Here is a Tip, stop tipping

Here is a tip, lets do away with tips and pay servers at least minimal wage.
Why are waiters so special to get extra money for their service? I do believe they are hired to serve me my food. What sets them apart from anyone else? You don't see me tipping the UPS guy for serving me my package. No one ever tips the lunch lady for giving you a tray of glop. Nor have I ever tipped my boss for giving me a load of crap.

An employer hires a person to preform a job. I don't get the reason why the customer who is already paying for service have to pay an additional amount. A bell hop's job is to deliver your bags to your room. His employee has already hired him to do this task.

I can see being at a McDonalds, ordering a #2 and while I was waiting, my food is served and a regular person decided to bring me my bag since they were heading the same way to their table. I would thank them of course, but no money was ever thought of.

History of the 'tip' was originally ment "To Insure Promptness". I can see handing the waiter a $10 and ask him to expedite my order. But why tip afterward? Plus I want to tip the cook who made the food. I can tell you right now, it's how the food tasted that will bring me back, Not from whom I received it.

I am sorry, but I will only tip if I feel the person has gone above and beyond their normal call of duty. Or maybe I should start holding out my hand to the companies I work for when I push that heavy case.

Review of Majora's Mask

Annoying.
To much having to go to inventory and change my C buttons. Along with changing masks. To much of that. I change mask at least 10 times in a 3 minute window. Some times 10 times with in 30 seconds. Very annoying.
At any one time you usually need 5 of your items. Problem is your C buttons only hold 3. So you are constentlly switching them around. Very aggrivating.
The game is not as flowing as the original. You need to be in a tiny 2x2 box inorder for something to work. If you even over the invisible box line. Your action won't work. In the original game, you had at least a 4x4 square to complete an action. (2 units to me equal the width of a door way).
I am so confused as to what I need to do next. Having to refresh back to the first day over and over, I feel no sence of accomplishment. I have stocked piled all my inventory, my wallett is full, Ive done tons of mini missions. and I have to revert back to the first day, and bam. All gone. I am finding it a waste of my time. I save a little girl from a well, and have to come back and do it all over again.
All of the tiny missions to get masks, bottles, and other such are not indicated at all in the game. Only reason I know of all of them is because I am using walk throughs that people have posted on the net. How should I know how to get all 6 bottles, and that 2 of them I can only get past 6pm on the last day. With a map so big, I would never of known that.
My review: Not worth the aggravation. Don't buy.

Weather is always wrong

[11:46] netradBot: Forcast for Maryland
[11:46] netradBot: Tonight: Generally cloudy. High near 70F. Winds E at 10 to 20 mph.
[11:46] netradBot: Tomorrow: Showers early, becoming a steady rain overnight. Windy. Low 47F. Winds E at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 70%. Rainfall near a half an inch.
[11:47] netradBot: Tomorrow Night: Windy with occasional rain and a few thundershowers likely. A few storms may be severe. High 53F. Winds E at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 70%. 1 to 2 inches of rain expected.

so which is it? A steady rain over night or off and on rain and few thunderstorms? They can't even get their own forecasts strait

Spam Caps

While reading some stories today on Digg, a light bulb came on.

Internet providers are always complaining that us customers are using to much bandwidth and have started to putting cap's on our download and upload combined limit. "Cause our 'pipe's can't handle the amount of traffic"

Well why don't they go after the Spammers of the net. According to ABCNews.com, Over 62 trillion Spam emails are circulating around the net.

So I say, Kill the spammers, they are the ones hoggin up all the bandwidth

62 Trillion Spam E-mails = ?
http://digg.com/d1orgE

Time Warner Cable tells FCC to shut up about net neutrality
http://digg.com/d1olz2

Google needs Topics

Google, you need to add sub groups, or categories, or genera to your search's

When I search for a hammer
http://www.google.com/search?q=hammer

I don't get lucky. I get a site about bowling.

When I search for Brick

I top result is about a movie, then about the song Brick by ben folds five.

I want sub topics. When I google brick, instead of 'do you mean' I want to get "Which genera? Masonry, Media, location"

Google hammer: Music? Tools? Hammer Stores?

Google eggdrop: IRC Bot? Science Project? Easter Egg?

Google Needs to refine their search engine. They have created Images, News, Shopping, Video, So it knows how to tell the difference. Give me a selection of topics google. Let me be able to refine my search.

And no, the "Searches related to:" does not help. Searches related to: brick= brick game brick lyrics brick furniture brick restaurant
brick sizes bricks and stones brick patio brick cost

I want BRICKS just strictly a block of stone that is red!!.

Why? cause when I search up something in specific. I never find the result I am looking for. Cause all the results listed have nothing to do what I am looking for. This is extremely painful when I am search for an item that uses a common name. I am still looking for a device that has 12-16 buttons on it, and when a button is pressed, a sound effect is played. I want to call this a sound pad. But when search for it, I get topics relating to editing software and some British council Facebook profile.

I would like 'search with in results' topic. First Search: Audio, then search: Hardware, then search playback, or touch pad, or sound pad. And I will be able to refine my results to something like the 360's Instant replay device.

building an IRC bot is like snow

I am currently trying to create an IRC bot out of my old linksys router. Ive been on efnet #netradio for 7+ years , and have now been given the responsibly as an op in the channel. Thus to prevent the 'op-less channel' issue. Which had occured.
While brushing up on all my operator/admin commands I visited a fellow radio irc guy. And was playing around with their bot. (robot setup to do automated tasks) like automatilcy Op or Voice a user. I got intrested, created my own. bot's name is eq_Guard. Its doing ok, but lives in mIRC on a computer.
While searching around more, I learn about eggdrop, a irc bot program that would replace mIRC. Only thing is I need to find a home for the eggdrop to live. I can rent out a place online for $5 a month. or create my own. Yea would be subjected to power outages in my home. But would be free.
I have heard I can use my old linksys router to do the job. but its a WRT54G version 5 router. Which nolonger has the proper linux operation on it to do what I need it to do.
My point of this post is to describe to you in a metaphore what this whole experence has been like to me. I thought this would be very easy. But now into the third day, my brain has crashed, and I think I am on the verge of 'bricking' my mind.

[17:23] eqrunner: fail!
[17:24] eqrunner: not the only fail today
[17:24] eqrunner: haveing a hellof a time getting any answers from the web
[17:24] eqrunner: flashed the router with dd-wrt linux firmware
[17:25] eqrunner: but due to my linksys router being a WRT54g version 5, its got a different base
[17:25] eqrunner: so i was forced to use only the micro version of dd-wrt
[17:25] eqrunner: but i cant find a compairsion anywhere between micro and their 'normal'
[17:26] eqrunner: cuase i have done the SD card mod to the router
[17:26] eqrunner: but dd-wrt isnt finding it
[17:27] eqrunner: its becoming one
[17:28] eqrunner: just when i think im making a break through
[17:28] eqrunner: i get that 'oh by the way' sindrome
[17:29] eqrunner: like shovlin snow..
[17:29] eqrunner: look at radar, see clear skys for the next week..
[17:29] eqrunner: go out to shovel that 1 in of snow off..
[17:29] eqrunner: haft way there you notice another 2 inches has fall while you were snowing
[17:30] eqrunner: you finish off to the end of the driveway and the snow plow comes and throws all that slushy gray crap all over your driveway
[17:30] eqrunner: so you begin working on that when you see that the extra 2 inches has melted then frozen over leaving a layer of ice
[17:31] eqrunner: and by the time your done with the snow plow stuff, another 3 inches has fallen
[17:31] eqrunner: while pushing that 3 inches off the icelayer, the snow plow has made another pass
[17:32] eqrunner: and thats where i am at this point
[17:32] eqrunner: standing on a layer of ice, staring at what the snow plow just added while another inch of snow accumlates on my head
[17:33] eqrunner: im about to go inside and get a cup of hot choloclate and say screw it

Various Artist Ft

Various Artists featuring Cee lo Green, Brend - Open Happiness

Ok, why the hell do Cee lo Green and Brend get special treatment? What makes these bozos so special? Why are they not included as part of the Various Artists?

This is what royaly annoys the hell out of me with this crap music today. Every one is Ft in every one elses songs. God forbid they decided to do a tour. You got 10 songs out, all contaning Ft artists. Like you really are going have all Ft artist on tour with it. Come on. I guess you suck so bad that you require other popular artists in your song to help promote your music case you SUCK!.

Oh wait, that is true. That and your writing ablity also is pathedic. Cause you are covering songs from song that were made in 1990. Damn you. Learn to sing, learn to write good quality music or get off the radio!

twitter is runin my edumcation

Twitter is making me spell things wrong just to get it to fit.

echo: you mean lik
echo: even levin wrds out sentce

Yup, my point exactly. So many times I have wanted to use spell check to correct a word. But I can't. Cause if I correct it, I will be 1 letter to many in the window.

This complelty throws proper grammar out the window. Instant messaging was bad, that got people to shorten phrases to acronyms to get something said over and over out faster. RTFM, LOL, BRB.

But combine that with a limited amount of characters, and things get pretty interesting. A good majority of tweet'ers don't say enough to use up the 140 character limit. 'I'm having eggs and bacon for breakfast' or 'On the commode having an epiphany'.
But other try to cram a paragraph in their, and it can't be done with out breaking the rules.

Shame on technology for ruining what the government is paying to make us smart. Why have schools anymore. The internet will teach you everything!

Touch pad

Looking for a sound sampler device. Something basic, Has a audio out, can be RCA, 1/8, XLR. no real preference. You can either record strait to the unit, or connect via usb and add a sound file.

Objective. Me have SIT tone to help combat telemarketers. I currently use a small mp3 player that I have hooked to the phone line with a separate device. I have to turn the mp3 player on, and takes about 5 seconds before it auto plays. I would like a simple device that Is always on in some sort of way. And all I need to do is push a bump button and it plays the wav clip.

If they still made Yak Pak's I could mod one of those. A small electronics kit would work too. Or a good suggestion for a birthday card or xmas card that you can record your voice and pays back when you open it up. Suggestions?

Phone Auto Google Search

Telemarketers are back at it again. That big spam server that was taken down at the end of last year. Didn't that server also host phone telemarketers? anywho...

I like to SIT them when they call but don't get a chance to google the number that showed up on caller ID until after the call has ended/disconnected. I want to know if there is a program that utilizes my modem in my computer.

Objective: Phone rings. Modem (that is connected to the phone line) reads the phone ID, just like a caller ID does, then auto google searches the number (Does not pick up the call).

Second option: Is there a caller ID that is USB or internet abled that will either tell the computer to search, or searches google for you.

enough with the iest

Ok We have seen them all, they are not all that spectacular as you think. Oh which to choose tonight. I could watch, Worlds Scariest, Nature's Deadliest, World's Dumbest, or World's Strongest. These are all shows that are on right now. My question becomes, What makes you any better than the other shows that were air'ed earlier this week, or earlier this month, or even year?

They use the term iest, or est on the end of basic words to make it sound even more spectacular. But its not! You are just dullin down peoples fear. They see this crap over and over and over, if you have browsed youtube'ed for 5 minutes. You have already seen all these High speed chases, or the creepiest spider craw no where, or the most painful accident. ALL CAUGHT ON TAPE.

Oooo wow, caught on tape. *twirls finger* ah humm.... I thought tape was out, its all digital now. What are they going to use for a slogan? Caught on a spinning disk? Caught on flash with flash?

Not to mention. If you have watched even one of these shows, then you have seen them all. They all air the same videos of the same wrecks, chases, stupidity. They just air them in a different order or some times group them up in the Worlds Scariest car chases, or boat accidents, or police situations and then re-air it all over again. No that sequel to The most outrageous crap 2 is the same crap, just played in a different order.

They use the same audio tracks too and same background sound effects. Watch one of these shows with police chases. Watch a few of the videos then ask your self... How in the world did the chopper cam hear the police sirens from 200ft in the air, yet didn't hear it's own blades swigging through the air? Or that the 'field agent' following the stolen car in Brunswick sound exactly like the perusing cop of a hit and run in Las Vegas?. And how come the sirens all sound the same. Or that some how they cut between the chopper cam and the dash cam, and the siren magically sounds continuous. Insted of choppy like the video is.

If you can't come up with new content for your station, then get off the air

Mirror reflection

If you stared at a mirror 2 feet in front of you at an reflection of an object 100ft behind you, would you be come near or far sighted?

Copy Cat music

This will be an ongoing post, but I want to pick off all the cheepo's out there ripping off of others music:

The Smiths - How Soon is Now?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0ZMD95of40

HippyChick Soho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn_SRT5scK0

Chasing a UPS guy

I sit here waiting on another package. Its currently 'Out for Delivery' but because of their system, I have no clue when it will arrive.

I get at least 3 different drivers who deliver packages to my home. After talking to one of them, I found out (for residential deliveries at least) they have a computer that follow the packages, and calculates the best truck, route, and delivery pattern for the packages to save on travel time, gas, and unneeded trucks running similar routes. This is great, good way to cut costs and save on fuel.

Problem is for people like me who are waiting on that package have no clue when the delivery guy will show. Each of the 3 drivers have a consistent delivery time. Driver A 11:30-12:45, Driver B 14:15-15:20, Driver C 16:20-17:30.

My suggestion to this would be to add GPS to the trucks. Their system does track which truck a package goes on to, so I say, when a package goes out for delivery, add to the tracking page: PackageX is on Truck B 'Click here to track'. This takes you to a google like map. Based on the 10-15 min updates from the truck to a central server that gives its current coordinates, You can better estimate when a package will arrive.

Since a computer also selects the route, the map can also draw in the projected path of the truck so, in the event you miss him, You can rondavue with them at a different location to receive your package. (assuming it wasn't dropped off at your house)

Their bar code scanners update every 10-20mins with package stats. Just add GPS to the wands and send the GPS coordinates every time it updates. Cameras now a days have GPS stamps to their pictures, why not Delivery trucks.

UPDATE:
Just got my package, and chit catted with the UPS guy. They have new scanners that they are now using. They have GPS built in, and they are assisting the driver on their next location. Like a Garmin or TomTom device. Unconfirmed, but they might implement something in the future. We will have to wait.

Germs are good for you

More informoricals drive me nuts. I wish there was the c-chip. But I want to pick on all the comericals and products for 'cleaning and sterilization' your whole house!

Do these companies not realize that the germs and bacteria that is in the house is good for you?
Yes, I am right, they are good for you. Granted I'm no scientist, no doctor degree, and I am sure some one will dispute my argument.

The point I want to make is that your body needs germs to build and immunity to them. That flu shot you get when your very young? That is the flu itself. What they do is weeken the flu bug itself and inject it in to you. Your immune system has never seen the flu before, and attacks the flu. The flu is to weak to fight back, and your body learns how to fight against the flu. So in the future when the flu hits you full speed, your body can reconize it, and attack it with effecenty.

Same applies to daily germs and bacteria. Granted you shouldn't be devolgin your self into buckets of bacteria. But the stuff that lingers around the house does you good. Your body addapts to the mild germs from the door handle, shaking some ones unwashed hand, the pretzle thats been on the counter for a week, that chip that fell on the ground etc. Your body learns how to fight all these bugs.

You take some one who has grown up with parents who have purchased every single cleaning product in the world, picked up every speck of dust, plastic coated ever chair and sofa, bleached the whole house. When that kid steps out in 'world' bugs and germs hit the kid at full force, and the kids body doesn't know how to react. Thus the kid gets sick, his body is weak, and puts him out of commission for a few days while the body trys to figure out how to fight a bug/germ that is way to big.

Metaphore:
Just like riding a bike. When you were yonger, you learned how to ride that tiny kids bike. But now your an adult, and some one throws a motorcyle your way, You already know the basics and will be more likely to succeed on that bike, rather than some one who has never ridden a bike before. They are at a greater risk of crashing, and crashing hard

Battery backup clocks

what good is having a clock with batteries in it to save the time when power goes out. If it just decided to come back on with the wrong time. I just recovered from another power outage. Its currently 06:04. But my clocks are telling me its 06:30, 06:16, 06:28. What gives? Is this a manufacture defect? Or do the battery weild some great power that forces the clocks to speed up?

Get it right or get off the air

And you wonder why no one beleaves the news any more. None of them can get their stories strait

Why can't news companies get the news correct, or get the same result/answer. They are always pressed to get the news out first!!! even if is inaccurate. Or wrong. Just look at this current wild fire in Australia. You have to take an average to figure out how many deaths there are:

CNN says 166, NBC 171, FOX 171, ABC 166, CBS 135, heraldsun 166, mail.com 130

Mail, NBC, CBS and FOX all say 750 homes destroyed, CNN say 800

NBC, ABC and CBS say the temp is 117°F, while CNN still trying to be the big dog says 118°F.


This happens with every news story out there. The stations wonder why people don't stay tuned in to their only station 24/7. This is why. This is also why I am sure people like you tend to turn to the internet to get a variority of stories and draw your on conclusion to what is happing. I commend you on that. I support you going out and doing your own reporting. You will be 3 times more accurate as these big-wigs. And they wonder why twitter is fast becoming the first place people look for correct news.

sources:
http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Australia-Antarctica\20090209\AS-Australia-Wildfires.xml&cat=world&subcat=australiaantarctica&pageid=1
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/09/australia.wildfires/index.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29067017/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,489705,00.html
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=6833919
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/09/world/main4785417.shtml?tag=topHome;topStories
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25031603-661,00.html

C- Chip

Every one know that TV's now a days have V-Chips in them. This allows parents to block programing that's rate PG-13, PG-17, MA, etc. Great idea as long as you don't have a kid who is even a bit savy who will crack it. But I digress.

I would like to create something else. The C-Chip. What is it? its a chip that allows you block comericals. I am sick of seeing comericals for 'Male Enhancment', or for weight loss, Don't want to buy some over priced infomercial product, and I am sick and tired of the stuipd credit report crap.

How would it work? many ways. Best case I would want each comerical to have certin data attached to it. Company, Genera of item, Comerical number. That way you could block all comericals from 'Company A, C, X' I understand that this may be hard to do. FCC would have to set up a bill that would require all comerical to have said information tacked on so the TV can block it.

A simplar solution would simply have a UPC like code attached to it, and you simply see a comerical you dont want, You click 'block' on your remote and would never see that comerical again. Granted if the company comes out with a new comerical, you have to block that one too. But its a start.

This way no more 'girls gone wild', godaddy.com pervert during superbowl while kids are watching, 4 hr stiffy drugs, lame geico squids, or stupid blankets with holes in them.

Dugg crap day in and day out

a message I sent to digg.com today

I am unhappy with website that are repeatably dugg and promoted to the front page every single day. 3 site xkcd.com, cracked.com, explosm.net. I see these 3 sites every single day and it's quite irritating. I myself don't care for the content, Nor do I find the content in their articles relevant or thought provoked. I am also finding a lot of cross-media submissions for xkcd.com and explosm.net. I will find duplicate links both in News and Images, and both normally make it to front page. Is there any system in place to limit the amount of stories/pages submitted that reach front page from the same site? Or is it just power diggers abusing the system?

peta vs vegies

Watching an old Penn & Teller episode of them rippin on stupid PETA. then watched another video of a guy commenting on PETA's "reasons' video. Kinda occurred to me.

If PETA wants us to basically stop eating all meat and turn vegetarians. Wouldn't that piss off the environmentalist? Cause not only would we be eating the very foods that help clean the air of toxins and produce oxygen for us to breath, We would be creating more harmful emissions from the farmers machinery to produce more vegies?

Look at the corn industry. Since we are now using corn to produce ethanol for our gas, the price of an ear of corn has substantially increased. Just imagin the prices of all vegie's going up atleast 2 fold cause farmers wouldn't beable to produce it fast enough.

Not to mention farmland is shrinking cause of the population. The houseing market has been buying out farm land to expand the houseing population to react to the US population increase.

So Less farms producing less product, raseing prices, rasing vegitarians due to PETA incurging it. Not including the fact that more animals will be running free, unregulated (cause PETA says so) Eating up all the produce in the farm land that the farmers are trying to produce to meet the demand of the country.

Links
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ijLulwUTY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iyPXVFd1eY

Grass Greener

It just occurred to me while responding to a friends FB status:

Rich: Rich needs to get his shit together, cuz he can't live like this forever. He's come too far and don't wanna fail. He's got a new computer and a bright future in sales.

Me: do what i did, ball it all up like a snowball, pick it up and put it on your trebushay, and sling it across the street to your neighbors lawn and let them deal with it. That's what I do.... oh wait, i just had an epiphany. This would explain why the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence!

keep throwing crap at your neighbors, and the will learn how to deal with it, thus will grow and blossom. I guess we all need to start dealing with our own crap, learn how to over come it, and life will be much better off.

no a sermon, just a thought out of my puny head

Wii sports so unfair

Im annoyed at Wii sports for the points system.
Playing Wii Sports Bowling. They rank you based on your highest score. And will add or subtract your points based on how you compare to your high score. Why? This annoys me to no end. Out of beginners luck, I scored a 217. Had a turkey and a few stranded strikes. Since then my points keep droping. Why? cause I can't get anywhere close to 217. Just today I scored a 175, 160, 152, all of them I lost points. My average is around a 155 score game, but since I am no where close to my high score, I loose experence points. No fair nintendo, this game is rigged

My ranting poll.

There is a lot of stuff I see day in and day out that I want to get off my chest. So this will be my common ground to expell them. Shorts, longs, many, few, it will vary so stay tuned