Broken Bottle Blog

Saturday nigth was the engagement party for my friend Missy and her new fiance Glenn, and it was a blast. It was at her mom’s house and mostly family and a few friends, maybe 40 or so people were there. Pretty much just hung out and drank beer and margaritas, Missy’s family is so funny, especially after the booze has flowed a while. Fajita’s and tamales for dinner which her dad cooked himself, and it was soooo good, that man can cook like no other. Stayed there until about 12:30 and headed home, that was some of the most fun I’ve had in a while. Needless to say after a late night Friday and Saturday, I didn’t do shit Sunday, I hardly left the bed. Not like there was much to do, it rained almost constantly from friday night until monday morning. About 8 inches according to my mom, with reports of 10 inches in other places. Oh yeah, just remembered. You may wonder why I’m blogging at 9 in the morning on a work day, well I have a doctor’s appointment at 10:30 because at Missy’s party, her mom’s demon cat bit me on the hand (it was my fault, I provoked him). Anyway, my hand is kinda swollen and red, and I fear it may be infected, so better safe than sorry.

A lots been happening, I’ll try to re-cap the best I can. St. Patty’s day was good, the plan was to go to Sherlock’s, but when we got there the line was around the building and there were thunderstorms looming on the horizon. So, we (by we I mean Breanne, Bresha, Rachel, and Brandon) spotted Logan’s bar with no line at all and we head there. I don’t know if Logan’s has any Irish affiliation, but they had a big tent outside to handle all the people, and have Guinness on tap, which was my drink of choice for the night. The Miller Girls were there handing out various wearable knick-knacks, most with flashing LED’s, of which we were covered with. Lots of beads including these We called the number only to get a planned parenthood recording, so much for emergency contraception. Pretty much just kept drinking, we had a designated driver, so that took some pressure off. Brandon had been drinking since some time in the morning, so he provided plenty of entertainment. We shot a few Jager bombs which I don’t care for that much, and Breanne started stealing all the St. Pat’s day banners and signs, big ones too, they wouldn’t even fit in the car. Nobody seemed to care that we had three or four big signs at our table, we’re talking maybe 6 feet long and three feet high. We just walked out with them like it was no big deal. I wish I had my camera with me, so I don’t have any pics. I need a smaller camera, mine’s too big to carry around everywhere. Anyway, it was a good night

Kinky Friedman, singer-songwriter, mystery novelist, and hopeful Gubernatorial candidate was spotted at the Dallas St. Patricks day parade drinking a can of guinness, illegally(link to news story). Technically it is illegal to have an opened container while in a car in Texas, but he was in the parade , give him a break. They didn’t cite him though because a police officer didn’t catch him in the act, there are only pictures of it. Maybe because all the officers were trying to cope with all the other drunken folks that had been there since 10 am in the hot sun. I love his response:

“Guinness is the drink that kept the Irish from taking over the world. It would be unthinkable not to have a Guinness during a St. Patrick’s Day parade. In fact, it would be spiritually wrong.”

He’s right, finally a politician that tells it like it is, and doesn’t try to cover it up, or make it look like someone else’s fault.

Winamp 5.21 just out, and now syncs with Ipods, Creative, and Microsoft Play for Sure music players, sweet! I use Winamp for most of my audio needs, some good internet radio on there, and I have a Creative music player. Syncs better then the Creative software interface. I just got all my cd’s ripped to my PC and use winamp to manage/ play them, so makes it super easy, you can’t transfer playlists yet but they are working on it. But song, albums , or artists will transfer just fine. Oh, and it’s free, go download it! Oh yeah , forgot this, if you friends have an Ipod, makes it super easy to get all your friends songs on your pc, too.

This whole global warming thing seems to be heating up, no pun intended. I think wierd shit at work, or anywhere really, like today I saw some news stories about global warming. Well, my mind strayed at work and I thought, what if all the other animals went extinct, how long could we survive eating each other. This global warming thing ain’t so bad, soon we’ll have year round summer, and we won’t have to drive so far to get to the beach, yes!

My dad bought some software recently and it came with a free “digicam”. This thing is sooo cheap, I mean a disposable camera looks better in quality. He even gave it to me to try out, he didn’t even want it on his PC. So I was reading the instructions (I always read the instructions first) and the english section is at the back, right after the the Chinese section. The translation of some of it is poor, a.k.a funny.

Such as:

Vedioimpression is an easy used video edit software. It can edit new video files base to the current video files, and the content of it will be display on the desk. It can be used to the digital video edit and it has the same help function of the Photoimpression. It makes you very easy to master the using method.

Through snatch the video frequency, the digital camera can take the digital video and save in the hardware for enjoyness.

I haven’t tried it yet.

Net freedom now.

What if …
AT&T and Verizon blocked you from viewing your favorite podcasts and blogs?
BellSouth cut off your net phone because you weren’t using their service?
Comcast forced you to download MP3s from their store while slowing other music sites?

This threat is more real than you might think. Right now, the major communications companies are planning to discriminate against the online content and services that they don’t yet control. (Learn more at Free Press)

Their executives are already on the record:

* AT&T’s Ed Whitacre wants consumers and content providers to pay for use of his network. “The Internet can’t be free … for a Google or Yahoo or Vonage or anybody to expect to use these pipes free is nuts.”

* BellSouth’s William Smith told reporters that he would like to turn the Internet into a “pay-for-performance marketplace” where his company could charge for the “right” to have certain services load faster than others.

* Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg says that Web applications need to “share the cost” of the broadband services already paid for by consumers. “We need to pay for the pipe.”

They want to boost profits by playing gatekeeper to the applications we use and the content we create. They want to give preferential treatment to their own high-end services while blocking or slowing access to everyone else’s.

STOP THEM NOW. Send your letter to the CEOs and Congress.
The Threat Is Real

This broadband assault would reduce your choices and stifle the spread of innovative and independent ideas that we’ve come to expect online. It would shift the digital revolution into reverse.

Internet gatekeepers have already:

* Blocked services: In 2004, North Carolina ISP Madison River blocked their DSL customers from using any rival Web-based phone service.

* Blocked content: In 2005, Canada’s telephone giant Telus blocked customers from visiting a Web site sympathetic to the Telecommunications Workers Union during a contentious labor dispute.

If these media giants get their way, they’ll shut down the free flow of information and dictate how you use the Internet forever.

Legislation to kill Net freedom is being drafted right now in Congress. MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD.
The Stakes are High

The Internet is the future of all media. It must continue to be governed by the principle of “network neutrality.” The network’s only job should be to move data between users regardless of where it comes from or what it contains. This fundamental principle has allowed independent voices — like dot-com entrepreneurs, bloggers and open-source programmers — to try out new ideas without having to pay extra or ask for permission.

As tech guru David Eisenberg explains: “A hobbyist collecting Pez dispensers could develop the idea to become E-bay. A couple of Stanford students could start Google and build a better search engine. Two guys in Europe could assemble a handful of programmers to invent Skype and threaten the trillion-dollar annual global tel-economy.”

But now, the cable and telco giants want to eliminate this open road in favor of a tollway that protects their status quo while stifling innovation.

It’s not like anyone reads my blog anyway, but I want them to have the right. Send a letter to your congressman and CEO of these companies to try to stop this.