Booya's Bling Bling Blog

New Site

2004-06-15T14:54:00.000-04:00

Hey this is my old site.

Click here to go to my new site.

Barbeque & Jokes, IE Sucks,

2004-06-14T11:36:00.000-04:00

During this transition period, I will be updating both:
www.booyamcnasty.com -and-
booyamcnasty.blogspot.com.
Update your bookmarks, because www.booyamcnasty.com will be the new and improved site for not quite daily but a little bit more than weekly rants.

I have to give away my Barbeque. The new apartment won't allow barbeques on the balcony. I hate to see it go, it's a good one. To celebrate the departing of my dear meat-cooking friend, I'm going to Barbeque for the next two days. MMMM. Here's the email I sent out to my co-workers:

For Sale:
1 working Gas Barbeque & Propane Tank
Free to Good Home, (Or Best Offer)
Reason for Sale: Meat Allergy
This barbeque is great for barbeques.
Live the good life today!
Enjoy meat the way it was meant to be eaten: Charred over a gas powered flame!

Guess how many people in the office have asked about my "meat allergy" so far?

Five. Five people I work with still don't realize that I'm a sarcastic joker. Looks like I'll have to ramp up production of sarcastic remarks over the next quarter.

Boring Web Design Stuff
So I hate stylesheets. Specifically, I hate stylesheets with Internet Explorer. You would think the most popular web browser would be compliant with the W3C standards. What I'm trying to do is to have a static sidebar column with links & stuff. This would be really easy back in the day (meaning pre 1999) because Frames were all the rage back then.

It also works for people who use Navigator, Firefox & Opera, but the 95% of the world (at least visitors to my site) who don't use these browsers, so they will have the side bar scroll with the main content. It looks like I've found a way to do this, by moving the scroll mechanism from the root element to the document body a la:
html
{
overflow=hidden;
}
body
{
height=100%; overflow=auto;
}

It only works with IE6 in "Standards Compliant" mode. What an oxymoron that is. There's a cool site that does it here. I hope to have this generic layout deleted by next week.

Today's funny picture:

Hippie Klingons & Not You, Robot?

2004-06-09T16:56:00.000-04:00

Back in the 60's hippie Klingons used to hang around smoking blood root and singing "We all live in a Yellow Bird of Prey"

Hey so I'm wondering about the movie I Robot. I think it'll make a good movie. The thing is, I, Robot was a series of 9 short stories. (They all fed off each other, chronologically) I want to see how're they're going to do it. I doubt they'll be a series of vignettes.

If you don't know what I'm talking about - Issac Asimov is one of the more prolific writers ever. He authored or edited or co-wrote something like 469 books, anthologies etc. I'm pretty sure that in I, Robot was where the words "Positronic" and "Robotics" made their first appearance as real words. (I think in Robbie?) I'm also pretty sure that the three laws of robotics are introduced.

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

There's some cool shit in that book. One story I remember really well is the one about the robot that can read minds but isn't sure if he's injuring humanity or not... it's pretty sick. I haven't read these since I was a kid, I'm gonna go to the bookstore methinks.

So you know. Data is not an Asimovian Robot. Bishop, (the robot from Aliens) was an Asimovian Robot (he quotes the first law after Ripley throws the cornbread at him). The Darleks (some laugh, others need an explanation - Dr Who - EXTERMINATE) are definitely not Asimovian Robots. I wouldn't say that R2D2 and C3P0 Are Asmovian, but some would argue they are. The droids in the 1974 Sci Fi Porno Epic "Flesh Gordon" are probably Asmovian.

Other Good Robot Flicks to check out:

D.A.R.Y.L (1985): Think Pinocchio combined with Terminator, without Arnold. Or Time Travel. Or action. Or Linda Hamilton.
Robocop (1987): So what if the sequels sucked? I'd buy that for a dollar!
Forbidden Planet (1956): This is where Robby comes in.
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951): Kick ass Aliens land on earth. Think Independence Day without special effects but with a plot.
Cyborg Cop (1993): If brutal Sci Fi action ninja movies are your thing, this deserves a rating of "super great"
A.I. (2001): A three hour movie without an ending that isn't a part of the LOTR trilogy.
Split Second (1992): This isn't a robot movie, but this is Rutger Hauer's best performance since Bladerunner.

points & a day in the life

2004-06-09T15:06:00.000-04:00

Again I'm sorry about this brutal design. I'm not one to use templates, but they do help when you're finally getting rid of blogger.

It's my girlfriend's birthday today and I want the whole world to know that I love her.

Went to the Blue Jays game yesterday. Front row. Baseball is a kind of slow game. Can't say that I'm a fan, but it was okay.

Hope to have the new site up by Thursday, if everything goes okay. Friday morning.

Can't wait to move. Can't wait to move. If anybody reading this isn't doing anything next Wednesday, and you can lift stuff, I'll need your help.

There was an article in the star today about blogs. Wow, it only took mainstream media five years to catch on to the latest trend. Cudos.

brutal

2004-06-08T09:49:00.000-04:00

Sorry about this brutal template but I'm slowly working over to the new MT format on my own server booyamcnasty.com. I'm having some problems importing the blogger.com data and it doesn't help that my fucking 'puter crashes more than flight 11.

Another thing that's brutal is that Tampa Bay won the cup, but the right people didn't score, so I still placed second in my pool.

Toronto traffic is even more brutal. Fuck those fuckers.

What's even more brutal is that there was no coffee. What the hell is this place? Did we lose a war? Why the fuck isn't coffee good to go.

Lest we forget

2004-06-06T11:50:00.000-04:00

This day, let us all remember the heroes and the victims of human folly.

more useless trek trivia

2004-06-03T13:30:00.000-04:00

It was thirty five years ago today that Star Trek's final episode, "Turnabout Intruder" was aired.

It's the episode where Janet Lester takes control of Kirk's body, then puts Spock, Scotty, Bones & Kirk (in Lester's original body) on trial and sentences them to die. Here you learn that the only sentence that can carry the death penalty is General Order 4.

General Order 4 in Star Trek Land:
"If contact is made with hitherto undiscovered intelligent lifeforms, under no circumstances shall Starfleet personnel, either by word or deed, inform said lifeforms that worlds other than their own exists outside the confines of their own space."

General Order 4 for the US Marines:
"To repeat all calls from posts more distant from the guardhouse than my own."

Get involved in the Campaign

2004-06-03T12:24:00.000-04:00

more about deez nutz

2004-06-02T14:44:00.000-04:00

Okay. Deez Nuts jokes are pretty juvenile, but remember, so am I sometimes.

"Yo I think I see Mandy?"
"Mandy?"
"Man Deez Nutz feel good on your chin!"

"You met my Arab friend Hadeez?"
"Hadeez?"
"HADEEZ NUTZ IN YO MOUTH!"

"Excuse me."
"Yes?"
"Do you have the time?"
"Yes it's quarter after DEEZ NUTZ IN YO MOUTH"

"Do you like Pizza?"
"Yes"
"Then HOW BOUT A PIZZA DEEZ NUTS IN YO MOUTH"

"You want Burger King or Wendys?"
"Wendys."
"WHEN DEEZ NUTZ ARE TASTING GOOD"

"Sir, you're not allowed to park here."
"It's okay, I spoke to D."
"D who?"
"DEEZ JOKES ARE GETTING OLD"

You want to hang out with my main homeboy Deez?

2004-06-02T13:49:00.000-04:00

Deez? Who's Deez, you ask?

DEEZ NUTZ BIATCH

So my little niece comes to me the other day. She was eating some almonds. She asked me "If I had some nuts hanging from the wall, would they be walnuts?" I replied, "They sure would." Then she asked, "If I had some nuts hanging from my chest, would they be chestnuts?" Again, I said "Yep."

Then she asked, "If I had some nuts hanging from my chin would they be chin-nuts?"

So I said:

"HELL NO BITCH YOU'D HAVE A DICK IN YOUR MOUTH"

things you hear around the office when kids are around

2004-06-01T16:00:00.000-04:00

"So you want to go over that report?"
"Sure, you want to watch Pokeman while we do it?"
"Nah, I've already seen that episode."

BABIES EVERYWHERE & Firing Squad

2004-06-01T14:25:00.000-04:00

There are babies in the office today. When I say babies, I do mean more than one.

I like the office dog just fine. The office babies has to go. The office dog goes outside to shit.

Speaking about having to go, we fired one of our account reps today. It's funny that everyone was all like "She's going to be much happier somewhere else." Nobody is re-saying the obvious, that she had a bad attitude, refused to learn, couldn't organize a gaggle-fuck in a whore house with a fist full of fifties, and gererally did less at the office than even me. It's like she died. Everyone is saying that she did a good job. If she was that good, why did you can her ass?

On buying big ticket items from big box stores

2004-05-31T16:04:00.000-04:00

The sales people at Big Box Electronics Stores Suck. Here's why:

1. They know nothing about sales.
2. They don't know their product at all.
3. They have a strange ability - to concurrently ignore you while hovering around you openly competing with their fellow vermin to close you.
4. They don't bother getting to know the customer.
5. At a big box store, you are not a customer, you are a consumer.

We're shopping at a big box electronics store. Some dude comes up to my girl and I. First: How he looks. He's a punk-ass under 22 without having shaved for at least seven days. Rather than the trendy little scruff look he was trying to pull off, he ended up with the unemployed beard look.

Then his introduction. I'm looking at a TV. I'm actively looking the TV, not him. His introduction is this. "What price range are you looking at?" He doesn't engage me at all. Not even a fucking "Hi." I knew right away that this punk wasn't getting the commission from me.

big box retail burnout dude HOW ABOUT TRYING THIS:
"Hi my name is Mike. (offer hand). I see you're looking at TVs and home theatres. We have some great flat screens. Do you have a particular size in mind? (wait for answer) What features are must have for you?(wait for answer)Here are a few that I would recommend."

Instead, he asks the price range I'm looking at. I tell him a number (pulled out of my ass, just to see what he would do). "12 hundred bucks." "Oh right this way" and he shows me over to a 17 hundred dollar tv. Then he tells me that this is the one that he has.

First of all this kid can't afford a razor let alone a big screen, so I know he's full of shit. Then what does he do when he has finally realized he's lost the sale? He takes off and hangs out in Vacuums and does nothing to win me back. Jesus, if I quit whenever somebody told me No, I'd be an unemployed virgin.

So Burnout loses the sales. Now we have the attack helicopters. Hovering and waiting for their moment to strike. We have two new dudes - An old bald man and young indian guy. Now, baldie and indy (if anybody takes offence to this you can kiss my ass, I'm not rascist) are keeping their distance, checking my girlfriend and I out while we talk about and compare the different TVs.

Indy makes is move first. Clean cut, nice dude. Expressive. Good introduction. So far so good, I think. I ask him some question and he answers me fairly well. He then goes on and tells me a feature of the widescreen TV. Then he blows it. He tries to show me this feature in action.

"HOUSTON HE HAS A PROBLEM."

So he's pressing every button on the remote, knowing that one of them will work. They don't work. He then calls baldy over. Baldy takes a swing. He can't do it either. I don't understand what happens next. They lose all confidence, and they both take off, they're hiding in vacuums with the other guy that sucks. (brutal pun intended). My girlfriend picks up the remote, presses the button and it works. Good for you sweetie. Show those punk asses who suck.

So now we're comparing one tv and another tv. Going over to one, going over to the other. Looking at it. It is obvious we have two similar models in mind, now all we needed is a sales man who comes over to me to say "Here are the differences between these two sets. Here are the advantages to this one. Why don't you buy it?" If baldy or indy stepped up, he would have closed. Too bad they didn't. We ended up walking out of the store to think about it, buying a tv from their other big box competitor. (We did end up buying the surround sound system from them, but we didn't really need a salesman).

I remember going out with my dad to buy a big screen back in the day. (More than a decade and a half ago). He went down to good old Ray's TV & Video. It was Ray and his wife, and they sold TVs and Hi-Fi. They knew my old man. He only went in their about once a year, but they called him by name. Ray remembered that he was an early adopter with the "beta" and isn't interested in early adopting again. Can you believe he did this without a customer relationship management software system? They asked what he was looking for, recommended the best solution and never tried to upsell with a five year warranty. Ray sold the best stuff and would do a lot of repairs for free. My dad was a customer.

Seventeen years later, my father's son is buying a TV. Good old Ray has gone out of business years ago. So did Al the vaccuum guy and Stevie Maytag. I had any one of a dozen part time employees serve me at any particular time in this huge store. No need for introduction, no need to even speak to the customer, unless they ask you "Where are the Playstation Games?" There's not even a need to listen to your customer anymore, because you know the average guy has about five major options for big purchase electronics now. I'm known to the company as "Customer 1257989656543221" and that's only after they get my postal code. I'm a consumer.

I'm not against big box stores. Maybe I am getting a better selection and cheaper prices, which I don't mind. I just bet you that Ray would not have only closed me as soon as I walked in the door, he would have upsold me (upsold my girlfriend, more importantly) to buy a bigger tv and louder speakers, both of us loving every second of it.

BIG SCREEN TVS KICK ASS!!!!! WOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOO

uh oh, i guess i shouldn't have made that crack about bertuzzi

2004-05-28T17:28:00.000-04:00

How To Stop Procrastinating

2004-05-28T10:15:00.000-04:00

Quit reading my fucking blog and get back to work you office slaves

Ah nothing like casual friday. Lemme tell you something. If you do not shave, you'll grow a beard, which may look pleasant. Having said that, I can think of no pleasant reasons for not brushing your teeth or showering.

STINKY CO-WORKERS YUCK!

I want to go into todays meeting and instead of giving them my usual blurb, "as you can see, our new prospects are centered around these key demographics." I'd like to say "as you can see, my interest level is centered around zero and has a standard deviation of suck my nuts"

Here's a little trick to get somebody to call you back if you get voicemail on a cold call. (Or a warm call). Leave your name and number. Then hang up halfway through your message.

"Hi there, this is Jordan Sullivan, 1-800-999-9999. Your name came up the other day when I was speaking with Jim Smith. He mentioned the fact tha-" CLICK. Now he wants to call you back because he wants to know what's going on. Anticipation is a wonderfully powerful tool.

More on that later.

how to stop childhood obeisty

2004-05-27T15:31:00.000-04:00

QUIT STUFFING YOUR KID WITH JUNKFOOD AND MAKE HIM DROP THE VIDEOGAMES ONCE A WEEK!

If this fails to work, give me his email address and I'll send him emails like "Hey fat kid" or "fatty mc tubbyskins better lose some weight tubby" "why don't you have some seconds fattass"

hahaha fat kids are funny
their parents are funnier
"WHY IS MY KID SO FAT?" hahaha

how to stop terrorism

2004-05-27T12:10:00.000-04:00

oven mitts & duck tape on all flights to and from the usa. this will ensure that terrorists can't use box cutters nor pistols to hijack a plane.

Emoticons suck & Lord of the Blings

2004-05-27T10:30:00.000-04:00

There is nothing stupider than an emoticon. Or "Smileys" as people call them.

:-)
:-(

The only thing I hate more than emoticons are people that use them in business emails. You'd be suprised how many emails I get from my customers / prospects that contain emoticons.

Twenty Two years after the discovery of a colon dash parenthesis looks like a happyface, it has become a disturbing part of pop culture.

If you are writing something, and the humourous point you are trying to make may be lost on your audience thus necissatating a smiley, then you're not a very good writer. Maybe you should rethink your business in front of that keyboard.

So here are some new emoticons for you to use in every day life:

==,/~ Starship Enterprise
|-0-| Star Wars Tie Fighter
:-$$$$$ All blinged out yo

Emoticons are about as cool and about as useful as "hackers" spelling words 1 i |< 3 7 |-| 1 5 (like this). It's really 31337 dude. That means eleet or 'leet meaning an elite haxkor.

enough on that. Haxors suck as do emoticoners.

I finally saw LOTR The Return of the King. It was good, if you take good to mean 'I sat through ten hours of movie to watch a stupid ring get thrown into some lava, then only to suffer through another hour of denoument.'

I think somebody should make a parody of LOTR. Call it Lord of the Bling. Episode three would of course be "Return of the Bling." The fellowship of the bling.

It'll the story of an out of work jewelery maker in the hood and his quest to unite the bloods and the crips against the man using a super massive chain that's all iced out. He'll have teeth that are made of the purest 24 carat bling, baby. He'll entrust the bling to his homey, Bilbizzo. Bilbizzo and his main dog Sam-wizzo will have to travel to the centre of the burbs to pawn the bling for serious papers so they can "buy me some motha-fuckin endo, biatch."

All these punk ass biatches are gonna want the bling, but you know that you don't mess with Bilbizzo. Bilbizzo has a massive gat of pure gold that shoots bullets made of diamonds. I'll be awesome!

:-) ahahaha get it? its a joke see you can tell by the happy face there hahahahah

Super Assholes of the world unite!

2004-05-26T12:15:00.000-04:00

You know the people who say "Never lose a customer," they're right most of the time. You should cherish every customer that you have and try and treat them like gold. However, there are a very small percentage of your customers (less than 0.01%) who are not worth it.

Sometimes, the x thousands of dollars they bring into your company over the time will not be worth the stress and the time you and your staff will suffer through. I'm not talking about the normal irate customer. That's easy to deal with, any $6.50 per hour GAP employee can do that. Listen to them, find out what their problem is, fix is, then upsell them. Easy as pie.

What I'm talking about those special people that are the super-assholes of the world.

You wouldn't believe this guy I'm dealing with now. He is a piece of work. I recommended that he cancel his account with us, for various reasons, mainly because he is an arrogant jerk off loser. I was in a conference call with him and a director here and he's unbelieveable. I wished I had taped the call 'cause I would have posted it. It was along the lines of "YOU FUCKING FUCKERS YOU LIED TO ME I AM GOING TO FUCKING SUE YOUR FUCKING ASS I HATE YOU FUCKS...."

So for the first and hopefully only time In my career, I've recommend that a customer cancel his account. I had a bit of fun first, of course. What I want you is pull down the "life" menu and select "preferences" then uncheck the "bee an asshole" in the box that pops up.

And to all you super-assholes of the world, I don't know how self respecting people can run around with such a bad attitude about everything about the world, vent their frustrations at anybody and everybody and feel good about yourself.

Loss to our great nation

2004-05-20T16:55:00.000-04:00

Paul Sutherland, the creator of "Hammy the Hamster" has died.

Check this site out.

there are 10 types of people in this world

2004-05-20T12:54:00.000-04:00

those who understand binary
and those who don't

Metrotrekual Ettiquite

2004-05-20T12:06:00.000-04:00

When homeboy calls you from a bar late on a worknight and asks you to drive downtown with a woman's shirt you are not obligated to do shit if he has ever backed out of a golf game.

Music Piracy or File Sharing

2004-05-20T11:26:00.000-04:00

So the RIAA and the CRIA call it music piracy.

It's actually called file sharing.

What would Jesus do?

Jesus wants you to share, right?

All I know is that it's four months after Chinese New Year

2004-05-20T10:34:00.000-04:00

And I'm still writing Goat instead of Monkey.

I keep forgetting it's Monkey.

die yuppies

2004-05-19T13:48:00.000-04:00

i found a cutoff t-shirt with the collar torn out in my laundry today it said DIE YUPPIE SCUM

i would wear it but it is too low cut and i don't want to look trashy

hahah

Ontario's New Budget, quit your bitching

2004-05-19T11:06:00.002-04:00

Ontario's budget came out yesterday and I have heard nothing but negative press. Okay, most of it is about a promise being broken. To be fair, one must remember that the promise was made without knowing the state of the deficit.

And they made sure that pre-election budget promises aren't made without knowledge again - by opening the books for an audit three months before any election.

Today's media is filled with stories about "Your reaction to the budget." This is where the media outlet stops some dude on the street and asks them to comment about the budget, mainly about the out-of-pocket-health-care-expenditure.

The inherent problem with this is that John Q Public hasn't read the budget. He's only qualified to comment on the reports from the media - most commenting on the broken promise, not on the budget. If the media reports contain bias, then so does his assessment.

Also, John Q Public is probably not a student, or a retiree, or someone looking to be an apprentice worker. He probably not on the waiting list for an MRI scan. He may work for a medium size business, but the only media source I know that covered the tax breaks was the Globe and Mail's Report on Business.

So first of all, here's the budget. Read it yourself. Then make up your mind.

The budget Papers
Ontario's Revenue Plan

You all know we're going to be paying more for health care, smokes & booze. I smoke a whole lot and I have no problems with increasing the taxes on smokes. We also pay less than half of what the Americans pay for health care - Now we'll be able to begin to compete with their level of service (if you're an American with money, that is). And if the money is going to improve the service, well then, it's all good, I suppose I can suck it up.

If you're one of my buddies, you're most likely going to be paying $25.00, $37.50, or 50 bucks a month more for health care in 2005. (That's for taxable income 20 - 36K, 36 - 48K, 48 - 72K per year). One of my buddies may be paying 0, depending on how the job search goes. (Taxable income under 20K wouldn't be hit).

There hasn't been much mention of the tax breaks:

For medium size businesses, helping economic growth. I know it will help my company. The budget is increasing the deduction by $2.5 million each year until the tax is eliminated in 2012. It has no effect on small businesses, or the uber-business.

Some changes were expected, following the federal lead like the increase for computer parts cost allowance, up 15% to 45%. This will help any company that buys computers.

Okay, now we're going to speed it up. This is taking a long time. Ontario owned TV / Film production gets a boost to their tax credit, more labour allowed.

Big credit for Apprentices - If you're an employer that trains apprentices, or if you an apprentice, it's a good news. 25% tax credit for certain trades. This makes it cheaper to train skilled workers, like mechanics, carpenters, tool & die, etc.

Also helping education is benefits to return to high-school if you dropped out. Oh yeah, a price freeze for two years for Post Secondary education.

Enrichment of the Property Tax Credit for seniors. 25% increase. I guess I wouldn't want old people to lose their home, even if it wasn't given to me in their will.

Other out of pocket costs include: $50 bucks more to renew a suspended drivers license, about 20 or 30 bucks more for filing at various civil & small claims court.

I'm not a big fan of a marketing subsidy to help out Ontario Winemakers. (With the major exception of Icewine), ONTARIO WINES SUCK. I'm all for the marketing subsidy for ontario brewers - ONTARIO MICROBREW RULES!

So that's about it. Nothing is perfect, but I think this budget will help a lot of areas. I hate paying out of pocket, but if I can help out with some more nurses, and some new MRI scanners, I guess I can suck it up.

worse than barbie

2004-05-18T17:42:00.000-04:00

We all know that barbie teaches girls how to be thin and to get boob jobs so boys will like them. Personally, I think an 8 year old girl who is on a diet and wants a boob job is healthy.

Anyway, here's a Barbie that's not so healthy.

Here's a barbie that's a little healthier. Why wouldn't you want your daughter rock n rollin all night and partying every day!

Just like Wil Wheaton. Only Not.

2004-05-18T11:40:00.000-04:00

So I was going to write something today about how the commodification of labour of knowledge workers is a bad thing, but I don't want people to think I'm some kind of Marxist.

Also, I've come to the conclusion that I've recently put a lot of unhappy semi-political posts. There is way too much bad news already, so why don't I make a happy post about nothing in particular. So here's a happy post for y'all.

You know, I have a lot in common with Wesley Crusher. Notice that I'm not separating Wil Wheaton the Actor and Wesley Crusher the character. In case you're from the moon, Wil Wheaton was the kid from Star Trek TNG that everybody hated because nobody would admit that he got the best acting job in the world and everybody wanted to be him when you were 14. Who the hell wouldn't want to grow up on the Enterprise?

Trekkers also hate him because on the third episode of the first season, (the one where he the crew is gets drunk from a a space virus), he doesn't hit on any of the older drunk female Enterprise crewmembers. Instead, he goes down to Engineering and hangs out with a fat Budda-looking guy. What a loser. Even the robot got laid in that episode.

(Right now my girlfriend is rolling her eyes and rethinking our relationship due to the fact that I can name an TNG episode by season.)
Anyway, back to my similarities with Wil/Wesley. We both are too geeky for our own good. We both grew up in a fantasy world surrounded by Klingons. We have both saved the day, either for our corporation or our Galaxy Class Starship at least three times last year.

Our science fair projects usually cause mass panic, and we both have the hotts for Ashley Judd, especially when she's wearing the starship uniform.

Both of our Private Schools were once taken over by a bunch of Colombian terrorists and we kicked the shit out of them before we went down in a hail of bullets. Yeah, Toy Soldiers kicked ass.

Oh yeah, we also had our scenes cut from the Last Starfighter. There's another sci-fi-must-see blast from the past for ya.

There are two major differences. I never found a body of a buddy in 1959, and his blog actually gets hits.

booyamcnasty.com, bitch

2004-05-14T08:29:00.000-04:00

In to work early today so I can go golfing.

Things are coming along on the new site. What that means is that I finally got movabletype up and running. Now I just gots to see if I can transfer my posts from one service to the other, and get a decent design, rss site feed, submit to search engines & other feeds, & generally get everything good to go, not to mention thinking up with a decent post ever now and then. I didn't think I'd get it up and running this quickly. I'm either really smart, or the installation was pretty easy.

Started Reading Michael Moore's Stupid White Men. Got into it about three chapters and it's a great read. Wow, the shit that the average guy doesn't know about Bush's cabinet, and how actually stole the election away from Al Gore. It's also pretty funny. I'm not that far into it yet, but it's good so far.

will the real booya mcnasty please stand up?

2004-05-13T16:54:00.000-04:00

BOOYA GRANDMA BOOYA.

Don't let a couple of bad days (months) throw you off.

I just landed a big deal. It was textbook. You could have videotaped this meeting and sold it to sales training courses on how ask for the sale without actually asking for it. I had this dude eating out of the palm of my hand. I rock.

He was also getting pitched by a competitor. After he heard their pitch, you know what he told them? "Your offer sounds good, but I want to check what Jordan thinks about it. If he likes it, then I'll go with you."

one good thing about gas prices

2004-05-13T12:57:00.000-04:00

Here's an article from forbes. Sales of SUVs down when gas prices up. (no shit sherlock).

I'm not anti-suv. But I am anti HUGE MASSIVE SUV. You know those V-10 bad boys that you can park a mini in the back? Those SUVs suck. Explorers, Escapes, 4Runners are okay.

Here's a little bit of suicidal tendencies for you. I gotta download this song. Nice name for a band, n'est pas?

i was in my room and i was just like staring at the wall thinking about everything then again i was thinking about nothing and then my mom came in and i didn't even know she was there she called my name and i didn't hear her then she started screaming mike! mike! and i go what what's the matter and she goes what's the matter with you i go there's nothing wrong mom she goes don't tell me that you're on drugs i go no mom i'm not on drugs i'm ok i'm just thinking you know why don't you get me a pepsi she goes no you're on drugs i go mom i'm ok i'm just thinking she goes no you're not thinking you're on drugs normal people don't act that way i go mom just get me a pepsi please all i want's a pepsi and she wouldn't give it to me all i wanted was a pepsi just one pepsi and she wouldn't give it to me just a pepsi...

Jihad

2004-05-12T15:39:00.000-04:00

I haven't had anything major to say in the last little while. Been a little busy.

I think my article about the Prisoners getting tortured raised a bit of ruckus. I've been getting lots of hits from US government and military websites since I posted it. Wouldn't it be wicked if I got carnivored and the US started a file on me? All I have to do is say Jihad a few more times, and I'm sure it will invoke one of their sensors.

This site will be changing drastically in the next month or so. Maybe the next week, depending on how much I can get done. It's not like the blog is a jihad or anything.

I'm getting rid of the blogger. I'm switching over to Movabletype. I've been on a jihad to find a better provider and I think they're it.

There's going to be a real domain name with a real hosting company and a real need for you to check back daily. Make it a Jihad.

The Jihad to find an apartment ended today. Pretty happy. Hardwood floor, 10 ft ceilings, view of the lake, balcony where I can smoke butts, room for the kitties to play jihad with each other.

Here's a test of email posting

2004-05-11T13:01:00.000-04:00

So this is just a test to see if I can email a post to my blog.
Blogger just came out with some new features, going to be testing them out a lot over the next couple of days. I'm still not sure if they can compete with movabletype, but we'll see.

here's a test of email posting

2004-05-11T12:59:00.000-04:00

Stupid American Soldiers

2004-05-07T14:42:00.000-04:00

I wrote all this yesterday, but when I clicked on the update button, the whole post went to electronic heaven. So now I'm rewriting it.

So there are all these American soldiers getting in trouble for war crimes, it seems. The public is outraged, and all the higher-ups are taking a lot of blame.

There are a lot of things that piss me off about this whole thing. The torture and war crimes are about the only thing I don't mind. I'm pissed off at the fact that there's all this public outrage over the torture. (bear with me on this)

Like it or not, War is a horrible, vile, shitty mess. It turns a regular guy into a hunter of men. It also turns him into prey. This will effect the psyche of the soldier in ways that you people home in Free Country USA can't imagine.

Of course you're going to get war crimes. Of course there's going to be abuse of prisoners. If you people think that this isn't going to happen, you're naieve as fuck. You think if Private John Q American was captured by Osama Al-Fajullah and the Jihad boys, they're going to serve him tea and crumpets?

War crimes have happened in every conflict prior to this one, and they're going to happen in every conflict after this one. Get used to it. So what if the Americans stuck a glowstick up Mr Iraqi's ass? So what if they're going to tie them naked together and piss on them?

Is this is any worse than killing civilians by accident? You think you can vote for a war-monger as your head of state, and not expect to see some war-mongering?

Don't forget that you want your soldiers a little bit agressive, otherwise they'll get beat up.

The only reason I'm calling the soldiers dumb is because they have to learn that cameras and captives don't mix. Canadian soldiers learned their lesson a while ago. It took the disbanding of perhaps the most professional Regiment this country has ever seen to do it, but we have learned this lesson. The American Soldier has to learn this before their invasion of North Korea.

Just this week I was attending (working) a little party for some new recruits, having graduated their recruit course. There were staff as well as candidates partying. The candidates are mostly young kids, all who brought their cameras and camera phones. More than once I told a kid "Dude, you don't want to take a picture of that." All of the instructors knew enough to stay out of all of the pictures. We know that it's bad news.

It only takes one picture to get Corporal What-his-pickle in trouble, and bad pictures have a tendencacy to get out faster than you can say courts-martial.

So American Soldier, please take a lesson from the smaller (you could also say more professional, better trained, handsomer, better fed & paid), Army to your north. Don't take pictures that can get you in trouble.

Of course, your politicans wouldn't do anything like disband the 82nd Airborne Division or anything like that.

Okay. These are funny.

2004-05-05T22:48:00.000-04:00

Geeky Funny Stuff. Sound card required, work friendly.

You must have an understanding of Trek and Dune to understand the first one.

http://www.eskimo.com/~trout/SciFi/mentat.html

Here's another one for you. You have to like brutal dance music and enjoy Glen Garry Glen Ross for this one.

Glen Garry Mix

funny web page

2004-05-05T17:58:00.000-04:00

This is why I'm never buying a boat

Cheating Husband

best thing about the star trek universe

2004-05-05T17:08:00.000-04:00

Without Star Trek, we wouldn't have these dudes:

Thanks

2004-05-05T00:10:00.000-04:00

There are two ways you can go about the Leafs losing last night. You can either bitch about them and nitpick everything from the Teacher's Pension on down to Clarke Wilm (who I wouldn't rag on anyway) -or- you can realize what you have.

I'd like to thank the Toronto Maple Leafs for another wonderful season. You have yet again provided exceptional entertainment for this whole city, (if not province or nation). Your determination over the last seven and a half months will be missed, and I look forward to next year. If there is a next year Go Leafs Go!

google rocks

2004-05-04T15:59:00.000-04:00

Just checking my hits, and I'm number 1 when you search google for LCpl Boudreau. He's the joker that had the Iraqi kid hold the sign "LCpl Boudreau killed my dad then knocked up my sister." Hilarious.

Then he (or his CO) has the nerve to say that the photo is doctored. Like the Iraqi forces in their current state could find the name of an enlisted soldier and then doctor up a photo. He should at least have the balls to say that it was him. I think it's the funniest picture of the year, it should win Life's Magazine's award. It's one of the few honest looks at the war that I've seen.

I just wanted to mention LCpl Boudreau a few more times, I'm getting a lot of hits from it. I thought I should have something more than my previous comments "Fucking Reservists."

The Power of WOM w/ Newschool Oldschool Vids; Coolio Traffic Reports

2004-05-04T15:51:00.000-04:00

So I'm a big fan of The brothers Chapman. They're the cats who put out Homestarrunner.com

Here's a quick history on Homestar Runner. At the 96 Olympics, they didn't see any good kids books about a sports hero. So they drew one. They then discovered flash a few years later and the rest is history. They're getting 180,000 hits on their website on a slow day, 300,000 + on a good day. Coolest thing about it - It's all by word of mouth advertising.

I think it's some of the funniest stuff I have ever seen anywhere. Better than Pulp Phantom which was a good one for a while.

What's next for the brothers Chapman? A Homestar Runner Video Game. Guess what platform the game is for? If you guessed the Atari 2600 you'd be correct.

Nobody would doubt that Toronto traffic is brutal. I would like to respectifully submit to you that we have some of the best highway management in the world.

With the COMPASS & RESCU services, you can check out how the highway is doing online. The website is here. Bookmark it, cause on a useful website scale of 1 to 10, it's about a 9.

The whole reason I bring this up is because of the sign. If anybody has ever takent the the QEW into Toronto from Oakville, you know that just past Royal Windsor one of those electronic signs. Usually it says something like "Leave Space in Front." Over the last two months or so, it tells you how well the traffic is moving, and how long it takes you to get to the 427.

I've been timing it the last week or so, and that sign is 100% right. If you're going the speed of the other cars on the highway, it's perfect. (not the speed limit, the speed of traffic). If it says it's going to be 12 minutes, it will take you exactly 12 minutes to get there. If you speed, it will take you even less time.

The other day, my tire blew out on the highway. Going to work Westbound past Jamison. I was having a smoke at the time I was about 1/2 way done. After I pulled over, I finished my smoke before I started to change my tire. Before that smoke was out, (about three minutes) there was a cop on scene. I asked him how he got here so fast, and he told me that the camera people told him.

Because of those recent incidents, I think that the MTO can't be all bad. Kudos the them. I'm going to have to come up with an award for things that I like. Maybe I'll call it the gold tooth or something. (get it gold, bling?) Let me know if you have any suggestions.

I'm good at dumb, Sure they sucked but shut your hole, Give the Don Respect

2004-05-03T17:38:00.000-04:00

Japanese IQ Test

Here are the rules.

Everybody has to cross the river.
Only 2 persons on the raft at a time
The father can not stay with any of the daughters without their mother's presence
The mother can not stay with any of the sons without their father's resence
The thief ( striped shirt) can not stay alone with any family member
Only the Father, the Mother and the Policeman know how to operate the raft

To start click on the big blue circle on the right.
To move the people click on them.
To move the raft click on the red balls.

This pissed me off so bad today. I finally got it, though. In my defence, I was pretty busy, so I could only work on it for a minute here or a minute there. GRRRRR.

So the Leafs sure sucked last night. Wow. My excuse is because the Americans and their stupid Sunday Afternoon games. And I'm not going to say McCabe sucks. Leaf fans have to learn to shut up and follow their team to the end. So McCabe had a bad day. Haven't you?

Last month I had a brutal day. It started with me being late. I processed a five thousand dollar order to the wrong customer, twice. In the same day I also singlehandedly lost a huge deal, was this close for getting sued for libel (don't tell your clients that other companies suck, because they have spies) and spilled coffee on my shirt.

So McCabe gave up two bad passes in front of the net. Get over it. The Leafs just got outplayed. All of you people calling into MOJO and saying the Leafs suck and they should trade McCabe and get rid of the C off Sundin can kiss my ass.

If you want my opinion, (you must, you're reading this) it was because they lost almost every one on one battle for the puck (which also causes the puck to stay in the zone, which sets them up), and because they were getting beaten by Philly's forecheck. Also, Primeau was awesome, which doesn't help the matter.

That third? goal they scored (the one when Berg didn't pick up his man on the two on two) was a neat little play that they used a couple of time successfully in the last series. I'm really looking forward to the next game now, because it's going to be awesome.

I bet you a steak dinner that CBC picks up Cherry again. Brutal Jacket Mr Cherry. I like how he pronounces Domi. (like Dahmer but with an I at the end.)

"a day in the army is like a day on the farm"

2004-05-01T06:19:00.000-04:00

Good Old Sgt Apone. (Aliens if you don't get the reference). "Every meal is a banquet. Every paycheck a fortune, every formation a parade; I love the corps!"

This is the last weekend I'm going to be on this course. I can't wait. I'd tell you horror stories, but that would only serve to get me depressed.

Funny story. Last night all of the instructors got pulled into a meeting with the RSM to have a chat about profanity. As in how we're not supposed to swear at soldiers. God knows that swearing is wrong, and the Canadian Army never does anything wrong! (little double entrendre for you)

My buddy Matt shows up a little late, and he's not briefed on what this 'meeting' is about. He walks into the door and speaks to his buddy for a second. He then screams at the top of his lungs: "FUCK! I TOLD THOSE FUCKERS THAT IT'S THEIR FUCKING RESPONSIBILITY!" Everybody goes silent, because we're getting jacked up for swearing. Everybody went silent except me, I started laughing my ass off.

Looks like I'll have some time on my hands, expect a lot of updates.........

you know what's worse than the bachelor tv show?

2004-04-29T16:47:00.000-04:00

chicks in my office talking about the people in the bachelor show like they know them personally

what I was going to do

2004-04-29T16:25:00.000-04:00

I was going to write something today about that beer spot: "Why don't I drink american beer?" "Why don't I buy Jamacian Snowshoes, or eat a Japanese Hotdog?" I was also going to tie in the show Talking to Americans that was on the other day.

I was going to make a point, too. Something about too much of Canada's culture is brought about by us not being American. That's one of the reasons why we're proud, etc.

I was going to do that, but things are pretty busy today so I don't think I can. Oh well, think about it yourself and reflect.

For the record however, American beer does suck.

Boiler room is the best movie ever

2004-04-28T15:48:00.000-04:00

I just tried another line from the movie boiler room and it worked like a charm. I can't believe it myself, everything they say in that movie is like the Jedi Mind Trick on my prospects.

I tried to call this guy, I got his secretary. She has orders to stop all sales calls from getting through. She told me that Jim wasn't in the office right now and asked if I could try back later. I told her "That's funny, cause I just drove by five minutes ago and Jim's car was in the lot."

Next thing you know Jimbo's on the phone because honey knows that Sully doesn't fuck around.

Word up.

it's lonely at the top & disposable income

2004-04-26T14:24:00.000-04:00

So begins the demise of the reigning hockey pool king. I am now offically screwed. I had a 10 point advantage at one point, now I think it's only like five points. The guy right behind me has no players eliminated either.
For my work hockey pool, I'm in third, and again the guy right behind me has no players eliminated. So I'm screwed.

I bought a pair of boxers with a target right where my package is. Do I want people to kick me in the nads? Maybe I feel that my package is so small that I need a target to find it. Maybe I just needed a pair of boxers that didn't have rips all up the side and butt.

Blog watch.... check out this one: Where's Raed?. Its by a couple of guys in Iraq. Not Americans, Iraqis. Pretty neat reading, especially if you trust some dude more than you trust CNN or Fox News. (personally I'd take some dude any day of the week and twice on Sunday). There's one post that said salam i was trying to call your phones all the day long, i hope u didnt die in the karbala explosions

you have no chance to survive make your time

2004-04-23T17:02:00.000-04:00

one good reason for the war

2004-04-23T12:45:00.000-04:00

Fucking reservists

If you can't read the caption it says LCpl Boudreau killed my dad then knocked up my sister

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!! & I got a g-spot uh...mail

2004-04-23T10:18:00.000-04:00

This one is hilarious. I've been laughing all day.

www.khaaan.com brings you the single most dramatic moment in cinematic history. Everybody is going to get a kick out of this one.

On April 1, 2003, Google Announced Gmail. It's a free email based service, like hotmail or yahoo mail. There are two major differences.

1. It provide each user with a whopping 1 GB of space. For you non-geeks, that stands for 1 gigabyle, meaning it's about 1000 times more space than you get with hotmail.
2. It has a robot that reads your messages and puts in context sensitive ads in those messages.

There have been a huge backlash about this these ads. Look Here, here, and here to see a few.

More about the backlash later.

Anyway, Gmail is not available to the public just yet, unless you're the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway like me. (note: If you haven't read Neuromancer, do so. It gets four out of four Shurikens for coolness)

So I get a personal email from Dr. Eric E. Schmidt, Google's Chairman and he personally has been checking out my blog. He really liked my post way back when on coffee ROI. Long story short, he wants me to try his new service, Gmail. So on a get something cool before you factor of one to 10, I'm about a 14

Needless to say, I want to test out this context recognition ads a whole whole lot before I tell you about it. If you get a couple of emails from a gmail account, it's just me, (or another guy who's cooler than you are).

best playoffs EVER, spam haiku, rocketeer, kick out the bums, t&C

2004-04-21T11:10:00.000-04:00

I'd offering to have Joe Nieuwendyk's baby. What a kick ass game. The Sucky Senators sure didn't go out with a bang, it was a whimper. Daniel Alfredsson sucks. Did you see the swing he took with his stick at the end of the game? What a pussy.

Awesome awesome playoffs. Not too good for my pool. In order to maintain the lead in my Rob Pool, McCabe, Sakic & Ryder have to outscore Blake, Leech, Nieuwendyk & Stajan. I'd have a chance if it wasn't for Nieuwendyk. I also have to have Belfour, Lang, McCabe, Sakic & St. Louis (the player not the city) have to outscore Koivu, Kovalev, Souray & Theodore. That one I think I can pull off. What do you think?

You want to know what I think? I think it's pretty good I'm not sitting in an exam right now, while one of my buddies is. That means that he had to study last night rather than watching Game 7, getting far to tipsy for a weeknight, (playoffs or no playoffs) and cheering on his team to victory.

Let's all hope that Toronto beats Philly and Montreal beats the Lightning. How good would a Toronto Montreal Eastern Conference Final be? Let's just say that after thinking about it, I need to change my pants.

Here's a Spam Subject line Haiku.

Instant Arousal
Please her like never before
Orgastic Gushing

I think the last line, "orgastic gushing," really makes this spam subject line haiku come together.

You know who kicks ass? This guy

Oh yeah, if you haven't signed it yet, click on my side bar to deport the Khadr family. If you don't know why the Khadr family sucks, the CBC ran a big thing on it. This Terrorist kid gets paralyzed in a firefight against Coalition forces (in Afghanistan, not Iraq) and comes to Canada to use our Health Care dollars? Fuck that noise.

What else would kick ass? Getting Turks & Caicos to join Canada. When Grand Turk gets its first hockey team, I bet it would suck so bad that even I could have a chance on the second line.

Big Mac Attack

2004-04-20T15:33:00.000-04:00

Is it ironic when a tobacco CEO dies of Lung Cancer?

What about when McDonald's CEO dies of a heart attack?

go habs go? hahaha NEVER!

2004-04-20T13:33:00.000-04:00

I'm pretty happy that the Habs won. Even though it screws me in the work pool. Good on them. Vancouver also lost, but if you're reading this, you probably already knew that. That screws me in both my work pool and my Rob pool. I'm tied for first in both pools, but I think I'm pretty screwed. Anbody can be first after the first round. It's how you're doing in the last week of the playoffs that really matters.

The Leafs are going to kick some ass tonight.

We didn't get the place. Now I gots to go searching for another place this weekend. Crappy von Shitterson.

Here's a little article on why the sharks are kick ass from a techie viewpoint. It seems to me a bit too American to have a tablet PC on the bench. You think Pat Quinn would have one of those on his bench? Not too likely.

Here's a nice little site that has all of the fights the Leafs have ever been involved with. It's where I got the picture of Domi kicking the crap out of Freadrich above.

Wisdom From The Bled

2004-04-19T15:05:00.000-04:00

It is said of Muad'Dib that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks, he moved one of the rocks. Later, when the weed was seen to be flourishing, he covered it with the remaining rock. "That was its fate," he explained.

"You do not beg the sun for mercy."

Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.

way to much trek for you

2004-04-16T14:42:00.000-04:00

This is about old school trek. You know, Kirk and Spock & those dudes.

Here's the first geeky link to check out. This dude counted all of the times a crew member died in TOS. (That's trekker talk for The Original Series.)

"If we judge Kirk's command abilities by the number of crewmen who died under his command, Kirk became a better commander as he went along.

"There were a total of 53 Enterprise crewman deaths in the original series, which is a pretty high total when you consider there were only 428-430 crewmen total. That means if you were under Kirk's command, you had a better than 1-in-10 chance of getting killed."

Season 1: 26
Season 2: 20
Season 3: 7

He then goes on to count the number of deaths if you were wearing a Red Shirt. You know, like Yeoman Johnson or Crewman Jones.

"Of the 53 enterprise crewmen who died, 25 of them were wearing a red shirt. That's a 47 percent death rate for red shirts! And that's not counting three red shirts who died in "Mirror, Mirror" that were technically under the command of the alternate Kirk.

I wish I was into trek enough to have counted every death. No, actually I'm glad I didn't think of that. It's geeky enough that I was looking for it online.

GO LEAFS GO!

Be like Booya and Download these songs!

2004-04-16T10:56:00.000-04:00

Here's 25 Random Songs from my MP3 Collection:

Rick James - In the Ghetto
Cool & the Gang - Summer Madness
Tragically Hip - Music at Work
Gang Starr - You know my Stees
Johnny Horton - Battle of New Orleans
Orbital - The Saint
KRS One - Jimmy
Ice Cube & George Clinton - Bop Gun (One Nation)
Busta Rhymes - Dangerous
Parliment - PyschoAlphaDiscoBetaBioAquaBoogie
The West Coast Rap All Stars - We're All In The Same Gang
Iron ButterFly - Garden of Eden
Aphex Twin - 4
Eminem - Tylenol Island (Unreleased Freestyle)
Ennio Morricone - On Earth as it is in Heaven (The Mission Soundtrack)
Air - All I need
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue
Run DMC - Hit It Run
The Commodores - Brick House
Biz Markie - Vapors
LA Dream Team - Dream Team is in the House
Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal
Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock
Stetsasonic - Talkin' All That Jazz
Mc Lyte - Cha Cha Cha

Somebody has Poopypants

2004-04-15T10:59:00.000-04:00

oooohhhhhhh it looks like somebody has poopypants because I made fun of his mad-skillz with frontpage.

Click here to see the posts that got Mikey so upset.

You want me to change your diaper or wipe up your tears little guy?

If my opinions don't matter that much, why are you so mad that I didn't like your grade 5 project? And why are you checking my site daily? One of these days you're going to have to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time. It wasn't the site itself I had problems with, which was fairly clean and easy to navigate. It was just the loose leaf paper background, cause that was SO HOTT. (Way to spell hot with two teas bitch, you're so awesome. Click here for some more background ideas, your site will look great.

For all you other people, reading this, You can see how alike Mikey and I are when we diss each other. We both use the word Bitch a lot, and you'll see the term "way to go" excessively, as in "way to go buddy" or "way to have a website that's down." Also, when reading, you get the distinct impression that we both write the same way we speak. We also use insults that have no meaning to anyone outside our microcosm while concurrently infuratiing each other.

Mikey, we're a lot more a like that you think. Let's stop all this fussin and the feudin and start making fun of somebody important, like Charles.

on hockey & pool

2004-04-14T16:56:00.000-04:00

What a bummer that was for Montreal last night. I honestly thought it was locked when it was 2-0. I'm actually more pissed off than I thought I would be. Looking forward to another Toronto Shut-Out tonight. Senators suck.

Don't want to toot my own horn (TOOT TOOT) but at this point, I'm first in my one pool, and tied for second in the other. It's only the first round so you know what happens in the first round means all of dick.

bush's speech, crazy horton's lady, funny site

2004-04-14T14:34:00.000-04:00

Word Count on Bush's Conference:
Freedom: 21
Violence: 12
Peace (or peaceful): 9
Coalation: 9
Free Iraq: 8
June 30: 7
Pride: 5
Murder:4
Tyranny:3
Hostage: 2
Democracy: 1
Terror (or terrorist, terrorism): 34
9 of those 34 used as War on Terror
3 of those 9 used as Win the War on Terror

Got to work today, the coffee maker was busted. grrrrrrrr Made me so mad. Did some stuff then went to Timmy's around the corner to get a coffee, because I was pretty useless for the former half of the morning.

Let me explain the lady that the lady that was behind the desk was about two hundred and fifty pounds, and at least a foot shorter than me. She was also missing four of her bottom teeth and one of her canines on top. Needless to say, she was stunning in a "I can't believe you actually exist" kind of way. I try to order my NATO standard Large-Double-Double and she forces a clipboard into my hands. "Sign this petition and fight those lousy bums in Ottawa."

The petition is against removing the 8% PST exemption for meals under $4.00. It's wrong as hell, (the petition I mean) because it doesn't mention that this food services increase is just for resturarant purchases under four bucks, it says it's on top of PST, which it isn't either, it is the pst.

I stare at her blankly and repeat my order, a little more forcefully. "LARGE DOUBLE DOUBLE." She sees that I'm not picking up her pen. "Well, you obviously don't work in the food service industry where we rely on tips." She still hasn't moved her fat ass to get my coffee yet, and think about what she just said. When the hell was the last time you tipped at Tim Horton's? I'm really pissed, because of work stuff, and because Fatty Von Taxerson hasn't got off her ass to get me my coffee.

So I lost it. Bad, too. Caused a little scene in the Bronte Hortons.

"You don't work on tips either. Nobody tips at Tim Hortons, unless you've been stealing change from the Send a Kid to Camp jar, and besides that you're not fighting the lousy bums in Ottawa, you're fighting the lousy bums at Queens Park, which is in Toronto. I don't think this will make much difference to me, because I can't remember a time when I went into a restuarant and paid less than $4.00 for a meal. You should have the real facts for your petition. Also, this tax is supposed to stop fat kids, and I guess I'm all for a fat tax. I pay a shitload to the government for healthcare in every pack of smokes I buy, so your fat kid should have to pay up too. So are you going to get my LARGE DOUBLE DOUBLE or what?"

I was pretty pissed, all red in the face and everything. I don't really like taxes, but I just wanted to shut this lady down because I was pretty angry. There was this trucker dude behind me and he started laughing his ass off, because he was waiting for a coffee too.

There are three things we can learn from this.
1. I really am useless and crabby until I've had coffee.
2. I expect prompt service and a good cup of coffee from any retail coffee chain, without being asked my political views, nor my views on anything other than "Nice Day?"
3. Don't pitch me unless you have your facts straight.

Let's run some numbers. The maximum amount this tax will cost is $0.32. (8% of $4.00). The Ontario Government expects this to raise about 200 million in revenue per year. This means that there are at least 6,250,000 meals purchased in Ontario for less than four bucks per year, which is 17 123 meals per day. Work out the poulation of ontario, about 12 million, That's an average of 1/2 a meal per person. So this will cost the average person $0.17 cents per year.

Here's today's funny funny link: Cam girls move over because it's time for the CAM CHICKEN!

get him to do the robot, disco dance, have a seat, jump around, doggystyle and a lot of other funny stuff. I'll find a list of what you can get him to go sometime later

I love it when big business puts out a campaign inspired by the indie porn industry.

Not to say that I know much about the indie porn industry.

my mom told me i wasn't allowed to have friends

2004-04-13T17:19:00.000-04:00

visit this guy's blog because he linked me

2004-04-12T15:42:00.000-04:00

http://www.fletchertrout.blogspot.com/.

I think he's just some guy too.

You think they'll fire Ben Chin? & A Contractor by any other name...

2004-04-12T15:37:00.000-04:00

Chum is buying Craig Media, as long as it gets approved by the CRTC.

Among other things, Craig Media owns Ben Chin's new home, Toronto One. Chum also owns City TV - so now they have former UHF Downtown-Toronto-Indie-Cool-Stations, only this one is without a Znaimer and Baby Blue. They've also been popping up New channels everywhere like the New VR, the New PL. They're also taking control of MTV Canada, so they'll own the entire Canadian music-video market again. Maybe in the merger they'll fire Rick the Temp. We can cross our fingers. Unlike most things in Canada, this deal doesn't have much to do with the Toronto area at all (hahaha); It really expands CHUM's reach into the west.

Personally I don't like media companies merging, we're going to end up like the States, with every news outlet owned by one of five major corporations, all of whom are owned by Right-Wing-Nazi-Bush-War-Supporters. You're telling me that The US Soldier as Time's Man of the Year was nothing more than War Porn? That was straight infoganda if I've ever seen it. Everything we see about this war is bullshit, unless it's from Al-Jazeera.

While I'm Bush-bashing, I really hate the word contractors as in "4 contractors were killed by Iraqis and dragged through the streets". I hope you people realize what those contractors actually are: They're former soldiers, ex Special Forces (like SAS, SBS, Delta, JTF2, ASAS or the like). This means they're not only good, they're the best in the world. They release from the Army and can make up to 10x what whey were making before (especially if you're British, they get paid shit). So they're hired by the US Government to do things that their regular forces won't do, their special forces won't do or may be illegal. You know what they are? They're Mercenaries. I'm sure Bush's polls would slip a little more if the word mercenaries were used, so you're hearing the word contractors on cnn and shit.

Oh yeah, and if you want to read Judge von Finkenstein's whole report about why we're allowed to download music, click here. It's 30 pages, but really interesting.

I'm tied for third in the pool biatch and I'm gonna get another shut-out tonight!

URGENT ALERT

2004-04-12T09:46:00.000-04:00

Don't go to websites that you don't know today, I'd highly advise you not to check hotmail or other web based email from work, or open up any html based email today from Outlook, there's a new Microsoft vunerability that doesn't have a patch yet and is pretty serious. The vunerability will call you a bitch take your first born away from you.

Seriously you can check the CERT Warning here. It's the US Cert site, it's okay.

If you get Friday off does that mean is it casual thursday?

2004-04-08T16:17:00.000-04:00

Half of the people here today are dressed down. The other half are wearing normal work clothes.

Underwear is not optional, no matter what Earl in Accounting says.
No Shirt, No Shoes, No paycheck.
Body art is no replacement for pants.
No t-shirts that say "death to the bureaucrats".
Leave the fuzzy bunny slippers at home.
Casual Friday is no time to "come out" as a cross dresser, no matter how great you think your legs are.
The seventies are over. Lose the gold chains and button that shirt up.
Those baggy jeans that show off your new boxers are impressing no one.
No Star Trek uniforms (includes fake Spock ears).
No sweatshirts that have sayings starting with "legalize..."

more no so interesting facts about the number 14

2004-04-08T15:40:00.000-04:00

The number 14 also appears to be a hit off Broadway.
In Nascar, the total dollar winnings of Car # 14 is $10,361,801
In Binary the number 14 is 1110, In Hex, the number 14 is 000E.
Apollo 14's landing site is located in a broad, shallow valley between radial ridges of the Fra Mauro Formation and approximately 500 kilometres from the edge of the Imbrium Basin.
Carbon 14 is used to date objects up to 50,000 years old. Carbon 14's half life is about 5,700 years.

funny one about this kid

2004-04-08T15:21:00.000-04:00

So there's a guy at work who has a 10 year old son. The father & son go and get their haircut last night. The hockey game was on, so Dad stayed in the car to listen on the radio. Gives the kid 20 bucks and off he goes.

So his son comes back with the number 14 shaved into the back of his head. His father asks the kid "Why the number 14?" The kid's reply... "Because it's a really cool number, Dad."

On that note, today's post is brought to you by the Number 14.

= 2 x 7
= 1 + 4 + 9
A pyramidal number - the sum of the first three square numbers.
= 2 + 3 + 4 + 5
There are 14 pounds in a stone and 14 days in a fortnight.
The flag of Myanmar (formerly Burma) has 14 stars representing its 14 states.
A cuboctahedron is a solid with 14 sides. It has six squares and eight equilateral triangles.
Under British law, when you reach the age of 14 - you can go into a pub but you cannot buy or drink alcohol there, you can possess a shotgun, airgun, air rifle or ammunition, you may be employed on a weekday as a street trader by your parents, subject to local authority bylaws.

ignorant thing I heard around the office today

2004-04-08T12:11:00.000-04:00

"Wow. I think it's so weird you don't celebrate Easter."
- A dumb lady to a Muslim guy

Why can't we go back to partying in South Bronx? I'd even prefer if we hated cops & hoes, & we slanged dope out yo baby mama's house again.

2004-04-07T10:55:00.000-04:00

Saw a Good Report on CBC's Marketplace with the homeboys yesterday. On an interesting scale from 1 to 10, it was an eight.

Something has been bothering me for quite some time now about new Hip-Hop and Marketplace did a very good show which helped me verbalize my concern. It's the reason that I like old school Hip Hop & Funk, but none of the new stuff.

Today's Hip Hop is too Bling Bling.

All you 50-Cent & Puff Daddy loving, Air Force One wearing bling-brand obsessed consumers that don't know about Wyclef, Chuck D, Beastie Boys, Run DMC, BDP, Slick Rick or GrandMaster Flash or any other good rappers can kiss my white upper middle class ass because I'm more hip-hop than any of you tasteless urbanites will ever be.

Maybe I'm becoming more like Homer J Simpson when he goes to Hullabalooza. "Why do you need new bands? Everybody knows rock attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact. Back then, we didn't care what anyone thought and the chicks found that irresistible."

The fact remains that America's Corporate Brands need street cred and one of the best places to get it is through the Hip Hop. It all started with Run DMC in 1986. On their Raising Hell album, they not only did a cross-genre tie in with Aerosmith for their single "Walk this Way", that helped get a lot of white kids into Rap, they also did a song about shoes with "My Adidas." Russell Simmons got an endorsement deal for the three rappers after a concert in NYC for about $1,000,000 a year. That's some serious bling.

I don't want to just give you the info that you can read on that CBC website. Sure there's marketing tie-ins with almost everything. Get used to it. Go to a Leafs game and the stupid Raptor shows up with Carleton the Bear. I'm not anti-marketing. (Unless it is directed at kids that don't have media literacy, like most of these hip hop promotions).

The problem is that Hip-Hop music as a whole has suffered because of the marketing tie-ins. The newer rappers aren't as good as the old school rappers. Their beats are weak. Their message is non-existent. Their songs are still played & sold & consumed & thrown out when a new product comes along. There are notable exceptions, Eminem is the most famous of them. He's one of the best wordsmiths ever.

I'm also not saying that it's not okay to like new rappers, everybody has different tastes. If you're into today's hip-hop, you should go back a few years and pick up some of the older stuff. Find the Fugees first album. Pick up some Tribe Called Quest, buy a Gang Starr album. Maybe even grab a little old BDP.

I'd like to end this rant with a quote Dray from Dax EFX. Real Hip Hop.

"I think the powers that be, whether it's the government, labels, or who knows who, it seems like they had a little meeting and decided to get rid of all the Hip-Hop that was threatening or underground. They basically are only letting a certain amount of acts live, which are the commercial acts. I'm not knocking those acts at all, because those kids got to eat. They have been able to do away with, for instance, the Gang Starrs, the BDPs, the Rakims, the Black Moons, and so forth. It's basically commercial or bust."

ZION HEAR ME!

2004-04-06T16:45:00.000-04:00

Lawrence Fishburn was Cowboy Curtis on Pee Wee's Playhouse.

Click here for Pee Wee's Mugshot.

another bush bash

2004-04-06T14:30:00.000-04:00

Check out this link. If you're gay, and you work for the US Government, you can be fired or demoted just for being gay.

Dubya should go to the movies

2004-04-06T12:28:00.000-04:00

US President Geroge W Bush should watch Black Hawk Down and learn a lesson. Although you might not like it, if the nationals of a foreign country you are occuping parade your dead citizens through the streets, cheering, it's a pretty good time to withdraw your forces, because nobody wants you there.

We're seeing the consequences of the approaching deadline to return control of the Iraqi Government, with more uprisings by both the Shia & Sunni, who are united on one front - Anti-Americanism. Even though they're not united on just about everything else.

At least there's two good points with all this mess. The first is that The President's approval rating is down more and more with each passing day, which is pretty important when there's a US Presidential election. The second is that his main man in Iraq, Paul Bremer, has the title of Proconsul, which is a term that has links to the Romulan Star Empire

Here's one more geeky thing - Jolan'Tru

today's useless trek trivia

2004-04-05T15:36:00.000-04:00

Did you know.....
Wesley Crusher has saved the Entreprise more times than Captain Picard has broken the Prime Directive?
I'm not sure if it means anything, other than I'm way too much of a metrotrekual

Anybody want to borrow a shotgun?

2004-04-05T14:21:00.000-04:00

10 years ago Kurt Cobain swallowed a shotgun and pulled the trigger. You've probably think that I'm going to be a jackass and make fun of him or something, make crude remarks like I'm glad he was a better shot than a singer. I'm not going to go down that road. We here at Booya's Bling Bling Blog like have higher morals regarding making fun of dead-celebs.

I just want to know why he lied to all of his fans. In the song Come As You Are he sang "And I swear that I don't have a gun, no I don't have a gun." I guess he did.

In other news, Labatts wants to commerate the 10 year anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death by releasing a new beer. There is no word yet on the name, but sources report that it's bitter and has no head.

One of the reasons Courtney Love didn't tell him any secrets is because he would always go shooting off his mouth.

Okay, that's enough. I'm sure I'll get some kick ass grunge kids from Sarnia complain to this site. Actually I'm kind of looking forward to it. There are a lot of media sources out kissing Cobain's ass today, about how he was the new rock and starting the whole grunge scene and blah blah blah. Where's the ass kissing for Shannon Hoon?

Who the hell is Shannon Hoon? you ask yourself. That's my whole point. He's the ex-lead singer for Blind Melon. Remember Blind Melon? All I can say is that my life is pretty plain, I like watching the puddles gather rain? He was also a drug addict, and for my money, an all together better artist than Kurt Cobbain. Just because he didn't wed a crack-whore and fill his songs with a ton of hatred, he's not going to get his assed kissed by the media.

And if anybody thinks that either Biggie Smalls or Tupac should get their asses kissed by the media, you should go swallow a shotgun yourself. They brought nothing new to the game, except a cool mad max video, which was probably Dre's idea anyway.

CRIA FIGHTS BACK

2004-04-01T15:34:00.000-05:00

From Reuters:

response to the Canadian Government's recent ruling on the allowance of file sharing by P2P software, the CRIA has announced a new offensive in the attack against piracy.

When a song is downloaded by P2P software, the CRIA will kill a kitten. Although they state on their site that the killing of kittens will be done in a humane manner, Brian Robertson, President of the CRIA was quoted, "This way we get rid of two evil empires, kittens and music pirates!"

I urge you all to stop downloading music. Think of the Kittens!
Happy April Fools Day!

Open up your hard drives, 'cause the lawman doesn't cometh!

2004-03-31T16:35:00.000-05:00

Huge news today!

Downloading & Sharing Music via P2P software is legal in Canada.

Remember a while ago I told you about the CRIA was going after the names of 29 file sharers? If you don't remember, check Booya's Archives, click on the left hand side.

Well, the court ruling came in today, and not only did the Judge say that the recording industry had not presented evidence linking the alleged file swapping to the ISP subscribers that was strong enough to warrant breaking through critical privacy protections, he also cited a recent Supreme Court decision to say that making music available online also appeared to be legal.

In that recent case, the Supreme Court ruled that libraries were not "authorizing" copyright infringement simply by putting photocopy machines near books. The libraries were justified in assuming that their customers were using the copiers in a legal manner. Therefore, the same rationale should apply to peer-to-peer users.

"The mere fact of placing a copy on a shared directory in a computer where that copy can be accessed via a P2P service does not amount to distribution," Judge Konrad von Finckenstein wrote. "Before it constitutes distribution, there must be a positive act by the owner of the shared directory, such as sending out the copies or advertising that they are available for copying."

Here in Canada, we have the Canadian Copyright law, which has a clause for the private use. Canadian content providers get a cut out the sale of each blank tape / CD / MP3 player, in return it's legal for somebody to copy a song for private use. So if you borrow my CD and make a copy for yourself, it's legal, but I can't sell you a burned CD. In an extremely simplified sense, if you 'borrowing' my mp3 file, and making a copy for private use, it's legal.

Pretty cool.

An update! sick memory, more google, nhl playoffs, cool trekkers & red alerts

2004-03-30T13:08:00.000-05:00

I know I haven't updated in a while, sorry about that folks. I had to get some good material, and I'm sick as a dog right now. You know what I hate the most about being sick? It's that you can't remember ever feeling good. You think back to when you won an award, or when you went swimming with the guys May Two-Four weekend, or whatever good memory you have, and you remember feeling just as crappy as you do now. Maybe I'm just weird and nobody else thinks like I do.

If you've visted Google recently, (since Monday) you'll notice that it looks a bit different. They're starting to mix things up. Most likely it's because of their IPO and their break-up with Yahoo.

Being a Canadian, you know if you type in google.com you're redirected to google.ca because the site reads your IP address and direct you to the Google Canada site. On the US site, they've added a link to their Froogle site - a product search in the top bar. (If you go to news.google.com you'll see the new link). On the google.ca site, we won't see it. Maybe they don't want Canadians to buy American goods. All we get is the "more" link. They're also finishing up a new personalization feature, which will be able to cater to your results better. When I'm sick and I search for Halls, I'll get different results than an architect in Moncton trying the same search.

Why does this matter? Simply, Google will be God. (when I say God, I mean whatever deity that you worship, Yahweh, Allah, Budda, L Ron Hubbard, Wakanda, whoever) Why would I say that Google will be a deity? Most Gods has been described as all knowing, and all seeing. Gods have the sum of human knowledge. I have asked Google a lot of different things, and it has never let me down yet. From why is the sky blue to the meaning of life to what the hell is a brass monkey, it's pretty good. Gods also have the ability to be everywhere. Well, with a wireless laptop, or a PDA, Google is everywhere too. Soon, Google will know who you are and help you individually, as well as everyone else individually. (Except the people that Gods don't care about, the poor and hungry in the world.)

On to Hockey. This is going to be one of the best playoffs in years, I wish the regular season would just end already. All of these teams are so close. I still favour St Louis, even with Osgood. They've been kicking some serious ass in the last 20 games and have jumped into 7th. I really only like them because at the start of the season I said they'd go all the way and I have to stay true to my word. They have a big game against Edmonton tonight, which I think Edmonton has to win, (and then Nashville has to loose their game) for Edmonton to become the last Canadian team to clinch a playoff spot, but I don't know anymore - it's too confusing to follow. I remember two years ago it was so easy to know who was in the playoffs - by Mid Febuary. I can't remember a time when it was down to the wire. So kudos to the NHL to put all these important Division games at the end of the season.

I still think it's a tough call this season. Ottawa is looking good, but it looks like they're going to play Toronto first round and both teams are going to be banged up and bruised from that series. Detroit is looking good too, and I don't think Vancouver or Edmonton have much of a chance. I like Montreal because they have great leadership, and have you seen the kid Michael Ryder? He kicks ass. PS that reminds me I gotta mail a cheque for 10.00 to Mon Ami Habitant because the dark horse is riding again! GiddyUP!

Star Trek kicks ass for a lot of reasons. One of them is because they allow open submission for scripts. Any joe schmoe who has an idea for an episode can submit their script and it may get used and aired. This causes two major things - a lot of cool idea for Trek episodes, and a whole lot of bad, bad Trek.

I have found the Worst Trek Ever.

This is the type of Trek that makes us casual Trek fans look like geeks. See, the metro-trek-fan likes the cool aspects of Trek: Borgs blowing up shit, Riker porking chicks, Klingon sword-battles, and Pickard telling us about his academy days and the like. Most metrotrekuals don't like brutal trek top 10 lists and go to conventions. (Although, when in the company of other metrotrekkers, we like to find who the alpha metrotrekker is by the use of trivia).

So that's my new word. Metrotrekual. It's a guy who likes trek, but isn't super duper geeky, (but he may be a little bit geeky). He doesn't like at home in his basement with his mother, enjoys going out for a night on the town every now and again, doesn't go to conventions, and may play a sport or two. He probably can explain to you what a Dyson's sphere is, and may know that an AU is 3.24 light years..

The Metrotrekual's may be seen drinking the "Red Alert." MJH and I made this one up when we had nothing else to drink on a Saturday night in Little Italy.

3 parts orange juice
3 parts rye
1 part grenadine

Directions: Pour Rye over ice. Add Grenadine, then Orange Juice. Serve unstirred. Drink should look layered - OJ on top, Rye in middle and Grenadine at bottom. It's called a Red Alert because it's the worst thing that you can ever do to yourself. I think we should rename it the Kobayashi Maru - that's metrotrekual talk for "A No Win Scenario."

Fan Clubs & Great Online Banking Idea

2004-03-25T17:00:00.000-05:00

So there's not too much news going on. That's not true - not too much good & happy news. Too many bombings & killings overseas. I guess you can call Microsoft getting blasted by the EU good news, if you're not a Bill Gates fan.

Can you believe that link? Bill Gates has a fan club. There's no Michael Dell or Donald Trump fan club. This stupid round eye has a fan club. That's weird man. I wish I had a real fan club,not just two cats and a girl.

Oh here is today's stupid idea: Use My Bank. I really hope these guys drown in piles of vomit for being this stupid. They should have called their business Steal My Money.

They claim that they take payment on the web via debit card. (Which is not yet possible for Canadian debit cards, as the encryption technology is built into the hardware of the debit machine). What they claim and what they do are different things. They've just set themselves up as a payee for web banking. (Just like the hydro company or Bell). To do a transaction, rather than you logging in to your bank website and paying a merchant, they ask you for your web banking username and password and they'll transfer the money to the merchant via your web banking.

What kind of a moron would give out their web banking username and password? In my case, that would give these guys access to a few bank accounts, an RSP (that's pretty much empty) and a credit card. I highly advice anybody never to use this company. I also recommend that they tell all their buddies how much they suck, it may make you feel better.

this post sucks, i'll try to get something a little better tomorrow. I've been busy, last two days were huge wicked massive.

Differences & Gettysburg

2004-03-23T17:36:00.000-05:00

To quote cousin Abraham "Avi" Denovitz from the movie Snatch: "I don't like leaving my own country, Doug. And, I especially don't like leaving it for anything less than warm sandy beaches and cocktails with little straw hats."

I went to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania this weekend. I have to admit the historical part of that town is really neat.

I couldn't wait to get back to Canada. The little differences between Americans and Canadians amaze me. Here are the few differences I noticed:

1. At Canadian McDonald's, BBQ sauce tastes good.
2. Canadian beer isn't 2.5%, nor does it taste like water, it also costs more than three bucks a pitcher.
3. Our cigarattes taste better, and on the same topic, the American smokes just say "Cigarettes" but Canadian smokes say "Virginia Cigarettes" on the pack. Weird. We also have warning labels that take up 1/2 the pack, and we disclose how much crap is in the smoke.
4. Our Orange Pop tastes different too. It's a lot better in Canada. It's not sweet enough in the States.
5. Canadian women have small butts (and guts) compared to our southern neighbours.
6. They have about 9 sports channels, which provide very good coverage, but none of which showed a single game of hockey.
7. In Canada, they would never allow a bumper sticker that said "THE SOUTH WAS RIGHT."

I'll tell you one thing, though. Those Civil War soldiers had a huge set of nuts on them. Current soldiers have it easy compared to those guys. These guys would do things like walk from New York to West Virginia then charge a Fort defended with heavy artillery, then walk back up to Maryland without boots. Crazy, I tell you.

If you know anything about US History, and you've studied Gettysburg, you have to think to yourself "What the hell was General Lee thinking when he ordering Pickett's Charge?" He was a smart commander, he really was kicking some Yankee ass. Even a cusory glance at the terrain and the positions of the troops. I'd have to say that that was just about as a bad call as Dieppe was.

I'd also have to say the story of the 20th Maine on Little Round Top is one of the coolest war stories I ever heard. The short version of the story is this. They're holding the left flank and their Colonel Chamberlain is ordered to "Hold this ground at all hazards." Basically, if they fall back, the whole Union line is screwed. They fight and fight against the Alabamians and the Texans, until they're almost out of bullets. Chamberlain sees that they're about to lose, then screams out the words "BAYONETS" and leads a charge down the hill, scaring the hell out of the Rebels, they retreat and surrender. A Rebel officer gets a clean shot on Col. Chamberlain from 6 feet away with a pistol and misses. Chamberlain (wounded twice at this point) forces him to surrender by holding his sword to the dude's neck.

My letter to City of Ottawa Councillor Rick Chiarelli

2004-03-18T15:04:00.000-05:00

From: Jordan D. Sullivan
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 2:54 PM
To: 'Rick.Chiarelli@ottawa.ca'
Cc: 'Bob.Chiarelli@ottawa.ca'; 'mbryant.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org'; 'Volpe.J@parl.gc.ca'; 'cbcinput@toronto.cbc.ca'
Subject: Charter of Rights Violations by the City of Ottawa
Importance: High

Dear Sir,

I am writing you to file a complaint against your office. I feel that I have been discriminated against by yourself and the City of Ottawa has violated my fundamental rights as a Canadian. I have been made aware of the decision of your City, to pursue the decision to ban Toronto Maple Leaf paraphernalia from the Corel Centre. This is where I feel discriminated against.

Below I quote the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms:

2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
a) freedom of conscience and religion;
b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
d) freedom of association.

My main concern is that, if ratified, the decision of your city limits my personal freedom of expression. By wearing a Hockey Jersey, I communicate to those around me that I am a fan of a particular team. By banning a non-offensive article of clothing, you are, in effect, banning me from expressing my opinions in the manner that I see fit as a citizen of this great country.
I also feel personally discriminated against based on where I live. For whatever reason you decided to ban all hockey jerseys from your arena, I would understand. You are looking to ban specifically Toronto Jerseys. A person wearing a Vancouver Jersey would be unimpeded, but a citizen wearing a Toronto Jersey would be accosted by authorities and not released until a bribe of some sort was given. These Gestapo-like tactics is not what I expect from our Capital City.
I am also offended because by passing this law, you fail to realize that Toronto tourists bring in money to your city for every hockey game. I am also concerned that you fail to realize that one of the reasons that people enjoy hockey is because of the friendly rivalry that it promotes. This has gone beyond those friendly bounds.
Where would this country be, may I ask, without Roch Carrier's The Hockey Sweater. If Mr. Carrier was from Ottawa, people like you would not have let him on the pond. It would be an abrupt end to a wonderful vignette of our history. People like you destroy dreams of our citizens. People like you would ban Tom Thompson's canvas. People like you would ban Don Cherry's collar. I would like an explanation of this proposed law, and hopefully a resolution of my concerns at your earliest convenience.
I am carbon copying the Mayor of your City, my members of Provincial and Federal Parliament, as well as a local news service. I hope I can receive assistance from my members of Parliament or from the media if nothing can be done by yourself or your committee.
It is a sad day, when for the first time in my life, I can admit that the only thing worse than a Senator, is a Councillor.
Thank you in advance for addressing my concerns.
Sincerely,
Jordan D. Sullivan

Sucky little senators... Grab a pitchfork cause we're going complain'!

2004-03-18T14:06:00.000-05:00

It appears that the petty little city councillors of Ottawa want to BAN MAPLE LEAF ITEMS from their sissy little rink.

The thing about hockey is that the NHL sells conflict. The product that the NHL sells is the rivalry between teams. (The NHLPA may disagree with me - the players would say the product is their skills, which is also true.) The Toronto / Montreal rivalry is the most famous (for Toronto anyway). We've seen a lot more home at home games in the last three years, because the fans get into the games more. The fans know that if, let's say Charon throws McCabe around on Thursday, the Saturday game is going to kick some serious ass.

One of the more recent rivalries is the Ottawa / Toronto Rivalry. It's been pretty good in the last few years, because they are fairly evenly matched teams (until the playoffs hahaha), in the same province, and always are close in the standings.

By banning Leaf Jerseys, the Ottawa City Council is performing hockey a dis-service. It is trying to ruin an outstanding hockey rivalry by acting on an inane law. This will also make some Toronto Fans not want to visit Ottawa to take in a game, which would hurt ticket sales.

Doesn't this violate the Charter of Rights? I'm almost sure it does. Specifically Section 2, sub section b). I quote

Freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication.

As far as I know, a Maple Leaf shirt is a media of communication. A Habs shirt is a form of communication. By wearing a Habs Jersey, I am telling everyone that I like poutine, don't turn right on red, drink pepsi and smoke Export A.
By wearing a Toronto Jersey, I tell everyone that I pay too much for tickets, don't know a thing about hockey other than the Leafs, think Quinn or Sundin should be traded when we lose two games in a row, never wonder if my team is playing on Saturday, and know that I'll never see a cup in my lifetime. By wearing the Blue and White, I also wonder (to quote something I heard on Mojo Radio, AM 640, said by Tony from Woodbridge) "When we gonna get rid of that bum Sundin and put the C on Domi? He's got heart!"

Won't this Law also discriminate against me being one who lives in Toronto? Would they similarly ban Vancouver Jerseys? What about Carolina Jerseys? The more I think about this, the madder I get. So I'm going to help you do one of the most Canadian of activities! COMPLAIN!

We're going to Email Councilperson Rick Chiarelli and tell him what we feel!

Even if you're not a Leafs fan, or even if you hate the Leafs, try this out. CC me your emails to Councilperson Chiarelli and I will be more than happy to put the best ones on my site.

You will never shut down THE REAL NAPSTER

2004-03-17T16:50:00.000-05:00

Remember in "The Italian Job" where Seth Green claims that he's THE REAL NAPSTER.

It seems that life imitates art

nice ring to it

2004-03-17T13:09:00.000-05:00

I just sent out an email regarding some privacy concerns. I thought this had a nice ring to it, so I wanted to add it to the site.

I personally feel that a Privacy Policy isn't just complying with the necessities of the law to protect ourselves from a corporate standpoint. In the knowledge economy, Privacy should be a philosophy that guarantees our users protection of their fundamental rights, while ensuring that this protection is balanced with justifiable uses of technology and information.

Warning: this post may cause you to think

2004-03-15T14:53:00.000-05:00

Read this Article.

In case you don't want to read it, it basically says that the California Government had a memo leaked. They want to force makers of P2P software should have warnings that accompany the use of the software. Warnings including the exposure to viruses and legal action from copyright infringement.

I quote the memo in question (maybe I should say quote the questionable memo?:

"As a P2P software developer and distributor, we believe you have the ability and responsibility to better educate consumers about these known risks, and to design your software in a manner that minimizes the risks. We view with grave concern reports that at least some P2P software developers may be adding features deliberately designed to hinder law enforcement in its prosecution of crimes using P2P software. Companies that engage in such conduct, and fail to meet the important responsibilities referenced above, harm the interests of consumers in our States."

"It is widely recognized that P2P file-sharing software currently is used almost exclusively to disseminate pornography, and to illegally trade copyrighted music, movies, software and video games. File-sharing software also is increasingly becoming a means to disseminate computer worms and viruses. Nevertheless, your company still does little to warn consumers about the legal and personal risks they face when they use your software to "share" copyrighted music, movies and computer software. A failure to prominently and adequately warn consumers, particularly when you advertise and sell paid versions of your software, could constitute, at the very least, a deceptive trade practice."

Here's what one of the Piracy advocates said:

"It's one thing for the MPAA to come up with a theory like that," said Electronic Frontier Foundation senior intellectual property attorney Fred von Lohmann, "but it would be quite another for a state attorney general to adopt it. The principle has no limit -- you can use Internet Explorer to violate the law or unintentionally access pornography, so does he want to suggest that Microsoft is also breaking the law? Why stop at the Internet -- should Ford be held liable for failing to warn drivers that exceeding the speed limit will expose them to citations?"

My view on this memo is that the arguments from both sides are pretty stupid. A merchant has a obligation to provide warning labels for the stupid consumer.

Don't eat this bleach!
Take you hands away from those lawn mower blades!
Move that childseat away from that airbag!
Don't put salt in your eyes!"

So I do agree that the stupid people out there should be warned that computer viruses can be downloaded by using P2P services. (Think about it.... Are the people who don't know about computer viruses really the people downloading music and software for free?)

Merchants don't have the obligation to put warning labels about possible illegal use of the product. This is all covered under the ignorance is no excuse part of the law. The company must be given the right to assume that their customer is law-abiding.

Should Glock put out a warning for the stupid people "WARNING: If you shoot somebody with this gun, you may be convicted for murder."
To go back to the Ford example used from above: "WARNING: If you use this SUV to run over your spouse, you are liable to be charged."
What about IBM: "WARNING: If you use your computer and your internet connection to hack into a bank, then transfer stolen money into a swiss bank account, you could be held liable in a court of law."
The Gap could do this too: "WARNING! If you use this sexy shirt to pick up a girl at a bar and have sex without a condom, getting her pregnant, you may be subjecting yourself to child support payments."

I kind of wish this warning label program was in effect right now. I'd sue the asses off my alarm clock manufacturer for failing to provide me with sufficent warning labels. "WARNING. THIS ALARM CLOCK WILL NOT WAKE YOU UP IF IT IS NOT SET PROPERLY."

boring update the site design and my jeans

2004-03-14T17:02:00.000-05:00

I've more or less finished the design. I still have to fix the margins, and do some other stuff, but I do believe it is a definite improvement from the old design. I'm not a big fan of the sidebar colours yet, I just picked some at random.

I bought jeans yesterday. For those reading who don't know me personally, you'll know that I'm a khaki guy. I haven't worn jeans since like grade eight. That's all for now.

kick ass DJ at Lava, favour to ask of the minions

2004-03-13T11:51:00.000-05:00

Went to the Martini place on College. Showed up early before it got packed. From there, went to Southside's for a bite and a pint. From there, went to Lava for dancing and a few G&T's.

I have to tell everybody, my man C-Bomb was blowing up the spot last night.

Here's the favour. Actually there's two. I want you to email somebody, asking them to check out this site. Then I want you to think about the Booya McNasty brand. (not that there is one yet). Do you think that High School kids would wear shirts that say "Booya McNasty" on them? I know I would, but then again, I'm kind of a geek. Write a comment if you think why, or why not. I would appreciate it.

it's coming along

2004-03-12T16:59:00.000-05:00

i know the site is ugly right now, but I'm working on it

Not doing my job, updating my blog, messy like a slob, eating corn on the cob barhahaha

2004-03-12T11:58:00.000-05:00

To use some hip-hop terms, I'd like to give out mad props to George Michael. Yes, that George Michael. The dirty bathroom diddler and Wham! guy.

It appears that he is no longer a money or fame loving artist. All future works of his will be available for free dowload.

Good on him. (That's Army Slang for Good for him). A lot more artists should do this. Once you get a deal with your record company, do what they want, make a few super pop hits. Blow up the spot, go triple platinum by your second album. Make a ton of dough, have sex with groupies, party & all that.

Once that is all out of your system, then chill out, ditch the record label and start making music for free. Move to Ireland where Artists don't have to pay tax. (This is one of the best business decisions that U2 ever made - being Irish, I mean.)

Back in January of 1999 Public Enemy tried to do that. Sort of. P.E. released a song, condemming the record companies, and released it in MP3 & MP4 format. The lyrics were a pretty harsh commentary about the record labels. I quote:

Vultures of culture, dollar a rhyme
but we barely get a dime...
...Rap and R&B paving the streets of Bel Air
from the sales of singers no longer there
the bigger killer gets the bigger share

What's geekier than a white guy with a weblog who can quote Public Enemy lyrics off the top of his head? Keystyle rapping

I kick my raps without any lyrics
you try and and you try but you just can't hear it
there's no music, no skill, and no shorts
kill all you emcees then get thrown out of courts
i'm dope and I type 55 words per minute
i'm a tech employee who's got more database records than Guiness
and it's like that it's like that it's like that

Back to Public Enemy - They're not liking the record companies. Their label made them back down after a few weeks, but the damage was done. (I couldn't find the documents in question, PE moved from public-enemy.com to publicenemy.com sorry) It's really no big thing for an artist to release one song from their album on mp3, but back in 1999 when mp3's were still kind of new, it was huge.

One more thing on the music category - Check out this new white rapper from Vancouver - he's opening for Busta Rhymes tonight at the Docks. His name is Kyprios. I saw his video on Much the other night, and I'll say he's everything what Whitey Ford wasn't. He brings it back to the old school, with a little bit of harmony. You gotta love someone from the Canadian West Coast telling the all the pop-rappers to bring it back to Old School East Coast styles.

And he gives props to The Teacher. If you look at any of today's links, please look at this one, and read the interview. I have to give mad shout-outs to The Teacher. Uh I mean, I respect The Teacher a whole lot, dig?

I have loved KRS-ONE (acronym for Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone) since I heard him back in the 80's. He is one of three artists that I will buy the album first, only then will I download and pirate all of the songs.

And I know that there's one person who just read that Kyprios is opening for Busta and she's saying, "I bet you feel pretty stupid for turning down those Busta Rhymes tickets now, don't you?"

If you are seeing weird things happen to the site today, it's just me finally starting to fix these formatting problems.

and if you really want to know...

2004-03-11T16:36:00.000-05:00

what booya means, it's slang from New York City (specifically the bronx) back in the late 70's.

Booya was the vocalization of the sound of a sawed off shotgun.

It's also a really cool pseudonym.

I'M RICH, BIATCH!

2004-03-11T16:26:00.000-05:00

that's right all my loyal readers. I was just looking at my hits and check this out!

I'm top ten google baby

and

top twenty here

I've had Americans, Norwegians and a Brazilian come to my pimp-daddy bling bling blog.

See, I'm using these terms a few more times so that I'll get higher in the rankings.

bertuzzi sucks

2004-03-11T11:49:00.000-05:00

I'm super busy today so quick quick here's what I think about this whole Bertuzzi incident.

1. He sucker punched the guy. As Bumpy from Shaft would say: That's some cold shit.
2. He didn't mean to knock him out cold on the first punch.
3. He deliberately put his weight on the guy to throw him down. Again, not knowing he was unconsious. So I guess one would call it a 'deliberate accident' or accidently deliberate
4. The guy is a rookie who could have his whole career ruined, at least the next year or so.
5. The only time police have a right to go into a hockey rink is to kick my drunk ass out. If you're a hockey player, you're are consenting to the fact that you may get filled in once in a while. It goes with the million dollar paycheck, so suck it up Sally-Anne
6. Too many people in the media who don't know a lot about hockey are suddenly giving their two cents about this. (you're reading this aren't you)

and most importantly about this whole mess.....

I never liked Bertuzzi before this whole mess happened, and I still don't like him.

VANCOUVER SUCKS

mars, the little planet that shouldn't

2004-03-09T16:31:00.000-05:00

I'm a huge Mars buff. I think that Mars is really cool as a planet, as a historical object, as the next step in human exploration. I think there should be manned missions to Mars.

There hasn't been one Mars movie that sucked. From "Santa-Claus vs the Martians" to "Total Recall," they all kick ass. (Red Planet had dumb parts, but it was still an eight on the Jordan-kick-ass-o-meter).

Having said all that I think Bush is wrong to make NASA transfer funding from The Hubble to A Manned Mars Mission. I also think that NASA is stupid to no longer plan scheduled Hubble upkeep missions using the shuttle. This is one of the many reasons why.

The President of the Mars Society, Robert Zubrin, said this about the NASA's decision:

"This was the most important thing the shuttle would do in its remaining lifetime," he said. "Most of its other missions are science-fair stuff. The Hubble is a milestone in human intellectual history, and this decision is a crime against science.

"What's happening is that a bunch of bureaucrats are wanting to feel decisive, to show they can make the tough calls to support the president's moon and Mars program. They'll say: 'Much as it might rend our hearts, we're willing to give this up.' That's all a crock," Zubrin said. "If the first thing this new space policy does is murder Hubble, then it's born with the mark of Cain on it."

Visit this site and put your name down.

forgot one thing

2004-03-09T15:08:00.000-05:00

it costs 150 bucks to file one of these lawsuits, so it's going to cost them 30 grand to sue these dudes

Arrr me maties! Yet another victory for ye olde pirates, says I!

2004-03-09T14:49:00.000-05:00

Say the title in your favourite Pirate voice and it will be a lot funnier. Arrrrgh!

Big victory in the States today. The RIAA can't sue 200 music pirates at once. They need to file 200 individual lawsuits.

Because you're a long time reader of this blog, you'll know that a US federal court barred the RIAA from using the DMCA (digital millenium copyright act) to subpoena names of music pirates. The RIAA now must identify alleged file swappers by their Internet Protocol addresses, but does not know the individuals' names.

On Friday, Judge Clarence Newcomer authorized a subpoena in the case of John Doe No. 1, because the RIAA had submitted a detailed case against the individual. But the judge ordered the music industry to file separate suits against the remaining 202 alleged infringers.

Each of the lawsuits will be doled out to judges in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and the RIAA will have to make separate requests to seek the identity of each alleged file sharer.

These guys aren't catching a break anywhere. I also want to give credit to the TV industry for taking proactive measures right now, thinking about new advertising and revenue models, before they turn into the RIAA. The Nielson ratings are starting to collect data on PVRs a year early because of the rapid adoption of hardware. In other words, they know that TiVO and the other time shifting / ad-zapping technologies are here to stay and they're getting prepared. I honestly wish them the best of luck.

There's this guy I work for every other weekend...

2004-03-09T09:59:00.000-05:00

and he is a complete jerk-off.

I want to rip his head off, hollow out the skull with a ice-cream scoop and the hollowed out skull as a coffee cup.

You know you went to a bad vacation spot when....

2004-03-08T16:12:00.000-05:00

they are naming the next Grand Theft Auto game after it

I had the opportunity to visit the island of San Andres last year over New Year's. I don't really have any complaints about the island itself. We stayed in the tourist part of the island, we were warned not to leave that area at all. We didn't. I ended up buying a pair of pants, but I wasn't looking for a Colombian Necktie.

If you are thinking about a vacation, and want the bragging rights about visiting Colombia without actually visiting the Colombian mainland, I'd recommend it. There are some pretty nice resorts and it is hot as hades there.

I can't wait to buy the Grand Theft Auto game and "virtually visit" the hotel I stayed at with a high powered machine gun and a case of grenades. I'd like to blow the crap out of that place because once I didn't get a fork, another time there was bread crumbs left on the table beforehand.

Vegas, Baby, Vegas, software for the people, but not music, shock and awe

2004-03-05T10:54:00.000-05:00

yo!

Friday morning update. Late for work today, what better time to update the blog?

I want to go to Vegas. My little lady is against it. She thinks I'm going there for the booze, for the ability to perform perverse sexual acts with showgirls and to gamble our savings away. This could not be further from the truth.

I want to go there for the Trek baby! My buddy Mike has been to the old ride, and he says it kicked ass.

The new ride isn't just 3D Trek - its 4D Trek! I always wondered what Riker would look like in four dimensions. While on the subject of Riker, don't you think that's a kick ass name for a kid? Riker Sullivan. It screams "the dashing and handsome son of a cool dude." It's either Riker Sullivan or Jordan Sullivan Version 4.0. Not that I'm thinking about kids.

It's a pretty busy day in the Jordan's Geeky News Department.

Here's a quick background for you non-techie-geekey types. There's this company called Microsoft. They dominate the software market, either through buying / licensing the technology of other companies, or copying their technologies and flooding the marketplace. They started in the Operating System business with a product called MS-DOS.

Open source software is software that is free. The user has access to the source code and you are free to modify it and share it with others. oh...so that's why it's called open-source.... There are a lots of cool OS products out there. The major Open Source operating system is called Unix, which has a derivative called Linux. Unix & Linux is competition for Server software, not for the desktop.

Microsoft is pretty worried about it, look at their new ad-campaign, which directly targets Linux. Wouldn't you be worried? Someone provides the comparable or better services that what you can provide, for 0 cost. Take a look at China. They have billions of people who can't spend 200 bucks on Windows.

Okay. Now that we're all up to speed on what open source software is, and why it is dangerous to the largest software company in the world, I'll now tell you about SCO.

For the past year, SCO has been asserting that it is the rightful owner of the Unix operating system and its derivatives, including Linux. It has sued companies like IBM for allegedly misappropriating Unix code and infringing on its copyright -- charges that IBM and Linux advocates ridicule.

gotta have some balls to sue IBM

Everyone in the open source community think that SCO is full of shit. They've been the subject of virus and DoS attacks. The whole point of open source software is that it's not owned by anybody.

Now it turns out, this memo proves that Microsoft was in fact bankrolling SCO. Microsoft is, of couse, denying it, but if more info about their relationship comes out, it will hurt them.

what about music

Remember a while back I mentioned that Kazaa's offices were raided in AU? In case you didn't know, the Australian music industry was allowed to raid the offices of Sharman networks (the makers of kazaa), and 11 other sites including ISP's etc using the Anton Piller Order. The Anton Piller Order is usually used to subpoena info without the prior knowledge of the party being raided, to ensure that destruction of documents, etc will not happen.

Sharman didn't think this was a nice thing to do. On their legal front, the made an application to the court to have the order invalidated, on the grounds that the judge wasn't given all of the information regarding the application for the Anton Piller order. Mainly the outcomes of legal battles in the USA and the Netherlands. One can argue that if the judge read my blog, he would know what was going on in the word with these issues. Remember to tell a friend about this site! They also argued that Sharman has co-operated with legal proceedings in the past and would continue to do so, therefore the Order was used unjustifiably.

The judge replied today:

"Although the detail of the U.S. proceedings was not disclosed to me on 5 February 2004, I have reached the conclusion that the non-disclosure was not material," Justice Murray Wilcox's judgment read. "The non-disclosed material would not have affected my decision to make the Anton Piller orders."
"It would be desirable for the parties to consult together about the material taken on 6 February 2004 ... (and) for the parties to agree on a regime for custody, inspection and analysis of the material that was authorized to be taken."

To use the vernacular, this is not a huge shit sandwich for Sharman, but it's not a bed of roses either. Here's what their lawyers said:

"It effectively means that material seized will not be handed over to the record industry plaintiffs, rather both parties will discuss a regime of access. In reality, this is a way of converting the 'shock-and-awe' tactics employed by the plaintiffs by using the Anton Piller order, into a more formal, appropriate legal process akin to discovery."

Free downloads or no free downloads, I almost want the record industry to win because of the blatant use of the term shock-and-awe. I hate when people use shock-and-awe to describe things.

I wish the Bush government would have called that operation something cooler and more hip to the younger audience, here are some ideas:

Operation Who's Your Daddy
Operation Who's the Bitch now
Operation Suckas Catch A Beat-Down
Operation Kick Saddam to the curb
Operation keep running bitch, cause we comin to wet you iraqi ass

peace and long life

Finally! An update - does anybody have balls, addiction & whatever happened to the google yahoo face off

2004-03-02T14:53:00.000-05:00

Hi all,

I see that I've got a lot of hits in the last little while, without much content to keep you all interested. Get used to the lack of updates at the end of every month. As I said in my first major post Coffee is for closers and I have to brag that last month was a double tall half-caf double-decaf expresso with a twist of lime.

Via comment someone asked where the expression "it's cold enough to freeze your balls off" came from. This one has actually been pondered by minds greater than mine.

The commonly held belief is that on old sailing ships, they would hold the iron cannonballs in pyramid formations, held together by brass circles, called monkeys. When it would get cold, the brass and the iron would contract at different rates. This would cause the iron cannonballs to fall over, hence the term "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey."

To the layperson, that sounds like a very plausiable explanation. If you do some cusory historical fact checking, you'll quite quickly find out that you're up the proverbial estuary without a means of locomotion. Or a brass monkey for that matter. There are a lot of problems with the above explanation, including:

1. The pyramid of balls is largely ceremonial and peace-time in nature. Cannonballs wouldn't be stored on deck with the risk of injuring the seamen. (hahahah I said seamen). In the Royal Navy (uh the Brittish Navy for you non-colonials), ready service shot was usually kept on the gun or spar decks, in shot garlands. They were made of wood. Which brings me to my next point:
2. Brass was expensive back in the day. Not all ships or navies could afford brass monkeys to hold cannonballs. Wood was a lot cheaper.
3. One must remember that when all else is equal, the laws of physics must prevail. If the diameter of a both a Brass and Steel cannonball were precisely 6 inches at a temperature of -50 degrees centigrade (colder than the coldest Antarctic sea) then, when the temperature had been raised to +50 degrees centigrade (as hot as it gets) the difference between the diameters would be approximately .00439 inches and the brass ball would have the larger diameter.

So my conclusion to this is that it is just a crude expression to describe that it's far too cold.

I was sitting at home last night, after having cleaned the house, made dinner for my girlfriend, gave her a back rub, and then developed a cure for the common cold and decided to sit down to a few races with the PS2. I was just going to play for about 15 minutes or so. Next thing I know, it's 1230 and I'm still on the damn level trying to out race the Honda on the back streets of the city.

My question is why are vids so damn addicting? There are a lot of reasons:

They're fun and compelling. Although they can be frusterating at times, when you finally kill the boss or get through a hard level or make Lara Croft do a handstand, you feel like you've accomplished something.

They're intellectually challenging. They have increasing complexity. They range from a fairly easy past-time to insanely hard crap. As soon as you teach Mario how to jump on a turtle, they provide you a bouncing turtle to jump on. Now that you have this new skill, you want to use it.

They now provide social interaction. With the advent of the Internet, all you need is a little silicon cable into the back of your pc or xbox or ps2 and you can play with people online. You'll never have to leave your computer room again. Of course the social interaction isn't what it's cracked up to be. It's mostly hearing a bunch of grade nines from Little Rock blabbing on and on about how cool Britney is or how great that new J-Lo movie was.

Also, if you've ever played SOCOM 2 onllne, you'll also hear the odd bitter twenty something Canadian guy making fun of Americans and calling Justin Timberlake a pussy while he shoots the twelve year old in the back.

Whatever happened to the face off you ask? Nothing, it's just delayed. I was gonzo this weekend. It was a bag drive too. (That means it was fairly difficult for you non-mo types). I'm telling you, you never appreciate sleep, food, showering or your woman until you've been away in the field with the army for a period of time. You also pay a lot more attention to the weather when you're sleeping outside.

Qui est l'homme?

2004-02-25T16:30:00.000-05:00

J'ai juste ferme un compte, parlant seulement francais.

Je donne un coup de pied a posterior

star trek image search results

2004-02-25T13:49:00.000-05:00

So far the search engine war is neck and neck after the first category of Searching for Star Trek Pictures.

Did a search for "khan." The first picture of Ricardo Montoban came up first in google. Yahoo! was only four pictures behind. Then I searched for "khan trek." Yahoo came slightly ahead, because they had less non-trek images. Then did a search for "kirk's son," both failed miserably. So I did a search for Dr. David Marcus and nice images came up for both. Did a search for Dai Mon Bok. Both search engines asked if I meant daimon bok, which I did. Instantly the picture of Pickard's favourite first season nemesis came up for both. Did a search for Cardassia prime, low and behold they're tied. Yahoo gets a slightly a better grade, as they had less images that had nothing to do with my subject. gotta go

gotta love crm, interesting results so far about yahoo / google showdown

2004-02-25T11:17:00.000-05:00

The month is ending. I have hundreds of leads to follow up with. I have to contact them all. I have a bad memory when it comes to names.

I used to grab my notebook, (not notebook computer, a actual book with pages), search through the hundreds of telephone numbers or email addresses, then send out hundreds of emails individually. This took about a week or so to do.

All I do now is create a filter, something along the lines of contacttype=prospect, lastcontact>01/01/04 and interest=beforemarch. Click two more times:

Booya!600 personalized emails are sent within seconds.

Customer Relations Management software kicks ass. Why should I work for my commission when my software can do it for me?

So I've gotten around to comparing the image search capabilities of the two massive search engines. So far they're tied, but google is slightly ahead. Results will be posted soon.