Wow, I'm just shocked and amazed at all the nasty comments people are leaving on Michael Jacksons videos on YouTube. It's really not cool. Mother always told me "If you can't say something nice then don't say anything at all."
Ok yes, he "allegedly" molested children and yes, he was kind of a freak show and I really didn't care too much for him as a person because of the way he lived his life but that is not for me to say anything negative about him. It's not for me to judge him or anyone else for that matter. Judging him or anybody for that matter is for a higher being to do.
You have to admit that the man was a musical genius. His music video Thriller was awesome and it was played on MTV every hour or something because it was requested so often.
Well that's all I'm going to say about it.
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Bike Path Home?
Now before I get nasty comments on this I would just like to say that at age 17 I was homeless for 10 months, 1.5 months after my 17th birthday all the way until about 1.5 months before my 18th birthday so I know what it's like being homeless. That being said here you go...
So I'm riding on the bike path last week and I stop at the Manor St. rest stop which has about 4 cement benches, 1 of them has like a bus stop roof so if it's raining you can sit in there out of the rain. 2 of them have no cover and those 3 are all in like a half circle (see my bikecam video at the end). Then the 4th bench is separate from that little half circle, more like across the "street" hehe.
Anyway, so I'm riding the bike path last week (as I said lol) and I go to the stop and it's dark because the sun hasn't come up and I see this darkness over by one of the benches. So I don't go around the half circle and sit in the middle like I normally would, instead I just pull in on the other side and sit on the bench at the end. I look over and see a face staring at me. It's a homeless guy in a sleeping bag next to the bench but on the ground. I sat there for my 10-15 minute break and then leave.
Next day he's not there and then the next time I go there he isn't there but the sun has already come up and it was the day after Michael Jackson had passed away. So I go sit down on the bench and as I'm taking off my helmet I can see in my helmet mirror this guy all of a sudden standing like 15 feet away from me, staring at me. This kinda freaks me out because he wasn't there when I stopped and when I sat down, almost as if he teleported there lol.
He slowly creeps towards me and is now in front of me and I know that he's the guy sleeping in the sleeping bag over by the bench and I'm not quite sure I trust him. He has this scar on his neck from having his throat slashed. I'm not sure what that was all about but I'm going to give him the benefit of a doubt. He comes up to me and starts talking about Michael Jackson and I sat there talking to him about all the recent deaths and about how MJ is getting all the attention while Caradine, McMahon and Fawcett get no attention.
So anyway, after about 10-15 minutes I'm ready to go so I said well breaks over and start getting my gear back on, camelbak, gloves, skull cap, helmet, earbud's and I look in my helmet mirror and he's back where he was when I first spotted him. Standing 15 feet away from me, arms folded, staring at me.
The last 2 days (yesterday and today) I could see him in his sleeping bag, I'm leaving really early and so I get there before the sun even has a chance to come up. But I've decided I'm not going to take any chances. Instead of stopping there and sitting down I'm just gonna go through that tunnel and go about maybe 1/4 of a mile away and rest there. I'm having to rest standing up now which kinda bites but that's fine, I'd rather have to stand then worry about having my throat slashed.
Now, as I said above about being homeless, I know what it's like and not everyone should be judged based on their scars and I don't want to judge "the content of his character" as Martin Luther King Jr. would say but at the same time I really don't know this guy and I'm not taking any chances.
So I'm riding on the bike path last week and I stop at the Manor St. rest stop which has about 4 cement benches, 1 of them has like a bus stop roof so if it's raining you can sit in there out of the rain. 2 of them have no cover and those 3 are all in like a half circle (see my bikecam video at the end). Then the 4th bench is separate from that little half circle, more like across the "street" hehe.
Anyway, so I'm riding the bike path last week (as I said lol) and I go to the stop and it's dark because the sun hasn't come up and I see this darkness over by one of the benches. So I don't go around the half circle and sit in the middle like I normally would, instead I just pull in on the other side and sit on the bench at the end. I look over and see a face staring at me. It's a homeless guy in a sleeping bag next to the bench but on the ground. I sat there for my 10-15 minute break and then leave.
Next day he's not there and then the next time I go there he isn't there but the sun has already come up and it was the day after Michael Jackson had passed away. So I go sit down on the bench and as I'm taking off my helmet I can see in my helmet mirror this guy all of a sudden standing like 15 feet away from me, staring at me. This kinda freaks me out because he wasn't there when I stopped and when I sat down, almost as if he teleported there lol.
He slowly creeps towards me and is now in front of me and I know that he's the guy sleeping in the sleeping bag over by the bench and I'm not quite sure I trust him. He has this scar on his neck from having his throat slashed. I'm not sure what that was all about but I'm going to give him the benefit of a doubt. He comes up to me and starts talking about Michael Jackson and I sat there talking to him about all the recent deaths and about how MJ is getting all the attention while Caradine, McMahon and Fawcett get no attention.
So anyway, after about 10-15 minutes I'm ready to go so I said well breaks over and start getting my gear back on, camelbak, gloves, skull cap, helmet, earbud's and I look in my helmet mirror and he's back where he was when I first spotted him. Standing 15 feet away from me, arms folded, staring at me.
The last 2 days (yesterday and today) I could see him in his sleeping bag, I'm leaving really early and so I get there before the sun even has a chance to come up. But I've decided I'm not going to take any chances. Instead of stopping there and sitting down I'm just gonna go through that tunnel and go about maybe 1/4 of a mile away and rest there. I'm having to rest standing up now which kinda bites but that's fine, I'd rather have to stand then worry about having my throat slashed.
Now, as I said above about being homeless, I know what it's like and not everyone should be judged based on their scars and I don't want to judge "the content of his character" as Martin Luther King Jr. would say but at the same time I really don't know this guy and I'm not taking any chances.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Wood Burning Shading
A friend of mine bought me a Creative Versa-Tool wood burner but I never bought a book for it because the Michael's in town has a very small wood burning section. So I was looking around and asked someone about it. I asked if I am wasting my time with this cool tool or should I save up for the expensive big boy tool and this person told me that I can just get a lamp dimmer and use that. Well, I just so happen to have one of those. I tried it and it works great.
The only issue that I have with this light dimmer is that it doesn't really have a dial, it has buttons instead. Like "Bright" and "Dim" so I had to plug in a lamp into it and press the dim button while counting lol. It does 0 dim to 15 bright so when I use the wood burner with it I have to just count lol. I think it would be a good idea to buy a piece of wood and trace like a checkerboard and number it 1-15 and just do shading in each of those boxes so I will get a better idea of what each shade looks like so in the future I will know the exact shade I need lol. Good idea eh?
If someone has a Creative Versa-Tool wood burner, I would love to hear your comments if you have some good suggestions on how to do things.
The only issue that I have with this light dimmer is that it doesn't really have a dial, it has buttons instead. Like "Bright" and "Dim" so I had to plug in a lamp into it and press the dim button while counting lol. It does 0 dim to 15 bright so when I use the wood burner with it I have to just count lol. I think it would be a good idea to buy a piece of wood and trace like a checkerboard and number it 1-15 and just do shading in each of those boxes so I will get a better idea of what each shade looks like so in the future I will know the exact shade I need lol. Good idea eh?
If someone has a Creative Versa-Tool wood burner, I would love to hear your comments if you have some good suggestions on how to do things.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Ed McMahon, Farah Faucett and Michael Jackson
Yesterday morning on my bike ride I was listening to the radio instead of mp3's and they said that Ed McMahon died from cancer. That was sad but I knew he was dying so I hope he is at peace. My condolences go out to his family.
But I just heard that Michael Jackson died! What?! OMG I can't believe it. That was so unexpected. Wasn't he just going to make his 10th come back? Well, same goes for him as with Ed, he is at peace now and he doesn't have to worry about his looks anymore or his pedophile charges anymore.
Ok if that wasn't enough then I heard about Farah Faucett. Ok now they've gone too far. Farah is dead too? That is so sad. Ok I also knew about her cancer and I thought she was doing good. My condolences go out to her family.
They say it always happens in threes right? Well, I hope that Blanket and MJ's other kids go to a good home, like maybe their mother who they should've been with the whole time.
As I said, my condolences go out to the family of all the recently deceased.
But I just heard that Michael Jackson died! What?! OMG I can't believe it. That was so unexpected. Wasn't he just going to make his 10th come back? Well, same goes for him as with Ed, he is at peace now and he doesn't have to worry about his looks anymore or his pedophile charges anymore.
Ok if that wasn't enough then I heard about Farah Faucett. Ok now they've gone too far. Farah is dead too? That is so sad. Ok I also knew about her cancer and I thought she was doing good. My condolences go out to her family.
They say it always happens in threes right? Well, I hope that Blanket and MJ's other kids go to a good home, like maybe their mother who they should've been with the whole time.
As I said, my condolences go out to the family of all the recently deceased.
WordPress Update
If anyone tried visiting my blog today they may have noticed that it wasn't accessible. I was trying yet again to update my WordPress blog to the next version which is supposed to be better. I really don't care about the new features, what I care about is getting that stupid notice at the top of the screen off. Also one of my plugins is telling me that it won't work until I update WP to 2.8.
One of the things that I was told to do before updating is to deactivate all my plugins before attempting to update and for some strange reason that keeps slipping my mind. I don't know why but I've deactivated EVERYTHING so that I may proceed. If it doesn't work again then screw it, I will just deal with my plugins not working and with that warning at the top of my control panel.
UPDATE: Ok, I finally got it all working again and the upgrade is installed. Here is what happened. I am a hard headed idiot who cannot follow directions that's what happened.
The first time I tried doing the upgrade I read the full instructions and at the very beginning it said clear as day "deactivate all your plugins first" so what do I do? I don't deactivate all my plugins, I just proceed with the upgrade. Then I had to delete it all and reupload my backup then I tried upgrading again WITHOUT deactivating my plugins then again it didn't work so I had to delete it all and reupload my backups.
So today I did the same exact thing lol. Finally after I made the above post I did it again lol. Then after I reuploaded everything AGAIN I decided to deactivate all my plugins and did the upgrade and it worked. However, as I was reactivating plugins things started going south again so I was luckily able to click back and deactivate them. So I went and reactivated them one at a time while looking at the blog site in another tab, I kept hitting the refresh button to make sure it was all working. There were a few plugins that I lost that were not compatible with WordPress 2.8 but I don't mind.
Those plugins are:
So that's it. I'm going to try to get number 1 and 2 back soon.
One of the things that I was told to do before updating is to deactivate all my plugins before attempting to update and for some strange reason that keeps slipping my mind. I don't know why but I've deactivated EVERYTHING so that I may proceed. If it doesn't work again then screw it, I will just deal with my plugins not working and with that warning at the top of my control panel.
UPDATE: Ok, I finally got it all working again and the upgrade is installed. Here is what happened. I am a hard headed idiot who cannot follow directions that's what happened.
The first time I tried doing the upgrade I read the full instructions and at the very beginning it said clear as day "deactivate all your plugins first" so what do I do? I don't deactivate all my plugins, I just proceed with the upgrade. Then I had to delete it all and reupload my backup then I tried upgrading again WITHOUT deactivating my plugins then again it didn't work so I had to delete it all and reupload my backups.
So today I did the same exact thing lol. Finally after I made the above post I did it again lol. Then after I reuploaded everything AGAIN I decided to deactivate all my plugins and did the upgrade and it worked. However, as I was reactivating plugins things started going south again so I was luckily able to click back and deactivate them. So I went and reactivated them one at a time while looking at the blog site in another tab, I kept hitting the refresh button to make sure it was all working. There were a few plugins that I lost that were not compatible with WordPress 2.8 but I don't mind.
Those plugins are:
- Global Translator which I can find another one that will work for those who read my blog but do not speak english.
- Custom Smilies... what? I can't smile in my posts anymore? Well I'm gonna have to find some new ones then aren't I?
- Flickr - This actually didn't cause any issues but I just never use it so I got rid of it.
- WordPress Greet Box - This is something that would greet my visitors from any website they came from like for example if you came here from Google it would say hi google person or whatever it would say lol. Yeah, I don't need that.
So that's it. I'm going to try to get number 1 and 2 back soon.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Atlah Worldwide Church
Check out this video from YouTube called Hail Hilter, Hail Obama.
The preacher compares Barack Obama to Hitler and talks about how Obama has hypnotized people just the way Hitler did. And he also tells his followers NOT to like Obama.
Ok, I don't really want to get into a debate with anyone about this because it is both religion and politics all rolled into 1 post but you know I just think that people should be allowed to make their own decisions. I don't think that a church should be able to influence people to vote how they want them to vote, to like who they want them to like, to ban movies that the church doesn't like. I think that as individuals, we as people should be allowed to make our own choices.
I remember when the DaVinci code movie came out I asked the lady at the post office if she read the book and if she was going to see the movie and she said "well you know I asked my pastor if it would be ok if I read the book but he told me that I can't". Are you kidding me? You mean to tell me that a church pastor is going to tell someone that they cannot read a fiction novel? When I asked her about Harry Potter she gave me the same response. Her church doesn't like Harry Potter because they use magic in the movie, not because the story has gotten dark because of Lord Voldemort but because they use magic.
Whether I like Barack Obama or not is not the issue here. I think that if someone likes him they should be allowed to. The pastor in that video was using like a whiny voice where he was making fun of one of his church members who was saying that they liked Barack Obama and "I know you said that I can't like him but I just don't know what he is doing to me but I can't help it" and you know, just generally mocking this person in front of them.
I seem to remember when people were comparing George Bush Jr. to Hitler as well. What is it with people comparing the president to Hitler?
Well, that's all I have to say about that. Watch the video and decide for yourself whether or not you think that this pastor is right or wrong.
The preacher compares Barack Obama to Hitler and talks about how Obama has hypnotized people just the way Hitler did. And he also tells his followers NOT to like Obama.
Ok, I don't really want to get into a debate with anyone about this because it is both religion and politics all rolled into 1 post but you know I just think that people should be allowed to make their own decisions. I don't think that a church should be able to influence people to vote how they want them to vote, to like who they want them to like, to ban movies that the church doesn't like. I think that as individuals, we as people should be allowed to make our own choices.
I remember when the DaVinci code movie came out I asked the lady at the post office if she read the book and if she was going to see the movie and she said "well you know I asked my pastor if it would be ok if I read the book but he told me that I can't". Are you kidding me? You mean to tell me that a church pastor is going to tell someone that they cannot read a fiction novel? When I asked her about Harry Potter she gave me the same response. Her church doesn't like Harry Potter because they use magic in the movie, not because the story has gotten dark because of Lord Voldemort but because they use magic.
Whether I like Barack Obama or not is not the issue here. I think that if someone likes him they should be allowed to. The pastor in that video was using like a whiny voice where he was making fun of one of his church members who was saying that they liked Barack Obama and "I know you said that I can't like him but I just don't know what he is doing to me but I can't help it" and you know, just generally mocking this person in front of them.
I seem to remember when people were comparing George Bush Jr. to Hitler as well. What is it with people comparing the president to Hitler?
Well, that's all I have to say about that. Watch the video and decide for yourself whether or not you think that this pastor is right or wrong.
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