Archive for July, 2008

Lets review. Law enforcement: still run by idiots

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Girl gets arrested for dancing! A group of 20 people were dancing at the Jefferson memorial and a 28 year old girl was arrested after she asked police why they were asking the group to leave. So if you question the lawfulness of the law enforcers you are automatically guilty of something? First off they were not doing anything disturbing or wrong yet they were asked to leave. Then when one asks a simple question she is arrested. Gee is anyone still in the dark as to why everyone is up in arms and not trusting of any sort of authority? The girl was released after several hours. Seems to me the officer should now have to pay for his error. Story with video here.

Cop has charges filed against him for having sex with a cow. Seems about right. The sad part is he already had charges filed against him for sexually assaulting three young girls. Guess he figured what the hell… might as well add a little bestiality to the mix.

I am not sure what to think of this article on a tourist in London being killed by suffocation at the hands of the law? I try and avoid bitching about law enforcement buffoonery in other countries because there is plenty in my own back yard to get worked up about. However I see more and more of this all the time. So to be positive at least it is not just American law enforcement that feels the need to kill, mutilate, injure and harass it’s citizens.

Cops kill a man in his home serving a drug warrant. We have robots right? Why the hell don’t we use them! If cops are at so much damn risk doing their jobs that they need to use SWAT teams to serve search warrants then maybe we need to serve them with robots. Drive up, knock on the door and see what happens. If things get nasty the house is surrounded. If things don’t get nasty the cops can just walk in and quietly do their job. Law enforcement sucks. They make too many mistakes far too often to be using lethal force when no one is being threatened and when they might not even have the right house. In addition drug offenses are not punishable by death yet. When tactics like this are used the victim is not only put to death, they don’t even get a trial. I fail to see why it is acceptable to take the risk off the officer and place it on the public?

So a woman who does not trust law enforcement (how could she not?) waits to pull over till she is in a well lit area. Yes the car behind her had lights on but it was unmarked so she simple wanted to be in a lit area so some nut job with lights did not kill her. Instead, for playing it safe the nut jobs did get her but it was the cops! For playing it smart and safe she gets guns pointed at her, handcuffed and her car searched. And she was afraid some bad guy was gonna get her….

Just another case of the man with a badge taking the wrong guy and torturing him before they realize the error. In this case it was the CIA. I wonder if they said they were sorry because you know that would just make it all better… right!

This one is real top notch! A kid falls from an overpass and breaks his back and foot… so the cops tazer him 19 times! The cops said he was incoherent and making comments like shoot cops. First off, I thought he was incoherent? Second who gives a shit the kid has a broken back and foot and no weapons, what the hell is he going to do? I don’t care if he said you mama looks like a goat there is no need here for a tazer!

Cops break into an inoccent families home and shoot the place up. A nine year old kid still has nighmares. The officers get awards!! For what you may ask… for shrapnel damage to thier helmet and ballistic armor! That is right they were not even hurt. They break into the wrong home and the owner fires a couple shots through the door at the officers because of course he is protecting his family. The good news is at least the cops did not kill the whole family like they tend to do in these situations. Course if they had gotten the right house a nine year old would not now need therapy! The getting awards part is what really gets me. In what other job do you know where you get rewarded for fucking up?

Internet art, a new art form

Monday, July 28th, 2008

I have seen some really well done web sites and interactive web media. I think this stuff is a new form of art. Like photography was back in the day, or screen printing and others. Some of this art is best presented on the web and really only has any meaning in such a place where the viewer has some control over what is happening. Perhaps even the best most visually stunning web site is still to utilitarian to be actual art by most definitions? Regardless of where you fall on that one I think pages/sites like the one linked here are “web art” by any definition. If presented in a gallery I don’t think this art would have the same impact. It needs to float around the WWW in search of fresh eyes and new viewers who look at and enjoy it.

With that said it will be interesting to see if this new media gets adopted and becomes a new form of art. Either way I enjoy it and want more. Be sure to check out the artists main page as well.

Tattooed pigs - No really

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

I don’t even remember what I was looking for when I stumbled upon tattooed pigs! As strange as it sounds Wim Delvoye tattoos pigs and has been doing so since the 1990s. I think the “art farm” is where he did this work and I think it is in China from what I can gather. Apparently they have fewer restrictions on defacing pigs. Personally I don’t see the problem. Besides tattooing pigs Wim has also found time to recreate the stations of the cross with rats in an X-Ray format (link). And if you have never see an anal kiss print he has done that as well (link).

So now that I have looked at Wim’s work I can honestly say I really like it. On his personal web site all the pig tattoos are displayed on pieces of mounted skin. It looks like he just tattooed the animals and when they healed killed and skinned them for display. That is what it looks like but I also found this web site which clearly shows tattooed pigs happy and healthy, even running through the woods. I will go with the thought that he waited till the pigs died of natural causes to skin them. With that said I really love bacon so if he tattooed them skinned them and then made bacon out of the rest I guess I am OK with it!

Also of note and of personal interest to me is that Wim Delvoye has a piece at the Walker Art Center in Minnesota. It is called Caterpillar #5, 2002 and is laser-cut steel, stainless steel (link to sculpture). I have actually seen, touched, and walked around this piece so I somehow feel connected a little.

So check out Wim Delvoye’s personal web site and click around. He has a lot of interesting and strange stuff.

Muppets for laughs

Monday, July 21st, 2008

I used to watch The Muppets all the time as a kid. I loved The Muppets! Kermit and Miss Piggy were funny and the human guests were good as well but what really made the show for me was the cast of odd balls that appeared on various shows. I recently found some Muppet videos that made me chuckle. It seems The Muppets are being refreshed and made internet ready! Much happiness… allow me to share. Beaker and the Chef were two of my favorite characters.

Evil candidates needed

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

I know I have been a bad blogger. I can make up a ton of excuses if you need? Anyway the Onion has this bit of humor. Evil candidates are needed. “A McCain presidency would bring the lead the nation into unprecedented darkness”.


‘No Values Voters’ Looking To Support Most Evil Candidate

Story of Stuff

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Well I just lost another 20 minutes of my life. I went to storyofstuff.com and watched the video. I would like to waste less. I would like to recycle more and I would of course like to be greener so I went and watched. I thought it would be interesting to see what they had to say. You know, some new way I could save the planet. First off the 20 minute video was in no way a success at drawing me in or making me think they had anything important or new to say. Well I figured if I was going to blog about it I better click a few things and see if I uncover any diamonds. There are none. The lady in the video even says there are all kinds of resources and stuff on the web site? I sure as hell could not find them. There are just links to download the crappy video, links to download crappy info stated in the crappy video, and other crappy stuff relating to the crappy video. Did I mention the video was crappy? The most filled out resource is the blog. At a glance that sucks to.

This is the best done pile of crap waste of time I have ever seen. Obviously some money was spent making this site, and a lot of time. In the end however if gives you nothing. Talk about a waste… this site is it. I champion the thought but it is a little like the ice cream man telling about a wonderful new ice cream bar and then just driving away.

I would love for everything to recycle and for us to use no chemicals in anything but that is just unreal. Unless we want to go back to horse and buggy days we are stuck with toxic computers, cars, and homes. But this is why we have started going to Mars right? So we have a place to dump our garbage and a place to get new resources to make more stuff?

Well the whole thing just confused the shit out of me and was a colossal waste. But here I am blogging about it and you ask Timmy? Well they had one neat logo in the video I liked! A toxic skull and cross bones flexing it’s muscles so it could kick your ass… i liked it. It would make a good shirt. A shirt I would destroy natural resources to create, explot small underpaid malnourished kids to build and then wear a week before I tossed it away to be burnt in an incinerator to pollute the air.

Good work week

Friday, July 11th, 2008

All too often a job gets frustrating. Pull your hair out run into the dark screaming kind of frustrating. Same old same, day after day. Well I want to report I had a very good week of work. In the last week or so I have spent two days on a lake taking pictures and one morning poking out the window of a four seater airplane taking pictures. Not a bad week away from the office at all! One day on the lake I took pictures with attractive women in bikini’s, the second day was driving around in a pontoon boat snapping shots. The cherry on top was two hours of flying at 500 feet taking aerial shots. I got a little nauseous after two hours of bumping around in the small plane but it was worth it. Looking through the jiggly camera was not very advantageous to keeping ones stomach at rest.

So for a change I report good things! Don’t get used to it. At the right you will see one shot I snapped of the shadow of the plane… no reason other than to just to be a dork.

Oh the price we pay

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

The video below makes me want to scream! So now their are actual people who think it is a good idea to tag people on planes like dogs and zap them when someone gets out of hand! The EMD bracelet by Lamperd is a god damn joke. I say write to them and tell them they are freaking cracked.

So they want to tag you with a bracelet and then when someone causes trouble they will just zap the whole damn plane into submission with a taser bracelet. We all know how safe tasers are right!?! No one ever dies from them. There is no way possible they could just zap the “bad guy”. No they would have to zap the whole plane! Imagine someone trying to look through 150 buttons to find the one for said “bad guy”… no that will just not work they will have to zap the whole plane. The video shows one guy falling but I think that is PR crap.

I am all for drastic. If we can get rid of all the damn luggage searches, humiliation, wasted funds, cavity invasions, line standing and general pain I am all for drastic. But if we want to do drastic lets just go all the way. Once on the plane they can just fill the whole cab with knockout gas till the son of a bitch lands. Then we can all take fingernail clippers and baby bottles on the plane again.

This taser bracelet is a half assed baked idea… I am sure we can expect to see it in two years!! Hey on the bright side it looks from the video that it at least has the advantage of giving the airlines a whole new way to loose your luggage.

Should I be offended?

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Someone searched for “I am so god damn bored with the internet” and they ended up on my blog. Should I take offence to this? I don’t think anyone plans thier day around my posts buy damn that sort of hurts!

The best free online game = Knighthood

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

So I have played several free online games as of late. They all felt free as well, but there was some fun to be had in all of them. In a previous post I commented on several MMORPG games I had tried. In an even earlier post I commented on Cayon Defence a flash based game. While I still enjoy Canyon Defense the other character based games have fallen to the curb. Now I have nothing but praise and glowing reviews of Knighthood by Hive7.

Knighthood is a “an online multi-player game for social networks” as Hive7 calls it. Basically you sign up to play the game by installing the Knighthood app in your Facebook account. Then like every other annoying Facebook app you get your friends to install the app as well. Even if your friends do not install the app you can use them in the game. Those friends that do install the app make you a stronger player. Those that install the app and play the game make you stronger yet. The best part is if your friends are mostly turds like mine you can just steal other peoples friends. People under you are your vassals. If you sign up under a friend they become your liege. You use your strength to attack other kingdoms and steal gold and vassals. You use your own vassals to build buildings with which you make a mighty kingdom. Each building has a unique benefit to your kingdom.

Knighthood is a great game if you like strategy and are perhaps a little power hungry. In the early part of the game people are a little pissy and get mad when you capture their vassals, I was as well. As you gain strength the pin heads fade away it seems and everyone is out to have a good time with the understanding it is a give and take game. I have done quite well for myself and for every streak of terrible luck and bad planning I have also had a handful of good luck. It is also fun to banter back and forth with people as they ram their heads against your walls or you beg them for the return of a vassal.

My VERY STRONG recommendation is to run over the highlights of the rules. DO NOT build a garrison until you have some proper defenses built. This is clearly pointed out in the rules… the ones I read after I built a garrison too early. I recovered from this blunder quite well. The game is very forgiving if you can plan and have the slightest bit of patience. If this sounds like it is your sort of thing sign up and get going. Better yet join my kingdom and I may pass a little gold your way to help you get off to a running start! You will of course need to have a Facebook account. Then you just install the Knighthood app and you can click over to my kingdom and click “Swear loyalty to Baron Brad”. You can go it on your own as well but having a liege is most often a good thing until you get a little stronger.

This video almost unsells the game but I will link to it anyway. It shows how the game works in the most basic of ways.

The price of gas can be fixed

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Apparently the price of gas can be fixed and drastically reduced almost immediately. Well at least according to Newt in the below video. The Rocky Mountains and Brazil apparently have huge oil resources but it is currently illegal to drill for it.

I hate $4 a gallon gas. It is fucking crazy and it seriously kicks me in the balls whenever I go to buy anything from food to fun. The price of everything is going up because everything is transported and those costs are skyrocketing. Not that anyone needed me to tell them this, it is pretty damn obvious. With that said, if $4 a gallon gas means we will have some useful and affordable electric cars in the next 5 years and that all the ass bags driving SUVs will have to downgrade I am mostly for $4 a gallon gas. It hurts and I will bitch but at least a change will happen. I just feel real bad for those that can no longer afford to go to work because it costs more to get there then they make.

Something has to change. We need cheaper gas or cars that don’t burn it. Better yet we really need both, and we need them about 25 years ago. If we had had decent electric cars 25 years ago maybe we would have the flying cars that were promised by now? There is also a crappy web site and petition for reducing the price of gas.

Not even in my dreams

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

I am not even sure this girl is human? She has a rubber waist and I am sure all the bones have been removed. I am not sure if this is more sexy or more creepy? Thank god the girl looks bored out of her freaking mind or she would creep into my dreams and dance me into a volcano as a sacrifice to god only knows what island deity. Wow… how does she move like that?

In an earlier post I made there was another girl with some jaw dropping talent you just don’t see every day. I don’t think a lot of women can make their chest wave at you?