thoughts ponders and stuff

2009-06-21T13:35:00.001-04:00

Laid Off in 2009

For a great funny story about being laid off today, read this article by Tammy Scott. http://ezinearticles.com/?id=2468621

2009-06-07T11:02:00.003-04:00

MAC Boot Options

Clear all Boot Params:

Option Command R & P

Boot to DVD Drive simply hold down the following keys:

D - Boot to Apple Hardware Test

C - Boot to Disk Install

Boot to shell and check disk:

Command S - Command Prompt

You can then run "fsck -fy" multiple times until all errors are cleared.

2009-05-17T10:58:00.001-04:00

Quote to Ponder

"Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." - Charles Mingus

2009-05-17T10:44:00.003-04:00

Mac OS X - Boot into verbose mode all the time.

If you want to boot into your Mac in Verbose mode all the time do the following:

Open Terminal
Type: nvram -p
This will show you if any boot-args are set.

To Turn Verbose mode on.
Type: sudo nvram boot-args="-v"
If you had any boot-args in the previous step you would copy those args as well.

To Turn Verbose mode off.
Type: sudo nvram boot-args=

You will now always see what your MAC is doing during boot up. No more mysteries.

hard reset hx4700 - Google Search

2007-11-05T11:28:00.000-05:00

Hard Reset HX4700
"The new method of hard resetting a WM 5 HX 4700 is to press and hold the Contacts and Mail buttons and then doing a soft reset."

2007-05-18T11:02:00.000-04:00

Lightning Strike

2007-05-18T11:00:00.000-04:00

Quote

"Just because you can, does not mean you should."

2006-06-21T09:28:00.000-04:00

Well said Dan!

"As for their offers of a future with only an office but no assignments, it just isn't in me to sit around doing nothing. So I will do the work I love elsewhere, and I look forward to sharing details about that soon."
- Dan Rather
CNN.com - Harsh words as Rather leaves CBS - Jun 21, 2006

2006-06-08T09:33:00.000-04:00

Al-Zarqawi and Picture Frames

Whose job in the Military was it to get the gold picture frame? Most importantly, whose idea was this? Was this a frame from a Saddam Palace? A sale at Target?

2006-04-21T14:52:00.000-04:00

Google and Latin

So I was checking the version of my Google Toolbar and noticed this Latin Phrase. It translates to:

“Out of many things a great heap will be formed.”

Hopefully they continue to build a great platform and not a steamy pile.

2006-04-19T09:23:00.000-04:00

One Red Paperclip - Bartering up and up.

One Red Paperclip

2006-04-14T16:47:00.000-04:00

Coopetition?

Can this work? Agreee on standards. Compete on implementations.

2006-04-14T15:11:00.000-04:00

The Rapture is not an exit strategy!

Dear President George Bush,

It seems that you think that being a bully and starting all of these wars is a good solid form of diplomacy. I am a christian, but I was not planning on the Rapture being our exit strategy.

Thanks!

2006-04-14T14:57:00.000-04:00

My America

"My america created P-Funk, Devo, and the Ramones"

--Henry Rollins

I would like to add Henry Rollins to that list!

2006-03-09T14:50:00.000-05:00

Scooter Boy on the highway!

Click Picture to see the man on the move! Would you ride this scooter on the Garden State Parkway during rush hour?

2006-03-07T14:47:00.000-05:00

24 Quote of the Week:

"It's OK, I shot her above the kneecap! She can still walk!"

2006-02-22T15:00:00.000-05:00

False Evidence Appearing Real

2006-01-18T16:23:00.001-05:00

Let's have a war...

War Drums
Bush Boots stomping
Rice: No Point in More Iran Negotiations

Let's have another war...

No need for negotiations since the decisions have been made.

Bush I have already been on this yellow brick road and I broke my ankle!

2006-01-06T08:37:00.000-05:00

Bush on ailing Sharon

"He's a good man, a strong man, a man who cared deeply about security of the Israeli people and a man who had a vision for peace. May God bless him."

Thanks for using the past tense. He is not dead yet, you jerk! You can join Pat Robertson and his lovely statements.

2005-12-07T18:01:00.000-05:00

Church of the Transfiguration

Very Surreal

2005-12-07T17:40:00.000-05:00

New Orleans
Intersting to see only pictures of New Orleans with limited commentary.
See for yourself.

2005-10-22T23:26:00.000-04:00

nuf' said

2005-10-21T20:13:00.000-04:00

Thoughts w/o perspective.

Click Picture

2005-10-21T10:39:00.000-04:00

Silent Fear

"Dumbledoore's voice carried no hint of a threat; it sounded like a mere statement, but Fudge bristled as though Dumbledoore were advancing on him with a wand."

-- Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling

2005-10-18T11:52:00.000-04:00

Old News but still Funny and just as sad

Barbara Bush Comments on the relocated New Orleans Refugees as she tours the Astrodome in Texas.

Click to be outraged!

Yes, I did say Refugee. They are victims of a war! 1) Our soldiers should be home. 2) The war money being spent should go to lower taxes. 3) The money being given to Cheney's boys for the reconstruction of Iraq should be given to honest (hard to find) companies to rebuild America's infrastructure (Mass Transit, Alternative Fuels, Urban Development, Internet Access common to all like Dial tone.

2005-10-14T22:27:00.000-04:00

Second "Lost" Post

When I was watching the second episode of the second season (called "Adrift") I thought I saw somehting very odd. So odd that I only told one or two people. I kept telling myself it must have been my mind and its tricks.

Then iTunes had to announce that you can now buy TV Shows from them. They only sell 4 shows and of course one of them is "Lost". I decide for my $1.99 I will put this to rest once and for all, since I will be able to freeze frame until my heart's content.

This is all about what I call the "Company". I think in episode three it got a name, but to me it is the M-A-N. So in the hatch and elsewhere we have seen this logo, the corporate logo. Here is Locke checking out the Logo.

Then the man who lives in the hatch has it on his little jumpsuit! Heh, I am OK here, all for towing the company line and all. Little selling out down in a shaft hitting a button is fine with me.

This is all fine. Back to my thoughts. So I find the scene in "Adrfit" it is 34:55 minutes into the iTunes version of the show. The screenshots below are across the entire scene of a shark swimming by Sawyer and Michael on the raft which only lasts about 2 seconds.

Shark Head entering picture and Sawyer's legs in the water.

Best shot of them all. The damn logo on the shark!

Yup, It's the logo!

A little Sawyer as the shark swims away.

Little more.

Ok, Ok, Ok, I have seen it all a shark working for the M-A-N! So the Shark is part of the island? Willy Wonka here we come. The show gets better and better who would have ever guessed a Shark workin for da' MAN!

2005-10-13T17:35:00.000-04:00

A Frozen Rainy Moment in time
I was driving to work in the rain and testing my new phone's video camera. This is the video and the accompaning stream of consciousness commentary below:

Madonna – Frozen in background
Hand can not hold camera steady.
Heh, it will be cool to video the final few blocks into work.
Turning the corner with the mirror in the shot - that’s cool.
Mirror is the whole current future past thing, all at once. Passing the pub. Maybe I can mount this and make Ken’s daily video blog. I guess that would be boring.
Under the bridge of the Delawanna Train station.
Heh, there is the back of the Allied Warehouse.
Heh, there is the side.
Phone Vibrates (listen carefully)
Video Ends – Interrupted @

8:12 am by Incoming Call 555-555-6026 (Known to me as Mom). Grandpa has passed on.

Good Night...

2005-10-10T23:47:00.000-04:00

Rage, Anger, Hostility!

a violent wrath! passion. violent and uncontrolled anger. excluding such states as mental retardation. (thats nice) a strong feeling of displeasure and usually of antagonism. (huh, kick in pants!) Ire. indignation (justified) resistance in thought or principle.

My Boy Bush! War, Money, and Nominees. What else would you want!
Maybe we can get a justice who was never a judge. Oh wait we just did. He is clever (read: something like that).

2005-10-10T23:44:00.000-04:00

"Lost" TV Show

Join the sheeple. I boycotted this for the 1st season. Then when folks did not say it sucked I decided to watch Season 1 DVD. I am now addicted and watching season 2. I am now officially online to be disappointed. The show is building itself into something which must be a masterpiece to succeed. Anything else will be a complete failure.

2005-09-30T15:35:00.000-04:00

Underworld
England, Vampire, Lichen (Werewolf), Battle, Leather, Astin Martin, Kate Beckinsale, Dark, Raining. Sequel coming in 1/2006. Century long battle of vampires versus werewolves meets the Matrix meets the Crow. Filmed in a beautiful dark tone across a set which is very timeless in its appearance.

All a movie needs!

Katrina and Oil

2005-09-02T10:38:00.000-04:00

I have allowed the employees here with long commutes to work 1-2 days from home since many of them can work at their full capabilities remotely. I try to do my little part. No one is speaking of the gross $s removed from the US economy by Katrina. Rebuild or not is a debate, but the $ spent by companies in that area are now $0. Is it 2% of the US Economy which has been eliminated? 3%?

2005-08-16T12:42:00.000-04:00

"Gasoline prices could climb another 5 to 15 cents through Labor Day even if oil prices do not rise, analysts said."
Wasington Post

- The fun of being an analyst! If my theory is true and the analysts and speculators are on the same team (Big Oil - GW and the boys) then maybe we should call them analysts for all of the screwing they have done.

- Why do we have Oil companies? They all charge the same price, yet all get oil from different wells with different potential? How can that be? Maybe some things fall apart under free market theory. It is not a free market anyway when OPEC acts as a united entity and holds such a large stake.

2005-08-11T17:41:00.000-04:00

Oil $65.55

What to do? Boycot going to work. A day of telecommutting?

Nothing!

2005-08-09T16:38:00.000-04:00

buzztracker - 2005-08-09
Fascinating way to look at the news.

buzztracker - 2005-07-07
Look at 7/7/2005 Picture for the effects of the London Bombings.
Also when you click on a city you see the stories and the cities it ties it to.

2005-08-09T10:17:00.000-04:00

Digital Black and White
Good tutorial on B&W Digital photography. Describes the techniques during the shot and pre-printing.

2005-08-08T15:48:00.000-04:00

Oil $64!

Iraq occupation continues. GM will be largest corporate fatality (Their eco [ecologic / economic] plan revolves around monster Cadillacs and Hummers).

When will speculators be tried as war criminals.

2005-08-05T16:01:00.000-04:00

Oil $62.50... More death in Iraq... Subway "voluntary" searches... London to deport "preachers" of hate...

Sounds like everyone is ready to let the government make the best decisions for them.

Oh wait! He's in Crawford! Voluntary? Preachers? Who has defined "Hate"?

To me it sounds like a revolution!

2005-08-01T15:29:00.000-04:00

Strange Brood
In addition to "Dawn and Drew", this is worth a listen to.

2005-07-07T21:24:00.000-04:00

Code Orange 7/7
Convenience, Distraction, Reinforcement, Revolution!

Seemed that we were headed towards a positive summation against the war machine. Oops "Code Orange"!

No Worry: Supreme Court Justice, $60 Oil, Overseas jobs, G8 (Live8 was perfect rhyming opportunity but it was too much of a joke), Downing Street Memo.

You see Orange we see green. Round and Round weeeee go! Wonks (Wonkas?) keep making it green. Sheeple this way!

I was starting to think Guantanamo was an unfair agenda. I now see things clearer with my Orange shades.

Wake Up!

2005-07-07T08:04:00.000-04:00

"It's reasonably clear that there have been a series of terrorist attacks in london. There are obviously casualties both people who have died, people seriously injured, and our thoughts and prayers of course are with the victims and their families.

"It’s my intention to leave the G8 within the next couple of hours and go down to London and get a report face to face with the police and the emergency services and the ministers that have been dealing with this, and then to return later this evening.

"It is the will of the leaders of the G8 however, that the meeting should continue in my absence, that we should continue to discuss the issues that we were going to discuss, and reach the conclusions, which we were going to reach.

"Each of the countries round that table have some experience of the effects of terrorism and all the leaders as they will indicate a little bit later, share our complete resolution to defeat this terrorism. It is particularly barbaric that this has happened on the day when people are meeting to try to help the problems of poverty in Africa and the long-term problems of climate change in the environment.

"Just as this is recently clear that this a terrorist attack or a series of terrorist attacks it is also reasonably clear that it is designed and aimed to coincide with the opening of the G8. There will be time to talk later about this.

"It is important, however, that those engaged in terrorism realise that our determination to defend our values and our way of life is greater than their determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism on the world. Whatever they do, it is our determination that they will never succeed in destroying what we hold dear in this country, and in other civilised nations throughout the world. Thank you."

2005-07-03T10:04:00.000-04:00

This is the text of the Stanford Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me – I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

2005-03-11T12:13:00.000-05:00

EPIC 2014

In the year 2014, the New York Times has gone offline.
The Fourth Estate's fourtunes have waned.
What happened to the news?
and what is EPIC?

2005-03-09T18:58:00.000-05:00

The Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial

Make a contribution!!!

2005-03-04T08:23:00.000-05:00

????

"I don't want the world, I just want your half"

2005-02-16T17:16:00.000-05:00

Wait hold the presses!
This just in from the front. The KENNEBUNKPORT WAR MACHINE has successfully done the following "ticking(read expletive) off" in the past 24 hours:

* Syria will back Iran (we knew this but we made them say it)
* Iran says screw you I am making a nuke (we also knew this but we made them say it.
* Israel says Iran is making nuke (Ditto! Thanks, we might have made them do that.)
* Since the dumb Americans cancelled the NHL season, Canadians only have one league to watch and have withdrawn from the "Coalition" (read with air quotes), no not the KENNEBUNKPORT WAR MACHINE, but the "Coalition" we talk about on TV (oh and the UN).
* Iran threatens to shoot down our drones. Would that be considered an attack. Probably. I am sure we will send a lot over then. We should be started by President's day. Everyone will be home to watch CNN.

Provocation! Don't stop until we have ticked everyone off and we will then be the first state under the new country of Koriraqyriaran (I think I may have forgotten Afghanistan, but I do have an "an" in their I am sure that that covers it). We could then include Uzbekistan (Spelled that right on first shot).... You get the drift. I know I meant North Korea, but I say we take South Korea while we are there.

The cost of the war could have paid for every American to get a free Hybrid/Electric car and have more economic leverage on the world. Darn, I forgot again about the KENNEBUNKPORT WAR MACHINE. (end scene, Applause, that was the punch line no more no less)

2005-02-15T13:46:00.000-05:00

Can you here the tall boots of the KENNEBUNKPORT WAR MACHINE stomping across the world. The next US state will be Koriraqyriaran.

2004-12-28T17:42:00.000-05:00

Isn't this all we need? Less Judgement more Opinion

Judgement - a formal utterance, an obligation of a decree, divine decision.
Opinion - a specific view or notion, generally held view by an individual.

2004-12-28T16:38:00.000-05:00

Donate Now to Oxfam America

Please ignore the American Red Cross corruption. Donate to Oxfam for Disaster relief. Donate now for the Earthquake victims of Asia.

2004-12-27T14:45:00.000-05:00

ols-master

A truly intriguing view of the future based on the power of the Internet.

2004-12-08T15:35:00.000-05:00

verve
1 special ability or talent
2 the spirit and enthusiasm animating artistic composition or performance

What has happened?

2004-11-30T23:07:00.000-05:00

Security Moms?

Nascar Dads?

Both oblivious to the world!

CODE ORANGE

2004-11-22T13:47:00.000-05:00

COALESCE
1) to grow together
2) to unite into a whole
3) to arise from the combination of distinct elements

DISJOIN
1) to end the joining of
2) to become detached

2004-11-22T10:10:00.000-05:00

More distractions. "Dying" Overpriced criminals. Jail. Look over there. Fans - underpaid morons! Let's start a riot - about basketball? priorities? Nothing else is important. Let's not worry. Does the world have "suspensions". Basketball and school had them. Go sit in the corner.

REVOLT - KILL - DESTROY - to the squeaky sounds of sneakers on a basketball court!

2004-11-22T09:56:00.000-05:00

CNN.com - Five hunters gunned down in Wisconsin woods - Nov 22, 2004

Hunters Killing Hunters. If this persists we should send them all to Iraq to take out their frustrations on Some civilians or maybe some Camel Hunters. Or maybe they can piss on their land to make sure it is marked for proper warning signs to other animals (read "humans").

That Would be COOL!

CODE ORANGE

2004-11-18T09:06:00.000-05:00

CNN.com - Powell:�Intelligence suggests Iran trying to adapt missiles for nukes - Nov 18, 2004

One more, on the "evil" doers list, in our sights. This is great! I need to buy another "We Support Our Troops" ribbon for my car. We may lose another thousand or two of our troops but we are sure that they will lose at least 10,000 troops and civilians! We ROCK! I can here the chant (to the war drums of marching feet at a slow tempo) U....S....A....U....S....A....U....S....A....

Bush can continue to do this since these are not "wars" approved by congress. Even during his last two years of being a lame duck he can continue this absurdity. How many countries can we invade before we decide these invasions (Freedom for Democracy Missions) should be debated and made official.

I can feel Big Brother's face peering down at us all with those eyes, which appear to follow us no matter where we stand.

Ignore me, look over there CODE ORANGE

2004-11-03T10:13:00.000-05:00

The "Sheeple" have voted! Regardless of this vote, which I think was the right choice (Both Choices were the same), we need to stop the Corporate Political Policy Setting and the war machine in the middle east. Oil can be the savior if the sales benefit the country it is pulled from. Remember Bush mentioned a whole list of "evil" doers. We are only two countries into the list.

2004-11-02T06:55:00.000-05:00

I was the first ballot placed this morning.

Unfortunately, I did not vote for who I wanted to in many ways. That is unfortunate since we will never make our system better. More corruption regardless of which of the major candidates is elected.

2004-10-31T13:40:00.000-05:00

Son of a Bush

I am not afraid of you mister big bad wolf so you better not follow me and furthermore don't bother me and any of my friends in fairy land anymore because I will protect them.

CODE ORANGE

2004-10-28T11:22:00.000-04:00

Some have criticized my Blog for being liberal. Call it what you will.

Let’s go Blog point by Blog point:

Political Compass – Very interesting test. Like it or not. After that you should ask more questions of your self you may agree or disagree.

Lance Armstrong Foundation – Donating money for cancer research is not a bad thing.

MakeTradeFair – People in Guatemala should be paid a nickel for coffee since they have no choice. Real nice. Folgers and all these companies under cut the market so much that prices can not be equalized. What if India flooded the market with doctors? What would that do to the market? This is not a nice example of open markets. This is a corporate caste system.

Boy Chokes on Popcorn – Absolutely hilarious!!! at what movie he was at.

A Perfect Circle – Hardest rock out there and damn good. Also, liberal they are releasing new record on election day which is Anti-bush and Anti-bullshit.

Grand Theft Oil – Don’t you think there would be less revolt in Iraq if outside firms would not be getting work but the Iraqis were? Wild idea coming(very liberal) have all oil production owned by the government (only descendents of people there today), no taxes, and every citizen gets an equal share of all profits every month. Call it the new Rodeo drive with BMWs everywhere. Do rich people like to have a Jihad? Couldn’t this cause more peace in the region?

Someone stole my GD trashcan.

President Reagan comments – Know your idols. If you go to church then why do we celebrate individuals so much. End Idolatry!

One final NEW note: If you have a ribbon on your car in support of something, how much did you pay? Where did that money go? Knock it off and donate the money to a charity. There are many charities to support families of soldiers abroad. They need are help as well. If you must have a ribbon my suggestion is cut out a ribbon from white paper, find a highlighter, and tape it to your car window. You can write on it “I support our troops and donate money to charities!”

2004-10-02T11:06:00.000-04:00

The Political Compass

Before you vote check this test to find out where you truly stand. It could be enlightening.

2004-09-11T08:53:00.000-04:00

Lance Armstrong Foundation - Cancer Survivorship Education, Resources & Programs

Support this foundation, get a yellow wristband, make a donation! Tell your friends. Pass on the wristbands!

2004-08-26T17:44:00.000-04:00

www.maketradefair.com

2004-08-17T15:19:00.000-04:00

Child Dies
CNN.com - Boy 3 chokes to death on popcorn at movie

What they do not seem to see as 90% of the problem is that parents brought their 3 and 7 year olds to the "Alien vs Predator" movie!

2004-07-14T15:40:00.000-04:00

A Perfect Circle - The Outsider lyrics

Help me if you can,
It's just that this, is not the way I'm wired so,
Could you please,
Help me understand why,
Why you've given in to all these reckless dark desires you're,
Lying to yourself again,
Suicidal imbecile,
Think about it, put it on a faultline,
What'll it take to get it through to you precious,
I'm over this, why do you want to throw it away like this,
Such a mess, I don't wanna watch you.

Disconnect and self destruct, one bullet at a time,
What's your rush now,
Everyone will have his day to die.

Medicated, drama queen,
Picture perfect numb belligerence,
Narcissistic, drama queen,
Craving fame and all its decadence.

Lying through your teeth again,
Suicidal imbecile,
Think about it, put it on a faultline,
What'll it take to get it through to you precious
I'm over this, why do you want to throw it away like this,
Such a mess, I don't wanna watch you.

Disconnect and self destruct, one bullet at a time,
What's your rush now,
Everyone will have his day to die.

They were right about you, (repeat)

Lying to my face again,
Suicidal imbecile,
Think about it, you put on a faultline,
What'll it take to get it through to you precious,
I'm over this, why do you want to throw it away like this,
Such a mess,
Coalesce,
COALESCE!

Disconnect and self destruct, one bullet at a time,
What's your hurry, everyone will have his day to die,
If you choose to pull the trigger,
Should your drama prove sincere,
Do it somewhere, far away from here.

2004-07-14T08:59:00.000-04:00

A Perfect Circle - The Noose Lyrics

So glad to see you well
Overcome and completely silent now
With heaven's help
You cast your demons out
And not to pull your halo down
Around your neck and tug you off your cloud
But I'm more than just a little curiuos
How you're plannin' to go about makin' your amends
To the dead
To the dead

Recall the deeds as if they're all
Someone else's
Atrocious stories
Now you stand reborn
Before us all
So glad to see you well

And not to pull your halo down
Around your neck and tug you to the ground
But I'm more than just a little curious
How you're plannin' to go about makin' your amends
To the dead
To the dead

With your halo slippin' down
Your halo slippin'
Your halo slippin' down
Your halo slippinn' down

Your halo slippin' down
(I'm more than just a little curious
How you're plannin' to go about makin' your amends)
[repeated]

Your halo slippin' down
Your halo slippin' down to choke you now

Bush has got to GO!

2004-07-08T15:13:00.000-04:00

Grand Theft Oil - Will the citizens of Iraq benefit from Oil production? All the money was going to the elite and will now go to the new elite and/or outside corporations with everyone in Iraq as losers. Haliburton will become very wealthy before this is over. And if Bush loses the election then Cheney can cash out even quicker.

Trash Can?

2004-06-29T08:08:00.000-04:00

Who hated my trash can? What did it do? Where did it go?

Woke up on Monday morning and to our surprise one of our trash cans was gone. The one bag which was in it was placed neatly on the ground and the can was gone. Our cans are kept in the back yard. Why did it not like us? What could we have done to make it a better place for the can?

Now we have to buy another one and it may not match. We will have the multicultural trash can party.

Waiting in the Airport

2004-06-22T15:27:00.000-04:00

Tick Tick Tick

Flight @ 7pm to Chicago.

5:40 PM arrive at airport. eCheckin – “Please see attendant”

40 minutes in line – “Oh, you are going to CHICAGO”, “Yes I am”, “Oh”

“Oh what?” I said.

“Well your flight is delayed, the flight I will put you on standby is also delayed and the flight from this afternoon was cancelled.”

From “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles” came running through my mind that I was F**ked!

“What are my options” I said to the acting nice attendant (not an Oscar award winning job)

“I can out you on standby to the most recently delayed flight and also on standby in case they add the canceled flight back in but you will still have a seat on your original flight if all else fails”

“What time do we think any of this will be?” I said.

“We do not know so you need to go to the gate”

AND WAIT!

I was right! 8 PM and still sitting here.

2004-06-16T17:12:00.000-04:00

ChoiceMail Free - Reviews and free downloads at Download.com
Sounds like a good SPAM prevention software to check out.

2004-06-13T19:15:00.000-04:00

Jesus died and came back from the dead in a few days! Reagan funeral went on way too long and was a form of idolatry. This got way out of hand. We should vote for Jews for President so that it will be over and done with in a day.

Meanwhile the American media has not mentioned how many Americans have died in Iraq and Afghanistan during this week!

America is so blind, dumb, and happy! We are being lulled to sleep by all mainstream politicians and media (D & R).

2004-06-05T17:04:00.000-04:00

Former President Ronald Reagan died Saturday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 93. At least two of his children and his wife, Nancy, were at his bedside.

A time when a man of his word and character showed America what it is all about. He will truly be missed. He was not doing well for so long, but he will be missed today. America truly rallied behind him. He held steady on so many issues. I will never forget "Good night and Godspeed!". I say the same to you tonight.

2004-06-03T13:10:00.000-04:00

Microsoft Customer Evidence: Allied Office Products

Microsoft Case Study of Allied on recent completion of Balanced Scorecard solution.

2004-05-28T07:48:00.000-04:00

Rance
Blog by so called mystery celebrity. Quite funny even if not true.

2004-05-18T13:55:00.000-04:00

The question of why gas prices go up every summer is never answered nor asked? It needs to be published how much per gallon is taxes.

What happened when?

2004-05-14T23:23:00.000-04:00

…What happened now, yesterday, tomorrow? What happened to sleep?....What happened to decency and respect?

2004-05-13T11:13:00.000-04:00

Hello : Welcome

Share Images privately or publish to your blog with this great free service.

2004-05-13T11:11:00.000-04:00

The Edge

2004-05-13T10:34:00.000-04:00

I have added the ability for you to add comments to my posts. Over the next few weeks I hope to add the ability to post photos
Still not sure of which way to go on many issues in life. Only time can tell

2004-05-12T13:23:00.000-04:00

Blogger Knowledge

www.blogger.com has been relaunched with new features. This is a great Blog provider! Also, have you checked out www.gmail.com?

2004-05-12T13:09:00.001-04:00

Three parallels:

1) What was in the mind of the 9/11 hijackers? How could the 9/11 hijackers do this? What did we do to a society which breads such venom against cultures and sub cultures.

2) Fast Forward to last week. What was in the mind of the American prison guards in Iraq? How could they treat other human beings like that? How could they have such contempt and hatred of another person? This went well beyond what we as a civil society should tolerate. This is a sad day for America. We pride ourselves on doing what is right! This was truly wrong!

3) Today we had the Al Queda beheading of Nicholas Berg.

What do these three incidents have in common? What do these people have in common?

NOTHING!

Weren't all of the victims unjustly tried?

2004-05-12T13:09:00.000-04:00

The Munich Air Disaster 1958

Interesting article about something I was unaware of. This got my mind off of the troubles of today.

2004-05-07T10:38:00.000-04:00

Emergency Medicine Doc

Seems that these Emergency Medicine folks have a lot going on. They are even up on technology. They must know some pretty smart people. If I read a post about Whitesnake I will have to get my headband out.

2004-04-28T09:06:00.000-04:00

Smiths Discography

More Smiths and Morrissey

2004-04-27T08:30:00.000-04:00

billycorgan.com

Intersting to see a blog of a "star" Billy Corgan formerly of the smashing pumpkins. The Internet can be very leveling.

2004-04-15T08:27:00.000-04:00

Garmin: eTrex Vista
Garmin eTrex Vista is great GPS unit.

2004-04-14T15:40:00.000-04:00

Air America Radio
Air America Radio - Might be liberal but entertaining. How many years of the same republican babble can you listen to about the same unsolved issues.

2004-04-09T09:56:00.000-04:00

.::Pete Yorn::.
Take a Listen to Pete Yorn.
Ryan Adams
Also Ryan Adams in same genre.

2004-03-25T07:01:00.000-05:00

Yahoo! News - Tech Tuesday

Every Tuesday Yahoo has a Technology Section.

2004-03-22T08:13:00.000-05:00

Conservative Punk Magazine
New Website which showcases alternative music artists who are also conservative. One has nothing to do with the other.

2004-03-19T07:39:00.000-05:00

Google Search: "Ken DesRochers" Allied

Technical Magazine Articles I have been interviewed for.

2004-03-18T08:18:00.000-05:00

Flaming Lips "Do You Realize"

And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun don'-go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round

2004-03-18T08:15:00.000-05:00

Nation's Restaurant News: Jayson Brown. RA chef fine-tunes art of cooking at museum cafeteria. (Culinary Currents).(Restaurant Associates)(Interview)

Jayson about Museum.

2004-03-18T07:29:00.000-05:00

Grey Tuesday - Free the Grey Album February 24

All about the "Grey Album".

Not sure if you have heard of the “Grey Album”. It is an illegal mix of the White Album(Beatles) and Black Album (JayZ). It has been downloaded over 1M times on the web. The beatles and Jay Z are pissed.

2004-03-18T07:03:00.000-05:00

Downhill Battle - music activism

All about the Grey Album and Music Rights!

2004-03-18T07:02:00.000-05:00

Recently Discovered Near-Earth Asteroid Makes Record-breaking Approach to Earth

This is an interesting article about a cloe asteroid to earth. Most interesting the article describes how this is a frequent occurence.

2004-03-12T07:50:00.000-05:00

Great Office Products Company

Allied Office Products - Your One Solution for all your office needs