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November 29, 2006
threadless.com
This is a site that I have purchased a few shirts from and I check out their new stock weekly.
I recently took my first foray into voting on proposed designs and I saw one that I really liked. It can be seen here.
thoughts?
UPDATED: fixed link in the title of this post after Pete commented on it.
Posted by bucjos at 03:16 PM | Comments (1)
I dream in history channel hour long specials
So, I had a dream last night that played out like I was watching a History channel one hour show. It started out prior to WWII, there was something where JFK drove in a boat to some Island in the mid-Atlantic and participated in training exercises with the troops.
The special then focused on the differences between rubber bottomed landing craft and solid hulled landing craft.
There was then a section of the special that JFK preferred rubber bottomed boats for fishing off of Cape Cod.
There was a portion on attempts to build a rubber hulled aircraft carrier but they failed horribly.
I think at one point JFK challenged me, somehow, to a mini-golf match.
I think there was also something about using the rubber hulled aircraft carrier to attack Cuba and the lack of it was what lead to the Bay of Pigs fiasco.
My subconscious has issues.
Posted by bucjos at 01:41 PM | Comments (0)
November 20, 2006
Unabashed self promotion
So, for giggles I decided to run "Joe Buck" through google and to my surprise I made first page. I'm behind the sportscaster, the band and a petition to stop the sports caster but still, the last time I did this like a year ago I think I saw a link to my homepage from a comment I left on jl!'s blog before I saw my own.
Thanks google, the checks in the mail ;)
Posted by bucjos at 11:59 AM | Comments (0)
November 17, 2006
I heart patton
I'm watching the movie Patton for the first time in a few years and I forgot how much I like it. Just wanted to share that.
If anyone has never seen it let me know and I'll lend it to you.
Posted by bucjos at 10:46 PM | Comments (2)
November 13, 2006
Little gamers cartoon
Ian sent me a link to a cartoon from their archive that he thought of when I made a comment at lunch along the lines "any joke that involves pants is instantly 5% more funny. if it involves a lack of pants, 50% more funny".
Yeah for no pants.
Relevant PA comic can be found here.
Posted by bucjos at 01:44 PM | Comments (0)
November 09, 2006
The best of the worst movies
Digg had a link to maxim's best of the bad movies.
I've seen 10 of the 13, the 3 I haven't see (all of) are eraser, scarface and beastmaster.
Can anyone beat 10 of the 13? ( assuming the stallone one is a freebie ). I have a feeling mooney is going to own me on this unless surviving the game gives me an edge.
Posted by bucjos at 03:11 PM | Comments (3)
A rerun of a classic
I saw that someone posted a youtube link to the fox 29 ( i wish they were in wisconsin ) spot on the playstation pornable for a few months ago, thought I'd throw up a link in case anyone missed it.
This was such a joke, the whole issue is that parents bought their kids a $300 gismo that can get on the internet and, guess what, there are things on the internet that are inappropriate for kids
My rant on it when it first made waves can be seen here.
Posted by bucjos at 01:25 PM | Comments (0)
November 08, 2006
It's starting to make sense
So, I've talked to a few people about the MS <-> Novell ( Suse linux ) thing and we were doing some head scratching and the best I could figure, MS realized it wasn't going to "beat" linux, so it might as well co-opt one of the linux companies.
Then today I catch an article at ars about the details of the agreement.
There's some interesting stuff in there about cross payments and agreements for each to not sue the others end users. The article mentions that some proponents of the GPL wonder if SUSE violated it with this deal but it looks like they've side stepped the parts of the GPL because they made no promises not to sue MS, just not to sue MS's customers if it turns out anything MS sells infringes on IP that SUSE has.
The agreements have MS putting money into a combined sales force, I wonder if the byline will be "SUSE, you know,the one we won't sue you for using". GoGo FUD-bot ;)
Posted by bucjos at 04:27 PM | Comments (0)
November 06, 2006
Thanks for pointing that out
I saw an article at the BBC about a person working as a relief directer is suspected of aiding genocide. At the end the article states the following:
"The Home Office said it would not comment on individual cases but pointed out that individuals found responsible for genocide could be stripped of their immigration status.".
Nice work Britain, reserve the right to strip immigration status from those responsible for genocide :/
Posted by bucjos at 09:45 PM | Comments (2)
You menu options have not changed...
Random rant, I take issue with the fact that pretty much every automated voice system says "please pay attention as our options have recently changed" when they haven't changed in 6+ months. That's just a silly ploy to really say "hey, you're not smart enough to listen to the options on your own so we're going to remind you that if you want to do something, knowing how to do it is handy so listen up tool".
Also, we need to add the most important option to helplines, the option to choose a genre of music. I don't need this best of the 80's/michel bolton/yanni/crazy celtic harp master stuff. Let me pick "whiney seatlle acoustic groups" or "songs that show up on the best of the 90's cd's you see sold at 1 am on comedy central".
Pete/Dave, get your company to get on this and then kick back a little of the royalties.
UPDATE:
Also, the whole "we're experiencing a high call volume" thing makes me a little testy. It seems like I have yet to make a call where this didn't come up. If you staffed well or any number of other options, this would be a better situation. You made your business oriented decisions, your message should say "we've decided we like money more than your time so grab a soda because you're going no where for the next 20 minutes".
Posted by bucjos at 02:07 PM | Comments (3)
MS attempts to add another monopoly
Wow, I was reading this article on the BBC's website about how the upcoming Zune mp3 player will *not* support music sold, by Microsoft, via the MSN music service.
I seem to remember that a little while ago, Microsoft's main beef with the ipod/itunes juggernaut is that it was a homogenous ecosystem. The music store was apple's and the music bought from it would only play on the ipod and the ipod would not play music sold by competing stores ( assuming they were drm'd, which they almost all are ). In light of this "issue", MS and pays launched the "play for sure" program. It included multiple music stores and players by multiple companies. This was all done under the auspice of offering more "choice".
Well, now that MS has it's own player, they're taking their ball and going home. The Zune will not be compatible with the "play for sure" system and the MSN store will stop selling music. MS will now sell music through the zune music store, that music will not be compatibility tested with any other players and "play for sure" songs may not work, MS won't be testing them either.
It seems like MS tried to get people to band together against "the man", apple in this case, until they could put together a program to challenge the man on its own turf, a fully integrated, and competitor free, music ecosystem.
Booooo Microsoft, Booooo. You tried to play the "but they aren't playing nice" card and then turn around and adopt the same tactics. I hope those partner companies that consolidated on your "play for sure" platform get pissed and do whatever is in their power to exact some for of pain/seek compensation from you. Unfortunately, that probably isn't likely because of how successful your tactics has proven in the past.
I do feel bad for you in a way. You had the opportunity to create a music player that was unique and it doesn't look like you did, the zune is aesthetically similar to the ipod from a few years ago, and you had the chance to compete fairly, in the free market, and you choose not to. You keep saying you're reformed your ways and I just don't see it. Hopefully someone there will see that you should compete on your product and not the might of your monolithic empire.
Posted by bucjos at 10:33 AM | Comments (0)
November 01, 2006
+1 for Jeremy
Jeremy was apparently reading the TSA allowed items list, don't worry Jeremy I don't judge....this type of stuff, and he found that Transformer toys are explicitly allowed on flights. Score one for freedom. When kids can't carry Optimus Prime on board, the terrorists have won.
Posted by bucjos at 03:14 PM | Comments (3)