Showing posts with label Non-Shopping Channel Exclusive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Non-Shopping Channel Exclusive. Show all posts
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Thursday, January 3, 2008
This spammer tried to post a comment to my blog
Gostei muito desse post e seu blog é muito interessante, vou passar por aqui sempre =) Depois dá uma passada lá no meu site, que é sobre o bunkoNet, espero que goste. O endereço dele é http://www.bunkonet.com . Um abraço.
It is Portuguese, and I changed the name so he'd get no play here.
Found 33 references to his site on the web, all in blogs, except his own blog, which is actually a site to purchase telephone minutes or some such bs.
Here's my rough translation of the pigfucks spam:
Really liked your post and your blog is very interesting, I'll be swinging by here a lot. Come on by my site, blah blah blah, Hugs.
It is Portuguese, and I changed the name so he'd get no play here.
Found 33 references to his site on the web, all in blogs, except his own blog, which is actually a site to purchase telephone minutes or some such bs.
Here's my rough translation of the pigfucks spam:
Really liked your post and your blog is very interesting, I'll be swinging by here a lot. Come on by my site, blah blah blah, Hugs.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Pranks by Boys - "Proof and Consequences"
It was a pick up game, seven innings, late in the school year and I was pitching.
I only played pitcher or catcher, since I didn't run well and couldn't throw very far, as I never learned how! I casually picked off batters, three up and three down 5 innings in a row. The opponents called it a night, it was obvious they weren't going to hit me.
She was up in the stands, blonde and stacked and pretty cute. I knew who she was; she had just dumped my friend Cornie. I didn't pay much attention to his love life, they had been going out for a couple of years, but when he wasn't out with her he was partying with us.
What I found out later was that she had her girl friend drive her way out to the ball park we were using, just to meet me. I was somewhat clueless and somewhat sophisticated, a wonderful and normal combination for a 16 year old.
Cornie was a sensitive guy, and was also real broken up by this twat. Ah well. I actually think that Cornie was gay, but in the closet at that point, haven't seen him in over 30 years. I don't know what became of him.
Anyway, after the game she sauntered over to me and said hello.
I noticed her bodacious tata's.
It was obvious that just looking at me made her pee a little puddle, but I ignored her advances judiciously. Coy works a lot better than obvious, I had that part mastered already.
She gave me her number and, while I wasn't even that interested, I gave her a call, since I was in between girls that week.
My "standard" date was pretty awesome, to most girls, and usually got me what I wanted.
There was a pretty decent chinese place downtown called Fu King's Palace. All my girls had enjoyed that place, then I would take them back to the theatre near my house, where they had been showing Harold and Maude for three years running. My favorite movie, which was lucky, since I'd seen it 22 times with different dates already, somehow it got them in the mood, being a love story and all.
Afterwards, depending on the season, we'd enjoy each other's company in the back of a car, skinny dipping in a lake, lying out on my pool table in the basement (with my parents watching tv upstairs) or, if her parents weren't around, off to her house.
But, this date was different.
I picked her up on time and told her where we were going for dinner. She turned to me and said "Fuck NO!" since she had worked at the Palace for two years during summers and was sick as hell of the food there.
This almost derailed me.
Turned out she wasn't that interested in small talk and dinner anyway, and had already seen Harold and Maude and didn't want to see it again.
Where we ate, I can't recall, but the back of my car afterwards was an adventure I've never forgotten, over three decades years later!
The following week Cornie was present at the Winto's Friday get together at Cageman's house.
I think all the Wintos were there, the core group of Schultz, Cageman, Walleye, Richey, Turncoat and me, Cornie and Bennie, even Pollack and Burns, peripheral members got together with us when they could.
I tried to be casual with Cornie, since I knew he was sensitive, but he had already heard (from one of her bitch girlfriends) that his ex and I had gone out.
Well, it wasn't two minutes into my visit there that he began to chew my ass and the "what happened on the date" bullshit started. I was extremely reluctant to tell him, since I don't kiss and tell, but he was more than insistent.
What a fuckin' plonker. I hit the bong again and again, hoping to pass out instead of being abused by his confrontation. But Cornie didn't let up a minute. It was silly and not fun but I held my ground.
My defenses lowered slowly, the vodka and beer and pot took its toll, but still I held out. Finally after about two hours of his constant harassment, I told him what he didn't want to hear. He said he didn't believe me. I said I could prove it.
The rest of the Winto gang were pissed at Cornie, and at me for what they perceived as my teasing, yet they were also unnaturally interested in how I could prove it!
I kept my mouth shut again, but Cornie wouldn't let up. . . "Well prove it then, motherfucker!"
I tried hard, since I didn't want to hurt him, but, worn down and bored, and actually a little pissed at his insistence, I finally whispered the proof into his ear. I figured if she could tell her girlfriends about me, I could tell her Ex about what we'd done too.
That was not exactly brilliant, but nothing else was going to shut Cornie up!
His reaction was a good imitation of cardiac arrest. He turned white, then a brilliant shade of red. He ran right through a door, into Cageman's bedroom and dove onto the bed for the phone.
He almost broke a finger calling her, to discuss the facts, now that he knew that I could prove it.
The rest of the Gang were laughing at this point, and I was simply sad. "What did you tell him man? Why did he dive for the phone like that? What the fug was the "proof" you offered anyway?" were just a few of the questions I was reluctant to answer.
Finally, hearing the sobs from the bedroom as Cornie cried his guts out, I broke down and told them. I knew that the consequences would not be good for my future with that particular pussy, but I couldn't keep my mouth shut for some reason, just had to share.
Knowing what I said next would only get them to ask a whole bunch more questions, I blurted it out anyway..."She has Inverted Nipples dudes!"
She got me back a couple weeks later. That's a whole 'nuther story.
I only played pitcher or catcher, since I didn't run well and couldn't throw very far, as I never learned how! I casually picked off batters, three up and three down 5 innings in a row. The opponents called it a night, it was obvious they weren't going to hit me.
She was up in the stands, blonde and stacked and pretty cute. I knew who she was; she had just dumped my friend Cornie. I didn't pay much attention to his love life, they had been going out for a couple of years, but when he wasn't out with her he was partying with us.
What I found out later was that she had her girl friend drive her way out to the ball park we were using, just to meet me. I was somewhat clueless and somewhat sophisticated, a wonderful and normal combination for a 16 year old.
Cornie was a sensitive guy, and was also real broken up by this twat. Ah well. I actually think that Cornie was gay, but in the closet at that point, haven't seen him in over 30 years. I don't know what became of him.
Anyway, after the game she sauntered over to me and said hello.
I noticed her bodacious tata's.
It was obvious that just looking at me made her pee a little puddle, but I ignored her advances judiciously. Coy works a lot better than obvious, I had that part mastered already.
She gave me her number and, while I wasn't even that interested, I gave her a call, since I was in between girls that week.
My "standard" date was pretty awesome, to most girls, and usually got me what I wanted.
There was a pretty decent chinese place downtown called Fu King's Palace. All my girls had enjoyed that place, then I would take them back to the theatre near my house, where they had been showing Harold and Maude for three years running. My favorite movie, which was lucky, since I'd seen it 22 times with different dates already, somehow it got them in the mood, being a love story and all.
Afterwards, depending on the season, we'd enjoy each other's company in the back of a car, skinny dipping in a lake, lying out on my pool table in the basement (with my parents watching tv upstairs) or, if her parents weren't around, off to her house.
But, this date was different.
I picked her up on time and told her where we were going for dinner. She turned to me and said "Fuck NO!" since she had worked at the Palace for two years during summers and was sick as hell of the food there.
This almost derailed me.
Turned out she wasn't that interested in small talk and dinner anyway, and had already seen Harold and Maude and didn't want to see it again.
Where we ate, I can't recall, but the back of my car afterwards was an adventure I've never forgotten, over three decades years later!
The following week Cornie was present at the Winto's Friday get together at Cageman's house.
I think all the Wintos were there, the core group of Schultz, Cageman, Walleye, Richey, Turncoat and me, Cornie and Bennie, even Pollack and Burns, peripheral members got together with us when they could.
I tried to be casual with Cornie, since I knew he was sensitive, but he had already heard (from one of her bitch girlfriends) that his ex and I had gone out.
Well, it wasn't two minutes into my visit there that he began to chew my ass and the "what happened on the date" bullshit started. I was extremely reluctant to tell him, since I don't kiss and tell, but he was more than insistent.
What a fuckin' plonker. I hit the bong again and again, hoping to pass out instead of being abused by his confrontation. But Cornie didn't let up a minute. It was silly and not fun but I held my ground.
My defenses lowered slowly, the vodka and beer and pot took its toll, but still I held out. Finally after about two hours of his constant harassment, I told him what he didn't want to hear. He said he didn't believe me. I said I could prove it.
The rest of the Winto gang were pissed at Cornie, and at me for what they perceived as my teasing, yet they were also unnaturally interested in how I could prove it!
I kept my mouth shut again, but Cornie wouldn't let up. . . "Well prove it then, motherfucker!"
I tried hard, since I didn't want to hurt him, but, worn down and bored, and actually a little pissed at his insistence, I finally whispered the proof into his ear. I figured if she could tell her girlfriends about me, I could tell her Ex about what we'd done too.
That was not exactly brilliant, but nothing else was going to shut Cornie up!
His reaction was a good imitation of cardiac arrest. He turned white, then a brilliant shade of red. He ran right through a door, into Cageman's bedroom and dove onto the bed for the phone.
He almost broke a finger calling her, to discuss the facts, now that he knew that I could prove it.
The rest of the Gang were laughing at this point, and I was simply sad. "What did you tell him man? Why did he dive for the phone like that? What the fug was the "proof" you offered anyway?" were just a few of the questions I was reluctant to answer.
Finally, hearing the sobs from the bedroom as Cornie cried his guts out, I broke down and told them. I knew that the consequences would not be good for my future with that particular pussy, but I couldn't keep my mouth shut for some reason, just had to share.
Knowing what I said next would only get them to ask a whole bunch more questions, I blurted it out anyway..."She has Inverted Nipples dudes!"
She got me back a couple weeks later. That's a whole 'nuther story.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Caltrans workers dumped road kill in ravine near Saratoga
| WHAT CAUGHT MY EYE ABOUT THIS ARTICLE IS THAT MY FRIEND MARK AND I USED TO PLAY IN THE VERY PLACE THESE ROAD KILL HAD BEEN DEPOSITED! WE USED TO RIDE OUR 10 SPEED SCHWINNS UP HWY 9 TO A GRAVEL QUARRY, AND "SKI" DOWN THE GRAVEL SLOPE NARROWLY AVOIDING GETTING BURIED BY THE SLIDING DIRT... I WAS 10 - 12 AT THE TIME. THE COASTAL MOUNTAINS IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA ARE QUITE IMPRESSIVE, BEAUTIFUL PINES AND REDWOODS... Sunday, September 30, 2007 (09-30) 14:24 PDT SARATOGA - -- Three Caltrans maintenance workers have for roughly the past decade violated agency policy by dumping roadkill - the remains of deer, raccoons, opossums and other wild animals struck by vehicles - into a ravine off windy Route 9 west of the city of Saratoga, a Caltrans spokeswoman said Sunday. After learning of the practice Thursday, the agency is now investigating who owns the land in unincorporated Santa Clara County where the animals were dumped and whether their decomposing carcasses could have polluted nearby Saratoga Creek, spokeswoman Lauren Wonder said. "We are doing our investigation with staff and will take appropriate disciplinary action" against the workers, Wonder said. "We will not tolerate this inhumane treatment of animals nor the violation of our policies." Caltrans will do its best to clean up the site, she said. In addition, all maintenance workers in the South Bay will be given additional training on the proper disposal of roadkill. Wild animals, Wonder said, are supposed to be taken for rendering to the San Jose Tallow Company, while pets must be delivered to one of two area animal shelters. Caltrans learned of the dumping Thursday after inquiries were made by a KPIX (Channel 5) television news reporter, Wonder said. One maintenance worker, she said, subsequently admitted the violations had gone on for about 10 years. "It sounds like it's not a regular practice, though," Wonder said. "They've used the area on and off." |
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Superficial characteristics means more babies fathered! Ah, Sex, ain't it a mystery!?!?!?
I have a radio announcer voice (see first post in this blog!). It does seem to help me "get over" if you know what I mean. No one has ever complained about the timbre or pitch of my voice, although I tend to whine...
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=20d865fc-cd62-4944-896a-6582fc0adc31&k=67686
Man's voice an indicator of sexual potency: Canadian Research; Men with deep tones produce more children
If a recent study holds true, having a voice like the late Barry White, (oh, baby), can be the key to sexual potency.
Tom Blackwell, National PostPublished: Tuesday, September 25, 2007
For many women, the deepness of a man's voice is one of the most powerful aphrodisiacs, a new study co-authored by a Canadian psychologist suggests.
All else being equal, males with lower voices produce more children than their higher-pitched counterparts, concluded the researchers in a search for evolutionary explanations of sexual attraction.
The study looked at Tanzania's Hadza tribesmen, one of the world's few remaining hunter-gatherer societies, because the Hadzas never use birth control, a complicating factor that makes it impossible to do such research elsewhere in the world.
The discovery that the pitch of their voices was a major determinant of how many children they would father underlines the deep-seated roots of the seemingly superficial human trait, said David Feinberg, a psychology professor at Mc-Master University in Hamilton, Ont.
Previous research has indicated that a deep voice signifies robust genes, in evolutionary terms.
The findings, however, can not really be put into action on the dating scene, stressed Prof. Feinberg, a co-author of the study.
"This doesn't mean, go out and find a guy with a low-pitched voice if you want to have lots of babies," he said. "[But] it tells us a bit about where we came from and where we're going."
The findings, though, came as no surprise yesterday to professionals in the dating world.
At Toronto-based Misty River Introductions, billed as a "traditional match-maker," men with deep voices always seem to do better, and are much more likely to move beyond the initial stage of a telephone conversation with their potential date, said manager Linda Miller.
"We've had certain clients, you couldn't tell if they were men or women when they called in. They don't do terribly well," she said. "And then you have men who have radio-annnouncer voices, they have that great masculine timbre, and every call is a hit."
Some of Ruth Claramunt's female clients at Hearts Canada, another match-making service, have actually specified that they like men with low voices.
"Or if someone has a squeaky little voice: 'Oh, I didn't really like him,' " said Ms. Claramunt.
"They could be a great big hunky guy and if they have a squeaky voice over the phone, it's sort of a negative."
Prof. Feinberg said he has been trying to see whether human males attract their mates with the same kind of "ornaments," like a peacock's plumage or a deer's antlers, seen elsewhere in the animal world.
Earlier in human evolution, it appears that the appeal of a deep voice was linked to testosterone levels. Deep voices are caused by high testosterone levels in adolescent. Large volumes of the hormone can also prompt immune suppression in a weaker person, so someone who survived to manhood with a deep voice would necessarily have a strong genetic makeup, said the psychologist.
No one, however, has been able to test until now whether the attraction of a deep male voice translated into their having more reproductive success.
For the study, Prof. Feinberg and his colleagues, anthropologists at Harvard and Florida State Universities, looked at 49 men and 42 women among the 1,000-strong Hadza people, who choose their own mates but have a fairly high divorce rate in an informal system of "serial monogamy."
The participants spoke into sensitive microphones and had their voices analysed with sophisticated electronic equipment. The pitch of the men's voices accounted for about 42% of the difference in number of children between fathers, the researchers found.
Although other studies have suggested that men are more attracted to women with high voices, the study found that the pitch of the women's voices did not predict how many children they would have.
tblackwell@nationalpost.com
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=20d865fc-cd62-4944-896a-6582fc0adc31&k=67686
Man's voice an indicator of sexual potency: Canadian Research; Men with deep tones produce more children
If a recent study holds true, having a voice like the late Barry White, (oh, baby), can be the key to sexual potency.
Tom Blackwell, National PostPublished: Tuesday, September 25, 2007
For many women, the deepness of a man's voice is one of the most powerful aphrodisiacs, a new study co-authored by a Canadian psychologist suggests.
All else being equal, males with lower voices produce more children than their higher-pitched counterparts, concluded the researchers in a search for evolutionary explanations of sexual attraction.
The study looked at Tanzania's Hadza tribesmen, one of the world's few remaining hunter-gatherer societies, because the Hadzas never use birth control, a complicating factor that makes it impossible to do such research elsewhere in the world.
The discovery that the pitch of their voices was a major determinant of how many children they would father underlines the deep-seated roots of the seemingly superficial human trait, said David Feinberg, a psychology professor at Mc-Master University in Hamilton, Ont.
Previous research has indicated that a deep voice signifies robust genes, in evolutionary terms.
The findings, however, can not really be put into action on the dating scene, stressed Prof. Feinberg, a co-author of the study.
"This doesn't mean, go out and find a guy with a low-pitched voice if you want to have lots of babies," he said. "[But] it tells us a bit about where we came from and where we're going."
The findings, though, came as no surprise yesterday to professionals in the dating world.
At Toronto-based Misty River Introductions, billed as a "traditional match-maker," men with deep voices always seem to do better, and are much more likely to move beyond the initial stage of a telephone conversation with their potential date, said manager Linda Miller.
"We've had certain clients, you couldn't tell if they were men or women when they called in. They don't do terribly well," she said. "And then you have men who have radio-annnouncer voices, they have that great masculine timbre, and every call is a hit."
Some of Ruth Claramunt's female clients at Hearts Canada, another match-making service, have actually specified that they like men with low voices.
"Or if someone has a squeaky little voice: 'Oh, I didn't really like him,' " said Ms. Claramunt.
"They could be a great big hunky guy and if they have a squeaky voice over the phone, it's sort of a negative."
Prof. Feinberg said he has been trying to see whether human males attract their mates with the same kind of "ornaments," like a peacock's plumage or a deer's antlers, seen elsewhere in the animal world.
Earlier in human evolution, it appears that the appeal of a deep voice was linked to testosterone levels. Deep voices are caused by high testosterone levels in adolescent. Large volumes of the hormone can also prompt immune suppression in a weaker person, so someone who survived to manhood with a deep voice would necessarily have a strong genetic makeup, said the psychologist.
No one, however, has been able to test until now whether the attraction of a deep male voice translated into their having more reproductive success.
For the study, Prof. Feinberg and his colleagues, anthropologists at Harvard and Florida State Universities, looked at 49 men and 42 women among the 1,000-strong Hadza people, who choose their own mates but have a fairly high divorce rate in an informal system of "serial monogamy."
The participants spoke into sensitive microphones and had their voices analysed with sophisticated electronic equipment. The pitch of the men's voices accounted for about 42% of the difference in number of children between fathers, the researchers found.
Although other studies have suggested that men are more attracted to women with high voices, the study found that the pitch of the women's voices did not predict how many children they would have.
tblackwell@nationalpost.com
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Vandals egg house of local atheist
Normally, I'd get really worried and upset about an article like this. But as imaginative as I am, I cannot make this stuff up!
Going house Egging
Brought out my chalk, criss crossing
Jesus Mis-spelt? How???
Vandals egg house of local atheist
Daily Herald Staff Reports
Published: 9/23/2007 3:00 AM
The home of a local outspoken atheist was vandalized overnight Friday, police said -- with eggs tossed at the house and cars, and crosses and religious words scrawled in chalk on the driveway.
A church bulletin also was stuck on the front door.
The incident comes days after Rob Sherman's daughter, Dawn, led a successful effort to have the song "God Bless America" yanked from Buffalo Grove High School's homecoming celebration. Dawn Sherman is a freshman on the student council.
The vandalism likely was the retaliatory work of youngsters, police Sgt. Mike Millett said -- since it came on the heels of the school incident and because one of the chalked words, "Jesus," was misspelled.
Going house Egging
Brought out my chalk, criss crossing
Jesus Mis-spelt? How???
Vandals egg house of local atheist
Daily Herald Staff Reports
Published: 9/23/2007 3:00 AM
The home of a local outspoken atheist was vandalized overnight Friday, police said -- with eggs tossed at the house and cars, and crosses and religious words scrawled in chalk on the driveway.
A church bulletin also was stuck on the front door.
The incident comes days after Rob Sherman's daughter, Dawn, led a successful effort to have the song "God Bless America" yanked from Buffalo Grove High School's homecoming celebration. Dawn Sherman is a freshman on the student council.
The vandalism likely was the retaliatory work of youngsters, police Sgt. Mike Millett said -- since it came on the heels of the school incident and because one of the chalked words, "Jesus," was misspelled.
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Using "GOD" in advertising, is it "beyond the pale"?
I can understand the church's concerns. Is a "blasphemous" image of Christ (or video, worse yet) to be ignored?
On the other hand, the idea of Christ...Man-God, Virgin Birth, Mithras coincidence, no historical record, rewrite and selection of liturgy in Nicea, walked on water...perhaps isn't something the church ought to be so defensive of in the first place!
Pot-bellied Jesus ad irks Church
By Frances Harrison BBC religious affairs reporter
Catholic bishops in Belgium have protested against a TV ad depicting Jesus as a pot-bellied hippy picking up half-naked women in a nightclub.
The advertisement is being aired on the country's main TV channel to promote youth channel Plug TV.
The Catholic Church says this sort of portrayal of Jesus is disrespectful to believers and that it is wrong to use him for advertising.
However, Plug TV denies that the advertisement is blasphemous.
'Number one dad'
The ad shows a long-haired hippy Jesus grooving along as he tries to get into a nightclub and is refused entry by the bouncers.
Jesus makes the sign of the cross and sweeps aside the bouncers, shrinking them so they are left in his wake as dwarves.
This Plug TV version of Jesus then drinks whisky at the bar and magically turns two brown haired frumpy women into blonde babes wearing bikini tops and red horns.
The Jesus character then disappears into a huge limousine with the women but his attention is distracted by an advertisement for Plug TV before he is recalled by God who is standing on a cloud, wearing a T shirt with "Number one dad" written on it.
The God figure tells Jesus off for wanting to watch Plug TV as well as everything else - saying "you still want more".
The Catholic Church has expressed its disapproval to the TV channel - saying advertising is not the same as journalism and should not share the same concerns about freedom of expression.
The Church believes this advertisement "crosses the limits of respectability".
Plug TV however argues it is not blasphemous but contains a message about a "laid-back Jesus addressing youth".
On the other hand, the idea of Christ...Man-God, Virgin Birth, Mithras coincidence, no historical record, rewrite and selection of liturgy in Nicea, walked on water...perhaps isn't something the church ought to be so defensive of in the first place!
Pot-bellied Jesus ad irks Church
By Frances Harrison BBC religious affairs reporter
Catholic bishops in Belgium have protested against a TV ad depicting Jesus as a pot-bellied hippy picking up half-naked women in a nightclub.
The advertisement is being aired on the country's main TV channel to promote youth channel Plug TV.
The Catholic Church says this sort of portrayal of Jesus is disrespectful to believers and that it is wrong to use him for advertising.
However, Plug TV denies that the advertisement is blasphemous.
'Number one dad'
The ad shows a long-haired hippy Jesus grooving along as he tries to get into a nightclub and is refused entry by the bouncers.
Jesus makes the sign of the cross and sweeps aside the bouncers, shrinking them so they are left in his wake as dwarves.
This Plug TV version of Jesus then drinks whisky at the bar and magically turns two brown haired frumpy women into blonde babes wearing bikini tops and red horns.
The Jesus character then disappears into a huge limousine with the women but his attention is distracted by an advertisement for Plug TV before he is recalled by God who is standing on a cloud, wearing a T shirt with "Number one dad" written on it.
The God figure tells Jesus off for wanting to watch Plug TV as well as everything else - saying "you still want more".
The Catholic Church has expressed its disapproval to the TV channel - saying advertising is not the same as journalism and should not share the same concerns about freedom of expression.
The Church believes this advertisement "crosses the limits of respectability".
Plug TV however argues it is not blasphemous but contains a message about a "laid-back Jesus addressing youth".
Friday, September 21, 2007
Back from the dead, the fear of being buried alive, etc.
"Dead" man wakes up under autopsy knife
Mon Sep 17, 8:53 AM ET
CARACAS (Reuters) - A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy.
Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy only to realize something was amiss when he started bleeding.
They quickly sought to stitch up the incision on his face.
"I woke up because the pain was unbearable," Camejo said, according to a report on Friday in leading local newspaper El Universal.
His grieving wife turned up at the morgue to identify her husband's body only to find him moved into a corridor -- and alive.
Reuters could not immediately reach hospital officials to confirm the events. But Camejo showed the newspaper his facial scar and a document ordering the autopsy.
Mon Sep 17, 8:53 AM ET
CARACAS (Reuters) - A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy.
Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy only to realize something was amiss when he started bleeding.
They quickly sought to stitch up the incision on his face.
"I woke up because the pain was unbearable," Camejo said, according to a report on Friday in leading local newspaper El Universal.
His grieving wife turned up at the morgue to identify her husband's body only to find him moved into a corridor -- and alive.
Reuters could not immediately reach hospital officials to confirm the events. But Camejo showed the newspaper his facial scar and a document ordering the autopsy.
American Bandstand meets the Information Highway
Tecktonik dance craze takes Paris by storm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070921/ennew_afp/entertainmentmusicdancefrance_070921160955
From the Article:
Tecktonik, judged by the videos on YouTube and displays at the Techno Parade, is a mix of break-dancing, hip hop and techno, featuring flailing arms and quick foot movements.
In appearance, fans share similarities with the new-rave scene in Britain, where fluorescent colours, armbands and tight t-shirts are back in fashion in a clear tribute to the 1980s rave music scene.
"I started to practice at home by looking on the Internet," said Jackie, a 20-year-old regular at the Metropolis who works with young people in a northern suburb of Paris.
"It's a real pleasure to dance the whole day," including on the street, he adds.
Internet searches on YouTube and Dailymotion turn up a series of videos, including one by Jey-Jey, downloaded a million times, who demonstrates his take on Tecktonik in his garage.
Another by Cali, who dances in his living room, also appears to be popular.
"A lot of young people don't have the courage to dance in nightclubs because they are worried about the prejudices of others. The Internet enables them to familiarise themselves with the dance," says Blanc from Metropolis.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070921/ennew_afp/entertainmentmusicdancefrance_070921160955
From the Article:
Tecktonik, judged by the videos on YouTube and displays at the Techno Parade, is a mix of break-dancing, hip hop and techno, featuring flailing arms and quick foot movements.
In appearance, fans share similarities with the new-rave scene in Britain, where fluorescent colours, armbands and tight t-shirts are back in fashion in a clear tribute to the 1980s rave music scene.
"I started to practice at home by looking on the Internet," said Jackie, a 20-year-old regular at the Metropolis who works with young people in a northern suburb of Paris.
"It's a real pleasure to dance the whole day," including on the street, he adds.
Internet searches on YouTube and Dailymotion turn up a series of videos, including one by Jey-Jey, downloaded a million times, who demonstrates his take on Tecktonik in his garage.
Another by Cali, who dances in his living room, also appears to be popular.
"A lot of young people don't have the courage to dance in nightclubs because they are worried about the prejudices of others. The Internet enables them to familiarise themselves with the dance," says Blanc from Metropolis.
Sunday, September 16, 2007
No Sweat - the chemistry of perspiration and attraction!
Stinky? It's not his sweat, it's your nose
By Julie Steenhuysen Sun Sep 16, 1:09 PM ET
CHICAGO (Reuters) - When it comes to a man's body odor, the fragrance -- or stench -- is in the nose of the beholder, according to U.S. researchers who suggest a single gene may determine how people perceive body odor.
The study, published online on Sunday in the journal Nature, helps explain why the same sweaty man can smell like vanilla to some, like urine to others and for about a third of adults, have no smell at all.
"This is the first time that any human odorant receptor is associated with how we experience odors," Hiroaki Matsunami of Duke University in North Carolina said in a telephone interview.
Matsunami and colleagues at Duke and Rockefeller University in New York focused on the chemical androstenone, which is created when the body breaks down the male sex hormone testosterone.
Androstenone is in the sweat of men and women, but it is more highly concentrated in men. How one perceives its smell appears to have a lot to do with variations in one odor receptor gene called OR7D4.
"It is well known that people have different perceptions to androstenone. But people didn't know what was the basis of it," Matsunami said.
To find out, researchers in Matsunami's lab tested sweat chemicals on most of the 400 known odor receptors used by the nose to sniff out smells and chemicals.
They found the OR7D4 gene reacted strongly with the sex steroid androstenone. Next, they tested whether variations in this gene had an impact on how people perceived the smell of androstenone in male sweat.
They took blood samples and sequenced the DNA of 400 people who participated in a smell perception test done in Leslie Vosshall's lab at Rockefeller.
What they found is slight genetic variations determine whether androstenone has a pungent smell, a sweet, vanilla-like smell or no smell at all.
The role of androstenone is not well understood in humans, but in pigs it sends a powerful sex signal that puts sows in the mood for love.
"It facilitates the courtship behavior in females," Matsunami said.
"There is some evidence published showing this chemical can modify the mood or hormone
levels in humans," he said. "What we don't know is whether the receptor we found was in any way involved in this process."
He and colleagues will further study this aspect to understand how smelling these chemicals might affect human social and sexual behavior.
By Julie Steenhuysen Sun Sep 16, 1:09 PM ET
CHICAGO (Reuters) - When it comes to a man's body odor, the fragrance -- or stench -- is in the nose of the beholder, according to U.S. researchers who suggest a single gene may determine how people perceive body odor.
The study, published online on Sunday in the journal Nature, helps explain why the same sweaty man can smell like vanilla to some, like urine to others and for about a third of adults, have no smell at all.
"This is the first time that any human odorant receptor is associated with how we experience odors," Hiroaki Matsunami of Duke University in North Carolina said in a telephone interview.
Matsunami and colleagues at Duke and Rockefeller University in New York focused on the chemical androstenone, which is created when the body breaks down the male sex hormone testosterone.
Androstenone is in the sweat of men and women, but it is more highly concentrated in men. How one perceives its smell appears to have a lot to do with variations in one odor receptor gene called OR7D4.
"It is well known that people have different perceptions to androstenone. But people didn't know what was the basis of it," Matsunami said.
To find out, researchers in Matsunami's lab tested sweat chemicals on most of the 400 known odor receptors used by the nose to sniff out smells and chemicals.
They found the OR7D4 gene reacted strongly with the sex steroid androstenone. Next, they tested whether variations in this gene had an impact on how people perceived the smell of androstenone in male sweat.
They took blood samples and sequenced the DNA of 400 people who participated in a smell perception test done in Leslie Vosshall's lab at Rockefeller.
What they found is slight genetic variations determine whether androstenone has a pungent smell, a sweet, vanilla-like smell or no smell at all.
The role of androstenone is not well understood in humans, but in pigs it sends a powerful sex signal that puts sows in the mood for love.
"It facilitates the courtship behavior in females," Matsunami said.
"There is some evidence published showing this chemical can modify the mood or hormone
levels in humans," he said. "What we don't know is whether the receptor we found was in any way involved in this process."
He and colleagues will further study this aspect to understand how smelling these chemicals might affect human social and sexual behavior.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
An extraordinary statement in an article about OJ's memorabilia, and him stealing it back!
Simpson's new book, "If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer," was the top seller on amazon.com.
I may finally have to agree with O'Reilly. American "morals" have reached a new low.
He was referring to last week's Brittney Spear's middriff sighting worldwide on whatever awards show she shouldn't have been anywhere near.
It was even more awkward than Miss South Carolina's fumblings regarding America and South Africa, availability of maps, and education!
All of this is such "pop" culture that I'm not sure why it is here, except to show the state of most people's preoccupation, and it isn't with the health of the biosphere...
HEADLINE WE HAVEN'T SEEN BUT WE'VE LIVED:
Brittney Danced while the Earth Burned.
Just to tie it all up with another recent set of events:
Minneapolis is the nexus of the total collapse, literally and figuratively, of "American Culture".
First, the bridge collapse, not exactly a symbol, so much as the actualization of our rotted infrastructure.
(Spending tax money on roads and bridges would be providing a public good, so is not within Republican consciousness, and they've had control for the past 7 years...)
Then, Senator Craig is caught with his pants on in a toilet stall playing footsie with another patron and ADMITTING TO picking up toilet paper from the floor of a men's room...how weird is that?!?
Minneapolis, it is the low point of American Culture, both social and physical!
We can point to this date, as the crux of the beginning of the end of western civilization!!!
Larry Craig's Pants! ON!!!
I-Thirty Five Double U
Foreshadows Collapse
I may finally have to agree with O'Reilly. American "morals" have reached a new low.
He was referring to last week's Brittney Spear's middriff sighting worldwide on whatever awards show she shouldn't have been anywhere near.
It was even more awkward than Miss South Carolina's fumblings regarding America and South Africa, availability of maps, and education!
All of this is such "pop" culture that I'm not sure why it is here, except to show the state of most people's preoccupation, and it isn't with the health of the biosphere...
HEADLINE WE HAVEN'T SEEN BUT WE'VE LIVED:
Brittney Danced while the Earth Burned.
Just to tie it all up with another recent set of events:
Minneapolis is the nexus of the total collapse, literally and figuratively, of "American Culture".
First, the bridge collapse, not exactly a symbol, so much as the actualization of our rotted infrastructure.
(Spending tax money on roads and bridges would be providing a public good, so is not within Republican consciousness, and they've had control for the past 7 years...)
Then, Senator Craig is caught with his pants on in a toilet stall playing footsie with another patron and ADMITTING TO picking up toilet paper from the floor of a men's room...how weird is that?!?
Minneapolis, it is the low point of American Culture, both social and physical!
We can point to this date, as the crux of the beginning of the end of western civilization!!!
Larry Craig's Pants! ON!!!
I-Thirty Five Double U
Foreshadows Collapse
Global Climate Change How drought and hunger allow bears to hibernate less!
SOME GREAT IRONIES HERE! SEE COLORED TEXT!!!
My uncle died a while back, I think it was 1989. My sister, her baby and I, drove from Connecticutt to DC for the services drove back the same night.
On the return trip, I hit a deer in the NJ Turnpike. That's a long story all by itself, for another place and time.
My point here is, I had the Officers sign off on the fact that "The deer hit my car" and not the other way around!
There is a similar perspective within the words of this article: Bears are a "plague"!
Hungry bears plague US west after record drought
by Judith Crosson Sat Sep 15, 11:03 AM ET
DENVER, United States (AFP) - They hosed the black bear with water, threw things at it and yelled, but the stubborn animal refused to move from its perch in a tree above a quiet neighborhood in Boulder, Colorado.
Pushed from their homelands by a drought and pulled by the scent of human food, black bears across western US states are breaking into homes and tearing up garbage cans in a desperate search for nourishment ahead of hibernation.
Fires across the west also destroyed bear habitat, and the animals face the continuing peril of losing their living space to urban development.
The bear in the Boulder neighborhood finally came down from the tree and fled. The animal was lucky -- it wore an ear tag, meaning a previous run in with authorities.
Authorities would have killed the bear if they had caught it, said Tyler Baskfield, spokesman for the Colorado Division of Wildlife.
This year is on target for approaching the 2002 record of 404 bears killed or euthanized, Baskfield said. Colorado has a population of between 8,000 and 12,000 bears.
"We had a late freeze in June which killed the acorns and berry crop. We had a very dry mid-summer and grasses in the high country dried up. That pushed the bears down into the valleys where we have people," Baskfield said.
It is a similar story in much of the western United States.
"Just everybody is seeing bears everywhere. That's the unusual part of it -- in places where they haven't been seen before," said state of Idaho Fish and Game wildlife biologist Bret Stansberry.
"It's a fairly severe drought and that's essentially the root of the problem. There is very little natural food for them to eat. They're coming into orchards, getting into apple trees," Stansberry said.
Adult male black bears, which weigh between 68 and 160 kilos (150 and 350 pounds), usually eat for up to 20 hours a day just before hibernation in November.
State wildlife agencies are constantly urge residents to use bear-proof garbage cans and make sure no food is left outdoors, with mixed results.
Chris Healy, spokesman for the state of Nevada Department of Wildlife, said bears are posing increasing problems. "We had one up a tree today near the university," he said.
Any area that has trees and shrubs resembles a bear's natural habitat, and when the bear spots a human it usually flees up a tree, Healy said.
Nevada has a small population of black bears, mostly concentrated in the Lake Tahoe region near the California border.
"In Tahoe people are not taking care of their garbage. Once the bears start breaking into houses it's a danger to humans," Healy said.
Bear attacks on people are rare, although there was a fatal attack in July when a bear dragged an 11 year-old boy out of his tent during a camping trip in the state of Utah.
Bears are causing plenty of trouble in California, said the state's Department of Fish and Game wildlife biologist Jason Holley.
"They can blow the door off the hinges. This time of year we're having at least three break-ins a night around Lake Tahoe," Holley said.
Eating human food such as donuts, hamburgers, or ice cream fattens the bears up and allows them to have more cubs. "We're developing an alarming trend -- ten percent are not
hibernating," Holley said.
Black bears in California have not faced competition from their natural rival, the larger grizzly bear, for nearly a century. The last known grizzly in California was shot dead in 1922. California however still has a grizzly bear on its state flag.
There are about 30,000 black bears in California today, up from 12,500 bears 12 years ago, Holley said.
In Montana, a non-profit group has come up with an original way to chase bears away from camping areas.
The Wind River Bear Institute trains Karelian dogs, a species from northern Europe, to use their scent to detect bears, program biologist Russ Talmo said. "The dogs are barking, we're yelling at the bears, we use noisemakers," Talmo said. The dogs, which resemble huskies, are nimble and can herd a bear away from the area, although the dogs are always close to humans.
My uncle died a while back, I think it was 1989. My sister, her baby and I, drove from Connecticutt to DC for the services drove back the same night.
On the return trip, I hit a deer in the NJ Turnpike. That's a long story all by itself, for another place and time.
My point here is, I had the Officers sign off on the fact that "The deer hit my car" and not the other way around!
There is a similar perspective within the words of this article: Bears are a "plague"!
Hungry bears plague US west after record drought
by Judith Crosson Sat Sep 15, 11:03 AM ET
DENVER, United States (AFP) - They hosed the black bear with water, threw things at it and yelled, but the stubborn animal refused to move from its perch in a tree above a quiet neighborhood in Boulder, Colorado.
Pushed from their homelands by a drought and pulled by the scent of human food, black bears across western US states are breaking into homes and tearing up garbage cans in a desperate search for nourishment ahead of hibernation.
Fires across the west also destroyed bear habitat, and the animals face the continuing peril of losing their living space to urban development.
The bear in the Boulder neighborhood finally came down from the tree and fled. The animal was lucky -- it wore an ear tag, meaning a previous run in with authorities.
Authorities would have killed the bear if they had caught it, said Tyler Baskfield, spokesman for the Colorado Division of Wildlife.
This year is on target for approaching the 2002 record of 404 bears killed or euthanized, Baskfield said. Colorado has a population of between 8,000 and 12,000 bears.
"We had a late freeze in June which killed the acorns and berry crop. We had a very dry mid-summer and grasses in the high country dried up. That pushed the bears down into the valleys where we have people," Baskfield said.
It is a similar story in much of the western United States.
"Just everybody is seeing bears everywhere. That's the unusual part of it -- in places where they haven't been seen before," said state of Idaho Fish and Game wildlife biologist Bret Stansberry.
"It's a fairly severe drought and that's essentially the root of the problem. There is very little natural food for them to eat. They're coming into orchards, getting into apple trees," Stansberry said.
Adult male black bears, which weigh between 68 and 160 kilos (150 and 350 pounds), usually eat for up to 20 hours a day just before hibernation in November.
State wildlife agencies are constantly urge residents to use bear-proof garbage cans and make sure no food is left outdoors, with mixed results.
Chris Healy, spokesman for the state of Nevada Department of Wildlife, said bears are posing increasing problems. "We had one up a tree today near the university," he said.
Any area that has trees and shrubs resembles a bear's natural habitat, and when the bear spots a human it usually flees up a tree, Healy said.
Nevada has a small population of black bears, mostly concentrated in the Lake Tahoe region near the California border.
"In Tahoe people are not taking care of their garbage. Once the bears start breaking into houses it's a danger to humans," Healy said.
Bear attacks on people are rare, although there was a fatal attack in July when a bear dragged an 11 year-old boy out of his tent during a camping trip in the state of Utah.
Bears are causing plenty of trouble in California, said the state's Department of Fish and Game wildlife biologist Jason Holley.
"They can blow the door off the hinges. This time of year we're having at least three break-ins a night around Lake Tahoe," Holley said.
Eating human food such as donuts, hamburgers, or ice cream fattens the bears up and allows them to have more cubs. "We're developing an alarming trend -- ten percent are not
hibernating," Holley said.
Black bears in California have not faced competition from their natural rival, the larger grizzly bear, for nearly a century. The last known grizzly in California was shot dead in 1922. California however still has a grizzly bear on its state flag.
There are about 30,000 black bears in California today, up from 12,500 bears 12 years ago, Holley said.
In Montana, a non-profit group has come up with an original way to chase bears away from camping areas.
The Wind River Bear Institute trains Karelian dogs, a species from northern Europe, to use their scent to detect bears, program biologist Russ Talmo said. "The dogs are barking, we're yelling at the bears, we use noisemakers," Talmo said. The dogs, which resemble huskies, are nimble and can herd a bear away from the area, although the dogs are always close to humans.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
It is frightening how little reporters "get" Science
Okay, so, did the Reporter ask if the "radio frequencies" generated by whatever means cost as much as the potential energy of the hydrogen released?
I'll wager there is no perpetual energy system here, it costs to create enough energy to "weaken the bonds" of the water molecules at least as much as the hydrogen's energy can release.
There are HUGE inefficiencies here, converting electricity to radio waves and then releasing the heat of the hydrogen into water, a nice insulator, and a good conductor of heat energy too...still, if they can get 25-50 percent efficiency in creating electricity they'd be way short of enough (and they can't!). However, this is going to get some main stream media play until the truth comes out several years from now. This ain't no panacea!
Radio Frequencies Help Burn Salt Water
By David Templeton, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Tue, 11 Sep 2007, 11:41AM
ERIE, Pa. - An Erie cancer researcher has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention that is being touted by one chemist as the "most remarkable" water science discovery in a century.
John Kanzius happened upon the discovery accidentally when he tried to desalinate seawater with a radio-frequency generator he developed to treat cancer. He discovered that as long as the salt water was exposed to the radio frequencies, it would burn.
The discovery has scientists excited by the prospect of using salt water, the most abundant resource on earth, as a fuel.
Rustum Roy, a Penn State University chemist, has held demonstrations at his State College lab to confirm his own observations.
The radio frequencies act to weaken the bonds between the elements that make up salt water, releasing the hydrogen, Roy said. Once ignited, the hydrogen will burn as long as it is exposed to the frequencies, he said.
The discovery is "the most remarkable in water science in 100 years," Roy said.
"This is the most abundant element in the world. It is everywhere," Roy said. "Seeing it burn gives me the chills."
Roy will meet this week with officials from the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense to try to obtain research funding.
The scientists want to find out whether the energy output from the burning hydrogen — which reached a heat of more than 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit — would be enough to power a car or other heavy machinery.
"We will get our ideas together and check this out and see where it leads," Roy said. "The potential is huge."
The potential for bogus is huge.
I'll wager there is no perpetual energy system here, it costs to create enough energy to "weaken the bonds" of the water molecules at least as much as the hydrogen's energy can release.
There are HUGE inefficiencies here, converting electricity to radio waves and then releasing the heat of the hydrogen into water, a nice insulator, and a good conductor of heat energy too...still, if they can get 25-50 percent efficiency in creating electricity they'd be way short of enough (and they can't!). However, this is going to get some main stream media play until the truth comes out several years from now. This ain't no panacea!
Radio Frequencies Help Burn Salt Water
By David Templeton, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Tue, 11 Sep 2007, 11:41AM
ERIE, Pa. - An Erie cancer researcher has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention that is being touted by one chemist as the "most remarkable" water science discovery in a century.
John Kanzius happened upon the discovery accidentally when he tried to desalinate seawater with a radio-frequency generator he developed to treat cancer. He discovered that as long as the salt water was exposed to the radio frequencies, it would burn.
The discovery has scientists excited by the prospect of using salt water, the most abundant resource on earth, as a fuel.
Rustum Roy, a Penn State University chemist, has held demonstrations at his State College lab to confirm his own observations.
The radio frequencies act to weaken the bonds between the elements that make up salt water, releasing the hydrogen, Roy said. Once ignited, the hydrogen will burn as long as it is exposed to the frequencies, he said.
The discovery is "the most remarkable in water science in 100 years," Roy said.
"This is the most abundant element in the world. It is everywhere," Roy said. "Seeing it burn gives me the chills."
Roy will meet this week with officials from the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense to try to obtain research funding.
The scientists want to find out whether the energy output from the burning hydrogen — which reached a heat of more than 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit — would be enough to power a car or other heavy machinery.
"We will get our ideas together and check this out and see where it leads," Roy said. "The potential is huge."
The potential for bogus is huge.
Monday, September 10, 2007
Some people are definitely luckier than others.
Man who lost pants and $41k gets it all back
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — It was embarrassing enough that Mark Stahnke woke up in a neighbor's yard without his pants. Then he remembered they contained a cashier's check for $41,093, meant for his son, and several hundred dollars in cash.
But he got it all back Friday, including the pants, thanks to a man and his dog.
Stahnke said he doesn't know what happened between when he left the bar and when he woke up the next morning, and police were skeptical when he filed a report on Monday.
"We're used to hearing weird stories, but with his intoxication we figured this one would be different, that the amount of money wouldn't be exact," Police Lt. William Graham said. "How do you get so intoxicated that you lose your pants?"
Stahnke said he had met his son at a bar and doesn't remember much afterward.
"I woke up cold not knowing where the heck I was, and I didn't realize it at first because I still had my shoes and socks on," he said. "When I got up, I realized, my God, I don't have any pants."
Tim Curzan's dog, Joe, found the pants at an intersection, according to a police report. He found the cashier's check and tried twice, unsuccessfully, to deliver it and the cash to where he thought the owner lived.
On Wednesday, the pants were still at the intersection, so Curzan took them to the police, who contacted Stahnke to claim his belongings.
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — It was embarrassing enough that Mark Stahnke woke up in a neighbor's yard without his pants. Then he remembered they contained a cashier's check for $41,093, meant for his son, and several hundred dollars in cash.
But he got it all back Friday, including the pants, thanks to a man and his dog.
Stahnke said he doesn't know what happened between when he left the bar and when he woke up the next morning, and police were skeptical when he filed a report on Monday.
"We're used to hearing weird stories, but with his intoxication we figured this one would be different, that the amount of money wouldn't be exact," Police Lt. William Graham said. "How do you get so intoxicated that you lose your pants?"
Stahnke said he had met his son at a bar and doesn't remember much afterward.
"I woke up cold not knowing where the heck I was, and I didn't realize it at first because I still had my shoes and socks on," he said. "When I got up, I realized, my God, I don't have any pants."
Tim Curzan's dog, Joe, found the pants at an intersection, according to a police report. He found the cashier's check and tried twice, unsuccessfully, to deliver it and the cash to where he thought the owner lived.
On Wednesday, the pants were still at the intersection, so Curzan took them to the police, who contacted Stahnke to claim his belongings.
Friday, September 7, 2007
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ATHEISTS HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON.
THERE WERE 358 HITS FOR THAT PARTICULAR EXPRESSION, BUT NONE WERE SENTENCES, ALL WERE PHRASES AS FAR AS I COULD SEE. THEREFORE, I'M COPYRIGHTING THAT EXPRESSION AS OF THIS DATE AND TIME.
)PRESERVE
)RESERVE
)DESERVE
) ALL OF THE ABOVE AND MORE...
THE RIGHT
TO NOT BELIEVE
ANYTHING
I HAVE TO TAKE SOLELY ON FAITH.
ATHEISTS HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON.
THERE WERE 358 HITS FOR THAT PARTICULAR EXPRESSION, BUT NONE WERE SENTENCES, ALL WERE PHRASES AS FAR AS I COULD SEE. THEREFORE, I'M COPYRIGHTING THAT EXPRESSION AS OF THIS DATE AND TIME.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Monday, September 3, 2007
"Do you no Hindi?"
Chat ID: 4cd127-1a42-43cd71d2182
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Frish: I'll try it
Frish: ciao
Frish: namaste
Rafraff : Do you no Hindi?
Problem : priority code 4344889765 Someone said they'd call us back in 2 minutes, 20 minutes ago. Your download failed midstream. therefore we have NO ANTI-VIRUS on our system. Help Rafraff : Hello Frish. My name is Rafraff .
Rafraff : Welcome to Symantec Customer Service
Rafraff : Hello Sue, How are you doing today?
Frish: don't even ask that. I've been hassling your software for 4 hours now, and your promises are useless
Rafraff : Sue, May I please confirm that the issue you have described is that you need help in downloading the product. Is that correct?
Frish: yes
Frish: download failed, and so, now what?
Rafraff : What is the exact error message that appears on your screen?
Frish: the download simply stopped, the button said resume so we did...it stopped again, then eventually, it said that our run.exe or some such was corrupt and that was it.
Frish: downloaded about 52MB when it eventually totally failed.
Rafraff : I really apolozies for the inconvenience caused.
Frish: just fix it
Rafraff : May I know the operating system you are using?
Frish: xp
Rafraff : Is your internet connection a high speed DSL/ cable or dial up?
Frish: dsl
Rafraff : May I know whether it is Xp sp1 or Xp sp2?
Frish: sp2
Rafraff : Thank you for confirming your details. Please make a note of this case no. 3714392755 for your future reference.
Rafraff : May I know whether you have disabled the firewall and tried to download the product?
Frish: by the way, I've done this already today with someone elwse. and I have a case number and a priority number that I typed in. I also used to work down the hall from John Thompson, the CEO of Symantec...lol
Frish: 3714392734
Frish: was my other number
Rafraff : Okay.
Rafraff : Please follow steps..........
Rafraff : Please log on to the www.symantecstore.com/trialware and select Norton Internet Security 2008 - 15 Day Trialware
Rafraff : 1.Please download the 15 days trial ware from the link.
Rafraff : 2. After 15 days, Norton product will prompt you with three options. Check mark the option "I have already purchased a product and have a product key"
Rafraff : 3. You can enter the product key JQ7JPYRUUDYYTTBCJPDJCIIYEMMMS999#
Frish: fascinating.
Rafraff : It is a trailware product. You can use the product for 15 days and at the end of the 15 day it will ask the product key to enter, then please enter the product key you have and activate it ..
Rafraff : Please download the product on your computer and save it on your desktop.
Rafraff : And after downloading it you will get a Norton Icon tab on your desktop.
Rafraff : Please double click on it.
Rafraff : You will get the option Run.
Rafraff : Please click on it.
Rafraff : The product will be installed on your computer.
Rafraff : Once the product is installed on your computer the older products on your computer will be uninstalled automatically.
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Frish: ok
Frish: I'll try it
Frish: ciao
Frish: namaste
Rafraff : Do you no Hindi?
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Lenovo, the Chinese Company that owns IBM's PC line has a set of really weird videos...
http://www.lenovovision.com/lv2/mediaplayer.php?fid=water_tank&locale=en-ca
This is one weird video, there are more of them.
They want to be the "Chrysler" of PC's - Best Engineered!
What a losing proposition, ah, the tech marketers of today, making the same mistakes as their forebears, since, history repeats itself, and old men like me are let go from the ivory towers of marketing...
I warned the PC guys they were on the wrong path in 1993, in St. Louis, at an IBM program for field sales reps and techies...
This is one weird video, there are more of them.
They want to be the "Chrysler" of PC's - Best Engineered!
What a losing proposition, ah, the tech marketers of today, making the same mistakes as their forebears, since, history repeats itself, and old men like me are let go from the ivory towers of marketing...
I warned the PC guys they were on the wrong path in 1993, in St. Louis, at an IBM program for field sales reps and techies...
Friday, August 31, 2007
My First Car
My very first car was a 1961 Buick Invicta. My father and I drove up north of Minneapolis somewhere and bought it from some old geezer (summer of 1971) for $125.
It was long and wide. Two full bench seats front and rear, easily sat 6. It was like a living room on wheels, very loose steering, it didn't really drive as much as it floated down the road.
I drove it 2 miles to work and back every day. Mom made me promise I wouldn't drive it anywhere else, since it was a real rust bucket. Body was in PERFECT condition however, it was totally rusty underneath and it wasn't in good shape.
So, of course, Schultz, PugEye, Walleye, Airebabes, and Rich and I went out in my Buick one day. We had a case of bud long necks in the back and were driving and drinking when, suddenly, and for no apparent reason, the universal joint gave way...the transmission literally fell out of the car...the rear drive shaft got stuck in the road, lifting the back of the car about 3 feet in the air. The boys in back weren't too pleased as they compressed their vertebrae when their heads banged the roof and then again when the their butts smashed back down on the seats.
WallEye crept out of the car, and, bent over like an 95 year old arthritis patient he started swearing at me. What the fuck, how was it my fault? I had told these guys I wasn't supposed to drive in the first place.
Anyway, we stood outside the car, and drank the beers as fast as we could, since we figured cops would come by and we were all underage. Got the thing towed back to my place, and it was parked the wrong direction for about 2 weeks.
About that time, my dad had really bad kidney stones, so my having taken the car out on a road trip wasn't a problem...for a while. Then the cops put a ticket on my car since it was facing the wrong way.
Mom called the police and they took away the ticket after she used Dad's kidneys as an excuse.
She made me sell the car, it was an emotional thing. I had only owned it about 6 weeks. Anyway, a junk car dealer came by the house and gave me 25 bucks for it...
It was long and wide. Two full bench seats front and rear, easily sat 6. It was like a living room on wheels, very loose steering, it didn't really drive as much as it floated down the road.
I drove it 2 miles to work and back every day. Mom made me promise I wouldn't drive it anywhere else, since it was a real rust bucket. Body was in PERFECT condition however, it was totally rusty underneath and it wasn't in good shape.
So, of course, Schultz, PugEye, Walleye, Airebabes, and Rich and I went out in my Buick one day. We had a case of bud long necks in the back and were driving and drinking when, suddenly, and for no apparent reason, the universal joint gave way...the transmission literally fell out of the car...the rear drive shaft got stuck in the road, lifting the back of the car about 3 feet in the air. The boys in back weren't too pleased as they compressed their vertebrae when their heads banged the roof and then again when the their butts smashed back down on the seats.
WallEye crept out of the car, and, bent over like an 95 year old arthritis patient he started swearing at me. What the fuck, how was it my fault? I had told these guys I wasn't supposed to drive in the first place.
Anyway, we stood outside the car, and drank the beers as fast as we could, since we figured cops would come by and we were all underage. Got the thing towed back to my place, and it was parked the wrong direction for about 2 weeks.
About that time, my dad had really bad kidney stones, so my having taken the car out on a road trip wasn't a problem...for a while. Then the cops put a ticket on my car since it was facing the wrong way.
Mom called the police and they took away the ticket after she used Dad's kidneys as an excuse.
She made me sell the car, it was an emotional thing. I had only owned it about 6 weeks. Anyway, a junk car dealer came by the house and gave me 25 bucks for it...
Thursday, August 30, 2007
This was a comment on an Alternet article concerning nutrition and depression and violence...and how fishoil seems to help.
The Completely Nutrition less Diet!
Posted by: williameon on Aug 28, 2007 6:31 AM
In this fake society.
Where we let a Cor‘pirates’ ruin everything
They have ruined our diet also.
For Greed!
There is no accountability
They know that poor diet, pollutants and stress causes disease.
What is, is.
That’s the way
That’s the way
On Ha!
They like it.
Sick people make them happy and rich.
Raking in huge profits for theAMAPharmaceuticalsAndFaux Food Companies.
It’s so easy to make and completely nutrition less also!
The Nutrition less diet!
Boxes filled with fullers and poison,
Never meant to be eaten by man!
Read the label!
In this situation less is more.
The shorter the list of ingredients
The better it is!
In fact fresh fruits, vegetables and foods without any labels are best of all!
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Flax Seed Oil.
Brown rice.
Stone Ground Flour
Whole Grains
Rolled oats.
Dried fruits and nuts.
These are all Manna.
Food of the Gods!
The Corpirates want sick ignorant peons.
To pillage and plunder.
Where’s the Information?
Where’s the BEEF?
That:Hydrogenated oils
High Fructose Corn syrup
And
Overly refined White flour
Are
POISON.
Clogging the minds,
bodies and arteries of our friends.
Nobody seems to know why our country
Is being over run with FAT people.
Child hood diabetes is epidemic!
Kindergartens are Fat farms!
People are literally eating themselves to death
Looking for the Nutrients,
For a healthy life.
Inside every fat person is a skinny person,
Starving to death.
Eating garbage!
---------------------------------------------
Wow, what else can one say...
www.vhemt.org
Sure, there are corpirates, but I don't put much "direction" to their actions. It is inevitable, it is greed, we are all driven by our tastes (sugar, fat, alcohol, drugs, whatever), and the marketing crowd take advantage of our weaknesses, while their manufacturing brethern serve us their muck...to make a buck not to keep our class powerlessness from being evident.
Posted by: williameon on Aug 28, 2007 6:31 AM
In this fake society.
Where we let a Cor‘pirates’ ruin everything
They have ruined our diet also.
For Greed!
There is no accountability
They know that poor diet, pollutants and stress causes disease.
What is, is.
That’s the way
That’s the way
On Ha!
They like it.
Sick people make them happy and rich.
Raking in huge profits for theAMAPharmaceuticalsAndFaux Food Companies.
It’s so easy to make and completely nutrition less also!
The Nutrition less diet!
Boxes filled with fullers and poison,
Never meant to be eaten by man!
Read the label!
In this situation less is more.
The shorter the list of ingredients
The better it is!
In fact fresh fruits, vegetables and foods without any labels are best of all!
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Flax Seed Oil.
Brown rice.
Stone Ground Flour
Whole Grains
Rolled oats.
Dried fruits and nuts.
These are all Manna.
Food of the Gods!
The Corpirates want sick ignorant peons.
To pillage and plunder.
Where’s the Information?
Where’s the BEEF?
That:Hydrogenated oils
High Fructose Corn syrup
And
Overly refined White flour
Are
POISON.
Clogging the minds,
bodies and arteries of our friends.
Nobody seems to know why our country
Is being over run with FAT people.
Child hood diabetes is epidemic!
Kindergartens are Fat farms!
People are literally eating themselves to death
Looking for the Nutrients,
For a healthy life.
Inside every fat person is a skinny person,
Starving to death.
Eating garbage!
---------------------------------------------
Wow, what else can one say...
www.vhemt.org
Sure, there are corpirates, but I don't put much "direction" to their actions. It is inevitable, it is greed, we are all driven by our tastes (sugar, fat, alcohol, drugs, whatever), and the marketing crowd take advantage of our weaknesses, while their manufacturing brethern serve us their muck...to make a buck not to keep our class powerlessness from being evident.
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