Man on Wire

Sunday evening I saw the movie “Man on Wire”

* My palms were sweating for about 70% of the film as I watched a guy walk a wire in between the trade centers.

* There is a lot of planning that goes into sneaking/trespassing into the twin towers and stringing a wire from one tower to another.

* Their always seems to be an unselfish supportive women supporting a great man. When his X Girl friend was interviewed she said “Phillip never asked me what I wanted to do with my life” What she was going to do with her life was follow and support him.

* Philippe’s closing statements in the film.(In broken English)

“Its so simple that life should be lived on the edge of life

You have to exercise rebellion

To refuse to taper yourself to rules

To refuse your own success

To refuse to repeat yourself

To see every day every year every idea as a true challenge then you are going to live your life on the tight rope “The Leap from Tonal to Nagual

Profile of a Greek Police officer

Interview with a police officer in Greece – actually pretty good.

Last night on As It Happens With Barbara Budd and Carol Off. They interviewed a protester. It was embarrassing this kid has no idea what he wants he is just angry. Listen to the interview on December 9th.  Is this really the best person they could find to interview?

“We Like Dependability NOT predictability”

I just listened to an interview on Venture voice with Fred Seibert of Frederator Studios and Next New Networks. Fred did things like the branding of MTV (the animated logo) and Nicolodean.
I am not the type of person to ever watch T.V. but  at about 50:00 into the interview he said this

“When it comes to entertainment. We like the shows that dependably give us what we are expecting and we hate the shows that give us the same thing they gave us last week.”

“We Like Dependability NOT predictability”

When I heard this I thought of the bands I like. Some of whom I did not like their new album because it was the same as the last. I also thought of the bands I that took 5 years to release a new album when I was expecting 2 years maximum.

On that note I am going to get back to work.

You can download the pod cast here

WikiLeaks.org

http://wikileaks.org/

I love it.

Inside secrets on Scientology, Government, Press, Etc.

Transcripts from Federal Reserve meetings are released 5 years after they happen. This could be the new place people look to find if an interest rate will go down in the future. More importantly it could disclose some other facts that tax payers would like to know….

“On November 7, 2008, Bloomberg News requested details of Fed lending under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act and filed a federal lawsuit seeking to force disclosure. According to a Bloomberg News article:^[125]

The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral.” – wikipedia

Pandora internet radio and the Shit Filters

I just heard an interview with the creator of Pandora. It kind of reminds me of Last fm .  My first impression is that last.fm is a bit more of a free market approach . The users/consumers decide what is good and what is not, and everything gets uploaded. . ( I think this is web 2.0)

Music Genome Project/Pandora is similar in that people listen and give a thumbs up or a thumb down, but the submission process is handled by musicians who listen to the music and tag it with a bunch of different attributes. Such as tempo, lyric content, instrumentation, subject matter etc.

It depends on the musician, his/her mood, time of day at the job, if they like the genre they are listening to etc. None the less it is a different type of shit filter (Someone filtering out the not so good music) Verses a record label, DJ, listener, etc deciding what goes on the station and what does not.

GREEN SAUCE IS BACK IN MY LIFE

Their are 2 types of people in the world.
Those who wake up and say “What am I going to make for dinner tonight and those who do not”

My old Mexican roommates are the type who wake up planning dinner. They called me last night and invited me over for dinner this weekend

KICK ASS!

The Clarkson Article

The “Racist” Clarkson article

I do not see what is racist in this article. It was not funny , and he does not justify anything he says but I do not see what is racist in it.

Jeremy Clarkson racist “Greece is a toilet” comments

This Article was recently sent to me. I have yet to find the actual offensive/racist article.  From what I found I thought Clarkson was rather funny.

Clarkson Video

I have heard the stupid Greek Jokes all my life. I am not offended even if I was I believe people have the  “Liberty to Offend” how else are we going to get through some issues?

I personally would like to focus my energy on seeing that Greece does not turn into “A Toilet”.

MOB in Greece

“One of the great lessons of the Civil Rights Movement – when the minds and hearts of enough citizens are focused .. America changes very quickly.” – Winton Marsales

The Article that was forwarded to me.

Greek Londoner’s are incensed at a recent article by Jeremy Clarkson in The Sun in which he describes Greece as a toilet, is this the last outrage to get Clarkson the boot?

By John Kaponi

The BBC Top Gear and Sun columnist Jeremy Clarkson has angered the Greek population of the United Kingdom with racist and insensitive comments made in his weekly newspaper column in the Saturday edition of The Sun, were describes Greece as a “toilet”.

In an article “Holiday ad cuts a’tache” Clarkson refers to a recent campaign by the Greek National Tourist board in London, were a women is pictured with Clarkson referring “and a girl who didn’t look all that Greek either. She didn’t have a moustache for instance”.

Clarkson referred recently to lorry drivers murdering prostitutes and was given a warning by the BBC, but to insult an entire nation in this manner is way off the mark.

The London Daily News has formally written to the editor of The Sun and a formal complaint is being made to the Press Complaints Commission which has strict guidelines over accuracy:

“i) The Press must take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted information, including pictures.

iii) The Press, whilst free to be partisan, must distinguish clearly between comment, conjecture and fact.”

Had these comments been made about Muslims or African-Caribbean’s there would have been calls for Clarkson immediate dismissal in any case The Sun has not made any remedy to date.

The London Daily News calls for Clarkson to be sacked from The Sun for making these comments.

photo credit: BBC website

Symphonic Justice

I hate it when I am at a gas station and people have their music playing. I don’t expect others to enjoy what I listen to. Anyways I thought this was interesting.
Jp

URBANA, Ohio — A defendant had a hard time facing the music.

Andrew Vactor was facing a $150 fine for playing rap music too loudly on his car stereo in July. But a judge offered to reduce that to $35 if Vactor spent 20 hours listening to classical music by the likes of Bach, Beethoven and Chopin.

Vactor, 24, lasted only about 15 minutes, a probation officer said.

It wasn’t the music, Vactor said, he just needed to be at practice with the rest of the Urbana University basketball team.

“I didn’t have the time to deal with that,” he said. “I just decided to pay the fine.”

Champaign County Municipal Court Judge Susan Fornof-Lippencott says the idea was to force Vactor to listen to something he might not prefer, just as other people had no choice but to listen to his loud rap music.

“I think a lot of people don’t like to be forced to listen to music,” she said.

She’s also taped TV shows for defendants in other cases to watch on topics such as financial responsibility. As she sees it, they get the chance to have their fine reduced “and at the same time broaden their horizons.”

Short Vacation to Yellow Stone

Some highlights of our short vacation to yellow stone.

Day 1 – Maria asked me what we are going to do while she was here. So I said lets pack all of the blankets I have into the van and drive west. I still had not decided where to take her. I just knew that I wanted her to see some of our national parks. So at about 9 pm. I started driving. About 3 am I pulled into a rest area and slept in the van until 7 am.

Day 2 :  8 am We are heading through south Dakato and we pull into Mitchell South Dakota. So she can see the corn palace. I have to admit it was not a complete waste of time. I would say it is worth stopping at for an hour or two max!

This is all made of corn grown to be different colors.

2nd stop was 1880 town for gasoline I thought…. The decision was made that I would be going to look through a bunch of old buildings. I spent most of my time with the Camel.

Some old Grave Stones. My personal favorite was “HERE LIES DIRTY NELLY SHE STOPPED A 45 WITH HER BELLY”

Quickly stopped in badlands

4th stop MT rushmore. – Pretty cool … We got there late so I did not get to learn much about the man who did this thing. I was a little upset we did not make it to see crazy horse before nightfall.

Angelic Goats that hang around in South Dakota.

Drove until I got to Wyoming.

Day 2

Driving to yellow stone.  Stopped at a few canyons along the way.

Stopped in Grey bull for a bite to eat and to charge the phone. Arrived in Yellowstone about 7 pm.

I drove past that house that batman trained in ?

We had just enough time to stop at a few places along side yellow stone lake.

Got to the camp ground and slept in the van.

Day 3

About 630 am Maria woke me up to say she had to go to the bathroom, but was not going to walk to bathroom out of fear that a bear was waiting for her. I drove her to the rest room at the camp ground.

730 am nice and cool.
I had been driving a lot and was eager to exercise so that I did not feel like a complete fat kid. So I dragged Maria down a few trails. It was very cold for her ears.

Next stop the geysers.

I was slightly embarrassed to watch all of the people surrounding the bison  like it was a sacred cow. Especially since it is an animal that will charge you. It kind of reminds me of people filming tornado’s. They just keep on filming as everything and everyone is blowing away from them.

After this we went hiking on some really pretty trails.

That night we went to a nice campground and got to listen to a rangers presentation on all the things they did wrong at Yellowstone.

At the last minute we decided this was the night to make a camp fire and cook food. I had not lit a fire in about 12 years but we figured it out and then cooked what food we had.

We had grilled hotdogs, grilled baby carrots, and some left over artisan bread.

Hotdogs from Walmart in Cody Wyoming $1.00
Grilled Baby Carrots $1.00
Artisan Bread – $5.00
Firewood and Kindle $12.00

Day 4

I lost my sunglasses and 5 minutes after I found some which I borrowed to Maria.

We went to Yellow stone canyon which is really cool – nice water fall!

Then we left and drove the bear tooth highway to visit a friend who has a ranch in Red Lodge Montana. Driving through the mountains I started to slowly realize that in the past nature was the enemy. My generation certainly has a different view

This is what I love about Montana – the speed limit is 70 on the bear tooth but suggested speed  is 45.  – Even I went 45 or slower.

It was pretty cool to see some lakes up at the top of the mountains.

Day 5

Red lodge Montana

Big sky country is just perfect to me.

We left about noon and started the 14 hour drive home.