Friday, 31 December 2010
Wednesday, 29 December 2010
Bad news for people looking for an honest deal for a car. World Class Auto Super(crooks)store in Nicholasville KY appears to be open again.
Their lot has been empty for a long time due to legal actions by the state attorney's office. Because, well, because they were crooks. As I drove by there yesterday going to work it was full of cars. So be beware car shoppers! If you MUST go there looking for a deal. Be prepared, have your best anti-crooks armour up. Triple check your paperwork, walk out and think over ANY deal, at least overnight. I'm sure these guys haven't changed in the least. Go here, here, here and even here...
Goodluck. And if you can go somewhere else do so..
Note: That isn't one of their guys but(IMO) he fits them perfectly.
Update: Drove by again today and noted that the dealership is opening under a different name, "Auto Plaza" or something like that. I'd almost bet the same crooks will still be the owners.
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Their lot has been empty for a long time due to legal actions by the state attorney's office. Because, well, because they were crooks. As I drove by there yesterday going to work it was full of cars. So be beware car shoppers! If you MUST go there looking for a deal. Be prepared, have your best anti-crooks armour up. Triple check your paperwork, walk out and think over ANY deal, at least overnight. I'm sure these guys haven't changed in the least. Go here, here, here and even here...
Goodluck. And if you can go somewhere else do so..
Note: That isn't one of their guys but(IMO) he fits them perfectly.
Update: Drove by again today and noted that the dealership is opening under a different name, "Auto Plaza" or something like that. I'd almost bet the same crooks will still be the owners.
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Tuesday, 28 December 2010
Monday, 27 December 2010
Saturday, 25 December 2010
Thursday, 23 December 2010
Tuesday, 21 December 2010
Monday, 20 December 2010
Friday, 17 December 2010
Thursday, 16 December 2010
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
Tuesday, 14 December 2010
Rest of US cable "News" Media ignores..
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Sunday, 12 December 2010
Saturday, 11 December 2010
Friday, 10 December 2010
Thursday, 9 December 2010
Wednesday, 8 December 2010
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Monday, 6 December 2010
Wednesday, 1 December 2010
Friday, 19 November 2010
Thursday, 18 November 2010
Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Blog infusion*
I would have thought that the Chinese would have learned from us and moved to extensive public transport. Instead they're following us merrily into an oil based dead end.
China says its growth is about development, not luxury like in the West. But where'd all the bikes go?
*Just keeping the old Blog on life support. While I figure out whether I want to keep messing with it. As a sort of "Net life journal" it's had a pretty good run. About 5 years now. It's rather amazing that I kept it going as long as I did. Just like a real Blogger:-} and all in all it's been fun...on the other hand..
Life now is low-wage part-time cooking job, trying to find a better job, trying not to get discouraged and trying to survive financially. That's life today. I'm having to put almost all my energy into that. With family, WoW and Facebook thrown in.
I tend to be long winded when writing personally(along with needing good editing) but I'll be brief, no one else will probably read this anyway....
If there was anyone that followed me, Thanks..I'll be back in a few 2 give another Blog infusion:-)
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I would have thought that the Chinese would have learned from us and moved to extensive public transport. Instead they're following us merrily into an oil based dead end.
China says its growth is about development, not luxury like in the West. But where'd all the bikes go?
*Just keeping the old Blog on life support. While I figure out whether I want to keep messing with it. As a sort of "Net life journal" it's had a pretty good run. About 5 years now. It's rather amazing that I kept it going as long as I did. Just like a real Blogger:-} and all in all it's been fun...on the other hand..
Life now is low-wage part-time cooking job, trying to find a better job, trying not to get discouraged and trying to survive financially. That's life today. I'm having to put almost all my energy into that. With family, WoW and Facebook thrown in.
I tend to be long winded when writing personally(along with needing good editing) but I'll be brief, no one else will probably read this anyway....
If there was anyone that followed me, Thanks..I'll be back in a few 2 give another Blog infusion:-)
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Thursday, 4 November 2010
Saturday, 30 October 2010
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Rand "Keep them chicks away from me" Paul ad.
Perfectly fitting. If elected I believe this will be the ritualized punishment for all Democrats at his events. "May you live in interesting times".
Thanks to the General.
Corporate funded teabaggers; Tea Party Inc
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Perfectly fitting. If elected I believe this will be the ritualized punishment for all Democrats at his events. "May you live in interesting times".
Thanks to the General.
Corporate funded teabaggers; Tea Party Inc
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Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Sunday, 24 October 2010
Friday, 22 October 2010
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Saturday, 16 October 2010
Has President Obama lost his love and longing for bi-partisanship with RGOP(Rabid Grand Old Party)? Here he is in this week's speech showing Republicans* as(always) grand old hypocrits regarding American jobs.
* Note; Not that I consider the Democrats a ton better. BUT, they are better...There's the rub.
I've been on a bit of a sabbatical from the old Blog. For one thing this low-end part time chef job I have has varying hours, and that's been difficult. We have our first granddaughter(YAY), I'm STILL looking for a good job. All that means little time...Annnddd, I've also finally given in and joined Facebook. It's begun to take the (little) time I had for my pet Blog here.
Between Twitter and Facebook, work, WoW, etc. My vague little known Blog is becoming an orphan Alas...I'll keep it in suspended animation long as I can. Mourned by only me(sniffle).
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* Note; Not that I consider the Democrats a ton better. BUT, they are better...There's the rub.
I've been on a bit of a sabbatical from the old Blog. For one thing this low-end part time chef job I have has varying hours, and that's been difficult. We have our first granddaughter(YAY), I'm STILL looking for a good job. All that means little time...Annnddd, I've also finally given in and joined Facebook. It's begun to take the (little) time I had for my pet Blog here.
Between Twitter and Facebook, work, WoW, etc. My vague little known Blog is becoming an orphan Alas...I'll keep it in suspended animation long as I can. Mourned by only me(sniffle).
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Friday, 8 October 2010
Monday, 4 October 2010
From Rolling Stone
Tea & Crackers
How corporate interests and Republican insiders built the Tea Party monster
A hall full of elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing against government spending and imagining themselves revolutionaries as they cheer on the vice-presidential puppet hand-picked by the GOP establishment. If there exists a better snapshot of everything the Tea Party represents, I can't imagine it.
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Tea & Crackers
How corporate interests and Republican insiders built the Tea Party monster
A hall full of elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing against government spending and imagining themselves revolutionaries as they cheer on the vice-presidential puppet hand-picked by the GOP establishment. If there exists a better snapshot of everything the Tea Party represents, I can't imagine it.
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Sunday, 3 October 2010
Saturday, 2 October 2010
The efforts to save a species from BP oil oblivion;
The BP-Spill Baby-Turtle Brigade
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The BP-Spill Baby-Turtle Brigade
...The hatchlings from this season’s first nests, however, were on schedule to scramble into the Gulf of Mexico only a few months after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig, at what looked to be the height of one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in history. By June, the sargassum in that part of the gulf was heavily oiled. Soon, it appeared to be largely gone: incinerated in controlled burns, maybe, or hauled up by skimmer boats. And so state and federal wildlife agencies came up with a radical plan. Sea-turtle eggs laid on beaches in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle would be dug up during their very last days of incubation, packed into Styrofoam coolers and shipped to a climate-controlled warehouse at the Kennedy Space Center on the opposite coast of Florida. There, after hatching, the baby turtles would be released into the oil-free Atlantic. When I arrived in Alabama in late July, tens of thousands of turtle eggs, from hundreds of nests, were already in the process of being relocated — all during a point in their development when even a slight jolt to the egg could be lethal. In short, America was orchestrating the migration of an entire generation of sea turtles, slow and steady, overland, in a specially outfitted FedEx truck...
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Friday, 1 October 2010
5 Ways Dems Can Turn It Around
-Michael Moore
Sure, they brought this on themselves, but they’re still worth saving. Michael Moore on five ways Democrats can pull off an upset in November—starting with criminal charges for Wall Street.
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-Michael Moore
Sure, they brought this on themselves, but they’re still worth saving. Michael Moore on five ways Democrats can pull off an upset in November—starting with criminal charges for Wall Street.
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Thursday, 30 September 2010
Be still. The Hanging Gardens were a dream
That over Persian roses flew to kiss
The curlèd lashes of Semiramis.
Troy never was, nor green Skamander stream.
Provence and Troubadour are merest lies
The glorious hair of Venice was a beam
Made within Titian’s eye. The sunsets seem,
The world is very old and nothing is.
Be still. Thou foolish thing, thou canst not wake,
Nor thy tears wedge thy soldered lids apart,
But patter in the darkness of thy heart.
Thy brain is plagued. Thou art a frighted owl
Blind with the light of life thou ’ldst not forsake,
And Error loves and nourishes thy soul.
-Trumbull Stickney
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Wednesday, 29 September 2010
Every few months I run over to Barry Crimmins hangout because I know by then he'll have thrown up a couple more morsels of thought provoking mayhem for me to indulge myself with. Here's one of the new ones requiring a read:
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Jaywalking in Dreamland
"..Were a real left (meaning a populist, people-first left - not some Stalinist authoritarian left) simply allowed a seat at today's (and the past 60 years') political table -because everyone actually at the table gets accommodated sooner or later - we'd have a Renewed Deal including:Go enjoy.
Legitimate national health care (not often worthless, price-gouged insurance but actual health care, like most of the rest of the world has.)
A solid jobs program that isn't funneled through corporate vampires skilled at diverting funds for the needy into the accounts of the greedy. Leading to...
A resulting revivified federal infrastructure and a much healthier environment.
Greatly improved protections and circumstances for workers (as opposed to our current situation in which we're expected to express gratitude for still having not only our own jobs but large portions of the jobs laid-off workers used to do -- often for less money than we made when our doomed comrades were still around to help lighten the load. Thanks again!)
Federal initiatives on crucial issues such as alternative energy that are not dictated and detoured by the energy monoliths currently robbing and poisoning us.
An understanding that the deserved collapse of enormous multinational swindlers benefits us little folks. There is no business too big to fail. (Unfortunately there is also no lie too big to tell.)
The end of the futility and madness of literally matching the rest of the world dollar-for-dollar in military spending. This would instantly improve our circumstances at home and our standing in the world.
A livelier arts community in big and small towns throughout our nation because where there is art, there is hope. Where there are artistic get-togethers there is lively local discourse -- always a boon to genuine democracy.
Portrayal of the left's views in the media as a normal part of the political debate and not as extremist prattle that is somehow bringing down our nation.."
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Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Atheists, agnostics most knowledgeable about religion, survey says
Atheists and agnostics -- those who believe there is no God or who aren't sure -- were more likely to answer the survey's questions correctly. Jews and Mormons ranked just below them in the survey's measurement of religious knowledge -- so close as to be statistically tied.-
So why would an atheist know more about religion than a Christian?
American atheists and agnostics tend to be people who grew up in a religious tradition and consciously gave it up, often after a great deal of reflection and study, said Alan Cooperman, associate director for research at the Pew Forum.
"These are people who thought a lot about religion," he said. "They're not indifferent. They care about it."
Atheists and agnostics also tend to be relatively well educated, and the survey found, not surprisingly, that the most knowledgeable people were also the best educated. However, it said that atheists and agnostics also outperformed believers who had a similar level of education.
Monday, 27 September 2010
I'm sure most readers have heard about poor Ben Stein's whine about the guv'ment wanting to take more of his hard earned(not!) money by returning income tax levels to pre-dubya days.
Some, shall we say, more patriotic Americans, consider it an honor to give more to their country. Here's tv producer Linda McGibney on CBS News Sunday Morning:
Note; I'm still kickin'. Not Blogging much. Have gotten a semi-fascination w/Facebook and still working my low-end Asst. chef job 30~35 hrs. week, BUT, I emailed 2 resumes last night, "snail mailed" one this morning, and faxed 2 more a bit earlier today.
Sooo, I'm still out there working the systems trying to reach my pre-dubya/Republican finacial disaster income(nowhere near Stein's of course), and we're getting by(barely).
Try my life Ben Stein, you insipid arse, you'd be tickled pink to pay more in taxes on your plush income.
"Why does Ben Stein wear a necktie? To keep his foreskin from creeping up!"
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Some, shall we say, more patriotic Americans, consider it an honor to give more to their country. Here's tv producer Linda McGibney on CBS News Sunday Morning:
Note; I'm still kickin'. Not Blogging much. Have gotten a semi-fascination w/Facebook and still working my low-end Asst. chef job 30~35 hrs. week, BUT, I emailed 2 resumes last night, "snail mailed" one this morning, and faxed 2 more a bit earlier today.
Sooo, I'm still out there working the systems trying to reach my pre-dubya/Republican finacial disaster income(nowhere near Stein's of course), and we're getting by(barely).
Try my life Ben Stein, you insipid arse, you'd be tickled pink to pay more in taxes on your plush income.
"Why does Ben Stein wear a necktie? To keep his foreskin from creeping up!"
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Friday, 24 September 2010
Saturday, 18 September 2010
No Accepted Medical Use? Three Perspectives
"..The U.S. government classifies marijuana—along with heroin and LSD—as a Schedule I drug, the most tightly restricted category of drugs in the United States. According to the federal government, Schedule I drugs are unsafe and have "no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States."
Really?
As medical marijuana proponents have pointed out since the Controlled Substances Act was passed by Congress in 1970, cannabis has been used medicinally for thousands of years, and there has never been a reported case of a marijuana overdose. Moreover, in recent years clinical researchers around the world have demonstrated the medicinal value of cannabis.."
Let me repeat that one line for you fo the "government wouldn't lie crowd"(Pssst! Jack Conway!): "Cannabis has been used medicinally for thousands of years, and there has never been a reported case of a marijuana overdose!"
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"..The U.S. government classifies marijuana—along with heroin and LSD—as a Schedule I drug, the most tightly restricted category of drugs in the United States. According to the federal government, Schedule I drugs are unsafe and have "no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States."
Really?
As medical marijuana proponents have pointed out since the Controlled Substances Act was passed by Congress in 1970, cannabis has been used medicinally for thousands of years, and there has never been a reported case of a marijuana overdose. Moreover, in recent years clinical researchers around the world have demonstrated the medicinal value of cannabis.."
Let me repeat that one line for you fo the "government wouldn't lie crowd"(Pssst! Jack Conway!): "Cannabis has been used medicinally for thousands of years, and there has never been a reported case of a marijuana overdose!"
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This is good news to everyone that wants more input from the cleaner alternatives to coal side of the energy debate.
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth forms political action committee
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Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
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Kentuckians for the Commonwealth forms political action committee
"..Long out-gunned by the Kentucky coal industry's political connections, the non-profit group Kentuckians for the Commonwealth said Friday it has created a new political action committee focused on coal and energy.
Leaders acknowledged that they won't be able to match coal industry money flowing into election campaigns, but the New Power PAC will start with $100,000 of seed money from KFTC dues, Communications Director Jerry Hardt said.
"We don't have a dorm named after us or anything like that," said Megan Naseman, of Richmond, a KFTC steering committee member, referring to the University of Kentucky decision to build Wildcat Coal Lodge, funded with $7 million raised by a group spearheaded by Alliance Coal President Joe Craft.."
-Dori Hjalmarson - Lexingtonherald-leader.com
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Saturday, 11 September 2010
An old veteran is haunted by a young German soldier that he killed during the Battle of the Bulge in WW II.
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Germans in the Woods from StoryCorps on Vimeo.
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Wednesday, 8 September 2010
Sunday, 5 September 2010
The Michigan cop who confiscated some pot, and then he and his wife made brownies with it(which I'm sure happens a lot). He thinks they've "overdosed" and calls 911.
That's why every cop needs a "cool" friend to call in an emergency. So the world won't know he's an idiot...
"Time is going by really, really, really, really slow..."
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That's why every cop needs a "cool" friend to call in an emergency. So the world won't know he's an idiot...
"Time is going by really, really, really, really slow..."
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Friday, 3 September 2010
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
I kind of liked O'Donnell as Keith Olbermann's replacement. What happened to him? Has he started drinking teh Kool-Aid?
Lawrence O’Donnell is Dangerously Wrong About Social Security
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Lawrence O’Donnell is Dangerously Wrong About Social Security
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Thursday, 26 August 2010
Seems so to anyone who's been paying attention.
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President Obama, It’s Time to Can the Catfood Commission
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President Obama, It’s Time to Can the Catfood Commission
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Also Mitch McConnell takes Obama at his word he's a Christian. Colbert takes McConnell at his word that he's not a human/turtle hybrid.
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| The Colbert Report | Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
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Behind the scenes of the PBS Hummingbird's documentary:
Full screen it you'll want the best views you can get.
PBS Documentaries.
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Full screen it you'll want the best views you can get.
PBS Documentaries.
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Here's something real you can do:
Tell the President of Russia to Stop the Destruction of the Future of Food
Tell the President of Russia to Stop the Destruction of the Future of Food
As Russia’s worst drought in 130 years continues to ignite catastrophic wildfires and ravage crops across the country, real estate developers are poised to bulldoze an incredibly valuable crop collection near St. Petersburg in order to build luxury houses on the land.
The take-over would involve bulldozing field collections amassed over the last century that contain thousands of varieties of apples, strawberries, cherries, raspberries, currants and other crops, 90 percent of which are not found anywhere else in the world.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have not yet responded to public calls to save the experimental station and its collection.
The Pavlovsk Station matters because humanity needs crops to survive. As the climate changes and new threats to existing crop varieties appear, the ones we have now need to adapt, and the diversity found at the Pavlovsk Station provides this adaptation potential for a broad range of fruits and berries.
Please join our petition to save the future of food.
Monday, 23 August 2010
Saturday, 21 August 2010
A tribute to the SciFi classic "Bladerunner". From françois vautier:
An experimental film in tribute to Ridley Scott's legendary film “Blade Runner” (1982) This film was made as a unique picture with a resolution of 60.000 x 60.000 pixels (3.6 gigapixels)
It was made with 167,819 frames from 'Blade Runner'.
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BLADE RUNNER revisited >3.6 gigapixels from françois vautier on Vimeo.
An experimental film in tribute to Ridley Scott's legendary film “Blade Runner” (1982) This film was made as a unique picture with a resolution of 60.000 x 60.000 pixels (3.6 gigapixels)
It was made with 167,819 frames from 'Blade Runner'.
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Saturday, 14 August 2010
From A Tribute to Carl Sagan:
"For all it's material advantages, the sedentery life has left us edgy, unfulfilled.
The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood..."
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"For all it's material advantages, the sedentery life has left us edgy, unfulfilled.
The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood..."
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Thursday, 12 August 2010
For the sake of signing on after work & before WoW. Interesting headline.
Brazil UFO Sightings To Be Documented, Made Public
The Best UFO song ever made?
Klaatu(rumoured at one time to be the Beatles playing as another band, around 77-78+-)
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Brazil UFO Sightings To Be Documented, Made Public
The Best UFO song ever made?
Klaatu(rumoured at one time to be the Beatles playing as another band, around 77-78+-)
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Tuesday, 10 August 2010
Island Universe, Coma Cluster
ONLY 320 MILLION light years away!
NASA
My condolences to the family of Ted "Series of Tubes" Stevens.
And RIP Patricia Neal...
Going to go play my Hunter(WoW).
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ONLY 320 MILLION light years away!
NASA
My condolences to the family of Ted "Series of Tubes" Stevens.
And RIP Patricia Neal...
Going to go play my Hunter(WoW).
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Saturday, 7 August 2010
We'll now test your history of marijuana knowledge...How did marijuana become illegal?
On November 2 Californians will vote on Proposition 19 which would legalize many aspect of marijuana activities.
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On November 2 Californians will vote on Proposition 19 which would legalize many aspect of marijuana activities.
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Friday, 6 August 2010
Not even a hint of a new job in today's emails. But there was this great image from NASA.
The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light years from Earth, are shown in this composite image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), the Hubble Space Telescope (gold), and the Spitzer Space Telescope (red).
The collision, which began more than 100 million years ago and is still occurring, has triggered the formation of millions of stars in clouds of dusts and gas in the galaxies. The most massive of these young stars have already sped through their evolution in a few million years and exploded as supernovas.
The X-ray image from Chandra shows huge clouds of hot, interstellar gas that have been injected with rich deposits of elements from supernova explosions. This enriched gas, which includes elements such as oxygen, iron, magnesium and silicon, will be incorporated into new generations of stars and planets. The bright, point-like sources in the image are produced by material falling onto black holes and neutron stars that are remnants of the massive stars. Some of these black holes may have masses that are almost one hundred times that of the Sun.
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The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light years from Earth, are shown in this composite image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), the Hubble Space Telescope (gold), and the Spitzer Space Telescope (red).
The collision, which began more than 100 million years ago and is still occurring, has triggered the formation of millions of stars in clouds of dusts and gas in the galaxies. The most massive of these young stars have already sped through their evolution in a few million years and exploded as supernovas.
The X-ray image from Chandra shows huge clouds of hot, interstellar gas that have been injected with rich deposits of elements from supernova explosions. This enriched gas, which includes elements such as oxygen, iron, magnesium and silicon, will be incorporated into new generations of stars and planets. The bright, point-like sources in the image are produced by material falling onto black holes and neutron stars that are remnants of the massive stars. Some of these black holes may have masses that are almost one hundred times that of the Sun.
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Wednesday, 4 August 2010
Keane & K'Naan, with the catchiest song you'll hear today, "Stop For A Minute":
Full screen it & turn up the volume...
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Full screen it & turn up the volume...
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Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Neill Franklin Executive Director of LEAP "Law Enforcement Against Prohibition" interviewed by Ted Balaker of ReasonTV:
HiDef
Thanks BB..
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HiDef
Thanks BB..
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Saturday, 31 July 2010
Stars and dust in the Trifid Nebula
Unspeakable beauty and unimaginable bedlam can be found together in the Trifid Nebula. Also known as M20, this photogenic nebula is visible with good binoculars towards the constellation of Sagittarius. The energetic processes of star formation create not only the colors but the chaos. The red-glowing gas results from high-energy starlight striking interstellar hydrogen gas. The dark dust filaments that lace M20 were created in the atmospheres of cool giant stars and in the debris from supernovae explosions...
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The Man Warren Zevon:
"The days fly by
should of done
should of done
we all sigh.."
I'd love to have found a better quality video of this, but couldn't..audio's not great so turn it up...
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"The days fly by
should of done
should of done
we all sigh.."
I'd love to have found a better quality video of this, but couldn't..audio's not great so turn it up...
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Friday, 30 July 2010
KY-Sen: Paul says mountain-top mining "enhances" land
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Paul also loves him some BP Oil. Probably thinks that the BP gulf oil spill "enhanced" the Gulf Coast.
Democrat Jack Conway may be in the pocket of BIG coal also but there is NO way that he's as batshit crazy as this guy. Rand Paul probably envisions hundreds of Country Clubs dotting flattened mountain tops all over the Appalachians.
Vote Jack Conway
Contribute to Jack Conway
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Paul also loves him some BP Oil. Probably thinks that the BP gulf oil spill "enhanced" the Gulf Coast.
Democrat Jack Conway may be in the pocket of BIG coal also but there is NO way that he's as batshit crazy as this guy. Rand Paul probably envisions hundreds of Country Clubs dotting flattened mountain tops all over the Appalachians.
Vote Jack Conway
Contribute to Jack Conway
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Thursday, 29 July 2010
Interesting...
Are 3D-Printed Fabrics the Future of Sustainable Textiles?
The “ability to make needle and thread obsolete..”
"The emerging technology, which uses ultraviolet beams to fuse layers of powdered, recyclable thermoplastic into shape, leaves behind virtually no waste. Its localized production and one-size-fits-all approach also racks up markedly fewer travel miles, requires less labor, and compresses fabrication time to a matter of hours, rather than weeks or months."
Are 3D-Printed Fabrics the Future of Sustainable Textiles?
The “ability to make needle and thread obsolete..”
"The emerging technology, which uses ultraviolet beams to fuse layers of powdered, recyclable thermoplastic into shape, leaves behind virtually no waste. Its localized production and one-size-fits-all approach also racks up markedly fewer travel miles, requires less labor, and compresses fabrication time to a matter of hours, rather than weeks or months."
Afghanistan: The war logs
The Fog of War, Rediva
John Louis Lucaites
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The Fog of War, Rediva
John Louis Lucaites
The release of the “Afghan War Diaries” has been meet with expressions of outrage from both those who oppose the U.S. military occupation of Afghanistan as well as the administration that must now lay claim to the war as its own, but truth to tell, very little has thus far been revealed that we didn’t already know … or at least could have reasonably surmised from the available evidence.
Although it began in the shadow of our occupation in Iraq, our presence in Afghanistan now marks the single longest military expedition in US history—bar none: World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam … you name it. Is it a surprise, in this context, that hundreds (if not thousands) of civilians have been killed or wounded under the sign of “collateral damage”? Or that “friendly fire” has taken the lives of both US troops and its allies? Or that there are special black-ops units that operate under “dubious circumstances” with “capture/kill” lists? Or that the microchip technology that was supposed to provide us with a “bloodless victory” has turned out to be less effective than we imagined? Or that drone missions being executed by private contractors sitting safely before computer monitors in remote locations like Nevada are actually putting troops in the field at greater rather than lesser danger when they fail and have to be retrieved before the enemy finds them? Or that the Afghani military is underpaid and unreliable? Or—revelation of revelations—the US military has misled the public regarding the sophistication of the weaponry being employed against us by the Taliban, such as the use of heat seeking missiles to bring down helicopters? Or that Pakistan is not a trustworthy ally? And on and on and on.
The fact of the matter is that we have been shown evidence of virtually every one of these concerns over the past, long, ten years and we have chosen not to see them. Or perhaps the problem is that the reports of such incidents have been fragmented and piecemeal, and thus easily mitigated as “accidents” animated by human or technological error (take your choice), or rationalized as the “necessary and tragic” cost of a war fought to preserve our freedom. Like the soldier in the photograph above, caught in the rotor wash of a MEDEVAC helicopter and thus incapable of seeing the landscape that is directly in front of him, perhaps we have been caught in the swirl of government and mass media reports—too often indistinguishable from one another—to the point of not seeing (or trusting) what is directly before our eyes: a failed war that daily costs us ever more in dollars and human lives with no end or reversal of fortune in sight.
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I like this animation for an end to marijuana prohibition. It's "The Flower”, an animated short by Haik Hoisington:
Unfortunately, IMO, the keepers of National policy have decided it's more profitable for their corporations to keep it illegal, and make money through prisons, confiscations, lack of competition for drug companies, etc. Than to actually do the sensible thing, make it legal and tax the crap out of it. I don't agree but then WTF am I?
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Unfortunately, IMO, the keepers of National policy have decided it's more profitable for their corporations to keep it illegal, and make money through prisons, confiscations, lack of competition for drug companies, etc. Than to actually do the sensible thing, make it legal and tax the crap out of it. I don't agree but then WTF am I?
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Barack Obama was on The View today playing cute and nice(lot's of B.S. but nice). Meanwhile his agents continue to seek even more warrentless spying on Americans:
Obama administration wants more warrantless surveillance of Americans
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Obama administration wants more warrantless surveillance of Americans
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Or, things you won't learn watching corporate news. Thanks to MoveOn and Digby:
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Myth: Social Security is going broke.
Reality: There is no Social Security crisis. By 2023, Social Security will have a $4.3 trillion surplus (yes, trillion with a 'T'). It can pay out all scheduled benefits for the next quarter-century with no changes whatsoever.1 After 2037, it'll still be able to pay out 75% of scheduled benefits--and again, that's without any changes. The program started preparing for the Baby Boomers retirement decades ago.2 Anyone who insists Social Security is broke probably wants to break it themselves.
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Myth: We have to raise the retirement age because people are living longer.
Reality: This is red-herring to trick you into agreeing to benefit cuts. Retirees are living about the same amount of time as they were in the 1930s. The reason average life expectancy is higher is mostly because many fewer people die as children than did 70 years ago.3 What's more, what gains there have been are distributed very unevenly--since 1972, life expectancy increased by 6.5 years for workers in the top half of the income brackets, but by less than 2 years for those in the bottom half.4 But those intent on cutting Social Security love this argument because raising the retirement age is the same as an across-the-board benefit cut.
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Myth: Benefit cuts are the only way to fix Social Security.
Reality: Social Security doesn't need to be fixed. But if we want to strengthen it, here's a better way: Make the rich pay their fair share. If the very rich paid taxes on all of their income, Social Security would be sustainable for decades to come.5 Right now, high earners only pay Social Security taxes on the first $106,000 of their income.6 But conservatives insist benefit cuts are the only way because they want to protect the super-rich from paying their fair share.
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Myth: The Social Security Trust Fund has been raided and is full of IOUs
Reality: Not even close to true. The Social Security Trust Fund isn't full of IOUs, it's full of U.S. Treasury Bonds. And those bonds are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.7 The reason Social Security holds only treasury bonds is the same reason many Americans do: The federal government has never missed a single interest payment on its debts. President Bush wanted to put Social Security funds in the stock market--which would have been disastrous--but luckily, he failed. So the trillions of dollars in the Social Security Trust Fund, which are separate from the regular budget, are as safe as can be.
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Myth: Social Security adds to the deficit
Reality: It's not just wrong -- it's impossible! By law, Social Security funds are separate from the budget, and it must pay its own way. That means that Social Security can't add one penny to the deficit.1
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Myth: Social Security is going broke.
Reality: There is no Social Security crisis. By 2023, Social Security will have a $4.3 trillion surplus (yes, trillion with a 'T'). It can pay out all scheduled benefits for the next quarter-century with no changes whatsoever.1 After 2037, it'll still be able to pay out 75% of scheduled benefits--and again, that's without any changes. The program started preparing for the Baby Boomers retirement decades ago.2 Anyone who insists Social Security is broke probably wants to break it themselves.
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Myth: We have to raise the retirement age because people are living longer.
Reality: This is red-herring to trick you into agreeing to benefit cuts. Retirees are living about the same amount of time as they were in the 1930s. The reason average life expectancy is higher is mostly because many fewer people die as children than did 70 years ago.3 What's more, what gains there have been are distributed very unevenly--since 1972, life expectancy increased by 6.5 years for workers in the top half of the income brackets, but by less than 2 years for those in the bottom half.4 But those intent on cutting Social Security love this argument because raising the retirement age is the same as an across-the-board benefit cut.
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Myth: Benefit cuts are the only way to fix Social Security.
Reality: Social Security doesn't need to be fixed. But if we want to strengthen it, here's a better way: Make the rich pay their fair share. If the very rich paid taxes on all of their income, Social Security would be sustainable for decades to come.5 Right now, high earners only pay Social Security taxes on the first $106,000 of their income.6 But conservatives insist benefit cuts are the only way because they want to protect the super-rich from paying their fair share.
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Myth: The Social Security Trust Fund has been raided and is full of IOUs
Reality: Not even close to true. The Social Security Trust Fund isn't full of IOUs, it's full of U.S. Treasury Bonds. And those bonds are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.7 The reason Social Security holds only treasury bonds is the same reason many Americans do: The federal government has never missed a single interest payment on its debts. President Bush wanted to put Social Security funds in the stock market--which would have been disastrous--but luckily, he failed. So the trillions of dollars in the Social Security Trust Fund, which are separate from the regular budget, are as safe as can be.
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Myth: Social Security adds to the deficit
Reality: It's not just wrong -- it's impossible! By law, Social Security funds are separate from the budget, and it must pay its own way. That means that Social Security can't add one penny to the deficit.1
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010
15 hour road trip from Ohio to Minnesota captured on a digital camera every 15 seconds.
Kind of makes me want to head out on a night's road trip myself.
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Ohio to Minnesota Time Lapse from Dave Lucius on Vimeo.
Kind of makes me want to head out on a night's road trip myself.
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Monday, 26 July 2010
Surprise! US Using death squads in Afghanistan.
I just can't imagine what Obama & Co. Think they're accomplishing by this. Dozens of women and children killed a few days ago...Are we winning hearts and minds yet Barack?
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I just can't imagine what Obama & Co. Think they're accomplishing by this. Dozens of women and children killed a few days ago...Are we winning hearts and minds yet Barack?
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Geeks Lead Anti-gay counterprotest
The worst thing you can do to evil, holier than thou trolls is laugh at them..and the smarter you are the more you're likely to laugh.
Don't mess with the nerds Westboro.
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The worst thing you can do to evil, holier than thou trolls is laugh at them..and the smarter you are the more you're likely to laugh.
Don't mess with the nerds Westboro.
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Wednesday, 21 July 2010
First-of-its-Kind Map Depicts Global Forest Heights
Using NASA satellite data, scientists have produced a first-of-its kind map that details the height of the world’s forests. Although there are other local- and regional-scale forest canopy maps, the new map is the first that spans the entire globe based on one uniform method.
...Scientific interest in the new map goes far beyond curiosities about tree height. The map has implications for an ongoing effort to estimate the amount of carbon tied up in Earth’s forests and for explaining what sops up 2 billion tons of “missing” carbon each year.
Humans release about 7 billion tons of carbon annually, mostly in the form of carbon dioxide. Of that, 3 billion tons end up in the atmosphere and 2 billion tons in the ocean. It’s unclear where the last two billion tons of carbon go, though scientists suspect forests capture and store much of it as biomass through photosynthesis...
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The unemployment bill used to actually have "JOBS" in it(and Boy Howdee could I use one!)
Rachel Maddow explains pretty well. This is from her show last night:
And speaking of jobs, I haven't heard anything from the interview I did on Friday. NOT a good sign. Didn't think I'd get it anyway but gave it my best shot, hoping...oh, well..
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Rachel Maddow explains pretty well. This is from her show last night:
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
And speaking of jobs, I haven't heard anything from the interview I did on Friday. NOT a good sign. Didn't think I'd get it anyway but gave it my best shot, hoping...oh, well..
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Sunday, 18 July 2010
No meandering, unedited messages today. Just hope everyone's having a nice Sunday.
Here's my Sunday afternoon video. Tom Paxton & Liam Clancey with a great version of "The Last Thing on My Mind". One of my favorite love songs of all time:
It's worth the viewing just for Tom's joke about having no fear after having to follow Black Sabbath on stage one time:-)
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Here's my Sunday afternoon video. Tom Paxton & Liam Clancey with a great version of "The Last Thing on My Mind". One of my favorite love songs of all time:
It's worth the viewing just for Tom's joke about having no fear after having to follow Black Sabbath on stage one time:-)
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Saturday, 17 July 2010
Still around Net surfers(crickets...)!
Just awfully busy for someone who's barely makin'it. I did have a job interview yesterday. It went well and I knew going in that I didn't have a very good chance of getting it. It's just a receptionist/secretary position(yes, I'll GLADLY take a secretary/receptionist job, if it's FULL time with benefits!). I'm pretty sure they're looking for someone half my age, not my gender and probably a degree. It would be a pretty good little job though. We'll see, I gave it my best shot. If I don't hear by Wednesday I'll know I didn't get it.
Have to work tonight at my low-end part time job:-( Gotta start getting ready in a few minutes for that.
Anyway, I'm still kickin' and just wanted to check in.
Not much Blogging, Tweeting or anything going on these days. Here's one of the photo shots I took today on the deck.
An orchid I rescued that's been doing great out there in the semi-shade. Be back later. Going to look at some news. Like everyone I've been keeping my fingers crossed that the gulf oil leak is shut off for good. More later.
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Just awfully busy for someone who's barely makin'it. I did have a job interview yesterday. It went well and I knew going in that I didn't have a very good chance of getting it. It's just a receptionist/secretary position(yes, I'll GLADLY take a secretary/receptionist job, if it's FULL time with benefits!). I'm pretty sure they're looking for someone half my age, not my gender and probably a degree. It would be a pretty good little job though. We'll see, I gave it my best shot. If I don't hear by Wednesday I'll know I didn't get it.
Have to work tonight at my low-end part time job:-( Gotta start getting ready in a few minutes for that.
Anyway, I'm still kickin' and just wanted to check in.
Not much Blogging, Tweeting or anything going on these days. Here's one of the photo shots I took today on the deck.
An orchid I rescued that's been doing great out there in the semi-shade. Be back later. Going to look at some news. Like everyone I've been keeping my fingers crossed that the gulf oil leak is shut off for good. More later.
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Monday, 12 July 2010
"Cleveland comic-book legend Harvey Pekar dead at age 70"
I believe the film "American Splendor" only gave a hint of his funny/strange. Legendary underground comics writer Harvey Pekar dead at the age of 70. His comic series "American Splendor", about an everyday frumpy, depressed, bummed out average guy;
"Suggested a different sort of heroism: The working-class, everyman heroics of simply making it through another day, with soul -- if not dignity -- intact.
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I believe the film "American Splendor" only gave a hint of his funny/strange. Legendary underground comics writer Harvey Pekar dead at the age of 70. His comic series "American Splendor", about an everyday frumpy, depressed, bummed out average guy;
"Suggested a different sort of heroism: The working-class, everyman heroics of simply making it through another day, with soul -- if not dignity -- intact.
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Today's mood...Depressed.
I'm going to have about thirteen work hours this week in my "part time job while I look for job". Things never seem to get better.
Here's WoPairs with some WoW Machinima, "Feel You in My Bones":
I like the tune. The video could have been more interesting. Found here.
Note: If Good Samaritans could donate I'd sure appreciate it. Help us at the Paypal just below Daisy on the right. Really desperate times right now..
Hope BP's latest newfangled idea on stopping the oil flow works. Back sometime later, gonna (good)job search a while.
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I'm going to have about thirteen work hours this week in my "part time job while I look for job". Things never seem to get better.
Here's WoPairs with some WoW Machinima, "Feel You in My Bones":
I like the tune. The video could have been more interesting. Found here.
Note: If Good Samaritans could donate I'd sure appreciate it. Help us at the Paypal just below Daisy on the right. Really desperate times right now..
Hope BP's latest newfangled idea on stopping the oil flow works. Back sometime later, gonna (good)job search a while.
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Sunday, 11 July 2010
Yep...
"..Let’s say Obama’s people have correctly deduced that there’s no chance in hell of getting anything through Congress. They have two basic options. First, they could get on the teevee every day and say, “This is my plan to help. Republicans in Congress won’t pass it.” They could hold rallies in Maine. Allies could run ads. At least people would know who is for and who is against…and just what it was that people are for or against.
Option two is back off proposals you’ve previously made and have Axelrod get on the teevee and say, “there is some argument for additional spending in the short-run to continue to generate economic activity.”
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"..Let’s say Obama’s people have correctly deduced that there’s no chance in hell of getting anything through Congress. They have two basic options. First, they could get on the teevee every day and say, “This is my plan to help. Republicans in Congress won’t pass it.” They could hold rallies in Maine. Allies could run ads. At least people would know who is for and who is against…and just what it was that people are for or against.
Option two is back off proposals you’ve previously made and have Axelrod get on the teevee and say, “there is some argument for additional spending in the short-run to continue to generate economic activity.”
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Hereafter, the Blizzard "customer support" shall be in quotations. I'm sure there's thousands of Blog posts like this(heck, here's one).
We all know it's important to vent, so here goes. It's been nearly a week since my My World of Warcraft account was hacked and I can't get into my account and all characters deleted. I spent five minutes trying to come up with a clever twist of phrase for this Blizzard "customer service Sucks" post. It took me that long to realize that the title itself is the clever joke. This past week I've sent at least seven emails to their "customer support"(no caps). Not. One.Reply....their "customer support" phone line tells me that, "unfortunately the wait time is to long for us to help you, so kindly f*ck off"...
The ONE time I finally talked to someone, ANYONE was by phone; "Trevor" by name. I had to stay on hold for 1 hour(toll free at least). I told my wife if the house had caught fire I'd probably hold onto that phone, Trevor says he'll send me an email(he does) with his email addy on it, "if I still need more help". Trevor says I'll automatically be back up and running in a few days and, since I mentioned that Blizzard's "support" web site wouldn't let me change my email, he'd go ahead and do that now.
That was Friday, I gave him the wrong email or he wrote it down wrong. NOW I can't even log into my account online or in game(for those without WoW problems that's where i go into the game as a new character, contact "customer support" "in game" and wait for a "Game Master", who never shows up).
Being the weekend now, I'm sure "Trevor" is sitting on his deck sipping a cafe latte. While I continue to do what I've been doing for a WEEK. While I spend hours hitting redial on the Blizzard "customer support" phone number, then hold my finger dis-connect for when the "customer support" voice says go away. cruising through different Blizzard "customer support" websites sending pleading emails which have NEVER been answered.
I've never seen anything like this. A company who has millions of users, but who can ignore them and/or tell them to f*ck off when they have a game crash. It's...Hold On time to hit re-dial on the phone again....there, I'll just get told to go away again and...HOLY CRAP, looks like I'm being accepted...my "wait time" will be "42 minutes"). More later surfers. HAVE to hold for this call! What'll happen now? Will they make it even worse,aaand how will they do it. It might even be "Trevor" again!
If you're looking for an online MMORPG(oh, come on, you know what that is!) with decent Customer Support, seriously don't pick Blizzard. That is all....
Will try and edit this later.
P.S. This is time I could be job searching. I've only managed about 3 resumes in the last week. Instead I'm ignored and on eternal holds at Blizzrd "customer support".
Update: Sunday night; Well at least they've got me to where I can now log in the game and on my account. Still no characters though but I can now log on.
I'd love to edit this down, instead I'm going to go read some news.
Very sleepy, this late night job I'm working while I look for a "good job" is kickin' my arse. I'm still looking for an "office job" employers, have keyboard, will travel...some anyway.
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We all know it's important to vent, so here goes. It's been nearly a week since my My World of Warcraft account was hacked and I can't get into my account and all characters deleted. I spent five minutes trying to come up with a clever twist of phrase for this Blizzard "customer service Sucks" post. It took me that long to realize that the title itself is the clever joke. This past week I've sent at least seven emails to their "customer support"(no caps). Not. One.Reply....their "customer support" phone line tells me that, "unfortunately the wait time is to long for us to help you, so kindly f*ck off"...
The ONE time I finally talked to someone, ANYONE was by phone; "Trevor" by name. I had to stay on hold for 1 hour(toll free at least). I told my wife if the house had caught fire I'd probably hold onto that phone, Trevor says he'll send me an email(he does) with his email addy on it, "if I still need more help". Trevor says I'll automatically be back up and running in a few days and, since I mentioned that Blizzard's "support" web site wouldn't let me change my email, he'd go ahead and do that now.
That was Friday, I gave him the wrong email or he wrote it down wrong. NOW I can't even log into my account online or in game(for those without WoW problems that's where i go into the game as a new character, contact "customer support" "in game" and wait for a "Game Master", who never shows up).
Being the weekend now, I'm sure "Trevor" is sitting on his deck sipping a cafe latte. While I continue to do what I've been doing for a WEEK. While I spend hours hitting redial on the Blizzard "customer support" phone number, then hold my finger dis-connect for when the "customer support" voice says go away. cruising through different Blizzard "customer support" websites sending pleading emails which have NEVER been answered.
I've never seen anything like this. A company who has millions of users, but who can ignore them and/or tell them to f*ck off when they have a game crash. It's...Hold On time to hit re-dial on the phone again....there, I'll just get told to go away again and...HOLY CRAP, looks like I'm being accepted...my "wait time" will be "42 minutes"). More later surfers. HAVE to hold for this call! What'll happen now? Will they make it even worse,aaand how will they do it. It might even be "Trevor" again!
If you're looking for an online MMORPG(oh, come on, you know what that is!) with decent Customer Support, seriously don't pick Blizzard. That is all....
Will try and edit this later.
P.S. This is time I could be job searching. I've only managed about 3 resumes in the last week. Instead I'm ignored and on eternal holds at Blizzrd "customer support".
Update: Sunday night; Well at least they've got me to where I can now log in the game and on my account. Still no characters though but I can now log on.
I'd love to edit this down, instead I'm going to go read some news.
Very sleepy, this late night job I'm working while I look for a "good job" is kickin' my arse. I'm still looking for an "office job" employers, have keyboard, will travel...some anyway.
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Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Okay, here's my week's picks out of my stacks to listen to again for the gazillionth time:
It's; The Moody Blues, "Seventh Sojourn"(STILL holds up well, the signature is a friend who's long dead, so it's a momento to), Bruce Springsteen; "Darkness on the Edge of Town"(a long string of great albums), David Bowie; "Space Oddity"(Major Tom), Janis Joplin; "Pearl"(for "Cry Baby" and other gems), The Who; "Who Are You"(wish I could find a good video of "3.905"). There you have it. Stay tuned (old)rockers!
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It's; The Moody Blues, "Seventh Sojourn"(STILL holds up well, the signature is a friend who's long dead, so it's a momento to), Bruce Springsteen; "Darkness on the Edge of Town"(a long string of great albums), David Bowie; "Space Oddity"(Major Tom), Janis Joplin; "Pearl"(for "Cry Baby" and other gems), The Who; "Who Are You"(wish I could find a good video of "3.905"). There you have it. Stay tuned (old)rockers!
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