entilzah

http://consumerist.com/2009/12/white-castle-couch-pouch-for-when-youve-really-given-up.html

Their are a bunch of replies to this article that i truly wish more people could grasp.

Ah you gotta love full dress and tech rehearsal. Sitting up on the fly rail with nothing to do for most of the 2nd act of the Nutcracker.

People pay for unlimited high-speed internet, and how dare they use it.

Nothing like having your working line break while letting in a two ton.

Working the Fly Rail at Gwinnett PAC. Weight weight and more wait ;)

Six hours of pulling nothing but two tons a 120 feet. I have never been this sore after a gig.

Someones bright idea to have just one team pulling two tons.

I was reminded of this reading an article today.

A little over a decade ago. While still living in California. A friend and i took a weekend vacation to Lake Tahoe. At some point on the trip to Tahoe the turn signal switch in my steering column broke. While driving around in South Lake Tahoe. I was pulled over for failure to use my turn signal. Once the cop witnessed the turn indicator malfunctioning. He gave me a fix it ticket. This was the first ticket i had ever received. So i followed the instructions to a T. I repaired it, Drove down to my local police department so they could sign off on it. Then mailed the signed off fix it ticket to South Lake Tahoe. A little less than a month later i receive a letter stating i have to pay a $20 filing fee. Here i mistakenly thought they can not do that it was not listed on the ticket. Thinking to much like the government has to follow any laws. I ignored it. About two months later i get a letter stating i have been fined $100 for failure to pay the fee. I am like fuck you. Couple months later fine is doubled. Couple months later guess what? Doubled again. Again my "this is fucking bullshit, Fuck you". About three months later i get a letter from South Lake Tahoe saying they have put a hold on my license for not paying $420. Shortly there after i get one from the DMV saying the same thing. At this point all i want to do blow up city hall. Apparently South lake Tahoe was getting impatient. Felt the hold was not sufficient punishment. They proceeded to suspend my license, with the followup letter from the DMV.

Suspended drivers license for failure to pay a $20 filing fee.

My big fuck you was to ignore that too. At that point i did not have a vehicle. Waited till the statute of limitation ran out. proceeded to renew my license on the cheap.

What did i learn. Do what ever the hell they tell you to the first time.

So i listen to police scanners on a regular basis. Heard a first today. Cobb county police officer asking dispatch for the gate code of an apartment complex near me. Dispatch responded with the gate code.

Hmm i would of thought that would be something that they keep in a notebook or something. Not something they broadcast for all to hear.

Watch in HD and full screen. You can see the shock wave of the tower hitting the ground in the glass building.


Slow motion videos can be so beautiful if done right.

Am going through some of the various videos. Find one with the typical guys responses in the background. "That was was awesome" "WOW so cool". Than a women "that's it" Some women are just missing the cool explosion gene ;)

Action at 1:40

It is a guy thing!

I really need some Garibaldi icons.

So few make the connection anymore. I need something more in their face.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison#Population_statistics

Even though United States imprisons more people than any other country in the world. Both in total numbers and percentage. I find it appalling that there are people in the United State that feel we do not imprison enough people.

Bumper sticker i saw today basically said Felons should never be released from jail. I 'might' of agreed with that decades ago. When felons were all violent crimes. However now that we have politicians with the "Get tough on crime" stance turning minor crimes in to felonies. Hoping to deter crime. With the crime being a felony now. Instead we just end up with more felons in prison.

It is sad that our criminal justice system is viewed as one of the worst in the world.

http://gizmodo.com/5410696/teenager-calls-911-after-parents-confiscate-his-xbox

A 15 year old boy from Buffalo Grove (outside Chicago) asked police on Sunday if his parents had the right to take away his Xbox. They stopped by to set things straight.

The kid hung up mid-call, but officers went to his house and told him to listen to his parents. They didn't ask why the little shit was in trouble in the first place, but I'm pretty sure annoying emergency services won't get him back to MW2 any faster.

http://gizmodo.com/5410758/microsoft-might-pay-murdoch-to-de+list-from-google

http://gizmodo.com/5401471/google-to-murdoch-whatever-dude

Rupert Murdoch is considering having all his content (like Fox news) delisted from Google.

Really! the sooner the better.

With the latest sparkly vampire flick breaking box office records like they did not even exist. I am sure to expect dozens of knockoffs.

It is time to invest in more of these.
http://www.google.com/products?q=real%20vampires%20don%27t%20sparkle&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wf
Specifically to annoy them tweens.

Now GET OFF MY LAWN.

Definitely will wear mine when working the Miley Cyrus concert later this month.

I had high hopes. I watched Stargate Atlantis from the very first episode. I liked it so much. I went back and watched every episode of SG1 in order. Just to get a better idea of what was going on. Fell in love with that show as well. Then they canceled them. Oh whats this a new Stargate show. Cool! The only thing Stargate Universe has that resembles any of the previous shows is they have a Stargate on the ship

I just can not get into any of the characters. I dislike them all.

Plot holes galore. You have a crew that is clueless. However you have this great Ancient communication devices. Hey lets use them to bring some of those super smart people like Carter, McKay, Jackson that the air force has laying around. No instead lets see Lou Diamond Philips getting laid. Oh look at that, its T&A oh it a girl with big jugs in her underwear. OH my soft porn. Wow Lesbians getting it on

Maybe angry black guy and angry bald white guy can discover they are angry over "don't ask don't tell".


No more, i am done with SGU.

The whole Real World/90210 in space thing. Is quickly losing any hope for this show to be anything i would enjoy in the future. I have to struggle to get through each episode. If i wanted to watch some psychological twenty somethings. I would watch reality shows.

OH, that is right i forgot. Most of the viewing public likes that crap. Most cater to the lowest common denominator.

I so need to get out of this house. Lack of work and sitting in this house for days on end is depressing me to no end.

I find it amusing that some people can hold a drivers license, yet can not backup in a straight line at all. You know the ones. The moment the car is put in reverse they start turning 'sharply' one way than the other. Never being able to find straight.

http://gizmodo.com/5409588/cop-tasers-and-arrests-a-10+year-old-girl-for-throwing-a-fit

Are idiot cops with tasers in some sort of competition with one another? I think the new record for stupidity belongs to Dustin Bradshaw, the Arkansas police officer who zapped and arrested a 10-year old girl for throwing a fit.

Get this: the mother called police because her child was throwing a fit about showering before going to bed. When the officer arrived the girl was kicking and screaming on the floor and the mother suggested that she should be tasered. Instead of saying something like "I don't have time for this crap lady" and calling out child protective services, the officer picked up the girl and carried her into the living room. At that point the girl was reported to be "kicking violently" and one of those kicks struck the officer square in the balls. The officer then proceeded to taser the girl in the back, handcuff her and drag her off to the Western Arkansas Youth Shelter.

If that wasn't bad enough, Officer Bradshaw was suspended for a week without pay, not because he tased the girl, but because he failed to use the camera attachment to record the incident. The girl, on the other hand, will face disorderly conduct charges as a juvenile over the incident. Seriously, what is it going to take before law enforcement decides to rein in police abuse of tasers?

Even with parental permission. WHO could possibly think tasering a child is alright EVER!

For once I'll have to agree with the Vatican on this one ;)

http://blogs.chron.com/celebritybuzz/2009/11/vatican_calls_twilight_a_moral.html

I have been doing bug reports on software and websites for many years. Yes i feel filing a bug report is oddly self serving in a way. I have never in all my years received a reply. Until today from the Google maps team. While it was short i was surprised i got one at all. Let alone it not being a canned response.

My bug report:

Report history
Problem ID: REMOVED

Your report: I used to be able to use Google maps from my exact address. However recently Google maps can not even find my block. I have tried multiple different odd street numbers. My block just does not exist anymore. Most of the odd addresses South East of Windy Hill on Powers Ferry Rd SE come up as incorrect searches. My Address REMOVED

The reply:
Hi Gary,

Your Google Maps problem report has been reviewed, and you were right! We'll update the map within a month and email you when you can see the change.

I guess growing up in California where the State minimum wage is the same for everybody. Regardless of weather you are waitstaff or retail (I've read that Nevada and Washington are the same). Has jaded me into the solid belief that if the service sucks. You are not getting a tip.

Lots of people are saying no matter how shoddy the service is. You should always pay a tip. As they are paid so little UM NO. Wait-staffs agree to that pay when they take the job. If they do not like the pay find some other job. Mandatory tips ensure the waitstaff does need to do the job well.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20091119_College_students_arrested_for_not_paying_tip.html?submit=Vote&oid=1&mr=1&cid=8500281&pid=70466877&70466877=Y

It was an evening out that college students Leslie Pope and John Wagner will long remember.

Not only did they get what they called lousy service, they got handcuffed and arrested.

All over a $16.35 tip.

They were with a half-dozen friends at the Lehigh Pub in Bethlehem last month, so the establishment tacked what it called a mandatory 18 percent gratuity onto the bill of about $73, according to reports.

Pope and Wagner refused to pay.

"You can't give us terrible, terrible service and expect a tip," said Pope, a 22-year-old Moravian College senior who's a Pottsville native, according to the Lehigh Valley Express-Times.

They had to find their own napkins and cutlery while their waitress caught a smoke, had to ask the bar for soda refills, and had to wait over an hour for salad and wings,

"i can't believe I'm getting paid to Dip, Workout, and hangout with the best guys in the world"

"Gawd dammit Rudy, go to your little quiet place and Chant motherfucker"

"Don't they fucking realize. The world already hates us"

"This has got to be the biggest cloud of second hand smoke ever. They fucking execute people for shit like this in California"

"What, you give him some Rolling Stones Drugs or something? No. What the fuck did you do to him? Just asked him what he would be if he was not a Marine"

"FUCK. Yo man you just dropped a case of grenades. See, That's why we can't have nice things"

"Put down that fucking milkshake, and dig a fucking hole"

"Now we get to blow up a school. This is every forth grade boys fantasy"

"Because of this dying motherfucker and his dead friends were eight hours behind schedule"

The Media makes college educated Officers out to be absolute fucking idiots. For those of you who have served. I would hope that you could tell me this is not entirely true.

I really want to believe most of our Military Officers are better than that. Officers that listen to the advice of those with experience below them. Following that advice.

Please DO NOT text me for the time being. My phone is not working correctly. I can see that i received a text from you. However i can not open it and most definitely can not respond to it.

I wish i could afford to get drunk tonight.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2010260025_websnow12.html

Pity the lowly snow globe with white flakes raining down on a snowman or Santa Claus tucked inside its liquid dome.

Try packing this favorite travel souvenir in your carry-on luggage and taking it through an airport security checkpoint this holiday season, and chances are you'll have to leave it behind.

"Snow globes are not permitted to be carried through security checkpoints," said Transportation Security Administration spokesman Dwayne Baird.

The reason is that the globes contain liquids, and TSA rules say that only liquids, gels or aerosols in containers of three ounces or less are allowed through security in carry-on bags.

This is one of those wonderful catch 22's. In the Supreme Court case Castle Rock vs. Gonzalez. It has been proven that it is not the police's job to protect us. However in many states you can be charged with assault or murder for attempting to protect yourself and/or your property.

I find that particular catch 22 appalling.

I am sure that nearly everyone that continues to read by journal. Notices the rather low regard i have for police officers.

I have read a few studies. Where researchers take otherwise very good humans and put them in an "absolute authority" position over other humans. Something like two thirds of all humans start becoming very abusive in that absolute authority position. It is just something about the way we humans are wired. I have heard that those absolute authority position attract abusive humans. I do not believe that. As who ever is doing said study is not taking into account. That most of us become abusive in those positions. I just wish the powers that be would show interest in weeding out those two thirds. Unfortunately our system does not reward trying to weed out the abusive humans. Just tend to look the other way

The Abu Ghraib incident is a good example of otherwise good humans becoming very bad humans in above said positions. It happens everywhere from prison guards to police to some bosses.

It is just that Police should be held to a much higher standard. I know they are human. They are going to have their bad days just like the rest of us. However as a police officers they should never carry that to the job. Their word is considered both in court and elsewhere to be unquestionably fact. Police need to be the best of us. They need to be that one third.

I always find it rather interesting that police rarely seem to just injure someone when they shoot them. They almost always die. Might have something to do with police emptying whole clips into suspects. Two or three rounds typically puts a person down. I really do believe police love the fact that they can justify it.

In the iToilet

IMHO


I am always amused by those that feel that there time is worth money. As in i just spent five hours in line. That cost me X amount. Or that one hour commute each day cost me 40 hours a month at whatever they say X is worth. Unless said time is taking away from a time that you are ACTUALLY getting paid for. Such as that two hours you took off from work to stand in line at the DMV. It does not add up. At least in my opinion. Of course opinions are like arseholes.

A conversation i had with my roommate recently. He was looking at how much money he has saved by moving closer to work. Me i was just thinking gas savings wear and tear on the vehicle Etc. He added in the commute times as well at his hourly pay rate. Ummm OK ;)


to each their own

So you can do as you please.

No offense intended. But i will be removing those that only twitter and those that have their LJ linked to a blog located elsewhere.

The reason being, Twitters never seem to read/respond to replies. Those with blogs located elsewhere. I am not creating another log in just to comment to your journal/site.

This is why the patent office needs to be taken out and shot. Them dumb asses let Microsoft patent the sudo command with a gui attached.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/06/BAVU1AG9LS.DTL&tsp=1

Chastened by a federal magistrate's ruling, the city of Oakland is expected to pay $300,000 to a former board-and-care home worker who said he was the victim of excessive force and a police cover-up.

Uganda Knapps, 34, of Oakland said he called police for help Aug. 10, 2004, while trying to chase down Michael Fowler, a mentally challenged resident who had left a care home and was walking near 38th Avenue and Suter Street.

Fearing that he might get hit by a car, Knapps pushed Fowler out of the street and was spotted doing so by Officer Michael Cardoza. The officer yelled an expletive at Knapps and grabbed his arm.

When Knapps jerked his arm away, Cardoza placed Knapps in a carotid hold to control him, authorities said. After handcuffing Knapps, Cardoza used a bent wrist control hold, a painful move designed to bring someone to his or her feet.

Both of the holds were "excessive and unreasonable," U.S. Magistrate Maria Elena-James in San Francisco ruled in August.

Cardoza and Officer Francisco Rojas, who was also at the scene, said in their police reports that Knapps had attacked Fowler.

The judge wrote that both officers reported they had seen Knapps "punch Mr. Fowler in his eye, slam him into a garage door, straddle Mr. Fowler after he fell to the ground and punch him in the face and body after he was on the ground."

But Elena-James concluded, "The court finds that none of these events took place," and said the officers had fabricated their reports to cover up Cardoza's use of excessive force.

The magistrate said she was particularly troubled that Cardoza and Rojas had testified against Knapps at a state Department of Social Services hearing at which Knapps could have been barred from working in a state-licensed care home.

An administrative law judge sided with Knapps. Still, he was fired from his job.

Elena-James ordered the city to pay $125,144 in compensatory damages to Knapps. Cardoza was ordered to pay $30,000 in punitive damages and Rojas $5,000. The $300,000 settlement includes these figures as well as attorneys' fees.

The City Council discussed the settlement in closed session Tuesday. City Attorney John Russo has asked the council to ratify it Nov. 17.

Cardoza and Rojas are still on the force.

"When their officers make mistakes, they don't take corrective measures," Knapps' attorney, Jim Chanin, said of the Oakland Police Department. "They have the potential to be good officers, but they have to be told when they're wrong. They defend everything no matter how wrong it is, such as this case."

HIGH calorie cooking.

Chocolate covered Peanut Butter Rice crispy treats.

I installed windows 7. Due to an incompatibility with my blu-ray player software. I am trying to get xp to boot from a usb memory stick. Really do not want to dual boot. Just want to plug the thumb-drive in when wishing to play a blu-ray. Not having to deal with boot option screen every boot.

I did the install without a hitch upon the first boot i get a stop error. Now i did my research and discovered this is the same stop error one would receive if boot device say a hard drive failed during boot.

What is happening is windows is loading the usb bus driver. When finished windows resets the usb bus. Windows than detects a loss of contact with the boot device (usb memory stick) and gives a stop error.

I was wondering if anybody has heard of a fix?

I am discovering lots of people with the same problem. But no fixes.


Before anyone states the obvious. I'll beat them to the punchline:
Yes, my problem is i installed windows 7

HarHar ;)

But i really get a kick out of looking at the Groom lake facility in Google maps. Mostly because the US says nothing is there.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=groom+lake&sll=61.223867,-149.882269&sspn=0.022064,0.089092&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Groom+Lake&ll=37.238358,-115.810189&spn=0.018245,0.044546&t=h&z=15

Louisville Slugger Bat Maker Loses Lawsuit Because Batted Ball Kills Player!

http://consumerist.com/5393452/louisville-slugger-bat-maker-loses-lawsuit-because-batted-ball-kills-player
http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=11404075#at

LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – A Montana jury has found the maker of Louisville Slugger bats failed to adequately warn about the dangers its product can pose.

Hillerich and Bradsby has been ordered to pay $850,000 to the family of 18-year-old Brandon Patch. The teenager was killed during a 2003 baseball game after being struck in the head by a batted ball off an aluminum bat while pitching during an American Legion game in Helena, MT.

The Patch family argued aluminum bats are dangerous because they cause the ball to travel faster than those hit off wooden bats. They said Brandon did not have enough time to react after the ball was hit.

Although the jury did award the Patch family money saying that H&B failed to place warning labels on the aluminum bats, they also said the bat was not defective.

This is what the internet might look like without net-neutrality.

http://io9.com/5390896/straczynski-tears-america-apart-for-new-movie

J. Michael Straczynski is teaming up with uber-producer Jerry Bruckheimer to destroy America. The Babylon 5 creator has just been announced as the writer to bring post-nuclear civil war videogame Shattered Union to the cinema screen.

The game, released in 2005, takes place in a new American civil war as the United States fall apart following a nuclear attack on (and destruction of) Washington DC, with both Europe and Russia (which annexes Alaska, presumably to the upset of Sarah Palin) getting involved and bringing the world to the brink of a third world war.

Pirates Of The Caribbean and Prince of Persia executive producers Mike Stenson and Chad Oman will work with Straczynski on the movie, which Bruckheimer's production office is handling for Disney. Is it too much to hope that the movie will have some of the game's political satire instead of just another actioneer?

Gakked from mina0407

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears
With their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking Twenty-five miles to school every morning

Uphill... Barefoot...

BOTH ways

Yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up,
There was no way in hell I was going to lay
A bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it
And how easy they've got it!

But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of
Thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my
Childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!

And I hate to say it but you kids today you
Don't know how good you've got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, We had to go to the damn library and
Look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!

There was no email!! We had to actually write
Somebody a letter, with a pen!

Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!
Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! No where was safe!

There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to
Steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself!
Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ's usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!
There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished and the tape would come undone cause that's how we rolled dig?

We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you
Were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!

And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either!
When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school,
Your mom, your boss, your Bookie, your drug dealer, a collection agent, you
Just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

We didn't have any fancy Sony Play station video
Games with high-resolution 3 -D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games
Like 'Space Invaders' and 'asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You
Actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or
Screens, it was just one screen
Forever!

And you could never win. The game just kept getting
Harder and harder and
Faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!


You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was
On! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off
Your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel! There was no
Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons
On Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK
For cartoons, you spoiled
Little rat-bastards!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat
Something up we had to use the stove .... Imagine that!
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You, kids
Today have got it too easy.
You're spoiled. You, guys wouldn't have lasted
Five minutes back in 1980 or before!

Regards,
The over 30 Crowd

Dammit all to hell.

I have never had as much of a problem as i did getting my OEM copy of Windows 7 to install. Than once installed, updated without locking up. Hours and hours.

BLAH

Well things seem better now.

If anyone was thinking of getting 7 Ultimate. Unless you need Bitlocker & Multiple language support. Just get 7 Professional.

So i received an invite to Google Voice.

Anybody using it, That wants to tell me all the cool things i can do with it. I only have a basic understanding of it.

On my way home merrily from work. In a good mood due to an EXCELLENT Rig out on a gig at Gwinnett Arena. Pull off New Northside ave making a right on to powers ferry rd. Heading uphill about 10 under the limit. Pass two Cobb cop pricks parked facing each other chatting away. Think nothing of it. Look in my rear view mirror see one pull out coming in my direction. I crest the hill and make a right into my complex. Now i can hear the pricks tires screeching as they think a car chase is on. With me trying to avoid them. The lights come on just as i make a left into my parking stall. PA "TURN OFF YOUR CAR AND PUT YOUR HANDS OUT THE WINDOW" Sure thing whatever. Guns drawn both sides of the car. Where are you coming from? Gwinnett Arena. Where are you going? Home as i point to the building in front of me. Long pause. Do you know why we pulled you over? No sir. Your right brake light is a little dim (Which is bullshit by the way. I checked afterwords). Um ok. Is this your plate? yes Sir. You sure it does not belong to a stolen Toyota. Yes sir. Let me see your license. OK, here you go. Be right back. Pricks walk back to their cruisers. A few later Another prick walks up to my passenger window and knocks. I roll the window down. Again the question, where you coming from? Gwinnett arena. You work at the Arena? I show the Gwinnett Center employee badge hanging from my rearview mirror as i say, Sometimes, i work at all the entertainment venues. Now showing all the concert passes hanging from the mirror. Who's vehicle is this? Mine. I explain all the bullshit with the GA DMV and my last name. Now were back to what i do for a living. What shows do you work? Seemingly casual conversation minutes later. Prick walks back to his fellow prick. First prick comes back. Your rear left running light lens is busted. I am aware of that. I am going to let you go with just a warning. Um ok.

Get out of my car. Check my lights. They all work. Head into the house. Post this.

PRICKS

ROTFLMAO

A Boise, Idaho, police officer who pushed a Taser inside a man’s buttocks and threatened to “Taser his balls” violated use-of-force policy, but didn’t break the law, an ombudsman has found.

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/idaho-man-suffers-burns-inside-anus-from-police-taser/blog-118365/