Saturday, February 25, 2006

One More for the Road

Okay, I am doing one quick post to let you all know that I have re-vamped my website, and will be doing some tweeking over the next little bit.

Now I will be gone for a bit

Pulling a George W Bush

Gonna take some time off to do some book learnin'. Learning HTML and French. I also bought Bill Clinton's biography. Will let you all know how it is when I'm done.

See ya in a while.

Monday, February 20, 2006

Holy Freaking Shite

I just bought a kick ass gaming computer for $52 on eBay. This sooooooo kicks ass!!! Here are the specs of my new computer below:

-CPU:AMD Athlon 64 3500+(2.2Ghz)
-RAM:1GB
-Hard Drive:300GB
-Video Card:ATI Radeon SaPPHIRE X550 256MB 16x PCIexpress
-5.1 Sound Card
-Gigabit Ethernet card
-Dual Layer DVD burner

I am just soooo giddy about this. I just got one of the best deals ever on eBay. If this guy doesn't reneg on this then I will have the biggest smile on my face for the next couple of weeks. (If you know me at all then this will be a rare occasion indeed)

Just Another Example

Stephen Harper talks the talk, but is still hesitant about walking the walk. The Harp announced today that the next Supreme Court Judge will be going in front of a panel to answer questions. The funny thing is, that the panel has no power whatsoever as the Harp is the only one who will choose if the judge will be appointed. This is a strong contrast from their election promises where the Supreme Court Judges would be voted on by the House of Commons. Well, at least this time he came close to an election promise. Having this panel is almost as effective as voting in a Cuban General Election. Although smoke is more transparent than drywall, the amount the Cons are pumping isn't making that distinction any easier. Now, I am a supporter of the current appointment system as it has worked just fine for the last 139 years but adding this "Show and Tell" step is just a waste of money if the process has absolutely no power in choosing the candidate.

I will now close with a quote that will put this whole thing into context:
"This promise of transparency appears to have been abandoned for what in fact is a rubber-stamp process, an afterthought rather that a genuine consultation,"-Vic Toews:August 2004 Supreme Court Appointment Hearing

I'm Special

I have just been approved to become a CBC affiliate. I really didn't think that I would have gotten approved. Man this kicks ass. When I become Prime Minister, I am so giving the CBC more money to help keep Peter Mansbridge so damn sexy.

Sunday, February 19, 2006

A Blog for the Ages

I have come up with the greatest idea for blogs and have placed it on my site. I call this invention..."Search Posts by Name" (I know, pretty catchy eh?) It is located at the top of my links section which will allow you to look up any of my posts by its title. I am hoping to get this done with the review site I am helping with to better catalogue the reviews. Anywhosits, this is tedious work so I am going to find something less boring to do.

Saturday, February 18, 2006

Comedy; It is Some Funny Stuff

I have finally come up with another list of the top and bottom 5 listings, and this one is for comedy. For this list, I am going to exclude cartoons as they will have their own list down the line. So, without further adieu, here is the list.

Top 5 Comedies:
5.Seinfeld-I thought it was okay but due to the massive appeal of the show, I decided to give it the number 5 spot.
4.Monty Python-There isn't a single person in the world who can not quote a piece of a Monty Python sketch. The only reason it isn't higher is because some of the sketches were pure misses which dropped them down a notch.
3.Fraiser-This show is the smartest show on TV...or at least it was. Got cancelled 2 years ago, but it did have a good 11 season run. It won craploads of Emmys and is one of the very few spin offs that were better than the original.
2.Red Dwarf-Also one of the best Sci-Fi shows of all time, this show just rocks. Funny as hell and every season was funny. Movie may come out and if it does, it may move up to number one.
1.Married... With Children-There is a reason this show lasted 10 seasons. This show is one of 2 reasons Fox is still on the air and brought about the low-brow comedy genre that we know today. Even the critics who panned it for being too low brow at the beginning were praising it by the fifth season. The series didn't really get good until Steve Rhodes left and Jefferson D'Arcy came in. Any dysfunctional family show since then has drawn very close parallels to this show and there have been several deliberate knock offs all over the world.

Bottom 5 Attempts at Comedy:
5.Roseanne-This crap was supposed to prove that being poor could be funny, but it just proved that it is as sad as everyone with some money thinks it is. Creepy son, grunge daughter who marries her older sister's husbands brother, and she left home when she was sixteen to get married. The only thing that was missing, was guns, bingo, and another 15 kids to complete the whole stereotype.
4.Ernest(insert retarded line here)-Putting an unfunny character from TV commercials into completely ridiculous settings that make absolutely no sense. That sounds like an Oscar gold mine...then again I have just snorted a rather lethal dose of cocaine and my brain is currently cracking at the seams from all the hemorrhaging. The first movie wasn't funny and nobody went to see it so why did they make 9 more? Seriously, I want to know
3.Anything with Hulk Hogan-The guy can barely wrestle so they decided to put him on a set to do some comedy. What's worse is the fact that they got the worst scripts possible and got him to apishly work his way through it.
2.The Tom Green Show-This show dropped Canada's approval rating around the world because of its suck factor(both figurative and literal suckage) not once did I ever laugh during something Tom Green did. The only reason he is not number one is he gained some of my respect by accepting his Raspberry Award for Freddy Got Fingered.
1.Full House-God this show sucked. No matter how you look at it, there was nothing good to ever come out of this show. The acting was horrible, the plots were extremely weak, the endings were so sappy it actually caused tooth decay, and it spawned the billions of Mary-Kate and Ashley related crap that has been in existence.


Honorable mentions
5.SNL-The show's been on for 30 years and have acted as a spring board for a lot of today's Hollywood big shots (Chris Rock, Mike Myers) their mediocre (David Spade, Eddie Murphy) and their crap (Chris Kattan, Molly Shannon) The show has gone downhill since the mid 90's which is why it is not in the top 5.
4.In Living Color-This show pole-vaulted several comedians whose movies didn't suck.....well, Jim Carey's career anyways.
3.All in the Family-It proved that racism and bigotry can be funny....and actually helped de-sensitize the world in terms of racism.
2.Friends-I have them so I didn't really watch the show that much when it first came out but have been able to watch it more since it is in syndication. Just kind of hard to make a show about 20 something’s hanging out when all of your staff is pushing 40.
1.Any comedy cancelled by FOX-I have no idea why FOX likes canceling funny shows. If you want a complete list of them, watch the season 4 opener of Family Guy and add Arrested Development.

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Sci Fi: So good, So nerdy

Top 5 Sci Fi Shows:
5.Battlestar Galactica(new series)-good right now, but it may head down the religious path and be a slightly grittier version of Mormons in space.
4.Babylon 5-Only went 5 seasons, but the last one was quite awful, can still barely get through watching it. Spin off sucked harder.
3.Red Dwarf-With out a doubt the funniest Sci-Fi comedy ever and one of the funniest T.V. shows ever. Season 8 was kind of a let down but got cancelled too early to figure out where they were going with it. Movie may bring it up higher if it ever comes out.
2.Star Trek TNG-Same reason as you. 5 great seasons, would be higher if the first 2 seasons didn't suck as much. Didn't mind the movies as much as they did kill off Kirk and Data. Killing off 2 iconic characters moved them up.
1.Stargate(Entire collection)-Movie was okay, Series rocks, spin off isn't horrible. The reason they are number one is the fact that they had FREAKIN' MACGUYVER, and they wanted to name their space ship Enterprise.

Bottom 5:
5.Roswell-How this show made it to 5 seasons is beyond me. To date I haven't been able to make it through an entire episode.
4.Battlestar Galactica-Would be higher up but several of the original members are making guest spots on the new series so it lessened their suck appeal
3.Firefly-Gay space cowboy's eating pudding...woot. There was a reason this show got the axe.
2.Star Wars-Higher up on my list because I am including the god awful made for TV Star Wars movies as well. Damn stupid Ewoks holding walkie-talkies.
1.Star Trek Voyager-The series that proves bringing in somebody hot won't make your series good. That is why Dark Angel isn't on my top 5 best list, and Jeri Ryan's enormous rack couldn't save this show. If only they killed off Janeway.

Honorable mentions, in no particular order:
5.Earth:Final Conflict-One of the best shows nobody watched. I wish this show eventually gets the credit it deserves
4.Andromeda-Also a good show, not great but good. Season 5 confused the hell out of me but that’s because I have yet been able to watch the season opener or the second last episode.
3.Dr Who-Good show for being old and British. Haven't seen the new series yet, if good then maybe it could go top 5.
2.Star Trek-Good overacted show. Love...to watch...the...bad acting.
1.Farscape-Great show, good acting, movie was great, too bad nobody watched it and it only lasted 5 seasons.

Hopping ye ole Bandwagon

Since I saw it on Dave's site, I am going to do a top/bottom 5 list for every genre of shows. Will be tough to get to five on some of them but I will figure something out. I will post as soon as I fake my way through a list.

Monday, February 13, 2006

The Marvels of Technology


I was surfing the interweb and was looking at the new RadioShack website. There, I saw this page of their flyer. Now I was looking at it for a few seconds and was thinking that there was something wrong with this image. It took me a couple of seconds to figure it out but when I did I laughed for quite some time. I am issuing a challenge to anyone else to find out what is wrong with this image. I will post the answer in the comments in a couple of days if nobody gets it but this should be rather easy to figure out.

Sunday, February 12, 2006

To Pod or not to Pod...

To change things a bit I decided to make this post a comparison of mp3 players and which one is the best on the market. Now, I have had several years of experience in this field and have used almost every unit on the market so my opinions are quite valid and should give you a lot of weight in your mp3 player purchases.

First off you have to determine what type of mp3 player you want. By this I mean weather you want a flash type of mp3 player or a hard drive type of mp3 player. The differences between the 2 are: (note, there are cd mp3 players as well but they're a dying breed so they won't be discussed)

Flash mp3 players - are smaller units with a lot smaller amount of space for music. They are cheaper and their battery life is a lot better then the hard drive types but they do not have the extra options that the hard drive types. Some flash drives do have expansion capabilities but this feature has been phased out of most models. They are more resilient to abuse but with its small size it does make it more likely to be abused.

Hard Drive mp3 players - are a lot larger units which can store a lot more music and most of them can store other items as well like videos, pictures, or computer files. The battery life is poor but has been improving over the last couple of years. As flash drives can store hours worth of music, hard drive players can store day’s worth of music. Video playback is the newest thing which most companies now have a video version of mp3 players. They are more likely to be damaged as companies have sacrificed durability for size.

Now the first thing you should think about when you are in the market for an mp3 player is how many hours of music you want to have access to. Companies always show how many songs that you can store but that is a relatively moot statement as songs will vary between times by a very large margin. Always ask how many hours of music it will play back at 128 bit quality. This is the standard cd quality of music in the mp3 format which is what the majority of mp3's are recorded in. The easiest way to figure this out is with my handy little chart:

64MB -1 hour 1GB -16 hours 20GB -320 hours
128MB -2 hours 2GB -32 hours 30GB -480 hours
256MB -4 hours 4GB -64 hours 40GB -640 hours
512MB -8 hours 5GB -80 hours 60GB -960 hours

Now that you have picked the size of your mp3 player you now have to decide what brand of mp3 player you want to get. There is a huge difference between manufacturers of mp3 players in terms of quality, options, and battery life. Here is a list of the companies and their pro's and cons:

Apple:
iPod Shuffle-good little unit, durable and quite inexpensive for the amount that it holds (512MB & 1GB) and has the basic functionality of a larger iPod but without any of the bell and whistles. The major problems with the shuffle is it's low battery life compared to the other flash drive mp3 players and the unit doesn't have an LCD screen so you cannot see what is playing.
iPod Nano-This is the true entry level iPod on the market as it does almost everything that it's bigger brother does but in a smaller size (1GB, 2GB, & 4GB) The Nano is actually a flash type player but has the functionality of a hard drive type. The only problems with the Nano is it only has a 14 hour battery life, doesn't play videos, and is prone to scratches but it could be remedied by using a protective screen film to stop it.
iPod (Video) - The actual name for the unit is just iPod but the new iPod's have video playback which is the reason why it's been nicknamed iPod Video. These come in 30GB and 60GB sizes and are the creme-de-la-creme of mp3 players. Access to the largest online music store, stunning screen resolution, click-wheel control, built in mini games, video playback and the prestige of owning one are reasons enough to get an iPod but the biggest reason to own an iPod of any type is....Podcasting!!! Podcasting is the greatest thing to hit technology since the web itself was created. What is podcasting you ask? Podcasting is a distribution of audio and video files over iTunes for virtually any topic for free. That’s right, FREE!!! Everyone is jumping on the bandwagon from the obvious tech shows, to musicians, to even movie producers who are creating journals of their lives or latest projects. If you are looking for a hard drive type of player, this is the one you should get. The smaller ones will play the audio podcasts but with it's limited size it makes it harder to store all the files on your iPod. Now for the downsides. There aren't many but they are there. They are not cheap, in fact they are the most expensive on the market, but you are paying for the quality. The iPod's battery life is rather low, 14 hours for the 30GB (2 hour video playback), 20 hours for the 60GB (3 hour video playback) due to the high resolution LCD screen and its backlight. The iPod is like all the other models as it is so shiny that scratches show up quickly on them but if you take good care of them, they don't show up. The video formats that it shows is also very limited but could be fixed with firmware updates if Apple actually does it but most likely won't until the next generation.

Creative:
MuVo-This is their entry level players which are flash based mp3 players. The players come in several shapes and sizes and have various options. Some have colour screens, some only monochrome, some have none. Some have built in batteries, some don't. some have fm radio, some don't. They also vary in size from 128MB up to 5GB in storage. The units generally have a good battery life, however if you get the colour screen ones or the video ones, the life drops dramatically. The biggest problem with the MuVo's and any Creative product is quality. Every model of Creative mp3 players that I have seen has had issues. If it's not battery door, it's audio problems, or LCD problems. This shouldn't be happening to a company with the prestige that Creative has but they can't make a stable model of mp3 players if their lives depended on it.
Zen-Is their drive type mp3 player. As with the MuVo, there are several versions of the Zen. There are lots of standards but they do have a couple of models of video mp3 players. Both of the units do play a variety of video formats including DivX which is very cool, but battery life still is not that great (13 hours music-4 hour video) These are newer players so the reliability issue is still up in the air but if it still uses the same architecture that the previous models used, stay away from them as well.

iRiver:
Flash Drives-These are the top of the line flash drive units. They have superb quality with them and the battery life on the units is the best in the industry (some models have upwards of 45 hours of battery life) If you are getting a flash type player, this is the one to get. The only drawback is the lack of accessories for the units in both first and third party. Once they get some recognition they will have this problem solved.
Hard Drives-Also among the top of the line in this department. They do play more formats than the iPod but there are three problems with these units is little accessories, smaller size than the iPod (20GB max), and no podcasting. The first two problems are minor but the no podcasting is the only reason to avoid the unit and go with the iPod.

RCA:
Lyra-Without a shadow of doubt the crappiest mp3 players on the market today. There are so many issues for quality, it is impossible to fathom why these are still on the market. RCA is the reason why jokes about American electronics are so funny and true. If you guys get anything from this it is that you should not buy RCA for any reason except as a joke or a gift to someone you hate.

Others:
There are several other companies that make mp3 players including Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, Toshiba, Centrios & NexxTech, Sandisk, mobiBLU, and several others. Now each of them has their quirks, both positive and negative, but they aren't considered big shots in the mp3 market. Sony is too proprietary, Panasonic and Toshiba don't have the quantity in North America, Samsung and Sandisk are very plain units...nothing wrong with them...just plain, NexxTech & Centrios have quality issues but not as bad as RCA, mobiBLU is too small a company and do not have a real line up. Until these companies get serious with the mp3 market, they won't be players in it.

So when it comes down to it, if you are going to buy an mp3 player, use my guide to help you out. You may agree with my opinion or be wrong with yours but in the end it will always be your decision and hopefully this post will help you get some more information before spending your money.

Crazy Loudmouth Helps Win Liberal Majority

This is going to be the headline for the next election campaign as the NDP have booted their biggest supporter Buzz Hargrove. This is one of the biggest fuck ups that the dippers have done since creating the NDP. Booting your biggest supporter with the largest union representation is almost as retarded as saying you are for accountability, for elected senates, for a transparent government and throwing it all out the window during the first day in office. Now, since nobody else is going to do it, I officially state that I will be attempting to seek a nomination for leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. Right now, anyone can win the Prime Ministers job and I was going to wait 10-15 years but the position is available so I am going to attempt to run for office now. For all the big shots in the party that didn't want to run for the job, you can give me the money that you were considering using to run to help with my campaign. I only need the one nomination and we will have a Liberal Majority government for the next 40 years when I retire at the age of 65.

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Tit v. Tat: A Retrospective on the Jackassary of Hypocrisy

A lot of things go together very well like white & rice, gaming & Sony, prostitutes & herpes, and for endless bickering, religion and free speech. This is a finer line than happy endings at massage parlors. This is the reason we created such a thing as tolerance. (Sorry, trying to change the advertising on the top of my page) What this does is allow for free speech but puts up that barrier to stop people from crossing that line. The reason I started this was because of the breaking news story from several days ago about some cartoons that were published several months ago. Now, it is true that depicting the Prophet Mohammed is blasphemy in the Islamic religion, but then again so is committing violence, so their view is not absolute as their beliefs are also not absolute. Does this mean that I am taking the side of free speech....No, I am not really taking sides in this one because this is not a "support the war or you don't support the troops" kind of argument. This one is a huge grey area situation where the line is so fine that it is impossible to be seen. Free speech is an absolute but when that was created, the founders of the idea had the common sense to think that people would use common sense when exercising that right. How wrong they were. People will do anything to be famous and famous people will do crazier things to become even more famous...like Tom Cruise. Having your own opinion is fine, having a healthy discussion or debate about said opinion is fine, doing something that you know will stir up outrage and mass protests to a people who aren't happy with you already...Darwinian.

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

The Royal Order of Stupid

Stephen Harper has announced his cabinet for his 6 months in office as Prime Minister and I have made my triumphant return to blogging by critiquing the members he chose in alphabetical order:


Rona Ambrose-Minister of the Environment: The woman who stood up in parliament and attacked Canadian Hero Ken Dryden in regards to the national child care program by insinuating that he was a sexist pig. She also managed to put back the woman’s movement 10 years because of that remark as it was sexist that only working women raise kids when there are plenty of single dads who would also need the child care program and men in general have a say in family issues. My question is why you would put somebody from Alberta who is a big supporter of the oil industry as Minister of the Environment....unless her job will be how to ruin it more.

John Baird-President of the Treasury Board: The guy who caused the workfare debacle in the Ontario government, made false claims about how many people got jobs from workfare, forced a rate hike on energy prices in Ontario, and refused to cancel a contract with a Bermuda based company that found a loophole to allow them to charge over $250/hour to upgrade the welfare systems computers. The only thing he does have going for him is his support for same sex marriage....but that really won't help him with overseeing government expenditures.

Maxime Bernier-Minister of Industry: No political experience whatsoever and not enough in the upper echelon of business to give him this prestigious of a title. Maybe in a few years...but not now.

Jean-Pierre Blackburn-Minister of Labour: Okay, they got one right. The perfect pick for the Minister of Labour

Lawrence Cannon-Minister of Transport: Good man, Great prestige, wrong party, wrong post. Should be Minister of Industry

Michael Chong-Queens Privy Council President, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, & Minister of Sports: Decent man, nothing wrong with him privately. Better suited for Heritage Minister or Citizen & Immigration Minister.

Tony Clement-Minister of Health: The man who FUCKED OVER OHIP, is now the Minister of Health for Canada. Kiss health care in Canada goodbye. The man cut pay of nurses so badly that they have to work 2 jobs just to make ends meet. They also cut spending to long term health care so prisoners in Ontario live better off then the elderly. Bravo....A guy who couldn't get elected in one riding, so he went into another riding where his wife's family is prominent to very narrowly get elected and destroyed health care in Ontario is now our Minister of Health which Harper wants to fix....by destroying it.

Stockwell Day-Minister of Public Safety & COMPLETE WACKJOB: Now the wackjob is not an official Parliamentary title but it's true. An ultra right-wing religious nutcase is now in charge of our safety. We will have a prayer shield to cover Canada in case of attack, Hang all prisoners, round up all the non Christians with planted vials of crack, and ban gays as being a national security risk. At least CSIS will be on the same brainwave with the guy.

David Emerson-Minister of International Trade: Good pick for the job. Hypocritical for picking him. Power hungry with no intention of ever giving it up at the expense of his constituency.

Diane Finley-Minister of Human Resources: She has worked for years to take away jobs from the government with their secure pay and great benefits and gave them to third party groups where money is the only answer...at least it will give her more work to do. This could only be topped by Hurricane Katrina being elected Mayor of New Orleans

Jim Flaherty-Minister of Finance: Make the rich richer, the poor poorer, then jail them for being homeless, cut funding to the prison system. Those are qualities I want to see in the guy who manages our countries finances. Stupid douche-bag. God, a man who helped make Ontario bankrupt (Bob Rae did a lot as well) is now in charge of our money.

Michael Fortier-Minister of Public Works: Accountability of Government, Making Senate Positions an Elected Position, Being Entitled to Their Entitlements...Fuck, you can go on forever on how this is wrong.

Loyola Hearn-Minister of Fisheries: He's from Newfoundland, how can you go wrong.

Marjory LeBreton-Leader of the Senate: Moderate, Great choice in a minority government.

Gary Lunn-Minister of Natural Resources: Relative nobody in politics even though this is his fourth term. Does realize Stockwell is crazy.

Peter Mackay-Minister of Foreign Affairs: Nothing all that wrong with the guy. Breaks up with his girlfriend because she supports another political party. Might have to go gay after the Conservative Party runs the country just to get some action. Still got an issue with his vote against child pornography laws

Rob Nicholson-House Leader: One of two MP's that have served in a Cabinet position before. Got ousted during Kim Campbell's minute of terror and couldn't get elected for 10 years until 2004. Could do a good job at leading the house...time will tell.

Gordon O'Connor-Minister of Defense: He was only a low level General in the military but better than anyone else they got. He was the brainchild for the cons military proposals during the election and we all know how well that is.

Bev Oda-Minister of Canadian Heritage: Good choice. Voted into the Canadian Broadcasters Hall of Fame.

Jim Prentice-Minister of Indian Affairs: First off, the title of this position should be changed to Minister of
Aboriginal Affairs. Secondly, I like the guy, he is a moderate who supports human rights and stood up against Concerned Christians Canada (The KKK for Gays)

Carol Skelton-Minister of Revenue: Poor choice. Should have got an accountant or at least a lawyer for this position....somebody who understands taxation.

Monte Solberg-Minister of Immigration: If you're gay, you're deported. If you're not Christian, you're deported...kinda odd with the whole Solberg name but you know....The guy is borderline mentally incapable of breathing. His campaign budget doesn't make sense in the whole fiscally plausible sense, has no economic education, and he thinks he did a good job, like FEMA or the war in Iraq.

Chuck Strahl-Minister of Agriculture: Better job for Carol Skelton. Should survive the six months till the next election. Should have been Minister of Health, would be more ironic.

Greg Thompson-Minister of Veteran Affairs: Won't enjoy the job for long as he will most likely be cut as it is purely a social spending position.

Vic Toews-Minister of Justice: Hiring a known criminal as your justice minister.....guess that works. Guy is a borderline nutcase who wants to put homosexuals into camps to get them out of the general population. Wait, if he reads this he will execute me.....Vic Toews is great. Good Guy.

There, got them all. Some good, some in wrong spots, most retarded. Fucking tired now....this took way too long.

Sunday, February 05, 2006

...and the Bucket of Chicken

This was rather cool, I googled my last name and actually found me. Shocked the hell out of me! Not only was I googleable but I was in the top 10. I never realized how damn important I am in today's society. Now the next logical step will be trying to hide from those damn paparazzi. It's hard to be famous, and this damn sexy.

Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Take that Crapface





Which Homestar Runner character are you?

this quiz was made by jurjyfrort



Found this while I was surfing the inter-web.

Whatever

Getting rather lazy now so I am going to take an official bit of time off so I can regain the rage. Jan 23 used up most of that rage. Damn Kuwaiti emir abdicating the throne.