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Media Evolution

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Word Soup: In flipping around the cable news channels last night, the best coverage I saw was by an NBC cameraman who didn’t say a god damn thing. He simply filmed human beings in the Convention Center (also see this). Why can’t cable news do more of this? Less preening, over-dressed pontificating anchormen and reporters, and more information, direct from the event.

I’ve disagreed with his opinions from time to time, but this time? Karl’s dead on accurate. If someone in the Media World is paying attention to this, do it, please? If anchorpeople are worried about their jobs, keep CNN as is and launch a new network… I’m so sick to death of you all shoving opinions down our throats while calling yourselves impartial. It’s so very insulting.

Better yet, make CNN2 a silent eyeball on the world and call it good…

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Judge a Rants Fan?

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CNN.com: A juvenile court judge shocked prosecutors by setting bail at $250,000 for a 12-year-old boy charged with firing a gun in the city.

The district attorney’s office had asked for $5,000 bail when the boy was arraigned Tuesday on a juvenile weapons possession charge.

Judge Paul D. Lewis said he had lost patience with youth violence after 23 years on the juvenile bench.

“These kids don’t take responsibility for anything,” the judge told The Boston Globe after Tuesday’s ruling. “They’re fearless. It’s out of control. It’s beyond out of control.”

I’ve often wondered if anyone else read my blog… this might be proof-positive.

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PSP Version 2

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Hi Sony… long time no talk. Sorry I haven’t written you lately, but I’ve been busy running from Blinky for the last week or two… I do feel we need to have a little chat, though.

While I can openly admit that I do not completely understand the Japanese culture nor the lunar calendar, I feel obligated to point out that in every country of the world, a week is exactly seven days. You told us you’d have the 2.0 version of the PSP firmware available during the week of August 15. That week is now over. And as per usual, you’re shafting the “good” people that opted to not jump on the Japanese version of the firmware, following your suggestion that we wait… this is bordering on unacceptable.

Give me bits. Now.

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Hate. You. Guys.

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Forbes.com: The digital equivalent of homemade tapes are the next target of the Recording Industry Association of America. […] The RIAA has lamented the decline in CD sales by blaming file-sharing networks and other methods of illegal downloading.

Maybe if the Recorcing Industry didn’t jack up their prices and over charge the public for the last twenty years, more people would still be buying music in brick and mortar stores! It’s cheaper to make music, it’s cheaper to produce CD’s, it’s still a field flooded with talent, and you’re charging more than ever before! You’ve been anally probing us with a Buick and now that we have options, you’re crying poor.

Fuck you tossers. You suck.

And while passing around a liberal amount of Geek-hate this morning, sorry about pointing to Forbes, but only they had the story. They’ve made it impossible to read their content due to ads – in page, popup and pop-under alike. In fact, don’t bother to click through – it’s just RIAA whining about the season, much like the movie industry. Fuck the lot of them.

Hey, Forbes, you suck too.

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Booyah! Greek Pizza Sighted!

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w00t! Opa! I finally found a [mostly] proper Greek-style pizza place in WA!

Drove past Acropolis Pizza and Pasta while in Kirkland over the weekend – I keep forgetting that town is nearby… I seem to spend more time in Bellevue or Redmond – and since they were closed on Sunday, I decided to wander back today…
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Grump.

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I think it’s about time that we remove all of the warning labels off everything and let nature take it’s course.

No, no, really, I mean it. Call it Natural Selection. Or maybe Natural De-Selection is more apropos. Either way, just put stuff out there and let it go. The idiot population would drop instantly. Lawyers would have to drop idiotic lawsuits. The human race – or at least America – would instantly be much stronger, if smaller. I think gardeners call it pruning.

Feh.

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I’d Give Him a 2.4

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FoxSports: A fan plunged from the upper deck at Yankee Stadium onto the screen behind home plate during Tuesday night’s game between New York and the Chicago White Sox, then was taken to a hospital for observation. […] “I’ve never seen anything like that before,” White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen said. “I think that’s New York, you know, anything can happen.”

Indeed anything can happen. Twice. I happened to be at the game the last time a drunken fan hit landed on the screen; took the players a while to realize what happened and for the umps to pause the game.

Dumb asses.

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Ideology Vs Business Sense

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Mallard Fillmore via Seattle-PI: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp?date=20050807

Let me get this out of the way: my comments on this post are my comments. They have nothing to do with my current employer nor any of my past employers – these comments are my own.. The comic references is the one from Aug-07; I would have linked to the image itself, but it seems to be behind some time of lame web/cookie access protection… Feh. This post won’t make much sense unless you see it, so click through and then you’ll see why I had the need to vent about it.

What happens when ideology is blind to good business sense…
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Baseball: How To Know When Your Resume Needs Updating

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FoxSports: Gary Sheffield knows who leads the New York Yankees, and it apparently isn’t Derek Jeter or Alex Rodriguez. Sheffield all but appointed himself the Yankees’ most valuable player in an interview with New York magazine, accusing reporters of distorting the truth and ruining team chemistry. […] Sheffield was batting .302 this season entering Friday night’s game against Toronto, a percentage point behind Jeter and well behind Rodriguez’s team-leading .316. Rodriguez also leads in home runs (30) and RBIs (85). Sheffield’s 21 homers and 81 RBIs are tied for second in both categories. […] “It happens because you’re white and I’m black,” Sheffield said. “My interpretation of things is different. You don’t see it the way I see it. You write how you understand it, how you would articulate it, not how I, as a black man, would articulate it.”

Seeya, Gary! Enjoyed the time we had together, but I’m betting you’ll be banished to Colorado for talking to the press like this. In spite of who is the current Captain, George leads the Yankees and I’m betting he’s not going to be proud of you for this crap. I haven’t seen the likes of this since the Bronx Zoo of the mid 70’s.

Can’t say I’m glad to see it coming back to that again…

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Cheat Sheet?

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Reuters: A Ugandan member of parliament has pledged to reward girls for their chastity by paying their university fees if they are virgins when they leave school, a local newspaper said Wednesday.

I do not – under any circumstances – want to know exactly how they plan to confirm virginal status… although I’m pretty sure that NBC would spin it as the next-big-reality-show.

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Sorry Indeed

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Neopoleon: Dear women… I am so very sorry.

Rory blogs what I’ve been saying for years… at least with regards to hitting on women, and why I need a brick dropped on my head before I’ll consider “doing something”… all plays into that “I’d rather be dumb than make someone else feel comfortable for my actions” bit that my sister instilled in me as a child. The post made me chortle, so I thought I’d share.

Oh, and I’ve never been hit on by men – I would expect I’m as attractive to the same nominal percentage of both genders – but I did once have a plate of haggis look after me with longing.