Sunday, May 31, 2009
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Saturday, May 30, 2009
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Jay ThePal's Jay TheVlog for May 16, 2009 Google, NASA, Puppet Burping and Bloopers, OH MY!
OH and please friend Jay ThePal on Twitter, Facebook, Chi.mp, 12seconds.tv or check him out at SocialKloud! Thanks!
Thanks, as always, to Lisa from OnLisaReinsRadar.com for hosting the 40MB mp4 version of Jay TheVlog for May 16, 2009!
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ThePhlog: My Favorite Noise Adam Savage Makes On Mythbusters (@donttrythis this is for you!)
Anyway, so the other night, Siskita and I were watching a recent episode of Mythbusters and I realized how much I really appreciate co-host Adam Savage's enthusiasm for the myths. It's probably what I identify with most about the show, frankly, so I decided to record this minute-long audio clip in honor of Adam Savage, fellow knowledge-geek:
http://boos.audioboo.fm/attachments/101860/Recording.mp3
Sorry we didn't go anywhere for this episode of ThePhlog, but I still thought it was worth sharing.
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Friday, May 29, 2009
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ThePhlog: Visiting the Ft. Washington Memorial on Memorial Day 2009
And here's an mp3 for your podcasting pleasure.
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
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Cops with Assault Weapons at My Subway Stop Today
This was at the 53rd & Lexington station off the E & V trains. I'm not
sure if you can see the cops down the steps there, but three of the
four cops there looked to me to be SWAT (body armor & helmets) and
they had assault weapons that looked like M-16s to me but they had
slightly curved clips.
On a side note I saw plenty of regular cops today--more than I usually
see on the East Side. Not that I see this many cops on the West Side.
I'd guess I saw about 9 or 10 today compared to none the last couple
times I was over there.
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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ThePhlog: An Evening Around 100th Street with Siskita & ThePete
Originally posted: 09.10pm EDT, 21 Apr 2009
Here's the mp3 you can DL, too.
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Monday, May 25, 2009
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
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Saturday, May 23, 2009
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Friday, May 22, 2009
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
ObamaWatch: Obama Admin Considering Indefinite Jailing for Terror Suspects #obamawtf
ObamaWatch: Obama Admin Considering Indefinite Jailing for Terror Suspects #obamawtf, originally uploaded by thepetecom.
My sister-in-law, Lisa (she runs OnLisaReinsRadar.com ), Tweeted yesterday
about how every day there's something new from the Obama camp that
makes her what to ask "WTF?"
I agreed and suggested a daily ObamaWTF Tweet. Here's mine for today,
taken from today's DemocracyNow.org headlines:
Obama Considers "Preventive Detention" for
Indefinite Jailings
The Obama administration, meanwhile, is reportedly considering a
"preventive detention" system that would indefinitely jail terror
suspects in the United States without bringing them to trial. The New
York Times reports President Obama discussed the proposal at a meeting
with human rights advocates at the White House. Two anonymous
advocates told the Times that Obama indicated he favored applying the
system to future cases, not prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay. Obama is
set to deliver a speech later today outlining his plans on how to deal
with closing Guantanamo.
Original here: www.democracynow.org/2009/5/21/headlines#5
This'll be no big deal assuming Obama doesn't do it--but why is he
considering this at all? I think there's an amendment in the Bill of
Rights promising due
process and a speedy trial or something like that.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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Monday, May 18, 2009
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International Monetary Fund sez Earth's Economy on it's Back Until 2010
International Monetary Fund sez Earth's Economy on it's Back Until 2010, originally uploaded by thepetecom.
Last month, the International Monetary Fund (not to be confused with
the Impossible Mission Force) revised their prediction that the
planet's economy would be back on its feet by 2009, saying it wouldn't
likely happen until 2010 at the earliest. Funny how, here it is,
2009, and they decide, as mid-year rapidly approaches, that
the economy won't be out of bed before December 31.
Really? What gave you that idea?
Sheesh. Why does the incompetent news media keep listening to the
incompetent money people who failed to see this mess coming at all?
They lied to hide that things were falling apart, they lied when
things were falling apart, why should we believe any of them now?
What's almost as bad as letting the people who caused this mess stay
in charge so they can fix it? Expecting those same people to be
honest and accurate when it comes to seeing the light at the end of
the tunnel.
If there is ANYTHING I have learned so far this century it's that
there is NOTHING that "experts" in government, finance or business
possess that should allow them to call themselves "experts." Whether
you're Jim Kramer, the dude in the White House, or the doughy white
guy in the picture in the CNN.com article I capped for this post
(original here:
www.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/04/22/imf.forecast/index.html ), odds
are you're so entrenched in the current system you're too blind to see
that system's blatant problems.
After the last, near-decade of messes, I feel like anyone who doesn't
end their claim with the phrase "I could be wrong" should not be
trusted. Hell, I'd be fine with a seeing a simple "IMHO" someplace in
a press release from the WHO or the NHS or NOAA or whomever.
If We, The People, have any brains, we're about to enter another era
like the 1960s, where the motto becomes "Question Everything" because
that's exactly what we should be doing. We've been trusting our
leaders in government and business to keep our civilization running
and we see now that we have been lied to across the board. So we need
to ask questions at every turn--stop trusting big business to tell us
what is going on with big government. Question it all--don't read one
article and be satisfied--find other sources in and outside the
country--talk to people about what you read, compare notes. Think for
yourself and, again, relive that motto from the 1960s: question
everything!
This time, though, let's lay of the drugs, OK? I think that crap made
the last generation forget all the stuff they were supposed to
question and that got us back into this mess. It's believed
that Thomas Jefferson once said "The cost of freedom is eternal
vigilance." Where Tom said that or not, it's true.
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Sunday, May 17, 2009
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Saturday, May 16, 2009
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Why Jury Duty in the 21st Century is a Joke
No, the problem I have with jury duty in today's world has nothing to do with the "serving on a jury" part and everything to do with how the the whole thing works.
1) No pay. In some circumstances there is compensation for jurors. In LA, it was something like $5 a day. For only some (but not all) jurors here in the Big Apple, you get $40 a day. That's still a joke. Most employers I've worked for do not pay for hours you don't work. So, the idea that it's "our duty" to serve is ridiculous. It's our duty to provide for ourselves and our families while having enough money to play our role in society as consumers to keep the economy going. I can't do that on $40 a day. Not while living in a major American city, anyway.
2) I've been sued. I lost because I couldn't afford a lawyer who would force the collection agency suing me to prove I owed them money. Our civil legal system is a system that believes in the phrase "guilty until proven innocent" which is completely the opposite of what I believe to be fair and just. Showing up for jury duty is supporting a system that victimizes the poor and uneducated. But I do it because they'll fine you over a grand if you don't go. Funny, I don't remember being threatened with a fine if I didn't vote in the last election.
3) Our government, at large, has shown that it, in itself, is a joke, unable to protect us from terrorists, hurricanes, or even useless, unannounced photo-ops that disrupt a huge chunk of NYC. 8 million more voters wanted Obama in office, only months after getting into office, we see him stick with many of the same policies as the Bush administration. This is on top of that fact that the city wants me to see the inside of a court room as a juror long before George W. Bush will see the inside of one as a defendant in his own war crimes trial makes me wonder just what my "civic duty" will be done for.
4) The jury orientation video they show us here in NYC compares the modern court system to the court system used to try witches.
I shit you not.
They hired actors and reenacted a witch trial where they throw a woman into a lake and watch her drown, clearly informing us that we should feel lucky that we no longer do this. Yeah, tell that to the dude who got waterboarded 80+ times, man. Give me a break.
I'm so glad we have progressed as a society!
What a stupid thing to be thankful for. Why not thank the world for existing for another day? Or thank the universe for not imploding? Or thank clocks for not suddenly starting to run backwards?
So, here's how we fix the jury duty system in the US:
1) Pay jurors what they make at their regular job or pass a law forcing employers to pay employees while on jury duty. It's simply not fair that the individual must suffer while the company does not.
2) Only call citizens with employment. Come on, man--I'm trying to get a small business going and I lose two days in a row because I have to do my civic duty? What about my civic duty to become a productive citizen? No, call the folks with jobs and make sure point 1 is done. We shouldn't be punished for being out of work even if it's by choice. Think of it like taxing the rich more than the poor.
3) Stop with the patronizing videos. I don't need Diane Sawyer telling me how "most people find jury duty enjoyable" or a lecture on civics and history from Ed Bradley who died three years ago.
4) Understand that government is government on all levels unless attempts are made to differentiate between federal, state and local--which you can't really do easily. So, when government anywhere looks incompetent, sadly it reflects on all of it. It may not be fair, but neither is our legal system. It's the people in the system who must change things so that faith in this system can be restored. Personally, I don't see the difference between the most powerful, suit-wearing white men and the minority/disabled/females I always see working in courthouses.
Someone once said that all politics is local--well, then isn't that a good reason to make sure government on the lowest levels works the best? Why is it that I already think the NYC government is kinda crappy? I'll tell you--because I haven't been a NYC resident for a year and I've already gotten called for jury duty. When I go, it takes them two days to not stick me on a case unlike Los Angeles, who only took one day to not stick me on a case.
To top it all off, if I had been placed on a case, I'd have been placed in a civil case--like the one I was in, as a defendant, against a collection agency that was, in fact, suing me illegally. Yeah, turns out that despite the fact that I had no recent (within the preceding 6 years) credit card debt the judge in the case didn't bother to ask to see any proof that what the credit card agency was accusing me of was true. Yeah, that's our "justice" system for ya.
So, anyone in New York City who was looking for a jury for their civil case last week, be glad I didn't end up on your jury--unless you're the individual going against a company or two--then I'm your man, assuming you're just looking to win and not hoping for a fair trial.
And please don't tell me to suck it up, man. I'm so done with that kind of thing. If we spend every challenge "sucking it up" things will never change.
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Friday, May 15, 2009
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
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Monday, May 11, 2009
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Why Trekkies are Annoying About the Rules: A Shortish Rant from a Reformed Trek Fanboy
Trekkies usually get slammed for taking the franchise too seriously. The thing is, that's how it was designed--to be taken seriously. The creator of the series, Gene Roddenberry, at one point, decided there were rules and encouraged fans to follow them--he authorized reference manuals, the Star Trek Encyclopedia and Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise, to name just two of MANY. Gene spoke of certain things being part of the continuity (anything on TV or the big screen and the aforementioned manuals) and others not (the novels). The idea was to make this future as real as possible for fans and as a result many of us ate it up--it was so easy to immerse ourselves in.
But after Gene died, people took over the franchise and, sadly, they just didn't give a crap about those rules. As a result, slowly but surely, those rules started getting broken and eventually came to be ignored entirely--so much so that there was no point in even paying attention or caring.
After a couple years of the rules being broken, I tossed Star Trek aside. Got sick of caring only to have my intelligence insulted.
So, here we are, well over a decade since I was last fired up about new Trek, and everyone is ranting and raving about how great this new Trek is, when any old-school Trekkie worth his salt knows that the movie couldn't possibly follow the rules Trek originally followed. When folks who still care about Trek bring this up, they're made fun of for taking it too seriously.
Well, that's why they got into it in the first place. Star Trek represented structure in a real world where structure is often hard to find. Stability, guaranteed by moral leaders, interested in saving lives, bringing peace, living and dying with and for principles.
Yeah, when's the last time you saw that in real life??
So, please don't waste your time wondering why Trekkies can't deal with the continuity problems. It's because they were told to care and they did care only to have the powers-that-be betray the trust showed them.
In 1994, I moved to Los Angeles with the goal of one day writing for Star Trek. I had started to see a drop in quality of the writing and felt I should get in there and try to help. I got as far as a meeting with one of the producers of Deep Space 9. I handed him a script and it was rejected because it was too similar to an episode they had recently produced (that I had no way of knowing even existed). Two weeks later, the producer left the show removing my access. Needless to say, the show only got worse from there--not by just my estimation, but by everyone's.
Now I'm supposed to go back? Drop my $20 on a movie ticket and popcorn and try to accept that Spock could somehow be young enough to hang with Kirk in his 20s? Or that the Enterprise bridge should glow white like it was designed by Apple? Or accept it all because a time-travel story makes it all go away at the end? Meh...
When I stopped caring about Trek all those years ago, I stopped caring...
Hell, if we wanted to just have fun, we'd watch Star Wars.
...or something that didn't go on long enough to disappoint.
Have you ever heard of something called "anime"? ^_^
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Jay ThePal's Jay TheVlog for May 10, 2009 Featuring Jay's Hooker Story and Kay ThePal!
And here's the friendly, neighborhood MP4 (just 37MBs!) so you can watch on the go!
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Saturday, May 09, 2009
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Friday, May 08, 2009
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PARASITE DOLLS (2003) (anime)
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Technically any good? The acting was fine--I really liked the Boomer detective's voice actor. The animation was pretty awesome, looking--liked the character designs quite a bit. It's a shame no one ages over the 6-ish-year length of time the anime takes place over. It's also a shame that the series doesn't involve the Knight Sabers or even the main characters from AD Police. The lack of anything familiar but the word "Boomer" makes me wonder why they didn't just replace the word "Boomer" with the word "robot" and let this anime to stand on its own, entirely apart from BGC.
Imagine how bad a Star Wars spin-off would be if only the stormtroopers were in it and the story was a fairly uninteresting series of robots-n-cops stories (that felt stupidly rushed), almost entirely featuring women being corrupt, sex-pots, or sex-pot-robots. Only one woman doesn't fit this cliche and she was horribly underdeveloped, character-wise.
How did it leave me feeling? Yuck. Glad I'm done with the Bubblegum Crisis universe. :(
Would you sit through it again? No.
I've now decided that when I go back through the BGC saga again, I'll be sticking to anime featuring the Knight Sabers only. Though, to be fair, the AD Police remake series was not bad--not great, but not bad. I already watched that remake series, within the last couple years and I'm 90% sure I Pocket Reviewed it, but can't find the review. I'll add a link to it to this post when I get a chance.
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Bernanke Says Recession Should be Done by 2010
Ah yes! The power of positive thinking! Point out some vague
indicators and hope your audience isn't smart enough to think for
themselves. It's like Bernanke thinks we don't remember how he and
other leaders didn't see this coming! Who elected this guy, anyway?
Oh yeah... nobody!
Our leaders suck.
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Thursday, May 07, 2009
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Wednesday, May 06, 2009
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009
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Can We Just Stop Blaming the Poor Folks for Our Crappy Economy PLEASE?
Think about how stupid that is.
Let's blame the poor for our bad economy.
Right, that's logical... or it would be, if we lived on Bizarro World. How is it that people with little money can mess things up for those with lots?
First, you have to admit that the defaulted sub-prime loans were just a single factor (of many) in all of this. Then, you have to ask a very important question.
Recently, I came across yet another person on a socnet laying blame for our economic crisis at the feet of people unable to pay off their mortgages. The following is what I posted in response--it includes that very important question:
I think the bigger problem is why soooo many people couldn't keep up with their mortgage payments. If so very many people defaulted that it caused this massive failure of our economy, it seems more important to me that we ask why so many people couldn't pay their loan payments. Surely, they can't ALL be "lazy" or whatever.
I'd much rather solve the problem of so many people unable to make enough money to live comfortably, pay their bills and stay healthy.
However, in typical ThePete-fashion, I've a bit more to say. So here's that:
So, if they weren't all deadbeats, why couldn't they pay their mortgages? Because they hadn't seen a raise or a promotion in their jobs in a while? They lost their job because of downsizing, outsourcing or a personal medical issue? How much of those reasons are economically related?
How many of those reasons are related to the business' well-being put in front of the employee's well-being? To me this always comes back to all of us putting the right of a company to survive above the right of an individual to have a job that allows them to play their part in society.
And which would you rather do?
1) Prop up a faulty system, allowing the people and structures that failed once an opportunity to fail again
2) Let businesses fail, sending everyone, business owners and employees alike, a massive wake-up call that they can't just assume everything will just work the way it should without folks paying attention and thinking for themselves
I know I've loaded those options a bit, but it strikes me as odd that we should save the employees by saving the bosses who got greedy and were the largest catalyst of all this in the first place.
And on top of that, you've got to wonder about a system that is so unstable that, when one thing goes wrong, it falls to pieces.
No, to me there's something very very basic about our economic that is overflowing with wrongability.
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Monday, May 04, 2009
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Jay ThePal's Jay TheVlog for May 3, 2009 featuring featured videos and a 1st place win! YEAH!
And here's a nice, low-rez 41MB mp4 for your iPodding/podcasting pleasure.
Thanks, as always to, Lisa at OnLisaReinsRadar.com for hosting my mp4s!!
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Sunday, May 03, 2009
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Saturday, May 02, 2009
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Friday, May 01, 2009
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AD POLICE (1989) (anime)
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Technically any good? The animation is great for the time period and I really like the character designs. The acting is fine, too. But the story hates women (lots of imagery featuring woman-shaped objects/people being harmed, destroyed, or acting crazy) and the universe is MUCH darker than the one in the original Bubblegum Crisis. There is almost no character dynamic here and what does exist is pretty damn cliche. Tough, gritty cops, sweating and killing in the line duty does not really end up feeling like a world soon-to-be inhabited by heroic, mad-robot-fighting women in super-robot-suits.
How did it leave me feeling? Meh. It was fine, but it really highlighted why the AD Police characters are supporting characters in the main BGC storyline--they're the cliches that the Knight Sabers replace. It also shows off why the Knight Sabers are needed. But why wait for them to show up? Just watch the original Bubblegum Crisis!
Would you sit through it again? Not really. Maybe. Meh, I don't know.
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