A gallery of walls with stuff written on

Ok, Ok, I am doing it again but this is really worth looking at for some time.


A gallery of walls with stuff written on

Paige Pooler Illustration

Ok I know posting links to other people rather than writing something interesting is pretty lame but her work is really swell.

Paige Pooler Illustration

Exactly what is wrong with everything

As I read a post on BoingBoing about the lawsuit The Internet Archive is involved in over the wayback machine. I fail to see and keep in mind this is the first thought that came to me as I read, how the pages stored there are any different than news papers on those wonderul microfisch at the library. If companies are allowed to have complete conteol over all advertising and information from there past with the ability to erase anything that might show them in a negative light whats to stop the them from rewriting history all together.

Boing Boing: Internet Archive sued over Wayback Machine

I really dig this

E m m a n u e l l e . W a l k e r

Volkswagen People

I own a VW New Beetle . I was hesitant to buy one even though I like them (aside from the motor being at the wrong end) as they border on being one of those cars guys just cant drive. I found one that was lowered riding on big wheels with really dark tint so that made it OK . Anyway , I have always owned Volkswagens , my first car was a Karmann Ghia and it just went on from there numerous beetles ,busses and so on. There always was a camaraderie amongst VW owners . We would wave at each other talk at gas stations sort of the same thing as motorcycle people do. The sad thing I have noticed lately is that this apparently isn't the case with new generation VW owners (Water Pumpers) .I wave at other beetle owners and seldom even get a nod . So sad, maybe they just bought their VW like thinking it was just an ordinary car. I think VW needs to screen potential buyers or something .

Man reason is swell (Super Film for Geeks too)

A really intersting documentary and some insight into why. If everyone would just use their head so many problems would dissapear.
ASCII by Jason Scott: Why the BBS Documentary is Creative Commons

My poor understanding of macroeconomics. or Gas,Coke and Smoke ,America's precious commodities

It would seem that gasoline, Coca Cola, and cigarettes are the most important things in american life. I derive this statement from the fact that these are the three things that we tolerate daily swings in the price of ,with no obvious justification. I have been to the fuel pump two days in a row at the same place and paid 30 cents more the second day for a gallon of gasoline . I know, as so deftly explained by a much more business minded friend of mine , that this change is simple supply and demand and if one guy changes his price others will follow ,BlaBlaBla. This is exactly the issue. This sort of greed is exxactly the sort of behaviour that has american society in the state it is in . At risk of sounding communist, wouldn't it be better all around if suppliers only made enough profit for comfort ? admittedly this woyuld of course be up for interpretation ( one mans comfort etc). Greed and selfishness , greed and selfishness. Hereis my coompletely idealist point of view arguement : I know full well that would the tank truck at the gas station comes on a set day and that tank of gas cost a certain amount how is it that between trucks the rice can swing so greatly ? I know the answer is that the big company is just greedy and often times the little station owner is greedy as well. It doesn't have anything to do with who shot who in the middle east or how the vote in congress went as to drilling through the spotted owl's nest. It all really comes down to hey I want some more money. The big mystery is the same sort of thing goes on with Coke and cigarettes how is that are the coca nut barons and tobacco sheiks demanding more for their products too? Note: I don't smoke, I am just way too observant and probably looking for something else to rant about. Do you think you would tolerate this sort of price swing for other things you buy? I wonder how much gas would cost if the price was controlled by the actual cost to produce it? Maybe mexico has the right idea . The price may be high and government controlled but it is sure to be the same everywhere you go. Well I am going to go fill up and get a soda. I need to drive somewhere to buy something I don't really need at a store I could easily walk to.

Over 2 moths no posts

I am truly lame . Not a single post in over 2 months . Write something you sad fuck . Does that count I don't think so . Oh well at least there is a post now.

We Really need to Leave

Our military is doing a great job killing civillians in Iraq apparently that freedom we want them to have doesnt include driving home after dark with the kids.
Aside from the fact that we shouldnt have been there in the first place, We are really starting to look like Vern in Stand by Me on guard duty . I wonder how many times "accidents like the one in this story happen when there is no one to report it. Newsday.com - World News

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Stumble

Lately I have been participating in a pretty keen community called stumble upon , it starts as a toolbar add-on for Firefox when you come across a cool site you can review it and this adds to your profile and other people wit the same interests can network with you ,swell huh. You can also click on the stumble button and be randomly redirected to sites that may interest you . The best thing is this has nothing to do with marketing.I am sure everyone wants to know what I do on the web ( or at least what I tell them I do).

Dan Spills

I hate G4 for what they did to techtv and the people who work there. If you are geek enough to care go read Dan Huard's blog post .
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Christmas

I haven't posted in a long time there has been alot of stuff going on none of which I will be blogging ( I am not ready to be Wil Wheaton just yet).I did want to talk about the feeling aroung Christmas Ii notice there is a feel to the season and being that I am not a christian it makes me wonder what it is , is it the lights, the music ? I do like christmas time . I am sure the world really needed to know that. Well I am telling everyone anyway. My daughter said we neededa "christmas tiki" for the tree she is too cool at 2.75. Those light up deer everyone (including us) has are "Goat Lights" or "Christmas Goats". Swell Indeed

Support Kerry Get Kicked Out of School

Kids at Richland Center High School in Richland Center, WI got a chance to meet George W Bush during an official visit. However, any student who turned up wearing a pro-Kerry pin, hat or shirt was threatened with expulsion. Go get the rest of the disturbing story from boingboing

Oh Look yet another reason

Here is a BoingBoing post you should read then follow the links. I would put it all here but they do such a good job.

Vote for this guy The other one is a big dumb Liar.

I wonder ,and maybe it is because of my complete disdain for the current administration and what they have done to our country but it seems unimaginable to me that if someone simply listens to what the candidates say and do some minimal research on their own (ignoring the mainstream media helps) that anyone but maybe a really rich corporate CEO or something could possibly vote for Bush.

Look I have titles for posts

Isn't that swell . At least something is going well.

I removed the post that was here because someone helped me to realize that it was mean ad not constructive in any way, anyone was hurt by the words it contained has my apology.

Republicans are insane.
They go on about how much safer their president has made the world and yet there are right now more police and soldiers and FBI men and secret service guarding New York than ever. hmmm safer?
They call John Kerry a flip flopper because he would have a position on a subject based on the lies the republicans tell him and then upon finding out the truth he changes position hmmm flip flop?
Then after bashing changes of opinions they have a democrat as their keynote .I guess it is OK to flop if it is in their favor . And Zell Miller is completely insane from the keynote speech he gave you would think John Kerry had raped Zell's mother he hates Kerry ,the candidate of his own party. If your look back a few years he said great things about Kerry, did they have a spat? He also slammed him for wanting to get rid of overpriced military hardware the same hardware that DIck Cheney also wanted to get rid of. Nothing like a little half truth . Then after the speech that he yelled and spit at everyone he got so mad at Chris Matthews ,who when asked him what he was so mad about stated he wasn't mad ,then said he wished they could have a duel. These people are fucking crazy we must get them out of power. go read Ol'Zells speech for yourself as well as everyone else's Link

Here is a fresh new word for your vocab .......Street Spam.
This covers all those people who come to your selling stuff like magazine subscriptions. Just yesterday some kid comes up and says he needs to collect "personality points" and I can help him get some by purchasing magazine subscriptions. This really isn't new they have been around for a while the game just getting lamer and lamer . I bought some from a girl a few years ago and I think I got put on the list or something because everyone comes to my house. The worst is those steak truck guys who always say "hey buddy I am at the end of my route and I have some steaks left and I can hook you up with a deal on some meat. This must be part of the training because they all say the exact same thing. I only bought the magazine subscription from the girl a few years back because she just came to the door and said "hey man I am selling magazine subscriptions .I am supposed to hit you with this lame story and be all perky but I really just have to sell some inn order to make any money." When I asked her why she didn't mention the Awesome trip she could win or something she said she didn't really expect to get any trip she was just trying to make some money. I wonder when salespeople will drop the lame gimmicks and just get honest it works much better on me .