06.28.06
Posted in General at 5:22 pm by qkslvrwolf
I was giving the safety brief for the group (another one of those lame ass non-jobs they hand out like so many prunes at halloween, telling us to enjoy them because they’re good for us), and this came out (paraphrased, of course:)
“Let’s be honest, folks, getting killed when you’re trying to have a barbeque would be really embarrasing. After all, who wants to have someone stand up at your funeral and say, ‘Well done!’ “.
I have no idea if it makes it across online, but it had them rolling in the aisles today. I probably made more people laught today in a single moment than I have made laugh in the rest of my life combined. And, as you can probably tell by the fact taht I’m blogging it, that makes me happy.
Anyway, the nickname stems from one of the top guys, who thanked me using “well done” as part of my title, and it seems to be sticking. I must’ve had 20 people tell me “well done speech today {chuckle}”
Ahh, the good times.
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06.27.06
Posted in Politics at 9:09 am by qkslvrwolf
So, at my new job, fox is blaring behind me all day. I think I’m going to have to start getting monthly blood pressure checks.
Anyway, for the most part its just your normal, run of the mill fox BS (spewing neocon talking points, detouring to report on michael jackson and white damsels in distress, and talking wholely out of their asses.
However, this one can’t go unmentioned. They had about a 5-10 minute segment on how Warren Buffet, with his massive contribution to the Gates Foundation, was doing it all so he could avoid the estate tax. (Of course, they were using the neocon talking point frame on that, but I refuse to dignify that by typing it.)
So what does Mr. Buffet actually think? Thats right. He was against the estate tax repeal, the dividen tax repeal, and the repeal of income taxes for the wealthy. And he thinks class warfare not only exists, but is being waged primarily by the rich. And won.
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06.26.06
Posted in General at 10:13 pm by qkslvrwolf
Went to a LAN party on saturday. Good times. We played most counterstrike (sigh) with some liberal hl2 deathmatch tossed in, and a smattering of other games. Jedi Knight 2 was played, but something about force powers and saber duels just turns me off, so I opted out of that one and stuck with some dod trying to get someone else interested. I failed. We had 7 people, of which I was the second best at counterstrike…to be fair, the guy that was better played counterstrike like I play DoD. Like I play DoD when I’m on a DoD kick.
We were sitting in a square..this is looking out from my laptop whilst I was loading something. Probably UT2K4, which we never actually played. Bloody thing took up damn near 6 gig before I killed it.
The gentleman in front of me, who goes by “stick”, has a damn triple head to go with 3 19 inch lcds. More on that in a minute.
Damn. Guess the thing isn’t quite working yet. Anyway, you can see the triple head from here.
Again, you can see the triple head, and some counterstrike on some folks monitors. 
The house we were in was emptying out as the owner and his wife (right standing in this pic) are PCSing to guam. Crazy.
Finally, heres the triple head in all its glory with oblivian on it. Which made me reinstall morrowind and start playing again.
Anyway, lots of fun. We’re hoping to do it again once a quarter…and I’m thinking my house would be perfect. :-)
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06.10.06
Posted in LINKSPAM, Politics at 1:13 am by qkslvrwolf
Yup. Love the **AA
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06.08.06
Posted in Politics at 6:45 pm by qkslvrwolf
I was listening, as I so often do, to NPR as I drove home today. A couple of things on the radio seemed worth mentioning.
First, there was the gentleman who claimed to be a “liberal progressive democrat,” but who was running an astroturf campaign to stop the network neutrality bills currently being examined in congress. Now, I will be the first to agree that I think legislating anything WRT network neutrality is a pretty bad solution…but not nearly as bad as letting the telcos start their “tiered internet” model, where the content that they (the telcos) decide is “good” gets preferential treatment, faster access, perhaps even any access at all. This would BREAK THE INTERNET. The internet works because it is a meritocracy, perhaps the best possible meritocracy ever, because for about $10 someone with a great idea can create a website and make it work for people, and change people’s lives. With the internet you don’t have to convince some suit about the feasibility of your idea. You don’t have to spend tens of thousands of dollars on market research. You just do it…and if you do it well, people will come to you. Think about it…a virtual world where any idea can make it big because of easy, instant access to anyone anywhere in the world. Now imagine instead if that idea is put on the slow, non-paying internet. People trying to access it are subjected to slow speeds, to bad loads, to broken connections because our intrepid entrepreneur with the brilliant new idea doesn’t have the funds to pay verizon, at&t, and bellsouth to put him on the upper tier of the net. So that new idea never gets a real chance…and the internet as we know it is gone.
This so called “liberal”’s argument is that if we want all this glorious bells and whistles video and multimedia system, then why shouldn’t the content providers pay so that other people can access their content? Well, a couple of reasons. First, and foremost, that content is WHY people even HAVE an internet connection. Without that content, no one would buy a goddamn internet connection from the telcos anyway…so I think the content providers have already done their part in the ecosystem. The telcos wouldn’t be able to sell their high-speed, overpriced connections to either servers or users if there wasn’t great content out there, if the meritocracy of the net didn’t draw people online. Second, those connections have already been paid for, on both ends. When someone buys a connection, they’re not paying for connection to the ISP…they’re paying for end to end connection - with whatever end they want to reach. That is the contract. And I guarantee that if there were any real competition in the ISP space, no one would ever have been able to even suggest, in private, that they “tier” the internet for their customers, because no customers in the world are going to get their internet from someone who tells them what they can connect to. Third, because the AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY PAID $200 BILLION for this “broadband” access we’ve been promised since the early 90’s…and that $200 billion has simply been pocketed by the telcos. That alone is a reason to seize all the trunklines and sell them off to new companies, with multiple companies getting a share in any given area. I guess I need to go on NPR and yell at them.
Second, there was an interview with the director of cars. The interviewer, speaking of the amazing photo-realism in the movie, asked the director if all this photo-realism wasn’t somehow removing some of the fantasy from “cartoons”. In a very “to a child”-like manner, the director responded, “Well…our movie…is about talking cars…I don’t think that too much fantasy has been removed” (paraphrased, of course.
I just thought it was pretty damn funny.
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