Noodling about with my new stylus on my Android-running Dell Streak, a photo by thepetecom on Flickr.
The app is called Free Hand Note. The stylus feels a little clutsy, but I
can scribble stuff well enough.
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The app is called Free Hand Note. The stylus feels a little clutsy, but I
can scribble stuff well enough.
Moments after this photo was taken, an aluminum foil tent was erected
over the turkey and the turkey was inserted!
"Ovening" is a word, right?
You know the world is getting weird when the NY Times reports this: "Federal agents arrested the leader of a renegade Amish group and six others in eastern Ohio on Wednesday and charged them with hate crimes for a series of beard- and hair-cutting assaults against Amish men and women."
Just look at those guys in the NYT article's photo--it's like a Daily Show segment or something!
source: www.nytimes.com/2011/11/24/us/7-arrested-in-hair-cutting-...
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Sadly, real life is getting to be a pain in the ass and I’m finding myself forced to consolidate my efforts online even more than I already have. I’ll continue posting stuff like I have on Website666.com but I’ll be doing it on my lifeblog at http://thepete.com/life or on my Tumblr. So please follow me in either place or on Twitter.
This blog will stay up but I’ll probably transfer all the posts in it to my lifeblog and to my Tumblr. Eventually, I may take the blog down entirely just because I’m a bit OCD and I like things tidy.
Damn, I really wanted to keep this site going. I just have too much to do in real life and in my virtual one. 2011 has been the year of realizing the difference between what I am capable of doing and what time, itself, will allow me to do. That process has helped me decide what is most important to me as a creator and a concerned citizen. So, I hope you’ll check out my other projects at the links mentioned above. I’ll definitely carry on my contrarian thinking policies as that’s the only way to make the world a better place.
Thanks for reading and I hope you’ll continue to follow my exploits at one of the locations above. Take care and please remember to question everything!!
Is "bushel" the word I'm looking for? But seriously, have you ever
seen a nob like this on a bunch of bananas?
It's true--some sponges conduct electricity and can be used to write
on and control capacitive touchscreens! Kooky, huh?
Let's invent a new word for when Chrome crashes on a page it shouldn't
crash on: Aw-noying.
I’m having a really hard time understanding my country right now. I’m seeing an overwhelming amount of apathy, laced with immaturity, on a level that is unbearable.
Democrats, Republicans, and every other bastard in Washington (minus a few like Kucinich, Paul, Sanders) do not give a single shit for any one of us unless it makes them richer, or more powerful. For years they’ve continued on a path that makes them, and their friends richer, while letting the people they are elected to represent starve economically & figuratively.
Two months ago today, a small group of people started to protest, they’ve had enough. They decide to finally take a stand, in a way no politician has in decades. The small group, begins to grow. Do we welcome them with open arms? Some do, some don’t care and the rest condemn them. Call them lazy, smelly, unpatriotic, hippie scum, liberal idiots with no direction. I’m sorry, I thought this was the fucking Land Of Opportunity. What kind of bullshit American Dream exists where you graduate school with $80k in student debt, can’t find a job, can’t afford health insurance and when you stand up to protest, you are met with rubber bullets, pepper spray, and batons. Yet hardly anyone cares that their friends, family and neighbors rights are being tossed in the shitter. We have a President who openly supported Egypts right to free assembly, but doesn’t seem to care one bit that police across the country are playing batting practice on peaceful protesters. It’s entirely unacceptable.
I think it’s about time we redefine what “patriotic” is, because it’s not about wearing t-shirts will Bald Eagles breaking through them on fire holding an American Flag in it’s talons while shooting fireworks and drinking Bud Light, the official beer of freedom. Patriotism is caring enough about your country that you will stand outside for two months straight in an attempt to make a better, stronger, smarter country where everyone can succeed, and not just the ones who can afford a lobbyist in D.C.
Look at history—America has never been a universally trustable country. We’re supposed to have been founded on principles that we’ve violated countless times. Freedom of religion, but here’s money on which a god is endorsed. Equal rights, but if you’re Japanese we’re locking you up while we atomize two of your cities. Freedom of speech is guaranteed, except for a while when it was illegal to talk shit about the government’s latest war. I know I don’t even need to talk about that time we randomly decided all men aren’t created equal and that it was OK to own people.
One thing that’s been consistent, probably since America Day 1, is our country’s friendliness toward businesses. Pick up some real history books (ok this one) and learn about how the American government has always protected the rich and how American wars have always been a racket.
I don’t think it’s time we redefine “patriotism” at all. I think it’s time we redefine what is important to us as a species. Is it better that America respects human rights? Or that all governments on planet Earth do? Is it more important that the planet’s economy is strong? Or that we have something that maybe isn’t an “economy” at all that can better protect human rights and guarantee human advancement?
What we’re seeing now is the tipping point between Capitalism/Globalism kinda-sorta-working and it utterly crumbling around the ears of 99% of the Earth’s population. Does anyone really want to protect/support the country that was the Number One proponent of the Capitalist/Globalist system for nearly a century?
America has always been a tool for the rich. All our borders give us is an excuse to not care about the rest of the world.
Let’s redefine ourselves.
As protesters find new ways to “Occupy Wall Street”, major financial firms have been busy handing out pink slips this week.
It’s the second week of what’s expected to be a brutal season for job cuts as big banks have already announced that there will roughly 75,000 fewer people working at their firms.
Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase commenced new rounds of job cuts this week, following the lead of Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse and RBS.
Most of the layoffs at Bank of America this week came from the firm’s investment banking and capital markets divisions, according to a source close to the firm. A Bank of America spokesperson declined to comment. In September, Bank of America announced planned cuts of 30,000 employees over the next several years.
JPMorgan Chase’s spokesperson wouldn’t discuss whether any jobs had been cut or any numbers. “There were no job cuts beyond those previously announced months ago.”
In the firm’s third quarter earnings conference call, JPMorgan Chase’s CEO Jamie Dimon said the firm would see a reduction in headcount but no major layoffs. Sources familiar with the bank’s activities this week said that a number of traders were handed pink slips this week.
“Things have gotten pretty bad, pretty fast,” said Richard Lipstein, managing director of the executive search firm Boyden. Lipstein said he’s seen a big uptick in jobseekers over the past two weeks, particularly among midlevel executives.
Mid-to-late November is typically the season for layoffs, as banks want to avoid making cuts during the holidays in December. By doing it before year-end, these employees aren’t eligible for bonuses. (more)
Silver lining: New dissidents for OWS.
They aren’t really thinking are they….
No, the rich folks just aren’t getting it. It’s like they WANT it to get so bad that violence happens. It’s like they really ARE stuck-up assholes like we’ve all been saying.
-Issac Asimov (via penny-royal)
It’s also the first option of the most desperate. :
Retired New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith, working as a legal observer after the raids on Zucotti Park this Tuesday, via Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism (via seriouslyamerica)
Sigh… this is some serious police-state-ish kind of behavior. How does this sort of behavior go away?
(and the pizza = vegetable thing passed.)
“I declare congress a vegetable.” Awesome.
Totally on point.
BRING IT! I’m sick of people pretending that we don’t live in a corporate police state simply because America doesn’t look like the novel “1984”. These American frogs clearly need the water they’re cooking in to start bubbling or else they’re never going to realize that smell is them simmering in their own juices.
“The get a job” crowd clearly have jobs but zero imagination or compassion. Assholes.
:(
THIS is how you present facts and tell the truth in a graph. Numbers, text, imagery, all representing actual FACTS.
Please check all of the content you consume for confirmable facts. It’s depressing how some on the left think that they can get away with lying just because they’re lefties.
saboma:
American Censorship Day November [16th]
What the hell is the exact definition of an “infringing link”?? I hate these over-simplified “infographics” that fail to define basic terms. The fact that there is no definition of “infringing link” makes me want to ignore the whole thing. I am so sick of people on either “side” of the political “aisle” failing miserably at properly informing the people they are trying to persuade. This is a bad infographic because it does a great job of inspiring fear but a shitty job of, you know, actually providing information.
And it’s not just the lack of an “infringing link” definition. Look at the “As a result” section. It represents what website self-censorship is like now and will be like after SOPA passes. Before SOPA, it’s a small circle. After SOPA, the circle is MUCH LARGER!! OMG!! THAT CIRCLE IS WAY BIGGER!! How bigger? Well, I can’t tell since there are NO NUMBERS describing the circles. This is all beside the fact that there is no way to measure self-censorship in a future we haven’t lived in yet. In short, this ven-ish diagram has zero basis in fact. In other words, it’s made up just to scare the shit out of you.
The same can be said for the line graph next to it. Before SOPA, you see the number of new startups rises! But after, it goes down. :( BUT THE DATA POINTS AREN’T NUMBERED, so we have NO WAY OF KNOWING WHAT THEY MEAN!!! This, also, is beside the point that this line graph does the same thing the ven-ish diagram does—it makes shit up about the future—there’s no proof that the number of new startups will go down after SOPA.
Under the “HOW DOES THIS AFFECT” section, it would be nice to see the part of the law that explains email providers would have to censor email with infringing links. It would also be nice to know how social networks could possibly censor the links of hundreds of thousands of users, especially when URL shorteners can be used to mask the links.
As I mentioned, this infographic fails to mention what an infringing link even is and that inspires even more fear than the even bigger circle of self-censorship or the non-specific datapoints in the “new startup” line graph. What IS an infringing link?!?! Is THIS an infringing link? IsTHIS? Would YOU be posting an infringing link by linking to this post? OMG!! WE LIVE IN SOVIET RUSSIA!!
It’s a shame propagandists get hired to make “info”graphics like this, instead of good human beings who want to properly inform people. Especially since the truth about this bill is probably very terrifying.
THANKS FOR THE FEAR MONGERING, AMERICANCENSORSHIP.ORG!
American Censorship Day November [16th]
What the hell is the exact definition of an “infringing link”?? I hate these over-simplified “infographics” that fail to define basic terms. The fact that there is no definition of “infringing link” makes me want to ignore the whole thing. I am so sick of people on either “side” of the political “aisle” failing miserably at properly informing the people they are trying to persuade. This is a bad infographic because it does a great job of inspiring fear but a shitty job of, you know, actually providing information.
And it’s not just the lack of an “infringing link” definition. Look at the “As a result” section. It represents what website self-censorship is like now and will be like after SOPA passes. Before SOPA, it’s a small circle. After SOPA, the circle is MUCH LARGER!! OMG!! THAT CIRCLE IS WAY BIGGER!! How bigger? Well, I can’t tell since there are NO NUMBERS describing the circles. This is all beside the fact that there is no way to measure self-censorship in a future we haven’t lived in yet. In short, this ven-ish diagram has zero basis in fact. In other words, it’s made up just to scare the shit out of you.
The same can be said for the line graph next to it. Before SOPA, you see the number of new startups rises! But after, it goes down. :( BUT THE DATA POINTS AREN’T NUMBERED, so we have NO WAY OF KNOWING WHAT THEY MEAN!!! This, also, is beside the point that this line graph does the same thing the ven-ish diagram does—it makes shit up about the future—there’s no proof that the number of new startups will go down after SOPA.
Under the “HOW DOES THIS AFFECT” section, it would be nice to see the part of the law that explains email providers would have to censor email with infringing links. It would also be nice to know how social networks could possibly censor the links of hundreds of thousands of users, especially when URL shorteners can be used to mask the links.
As I mentioned, this infographic fails to mention what an infringing link even is and that inspires even more fear than the even bigger circle of self-censorship or the non-specific datapoints in the “new startup” line graph. What IS an infringing link?!?! Is THIS an infringing link? Is THIS? Would YOU be posting an infringing link by linking to this post? OMG!! WE LIVE IN SOVIET RUSSIA!!
It’s a shame propagandists get hired to make “info”graphics like this, instead of good human beings who want to properly inform people. Especially since the truth about this bill is probably very terrifying.
THANKS FOR THE FEAR MONGERING, AMERICANCENSORSHIP.ORG!
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Amazing video of the new island being created as we blog…
9gag:
Husbands raping wives is a very real issue, guys.
Dont like PETA, but bondage/bdsm isnt rape/abuse.
Great, but then where is the guy in that pic above? Whips and chains are more commonly known as tools for abuse and oppression. Showing them in connection with (or connected to) a sexy woman, seems like a seriously weird message for an animal rights group to send.
Orson Welles (via executions)
Wrong.
1) We’re not born alone. Our mother is there and at least one other person, like a doctor or a midwife. Sometimes even our dad is there.
2) We don’t live alone. Even if we never marry and never have roommates, most of us have neighbors and, beyond that, every single one of our lives depends on the existence of other people.
3) Sure, some of us do die alone, but very rarely does it have to be that way.
4) That last sentence is so incredibly cynical that it’s almost not worth commenting on.
But seriously, if we were truly alone, we’d not have electricity in our homes, or food in the grocery store, or clothes to wear. Every damn moment of the day we are touched by other people. Just because Orson Welles was a great film maker, that’s no reason to ignore the fact that he was a self-centered white guy who was an egotistical drama queen.
We are not alone.
Only through our relationships with others can we make sure that none of us feel alone. Only through our own emotions, our acts of caring, and our lack of self-centered tendencies can we help each other and ourselves understand and feel like we are truly not alone.
It’s this kind of nihilistic BS that encourages selfish behavior. Orson, you could make a really good movie, but you were a freaking drama queen.
I loved you in Transformers: The Movie, though.
A definite sign of the failing of America from stfurapeculture and others:
Occupy Wall Street? Egyptian riots? London looting?
NOPE.
Penn State student rioting over the firing of Joe Paterno. More photos from last night’s riots here.
If a group of crows is a murder, what’s a crowd of rape-apologizing douchebros called?
I believe a pace of asses would be appropriate.
-Joe
I think the overwhelming majority of male faces in this photo is rather telling.
mhmm
Fucking sickening.
Did Americans have a riot when the Supreme Court ruled Bush could enter the White House? Did we riot when Bush illegally invaded Iraq? Did we riot when we found out that Bush lied to us about Iraq? Did we riot when it was discovered our government tortured in our name? Did we riot when Obama assassinated Osama bin Laden rather than putting him on trial like the Iraqis did with Saddam? Did we riot when an American citizen, convicted of no crime, was assassinated by an American drone?
What’s it take to get Americans to riot? An LA Lakers game or the firing of a beloved coach who did nothing to stop illegal sex acts.
What the fuck is wrong with us? Seriously, America, your attitudes are so assbackwards I am completely unable to reconcile your claims of moral righteousness with your actual behavior.
Seriously. #USAWTF
Ex-CIA agent Nada Prouty says Detroit prosecutors railroaded her
Huh, kinda reminds me of Sibel Edmonds. Her new(ish) website is here: http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/
I'm looking forward to my stylus getting here.
"If you look at the troubles which happened in European countries, this is purely because of the accumulated troubles of the worn out welfare society. I think the labour laws are outdated. The labour laws induce sloth, indolence, rather than hardworking. The incentive system, is totally out of whack.
The welfare system is good for any society to reduce the gap, to help those who happen to have disadvantages, to enjoy a good life, but a welfare society should not induce people not to work hard.
You’ll still be able to follow Website666 on Tumblr, but the main site will be at website666.com. Please pardon the site while I whip up the new layout and get the graphics to show up properly on the main site.
Yeah, I've been noticing just how "liberal" the so-called "liberal media" really is for a while now and this is a perfect example. If the media really was liberal they'd be slamming the Republicans for their utter hatred of the poor and they'd be covering the #Occupy protests constantly instead of barely.
It's hard for me to even care anymore. The world is so upside-down.
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motherjones:The Outlaw Josey Wales FTW.
Uhhh, sure, just don’t ask him how he feels about the Americans with Disabilities Act. Back in 2000 he called lawyers who took on ADA lawsuits ”morally corrupt.” Right, morally corrupt for suing on behalf of a disabled person who was accusing Eastwood of violating a law that protects the rights of the disabled?
Oh yeah, those ADA lawyers are real horrible people.
/sarcasm
Clint Eastwood may be a brilliant filmmaker but he’s a huge fucking douchebag. I refuse to watch his films and I lose respect for actors who work with/for him because they don’t seem to mind working for a guy who still thinks the disabled should have no right to not pee their pants in his restaurant (which would you respect more human rights or “the heritage and antique value”?).
I was really surprised that Leonardo DiCaprio would appear in one of his films. Leo is supposed to be a conscientious guy and he isn’t aware of Hillary Swank’s fate in “Million Dollar Baby”?
Full disclosure, the “morally corrupt” lawyer who sued him back in 2000 is my father-in-law. But I’m preeeeetty sure that doesn’t make me unfairly biased toward the rights of the disabled. ;)
The Outlaw Josey Wales FTW.
Uhhh, sure, just don’t ask him how he feels about the Americans with Disabilities Act. Back in 2000 he called lawyers who took on ADA lawsuits ”morally corrupt.” Right, morally corrupt for suing on behalf of a disabled person who was accusing Eastwood of violating a law that protects the rights of the disabled?
Oh yeah, those ADA lawyers are real horrible people.
/sarcasm
Clint Eastwood may be a brilliant filmmaker but he’s a huge fucking douchebag. I refuse to watch his films and I lose respect for actors who work with/for him because they don’t seem to mind working for a guy who still thinks the disabled should have no right to not pee their pants in his restaurant (which would you respect more human rights or “the heritage and antique value”?).
I was really surprised that Leonardo DiCaprio would appear in one of his films. Leo is supposed to be a conscientious guy and he isn’t aware of Hillary Swank’s fate in “Million Dollar Baby”?
Full disclosure, the “morally corrupt” lawyer who sued him back in 2000 is my father-in-law. But I’m preeeeetty sure that doesn’t make me unfairly biased toward the rights of the disabled. ;)
Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. - O Sensei Morihei Ueshiba
I’m *mostly* down with this, but “as good as dead” isn’t accurate, IMO. It’s more like “only potentially alive.” As long as our internal organs continue processing there’s hope for our lives and our world.
So if you need to stop growing for a bit, that’s OK. Just don’t quit for good. There’s so much more to learn.