dollars into back in the day.
Monday, December 26, 2005
GPL = Software Socialism
Just a nerdish rant.
I just want to go on the record and say I do not support more than I have to, nor condone the GPL. The GPL is the GNU public licence and it is the socialist manifesto of the software world. It is something that must and should exist but what disturbs me is it's popularity. The GPL is all but synonymous with the concept of open source when in fact it is the cancer of it. Open source simple means that the source is available for you to look at and examine. There are no other rights or obligations that should be allocate with the term. The term is simply an assurance you can know what a specific piece of software is doing if you can read it's source code. This allows you to better understand the software as well as knowledge to reimplement a feature for a competing product. Anything beyond this should be considered beyond the scope of open source.
Back in the early days of software, people had access to the source code to the software that they used which was fine since by and large most users were required to know how to program in order get useful work from a computer. People made changes to software and they exchanged their enhancements freely and without change, it was a small inbred community. But computers proliferated. Some (such as Gill Gates) saw it purely as a money making business and hoarded and controlled their code, each trying to establish a monopoly in their small domain of the software world. Others (such as Richard Stallman) with their socialist ideals and love of their experience in early commune days of the software era took offence to anyone abandoning the commune ideals and schemed to recover from mass exodus of those abandoning the commune ideals and thus created the GNU Public Licence which took ten to fifteen years before achieving great success.
Then there were the tweeners, those that held to no ideal. The tweeners are the people that produced freeware and BSD and similar nominally licensed programs. These are the people that worked for proprietary software businesses by day but produced and gave away useful programs to the community. They did this not because they were compelled to do so by any licence but rather out of a sense of community responsibility. Ironically Richard Stallman's movement snowballed not out of community altruism but rather out egotism and selfishness. Those that could not give without seeing something in return. Those that could not give and bear to see others benefit. That is who embraced the GPL. They took and continue to take code from the BSD moment for their cause and contribute none of it back. The GPL'ers are worse than the proprietaries, because at least the proprietaries are honest.
I just want to go on the record and say I do not support more than I have to, nor condone the GPL. The GPL is the GNU public licence and it is the socialist manifesto of the software world. It is something that must and should exist but what disturbs me is it's popularity. The GPL is all but synonymous with the concept of open source when in fact it is the cancer of it. Open source simple means that the source is available for you to look at and examine. There are no other rights or obligations that should be allocate with the term. The term is simply an assurance you can know what a specific piece of software is doing if you can read it's source code. This allows you to better understand the software as well as knowledge to reimplement a feature for a competing product. Anything beyond this should be considered beyond the scope of open source.
Back in the early days of software, people had access to the source code to the software that they used which was fine since by and large most users were required to know how to program in order get useful work from a computer. People made changes to software and they exchanged their enhancements freely and without change, it was a small inbred community. But computers proliferated. Some (such as Gill Gates) saw it purely as a money making business and hoarded and controlled their code, each trying to establish a monopoly in their small domain of the software world. Others (such as Richard Stallman) with their socialist ideals and love of their experience in early commune days of the software era took offence to anyone abandoning the commune ideals and schemed to recover from mass exodus of those abandoning the commune ideals and thus created the GNU Public Licence which took ten to fifteen years before achieving great success.
Then there were the tweeners, those that held to no ideal. The tweeners are the people that produced freeware and BSD and similar nominally licensed programs. These are the people that worked for proprietary software businesses by day but produced and gave away useful programs to the community. They did this not because they were compelled to do so by any licence but rather out of a sense of community responsibility. Ironically Richard Stallman's movement snowballed not out of community altruism but rather out egotism and selfishness. Those that could not give without seeing something in return. Those that could not give and bear to see others benefit. That is who embraced the GPL. They took and continue to take code from the BSD moment for their cause and contribute none of it back. The GPL'ers are worse than the proprietaries, because at least the proprietaries are honest.
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Intelligent Design
I'm kind of wondering now if the Intelligent Design proponents don't have a point. Their whole argument comes down to a gap in evolution, that is, how did the first cells come about. Evolution seems to be contingent upon cells with a genetic structure. How do you go from random chemicals to a biological machine?
Christian bible thumpers in particular really have a tough time with the contradiction in the bible as to how old the earth is and in particular evolutionary evidence to the contrary. For you see, God as they make him out to be and as I understand the concept is omnipotent; he can do anything. That being so he can create a universe mid stream with an existing history. In a single moment he can create all the moments to be and all that were. To use the same holes in logic against them the evidence is pretty clear that if there is a god he offers no proof of his existence and in fact it appears that he doesn't wish his existence known. It's truly an issue of faith.
Let me point out. This isn't a true theory as it doesn't predict anything as much as it is a hole in the evolutionary theory. I find it strange though that religious people try to use it. This is something the tin foil hat people that listen to the 2am radios shows about conspiracies and aliens would point out. This is because if cell development isn't natural then something else in the universe created biological cell. Much in the same way we are going to create nano machines. What if these nano machines were given an ability to evolve? They could then conceivably evolve naturally into intelligent beings. How would they explain the development of their first cells?
What if there exists in this universe a much simpler and easier to develop route to intelligent life? Say something akin to a cloud of nebula gas or some such other exotic concept of life. This other life form wanting to change it's environment would create machines and tools to do so. Nano machines are the ultimate technology of manufacturing and every technological intelligence I would think would develop them in due time. Biological cells might in fact be a form of nano machine particularly adapted to a planet such as earth. But as you can see this is a long stretch of the imagination and not something that should be taught in a classroom. We teach knowledge to children, not speculation.
Christian bible thumpers in particular really have a tough time with the contradiction in the bible as to how old the earth is and in particular evolutionary evidence to the contrary. For you see, God as they make him out to be and as I understand the concept is omnipotent; he can do anything. That being so he can create a universe mid stream with an existing history. In a single moment he can create all the moments to be and all that were. To use the same holes in logic against them the evidence is pretty clear that if there is a god he offers no proof of his existence and in fact it appears that he doesn't wish his existence known. It's truly an issue of faith.
Let me point out. This isn't a true theory as it doesn't predict anything as much as it is a hole in the evolutionary theory. I find it strange though that religious people try to use it. This is something the tin foil hat people that listen to the 2am radios shows about conspiracies and aliens would point out. This is because if cell development isn't natural then something else in the universe created biological cell. Much in the same way we are going to create nano machines. What if these nano machines were given an ability to evolve? They could then conceivably evolve naturally into intelligent beings. How would they explain the development of their first cells?
What if there exists in this universe a much simpler and easier to develop route to intelligent life? Say something akin to a cloud of nebula gas or some such other exotic concept of life. This other life form wanting to change it's environment would create machines and tools to do so. Nano machines are the ultimate technology of manufacturing and every technological intelligence I would think would develop them in due time. Biological cells might in fact be a form of nano machine particularly adapted to a planet such as earth. But as you can see this is a long stretch of the imagination and not something that should be taught in a classroom. We teach knowledge to children, not speculation.
Monday, December 12, 2005
Tech: Turn That Old Computer into a File Server
If you just upgraded to a new computer or have a spare computer lying around then I suggest you turn that old computer into a file server. For home purposes a file server doesn't need to be particularly fast so that old computer if it's within a couple generation will do just fine. You need to fresh install a copy of Windows XP or if your really technically savvy or don't have a spare licence copy of windows around you can install Linux or FreeBSD. Just remember to install and configure Samba file sharing. Just remember to install the Operating system on it's own hard disk and use separate hard disks and shares for accessing those hard drives across a network.
If you have a bit of money to spare and want a lot of storage space then I'm going to suggest that you purchase and setup a RAID 5 array. This is just a special interface card and a bunch of identical hard drives hooked up to that card. A RAID 5 array combines the total storage space of all the hard drives into one virtual hard disk minus the capacity of one drive. That one drive serves the special purpose of fault tolerance. You see the more hard disks you have the more likely are you to suffer a hard disk crash; they do happen and usually a major loss. But with a RAID 5 array if you lose a single hard disk the array continues to work and when you install a new replacement hard disk, all the data is automatically recovered. If your paranoid you can even maintain install an additional hot spare for immediate data regeneration. In other words if you use 250GB sized disk you need at least three drives and those three drives result in 500GB of storage that looks like a single drive. Many controller cards now support the ability to dynamical add additional hard disks to expand the array. This along with a partition utility like Partition Magic, allow you purchase and install more hard disk space as you need it, up to the maximum number of drives that the controller supports. Just remember to install extra fans in the case as too many hard drives may overheat the computer and all the hard disks need to be the same size and preferably the same make and model.
What I did was install FreeBSD 6.0 on my spare box, then I purchased a Highpoint Rocketraid 2220 SATA RAID controller. This is a software RAID card and currently sells for around $300 dollars. While hardly the fastest controller out there it is possibly the best combination of features and price out there for a simple file server. The card supports 8 hard drives but should you want an even larger array this card allows you to install a second card and connect a wire between them to drive a 16 drive array should you want to expand that much. I then purchased 3 Western Digital WD2500SD 250GB drives and recently upgraded to a 4th. These currently go for around $100 a piece and no doubt prices will continue to fall. I currently have 750GB of storage available and can expand all the way up to 3750GB which is 15x250GB. One of the things I have done with all that space is install a Virtual CD program and made images of all my CDROM's and music CD's so I never need to hunt for discs anymore which is particularly useful if your a techie like me that messes up his computer often enough and need to reinstall everything regularly. I also sync data files and back them up to the server automatically. I also am planning after I purchase my next computer system to put a couple TV cards into my current system and turn it into my own Tivo which will be able to save directly to the file server.
If you have a bit of money to spare and want a lot of storage space then I'm going to suggest that you purchase and setup a RAID 5 array. This is just a special interface card and a bunch of identical hard drives hooked up to that card. A RAID 5 array combines the total storage space of all the hard drives into one virtual hard disk minus the capacity of one drive. That one drive serves the special purpose of fault tolerance. You see the more hard disks you have the more likely are you to suffer a hard disk crash; they do happen and usually a major loss. But with a RAID 5 array if you lose a single hard disk the array continues to work and when you install a new replacement hard disk, all the data is automatically recovered. If your paranoid you can even maintain install an additional hot spare for immediate data regeneration. In other words if you use 250GB sized disk you need at least three drives and those three drives result in 500GB of storage that looks like a single drive. Many controller cards now support the ability to dynamical add additional hard disks to expand the array. This along with a partition utility like Partition Magic, allow you purchase and install more hard disk space as you need it, up to the maximum number of drives that the controller supports. Just remember to install extra fans in the case as too many hard drives may overheat the computer and all the hard disks need to be the same size and preferably the same make and model.
What I did was install FreeBSD 6.0 on my spare box, then I purchased a Highpoint Rocketraid 2220 SATA RAID controller. This is a software RAID card and currently sells for around $300 dollars. While hardly the fastest controller out there it is possibly the best combination of features and price out there for a simple file server. The card supports 8 hard drives but should you want an even larger array this card allows you to install a second card and connect a wire between them to drive a 16 drive array should you want to expand that much. I then purchased 3 Western Digital WD2500SD 250GB drives and recently upgraded to a 4th. These currently go for around $100 a piece and no doubt prices will continue to fall. I currently have 750GB of storage available and can expand all the way up to 3750GB which is 15x250GB. One of the things I have done with all that space is install a Virtual CD program and made images of all my CDROM's and music CD's so I never need to hunt for discs anymore which is particularly useful if your a techie like me that messes up his computer often enough and need to reinstall everything regularly. I also sync data files and back them up to the server automatically. I also am planning after I purchase my next computer system to put a couple TV cards into my current system and turn it into my own Tivo which will be able to save directly to the file server.
Sunday, December 11, 2005
Tech: Mozilla - Greasemonkey
Well I think it might be interesting to journal some of the geek stuff I learn so here is the first of what is probably may be many tech entries.
Today I learned about client side scripting of web pages. Mozilla has this very nice little XPI extension called Greasemonkey though someone was nice enough to create it's equivalent Trixie for Internet Explorer. What it does is basically inject Javascript code into HTML documents. Such an injected script is capable of completely rewriting a web page though in all practicality it's most useful in tweaking web pages and their behaviors. This script for example automatically logs you into Myspace which is useful as I'm the only one that uses my computer and after all it's only myspace. One thing bugs me about Myspace is all the music and videos that automatically play when you load someones Myspace page; I am going to write a script that turns all the various players off by default as well as add an external link you can right click on to save all the cool videos and music to disk. Also Yahoo include an HTML flag on it's login pages that Mozilla honors such that it won't store your password in password manager; this script will remove that flag and henceforth no more typing a password to read my yahoo mail!
Something else interesting that I learned is that all the cool XPI extensions for Mozilla and Firefox are just ZIP files with installation and meta data such as author names, but the code itself is Javascript just like Greasemonkey! Scripts can be converted to XPI Mozilla extension when they become complicated and need extra functionality in modifying browser behavior such as creating their own configuration menus.
So you tell me, what web pages do you visit and what is it about them that bothers you that you wish you could change?
Today I learned about client side scripting of web pages. Mozilla has this very nice little XPI extension called Greasemonkey though someone was nice enough to create it's equivalent Trixie for Internet Explorer. What it does is basically inject Javascript code into HTML documents. Such an injected script is capable of completely rewriting a web page though in all practicality it's most useful in tweaking web pages and their behaviors. This script for example automatically logs you into Myspace which is useful as I'm the only one that uses my computer and after all it's only myspace. One thing bugs me about Myspace is all the music and videos that automatically play when you load someones Myspace page; I am going to write a script that turns all the various players off by default as well as add an external link you can right click on to save all the cool videos and music to disk. Also Yahoo include an HTML flag on it's login pages that Mozilla honors such that it won't store your password in password manager; this script will remove that flag and henceforth no more typing a password to read my yahoo mail!
Something else interesting that I learned is that all the cool XPI extensions for Mozilla and Firefox are just ZIP files with installation and meta data such as author names, but the code itself is Javascript just like Greasemonkey! Scripts can be converted to XPI Mozilla extension when they become complicated and need extra functionality in modifying browser behavior such as creating their own configuration menus.
So you tell me, what web pages do you visit and what is it about them that bothers you that you wish you could change?
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
Still Alive
Well I'm still alive and kicking. It's just that time of year I guess, I seem to be in hibernation mode. Not really laziness, more lethargic although I have all sorts of things I need to do, chiefly among them fixing my motorcycle and look for a new job. I think overworking a thankless job finally got to me. I haven't even really had the urge to go out and drink much lately either.
Anyway I finally got a new motherboard for my computer and I struggled all last week reinstalling everything and trying to get it all set up right with the servers. Right now I'm making CD images of all my games and programs for online archiving and so I can get the CD's out of the way, kind of like a computer jukebox. Speaking of jukebox's, I also want to make my own little ripping program for my music, I'm just to obsessed with perfection and nothing exists that will do what I want. And remember how years ago there was this craze with used music stores? Whatever happened to them? Thanks to my Nomad(like an ipod) I'm finally into music but I insist on ripping it myself and hence I have to own the CD's. There are used movies and video games everywhere but it's like I've become blind to the used music stores, I just don't see them around anymore.
Other than that I think I'm coming down with the reading bug again which would fit in with my lethargy. It's been a couple years since I've read much of anything.
Anyway I finally got a new motherboard for my computer and I struggled all last week reinstalling everything and trying to get it all set up right with the servers. Right now I'm making CD images of all my games and programs for online archiving and so I can get the CD's out of the way, kind of like a computer jukebox. Speaking of jukebox's, I also want to make my own little ripping program for my music, I'm just to obsessed with perfection and nothing exists that will do what I want. And remember how years ago there was this craze with used music stores? Whatever happened to them? Thanks to my Nomad(like an ipod) I'm finally into music but I insist on ripping it myself and hence I have to own the CD's. There are used movies and video games everywhere but it's like I've become blind to the used music stores, I just don't see them around anymore.
Other than that I think I'm coming down with the reading bug again which would fit in with my lethargy. It's been a couple years since I've read much of anything.
Friday, October 28, 2005
Girlfriend Application
I'm a quiet easygoing guy and I'm looking for a steady girlfriend. I'm a big man with a large frame. I am six feet tall, I have blue eyes, and I shave my head. I look like I play football but I'm not into sports in the least, I'm actually a computer nerd. I am highly intelligent. I am quiet, not shy. I very much have an ego but I keep it in check and try to be humble. I can BS with the best of them on nearly any subject though I'm really a listener. I really don't care too much of what people think of me but I try to keep them guessing. Emotionally I am very metro sexual and am looking for a little co-dependence, so consider yourself warned, a few movies have made me cry, and I can be quite emotional and whinny when I'm intoxicated. And I actually like holding hands, hugging and cuddling.
I ride a motorcycle and do not own a car. I currently live at home with family simply because I'm single, the rent is cheap, the neighborhood exceptionally nice and I don't really care for unreliable roommates. After I find someone I can be serious about I'm interested in getting a place together.
I'm looking for a women interested in a relationship that will last at a couple years or more. Something that starts out casual and friendly at first and then grows into something. Please no beating around the bush or acting coy. I want an honest relationship right off the bat. I will be seeing/meeting other people socially at first and if that bothers you then move on to the next guy that will do it behind your back. Be steady and blow every girl out of the water and you'll be the one and only. By then I should have earned some of your trust and you can believe that I'll be faithful when I say I will. I want a relationship such as we don't have any secrets but I believe relationships with other people are private. If you tell me all your friends secrets then I can't trust you not to tell mine.
I like pretty, white, tall, pale, intelligent, and emotional women. Also an outgoing and sexually aggressive women if that's not too much to ask for; I actually like it when women initiate a kiss or intimacy. The closer a woman is to my ideal the quicker I lose my grip on reality. If she a good person, a nice companion, and jumps my bones enough to make me forget about any other women, then sure I'll sell my soul... (Just kidding, but I'd certainly give it careful consideration).
I ride a motorcycle and do not own a car. I currently live at home with family simply because I'm single, the rent is cheap, the neighborhood exceptionally nice and I don't really care for unreliable roommates. After I find someone I can be serious about I'm interested in getting a place together.
I'm looking for a women interested in a relationship that will last at a couple years or more. Something that starts out casual and friendly at first and then grows into something. Please no beating around the bush or acting coy. I want an honest relationship right off the bat. I will be seeing/meeting other people socially at first and if that bothers you then move on to the next guy that will do it behind your back. Be steady and blow every girl out of the water and you'll be the one and only. By then I should have earned some of your trust and you can believe that I'll be faithful when I say I will. I want a relationship such as we don't have any secrets but I believe relationships with other people are private. If you tell me all your friends secrets then I can't trust you not to tell mine.
I like pretty, white, tall, pale, intelligent, and emotional women. Also an outgoing and sexually aggressive women if that's not too much to ask for; I actually like it when women initiate a kiss or intimacy. The closer a woman is to my ideal the quicker I lose my grip on reality. If she a good person, a nice companion, and jumps my bones enough to make me forget about any other women, then sure I'll sell my soul... (Just kidding, but I'd certainly give it careful consideration).
Wednesday, September 7, 2005
Love is like cereal
I don't know where this originally came from but I just had to post it for myself.
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Some wisdom from a mind called Samm:
Love... is like the cereal you eat every morning for breakfast. You go all these long, lonely months without having breakfast, but finally, a box of Frosted Flakes enters your life. Soon you're eating it every day, enjoying it fully, just waiting for the next day so you can eat some more of Tony the Tiger's corn flakes. But you finish your box! So you go to the grocery store and pick up your Frosted Flakes box. But then you start to think... Tony's just not doing it for you anymore. You long for some of that silly rabbit's Trix, or those adorable Frosted Wheat, or even Kid Nutritious, Mom Approved (tm) Kix. So you decide to get the Trix, Frosted Wheat, and Kix, but when you get home and eat it for breakfast the next morning, it's just not the same. You really miss that grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat taste that that Tiger used to give you. You realize that you took poor Tony for granted and wish that you could still eat those frosted Flakes every morning for breakfast. So, determined to win Tony back, you throw away your Trix, Frosted Wheat, AND Kix, and make your way over to the grocery store. BUT GUESS WHAT?!- They're sold out of Frosted Flakes.
So why should we love? Well, breakfast is good for you! And even though the Frosted Flakes are gone and will never come back, even though they will always hold a special place in your heart, maybe you should give that Kix a try.
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Some wisdom from a mind called Samm:
Love... is like the cereal you eat every morning for breakfast. You go all these long, lonely months without having breakfast, but finally, a box of Frosted Flakes enters your life. Soon you're eating it every day, enjoying it fully, just waiting for the next day so you can eat some more of Tony the Tiger's corn flakes. But you finish your box! So you go to the grocery store and pick up your Frosted Flakes box. But then you start to think... Tony's just not doing it for you anymore. You long for some of that silly rabbit's Trix, or those adorable Frosted Wheat, or even Kid Nutritious, Mom Approved (tm) Kix. So you decide to get the Trix, Frosted Wheat, and Kix, but when you get home and eat it for breakfast the next morning, it's just not the same. You really miss that grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat taste that that Tiger used to give you. You realize that you took poor Tony for granted and wish that you could still eat those frosted Flakes every morning for breakfast. So, determined to win Tony back, you throw away your Trix, Frosted Wheat, AND Kix, and make your way over to the grocery store. BUT GUESS WHAT?!- They're sold out of Frosted Flakes.
So why should we love? Well, breakfast is good for you! And even though the Frosted Flakes are gone and will never come back, even though they will always hold a special place in your heart, maybe you should give that Kix a try.
Friday, September 2, 2005
Why do you women ignore us men?
It's annoying. You all like to talk about honesty and how you like to face problems and how independent you are, yet when things get a little difficult or a little weird in friendships and relationships, your the first to bail and burry you head in the sand. It's strange, all of you proclaim the theoretical merits of counseling before a divorce but your the ones with the spiteful communication problems. It's so childish to run away. It's amazing women actually form any long term relationships with other women at all.
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Lets Fire All the Traffic Cops!!!
It would be a very simple thing to add a simple transmitter/receiver, smaller than a beeper to every vehicle. It would constantly relay the position of the vehicle to receiver located in every lamp post. Cost would be like $5 a vehicle after ten years. The expense would be in the infrastructure of lamppost receivers and wiring a city wide traffic network and computers to process the data. In the long term is a hell of a lot cheaper than what you pay in property taxes to pay the salaries of traffic cops and meter maids.
Basically the result would be if you violate a traffic law you get automatic tickets. Everyone would naturally have a few free tickets, especially in the beginning. You can't break the speed limit for any significant amount of time. You can't make illegal turns. You can't park your car where you shouldn't. We can fire all the traffic cops and meter maids!!!! (Can I get a HELL YAH?).
Of course there is the drawback and that is we need to give up a little privacy but really how much would you care once you reap the benefits? One thing, there wouldn't be any need for car chases. The cops would simply follow from a great distance and wait you out. Probably let you go home and sleep it off, then knock on your door to arrest you in the morning. There would be no more stolen cars, it would be impossible to steal one. A computer would be able to spot seriously drunk drivers within minutes by how bad a person is driving and they can quickly be stopped from killing themselves or worse you. And all those bastards that cut you off and don't know how to drive will get their just rewards.
But surely you say something like this could be hacked and forged. Sorry nope. You see with enough resolution on the positional transmitters you can't forge a signal. There is no encryption or anything special. A computer knows where and when the last signal was to within about six feet. If you turn the signal off, that sends up a red flag. With every vehicle out there transmitting a signal, it's easy to detect the ones driving down the street without one. If you try to change your signal to look like someone else that's easily recognized, as that signal appeared in that location out of nowhere. It might be possible to swap signals but it would be simple enough to correlate all vehicles that get within an overlapping radius. Sure there would be minor issues at first but nothing too serious.
The reason this will never happen is that city governments and the police department make too much money off traffic fines. It has little to do with protecting the public and everything to do with paychecks.
Basically the result would be if you violate a traffic law you get automatic tickets. Everyone would naturally have a few free tickets, especially in the beginning. You can't break the speed limit for any significant amount of time. You can't make illegal turns. You can't park your car where you shouldn't. We can fire all the traffic cops and meter maids!!!! (Can I get a HELL YAH?).
Of course there is the drawback and that is we need to give up a little privacy but really how much would you care once you reap the benefits? One thing, there wouldn't be any need for car chases. The cops would simply follow from a great distance and wait you out. Probably let you go home and sleep it off, then knock on your door to arrest you in the morning. There would be no more stolen cars, it would be impossible to steal one. A computer would be able to spot seriously drunk drivers within minutes by how bad a person is driving and they can quickly be stopped from killing themselves or worse you. And all those bastards that cut you off and don't know how to drive will get their just rewards.
But surely you say something like this could be hacked and forged. Sorry nope. You see with enough resolution on the positional transmitters you can't forge a signal. There is no encryption or anything special. A computer knows where and when the last signal was to within about six feet. If you turn the signal off, that sends up a red flag. With every vehicle out there transmitting a signal, it's easy to detect the ones driving down the street without one. If you try to change your signal to look like someone else that's easily recognized, as that signal appeared in that location out of nowhere. It might be possible to swap signals but it would be simple enough to correlate all vehicles that get within an overlapping radius. Sure there would be minor issues at first but nothing too serious.
The reason this will never happen is that city governments and the police department make too much money off traffic fines. It has little to do with protecting the public and everything to do with paychecks.
Saturday, August 20, 2005
Drugs should be Legalized
The anti drug laws are a racket. A whole bunch of people pulled the wool over the publics eyes. The simple truth is drugs are cheap to make. The people making money on the shit are the proponents of anti drug laws. These laws create a market. Take something cheap that people will want, and then figure out how to limit the supply, economics 101. I'm going to set you straight even though you wouldn't believe me. If all illicit drugs were legalized for recreational use far more problems would go away than would be created. Take the money out of it. Now I'm not saying we should allow any sort of marketing the shit, in fact pushing the shit should be what's illegal. Crime would drop dramatically, I'm talking about 80 percent or more. You have any idea how much money we as a society spend on police and prisons, not to mention the actual expense of stolen or damaged property? Take a look at the tough love campaigns, cracking down on crime and drugs, and you'll see that the police, judges, lawyers, and the prison guard unions lobbyist are the chief promoters; you would shit your pants if you saw actual dollar amounts. You think you have to worry about the drug crazy lunatics? Those that couldn't function would lose their jobs. If they can panhandle $10 a day then with cheap legalized drugs they can purchase more than even the hardest drug user could consume with just that little bit of money and still have enough for something to eat. Psychedelics? PCP? For those sad souls I'd require them to go to some safe room or something where they can be monitored or strapped down but they can fry their brains as much as they want. At first there would be lots of OD's and that would cull the ranks. Then you get the chicken shit stupid people that will try it because it's legal. Good riddance. The number of crack whores and tweekers walking the streets would plummet. The rates for AIDS infections would at least be cut in half. A whole lot of people would lose a lot of money and society would save money and we'd all be safer. I truly believe this. I myself indulge with alcohol, never tried anything else, don't want to. Just think about it, drugs aren't the problem, money is the problem.
Thursday, August 18, 2005
Love Advice for Other Men
(From someone completely unqualified)
Most guys don't know what real love is, but what I find more startling, is that I discovered a while back is that even more women do not. Women are sluts and whores. I've tried to disprove it but I can't. The longer you live the more you will realize this. Maybe there are a few out there that are not. But on chance if you found one, you could never prove it to yourself, so don't delude yourself, your never going to find someone worthy of you. Women are insecure creatures, far more than you and I are and as a consequence will always hurt you. Women always talk about how dishonest men are but women are the biggest liars, they lie not only to you but to themselves. They seek what they want to be. They don't even realize the games they play. The only solution to your happiness is to be the better person. Find a woman, don't look too hard, and just unconditionally love her. She will hurt you left and right and keep on hurting you and herself in an endless attempt to prove that you don't love her. Do what you need to do for your own sanity, womanize, drink, gamble, or whatever. There will be good and bad times. She will at times love you but her doubt will always get the better of her, because her love is conditional. But you just selfishly keep loving her no matter how unworthy she is, for in this at least, you will know true love.
Most guys don't know what real love is, but what I find more startling, is that I discovered a while back is that even more women do not. Women are sluts and whores. I've tried to disprove it but I can't. The longer you live the more you will realize this. Maybe there are a few out there that are not. But on chance if you found one, you could never prove it to yourself, so don't delude yourself, your never going to find someone worthy of you. Women are insecure creatures, far more than you and I are and as a consequence will always hurt you. Women always talk about how dishonest men are but women are the biggest liars, they lie not only to you but to themselves. They seek what they want to be. They don't even realize the games they play. The only solution to your happiness is to be the better person. Find a woman, don't look too hard, and just unconditionally love her. She will hurt you left and right and keep on hurting you and herself in an endless attempt to prove that you don't love her. Do what you need to do for your own sanity, womanize, drink, gamble, or whatever. There will be good and bad times. She will at times love you but her doubt will always get the better of her, because her love is conditional. But you just selfishly keep loving her no matter how unworthy she is, for in this at least, you will know true love.
Thursday, August 11, 2005
Life After Death
I'm currently reading "What Dreams May Come" by Richard Matheson. I'm really enjoying this book. I highly recommend it to everyone. It's my idea of a true romance novel. It concerns itself with the afterlife and I just feel like chiming in on the subject.
I believe in good and bad and hence I am a moralist. Good for goodness sake. I really have a problem with the whole notion of an afterlife. I believe in the here and the now and to make the best of it as if that's all that there is. While I doubt there is an afterlife it's certainly possible. If it does exist, most would probably not recognize it as such.
Back on to my point, I strongly object to religion and it's overwhelming concern with an afterlife and it's focus on it being a reward. If we assume there is an afterlife, I conclude we aren't suppose to know. All that stuff about being accountable for your sins in the afterlife is shit. If you do good things only because you seek to be rewarded with an afterlife in heaven then that doesn't make you good. If there is a god and a heaven, then you can't know they exist because if you did you wouldn't behave the same. In many ways it would take away your choose. You would be doing good deeds only for the most selfish of reasons. If there is a god then he meant for us not to know, at least for sure, because that's free will, and free will is the soul. I'd rather not believe and risk damnation by choosing to be the person that I am, than to believe and have no choice.
I believe in good and bad and hence I am a moralist. Good for goodness sake. I really have a problem with the whole notion of an afterlife. I believe in the here and the now and to make the best of it as if that's all that there is. While I doubt there is an afterlife it's certainly possible. If it does exist, most would probably not recognize it as such.
Back on to my point, I strongly object to religion and it's overwhelming concern with an afterlife and it's focus on it being a reward. If we assume there is an afterlife, I conclude we aren't suppose to know. All that stuff about being accountable for your sins in the afterlife is shit. If you do good things only because you seek to be rewarded with an afterlife in heaven then that doesn't make you good. If there is a god and a heaven, then you can't know they exist because if you did you wouldn't behave the same. In many ways it would take away your choose. You would be doing good deeds only for the most selfish of reasons. If there is a god then he meant for us not to know, at least for sure, because that's free will, and free will is the soul. I'd rather not believe and risk damnation by choosing to be the person that I am, than to believe and have no choice.
Friday, August 5, 2005
Publication System
For the past year I've been getting all sorts of ideas about how to apply point to point software for all sorts of things. One such idea is a direct replacement of the old Usenet bulletin board system; you know, the alt.*, comp.*, misc.*, and other such message groups. It's sort of like a combination of Usenet and the web, but it's more of a direct publication system. The other application is a scaled down version of it used for personal ads.
The only problem with such a system and why you haven't seen them is all the spam they would attract. But I believe the solution to that is an automated trust group based system. Basically everyone catalogs and flags everyone else to various degrees. When you read a personals ad and it isn't categorized you flag it. If it's spam you flag it as spam, Everyone does this and their lists get swapped and you compare other people results with your own and the computer automatically establishes a trust factor as far as how accurately a person catalogs ads. You can also have hierarchy's of catalogers that more of less vouch for each other and that's when it becomes really effective. It would be pretty much automatic unless you decide to look at unreviewed ads or improperly cataloged ads. I'd imagine at first there would be quite a bit of spam but it would die off once it's realized how effective the system is. People establish anonymous reputations based on what they publish, how long they have been publishing, and how often they publish.
The only weakness is a minor one, if computer hijackers hack into people computers and assume their identity to post spam. But that can probably be mitigated by noticing the number of posts a person makes, stammers would sent tons of messages and it would be flagged immediately as suspicious. The system is redundant so there really isn't any cheating. Say someone chooses to sell out and allow certain spam though, you'd notice this and that persons reviews are trusted less and you start relying on other people reviews more. Other than power users that volunteer that take on more complicated reviewing and sponsoring tasks, it's really an automated system a user can choose to ignore and just know that it will work 99.9 of the time.
The only problem with such a system and why you haven't seen them is all the spam they would attract. But I believe the solution to that is an automated trust group based system. Basically everyone catalogs and flags everyone else to various degrees. When you read a personals ad and it isn't categorized you flag it. If it's spam you flag it as spam, Everyone does this and their lists get swapped and you compare other people results with your own and the computer automatically establishes a trust factor as far as how accurately a person catalogs ads. You can also have hierarchy's of catalogers that more of less vouch for each other and that's when it becomes really effective. It would be pretty much automatic unless you decide to look at unreviewed ads or improperly cataloged ads. I'd imagine at first there would be quite a bit of spam but it would die off once it's realized how effective the system is. People establish anonymous reputations based on what they publish, how long they have been publishing, and how often they publish.
The only weakness is a minor one, if computer hijackers hack into people computers and assume their identity to post spam. But that can probably be mitigated by noticing the number of posts a person makes, stammers would sent tons of messages and it would be flagged immediately as suspicious. The system is redundant so there really isn't any cheating. Say someone chooses to sell out and allow certain spam though, you'd notice this and that persons reviews are trusted less and you start relying on other people reviews more. Other than power users that volunteer that take on more complicated reviewing and sponsoring tasks, it's really an automated system a user can choose to ignore and just know that it will work 99.9 of the time.
Thursday, August 4, 2005
Blockbuster Weekend
I left the keys in the ignition of my motorcycle and several hours later it was totally dead. I've tried recharaging it many times but it looks like one of the cells must have been toasted though I can't see how. Anynow I can't get a an maintenance free battery until next week and it looks like I'll be mostly housebound this weekend. Other than going to the corner bar doesn't look like I'll be able to get out much and it looks like it's going to be a nice weekend. Maybe I'll ride my bicycle down to the beach or something and check out all the tourists. Just have to remember to bring a ton of sunblock.
Anyone know of a good hat shop here in LA? I like baseball caps but I need a sized hat because the normal adjustable ones with the hole in the back tend to leave a rising sun mark on the back of my head. Hmm, that's neat idea for a product for bald guys, hats with designs built in that intentionally tan patterns on the head, this might also apply to shirts and other items as well. Probably would work even better at tanning salons. A temparary tan tattoo...
Anyone know of a good hat shop here in LA? I like baseball caps but I need a sized hat because the normal adjustable ones with the hole in the back tend to leave a rising sun mark on the back of my head. Hmm, that's neat idea for a product for bald guys, hats with designs built in that intentionally tan patterns on the head, this might also apply to shirts and other items as well. Probably would work even better at tanning salons. A temparary tan tattoo...
Sunday, July 31, 2005
More on Music
Right here is what everyone really wants from the music industry. You buy a license directly from online distributors. You get the original uncompressed music tracks directly from the studios in the highest fidelity available. The music is separated into tracks so that you can remix it yourself. This is way superior to any particular version of a song people could find online. You could tweek the sound of a particular instrument or voice. The dynamic range of the music fidelity isn't clipped off like it normally would have been in a final studio mix (which studios do so the music sounds louder when they play it on the radio). Text information about the song is all included in the file. The vocal track come with cues to generate a karaoke version of the song from lyrics also included elsewhere in the file. And finally it includes final mixing profiles for the versions of the songs we hear on the radio as other non bleeped out versions of the songs we would normally would find on CD's. If new mixes of a song come out you have a right to the mix and new sound track data.
As far as the license, it's an indefinite right to one copy of every rendition of that song. The licenses are electronic which you should be able to make printable receipts from for accounting purposes. You could delete all the data files and then go online and then redownload everything minus probably a minor service charge. But most importantly individual song licenses are tradable. Once you own a song, you own it, the producers can't come out with an enhanced version later to entice you to shell out even more money. If you change your mind about a song someone else could buy that one song from you unlike iTunes where you have to hand over the whole account. Songs would then become like stocks where they fluctuate in price. When the price of the songs fall too low such as six months after a song is initially released when people get tired of it, then the music producers themselves would buy back the licenses; kind of like the schools buying back your textbooks at the end of term in college. I can imagine paying as much as $10 just for a just released song. Later the music industry would probably buy it back once the priced dropped below $2, but still that is like an $8 profit on one song. This makes online licenses practical for music collectors and in fact I'd imagine the price of most of the good music to hover around $6 per song as no one will really want to give it up from their lifetime collection. How much would it be worth when you old and retired to listen to all the songs of your youth long after their popularity had faded. If the music industry did everything I described here their profits would blow up a hundred fold.
Too bad it won't ever happen.
As far as the license, it's an indefinite right to one copy of every rendition of that song. The licenses are electronic which you should be able to make printable receipts from for accounting purposes. You could delete all the data files and then go online and then redownload everything minus probably a minor service charge. But most importantly individual song licenses are tradable. Once you own a song, you own it, the producers can't come out with an enhanced version later to entice you to shell out even more money. If you change your mind about a song someone else could buy that one song from you unlike iTunes where you have to hand over the whole account. Songs would then become like stocks where they fluctuate in price. When the price of the songs fall too low such as six months after a song is initially released when people get tired of it, then the music producers themselves would buy back the licenses; kind of like the schools buying back your textbooks at the end of term in college. I can imagine paying as much as $10 just for a just released song. Later the music industry would probably buy it back once the priced dropped below $2, but still that is like an $8 profit on one song. This makes online licenses practical for music collectors and in fact I'd imagine the price of most of the good music to hover around $6 per song as no one will really want to give it up from their lifetime collection. How much would it be worth when you old and retired to listen to all the songs of your youth long after their popularity had faded. If the music industry did everything I described here their profits would blow up a hundred fold.
Too bad it won't ever happen.
Friday, July 29, 2005
Music on my Mind
A few years back I had a huge MP3 collection of stuff I'd downloaded off the net and then one day my hard drive crashes. I lost everything but my porn collection which I then deleted out of spite. I took a long hiatus from my computer but like all things I've came back. I've slowly been building a file server with a Raid 5 array so unless the house gets hit with a meteor my data is safe.
In the past couple of years I've really become obsessive about music. I'm pretty sure it's because of the freedom of MP3's, the Internet, and the recent advent of portable players. For those that don't know me very well, which is pretty much everyone, I'm a closet perfectionist, It's just that I want things so perfect that unless it's practical and a priority I don't even try, for instance keeping my bedroom in order.
Anyways I'm rebuilding my music collection but this time for the first time in my life I'm buying tons of CD's. I never really bought much music before as I am a real pop music fan and there really were only a couple good songs on a CD on average but it's was not so much the price that put me out as it was constantly changing CD's. I use to create play lists on my computer before but I'm a restless individual and need to get up and about quite a bit; usually I just roam stores looking for neat stuff. But with MP3 players I've been set free. Now I buy the CD so I can rip them myself to control quality and to get the titles and stuff correct and keep everything organized.
Me being new to Myspace you probably don't know that I'm also a programmer. Even though I do labor for a living I'm a really a nerds nerd. I have high IQ, no genius but like Salieri in the movie Amadeus I can recognize it. But for the past six months with all the music I've been buying it's irritating how many errors even new CD's have. Well being who I am I have been thinking about what to do about it. I came up with the idea of an error correcting point to point network. The actual music isn't shared just error correction information, titles and lyrics. If it works as well as I think it will then everyone will be able to rip music in minutes at high speed while the computer does all the grunt work of correcting, organizing and compressing music files while your off doing something else. Best of all this could even be applied to movies and other media like published computer data CD's like applications and games that always seem to get scratched.
In the past couple of years I've really become obsessive about music. I'm pretty sure it's because of the freedom of MP3's, the Internet, and the recent advent of portable players. For those that don't know me very well, which is pretty much everyone, I'm a closet perfectionist, It's just that I want things so perfect that unless it's practical and a priority I don't even try, for instance keeping my bedroom in order.
Anyways I'm rebuilding my music collection but this time for the first time in my life I'm buying tons of CD's. I never really bought much music before as I am a real pop music fan and there really were only a couple good songs on a CD on average but it's was not so much the price that put me out as it was constantly changing CD's. I use to create play lists on my computer before but I'm a restless individual and need to get up and about quite a bit; usually I just roam stores looking for neat stuff. But with MP3 players I've been set free. Now I buy the CD so I can rip them myself to control quality and to get the titles and stuff correct and keep everything organized.
Me being new to Myspace you probably don't know that I'm also a programmer. Even though I do labor for a living I'm a really a nerds nerd. I have high IQ, no genius but like Salieri in the movie Amadeus I can recognize it. But for the past six months with all the music I've been buying it's irritating how many errors even new CD's have. Well being who I am I have been thinking about what to do about it. I came up with the idea of an error correcting point to point network. The actual music isn't shared just error correction information, titles and lyrics. If it works as well as I think it will then everyone will be able to rip music in minutes at high speed while the computer does all the grunt work of correcting, organizing and compressing music files while your off doing something else. Best of all this could even be applied to movies and other media like published computer data CD's like applications and games that always seem to get scratched.
Thursday, July 28, 2005
A Lesbian in a Man's Body...
I'm not your typical guy. I think god messed up somehow. I think I was suppose to be a lesbian but when god was passing around souls he tripped and I wound up in the body of a linebacker. I'm just too emotional, sentimental and self aware to be a guy. Why can't I be like other guys and just think with my dick? I'd probably be a hell of a lot happier. Contrary to whatever women might say in all their complaining about men they don't really want a guy that looks like me to be sensitive and emotional or know words like introspective.
Here's proof. One of my leading sexual fantasies is a woman coming up to me nonchalantly in a bar and just hanging out with me until the end of the night. Then she smiles mischievously and suggests we get a room to sober out for the night. We find a room and without much fare we undress and the game is afoot. There is no sex of any of it's forms, just kissing, fondling and intimately pressing bodies against each other all night long, no climaxes, few words said, basically just an eternal night of trust and teasing and finally waking up in each others arms the next morning. We talk for a couple hours, shower, and finally go out for a late breakfast. You tell me, does that not sound like I've had my balls cut off or what?
Here's proof. One of my leading sexual fantasies is a woman coming up to me nonchalantly in a bar and just hanging out with me until the end of the night. Then she smiles mischievously and suggests we get a room to sober out for the night. We find a room and without much fare we undress and the game is afoot. There is no sex of any of it's forms, just kissing, fondling and intimately pressing bodies against each other all night long, no climaxes, few words said, basically just an eternal night of trust and teasing and finally waking up in each others arms the next morning. We talk for a couple hours, shower, and finally go out for a late breakfast. You tell me, does that not sound like I've had my balls cut off or what?
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
My Type
I am a long term prospective type of guy. Show me an attractive older women and I'm always interested in knowing if she has a single daughter. I can certainly appreciate breasts, but I prefer women on the smaller side, least time takes it's tole too soon. I am primarily attracted to Caucasian women, the fairer the better. Both fair blondes and Goth brunettes turn me on. Unless she is unusually fair I'm just not into black women which evidently sets me apart from every other white man on this planet. Also I'm not much into Latina's which turns out to be half the population here in Los Angeles, I just find that Latina's age faster than other women and they tend to be on the short side. I definitely like tall women but there are a few tiny ones that turn my head. I'm an ass and leg man for sure. It's not so much about a bubble butt (which I don't always like) as just having a nice shape. I enjoy a little baby phat and tend to have an eye for thicker though certainly not fat women. For a guy of my size and strength a little extra padding is a good thing. It's all about proportions.
What I'm looking for in a woman is the same thing women typically say they want in men. Attractive but most importantly I want to find a woman that can see beyond what I look like and see the real me, want to know the real me. I am not a submissive man, I'm just quiet and laid back. I hate planning dates, I just want to hang out and go with the moment. A bad match for me would be a differential women. She needs to be intelligent and have a strong personality and also take a more aggressive role in the relationship at least some of the time and not play games. I need a friend, someone I can really talk to, not someone tight lipped and afraid to trust. Someone that can tell me when I'm full of shit. Someone that can push me when I need it and vice versa. And most definitely not afraid to trust or to open up right from the start. I'm not looking for a mother or to be someone's father, basically I'd just like a little healthy co dependence with someone that wants to spend a significant amount of time enjoying the good and bad times in the adventure of life.
What I'm looking for in a woman is the same thing women typically say they want in men. Attractive but most importantly I want to find a woman that can see beyond what I look like and see the real me, want to know the real me. I am not a submissive man, I'm just quiet and laid back. I hate planning dates, I just want to hang out and go with the moment. A bad match for me would be a differential women. She needs to be intelligent and have a strong personality and also take a more aggressive role in the relationship at least some of the time and not play games. I need a friend, someone I can really talk to, not someone tight lipped and afraid to trust. Someone that can tell me when I'm full of shit. Someone that can push me when I need it and vice versa. And most definitely not afraid to trust or to open up right from the start. I'm not looking for a mother or to be someone's father, basically I'd just like a little healthy co dependence with someone that wants to spend a significant amount of time enjoying the good and bad times in the adventure of life.
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