BRAVO TO HISTORY

Every now and then I bravely go where I rarely have gone before and by that I mean I pick up the remote control and see if there is something better on and during this past election season you could count on a ninety second barrage of Mitt & Obama approved horseshit to look for something.. I found BRAVO network and it's apparent staple real housewives shlock.. Not impressed by this turdtastic programming, I stopped and thought  there are those who do watch this.. Too bad you can't vote them off or maybe you can, I didn't stay through enough to find out.. It was a loud show..     A couple years ago I was flipping around and found  a show called Gold Rush Alaska and it was nearing it's final first run.. I watched the whole damn series in marathon form, with the show being on Discovery they run the weeks previous show, and in this case the day of the final episode they ran the entire series.. I got hooked, and so this year (spoil alert,  not really just speculation) I have watched as they have their two claims getting ready to be mined and unlike the first year they had a soil test to see how far down the pay dirt is.. They found it really shallow but guess what?? They were on the wrong land, theirs was a few plots over and the survey found that the pay day dirt was way beyond where they thought it could be to be mined..   My feeling is (and this is just me) they will get that first few plots or find out that it was the area they were supposed to mine and they will mine it and make tons of money because as the previews for this season have said someone hits the mother lode, and the first survey on those plots showed very much gold to be had..  That or the Dakota boys hit it rich..

Watched the Pawn Stars Monday night, and the boys are headed to Sturgis and Rick stopped on the way at a antiques  shop just to see if there was anything to try to get.. He saw a samari warrior  head gear thing and told the guy it was priced much too low and told him the history behind it.. Then he said how much would you want for it and they haggled to an acceptable price.. Anyone who has seen Pawn Stars knows the gag that when someone brings something into their store they want one price and end up getting quite another..   They end up at Sturgis and then the fun begins.. Quite an interesting sideshow, I didn't know what they would do to make it interesting, but they did..

Monday I wasn't planning to start the work on a video project but then I played a song and it just got me in the mood instantly.. The song is called Sunday Morning and it just hit me just right.. So I started to get the pictures set for this video but didn't have a clue what to type in the Google images search bar, so I just typed that, "Sunday Morning"  and the pictures fit the song that I was listening to PERFECTLY..  So Tuesday will be spent getting the songs set for the project, having nearly a hundred songs to chose from and getting that number whittled down to what I hope will be less than twenty and then seeing what ideas come for those songs..  One of the pictures I wanted turned out to be a video on the vimeo site.. I always have trouble getting video from there but not this time and as it turns out that video yielded several pictures instead of just the one..

This Thursday will be the first "new"  weekday entry to be done on PNOP since October seventh.. (the music entries are done about the week of the entry just in case there is a theme that evolves) and I checked and I do have them alternating on what might be the Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule through November and I think there are six entries preset for December.. January was a bit heavier set but then February is a light month and March through the end of next year are almost Friday only entries.. This will give me at least an assured one entry per week through the end of 2013.. I now have enough  stuff to put 45 entries at 15 oddities per entry,  but I think I will wait and see how they look..  Not sure what to do there. Maybe another evolution to something else.. Not sure..  

Badge Henry

THE TITLE IS YOURS (for a price)

I just want to make it clear, I am for the American dream, voting for who you want elected should come down to just a very small number of things.. Character being  part of the measure, how do the candidates stack up.. When Romney first started to run last year he was running against the most disjointed lot of thuggery the republicans could muster and don't even think we can forget this party actually had Donald Trump as a front runner in the polls at one point.. Bachmann was the straw poll winner in Iowa (remember that??).. Herman Cain was a front runner before his zipper caught up with him (he couldn't keep it up)..  Romney said so many outrages things in the debates before the primaries.. Then at the presidential debates he reversed flow and sounded very presidential.. Trouble is he had said one thing up to and including the convention, then shook his etch a sketch and reversed into the less extreme while Obama hasn't changed what he has been saying since... Forever.. Maybe that is what is wrong.. I was thinking maybe these politicians should just say "if it will get me elected I will do it"  and both of them run that way, then it just becomes  a popularity contest.. Who has the better hair, who has the fastest car... Sounds like high school doesn't it??


There's a part of me that wishes Romney would win, let's go back to the way things were when GWB was in there.. Things were better.. You know they were, right after he took office things were better back then.. Of course they were ridding on the wave of success of the Clinton administration, until the don't know what I'm doing republicans got busy screwing things up again.. I've always said it takes the two party system to make this country work.. The republicans screw it up and the democrats fix it..  But my feelings are that everyone wants things to be like they were with Bush and so if Romney gets elected more than likely things will get better shortly before they get much worse.. Romney will more than likely try to screw it up so bad that there will be no recovery possible EVER!!    When Obama fist got into office he started working to fix things before he took the oath.. Bush was gone, he went fishing regularly and was gone the last year of his presidency...  He had no idea what was going on or how to try to fix it.. Give it to the next president.. Rush Lumbar was talking on his show he hoped that president Obama would fail and to me that meant he wanted the country to fail.. Thats US... Now they are saying the same thing, they are saying if Obama gets reelected that they will work as hard as they can to make him fail, and all I have to say to that is if the country fails, the economy and so forth, maybe that wouldn't be so bad.. Maybe if the economy failed then we would have to adopt a new monetary system.. Maybe everyones money would be worthless (kinda the way it is now).. Maybe the rich would only be able to use all those millions and billions to wipe their own asses with.. Maybe everyone starts at square one and is equal, the richest of the rich on equal with those on skid row.. That would be justice served for screwing this once great country into the ground..

I am maybe the most cynical where it comes to voting.. Although it is a false look to it to me because of the electoral college, it serves it's purpose.. Imagine, however, if the election was a true majority rule, where your vote really does count, I think the voter turn out would be huge..  Imagine as well if it was a general vote and your vote was courted the way it is in three to four states how that would change the way the candidates ran.. Imagine them having to treat every state EQUALLY..   What would they say??  Would they have amended  the electoral process?? Move the election from Tuesday to Monday or Friday and had it be a holiday..  Imagine if nearly ninety percent of the population that was eligible to vote actually did..    All I've really got to say is if it is important to you to vote then VOTE  but don't let people tell you it is unamerican to not vote.. People went to wars to give you the right to do either thing.. Vote   don't vote, it won't matter, it's your right to do.. what you want to..  If you do vote and you are one of those "undecided voters"  don't forget your coin.. 

Badge Henry

(P.S.  I was watching a video on Youtube yesterday that had Romney have a meltdown over his religion and in the comments a guy (person) wrote "well if he screws up we can always get rid of him (recall him)"  and  I started to reply to his comment; really you think it is that easy?  for one thing even if it were easy to get rid of Willard, we would still be stuck with his VP Ryan and he's no better or different so just to let you know  vote for who you want for four years, he isn't an i-pod that you can get the next model next year and toss the old one in the trash... It's a four year commitment for either.. Four more years of what I think will be a better economy or  get Romney in there who could change his mind depending on which way the wind is blowing..   )

BACK THE CAR UP

Have you ever had one of those dreams where it felt so real that you could swear it was??  Waking up in the morning feeling like it happened the day before and things were really that way??   I had a dream the other night that Obama had won the election, it was closer than anyone thought it would or could be.. Decided like Bush 2000 with the judges and counting chads and shit (hanging chads, you bastards)  and so I felt good..  Then I get this email from Cracked and it has this article of pre election predictions and it is kinda funny to read a few of them.. One was the Redskins (NFL football team in D.C.) that if they win the Sunday before the election then the sitting president will get elected, but if not he will lose and there will be a change of party.. The team they played today were the Carolina Panthers who have this way of sucking.. I thought easy win.. Then they played and LOST*... Oooh boy, well it looks like that one is over.. Hopefully but.. I am looking at the reality and I'm figuring Obama will lose.. On my other site (PNOP) I put these words on Wednesdays entry "Congratulations president Obama on being reelected.. NOW GO FIX IT!!"  Guess we'll see if I have to change that..


Back earlier this summer I  was in the local Walmart looking for something and came across the streaming players (Roku and the like) and found what I thought was THE streaming player that I wanted.. The Sony streaming player was just what I thought I wanted.. Perfect in that it streamed Netflix, and potentially so many other services as well as Youtube... Then as the summer rolled on I kept looking at it and was so tempted to just pull one off the shelf and get it and justify it by getting rid of digital cable, but then that became my plan.. I would check the rest of the summer and fall and see how much I actually watch the digital part of the cable service.. And in the mean time I went into walmart and checked to see if this player remained there figuring if it got too close I would pull one off early and either lay it away or...  And through July I watched the number of this player go from six to three and then the first of August the magical number hit.. And I wasn't there to pull it.. The number hit zero.. None, no more of those and so I thought we'll see how long it takes for them to get this model back.. And August turned to September, to October, and now to November and the holding spot where that player was is gone now.. They WON'T be getting it back ever.. And yet it is available at Target.. But when they aren't available it makes me wonder if there was a problem.. Was there a recall??  no, they are still on several sites and back in early September when we were where a Target store is I looked and there was a Sony player there.. So what gives??  I Saw it at another Walmart in another town so I figure the local walmart is pushing the Blue Ray players with the streaming player as part of the package..  But I don't want blue ray (I have said there really is little difference between the two blue ray and regular dvd)..  and think that streaming is the future of everything, although not yet able to replace cable completely..

So in the last few days I started to look for a streaming player on the internet and have found me gravitating to a magnavox model that does everything the sony does except play files on the flash drives, and while that is one of the most attractive things on the Sony player, there was no mention of how well this part of these players works, making me a little leery of their ability to play that stuff.. So the Magnavox moved to the front of the line with all the services I want on it except for the USB 2.0 ability.. Then the other day I played a review that some guy put on Youtube about the Roku player.. And suddenly Roku got a look and serious see.. It has everything on it except Youtube and that was the main factor of me saying no to Roku.. But the guy went through all of these services (channels if you want) and I thought maybe there was enough there to cancel out the youtube desire.. So many other video sites are out there, maybe there are enough to overshadow the lack of youtube being available.. It moves on to the list but remains number three.. If they suddenly offered Youtube I wouldn't hesitate and get one, but I doubt that will happen anytime soon.. It is what sets these apart, kinda like dish network and directv satellite services, if they were identical there wouldn't be a very big difference at all.. they would have the identical services (channels proper) then the only real difference would be the hardware (receivers and the lot) which is nearly no difference right now anyway.. I hope to have an idea by the time we make a trek to do the first X-mas shopping trip.. I'm not looking forward to that, the first christmas shopping trip.. Seems like the trips we made last year the people caught on to what is the best time to shop and that is week days not weekends.. Now I'd rather shop from the computer..

The second thing I have to decide on rather quickly here is weather to reacquire McAfee or to ditch it and get something else.. I've heard nothing but bad things about McAfee since getting it about this time last year.. Also I don't think we need the "total protection" version because I don't see where the majority of the services are needed.. The online protection I can see but all the everything makes me wonder.. Last time the total protection was about to lapse every link I touched sent me to a porn site.. It wasn't a true porn site, it was a fabricated porn site set by McAfee to make me want their services.. I knew it was that way and how I figured it out was when I got the new Total Protection, that stopped right then.. That shouldn't have stopped just that easy..   But now I am shopping for a different service and will have to get one set by the 26th, that is when this program runs out.. It might be easier to just get McAfee and not worry about it..  I will wait and see if they have a great offer like last year, actually last year I negotiated a price that I wanted to pay and they said fine.. Maybe that will happen again this year but I doubt it.. I have seen a few programs I would like to see about.. I'll have to check a few sites.. Just like the streaming player, I will research until I know what I want..

Badge Henry

(P.S.  I don't remember there being this much...  well  BULL SHIT in the last election.. Today, just a little while ago I read a few things and they have Romney hiding some bailout funds (up to over a hundred million dollars) in his wifes savings or checking account to save from getting taxed.. Then there is the voter machines that Romneys sons have bought..   It makes you want to SCREAM!!  this election might be Americas last...)

(* And if Obama wins reelection I think you have to credit it with the fact that while the Redskins could predict the election, you have to chalk it up to the fact that Shanahan is just a coach that is quickly coming to be out of his depth as far as coaching  now.. )

THE BUBBLE HEADED BLEACH BLONDE

How screwed are we??  Let me count the ways.. No matter who gets elected this Tuesday the chances are very high we are headed for some incredibly hard times shortly.. A lot of things are coming due at almost the same time as the old saying goes "we don't want to saddle our children with this  debt"  and I kept saying we won't, they will be just like us and keep saying that the same way it has been said for the past... however long it has been.. Well that might be about to come to an end.. I was watching a show on PBS and it scared the hell out of me and it's mind boggling to watch and hear.. I couldn't watch it anymore than the ten minutes I did.. Scary stuff and it will happen in the next year.. So if Obama gets reelected or Romney lies his way in then.. We are gonna go through it no matter what..

Speaking of Romney, if he gets elected what does that say about the moral fabric of our country??  It's ok to lie if it gets you what you want??   I mean if kids see this and every news channel (except FOX) are calling him out and some are just flat out calling him a liar, kids see this shit and don't think they don't pay attention...    Like I've said about a year ago I remember the preprimary debates they had and all the outrages BS they were saying and all I could think was I can't trust any of these people...

I was listening to the Alex Jones (conspiracy theory guru) radio show yesterday and he was talking to a guy who was saying that when the US roles on Iran (like they've been saying will happen next week for the past three years now) that they fully expect trouble from either China or Russia and that they will use tactical nukes on Iran (the U S will) which will result in either Russia or China doing a limited strike against the United States and I'm listening to this crap and all I can think is this guy sounds so matter of fact.. Like no big deal, a limited nuclear strike against the United States would result in population control..  Guess what Alex, it wouldn't take but ten nukes on the United States to render the country almost uninhabitable you BONE HEAD...  The size of the bombs aren't what we used in Japan, they are GINORMOUS...  Big mother monkeys you don't want that shit unleashed here... What total insanity his show really is..

It's  hard to not repost (share) election stuff on Facebook.. But it's time to move on.. Either we will be alright with Obama or questionable with Bush  .. Err I mean Romney...

Badge Henry  

THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN

Something happened today that was a first for me.. A proud moment indeed.. I bought my first beer today, a six pack.. I was totally lost in the liquor store when looking for beer, I didn't even know where it was kept.. Turns out they keep it in the fridge to keep it cool.. I looked all over at the selection not knowing what to get.. It all tastes the same to me, kind of a cross between piss & puke..  Yea I have bought alcohol in the past but it was just that ..  Whiskey (bourbon)  and vodka were my main poison and drink that I could.. Last summer while my uncle was here I got a bottle of pop and took it up and emptied a good lot of it, to the point where when I put vodka in there I was afraid it was so pale everyone would ask why it was that way.. Nobody did, they never suspected a thing (I never let on that I was drinking anything).. The first drink took me back to my junior year in high school when we were decorating for prom and the class sponsor had some vodka in his car and let a few of us partake and I did, a little too much but it made decorating for prom that much more fun that night..  First drink that night was mostly vodka, very little pop.. Same as last summer but in the case of last summer it really didn't change when the level went down a bit.. It just stayed almost strait vodka...    Anyway, yeah I bought that beer and told the guy that was ringing it up that and he said "buying for someone else?"  and I told him it was for a recipe and he started talking about different things to cook with beer & wine.. I would have loved to gotten some ideas from him but he got busy shortly after giving me my change so...

I found  a coin in the change the other day and wondered what it was.. I mean the writing on it looked either Russian, Ukranian or Polish so I scanned it and put the picture of it on Facebook and asked if anyone knew what this was and two people knew.. Patrick Rad (Radchiak)(?)  and Lucy.. She said it is Polish Zloty.. And so I look it up on Google and it is by way of it's size it is smaller than the American dime but it is worth a little more.. Actually a bit more.. The exchange rate as of today was just over 31 cents but at it's best in 2008 it was fifty cents.. Imagine having that good of an economy compared to our own.. Ten cents equals fifty in another.. I've heard where a guy moved to Poland because the economy was that much better there...

Badge Henry

FLYING HIGH AGAIN

I started working on Sundays music entry earlier today and finished it as well a few hours later, not knowing what direction it would follow (being written Thursday evening).. After starting the original idea I got sidetracked with the "gotta check the new programs" need.. I rechecked the browsers and deleted most of the new.. I wanted a stable browser and have decided to just stick with FF for now.. However I did email the guys at Chrome and hope to have an answer shortly about a situation and if it is resolved I might go ahead and resume using that browser here some full year after swearing never to trust that piece of shit again.. I can give it a go again especially if they answer with a positive situation..  if not I will continue use of the FF browser (Firefox = FF)..

Back to the music videos, the first video was done by me pretty quick and there might be a mistake or two in it but I wanted to try a quickie and see if I could actually do one.. The music video that I am starting to work on for a "future music entry" as mentioned on an earlier entry, that almost got blown wide open as the video started to come together and I was just blown away.. The song "Outreach" is such an amazing starting point and all I could think is if this is how easy this is going to be then...  But I needed to pull out of that and get Sunday's entry done.. Sunday's entry is a cross between a regular entry and Halloween, and as I said in the entry I wasn't sure where the Halloween entry should be, before the day or after.. And since I forgot last Sunday, this Sunday was chosen by default..

I am looking for a way to join music tracks and thought DJ (mixer) programs were what I should try to use. Turns out those aren't what I needed, but since I knew Lucy is doing that type of thing, I thought I'd try to send at least one of them to her.. Kind of a reach out peace offering. She thanked me for it.. That was nice.. Hey, it's a start..  

Loaded the music for the video project mentioned earlier and in another entry.. A full on instrumental project by an artist that I really like and will try to get the videos done.. Since there is no set date I feel little pressure to get it going, however I do want it done by late January so I want to get it started.. The next few music entries are going to be sort of themed so that should be easy to complete that way. And the two or three music entries after the  start of the new year are going to be interesting.. First will be the Jonn Serrie entry.. He does a lot of space type of music and I am going to get a good half dozen videos at least.  Then there is that Oblivion soundtrack turned video.. The Oblivion project will be a mix tape (disc) and will be an interesting go of it.. and then there is .. Well the one that got away, or keeps eluding me.. Every time  I think I have the idea it leaves me..

I'm getting ahead of myself ... 

Badge Henry

LONG WINDED LOT ABOUT NOTHING..

Working on a series of videos (music videos) for  sometime in the future, although I don't quite know when.. The kaleidoscope effect is being heavily utilized again (although I said no more using this effect)  I started doing some GIF files to try this time as well as a few other pictures..

I have downloaded and installed around five or six browsers to try.. Does this mean Firefox days are numbered?? No, I don't think so.. I want to try a few more FF variants as well as Chrome variations (dragon and a few others)  and I think there is one that is related closely to the dreaded IE browser.. Two that I wish were still active in support are Netscape and Flock.. Neither are supported but both are still able to be downloaded and used.. Flock was heavily into social sites like Facebook Twitter Bebo  and a host of others.. Netscape was great and was closely associated with AOL which would make most people cringe...

Also a few programs I got are music associated.. Before, about a year ago I was after a mp3 splitter to do a four plus hour radio show and cut it down into hour long segments for easier to listen to.. Today I wanted to be able to put songs together so I got a few audio joiner type of programs to kick the tires of..  And a few video programs and a couple graphics altering programs one of which looks to be a 3D program on the likes of Blender which I've never gotten to start.. I mean I can get the program to start but can't figure out how to use it, an initial idea to go from vector a  or vector 1..  Animation and an idea for something would be nice..  A character of some sort..  Cat   dog    something else???  Don't even have a clue..

The previous three paragraphs were written last night during the onslaught of tricksters treating and the lot.. After opening the browsers I shut down the computer and after thinking about it for a while I came up with the conclusion that when I was looking for THAT browser the new "IT" browser to  be faster than fast and stable and work like none other I realized something.. I got Waterfox and started calling it the next best browser and it is just SO GREAT.. But as I said it has the same hiccup   that the Firefox family does which is to say at startup it goes to where the "homepage" just about loads and it crashes, or stops working and then it gets over its self and moves forward, all the FF family browsers do this.. Why??     If I knew that, or maybe it is just this computer.. Firefox, Aurora, Waterfox and the just acquired Seamonkey and Flashpeak slimboat and SRware  are all the same.. and that they are built with the Firefox footprint makes them all work the same way.. Dragon (Comodo dragon) and the other two family of Chrome are built that way.. So why keep them?.. In the case of the Chrome based browsers they might be good as an alternative, I like to use a browser set to do a single thing, but that is starting to be questionable.. I thought last night that having four browsers might be a good thing, get rid of the clutter in other words.. As far as the other audio programs I want to at least try them.. But I think I do just want to have two, Wavepad and Audacity, with one of the new "joiner" programs added as well.. Two picture viewing programs Picasa and Faststone,  Two graphics programs  PdN, and Adobe photoshop (?)..

Speaking of the homepage ; There have been changes since a year ago.. Last year my homepage was (?).. I'm not sure I had a true homepage.. Maybe Yahoo was but it pissed me off.. The popup that they use (the advert that renders links unusable) has made Yahoo fall out of favor and I looked for and got I-Google as my homepage and from about the first part of November through the remainder of the year I was working on that to make it MY homepage.. It was an obsessive situation with literally every moment I was on the computer spent building the page.. They use gadgets and I was getting so many, placing them.. Trying them, getting many of sport, news and weather gadgets and jusdt after the first of this year when I had it all set, perfect!!  they had a little note at the top of the page "I-GOOGLE DISCONTINUING AFTER NOVEMBER 1st 2013"   and all I could think was well that's just.. Actually through all the thinking that this was the ultimate I couldn't help but think this really isn't what I wanted either.. Being tied to a single homepage isn't me.. So what to do??  I started to dismantle the homepage and looked for a new idea.. The latest and to me greatest idea was the Opera Speed dial.. If only this could be in the Firefox browser, and then I looked and they have an addon that is a speed dial type of thing.. PERFECT and that became my "homepage" which is to say I now have a few hundred homepages.. Not being tied to one anymore..  I tried Yahoo the other day and it still sucks so it has fallen almost to the point of deletion from the speed dial settings..


Badge Henry  (long winded  entry)