Holy shit rant why don'tcha

So we were talking about things today at breakfast as usual as the subject bounced from topic to topic from the sequester to other things.. And then mom says she clicked on that song on one of either Donald or Lucy Facebook and she asked if I ever listen to anything they link to and I tell her where it concerns the crap they link to I don't very often.. I did hear some sort of nasty confunctionality coming from her computer yesterday afternoon and wondered if  it was from one of them.. Turns out it was, and she asked if I had heard it and I said I heard what she was listening to.. it was about last year at this time that we had heard that they were going to do Jordan and Adam's wedding and I thought I hope they don't play any of that crap there..  But today I did look for this "song" that she had linked and I listened to about thirty seconds of it.. I have evolved my listening habits over the years and now with the computer I can listen to parts of songs, kinda like the old records where if you want to try another part of the song just pick up the needle and try here.. In the case of this "song" I listened to the first ten seconds then moved to a couple minutes in where it sounded like the needle was stuck but in this case it was digital so it was on purpose stuck for (eternity).. I moved forward a little more then gave up.. I kept waiting for a hook.. The hook is that it makes me feel like throwing up.. If there was any good thing that came from the blowup last August is I don't get to be around that gawd aweful ...  stuff..   Maybe I am way behind in my taste in music.. Maybe I will get into this plastic sounding slark...  Slark isn't a word and this isn't music no matter what anyone says!! There were musical movements (experiments) that I never got into, hip-hop and rap I just never got into ever and they just   sucked in my books but people buy that shit.. I never did and as an example of the sampling and remixing, the second U2 decades best of release where that is the second disc, I tried to get into stuff like that but I just can't..  Some groups like Kaskade I like the Strobelight Disco album, and some of ATB is good but it is when they are being creative with a single instrument that I like the most.. ATB has piano works that are some of the best I have ever heard.. It's the main disc of beat loop and fifteen minutes of the same three notes that drop me into delete this shit mode..  I never thought Donald would ever get into this kind of music..  When I was in my experimental mood I went into jazz or classical  then instrumental music  (where Tangerine Dream came from)..  Is this his delving into that type of music??  I would say yes except that they use the technology of today without any idea where it came from.. I'd rather listen to where it came from.. The early days of synthi music development, where everything that they do today could never be done without what those people did from the sixties through the midi years..  It's easy to do the crap that is out there now, anyone can do it.. It's why all that crap sounds the same, it uses the same formula of attack and retreat then build and attack again.. Fifteen minutes of the same thing looping over and over.. Made me physically ill everytime Lucy would get home last year and crank that up..  There is no soul, no life to that stuff, it is here today and gone tomorrow with the piles of heavage that goes with it.. I always thought of this type of "music" was identified with tweekers, you know  meth users or other drug users.. More power to you if you like that type of thing.. Of course people said the same thing about Pink Floyd music, I just never used drugs when listening to them.  Call me strange I just liked the visuals I created without the chemicals to help..  In all honesty though I did get into disco some twenty years or more after it was the IT music of the late Seventies ..  Took me until I bought the Bee Gees best of recording "Record" to come to grips with a way to warrant having their music.. Basically when you listen to the evolution of their music they really didn't change to disco, disco claimed them (including a huge chunk of their music in the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack).  So the electrofunctionmonkey mix jive that is out there now, I might figure a way to like it by the time Ian graduates, from college, you never know..

New to Roku Tuesday; they added the Daily Motion site (channel) to the channel store.. They had it in beta testing for what I think was two years.. I don't know for sure how long it was in beta testing, I checked the forum site and it looks like it was a private channel (beta build test) and then at Christmas time I added it to my then brand spanking new Roku.. Looked at it (kicked the tires as it were) and then shortly after the new year they stopped, or I should say it stopped working.. The notice said the channel would be added in the channel store shortly.. And then Tuesday it was added..   Blockbuster was added Tuesday.  How good is it?? Well the movie I looked at as a rental was $3.99, and that I believe is a single watching.. Nearly four dollars is just over half of what Netflix disc rental is per month (three at a time, twelve discs per month).. Ok so it might be worth it to see a movie right now or whenever you want to but I can wait a month for it to be on Netflix.. I've developed patience over the years..   The 8ctave (Octave) channel I had was the beta channel because it was goobered up from the store.. Tuesday my 8ctave channel had changed into the Hero channel.. Hero is being developed by the 8ctive people and is beta right now.. I think I will check it over the next little bit to see how it does develop.. Hero seems to be about the service people.. Those who are serving as well as those who are back home.. Something like that and has all the branches of the service including F.B.I. & C.I.A. and all the branches as well as police, fire department and other things therein.. Might be interesting to watch..  The I-tunes channel is incredible.. Every podcast in both video and audio are there.. This is another beta (private) channel and is just unbelievable.. The search brings so many things..  I came across this on Christmas day but haven't really used it, that is changing.. I just can't believe what is on this channel.. Everything that you can get on I-tunes on the computer is available on the Roku.. EVERYTHING..   And I-tunes shows what Nowhere t.v. has but there is more there.. Nowhere tv is easier to move around and they have several BBC type of programming channels of which Challenge is one I hit just about every night..  And the MSNBC stuff I watch almost every night..


 I came across this little gem yesterday, thought it was fitting to add here::

I am catching myself getting away from news sites.. The news is so depressing, I think I know why people stop watching real news and opt to watch E! with the celebrity stuff.. Real news is hard to watch.. I try to watch RT and the Aljezera (I know everyone is going to say that's muslim, it's not, it's real news presented by a source that isn't Fox (Faux) news.. I think everyone is starting to awaken to the fact that FNC isn't news..  And really what is wrong with getting news from more than one site, more than one channel.. I will listen to shows on the radio and do listen to that off his nut conspiracy turd Alex Jones.. He is yet to actually nail something 100% right.. I mean if you spout enough crap over time you can go back and say I predicted that, it took twenty times over a ten year period but I was right..



Then there is John McCain and his stupid answers at a town hall meeting.. Truth is I agree with what he said, there will be no meaningful legislation passed with this do nothing congress. I just think he lacks tact.. He just blurts out whatever and doesn't think, the lady he was answering had just lost a loved one in one of the recent mass shootings recently.. I do think they should at the very least have background checks on everyone who wants to buy a gun..   It is the least they should have to do..  To think he could have been the president.. Scary stuff there..

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Records and this one here start readin nooooow.. now..

So today, or recently my little brother had an entry on his Facebook about not wanting to teach anyone who wants to play the drumset without learning the rudements first.. I think it is a good idea for people who say flipantly that they would like to play the drumset and it looks easy..  I think learning the rudements on a single drum is a very good idea to learn rhythm and feel for playing that aspect of the drums. How long will it take to learn the rudements??  There are some 20-26 or there abouts rudements.. Why don't I know how many rudements there are??  I did learn how to play the drums and when I was in seventh grade I got a drumset for Christmas.. By this time I had been playing the drums (snare) for two years .. I learned some of the rudements but not all of them, and was bored with them.. When I got the drumset I wasn't overwhelmed by them, quite the opposite.. I had been playing ice cream buckets and coffee cans as a drumset for years.. I was watching midnight special on Friday nights for a few years so I could see what drummers do.. When I got a drumset I started playing and it came natural to me.. So could anyone set behind a drumset and play without rudements??  The rudements give a certain amount of discipline to  to playing, to learning the drumset..  I think learning to play them is a good idea especially if you don't have natural rhythm.. It's hard to tell how someone has natural rhythm, how to tell.. I'm not sure.. I understood music from an early age, and when I saw a guy play the drumset at a basketball game I knew I wanted to play them as well..   I could never teach anyone how to play the drums because I was never taught how to play them.. I did learn the snare drum but I taught myself how to play the kit drums..   I learned maybe the first five rudements then got bored and never really learned the rest of them.. I have always said I was a very good faker when it came to playing the drums, nobody believed me back then.. Now everyone can read this and know, I'm telling you here & now I never really learned all there is of how to play the drums, I just learned what got me the record deal.. or you know.. I got the gig, because I gave a shit to learn the basics, but not the whole kitten kaboodle..  just   didn't.. But I had a lot of fun though..

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Merry tuesday to you

I think I figured out why I was in such a funk last week..   This sequester thing and knowing that the reason the knobs went on vacation last week wasn't because they wanted to get rested up for this weeks do nothing to avert it, they can do nothing as easily any time anywhere... They just knew there would be a hub bub made to avert the sequester, which they have no intention to avert.. I say let it happen and oh by the way they avoided or will avoid preventing the sequester and also will let the debt ceiling happen as well.. Anyone who thinks they will avoid this debacle, GUESS AGAIN!!

I admit I have been posting nasty comments on sites on Facebook, and so far I haven't been contacted by the admins. at Facebook to stop..  I post more links to sites having to do with political crap on Twitter than on Facebook now and want to keep the stuff on Facebook more light and humorous rather than deep and heavy with political crap..

Sunday was interesting, I was checking to see what time the big race started and found the time and under the story it said the race wouldn't be available online.. In other words NO STREAMING.. Well I thought I might have a site that might stream it.. Justin.tv, a private channel on Roku and the first one I checked in the sports section it looked like the race might be on there, clicked it and sure enough it was the race prerace that was going on.. I wondered where it was originating from so i watched it.. The quality wasn't great maybe a three out of five with a cream of mash pixelation going on there.. But it was on line.. I watched this until the race started and then it was blocked.. Darn, is it on elsewhere??  Turns out I was able to see the first half of the race on this app.. After that it was hit & miss, and at the final 25 laps I went strictly cable tv for the remainder of the race.. GO DANICA.. But alas it wasn't meant to be as she dropped like a stone in the final third of the last lap..  I was proud of her, she didn't once have to pull over to pee..  Good girl..

The new 6 strikes and you're out policy has gone into account.. What is the six strikes policy??  Well if you torrent you can be caught by isp's and be sent a nasty note saying stop that.. Supposedly it is going to curb that activity, and for doing movies and music I can see the point.. But as far as tv shows I don't agree that this is illegal and let me tell you why.. The dish network has a device called the hopper and it lets you record a nights shows and watch them without commercials and to me torenting is the same exact thing.. That and you really can't gain much from getting tv shows this way.. I get the lower end of the shows, the 233MB type of thing, the others are 1.3GB type, full on 1080p high def, which to me is just a huge waste of time to download.. For one thing the sound rarely syncs up right on any of the downloads no matter how good the thing is.. High def or low def is all the same, something happens in they process.. I like to watch some shows, some from america and some from everywhere else, experimenting with watching.. 

Speaking of trying some stuff I've never seen, Silver Rush looked like a show that might be good to see, with gold rush going off last friday.. I forgot it was on the night it was on so I got it via torrent and part one was really good so I went after parts 2 & 3 and will watch them today..

I got an app on the roku the other day that shows the netflix site completely different but the thing I liked most is it showed programming that they will be dropping soon, and so I made a concerted effort to see some of these shows just to see what they were like.. The shows I watched were documentery type and when I watched it the screen was square.. Didn't fill to the edges so that was one of the reasons they were letting some of these go.. I keep reading where netflix is having troubles getting new programs for their site and when I look at what I want to see, it's going to be a full year of watching shows before I will be worried about things to watch.. And watching a show like Rules of Engagement where I saw most of the show series originally, I will more than likely watch it again and again.. One of my favorite shows..  A lot of series I have never seen I want to watch..  Hopefully before the world ends..

The PNOP site has six days entries done..  The ones preset are around the twenty things within the entry.. The days that didn't have anything will have thirty or more entry things.. You know, smart asseed dipshitology type of things.. And the video clips like yesterdays here where it was just clips, will now be there instead, because they didn't make sense to have them here, so beginning next month those clips will be on days in March.. Kinda like I did for the third rock clips.. I might clip another show, maybe the first two seasons of MASH..  Those were the best in my mind but not everyone agrees.. Anyway that's the idea.. Enjoy the sequester, buy some popcorn and set back and watch the world crumble.. Have a happy sequester everyone.. Happy sequester..

Badge Henry

More show clips

Archer..  This seasons shows are just as off the nut bag as the earlier seasons..   Another great show with my sense of humor all over it..

Ok these two shows aren't related.. Or are they??  Might they be because I'm not sure.. I clipped two episodes and then made the mistake of putting all the clips in the same folder together, without naming or numbering them.. Oh well the clips wouldn't have a continuous story line feel  anyway..

I called this clip 25/8...  A line in this scene.  25/8...  Anyway.. told you it would make no sense..

Blood pressure..  ...  What insanity..

Archer sets off a rocket launcher in the room with all the arms & cool devices they use for spying.. Yea this is a good idea..

Mind Blown.. This was from the previous video but from earlier..    Oh well..

Reach around...  from the other episode..

Way out of sequence but worth having at any rate..

The Spray and pray scene.. 

The opening scene for Bones recently ...   Nice nasty start as usual.. I've gotten back to watching this show again after not really watching it very much last year.. I don't know why I stopped watching it..

Sometimes being book smart doesn't mean you are smart..

The comeback...

I will say this about the show Cracked, they have very original storylines.. In this scene they find something very important out.. This makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.. Really a cool idea and more than likely from a true event..

To show how far away from reality he is, his girlfriend lays it on the line.. Exgirlfriend I should say..

As I said earlier I put all the Archer clips in this folder marked tv show clips and this one was elsewhere in the folder and marked differently.. So here it is a little out of place.. Oh well.. Enjoy the insanity..

The Summer Glau fight scene from a recent Hawaii 5-0 episode..    Just love this girl.. Her and that Sarah Shahi should be on a regular series, maybe together fighting crime like a new Cagney & Lacey.. or not..

The opening sequence of Cracked.. 

"Fight on the honeymoon"   episode 2 of Cracked started ominously..  

Wearing the vest ...  The second episode where he goes to the hospital pscyc ward.. 

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Bite your tongue

More snow more depression from the weather??  I usually go through a blue period in late February and pretty much all March..  Last year was different, I didn't hit the wall at all that I can remember.. I think I was living within my self somehow.. Someway. I don't know..

The other day I tried to play Monopoly on the computer rather than the hand held version.. It is always tricky to play the computer version.. I get this rush feeling, get something in monopoly state and develop.. The game was set to have two properties dealt and a few other "house" rules, setting landing on free parking a $500 bonus as well landing on GO gives double the money so $400 instead of the regular $200 for passing GO.. That was fine, and meant more money was in the game but again I wasn't able to get the properties I wanted and would lose a quick game.. Turned around and set another game with house rules set as such; All the properties were dealt out at the start of the game, $100 for passing go and $200 for landing directly on GO.. The free parking would collect all the taxes that were paid during the game up until then, sometimes that was more sometimes less..  and to make it easy to manipulate the game only twelve houses were available. So to start the game I traded for the baby blue properties since I had two from the dealing of all the properties.. When I had all three I built to four houses each and left it that way.. When I rolled I moved and did what ever needed to be done (paid rent, whatever) then as each of the other two started they all traded the same as I did and some had really expensive properties but unlike me, they couldn't develop them.. This is hardly fair but I learned a lot from seeing how the computer players play, the strategy the use.. I kept the houses there that way until one of the other three computer players was out of the game.. Then I took them to hotels.. After I got the three green properties I knocked my houses down on the baby blues and built on the green properties.. Needless to say I won the game but it was  a hallow victory..  Making the rules where it is impossible for anyone to compete, sounds like real America to me.. But I learned a little bit.. I also have the Monopoly Here & Now version on the computer, I have only started a game but never really got into it.. The more money sounds great but it really is hard to conceive that kind of money..  I guess I can relate to the broke version of the game.. I know why I hated playing real people in Monopoly, because when you are winning it feels so good, but when you are losing.. That hurts..  And even when you are winning you have that regret feeling.. I would build to hotels in the board version of the game.. The computer game building to houses is a strategy to keep the other players from building too..  

Risk, now there's the game.. On he computer it is so easy to play. But the board game is hard to play, I never really cared for it in the board version..   I have a good number of railroad board games that I would love to play with the nephew but he will have to understand game play and be able to sit and play a game for a few hours before I will ever introduce him to these.. Avalon Hill games are the best, but they are for the kids who love to play hands on board games.. Is there any of these out there anymore??  The gadgets and computer games are the big IT games..

We got that Atari game system back in the day and even when we got it, the system was about to be out dated soon with the sega genesis system.. I think I've written about this here earlier  but the idea of continuously trying to get the new IT game was daunting to me as I watched my little brother in fact do this, getting the Genesis system, while I got the Game Gear version which is a hand held LED  version.. I knew seeing how good this looked that LED would be the future of television although I was told it would be too expensive.. Here we are this many years later and LED is the television to have..  Anyway he would grdually get the Sony Playstation and then the handheld version, then the next whatever it was and I got out of video games.. Just stopped playing them.. Plus I wasn't very good at them..  Now I play computer games that were board games and a few that are true computer only Crazy Machines franchise being my favorite.. 

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Strategy to win but then..

I made a mistake the other day..  I grabbed the handheld Monopoly game to play a quick game and was setting it up to play what I thought would be a four payer game against who I thought would be the toughest opponents on it.. I set to play the three others that were there, a choice between five, so pick the three you think will be tough since I've walked all over the game the last few times I've played it..  I pushed the numbers but when all was said and done I got only one opponent.. HOT SHOT..

Well that isn't what I wanted but decided to give it a shot.. And from the get go the computer player wanted to trade, first for the railroad (my first property) and then others as we went around.. Finally I traded the railroad later in the game, a mistake no doubt.. I saw how things were going in the game and the money as short, very little amount and as the cheap properties were gotten I decided to try my luck and go "slum lord" to try to win.. That's right, from having the most expensive and winning with them, to taking the cheapest and winning with them.. But in this case the cheapest properties are not the   DU  DU DU DU!!  big hit properties that the big hits are.. Yes with hotels they can be expensive and I wanted to see if I could get by with the cheapos and build from there.. At hotel, I was nailed once.. Got the rent and then got nailed with the street repairs.. From there it seems like the game went downhill quickly.. I got the orange (dark yellow) upper lefthand properties I usually win with but decided to hold off on developing them (houses) beyond my better judgement.. And HOT SHOT got the red properties in monopoly and started to build.. The thing that I saw was with him coming around I waited a turn or two too long to develop the better properties..

 Then the plan to stop the bleeding.. I took the houses down on the two cheapos and also mortgaged the properties and also traded a property for money at mortgaged a few other properties.. I was going all in to develop these three properties at the expense of everything else.. Has this strategy ever worked before??  It sounds beyond any idea of smart to try.. I have done this before and had it work.. This time however there were many things that were against me..  Hot shot had two or three houses on his properties and was making me lose my ass every time around.. I waited too long??  I went slum lord?? I should have tried to develop the entire cheap side of the board instead of the two cheapest.. Develop the whole slum side would make hot shot hit one of the seven along that side more often than just the two although I didn't have one of the baby blue properties I could have gotten it with the slightest of efforts. I was in a hurry to play the game and a few times did some stupid things.. I would think twice about some of them.. For instance there was a couple times where I wasn't paying attention to hot shots money on hand..

Landing on a property that hasn't been sold yet you have two options on the property, either buy it or have it go to auction.. I went to auction a couple times without knowing what the computer player had money wise.. That burned me both times, although two more times i was able to get properties for next to nothing which included getting Boardwalk for a ten shot.. Ten dollars because I was first bid and hot shot had ten dollars in that one.. Again that was a time I didn't know what he had and found out..  Another was a railroad and over bid and had to mortgage to buy it.. Big mistake.. On the computer game you can bid beyond what you have cash on hand, I usually know what everyone else has.. This time I bid beyond what I had and thought I would stop just shy of his broke limit.. Ooops, I screwed the pooch on several occasions..  It was my undoing and I would lose because I wasn't paying attention.. But I also lost because I am not very good at one on one game like this.. Better luck next time..

Badge Henry

Snow back to normal??

My older brother had a entry on his Facebook about the blizzard we just went through and yeah, just like the last blizzard it wasn't that horrible.. The wind blew the snow a little but as the storm kicked in  the wind stopped blowing as hard.. The storm before was more wind and less snow.. When they talked about drifts up to eight feet deep I thought of the old days when we would explore the aftermath of storms and walked on the drifts across to the highschool roof..  And then this storm today as they were saying get your snowblowers ready to work and I thought hell we haven't gotten dug out from the last snow storm yet..

The sequester looms big.. How big of a deal  is it??  We were listening to Randy Rhoads on the radio yesterday as we got home and she was saying there are some in the republican party (the GOP) that think going through a depression would be a good thing.. To which both me and mom said WHAT??  and it just blew us away.. Who would do such a thing to people on purpose??  There is so much wrong with this country now it blows me away..  I have said this before, I can't imagine what this country is going to be like in twenty years when the current young generation is getting ready to go into the job market.. What career will there be..  What will the three and soon to be forth addition be looking at as far as jobs or even the country.. I wonder if people felt this way in the great depression era, will there be a future??  The country is just balanced on the edge right now.. I wouldn't think the government would fail the economy right now.. But there is that feeling that they tried to fail the economy enough to where they thought they could get  dumb assed Romney elected but failed.. Now they have four years to really ruin it so the next election will go republican.. Who thinks the country will even be here by then if they ruin it??  The GOP  (the middle initial stands for OLD as in out dated.. They want a return to the fifties America and they make no bones about it.. Well fail the economy and turn the clocks back to the fifties because we are headed there quickly..

It is frustrating, I look at sites and read the replies by people and you know that a lot of the replies are from people who are in their thirties that are thinking get rid of social security or make cuts in these programs what do they care it won't be there when they retire.. Well it might not be but why cut these programs??  Social security doesn't add to the deficit.. But let's starve the old people.. I am watching these things closely,  nobody stays young forever.. 

I'm watching the series "House of Cards" on Netflix and am almost done with it.. Wednesday night is Netflix night as the entire night is devoted to watching this site.. Last night I looked through the whole site that was showing, and what that means is they have suggested viewing shows and movies because I watched this or that show.. And there is just a ton of stuff to watch on this site.. I continue to be amazed at what there is to watch on the netflix site and they have even more.. You go to the netflix site online and see just what there really is to stream..    walking dead is a series I've always wanted to watch but haven't yet.. That will change once I've completed watching House of Cards.. I read an article online where they said 85% of subscribers are more likely to keep their subscription because of the series being on there.. I like the series and when we got the Roku I knew I would be filling in a lot of time watching from this device, even more so than the old digital cable..  I still look at other sites (channels) on the Roku and have added some new sites recently, mostly to see if there is anything that these sites might offer for viewing..


This was on Reddit today :  "When was the moment that you realized "hey, I'm an adult now"?
 It made me think as I have been over the past little while now about things like growing older.. When did I feel like I am an adult now?..  I don't know.. I feel the same and sadly certain mentalities go with being this way..    I think one of the things that made me feel more grown up was when I wanted something really bad and then rather than buy it, I thought about it.. Took my time about getting it, taking time and looking at all aspects of getting it and then buying it some time (months) later.. Sometimes thinking about buying something and doing my research and then realizing that I didn't really want it.. I see tools and tool collections (preset tool kit type of things) that I think it sure would be cool to have this or that, only to figure I have that tool set, maybe not presented this way but still, I have it..   Back in the day (shortly after high school) my older brother went in to the hospital for tests and I had my little brother with me and I remember thinking what could be taking so long and couldn't find mom or anyone and I was growing frustrated and then sort of came unglued to mom which was a huge mistake..  Turn the clock forward and through all of what dad had done first with his heart and then the kidney situation and everything and thinking how I was the day with my brother and I think of that every time I am involved with taking mom to any doctor..  Four years ago (was it really that long ago?)  moms life was changed forever and thinking about that and running back & forth to the hospital and then having to take her to everywhere and now having to help her, things have changed mentally for me.. I think for the better but in some instances I feel the same..

And I do feel the same, the same as I did when I was younger, I think the same way but not.. I think of the music I listened to back then and.. That hasn't changed much.. You can listen to what you like.. And I do, and try to listen to what is out there now but it is tough..   I still use the same influence guide I have always used..  I think my doing what I call Friday night music night and watching old Midnight Special segments on YouTube that I feel about the same as I did way back then.. Makes me feel good but also makes me feel sad a little, to know that those were in fact for me the  happiest days of my life..

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