North American Union V Chip Conspiracy

My Friend Patricia posted this, which I thought was really truly thought provoking.  I did some reserch about the topics she mentioned and a friend told me to check out this video.  It's frightening stuff and I'm posting it to promote awareness. 

 

 

Honestly I'm just as guilty as anyone.  I'm not all that well informed regarding this stuff, and I own a cell phone with a camera, that isn't really mine but I rent it and think it's mine.  I'm sure every picture I ever take with it is sent to the telecommunication network's databases and remembered while my locations are documented.  And I'm not getting rid of it… I hope that I'm never so desperate that I'll submit to "tagging".

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Opinions on Blogging Etiquette…

Aright, I'm gonna throw this one out there and see what I get back.  See, more and more I'm tossing blog feeds on my RSS that aren't affiliated with Vox, some of them I need to use on my other blogs and some I want to bring here, but I'm always sort of wondering what's appropriate…

I know there's no 'Law of Blogging' and god help us if there were, but there are certain copywright laws (that I don't know all that well) meaning that a certain degree of common sense should be excercised when grabbing another person's works.  Don't call it your own, and don't modify it and still call it theirs.  Those are obvious, also I always try to credit my sources with a link.  Links are the rewards good bloggers get for good content and it boosts their Google juice and is never ever a bad thing.  Trackbacks are a way of linking too, and I think they're nothing but good because they're self-moderating, you're linking directly back to your own blog so theres far less abuse and unwarranted flaming that way.  Unfortunately if Vox has a way of doing trackbacks I've not found it yet…

One thing I'm curious about is clipping, last night I noticed this which was clipped from a blog outside vox… I though this was a great feature that would allow me to grab things in a uniform sort of way and properly credit the person I'm grabbing it from.  I went to clipmarks and installed the software to see how it goes but haven't tried it yet.  I'm interested in seeing how they benefit both the person grabbing the work and the person who produced the work in the first place.

I'd like to hear from you guys any personal opinions on grabbing other's content.  You know where the comment field is!

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Dis Day Me No Write Gud…

Despite the fact that I have a job in writing believe it or not there are times when I simply have a horrendous time making my fingers behave in a way that produces any sort of readable communication… today is one of those days.  So after scalding my misbehaving digits in hot water for misbehaving I went seeking out something to pleasure my eyes with since they've been much more well behaved…

But alas I'm at work, and while I look at porn more often then is entirely appropriate at work (usually with my boss and coworkers behind me offering in-depth opinions and critiques to the content as if it were new age expressionism or something) I strive to maintain a degree of professionalism here because I'm sharing my office with the job superintendant.   (His desk is across the room from mine with our backs to each other and my screen shots might offend the girls he flirts over webcam with.)

So I look at writings instead.  And I found a very enlighting article on Pirates and Ninjas.  I don't usually compromise my principles by throwing other people's writing on my blog… but as I said earlier, my fingers aren't cooperating and I can't seem to form a single comprehensible written sentence, so I'll post only the first bit.  For the rest you can go over to take a look.

Here it is:

CAN NINJAS CO-EXIST WITH PIRATES?

Ninjas and pirates. Tom and Jerry. Mods and rockers. Catholics and everyone else. Since time immemorial these groups have fought, for no better reason than some ancient grudge handed down through generations. But why is the ninja the natural enemy of the pirate? One hangs around in the Caribbean circa the 17th century and the other in the Edo period of feudal Japan, so one would think they'd never have a chance to meet. But somehow they did, and somehow they became sworn foes that make George Bush and Saddam Hussein look like fucking Butch and Sundance.

Tonight, we ask… can ninjas and pirates exist in harmony?

To determine the answer to this stupid question, I fired up my ancient copy of The Sims and quickly rustled up one simulated pirate and one simulated ninja. I decided to make them of opposing sexes, to create a thick atmosphere of sexual tension not unlike Mulder and Scully, if Scully wore tight black pyjamas and Mulder hated her guts. Let's take a look at our candidates:

 

Jim Pirate – who, if you're having trouble, is the top one – dresses in fairly traditional mid-level pirate gear; he's no cabin boy but then again he's not the kind of pirate who wears a gigantic tricorne hat and a beard that contains more lice than actual beard. I gave him two Nice points because he once cut out an enemy pirate's heart and DIDN'T show it to him before he died. Also note the blood splatter on his shirt, which may be related.

The most glaring differences between Jim and Eiko's personalities are in the Neat and Playful areas. Ninjas are nothing if not neat – they can shuriken you up the wazoo before you even know they're in the building – but you certainly won't find them in a ninja bar chugging a pitcher of Cooleys New while all the other ninjas chant encouragingly. Incidentally, Eiko goes without gloves because the Sims skin editor is a mean bastard that won't let you change the look of a person's hands. I had to reject my original idea for a 'pirate living with Jesus' article because I couldn't add the stigmata.

Let's take a look at where they'll be living.

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Toe Knee’s Theory of Evolution

Long ago I developed my own theory of evolution, and through the course of my life it’s been reinforced over and over again.  Today I discovered another proof in that theory, so I think it’s time to publish.  Here it is:

 

Why Humans Have Evolved Beyond Other Mammals

By Toe Knee

 

Humanity is the self proclaimed dominant lifeform on the planet earth, and for good reason.  The human animal is able to live and prosper on nearly every part of the planet due to it’s ability to adapt and create tools to survive.  But the question arises, why has humanity come so far?  What is the reason behind our prodigious need to adapt and build a better world?  The answer: lack of physical flexibility.

 

Physical flexibility is the pivotal point in humanity’s evolution because with mankind lacks the capability to orally groom their own genitalia. 

 

I postulate that this lack of ability has given humanity the desire and ambition to pursue other methods to simulate the satisfaction that other mammals experience during oral self-grooming.  I also believe that humanity has developed higher mental functions in the constant competitive drive to achieve that sublime state.

 

Some basic examples and proofs that can be quickly found in the natural world show that there is a direct correlation to the intelligence and ambition of a mammal to the amount of time spent orally grooming their own genitalia.  The feline animal for one carries a reasonable amount of intelligence but no ambition beyond basic survival needs.  Their genitalia are among the cleanest of the natural world.  The bovine occupies nearly all it’s time that isn’t spent eating or sleeping in this grooming state to the point where all other parts of their body are neglected. If the bovine carries any intelligence whatsoever it disguises it well.  Other studies were started, and the preliminary findings of them suggested that mental capability was inversely proportional to amount of time focused on self-administered oral genital grooming.  These studies were never concluded though, as the humans involved became increasingly jealous of the animals capabilities subsequently abandoning their work.

 

Because the enjoyment experienced from genital grooming is so unique and sublime, humanity in all it’s current advancements has not been able to artificially simulate or surpass it.  This has lead to two parallel courses of action that humanity uses to achieve this most basic need.  The first is Advertising, this method is a direct solution and involves mankind using their superior mental state to develop or achieve something that will make their own genitalia more enticing for other humans to perform oral grooming on.  Examples of such behavior include getting motorized propulsion devices of aesthetically pleasing design that propel themselves faster than other similar devices, or carry communication artifacts that carry certain exclusive social ramifications in their social circles.  This method has varying degrees of effectiveness and some do not find success using it, so they pursue the alternative.

 

The second method we will call Distraction; is to develop an alternative pleasure to the oral grooming state.  The degree of pleasure gained from this is subject to much debate and conjecture, but many humans find a regimen of alternative pleasures combined with lesser forms of genital grooming such as manually and with certain simple tools to be an effective long term substitute.

 

What’s most interesting about both of these methods is that they both propel humanity to loftier heights in evolutionary advancement.  The first method creates the constant competitive drive for excellence, and the second method innovates and pursues alternative patterns of thinking that in-turn feed the first group.  The computer is an example of this:  Its original development was so that government officials would spend less time counting the heads of the populace they governed and more time enjoying the genital grooming that their lofty positions in human society afforded them. 

 

From that original computer development the second group developed a primitive pleasure alternative called “pong” and many individuals frustrated with the lack of genital stimulation turned to “pong” in the hopes that their minds could be distracted from the constant reminder that they were not receiving adequate genital grooming. 

 

From this first development more sophisticated computers were created and with them more advanced pleasure alternatives came into being.  Today the height of those advancements lie in a highly sophisticated automated pleasure known among it’s users as WoW, a term often used to describe the satisfaction that a particularly enjoyable session of genital grooming would instill.  This WoW uses a combination of Distraction and Advertising that is particularly interesting because it enables humans to create idealistic simulations and interact from a distance.  The permutations of this development are astounding and signal a shift in the human evolution.  Though the number of humans using WoW as a method of Distraction is still far less than the number who employ Advertising, they are significant, and many humans have stated that they may even prefer WoW to traditional genital grooming, a position once held only by a certain ingestible coco and sugar mixture.

 

In conclusion I believe these studies while preliminary, pose a strong argument regarding the value and relevance of this theory in understanding the history of humanity and mapping its future endeavors. 

 

Further questions or comments may be left in the text box at the bottom of this page. 

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I R Here

I don't usually mark my posts as neighborhood only, but I've decided to be cautious on this one.  I thought it would be a cool idea to correlate location with the pictures I've taken out while I'm working.  And google maps has a handy widget for you all to check it out.  Hope some of you find this interesting.

 

Ojay Map

First, the interactive map to let my creepy stalkers find me.  (haha I wish)

 

Now the edited version.  I've marked some of the locations I've taken pictures, along with arrows indicating the direction I believe the camera was pointed.  I've conveniently numbered the pic's so that you'll see what I see.  The yellow circles are the worksite where I've spent the last month at and the industrial camp that I to sleep at.

Picture Time!!!

#1.

#2

#3

#4

#5

#6

#7

#8

There.  That's ojay.  It's a real place in the mountains where the roads turn to death on skates when it rains and the grey jays eat right out of your hands. 

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Toe Knee’s Happy Days

Sept 25 and 26 are happy days for me.  Two long awaited things are released for me to purchase like a gleeful little consumer.

Vol. II
Hurt

Interestingly enough, I will be purchasing both of these items not once, but TWICE!  I've allready purchased Hurt Vol II on itunes (first itunes purchase ever for me actually) and I'll be buying the CD as well once I manage to find a copy in some more civilised area that I find myself in. 

Exalted the Sidereals will be available digitally on drivethrurpg.com tomorrow and it'll be mine the second it hits it.  I could wait a few extra days for it to hit the IRC hubs but I'll pay the money to have it RFN.  I'll also be ordering a physical copy once I get back into town as well, I've done the same thing with many other Exalted books.  (Anyone who says digitalisation is eating profits is on crack.)

Stay tuned for full reviews of both.

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Frustration

Work irritates me today.

For those of you who aren't really apprised with my work.  I work Medical Standby for the Oil and Gas industry in Canada.  It's great pay for not a ton of work, but there aspects of it that can sometimes get to a guy. 

First of all I'm part of safety on sights, the gods of the industry consider me and my designation part of that little lump.  Safety is important here, but sometimes it's extremely difficult and a lot of the time the rules aren't followed to the letter, or they're skirted over.  Every company does it, because to accomidate every minute detail of every safety rule would mean nothing ever get's done… or so people say.

Well my current site rep out here believes that all safety must be followed and it has to work, otherwise he phone's his superiors and asks for an exemption.  There is no lip service, there is no halfway there is fully in or not at all.  We work 3 hours away from anywhere and if the guys working under him don't have the proper safety then everything stops until they do. 

Common sense and reason does not always factor into safety rules, but that's not the point, because you can't legislate common sense can you?  So we have to consider the possibility that illiterate kamakazi ninja's will try to storm our site, stand under every suspended object,kiss every source of H2S, and use all flammable materials as ashtrays. 

The problem is that if safety rules and common sense are mutually exclusive, then sometimes safety rules have no common sense themselves.  Here's an example:

One of my jobs on this site is to maintain an accurate headcount of everyone on site so that if we have a problem and all the workers have to muster (meaning they all gather at the entrance of the site until the emergency has passed) I can then list off all their names and see if anyone is hurt and still inside the facility somewhere at which point we would stage a rescue operation.  To keep this headcount accurate, we have a gate to our site that I'm always stationed near.  This gate consists of a rope with some orange tape hanging from it for visibility, when people come up to the gate I see them and pull down the rope once I'm sure they know the rules of the site.  The problem is, we've had some very large trucks coming through lately and we've had to pull down part of the fence beside the gate to accomidate them… but it never came back up… so I'm sitting here minding a gate with a big opening right beside it for the kamakazi ninjas to get through and this doesn't occur to anyone but me! 

I can't plug the hole with my own truck because I don't have a positivie air shutdown device installed (don't get me started…) so finally after the 8th truck drives past my gate because it's the path of least resistance (duh) I a paroxium of frustration on one undeserving worker who looks at me like I just pissed all over his head for no reason.  I tell the site rep and the hole is plugged.  So I guess all's good now…

nrr

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A Rant on Some of My Fellows

Aright, it's starting to annoy me now… it seems like there's some people who seem to want to change their profile photo's compulsively and I'm taking a stand saying "I don't like it."

I can understand if someone takes a fair number of self portrates and feels that by showing multiple pictures of themselves they can show different sides of their identity, and I can certainly understand putting a better picture up. 

But when bloggers post an icon or a cartoon character or an animal or whatever, they should goddam well stick to it! 

For you bloggers that like to switch whatever it is you put as your profile photo in leau of your picture, you don't wanna show your face, fine I get that, but that picture is a visual representation of your IDENTITY!  I use it to identify you when I'm surfing through looking at my neighborhood's posts.  When you change your photo to something completely different I don't recognise you.  It's like I have to get re-aquainted all over again, and it's frustrating.  Yes I understand that people evolve and a picture that seemed so perfect a year ago doesn't seem to fit now, I can accept that.  But for those of you who switch it up every other day, please know that in my eyes you've just lost some credibility as a blogger.

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Sunsets in Ojay are Hard to Photograph

Tonight I took some pictures of the sunsets up in Ojay.  I have mixed feelings about them, they turned out better than I expected but honestly they're very hard.  I wanted to show you guys the spectacular colors and depth of the place and the isolation… I don't know if I can do that, but I tried.  Keep in mind that I'm not a professional photographer, and barely even making incursions into the amateur stage.  Any feedback, suggestions or comments on which pictures are actually good would be most welcome. 

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