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| Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 | | 9:58 pm |
| | Sunday, May 11th, 2008 | | 11:06 pm |
The Plan (tm)
Evenings of This Week, I'll move my crap into storage. Wewt. | | Saturday, May 10th, 2008 | | 6:49 am |
I can't create polls on a free account?
Well, I guess I'll just depend on your comments...
What do you feel I should best use my LJ for?
1) My moments of whining (and my personal life);
2) My professional progress (on literature, music, gaming, etc)
3) Professional announcements (turn the blog into my newsletter, if you will)
4) Mix and Mash
5) Memes
6) Your own answer (in comments)
Thoughts? | | Thursday, May 8th, 2008 | | 10:36 pm |
Blank
It's one of those evenings.. I haven't felt 'blank' in a really, really long time. | | Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 | | 8:32 pm |
Come one, come all... http://www.paradice.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=6219#6219Good Deeds Never Go Unpunished. (also, it's better to be a piece of furniture than a doormat) If those two statements didn't make any sense, you need to hang out more with me in IRC. Ok, gonna check movie times, maybe see something tonight. Current Mood:  squee! | | Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 | | 6:19 pm |
Back on Air...
I just got mentioned on the local NPR station, Radio Kansas and will again a few times on May 9th. Not sure yet quite of what will be said of me.. but figured some of you might want to know that. All the best! | | Monday, April 21st, 2008 | | 9:03 pm |
Hell in a Handbasket...
The bubble of my finances has burst....
Bank account balances all begin with a minus sign.
Investments are tanking (on average 15% losses for me since the end of 2007). No single fund in my entire, diversified portfolio has shown a gain.
I owe $25,462.72 in accruing credit (and the interest rates are going up).
So.
I'm thinking of liquidating the investments I have left, paying off all my debts, and starting over. For now, I'm going to sleep on it first, and consult with those who are wise, before I do anything.
GRRRR!
Oh, and don't even get into taxes... I'm not getting a return. Apparently, since I'm single, the Fed didn't with hold enough taxes in 2007 from me, and thus I owe, instead of looking at getting a return. | | Friday, April 18th, 2008 | | 12:29 am |
Music is kicking me in the ass!
Three projects just up and smacked me this week...
One album
One movie
One soundtrack
I will get it all done before I go to any desert. No expectations on when my next album will be ready...
Happiness is but a G-string away. | | Thursday, April 17th, 2008 | | 12:13 am |
I am bug eyed... The week thusfar; I'm gaming again, on Saturdays in IRC. We're using a rule system that fits on one page. Actually, quite a bit less than one page. So, we had another game, and it was good. Lots of other things are happening - but for now I have to wait till later to speak of them... because I'm about to fall asleep and stuff. Current Mood:  sleepy | | Sunday, April 13th, 2008 | | 8:28 am |
Vote of No Confidence for the History Channel... Instead of providing a cut to a long article (sorry about that other day too, got caught up)... http://www.paradice.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=5973#5973The History Channel... I used to have respect for their shows, but they've a new low... | | Saturday, April 12th, 2008 | | 6:36 pm |
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Legalized Copyright infringement... A link to the source will be at the bottom (as I'm posting this with permission, their links won't translate because I'm not recreating them). This is posted with permission of the author. ( Read more... ) Current Mood:  angry | | Saturday, April 5th, 2008 | | 11:29 pm |
Well, my phone is dead, I'll look for the charger... I've moved up a notch in my IRC golf skills; now in a three-way tie for 1st (in the since-we-started-thru-end-of-2008 season) of IRC Golf. Also, played another session using the KISS rules (yours now for $5.00!). The game went pretty well... and there Will Be More Games. It's time for sleeping again, methinks. Lazy on the weekends, so that I can work my tuckuss off during the week. Current Mood: tired | | 7:27 pm |
SL
SL (Second Life) is forcing any website with 'sl' and any other terms in the domain name, that's vaguely related to Second Life down, to enforce it's trademark, the acronym 'SL'. This includes websites who Linden Labs gave specific permission (four years ago) to site owners to use the acronym.
Frankly, I've seen better treatment of customers in the Music Industry. So, to fix this, I propose a different definition for the acronym 'SL'.
SL = Sore Loser
Thoughts? | | Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 | | 9:22 pm |
Family Embezzlement
Wow... a friend's post got me thinking about what happened with my college fund... which a couple of you may know about. I always avoided the math, to figure out how much I lost... but did the math today.
Instead of $864,000 in Microsoft (in 1998) plus another $60k or so in other investments (that started out many years earlier with $12,000), there was $322.14 in the bank account. That's fine though, because I learned the principles of how to build wealth from the same person who took my success for his own. Oh, I love to hate him. I also hate to love him.
I did it once, I can do it again. Just have to do it right. Again.
When I come back from deployment, you can count me in on chasing the stock market... not as a day trader, necessarily, but using buying and selling points. I just have to find the next Microsoft, I guess. | | Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 | | 7:08 pm |
I'm beat down, almost to the point of implosion... Not in an entirely bad way. I picked the wrong job to be in the Army. I had the pleasure of being invited to a demolition range where certain combat engineers spent the day building stuff and then blowing it up. The press was there too, and as usual, they were attracted to interview the dumbest one out there. Usually one called by his peers as 'deet ta deet'. I wasn't at the interview itself, but look forward to watching it on TV tonight, to see what was said. Darnit, and I forgot to bring my camera. Anywho, I'm physically beat. Worn out. I'm gonna go get some rest tonight. To prepare for tomorrow (because if you thought today was exciting, you ain't seen nothin yet. Current Mood:  ecstatic | | Saturday, March 29th, 2008 | | 5:24 am |
To one Beldar...
Look for posts since March 16th of this year. :) | | 2:18 am |
| | Friday, March 28th, 2008 | | 4:30 am |
Happy birthday Goldie!
We're still using smilies based on yours (that you, Figarou and Goldkin tweaked) at Paradice Net. Hope your birthday goes well!
- Baph | | Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 | | 12:32 am |
I can has a free internet? http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2008/03/music_levyA few problems with this: 1) Consumer advocates should be screaming at the top of their lungs. The PROs and RIAA aren't trusted by the musicians they fail to pay royalties to for proven live, webcast and radio performances. Essentially, if there is only one entity to enforce this, they would get more money in, and have the regular excuse "We're sorry, but We Weren't Monitoring BitTorrent while you were #1 there." They keep the money instead. 2) This can be duplicated by the MPAA, and any similar groups that deal in works visual art and literature could be affected. $5 per month per internet user might not sound like much, but that's the portion the RIAA (or whomever) would get; the ISPs would have to spend money developing and processing in some cases, hundreds of millions of transactions per year (tracking this separately on every bill), AND paying this new entity $5/user. They'd be stupid not to increase this surcharge on their own (to whatever amount they deem 'competitive'. It gets even harrier if you have more than one internet access bill. Here's my example: Wireless internet at the cafe I go to: $30 Blanket license to listen to music: $7 Blanket license to look at images: $6 Blanket license to watch movies: $10 Blanket license to watch TV shows or other 'videos': $8 Blanket license to watch adult vidoes: $9 Blanket license to read ebooks and periodicals: $6 So, a $30 monthly access bill becomes $76 while keeping the monthly bandwidth limits some ISPs have turned to (that cost so many cents per megabyte or a denial of service if you go over). Now, if you also have cellular internet access through a phone company, your phone company in that sense is considered an ISP. Therefore, you might be getting doubly charged. Lastly, France's move to do away with all copyright protection on it's music and film is downright horrifying - especially if it becomes the international legal precedent in the US. The US Copyright laws are flimsy, but this is downright brutal. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/nov/24/crime.francehttp://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i062b16e707aa99916c212e660cbffd3e Current Mood: irate |
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