tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32648165077011191222024-03-12T19:57:08.268-07:00I have a blog?DreamTheEndlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04810535531516131905noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264816507701119122.post-11811361274198680322012-02-15T20:32:00.000-08:002012-02-15T20:32:32.690-08:00It's been a long time, (Oct 2010,) since I've posted anything here... I blame Facebook. I've been doing a lot of things since then, but I've only mentioned any of them on Facebook or google+. I think perhaps I will maybe commit a little bit to possibly posting on blogger at some time in the next month or two or three or so...
See? I can commit to something...DreamTheEndlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04810535531516131905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264816507701119122.post-65380081802104135962010-10-13T16:30:00.000-07:002010-10-13T16:31:21.661-07:00InstructablesI just posted my first instructable.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="425" align="middle"><param name="movie" value="http://www.instructables.com/static/flash/viewer.swf"></param><param name="quality" value="high"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="FlashVars" value="title=Replacement-ear-tips-for-in-ear-headphones"></param><embed src="http://www.instructables.com/static/flash/viewer.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="425" height="425" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="always" wmode="transparent" FlashVars="title=Replacement-ear-tips-for-in-ear-headphones" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object><br><font size="1"><a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Replacement-ear-tips-for-in-ear-headphones/">Replacement ear-tips for in ear headphones</a> - <a href="http://www.instructables.com/">More DIY How To Projects</a></font>DreamTheEndlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04810535531516131905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264816507701119122.post-57962234204528793142010-08-03T21:55:00.000-07:002010-08-03T22:03:41.975-07:00Post title: self pity sucksMy life is AWESOME*!!!<br /><br />I get at least 4 solid job-possibility emails a week - all in DC, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia.... Meanwhile, I have spent 1/2 of my daughter's life away from home... All I want is a respectable Remedy Dev job working on custom code in Oregon or SW Washington... Is that too much to ask? I make amazing awesome shit, but no one in the PNW is hiring. Unemployment + living with your parents is AWESOME*!!!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />* and by awesome, I mean this shit sucks...DreamTheEndlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04810535531516131905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264816507701119122.post-12934664803280134902010-06-16T13:47:00.001-07:002010-06-16T13:48:52.269-07:00New Old PostI had a post just hanging out in draft mode without knowing it. I have published it.<br /><br /><a href="http://i-have-a-blog-now.blogspot.com/2009/03/mac-cloning-solutions-super-duper-vs.html">Super Duper vs. Carbon Copy Cloner</a>DreamTheEndlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04810535531516131905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264816507701119122.post-49462229521457568232010-06-15T08:46:00.000-07:002010-06-15T08:53:18.473-07:00You have failed me for the last time Pandora...Justin Timberlake? Really? Again? I've already thumbs downed 3 or 4 songs by him, you think you'd get the hint... And Enya? For fucks sake, how is it even possible to have a Pandora station that plays both Justin Timberlake and Enya?<br /><br />Just exactly what sort of Faustian deal did you make with the record labels? Are you secretly pimping for them by clandestinely slipping newly released shit into my music?<br /><br />You have failed me for the last time Pandora.<br /><br />Oh shit, who'm I kidding? Just like Megatron and Starscream I'll have let you back into my inner circle by next weeks episode so that you can betray me again.<br /><br />I hate you Pandora -DreamTheEndlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04810535531516131905noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264816507701119122.post-29274349039068416772010-05-09T21:31:00.000-07:002010-05-09T21:51:56.821-07:00terrorist?Ok - I'm no terrorist, but Jesus...<br /><br />I know nothing about explosives except what I learned by growing up as a male in the 80s and 90s in the united states and even I could have done a better job than that dumb motherfucker in New York... I mean - gasoline and firecrackers? shit.... I don't want to give any instructions or spoilers or anything, but have you ever heard of a pipe bomb? (There's this thing called the internet - it can give you some details....) Is there someone stupider? I think that's the greatest weakness of the latest batch of "terrorists." They are all stupid. Chronically stupid. Debilitatingly stupid. If we ever had someone with half a brain wanting to damage the united states, we'd be in trouble.<br /><br />This all brings me back to one of my (least) favorite topics: the TSA (douchebags.)<br /><br />I'm not going to talk about the time that they cut off my TSA approved locks instead of using their TSA master key to just unlock them or the time they used a screwdriver to pry open (and break) the case to a "tool-less" external hard drive enclosure... Instead - recent events have confirmed my conclusion that these low-paid, un-vetted non-technical gorillas are doing nothing to keep us "safe" and secure. Further - it seems to me that our government cares much more about making it appear as if they are making us safe then they do about actually making us safe.<br /><br />It's like our "war on drugs"... Fighting the war on drugs is much more important than putting an end to drug crime. The western world has plenty of examples on how to reduce crime and reduce drug related crime, but we turn a blind eye because we think it's a public relations "win" to keep fighting the "war on drugs." I'm disgusted...<br /><br />Ok - sorry. Rant over.DreamTheEndlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04810535531516131905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264816507701119122.post-87538332864569612122009-06-17T00:24:00.000-07:002009-06-17T00:33:45.590-07:00I may or may not have made disparaging remarks about white castle in my blog in the past.... Any such past remarks may or may not have been completely valid at the time they were made...<br /><br />However, the past is the past and the present is the present and white castle is the fucking shit y'all....<br /><br />as to the suggestion that my opinion of white castle burgers might be influenced by the hour (it's 3:29 AM currently) or the amount of beers I've consumed I must respond by saying "Fuck you. White castle is the shit. You're just jealous that you aren't munching on 6 burgers while watching poker on espn classic at 3:30 AM. Bitches....."<br /><br />What do you have to say about that?DreamTheEndlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04810535531516131905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264816507701119122.post-79992028320255149112009-05-31T23:44:00.001-07:002009-05-31T23:58:19.163-07:00A-Team Movie Dream TeamSo - the latest on the A-Team movie as of a few months ago is that they postponed it for at least a year or two, don't have a completed script, and lost their director. Because of the way the world works, I'm sure there will eventually be an A-Team movie. I don't expect it to be great cinema or anything, but I do expect it to be a fun, sometimes silly, action movie staying mostly true to the spirit of the original while rebooting it for modern times. Instead of being Vietnam vets, they'll be gulf war vets, etc... Who knows - maybe the van will be a suburban or something...<br /><br />That said - I've heard many many things about who will be cast in this movie over the years - some good and some not so good.... Just as a fun speculation, I thought I would list who I thought would be best for the roles (and work well together,) and then invite others to suggest other names that might be good. With that out of the way - here goes:<br />(Note - Some of these have been suggested by others - I'm mostly putting together a list of the best I've seen suggested so far. A couple of them I thought of without having someone else suggest it first.)<br /><br />Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith - Bruce Willis<br />Lieutenant Templeton "Faceman" Peck - Brad Pitt<br />Master Sergeant Bosco Albert ("B.A.") Baracus - Ice Cube<br />Captain H.M. "Howling Mad" Murdock - Woody Harrelson<br /><br />Input? What do you guys think?DreamTheEndlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04810535531516131905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264816507701119122.post-13111238748682017872009-05-14T17:07:00.000-07:002009-05-14T17:25:22.309-07:00Attention Internet -Ok look, if I were to devote my life to correcting the misuse of the English language that I found on the internet, I would never be able to leave my computer. It would be more futile than <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy">visiting each and every individual in the galaxy and personally insulting every one of them.</a><br /><br />However, there is a particularly disturbing abuse that I have seen three times in the last week and I feel compelled to mention it.<br /><br />If you type "John could of done it differently" in some forum or blog thread you will make everyone who reads it think that you are an idiot. The people who assume this will probably be assuming correctly.<br /><br />What you meant to type was "...could <span style="font-weight:bold;">have</span>..." or perhaps if you really wanted to emulate spoken English, you could stretch it and type "...could've...," which even my spell checker insists is wrong, but is still worlds better than "... could of..."<br /><br />Which brings me to another point... I'm not going to try to squeeze too much in here but, if you can not spell words correctly, the least you could do is switch to a browser like <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/">Firefox</a> that has a built in spellchecker. <br /><br />Ok - I'm done now.<br />Please people - post to the internet responsibly.<br /><br />Thank you.DreamTheEndlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04810535531516131905noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264816507701119122.post-62485350578954991292009-03-04T19:30:00.000-08:002010-06-16T13:46:13.376-07:00Mac cloning solutions: Super Duper vs. Carbon Copy ClonerI just found this old draft blog post just hanging out not quite finished. I didn't even realize that I hadn't published it. Even though it's a little dated, CCC is still just awesome. I use time machine for system backups, but when cloning a hard drive nothing out there beats CCC. I used it again recently when I upgraded Mathea's machine from a 250gb to a 500gb drive, my parents from a 160gb to a 320gb, and mine from a 500gb to a 750gb... Yes, in one month I had to crack open 3 apple laptops and swap hard drives. Anyway, Carbon Copy Cloner is great and you should try it out.<br /><br />I also still have a couple of laptop hard drives available if anyone wants them. Installation services included.<br />------------------------------<br />I've been a big fan of <a href="http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html">Super Duper</a> for a long time. The interface is clean; it's reliable; while you are supposed to pay for it, you get most of the functionality for free. It can do incremental or full backups. Nice software.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html">Carbon Copy Cloner</a> has been around for a long time also, but I never really checked it out until today. (I'll get to the reason in a minute.) I have to say I'm impressed. The UI is just a tiny tiny bit less clean, clear, and easy. But really, just a tiny bit. There's nothing wrong with the UI, it's just not as polished as Super Duper is.<br />However - there are two other areas where CCC is <span style="font-weight:bold;">very</span> superior to Super Duper. The first is pricing. I know I just finished telling you that almost all functionality in Super Duper is free, but... Well, the developer of CCC says it best - here is a quote from the product page:<br /><br /><blockquote>Making donations<br /><br />CCC is considered donation-ware (uncrippled shareware). I worked hard developing CCC and its methodology and documenting it on the internet for the rest of the Mac OS X community. If you find CCC indispensable, please consider making a donation. Please note that if you are using CCC for an educational institution, you should NOT donate to Bombich Software. My heart is in Education and all software that I write shall always be free to Education.</blockquote><br /><br />I love it.<br /><br />Now, the reason I went to CCC in the first place is that I'm copying my nearly full 320GB that's currently in my MBP to a new 500GB that I just bought via firewire 800. I started a copy using Super Duper. Even though I had configured it to erase the destination drive before starting and then clone the source drive to the destination drive, (copy EVERYTHING) it was evaluating each file to determine if it needed to be copied before it copied it. I'm not positive that that's what slowed it down, but it was going very slow and the progress display kept saying that it was evaluating files (and then copying them.)<br /><br />The 320 --> 500 is the biggest I've ever done from my mac and I just couldn't take how slow it was going. After half an hour it was maybe 15% done so I canceled it knowing that perhaps I had just cost myself 30 minutes and would have to just start over again.<br /><br />I downloaded Carbon Copy Cloner just to give it a try. I'm so glad I did.DreamTheEndlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04810535531516131905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264816507701119122.post-90282462479046594092009-03-03T04:42:00.000-08:002009-03-03T04:44:38.506-08:00New terminator previewI just watched the new terminator preview - this movie will not disappoint...<br /><br />Watch it here:<br /><object width="400" height="327" id="uvp_fop"><param name="movie" value="http://l.yimg.com/cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/fop/embedflv/swf/fop.swf"></param><param name="flashVars" value="id=12282404&rd=eyc-off&ympsc=&postpanelEnable=1&prepanelEnable=1&infopanelEnable=1&carouselEnable=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed width="400" height="327" id="uvp_fop" allowscriptaccess="always" src="http://l.yimg.com/cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/fop/embedflv/swf/fop.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="id=12282404&rd=eyc-off&ympsc=&prepanelEnable=1&infopanelEnable=1"></embed></object>DreamTheEndlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04810535531516131905noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264816507701119122.post-49028938113257895042009-02-19T20:27:00.000-08:002009-02-19T20:28:56.514-08:00Continuing my mission to bring the greatest of all possible webcomics to the masses...<a href="http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=523"><br /><img src="http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20060702.gif"></a><br /><br />Oh - and PS: Check out the sharkify button in the below post.DreamTheEndlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04810535531516131905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264816507701119122.post-70831147300385403212009-02-13T18:03:00.001-08:002009-02-13T18:03:24.471-08:00Sharks<a href="#" onclick="sharkify_add();return false;"><img src="http://www.iamcal.com/sharkify/sharkify.gif" width="61" height="16" border="0" alt="Sharkify" /></a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.iamcal.com/sharkify/sharkify.js"></script>DreamTheEndlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04810535531516131905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264816507701119122.post-10124782165781142612009-02-08T23:25:00.001-08:002009-02-08T23:25:48.819-08:001051 miles today. Only 585 to go. DreamTheEndlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04810535531516131905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264816507701119122.post-57935116930529484292009-02-08T09:11:00.001-08:002009-02-08T09:11:13.082-08:00Continental divideJust passed continental divide. DreamTheEndlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04810535531516131905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264816507701119122.post-2015397933665138392009-02-07T20:50:00.000-08:002009-02-07T20:55:42.033-08:00Road trip part 3 day 1So - I'm driving back to Ohio... Pretty aggressive driving schedule - need to do 800 miles per day. Here is the end of day 1: (831 miles.)<br /><br /><iframe width="650" height="400" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=45.521932,-123.084147&daddr=Evanston,+Wyoming&hl=en&geocode=&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=0&sz=17&sll=45.521624,-123.084887&sspn=0.003721,0.011373&ie=UTF8&s=AARTsJr6gRXM4fx8_A6BC2L8DADYpRcrYQ&ll=43.771094,-117.399902&spn=6.346392,14.282227&z=6&output=embed"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=embed&saddr=45.521932,-123.084147&daddr=Evanston,+Wyoming&hl=en&geocode=&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=0&sz=17&sll=45.521624,-123.084887&sspn=0.003721,0.011373&ie=UTF8&ll=43.771094,-117.399902&spn=6.346392,14.282227&z=6" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">View Larger Map</a></small><br /><br />I'm tired....DreamTheEndlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04810535531516131905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264816507701119122.post-49210471628143194142009-02-05T09:35:00.001-08:002009-02-05T09:35:01.150-08:00ttttttest?DreamTheEndlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04810535531516131905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264816507701119122.post-14456758017465690792009-01-27T22:57:00.000-08:002009-01-27T23:00:34.389-08:00I fucking love XKCD<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/space_elevators.png"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 629px; height: 221px;" src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/space_elevators.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />www.XKCD.comDreamTheEndlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04810535531516131905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264816507701119122.post-38583128374644394172008-11-26T11:33:00.001-08:002008-11-26T11:33:55.515-08:00more completely awesome webcomic posts.....<a href="http://www.superstupor.com/sust11262007.shtml"><img src="http://www.superstupor.com/sust11262007.gif" alt="Super Stupor" border=0></a>DreamTheEndlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04810535531516131905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264816507701119122.post-58776792953482250192008-11-14T21:31:00.000-08:002008-11-14T21:33:48.708-08:00Ouchthat must have hurt buddy......<br />12:45 wheelies don't work.....<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sc-RrSCDutY/SR5fJurxN1I/AAAAAAAAAFI/i88EHPQhHhI/s1600-h/photo(2).jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sc-RrSCDutY/SR5fJurxN1I/AAAAAAAAAFI/i88EHPQhHhI/s400/photo(2).jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268753234825131858" /></a>DreamTheEndlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04810535531516131905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264816507701119122.post-39271832677930360162008-10-29T19:21:00.000-07:002008-10-29T22:08:14.252-07:00So funny it made me cry......<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.viruscomix.com/page422.html"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 1002px; height: 692px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3158/2986187052_1c0392be05_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>DreamTheEndlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04810535531516131905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264816507701119122.post-83435052055672756702008-10-16T13:30:00.000-07:002008-10-16T13:34:52.264-07:00Short post from work:Pet peeve of the week:<br /><br />Conversate<br /> verb<br /> also: conversating; conversatin'; <br /><br />To converse<br /><br />See Also: DumbassDreamTheEndlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04810535531516131905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264816507701119122.post-13002928420044478572008-09-25T18:54:00.000-07:002008-09-25T18:55:23.634-07:00Ok - enough serious - back to funnyenjoy<br /><br /><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1831461&fullscreen=1" width="640" height="360" ><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="true" /><param name="movie" quality="best" value="http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1831461&fullscreen=1" /></object><div style="padding:5px 0; text-align:center; width:640px;">See more <a href="http://www.collegehumor.com/videos">funny videos</a> and <a href="http://www.collegehumor.com/pictures">funny pictures</a> at <a href="http://www.collegehumor.com/">CollegeHumor</a>.</div>DreamTheEndlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04810535531516131905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264816507701119122.post-87634400739392492552008-09-24T00:46:00.000-07:002008-09-24T01:18:21.387-07:00Bill Sizemore: Oregon DouchebagDear Bill Sizemore,<br /><br />I have recently learned of your ballot measure 58 that would force Oregon schools to scrap bilingual education programs in favor of a one size fits all immersion program (one year only of immersion for ESL students entering school in kindergarten through 4th grade; 1.5 years of immersion for students entering school in 5th through 8th grades; and two years for students entering school in high school.)<br /><br />I don't believe that this plan takes into account the differences between students and how a students background might affect his abilities. I do however believe that you are a douchebag. Do you perhaps have a degree in education that helped you determine the best way to educate foreign language students? Years of study that lead you to determine that this plan of yours is for some reason better that the one that is currently in place in most states including Oregon? Do you have any reason to believe that you are in any way more qualified to design education plans for foreign language students than the education experts specializing in this field?<br /><br />What's that you say? You don't have a degree in education? Oh, you received a bachelor's degree in Theology from Portland Bible College. I don't think that qualifies you to do anything at all. Perhaps if you had studied a useful subject you would have understood that this plan of yours will actually cost the state more money and not save money as you continue to insist.<br /><br />If bookkeeping's not your bag, you could have instead gone for some straightforward research before penning this educational sabotage. You might have researched the similar law that was passed in Arizona that cost the state $2,740 extra per ESL student. Had you looked into that law, you would have also learned that the law has not had any impact on reducing drop out rates for ESL students and has not improved standardized tests for ESL students.<br /><br />In conclusion, you're a fucking douchebag. Causing vast amounts of damage to Oregon tax law isn't enough for you you fucking asshole? You have to now directly fuck up our schools? Fuck you you piece of shit. You've caused enough damage to our state. Please never write another ballot measure again for the rest of your life. Prick.<br /><br />Sincerely, <br />Phillip Brockhaus<br /><br />P.S. Vote No on Measure 58.DreamTheEndlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04810535531516131905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3264816507701119122.post-66914225755068828032008-09-09T07:36:00.000-07:002008-09-09T07:37:53.599-07:00German Sci-fi commercial<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bIrO9YqC18U&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bIrO9YqC18U&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />fucking awesomeDreamTheEndlesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04810535531516131905noreply@blogger.com0