Thursday, November 17, 2011

A Response to The Articles that Are Anti-Gaming and anti-gamers

Playing videogames like The Legend of Zelda and Earthbound as a kid improved my intelligence and created an experience that defined part of my life. (Anyone who played these games when they came out would co-sign my statement.)

I played a lot of video games growing up – but the difference between my generation and the current ones, is while we enjoyed video games, the term “gamer” was not invented yet – and there was SEVERE PEER PRESSURE to not develop what we called:

A NINTENDO TAN

The rule of thumb was the following:

· You get home from school.

· Eat a quick snack, change your clothes.

· Be on the street to pick teams in no later than 15 minutes after getting off bus.

· Whichever season was in, was the game we’d play. Football, baseball, basketball.

· You play, and you play hard until your mom calls you home for dinner.

· After dinner, you do your homework.

· Once homework is done – you play video games – BUT YOU PLAY A SPORTS video game such as Tecmo Bowl, Madden ’93 , Madden ’95, NES Play Action Football, Joe Montana Sports Talk Football, Bulls vs Lakers, NBA JAM, Hoops, Mike Tyson’s Punch Out, Super Punch Out, Super Tecmo Bowl, NBA Live, NBA Hangtime, Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat.

The days when it would rain, you don’t stay indoors and play videogames, you go out to the field at the end of the block and play Bears-Packers gridiron re-creation of the games where “the elements” were experienced and the mud and the glory were relived.

Videogames were for AFTER dinner and AFTER homework.

EXCEPT the first week the new games come out. Then there is an exception – but usually about 45 minutes into playing a sports game, we would all want to go out and do the real thing.

With that said, there was a RITE OF PASSAGE everyone had to do at some point – usually you’d do this at night time.

You had to complete the game “The Legend of Zelda” and “Zelda 3: A Link to the Past” because those games train your mind on how to think outside the box and complete a quest of mammoth proportion and was worth experiencing and discussing with others.

You also had to complete the original Super Mario Brothers because that is what every kid had to do.

Oh, and you had to beat CONTRA – the ultimate boy game of all time.

In fact, this guy James Rolfe aka The Angry Nintendo Nerd made a 6 minute video explaining what it was like to be our age and to complete Contra.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/angry-video-screwattack/723402

I nominate James Rolfe as the spokesperson for my generation (we’re the same age) and I’ve seen every single video (over 200) that he’s made over the past 6 years because he explains my exact video game experience EXACTLY as I experienced it. It’s like we grew up on the same block. (Except he didn’t play sports.)

He created a living for himself that I tried so hard to create for myself with video and audio but just didn’t have the same support team and talent that he had to make it possible. If you wanted to know what I wanted to be when I grew up, The Angry Nintendo Nerd is it. He does his marketing, his videos, EVERYTHING how I do it – but he is much better at it and has a much more mainstream niche.

His website to learn more about him is www.cinemassacre.com.

I’m notified on my iPad via RSS feed and his Cinemassacre app the moment he makes a new video.

Anyways, its ok to play videogames – but NEVER let yourself develop A NINTENDO TAN. (which means pale white skin from staying indoors).

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Jim Rome Classic Takes




"Guy" Series







JIM ROME ON FILMS



JIM ROME ON CELEBRITIES

JIM ROME ON TECHNOLOGY





CLASSIC TAKES ON SOCIETY




Professional Sports Takes

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Crawfish Encounter




Good bait

Nice snack if it was from LA

Whats with the X files music?
they're extraterrestrials.

But haven't crawfish been around since the Mesozoic Era or earlier?

Aren't we the extraterrestrials?

Yes. We are the ETs.
We had a close encounter with the sea kind last nite.
i dont know who abducted who.
They invaded the land.
We took it into our mothership home and ran tests on it.
Strange creatures.
There were fish walking all over the street yesterday.
They're invading.


its not normal for me to see animals.
I live in a sterilized computer lab, void of any life, except maybe microbial.
When i see life, i'm bewildered.
Including plants.

Don't get me wrong, they fascinate the shit out of me too...and taste yummy.

I enjoyed the video.

I want to experience your invasions of walking fish.

Seems spectacular in all ways.

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Tech Nine

My favorite Tech Nine songs:

1. Little Pills
2. Red Nose
3. Low
4. One Good Time
5. So Lonely
6. Promiseland

Far Away
Blown Away
Disfunctional
Too Much
Psycho Bitch 2
Like I Died
Last Sad Song
Alucard

Monday, June 20, 2011

Jonathan Lippe Professional Update 2010

Jonathan Lippe earned a Bachelor of Arts from the USF School of Mass Communications in 2001. He currently works as an IT Professional with Premier Beverage, a distributor of Wine and Spirits, and has been with the company since 2003. In his spare time since graduating, he has self-published 4 books, released his own CD entitled "Mind Over Matrix", executive produced over 20 other CD projects, two DVD projects, has been a guest on radio and internet talk shows, was a cameraman for a Billboard music act, and other various creative ventures. A video project he turned in for a grade in his junior year at USF, "Tupac The Seven Day Theory Why He Is Still Alive" has been viewed over 10 million total times across various internet streaming websites. After graduating, Lippe also earned various IT Certifications such as Microsoft's MCSE, ITIL V3, CompTIA's A+, I-Net+, and Network +. He has also taken continuing education courses at Nova Southeastern University, Indian River State College, Broward Community College, and PC Professor. His website is www.jonathanlippe.com

J Stylez Dream - Tropical Island (2011)

J Stylez Dream:
Subject: Dream I had about a tropical island...

This is a dream I had Monday morning/Sunday night that I wrote down when I woke up. I just found it in my drafts.

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I was on a tropical island with DH and a bunch of other people. DH said he had been there before and he wanted to show me something that would blow my mind.

We hopped on his golf cart, which must have been European as the steering wheel was on the right side.

We drove a bit through a tropical forest and came to a brick road that looked like the ancient Mayans had built it.

It was a very steep incline and we almost didn't make it to the top as the golf cart was struggling with the weight of both of us.

Finally we reach the top and begin to descend into this really odd Mayan Temple looking structure.

We can go no further on the golf cart so we get out and start to walk.

Each step we take causes the ground to emit these bursts of bright blue matrix style characters that burst out about 100 feet in all directions. It's really quite spectacular.

My mind is blown and I pull out my iPhone to start recording the experience.

When I begin recording, I realize that my phone is recording a different image than my eyes are seeing. It seems that somehow my phone is recording or showing me what happened there in the past.

Its pretty freaky and starts to trip me out. Dave tells me to calm the f down and put my phone away as we venture deeper into the temple.

He says that he needs my help to decode a message hidden deep within a cave at the center of the temple.

We get there and it's a rack of computer motherboards all wired together. The rack is made of stone and the boards look like they all have vacuum tubes and no new circuitry.

He tells me that this was built centuries ago and there is data stored in the cluster of computers. He needs my help to access it by decoding the encryption.

I am thinking that I should use my iPhone to see back to the past again and maybe garner some clues.

That was the end of the dream.

Lyrical Fusion - Praise

"What yall did with LF was really unprecedented. I've never seen another group that multicultural and that talented / musically diverse. 808 and his sampling ear was the the musical foundation. I never felt anything yall did after that. That little hispanic dude (forget his name) was the heart, and you were the brain and the visionary. I come to realize that this is how cult empires are created. Most talented individuals are either alone, or in a group with a bunch of less talented individuals. Rarely do you see a group of amazingly talented people come together for one united cause, but when you do magic happens. This applies to business as well as the artistic world. Sometimes I wonder how many other groups there are out there who never got off the ground. How many LFMOB's that I never chanced upon while surfing the net, with amazing albums that were never available in stores or through amazon. I bet you there are hundreds. There's only one LF, but I'm sure there are hundreds if not thousands of amazing artists we never get a chance to hear. How many amazing soul artists who sing in church every sunday around the country. Meanwhile... T-pain"


"Just wanted to let you know that my 4 year old son is fascinated w/u. He likes your music and walks around the house singing "Mr.Lippe, Mr.Lippe" & when he see's your picture on FB he runs up to the computer and says, "That's Mr.Lippe!!!" LOL You're his idol apparently! (well you and Iron Man) :)"

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Science Fiction Is Now Science Fact

Here are a collection of wikipedia entries that are so up my alley, that reinforce my perspective on reality, that i just wanted to put them all in a nice collection for you all to see:

Outer Space
Marvel Comics Military


Amazing Science

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Does Everyone Agree

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I was in line at Office Depot yesterday and they had a small travel size Scope for 99 cents and I went ahead and bought it. And I forgot how weak Scope tasted. I think Scope was the first mouthwash I ever tried as a kid and used to see the bottle and think it was some kool-aid that my parents kept in the bathroom. And when I tried it I asked why in the world people would drink it, and they said its to make your mouth fresh. (Now to me at that time – to make your mouth fresh meant like …. You drink Scope and start talking back to your parents or saying bad words --- so I was real confused.)
Anyways, I didn’t get the whole mouthwash thing until I tried Listerine and it bit ya back where I realized the potency. Hence – the above illustration. I used to try to stick up for Go Bots when I was a kid, just to help out the little guy, but I went back and watched some episodes of Go Bots and I always thought it was pretty unlikely that the strongest bad Go Bot was the girl black car. (this was way before we were supposed to think girls are equal to guys.) So I think boys mutually felt like GoBots were pushing a liberal agenda and Transformers were pushing a conservative agenda and thus we know who is still respected in the present.
They never tried suggesting that Teela could match up to He-Man … knawmsayin. Even the purple evil teela girl could only maybe do a magic spell on he-man but never physically matchup. Only Skeletor and a few others.
BTW, if you are a scope swisher, I didn’t mean to offend, but I mean cmon, there is a difference. If you saw Clerks 2 you know there is a difference between Transformers and GoBots.

Friday, May 13, 2011

UFO Debate

3 parties involved:
1. The "serious UFO researcher"
2. The sensational UFO Conspiracy Lover
3. The outside skeptic who is waiting for the government to announce it before he believes.

The serious UFO researcher's take:

It is upon one's self to research this topic in order to form an educated conclusion. I initially looked into this topic due to my certanty of our aloness in the universe. It closed a chapter for my curiosity and thus gave a feeling of "knowing". At least that was my position to start (circa 2000). A thorough analysis should include reading the infinate amounts of data available. This would be thousands of cases, their material witnesses (and the backgrounds on the witnesses), ground trace sample information, radar cross section information, FOIA documents, triangulated film footage (when possible), official report forms( i.e JANAP146's). This would just be a starter. I would also delve into the thorough case studies of foriegn governments (France's COMETA report comes to mind). There are several hundred of these I know I have come across.

I can give you several pointers into this topic.

1. Purchase and read Richard Dolan's UFO's and The National Security State Volume 1 and 2. Both are extremelly well researched and heavelly documented with citations for all cases. This alone is a month by month breakdown of all incidents from 1938-1991 and will lead you directly to any tangible information you need on a case by case basis.

2. I like to stay to the stuff that comes from military,police, and commercial pilots. They typically are astute in judging size, speed, and distance of objects as well as physical affects caused by craft. These cases usually have multiple witnesses and hard radar returns with tower confirmations of manuvers from spotted craft (e.g. 10,000 mph 90 degree turn executed).


3. Stay off the "fringe" it's not necessary in forming your conclusion, whatever that may be.


THE SKEPTIC's Take

Show them to me sir...


The Sensational UFO Guy:

I'm a little older now, and now when faced with that question, i realize the importance of being able to provide tangible evidence. Afterall, saying aliens exist is like saying Jesus was the son of God, you just have to take my word for it until "he returns" or "they arrive".

I would assume "Serious UFO Researcher" would point to the roughly 1000 pages of the 2 volumes Richard Dolan published, but all that is are words on the page.

I'm assuming he could point out the massive amounts of DVDs created or the 16 hours of Ancient Aliens documentaries made by History Channel, but the same argument could be made of the massive publishings and versions of The Bible and The Koran and the millions of people who swear Jesus and Mohammed are "the ones".

So, i'm leaving this one in your court "Serious UFO Researcher": How do we prove aliens exist to an Alien-Atheist. (not saying jeff is an alien athiest, but for this thought exercise, lets say he is)

How do Christians prove Jesus was the son of god?

All they have are documents and books. Nothing tangible. A shroud of turin? An old wooden boat? Old scrolls of texts?

What do believers in Aliens have?

A 1947 news article?

A forbidden base in Nevada.

Pictures of tin cans hanging from trees.

175,000 black markered FOIA documents.

500 former Air Force and Astronauts part of the Disclosure Project.

Charlton Heston helped advance Bible Stories. Steven Spielberg helped advance alien awareness.

What is the current smoking gun?


Serious UFO Researcher Responds to the following link:

http://vault.fbi.gov/hottel_guy/Guy%20Hottel%20Part%201%20of%201/view

There are several hundred thousand docs online issued through FIOA, many are more juicy than this one doc. So on that premises I would not call that confirmation, but instead suggest that "confirmation" has already come and gone in the past fifty years since this thing was never under wraps to begin with. Private hands hold the answers here not the governments they own, so a release of this info through a website called "The Vault" on an FBI server should be viewed with suspicion. There is always an ulterior motive when governments do anything. In this case we have a department that sure as hell is not in charge of the ET issue, publishing a website that seems to mimic "The Black Vault" website. Not buying it.

It is my unfortunate conclusion that the disclosure that has already happened for anyone willing to do a bit of reading, will come again in the format of an "Official" statement. This official disclosure will be used as a political weapon by the pro world governance organizations as a measure to further consolidate power and centralize all measures of society. For that, I no longer wish to see disclosure as I now think it is a better idea to continue the cover up as origionally outlined by the Brookings Institute. The real confirmation will be almost too much to stomach, as it will be filled with lies and propaganda from day one.

1. 9-11 - bush, Cheney, the neo-cons and new world order did it with help from the Israeli Mossad and other zionists and are all assholes because of it.

2. Obama's birth origin - obama's not even his last name, its barry soetoro.

3. extra-terrestrials - they visit our planet often, are a national security risk and should be blown the fuck away, but at the same time the government is a bunch of assholes for not informing us of the threat and the technology and knowledge they've acquired and how they've allowed abductions to occur and airzone violations.

4. New World Order - must be stopped at all costs

You got me who is about 75% anti-new world order. While I think 9-11 was an inside job and we've been thoroughly lied to, i always try to find a way to give the government (when its a republican administration) the benefit of the doubt like a long term strategy or an end justifies the means - and im more of the counterbalance to the media propaganda where i'll sometimes give an equally outrageous opposite perspective in order to demonstrate the absurdity of what the mainstream presented. I'll consider the complexity of geo-politics and consider that sometimes you gotta do dirty things to maintain global supremacy. I'm someone who will listen to Alex Jones AND Rush Limbaugh and agree with about 75% of both perspectives. The wars that were waged with democratic presidents resulted in many American casualties. The wars that were waged with Republican presidents suffered not as many casualties. In fact, more people die in California (a democrat state) than Coalition forces in Iraq annually. I kinda go along with General Patton "you dont win a war by dying for your country, but for making the other poor bastard die for his". If the U.S. doesnt own the world, someone else will. I'd like us all to hold hands and be friends or at least countries who left each other the fuck alone, but since i dont think that is gonna happen. At the same time of saying all of that - i know the elite just send us to die anyway and could give a shit about U.S. or anything and propagandize everyone on the planet to hate each other and kill each other.

9-11 - i think we might've been attacked by someone else like the russians or chinese infrastructure hackers. a missile hit the pentagon, the airforce shot down flight-93, and remote controlled planes hit the trade center - the trade center had bombs inside of it pre-planted for a controlled demolition and building-tower-7's collapse is absolutely unforgiveable, absurd, larry silverstein should be arrested for insurance fraud, and the walls may have been painted with that thermal paint that is highly explosive so a bigger threat may still be out there. Afghanistan and Iraq and a bunch of other countries you never heard of got taken over and if its all for U.S. dominance then i'll go along with it but somehow i think they'll eventually come for us, and it looks like they have begun.

Obama - so much mystery surrounds the guy - i get mad when Birthers get called Birthers because its like "man, just produce some real proof you're legit and we'll get over it, and answer all the questions about your citizenship, where you went to school, what you were doing in the 80's, whats up with larry sinclair, and a gazillion other questions

Extraterrestrials - They're here. They control the NWO, Earth policy, the creators of man. Owners of our lives.

New World Order - , i sometimes roll with Agent Smith when he said "have you ever looked at it Morpheus, stared at it, marveled at it, millions of people going about their daily lives completely oblivious" and i wonder how chaotic it would be without the New World Order controlling everyone.

You got Outside Skeptic who pretty much supports the Conservative Talk Radio agenda, which, from their perspective is living on the fringe because it doesnt reflect what the mainstream media talks about.

9-11 - 18 muslim extremists hijacked airplanes and ran them into the WTC and pentagon. Osama Bin Laden was the ringleader. Tower 7 caught on fire and collapsed due to natural causes.

Obama - he's a communist/socialist asshole, i dont give a shit where he was born, he needs to go regardless.

Extraterrestrials - its a big fuckin universe out there. I'm still searching for ET with my SETI app, when i find him, i'll let you know. There is definitely something fishy going on, but i'm still waiting for that real smoking gun.

New World Order - Are you talking about Hulk Hogan's tag team? If they'll let me play with some neat technology i'll probably be alright with it, what are you gonna do? Stop it? As long as those terrorists stop blowing shit up, and we get this cockbag Obama out of office we dont need to worry about any new world order.

So we got a pretty good lineup of perspectives.

It'd be nice to have a liberal democrat perspective too but they would never talk about anything now that theyre in power.

By the way, all 3 of the perspectives that i described were for joking around purposes.

Subject: Who blew up the Deepwater Horizon

I think I know how the rig mysteriously exploded.

If it wasn't Obama and his agenda pushin' cronies...it was the alternative energy companies.

They knew that this "accident" would cause a enormous backlash on drilling and push their alternative energy agendas.

How's that for a conspiracy.

Just a quick note: I'm not against alternative energy, but we certainly need to continue drilling all the resources we can. If we continue to rely on others for our oil/energy we will be fucked in the asshole like little bitches.

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Books I read in 2010 and 2011 and 2012

2012

  • The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress


2012

  • iWoz
  • Ghost In The Wires
  • Weapon of A.S.S. Destruction


2011

  • A Stranger in a Strange Land
  • The Grunch of Giants
  • The Lost Symbol
  • Atlas Shrugged

2010

  • 1984
  • Animal Farm
  • The 4 Hour Work Week
  • Basic Economics: 3rd Edition
  • The Unseen Hand
  • Little Red Book of Selling
  • Rich Dad Poor Dad
  • Conspiracy of the Rich
  • Mike Maloney's Guide to Investing in Gold
  • Retire Young, Retire Rich
  • The Cash Flow Quadrant
  • Term Limits
  • Han Solo Trilogy - Paradise Snare
  • Han Solo Trilogy - The Hutt Gambit
  • Han Solo Trilogy - Rebel Dawn
  • Million Dollar Mindset
  • The Millionaire Next Door
  • The Richest Man in Babylon

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

News Stories of 2010


  • Haiti Earthquake

  • Tea Party

  • Health Care passed without public support.

  • Polish Leadership killed by Russian government - Putin Leads investigation. Media blackout.

  • BP Gulf Oil Spill

  • WikiLeaks

  • World Cup

  • Glenn Beck's Bullcrap March on Washington

  • Republicans win big

  • Sarah Palin's Alaska

  • Iceland

  • Volcano

  • Full Body scanners at airport after underwear bomber. TSA.

  • Guy flies plane into IRS building in Texas

  • Climategate

  • Thailand riots.

  • Afghanistan Pakistan north Korea Iran

  • Greece Austerity

  • Flash Crash - Stock market incidental drop of 1000 points by accident.

  • Arizona border enforcement

  • Lebron James

  • Tiger Woods

  • Mosque at Ground Zero

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Things To Do - Low Priority


  • Make Comcast Cartoons out of Wrong Numbers from The Unwashed Masses CD
  • Make website of comcast stuff
  • Dock Talk w/ Jeff and Mike

Dell Training
4389, 1209
MIT Open Courseware http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
http://singularityu.org/videos

T-Shirts

  • Put That On A T-Shirt
  • Hi
  • Crime That Pays Is Crime That Stays
  • Lles
  • Zanahoria
  • Front of Shirt: Catch-22 Back of Shirt: Catch-22 is a logical paradox arising from a situation in which an individual needs something that cane only be acquired by not being i that very situation, therefore, the acquisition of this thing becomes logically impossible
  • Ah, okay...my hearing is going going going, gone.
  • Front of shirt ... disk with a c.  Back of shirt "Get your mind outta the gutta
  • Wipe You Clean?
  • WTFront Door
Grandma
  • Watching VP Debate "he's a jerka lika you"
  • Mattress in garage
  • Laptop light
  • Bathroom - turn water back on
  • TV at 1:30 AM
  • Gatorade cracker meal in coffee glass
  • Pump in fridge


Nestor quotes:
“Cut my veins.”
“So the hooyoordican can’t prosper.”


Amelia [2:33 PM]:
  yes, it makes sense. he does convey emotion...he looks content eventhough he's missing hands and feet and ear and he's bald, but such is life...those of us who have everything including 3-dimentionality...always complain

Books
15979 - 29084 - (choose life)
29083 - new book