I listen to Triple R radio via audiocast quite a bit. They have shows about science and community stuff that are really awesome. It is sort of public radio. It is more like a bunch of people who do radio shows who are members of the public
That is one thing that seems lacking in U. S. public radio. That is, a sense of community. It does seem like Triple R has an agenda, but it is refreshing to have diverse agendas in public radio. U. S. public radio seems to adopt agendas and the whole year is devoted to shoving one message down people’s throats. it gets old.
There is something else they have that is lacking on U. S. TV entirely too much. It is sarcasm. “I haven’t seen any sugary cereals targeting kids in advertising.” Dripping with sarcasm.
Triple R has a show called Dirty Deeds that is about gardening. It showed up in the All Over the Shop audiocast feed that is about two blokes who bitch about the good old days for a couple hours every Sunday I think. I never miss All Over the Shop, not the gardening show. It just cracks me up.
2012-09-25
Last Night
Last night I took a half dose of NyQuil. I was having trouble with a sinus headache. It hit me like a ton of bricks. I was out when my head hit the pillow. I woke up 2:00 or so and took a Zantac for my stomach. I had only eaten sandwiches and a few chips for dinner. I got up this morning and nearly fell back asleep sitting up watching the local news. I drug ass on the way in. My eyelids have been at half mast all day. What the hell was in that NyQuil?
I had a strange dream during all of this that I was attempting to go for the most bounces of a ball where the bounces end the with the ball back in your hand where you let go of it. For example, when you throw a ball at a wall and it bounces off the wall and then the ground back to the same place where you let go of it. I was working on 14 bounces, but was struggling to though the ball hard enough with control. I got so excited at the prospect of achieving the record that I woke up before I did it. Can’t win for waking up.
Tonight, I plan on relaxing, eating something more bland, not taking any medicine and getting to bed early. I doubt I’ll get a single frame of video shot today so that will help the effort.
Notes:
Youtube has a global translator. This should be interesting. It works on the captions. If I add captions this service/software will translate it for me. Apparently there is a community source element as well. I think that means that people can come along and translate it for you. Not sure how that is going to work out if people put up fake translations. How are you supposed to check if you have no idea how to read the language? What happens if the people who put up the video are out and out lying in translations? Hope it works out.
There is a very sensitive camera that takes a time lapse of every minute of your life. It doesn’t wait a length of time, but has some kind of motion sensor and a bunch of other sensors that give it some idea of when something interesting is going on. It can then wirelessly upload it to your phone or network. One more way to turn ourselves in to big brother. Google Glasses is supposed to do something similar.
One thing I’ve noticed on audiocasts lately is the people shoving a couple different podcasts in to the feed that they do not belong in. I listen to a couple shows from NPR. I’ve noticed occasionally, the a different NPR show turns up in the queue I listen to. I’ve noticed the same thing on RRR more than once. This could be a human error kind of thing or it could be a stealth way of advertising their other shows.
Set up a computer today with Red Hat 6.3. I managed to get the wifi up and running. That is kind of what we are after. Our Wifi has issues at work. I suppose all Wifi has issues. The electromagnetic spectrum has issues. You can’t see it and it knows it.
Today, one of my coworkers asked if that wa me standing in a parking lot talking to a camera. I had to say yes. No point in lying to the man. I only hope, that I was indeed shooting video rather than just talking to myself. There is less insanity involved in vlogging I’m sure. Hey, if I do it and want people to find the end result online, then I need to be prepared for people I know to see me do it.
Last Night
Last night I took a half dose of NyQuil. I was having trouble with a sinus headache. It hit me like a ton of bricks. I was out when my head hit the pillow. I woke up 2:00 or so and took a Zantac for my stomach. I had only eaten sandwiches and a few chips for dinner. I got up this morning and nearly fell back asleep sitting up watching the local news. I drug ass on the way in. My eyelids have been at half mast all day. What the hell was in that NyQuil?
I had a strange dream during all of this that I was attempting to go for the most bounces of a ball where the bounces end the with the ball back in your hand where you let go of it. For example, when you throw a ball at a wall and it bounces off the wall and then the ground back to the same place where you let go of it. I was working on 14 bounces, but was struggling to though the ball hard enough with control. I got so excited at the prospect of achieving the record that I woke up before I did it. Can’t win for waking up.
2012-09-24
Vlog
| Field | Data |
| Title | Fog Vlog |
| Description | Short and annoying. How many rand,mn clips can you stuff in ... 4, the answer is 4. * Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/zhsy00001 * Google+ https://plus.google.com/110920679448216202152/posts/p/pub * Blog http://plastickelly.blogspot.com * YouTube RSS http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/zhsy00001/uploads |
| Tags | vlog vlogging fog commute fire alarm hazy smoke crossing street texas houston canon elph 110 Kdeenlive |
| Link | Link |
Notes:
The walk in this morning was foggy. It was nuts because it rolled down one side of the street and not the other. I sat through one iteration of a traffic light just watching the fog move slowly past a street light. Tried to get it on video, but I doubt it comes out worth a crap.
Walked out the door without the cover on my phone. I have one of those rubber things. I have to say it is more comfortable and more slippery. The reason I took it off is the power cord wants to pop out with the rubber case on the phone. I may have to stop using the case.
Spain isn’t Greece. Spain is much larger. Spain is poised to fall off a cliff soon. If Europe survives saving Spain, they will then have to look at France. Remember France? The economy of France is in trouble. France is even bigger than Spain and Greece combined. If anything the EU needs France to be on the bailing end, not the being bailed end.
One of the audiocasts I frequent has a serial of The Handmade’s Tale. My God, that is a depressing story. They do a fantastic job of telling the story. Listening to the religious overtones of the story make me wonder if this might be what a religious autocracy feels like,
You should not be given important things. You should not be denied important things.
When people have problems with their email, they will call the helpdesk and say that their computer is broken.
I can’t think of a single person I knew in highschool I still know much less hang out with.
Walked out the door without the cover on my phone. I have one of those rubber things. I have to say it is more comfortable and more slippery. The reason I took it off is the power cord wants to pop out with the rubber case on the phone. I may have to stop using the case.
Spain isn’t Greece. Spain is much larger. Spain is poised to fall off a cliff soon. If Europe survives saving Spain, they will then have to look at France. Remember France? The economy of France is in trouble. France is even bigger than Spain and Greece combined. If anything the EU needs France to be on the bailing end, not the being bailed end.
One of the audiocasts I frequent has a serial of The Handmade’s Tale. My God, that is a depressing story. They do a fantastic job of telling the story. Listening to the religious overtones of the story make me wonder if this might be what a religious autocracy feels like,
You should not be given important things. You should not be denied important things.
When people have problems with their email, they will call the helpdesk and say that their computer is broken.
I can’t think of a single person I knew in highschool I still know much less hang out with.
2012-09-23
Complaining about screen recording
| Field | Data |
| Title | Complaining about screen recording |
| Description | Ah, me complaining again. What made me famous. Links: Kazam https://launchpad.net/kazam VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html RecordMyDesktop http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/about.php My Links: * Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/zhsy00001 * Google+ https://plus.google.com/110920679448216202152/posts/p/pub * Blog http://plastickelly.blogspot.com * YouTube RSS http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/zhsy00001/uploads |
| Tags | vlog vlogging garage complaining kazam recordmydesktop vlc linux ubuntu 12.04 Canon Elph 110 HS Houston Texas |
| Link | Link |
How to edit screen shots in Ubuntu 12.04
| Field | Data |
| Title | How to edit screen shots in Ubuntu 12.04 |
| Description | Quick video showing how I edit screen shots in Ubuntu 12.04. Related vlog * Coming soon My Links * Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/zhsy00001 * Google+ https://plus.google.com/110920679448216202152/posts/p/pub * Blog http://plastickelly.blogspot.com * YouTube RSS http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/zhsy00001/uploads |
| Tags | Ubuntu 12.04 screen shot screenshot editing LibreOffice Draw vlog vlogging Houston Texas Caln 110 HS Kdenlive kazam |
| Link | Link |
2012-09-22
Screenshot
I’ve been researching how to make easy, but good looking modified screenshots. The tools we have available are LibreOffice mostly. Adequate tools if a bit unpolished.
LibreOffice Draw is a fine editor. It is great for office work kind of graphics. Boxes, ovals and arrows all over the place works out great. Once you have your graphics all dolled up, exporting as a PNG for example is a nightmare. You have to set the page size to match the output. It is a nightmare. If you wait to the Write program to crop, it is about the same fight to crop the end product down for 8.5x11 or whatever your page size was set to.There is no freehand crop tool in LibreOffice that I can find. The best solution I’ve found is to simply use the rectangle screenshot tool to transfer from Draw to Write.
LibreOffice Draw is a fine editor. It is great for office work kind of graphics. Boxes, ovals and arrows all over the place works out great. Once you have your graphics all dolled up, exporting as a PNG for example is a nightmare. You have to set the page size to match the output. It is a nightmare. If you wait to the Write program to crop, it is about the same fight to crop the end product down for 8.5x11 or whatever your page size was set to.There is no freehand crop tool in LibreOffice that I can find. The best solution I’ve found is to simply use the rectangle screenshot tool to transfer from Draw to Write.
| Windows 7 | Ubuntu Linux - Unity |
| run snip tool | screen shot tool |
| Paste in to Draw | Paste in to Draw |
| Edit to heart’s content | Edit to heart’s content |
| run snip tool | screen shot tool |
| Select rectangular screen shot | Select rectangular screen shot (shift prt-scr) |
| copy to clipboard and paste in to document | copy to clipboard and paste in to document |
Music rights and math
It cracks me up that you how the rights for music let you have a live transmission of the music, but will not let you include the music on the audiocast thereafter. I listen to a show called Zero G about science fiction. One of the big things they do is play all the music from the shows they talk about. I have never listened live. I have no idea when it plays because it is in Australia. The music is all edited out in the audiocast, yet I listen. I need to catch it live one of these days just to get the contrast.
I will use 24timezones.com to fighoure out when to listen. One thing that cracks me up is how similar the two operations are in Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux. It is bullet for bullet. They are 9 hours away from us tomorrow. The show plays at 13:00 on Monday, I do not know how daylight savings time affects this calculation. This means I must listen 21:00 or 22:00 Sunday evening to catch it. Let me know if my math is off. Tell you what. I’m going to check in at 20:00 and back again every hour until I catch the show. It may be a few weeks.
DAMN You RIAA! You are making me commit math.
I will use 24timezones.com to fighoure out when to listen. One thing that cracks me up is how similar the two operations are in Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux. It is bullet for bullet. They are 9 hours away from us tomorrow. The show plays at 13:00 on Monday, I do not know how daylight savings time affects this calculation. This means I must listen 21:00 or 22:00 Sunday evening to catch it. Let me know if my math is off. Tell you what. I’m going to check in at 20:00 and back again every hour until I catch the show. It may be a few weeks.
DAMN You RIAA! You are making me commit math.
Notes:
2012-09-20
Had another shot at videoing the space shuttle passing by my office today. Missed it because our web server was down and needed attention. Drag. Not many opportunities of this kind left. A friend of Nat’s went out and snapped some pictures of the 747 and shuttle on the ground. Came out nice. One of the guys at my office ran over to the parking garage and shot a bunch of pictures. I’m thinking of stringing them together in to a video for no good reason.
I listened to an audiocast where a couple scientists were trying to explain entanglement. The end result was basically that quantum entanglement still keeps very smart people up at night pulling at their hair. I want to know if anyone has hooked one of these situations up to a set of walkie talkies or texting pagers or a button and a light on each end and tested it all over the world? Why not? Is it classified?
I like well done interviews with fictional characters. I particularly like tongue in cheek skits. One of the audiocasts I listen to had a show that contained an interview with the Incredible Hulk. “Joss Whedon fart Febreze!” was one of the quotes from the big green guy.
2012-09-21
“The most important demographic this year [in the presidential election] is race and ethnicity.” -NPR interview of some guy who does a bunch of those polls you hear about in the news. This makes me ill. I don’t care if it is true, it makes me want to be sick. I don’t have to like it. I do want to understand it. I do question it, because I don’t want to believe it.
It increases people’s happiness to move from a high poverty neighborhood to a low poverty neighborhood. Rates of obesity, and thus diabetes drop when people move. The social groups say it would be better to move families than give them money. -NPR.
“I Love Lucy” Still makes the parent company $20,000,000 a year. -NPR
That dinner where Romney said all that 47% stuff at was $50,000 a plate. -NPR Always consider your audience doesn’t work any more. You are always speaking to everyone. People have mobile phones with video cameras. One of the polls said something like 80% of people think they pay income tax. One of the fallacies that keeps showing back up over and over is that a tax cut is like giving money to the rich. Well, if you are broke, only people more rich than you pay taxes. I’m in the horrible position of being broke and I pay taxes.
I listen to too much NPR.
One of the Audiocasts I listen too is movie reviews from the UK. They constantly fight the idea of giving out spoilers. It is difficult to describe one movie based on other movies without giving out spoilers. They fight over whether six months or six years or even six decades is enough time to simply give up and deal out spoilers in order to better make people understand more recent symbolism and other creative symbolisms. I really like the comment today. “If you haven’t seen Sixth Sense, he is a girl!”
Had another shot at videoing the space shuttle passing by my office today. Missed it because our web server was down and needed attention. Drag. Not many opportunities of this kind left. A friend of Nat’s went out and snapped some pictures of the 747 and shuttle on the ground. Came out nice. One of the guys at my office ran over to the parking garage and shot a bunch of pictures. I’m thinking of stringing them together in to a video for no good reason.
I listened to an audiocast where a couple scientists were trying to explain entanglement. The end result was basically that quantum entanglement still keeps very smart people up at night pulling at their hair. I want to know if anyone has hooked one of these situations up to a set of walkie talkies or texting pagers or a button and a light on each end and tested it all over the world? Why not? Is it classified?
I like well done interviews with fictional characters. I particularly like tongue in cheek skits. One of the audiocasts I listen to had a show that contained an interview with the Incredible Hulk. “Joss Whedon fart Febreze!” was one of the quotes from the big green guy.
2012-09-21
“The most important demographic this year [in the presidential election] is race and ethnicity.” -NPR interview of some guy who does a bunch of those polls you hear about in the news. This makes me ill. I don’t care if it is true, it makes me want to be sick. I don’t have to like it. I do want to understand it. I do question it, because I don’t want to believe it.
It increases people’s happiness to move from a high poverty neighborhood to a low poverty neighborhood. Rates of obesity, and thus diabetes drop when people move. The social groups say it would be better to move families than give them money. -NPR.
“I Love Lucy” Still makes the parent company $20,000,000 a year. -NPR
That dinner where Romney said all that 47% stuff at was $50,000 a plate. -NPR Always consider your audience doesn’t work any more. You are always speaking to everyone. People have mobile phones with video cameras. One of the polls said something like 80% of people think they pay income tax. One of the fallacies that keeps showing back up over and over is that a tax cut is like giving money to the rich. Well, if you are broke, only people more rich than you pay taxes. I’m in the horrible position of being broke and I pay taxes.
I listen to too much NPR.
One of the Audiocasts I listen too is movie reviews from the UK. They constantly fight the idea of giving out spoilers. It is difficult to describe one movie based on other movies without giving out spoilers. They fight over whether six months or six years or even six decades is enough time to simply give up and deal out spoilers in order to better make people understand more recent symbolism and other creative symbolisms. I really like the comment today. “If you haven’t seen Sixth Sense, he is a girl!”
2012-09-19
Bullshit
| Fourteen employees of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the U.S. Justice Department face disciplinary action for their roles in the botched Fast and Furious weapons-tracking program, according to a report released today by department investigators. No criminal charges are recommended, according to the report. The program was designed to track kingpins responsible for illegal gunrunning to Mexico. It has been blamed for contributing to crimes -- including the high-profile slaying of a U.S. border patrol agent.
CNN Headline News email
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I cannot believe this ends here. I refuse to believe this ends here. This shall go down in history as one of those colasal fuckup bad ideas. Thousands of guns supplied to drug traffickers. What is wrong with the government in charge of us? They are out of touch and don’t care.
Notes:
For every kilo of plankton in the sea, there are 6 kilos of plastic. I’m ashamed to be human right now.
One of the vlogs I watched mentioned that he doesn’t have a blooper reel at the end of his videos any more because he stopped screwing up as much. My life feels like a blooper reel most of the time. The interesting bits do anyway. The rest of it is mostly snoring.
How do you tell a friend with benefits person that the benefits portion of the friendship has expired? These things happen.
Spent a bit of my day crawling around the ceiling. We ran some wires. It amazes me how difficult it is to predict how long a wire you are going to need to span across three rooms. I felt sick from all the dust that we kicked up. Should wear a mask when I’m poking around up there. I already wear a headlamp.
One of the vlogs I watched mentioned that he doesn’t have a blooper reel at the end of his videos any more because he stopped screwing up as much. My life feels like a blooper reel most of the time. The interesting bits do anyway. The rest of it is mostly snoring.
How do you tell a friend with benefits person that the benefits portion of the friendship has expired? These things happen.
Spent a bit of my day crawling around the ceiling. We ran some wires. It amazes me how difficult it is to predict how long a wire you are going to need to span across three rooms. I felt sick from all the dust that we kicked up. Should wear a mask when I’m poking around up there. I already wear a headlamp.
Shuttle Sighting Fail
| Field | Data |
| Title | Shuttle Sighting Fail |
| Description | Someone spotted the 747 flying with the Space Shuttle on the back over Houston this morning. The first thing I did of course was grab my camera. I couldn’t see shit so I asked someone else to try to frame the shot. He of course tried to take a picture and killed the video. I failed to instruct him before handing him the camera. So this is a fail on my part. * Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/zhsy00001 * Google+ https://plus.google.com/110920679448216202152/posts/p/pub * Blog http://plastickelly.blogspot.com * YouTube RSS http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/zhsy00001/uploads |
| Tags | fail vlog vlogging work office distraction space shuttle 747 Channel 13 chopper helicopter Houston Texas Kdenlive Canon Elph 110 HS |
| Link | Link |
2012-09-18
Time travel
I was working on a time machine when I showed up and warned myself not to travel back in time. The other me smashed the machine which of course made him vanish. A few seconds after he vanished the machine was mysteriously restored to working order, ready to go.
I reached for the button and I appeared again screaming something about how horrible time travel is and smashed the machine again.
After the third time, I started videoing what was going on, but the videos keep going blank. It appears that the time line attempts to fix itself once the provocateur time traveler stops paying attention to the immediate situation. This might make time travel more difficult than I originally planned.
...
What was I talking about? ... Oh, my new time machine.
I reached for the button and I appeared again screaming something about how horrible time travel is and smashed the machine again.
After the third time, I started videoing what was going on, but the videos keep going blank. It appears that the time line attempts to fix itself once the provocateur time traveler stops paying attention to the immediate situation. This might make time travel more difficult than I originally planned.
...
What was I talking about? ... Oh, my new time machine.
Earth
It turns out Earth was originally a rock that was tagged in some database somewhere as a potential waystation for traveling from one place to another. In order to make the place a more fun stop, an intelligence decided to terraform this rock.
In the elapsing time, there was some mistake in the database, Perhaps it was the laziness on a ship operator's part that let the Earth be left alone for a bit too long. The atmosphere, water, land, life forms have overrun the rock. So much so that the rock is now unfit for purpose.
Now that sentient creatures have evolved on this waystation, Earth has been declared unusable due to endangered species. Despite the best efforts by alien transportation lobbyists to have humans declared large bacteria, this status has saved us from destruction more than once.
In the elapsing time, there was some mistake in the database, Perhaps it was the laziness on a ship operator's part that let the Earth be left alone for a bit too long. The atmosphere, water, land, life forms have overrun the rock. So much so that the rock is now unfit for purpose.
Now that sentient creatures have evolved on this waystation, Earth has been declared unusable due to endangered species. Despite the best efforts by alien transportation lobbyists to have humans declared large bacteria, this status has saved us from destruction more than once.
More on Google Drive/Docs
Another complaint about google docs (google drive) editor is the highlight color. It is sort of a faint blue on white. I have a very hard time seeing it. I can kind of make out, but have a difficult time figuring out if I have exactly the text selected that I want I have found nothing in the google help even close to helping me change the color.
There are all kinds of issues with this editor. The settings are consistent across the document and other editors.The system is still useful for me. However, if something better comes along I will have to take all this in to consideration. I wish there were some way to complain, but I haven’t found that web page either. I just need more contrast. That is apparently too much to ask.
The solution for this apparently is to use a different editor and store your files on Google Drive. That’s great, but this does not allow the whole idea of editing on multiple computer simultaneously as I like. I can leave the document open on several computers and edit or post as I wish without issues of conflicts from one to the other. Or, forgetting to copy the file to the Google Drive before I leave. This is one of those issues that was far more stressful than I thought.
That and page breaks still piss me off. I don’t need page breaks any more if I’m honest. Let them happen after I hit print. It drives me nuts when a page break inserts extra space in a paragraph of breaks a table apart. It makes me worry what will happen when I paste said items elsewhere. Nothing seems to happen, but worry every time.
There are all kinds of issues with this editor. The settings are consistent across the document and other editors.The system is still useful for me. However, if something better comes along I will have to take all this in to consideration. I wish there were some way to complain, but I haven’t found that web page either. I just need more contrast. That is apparently too much to ask.
The solution for this apparently is to use a different editor and store your files on Google Drive. That’s great, but this does not allow the whole idea of editing on multiple computer simultaneously as I like. I can leave the document open on several computers and edit or post as I wish without issues of conflicts from one to the other. Or, forgetting to copy the file to the Google Drive before I leave. This is one of those issues that was far more stressful than I thought.
That and page breaks still piss me off. I don’t need page breaks any more if I’m honest. Let them happen after I hit print. It drives me nuts when a page break inserts extra space in a paragraph of breaks a table apart. It makes me worry what will happen when I paste said items elsewhere. Nothing seems to happen, but worry every time.
YouTube hits
That thing above is my YouTube analytics since 2007-04-07 to present. Most of my hits are from a single video My big video. It is so popular it has been copied a couple times. This is why I’m planning on using copyright water makrs in the future.
Should I go with “Copyright Kelly Hawkins 2012” for example? What are the rules for saying a company has a copyright? Do I just need a Doing Business as (DBA) to say the company has a copyright?
Notes:
Google Drive: You can change the name of a document open on multiple computers and it changes without trouble across the planet. Nice. The name is just another attribute on the node in the database. Glad it actually works.
I needed to change the file name above because i had given it the wrong name based on the date. While looking up the date to verify, I noticed the date is a week off on my laptop menu bar calendar, but correct on the command line. Frigging Linux. Thing is, I could not swear that the date in my head was correct. I still had to verify against my other computer and my phone to make sure.
Walked past the lunch room at about 9:35 this morning. It was hopping. There were fifteen people in there doing different things. Between coffee, cooking breakfast, washing dishes, grabbing a snack, researching on the net and a couple people like me just passing through, the place was a buzz of activity.
I’m listening to BBC Radio 4. At the moment there is some kind of mystery theater playing. I cannot get enough of this stuff. It is difficult to tell how old some of these recordings are. If they were made in the 1950s or earlier, the sound has a specific quality. If after, however, they all sound about the same. I don’t have time to look these things up each time. Every now and again, you can tell by context. It is fun to guess. I listen to this a lot at work. I get interrupted constantly. I wish I could just get all this in some kind of audiocast RSS kind of situation.
I needed to change the file name above because i had given it the wrong name based on the date. While looking up the date to verify, I noticed the date is a week off on my laptop menu bar calendar, but correct on the command line. Frigging Linux. Thing is, I could not swear that the date in my head was correct. I still had to verify against my other computer and my phone to make sure.
Walked past the lunch room at about 9:35 this morning. It was hopping. There were fifteen people in there doing different things. Between coffee, cooking breakfast, washing dishes, grabbing a snack, researching on the net and a couple people like me just passing through, the place was a buzz of activity.
I’m listening to BBC Radio 4. At the moment there is some kind of mystery theater playing. I cannot get enough of this stuff. It is difficult to tell how old some of these recordings are. If they were made in the 1950s or earlier, the sound has a specific quality. If after, however, they all sound about the same. I don’t have time to look these things up each time. Every now and again, you can tell by context. It is fun to guess. I listen to this a lot at work. I get interrupted constantly. I wish I could just get all this in some kind of audiocast RSS kind of situation.
2012-09-17
Doctor’s apt
| Field | Data |
| Title | Doctor’s appointment |
| Description | Really just a trip to the doctor’s office. * Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/zhsy00001 * Google+ https://plus.google.com/110920679448216202152/posts/p/pub * Blog http://plastickelly.blogspot.com * YouTube RSS http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/zhsy00001/uploads |
| Tags | vlog vlogging doctor’s apt appointment bus metro walking crossing streets city streets Westheimer Dairy Ashford Houston Texas Canon Elph 110 HS Kdenlive |
| Link | Link |
Censorship
Many in the middle east in general are very upset over a film that jabs at their religion. That is their decision. People on this side of the world are calling for censorship and forcing the internet to better censor itself. In this case, it is YouTube.
If you block YouTube you need to go ahead and block the whole internet, because the internet is freedom. When it stops being freedom, people will stop using it. When people stop using it, it will die. Things will never be the same again. you cannot go backwards from any point in time. you can only go forward. Which path will you choose?
If what you had to say were not offensive, you would not need a right to say it. How boring a world would it be if everyone agreed on everything?
I have to be careful on this one. People are dying. In Libya several U. S. diplomatic staff were killed. This video and the failure of the U. S. to “apologize” for it has been blamed by some. I’ve heard the attack was planned and I’ve heard the opposite. At the moment, it depends on to whom you listen.
On a less important note, YouTube channels are getting pulled over this video. I am the first guy in line complaining about people preaching hate and needing to be pulled from YouTube. One thing that pisses me off is the speed at which this one is happening. According to some of the blogs I read, known terrorist recruitment videos on YouTube can take months to pull down.
Why is this time different? Western ideals of freedom of speech are slamming head on with the Islamic ideal of not permitting anyone to say anything bad about their prophet. That is it. For years the blogosphere has been a buzz that these two ideals are incompatible. Some say Islam is incompatible with democracy because of this feature of each.
If you do not have the freedom to speak your mind, you cannot convince others to vote for you or for the people you want in control. Without the freedom to speak your mind, there is no democracy. I don’t know the argument for Islam refusing to allow any dissenting views of their prophet.
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It rained this morning on the way in. One of these days I want to record my morning commute in the rain. I have a water resistant pouch thing for my camera. I wouldn’t trust it in the pool, but the rain would not get in on the first try. I had dry feed because I walked on the opposite side of the street in traffic instead of the grass. However, my legs got wet from sideways rain. Not too bad. I dried off by the time I went to the doctor’s office for my consult on gout.
The new laptops we are getting have a screwy touch pad. The surface is textured with bumps. I have no idea why. I mean, it is designed supposedly to allow you to move your finger across the surface all day long. This thing feels a bit like worn down sandpaper. It isn’t that it will take your fingerprints off, it is a tactile comfort thing. It feels funny. Not sure how long it will take to get used to.
The new laptops we are getting have a screwy touch pad. The surface is textured with bumps. I have no idea why. I mean, it is designed supposedly to allow you to move your finger across the surface all day long. This thing feels a bit like worn down sandpaper. It isn’t that it will take your fingerprints off, it is a tactile comfort thing. It feels funny. Not sure how long it will take to get used to.
2012-09-16
Vlog
| Field | Data |
| Title | Vlog for the heck of it |
| Description | A Sunday in my life. * Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/zhsy00001 * Google+ https://plus.google.com/110920679448216202152/posts/p/pub * Blog http://plastickelly.blogspot.com * YouTube RSS http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/zhsy00001/uploads |
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2012-09-15
Notes:
Just encrypted my home folder on my personal laptop. Everything is encrypted these days. If you don’t herar from me over the next couple days it is because I have screwed myself to the point I cannot use my laptop and I’m drunk and or passed out in lament.
A buddy of mine just complained that Apple made a deliberate decision to make connecting to an NFS serve a pain. I must not say anything bad about MACs. I must not say anything bad about MACs. I must not say anything bad about Macs to him, right now. Must wait. Must wait.
Apple iPhone 5
People are pissed at Apple. These are things I’ve heard.
I do not now nor have I in the past used an iPhone or any Apple phone for anything other than a paperweight. I am not a fanboy. I do not like Apple and therefore do not use their products when I can avoid it. I do not have a problem with others using the devices except when they expect me to bend over backwards to make my systems compatible with theirs instead of accepting the fact that they atre the outlyer and should act acordingly.
- You need a whole new connector set for your existing devices. The connectors are not compatible. Has Apple not heard of USB?
- No video out. I would not be bothered by this, but I know people who are not upgrading until there is a video solution.
- IOS 6 makes it much easier for IT departments to lock down your phone if it is on their network. When I read about this feature, it sounds more like parental controls.
- No simultaneous voice and data on many carriers.
- Some people get charged an early adopter fee if they want the damn thing on day one.
I do not now nor have I in the past used an iPhone or any Apple phone for anything other than a paperweight. I am not a fanboy. I do not like Apple and therefore do not use their products when I can avoid it. I do not have a problem with others using the devices except when they expect me to bend over backwards to make my systems compatible with theirs instead of accepting the fact that they atre the outlyer and should act acordingly.
Notes:
Peter Commings was fined and banned from working for a financial services in London. He claims he did what everyone else was doing. It was the way business was done. Some wonder why he is not in jail. Others wonder why the financial authorities bothered. They interviewed some guy who tried to blow the whistle on the back in question several years ago. He basically had two fingers worth of comment to the industry.
Did you know that a knuckle out peace sign in the UK is like flipping someone the bird in the U. S.? Hence the statement above “Two fingers worth of comment”.
Listening to union negotiations on a BBC audiocast makes me want to vomit. The union people sound like communists and the employers (government in this case) sounds like a dictatorship. The two are not mutually exclusive if I’m honest.
Then there is that moment when you grab a drink expecting a cool slug of soda and get a cool slug of unsweetened coffee from earlier that morning. I drink my coffee black at work. I’m used to the taste, even after it is past its sell by minute. Still, it is the expectation that gets me. I nearly spit it across the room when this kind of thing happens and I don’t expect it.
One of the Dell 1 U systems we have got stuck today. That is, the top (lid) got stuck on the box. I had to use a screwdriver to pry the lid along the path that is needs in order to take the lid off. This is the worse one so far. I remember that I had to do something like this when first setting up some of the systems. I don’t think we are doing anything wrong. I think it is just out of tolerance.
Did you know that a knuckle out peace sign in the UK is like flipping someone the bird in the U. S.? Hence the statement above “Two fingers worth of comment”.
Listening to union negotiations on a BBC audiocast makes me want to vomit. The union people sound like communists and the employers (government in this case) sounds like a dictatorship. The two are not mutually exclusive if I’m honest.
Then there is that moment when you grab a drink expecting a cool slug of soda and get a cool slug of unsweetened coffee from earlier that morning. I drink my coffee black at work. I’m used to the taste, even after it is past its sell by minute. Still, it is the expectation that gets me. I nearly spit it across the room when this kind of thing happens and I don’t expect it.
One of the Dell 1 U systems we have got stuck today. That is, the top (lid) got stuck on the box. I had to use a screwdriver to pry the lid along the path that is needs in order to take the lid off. This is the worse one so far. I remember that I had to do something like this when first setting up some of the systems. I don’t think we are doing anything wrong. I think it is just out of tolerance.
2012-09-13
Too long time laps
| Field | Data |
| Title | Too long time lapse |
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| Tags | timelapse time lapse clouds office building window weather atmosphere classical music Houston Texas Westheimer shadows |
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Annoying Freedoms
| Secretary of State Clinton says U.S. rejects anti-Islam video stirring outrage in Muslim world, calls it "reprehensible."
CNN Headline News Email
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Yes, yes that freedom we have in this country really is pissing off people in other countries. They can’t handle our freedom I say to these people that they have no right to take our freedom, even with violence. We will have to deal with the fallout of our freedom. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. That means freedom is not free. Freedom takes work. Killing our citizens because you don’t like what someone says is insanity and should be condemned on its own, regardless of the subject matter.
I haven’t seen this video/movie/film. I bet it is reprehensible. I’m not defending the video, This is not the point. I’m defending the freedom to say something. If what you have to say were not controversial, you would not need a right to say it.
Should YouTube take the video (and copies) down? That is up to YouTube. YouTube is a business and has to make the decisions based on their own needs. YouTube should not be forced to put up any video they determine is harmful in some way to their business or morals. People condemn YouTube when crap like this shows up, but no one condemns the phone company when someone uses a phone for crime. This is a double standard.
Notes:
I tried to shoot a time lapse of the sun rise this morning. The clouds blocked the sunrise and the building was fogged over so badly that the image out the window was completely obscured. There was a really cool lightning show going on, but my camera was taking one frame every second so most of that was missed I’m sure. I’ll have to review it this evening to find out of there is any salvageable footage.
One of the people in an interview described military drones as “... being used to kill brown people in optional wars.” He also said the attitude about these things would be different if people on their main street caffe were being blown up because some other government you don’t agree with wanted someone dead. I have to agree on both points.
One of the people in an interview described military drones as “... being used to kill brown people in optional wars.” He also said the attitude about these things would be different if people on their main street caffe were being blown up because some other government you don’t agree with wanted someone dead. I have to agree on both points.
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