Monday, July 19, 2010

Project Blue Beam

this shit is crazy. some of those Star Wars images they can duplicate today are amazing. You can't tell the difference if they are real or an illusion. Fucking NASA man..

Sunday, July 18, 2010

back from the Beach

July 13th, 2010 is when LA started to get hot. Image that. The city is getting hot in the middle of the summer.

But today is a very special day. I actually got my lazy ass up and took it to Venice Beach. It is almost UNBELIEVABLE. It takes me so much energy and will power to get out of this house, it's not even funny. I hate going to places alone but not like I have a choice. If I wanna go somewhere, it's the only way.

I'm proud of my self though. Hopefully the tanning cream and about an hour in the Sun will get me a little color in my skin.

Thursday, July 15, 2010

my Favorite Album of all Time

It's like this album was made in Heaven. I like almost every song on the album. My absolute favorites are...













Classic song. I love the chorus!




Lots of love songs I can't relate to, but her voice and music are amazing



Thursday, July 8, 2010

Blizzard will require you to use your Real Name on their forums now

http://us.battle.net/realid/?rhtml=y
http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=25626109041&sid=3000&pageNo=1


This means that if you want to post on any of their game forums with your account, it will be like this...

by Firstname Lastname

haha

Oh all the poor souls who still play wow... how you will suffer from absolutely no privacy. It's crazy and WoW players are going ape shit.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=25712374700&sid=1&pageNo=1

2k pages of replies. many people have already canceled their accounts after reading this.


It's all about money now. Who cares about you or me, or him, or her... it's about your credit card


"
This is simply corporatization/commodification/business as usual. This is the reality of the slogan, "Maximize shareholder value." Activision is doing exactly that; they're tying into social networks, particularly Facebook, in order to maximize advertising revenue. Nothing more, nothing less. They stated over two years ago that Starcraft will see ingame ads and promotions like Facebook's, tied to your personal information, which they own.

You can post 1,000,000 complaints on the official forums, and a hundred other websites, cancel your account, start boycotts, etc. But the decision has been made and Bobby Kotick/Activision will not be backing down. In fact, having worked in enough San Francisco tech companies, I suspect that Activision did some calculations and decided that even if 10-20% (or 1 to 2 million) of current subscribers cancel their accounts, it won't matter; many will be back due to the lure of Cataclysm and the rest will be replaced by new subscribers they hope to attract.

Your personal information is owned by Activision, a private company, and in the agreement you make with them when you sign up, you agree that they own it and can do whatever they want with it. This is not complicated. It's also the case with your cellphone, cable tv, internet provider, auto loan/lease, mortgage, employment contract, etc.

Issues of harassment? Anonymity? Humanity? Sexism? Stalking? Employer abuse? Activision's Kotick sums up the view on that ... customers are "units" and employees are "headcount" which maximize profit. There is nothing besides profit. This is the reality of our culture today.

I just wish ... I wish that the same kind of outrage (50,000 posts as of right now in the official WoW forums, over 260 posts on Metafilter (really?! over a videogame?!) would be generated by the same corporatization/privatization/commodification of public education. Every day, the same mentality that drives Bobby Kotick and Thomas Tippl at Activision drives Bill Gates, the Eli Broad Foundation, the Walton family, Michelle Rhee, Bob Bur#%%@ (side note: Really, Blizz? You're going to censor the name of Detroit Public Schools' superintendent?!), and others to turn schools into profit centers, teachers into minimum-wage temps, and children into profit units, based all on corporate, for-profit standardized tests.

By July 24 (my next billing date), my almost three years of WoW play will end, six months after my Facebook participation ended, for much the same reason. The corporation has moved further in a direction that I'm unwilling to go; therefore, I exercise my option to end the contract and no longer play the game. I will miss the stress relief and escapism. But I will shrug. And find some other way to escape.

But, you'll forgive me if I don't get too upset over one company's use of customer information, when said customers (including myself) voluntarily gave up that information and consented that it be used in any way Bobby Kotick, et al, sees fit. Because, on July 25, I will still, as a professional public educator of over 24 years experience, continue to see that same mentality destroy my profession and one of the cornerstones of American democracy which took over 200 years to develop. And I think that claims priority on my ... outrage meter.

It was a fun three years. I'm tempted to hold an in-game funeral for Arcanthus on July 23rd ...
"

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=25712374700&sid=1&pageNo=2333


"Robert "Bobby" Kotick
The big man at Activision. CEO. The source of all Blizzard's community problems of the last few years. Here's his facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Bobby-Kotick/637011873
He's not very open, but his friends and family are.

Big donations to the GOP ($28,000 in 2007, and raised over $200k for Bush!) but makes $1.5 million a year and just dumped a huge amount of his company's stock at the beginning of this year. You know, I'd be selling my Blizzard stock right now too.

You'll see that Blizzard's corporate phone and fax are:
Phone: 310-255-2000
Fax: 310-255-2100
in case you want to politely let them know how you feel. Again, we are NOT going for harassment. This page should be creepy enough without WoW nerds harassing people.

But hey, he's a busy man. He's got a wife and three young daughters, ages 6, 9, and 11. The oldest is Gracie, she likes skiing. There are pictures of her that can be found, but I'm not posting them because I think I've made my point there. Anyone messing with his family or kids is a sick ##*!, but you know what? There are a lot of sick ##*!s who play WoW, and as soon as this real id change goes live you will see daily news reports of people who got the attention of one of those sick ##*!s and had their life ruined.

Here's some information on his wife, Nina Jill Kotick (nee Spiegel), age 46, Fordham University '89 (Law), Tufts University '86, Byram Hills High School '82. She used to be a lawyer in New York, passing her NY bar exam in 1990, but later moved with Bobby to CA and got her license in December 1995. With the exception of the time she forgot to pay her bar fees in '99 (Oops!) and her license was suspended, it's been smooth sailing.

If you want to reach her, try (310) 255-2639, (310) 279-3599, or email her at nkotick@yahoo.com

The beautiful family's current address is either 1010 or 1011 Cove Way. They own or owned both but surely they don't need two houses, do they?
1011 Cove Way, Beverly Hills, California 90210
They spent $171,708 for renovations a few years ago, nice place!
Google Map it!

Offices or possibly former home addresses:
701 FOOTHILL RD, CA
11845 OLYMPIC BLVD, CA
3435 OCEAN PARK BLVD #107, CA
715 N Sierra Dr Blvd #107 Beverly Hills, CA 90210


Get Curb stomped jackass! i hope 4chan spams your business lines all day and night after this stupid change"

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=25712374700&sid=1&pageNo=2331

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

My living situation sucks

I really don't understand. Ever since I came to LA i haven't been able to find a place with peace and quiet. I have given up on getting sleep completely.

My first place I moved to was nothing but chaos. It was a nut house with a baby crying every night, and hell, every hour during the day or more. There were illegal activities going on that I first wasn't aware of. I really didn't feel safe in that house.

The second place was cool for a while, after a month or so I had this bitch roommate move in and things started to look upside down. Wake up every morning 6am with him showering, the shower was right next to my room. Chaos, noise, can't sleep. I'd get 2-3 hours a sleep per night, 5 if I'm lucky.

The 3rd place. Baby crying every night, yeah I was that naive to move in with some guy who was just using me and being nice to me the whole time. The parents fighting every damn day. It was total chaos. I also think there were illegal activities going on in that house because the parents were potheads. When you dealing with real potheads, there will be other drugs involved.


Now the place I'm living now is... nothing but chaos. Even though I found some peace. And I'm talking about the type of peace where there is no drama, no one breaking the law right in front of you or behind your back, no one using you for money or being deceitful, etc.. I do appreciate this peace, but it doesn't last that long before the chaos comes and ruins it all. The chaos here is real.

Every night I have to wear earplugs because if I don't I'll be awoken by weird noises in the walls. Some sort of clicks that would go off every hour, 2 or 3. Some days they are as frequently as every 30 minutes. The first night I spent here it scared the shit outta me. Think somebody knocking on a door real loud just once. It would wake a ghost. Speaking of ghosts, could it be??? I don't know, but I am that paranoid right now. I need ear plugs every night or I'll be awoken every hour.

I have my own place but I still feel I got roommates. I got some rude ass neighbors who are too blind to realize they are causing the chaos by walking like dinosaurs. OMG... every night until 2am.. BAM BAM BAM....... BAM .... BAM BAM BAM BAM BAMMM... the whole apartment shakes, and yes I still dont have a bed, and I feel it really heavy when I sleep on the floor. But I feel it just sitting in my chair. It's just insane. I'm like... DUDE.. DO YOU NOT REALIZE YOU ARE FUCKING LOUD AND YOU DISTURB ALL THE NEIGHBORS AROUND YOU YOU STUPID FUCKING FAGGOT!!?!?!?!!? FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!! I had my manager come out and talk to everyone. Actually, I came and knocked on everybody's door around my apartment first when last weekend I heard this huge loud bang.. it was as if somebody took a 300lb rock and dropped it on the floor. I was like WTFFFFFFFF!?!?!?!? AR EYOU SERIOUS THIS SHIT IS TOO MUCH!!!!!!!!! I knocked on my neighbor's door he said he heard it too but manager won't listen. I told him I'll talk to her right now and after talking to a few more people she came out talking to everyone and shit. He left his apt so most people said they didn't hear it or if they did it doesnt bother them. I ended up looking like a dumb ass with her walking away like "it's all you, youre too sensetive" FUCK YOU BITCH! YOU JUST SPEWING MY OWN WORDS BACK AT ME WHEN THERE IS A FUCKING EARTHQUAKE GOING ON IN THIS BITCH. YOU DONT LIVE HERE YOU SLUT, YOU ALL THE WAY BACK THERE WITH PEACE WHILE I GOTTA PUT UP WITH THIS BULLSHIT! FUCK YOUU!!!

OMG.. and I also forgot to add the part of my neighbors who coughs.. He coughs so loud, the whole house shakes. He coughs so loud, I hear him loud and clear with my earplugs. I don't know if it's health condition but.. FUCK YOU!!! I AM NOT YOUR WIFE WHERE I GOTTA GEAR THIS SHIT AND PUT UP WITH! GO.. TO HEEEELLL YOU FUCKING CUNT!!! AND STAY THERE! I haven't heard him in a few days but that could be because he maybe went to a vacation for the 4th of july? I dont know, but I sure hate that fuck with passion.

Man.. I don't know what to do anymore. I pay $700 per month for this shit. I can't take it anymore. Some days I wonder why I was meant to go through this bullshit when I got enough issues of my own. I don't even have enough energy to have a hobby or do something I want to on my own because all this chaos just reminds me of how fucked up my environment is, and it's not going away. I signed a 9 month lease for this shit hole. I talked to her about switching apartments but she hasn't gotten back to me yet. Probably thinks ill find faults in the new place too but fuck that. I am not lying about this bullshit. I'm just tired emotionally where I can't even get away in my own place. I gotta deal with other peoples' energies when I'm not even around them. Life sucks so bad for me right now I can't express how hopeless I feel when it comes to not just making friends, having a normal life, being happy, etc.. but to actually going home every night thinking how nice it is and how quiet and peaceful it is from a long day of work. fuck me.. I guess I was destined to be a fucked up mess everywhere I go. I do affirmations, stay positive, listen to positive music, always appreciate shit in life, etc.. but it brings me nothing but craziness.

I guess sometimes you just can't escape your environment and gotta put up with the bullshit that is thrown your way until you have an opening of gtfo. fuck my life. it's 2:38am in the morning and I gotta wake up at 7am. Now I'll wake up at 7:30 and not meditate. fuck... I been meditating like 2-3 times per week. I missed 1 week of meditations last week and done it like once a week for some weeks of the month.

I dont know what else to say.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

download Youtube videos website

This site rules!!! I already downloaded 3 mp3s from youtube. All you gotta do is type in the address and click 'download'

http://www.vidtomp3.com/