Coldplay vs. Joe Satriani

I heard like a few notes in series. I guess any band that uses the E-B-C#-A chord progression is fucked. (Good-Better than Ezra, When I come Around - GreenDay, With or Without you - U2, countless others.) I agree that Satriani is an awesome musician, but having a song title "I just wanna rock"... isn't that like stealing Twisted Sister's song title, "I wanna Rock".

Big news story here, Music industry is saturated, everything borrows from everything else to give fans enjoyable music. Move on.

Silly thinking

A friend of mine posted this blog.... My response is at the bottom.

I’m not alone
Ran into this story online and i liked it. read away.

Today on my way to lunch I passed a homeless guy with a sign the read "Vote
Obama, I need the money." I laughed.

Once in the restaurant my server had on a "Obama 08" tie, again I
laughed–just imagine the coincidence.

Suddenly, it hit me. An experiment is in order.

I asked the server, did he really believe that Obama's platform was a good one? Yes, he did.

When the bill came I decided not to tip the server and explained to him that I was exploring the Obama redistribution of wealth concept.

He stood there in disbelief while I told him that I was going to redistribute his
tip to someone who I deemed more in need – the homeless guy outside. The
server angrily stormed from my sight.

I went outside, gave the homeless guy $10, and told him to thank the server
inside as I've decided he could use the money more. The homeless guy was
grateful.

At the end of my rather unscientific redistribution experiment I realized the homeless guy was grateful for the money he did not earn, but the waiter
was pretty angry that I gave away the money he did earn, even though the
actual recipient needed the money more.
I guess redistribution of wealth is an easier thing to swallow in concept
than in practical application - at least if it is your wealth that is being redistributed.

One of his fiends left this comment.

i love how misguided you republicans are. Obama is not taking the money that the more wealthy earned. He is simply cutting taxes for the people with less money and getting rid of the tax cuts for the people with more money, mainly big business. I'm not a democrat or a republican, i'm an American. Stop being so closed minded with your views (republicans and democrats alike). look at what is for the greater good of the nation and not just for the greater good of you.

Dave, this is in no way a personal attack, you just happened to have a nice platform for my opinion

Posted by Michael on Nov 16, 2008 7:46 PM

My response

In addition. The wealthy people get their money by screwing the poor people. The homeless guy was probably fired by a man who, while reading his newspaper and drinking his coffee at 9am, determined he could save/make more money by sending all of his company's jobs overseas and hire illegal immigrants to still do the jobs that he couldn't export. By this maneuver, he doesn't have to pay employee benefits, which help the American economy (no 401k, social security) and he can probably get away with paying less taxes, because the size of the business is determined partly on how many employees it has(which most of his employees cannot be accounted for because they are overseas or have no paperwork.) Now he can afford his 7th home while the employees he downsized have none. - Chris Hattery

Hope/Chance/Change/Terrorism/End Times

I've never cared about politics or who's in control of what. However, I have noticed the hugantic national screw-ups over the last few years.

I don't know the definitions of political terms like fascism, liberal, Anarchist, left/right. (haha, i do now http://www.ircpolitics.org/glossary.html)

Comparing the two candidates, One seems to be more for the 'Country'(Mother Russia? haha) and the other, for the 'People' of the country.

As a lower-middle class/income Citizen, I feel the only Hope, Change and Chance for our country can be found in Obama. He seems to have his head on his shoulders, he's connected with us, and still young enough to roll with the coming changes.

Too Young? How old was John Kennedy(43), Ulysses S. Grant(46), Grover Cleveland(47) or Theodore Roosevelt(42)?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Presidents_by_age

"Obama rhymes with Osama!" "Hussein! He's a terrorist." Are you guys seriously kidding me? He's named after his father who I'm sure had the name before 'King Hussein'. His name RHYMES with that of a terrorist we had not known 10 years ago. SHOOT! My middle name is the same as the 'King of Pop' who allegedly molests boys in Neverland. I have no chance of becoming president.

Some Religious Fanatics think he's the anti-Christ and the world is going to end. Well, according to the incompletion of the Mayan calendar, Our world is going to end in 2012 anyway. I don't think Obama has THAT much power.

We're a new America in need of some new ideas and not continuing to do things the way they've 'always been done'. That is obviously not working.

Obama for President.

SEO No No!

I just received and email from Jen Evan at BigWaveTraffic. The contents:

I can get your site to the top of a search engines
listings. If you’re interested, reply with the web
addresses you want to promote and the best way to
contact you with some options.

Thanks in advance,

Jen Evan

If you were such a great Search Engine Optimization company, wouldn't I find you?

All suspicious emails are followed by a google search. Came up with:
http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/watch-out-for-seo-scam-emails/

And I had to check out the domain... http://www.bigwavetraffic.com

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/bigwavetraffic.com

Not too much going on there.

Haha.

WWDC

Made it onto the WWDC page by using Twitter.
http://flickr.com/photos/cmhatte/2565142484/

Gas Rape 2kX

I created a new word for Urban Dictionary.

gas rape

http://gas-rape.urbanup.com/3067821

Pronounced like [ass rape].

The sodomizing of average citizens by large oil and gas companies who continually and unnecessarily raise gas prices for sustained increase of profit.

Soon, Vaseline will have to be sold along with gasoline to ease the pain of gas rape.

--
http://www.urbandictionary.com/

Development IDE - Aptana

Anyone touch, try, fondle Aptana?

I just downloaded it and watched the screen casts. Wanted some opinions or horror stories.

I watched Chris Parillo's view of it. Based on Java, could be 'doggy' in his words.

Used for PHP, RUBY, AIR Development.

http://www.aptana.com