Well they have infiltrated Toys R US

I was there tonite doing some xmas shopping. Innocent trip to the toy store i thought, until I saw this. Surely i'm not the only one that notices its uncanny resemblance to the T-1. The best part is its WIFI enabled and connects to the internet..hello skynet anyone? Won't be long now.

I used no ellipses to write this blog!

A retraction to yesterday's blog

Apparently today is Wednesday thus making yesterday Tuesday, thus making yesterday's blog a complete fabrication. I realize this makes me retarded, and I'm ok with that.

Wednesday is blogging day..

This is my latest attempt to have some structure in the regularity of my blogging. Apparently I'm not an everyday type of blogger. As i said before I really have little interest writing interesting things for 'you' to read, I created this blog to entertain myself (actually that's a lie as i created this blog because a dear co worker of mine said i would never keep up with it) Well hes half right.

I think the cause of this lack of effort is my blog is suffering from an identity crisis.

So what are some things we could discuss.. i'll make a few bullet points and maybe we(I) can discuss them in upcoming blogs.

Well i was going to do bullet points but seems a bunch of the editing buttons are gone.. thanks google... err.. skynet.

-We could talk about the dumbest thing i have ever heard of in my life...

-We could talk about the auto industry bailout...

-We could talk about what's beyond the light horizon...

-We could ask god if he reads my blog..

-We could delve into my obsession with ending phrases with ellipses...

Ill mull these over and pick one for next week.

Perhaps I should blog...

That's what I thought just now as I was mindlessly surfing the internets. But I'm under a lot of pressure to come up with something quick because the laptop has almost no battery life left.

here is a youtube video to watch while i look for the power..

got it...

how bout some live tool circa 1996....

Somehow this blog ended up being about the show 24

Why does everyone romanticize the past?  You hear it all the time, each older generation lamenting the newer generations lack of (...) whatever you name it.  Lately, I've been hearing a lot of the "moral decay" of today's society.  Like we have less morals than previous generations, because commercials are a little bit more racy than they were in "yester year".  Well I'm here to tell you that if you think now is worse then before.. you are nuts, not just a little but nuts but full on crazy person eating glass for breakfast nuts.

I think we have more morals today than at any previous time in history, and it will continue to get better as time goes on.  We have our freedom of speech and freedom of expression protected more so than any time in history(patriot act beside), civil and human rights continually get better, try being a Japanese immigrant during WWII.. try being black in this country at any point in time, try saying you were communist in the 50's during the "golden age" of McCarthyism, try being  native American 200 years ago.

Do all that and then come back and tell me the world is going to hell in a hand basket because sitcoms show more skin than they used to.   Go back and work in one of JP Morgan's or Rockefeller's sweatshops, and tell me you long for the good old days.  What do you think the Catholic church would have done to Mormons  700 years ago?

Yes morons let's get those soul less racy sex scenes off the air and replace them with goold old fashioned american gun violence, would that make you happy?  I sure as hell don't want my daughter to see a  nipple on TV, when she could be sitting there watching some douche bag like keifer sutherland shooting somebody in the face every 5 minutes because hes super patriotic.

If that's the decay of morals, then screw morals.

Ok.. Say you're a robot

And your goal is to destroy humanity, which is true. What better way to hone your mind control skills than those with dimentia..
This is the story.. this is the one that everyone will be like OMG Jason...Jesus Christ.. you were right. What other logical reason could there be for this? They are definetly trying to kill us.

Computerized Carer Lessens Dementia Load
ScienceDaily (Nov. 12, 2008) — An artificial intelligence coaching system has been developed that will help carers of older adults with moderate dementia. The COACH system (Cognitive Orthosis for Assisting aCtivities in the Home) uses a camera and computer to deliver interactive advice - lessening the workload on often-overburdened carers.

Why teach old people with dimentia? Because their brains are already half shot, and easier to control.

Call me crazy now....

Almost no need to blog now.

I did some updates to the site mostly adding a couple of rss news feeds, namely the feed from science daily on artificial intelligence news. You don't have to take my word for it anymore you can simply logon and see the world come apart at the seems. This way I can spend my time working on a solution to this problem we have instead of wasting my time trying to inform the masses of the inherit dangers of roomba vacuum cleaners.

video of the day

Who the hell made you the boss

If you say what to do I know what not to stop
If you were the ship then who would ever get on
The weather changed it for the worse
And came down on us like it had been rehearsed
And like we hope, but change will surely

And be awful for most but really good for some
I took a trip to the exact same spot
We pulled the trigger, but we forgot to cock
And every single shot



Now that the stupid election is over, we can get back to discussing important topics, like modest mouse lyrics, mostly to annoy my brother n law since I heard that he may read this on occasion. We can also get back up to speed on how robots and technology will ruin the world, and maybe delve into the benefits of living off the grid, since it looks like we are headed for great depression part II.

A few tidbits of interest:

- Its cold out now and that pisses me off. There is nothing worse than walking outside still dreaming of sleep, and getting slapped in the fact by a bone chilling breeze on a dreary november morning. I will probably continue to be pissed off until spring. The worst part is that its only November and its going to keep getting colder...

-As most of you that read my blog know(LOL just kidding nobody reads this) I work in technology and today was the first time I ever had anyone ask me to fix their glasses. So obsurd I couldn't refuse. I think i will walk into the ER tomorrow and ask someone to change the oil in my car..maybe replace the rotors.

- My t-shirt empire is off to a slow start, but at least Adam knows that when I say im going to get t shirts made that says he sucks and a website to sell it on, he knows that Im 100% serious.

-I need more multimeda in my blog so I'm going to go over to You Tube right now and find a sweet video to attach to this blog. BRB..

"We hold these truth's to be self evident"

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are createdequal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent andinalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments areinstituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consentof the governed; that whenever any form of government becomesdestructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." --Declaration of Independence as originally written by Thomas Jefferson, 1776.

Question:

How is this not the pledge of allegiance? It is way better than that nationalistic peice of crap we force kids to recite everyday like mindless little drones.

That's all.

Oh and congrats to Obama, please dont let the democrats ruin the country, kthxbye.

Dear God...

Its been almost a week since my last post. I just noticed that while drinking my $2.50 bottle of "evian" water. So if the rest of my blog sounds a bit pretentious you know why. Speaking of being pretentious I am just going to go ahead and tell people who believe in Intelligent Design to STFU.

I recently got the opportunity to sit through a dvd called "The Priveledged Planet". An hour long pseudo scientific look into the concepts of Intelligent Design. And when they say Intelligent Design they really mean "God did it". They can disguise it as science all they want, but their wrong. Espicially the part where they kept interviewing a "philosopher" and in the center of the frame in the background through the window is a steeple of a church. Nice...

Why are they wrong? Because I drink expensive bottled water and have a blog which makes me correct 103% of the time.

Science is an unbiased process in which we try to discover the answers to lifes unanswered questions. Specifically when talking about the origins of the universe science takes a look and makes the best possible guess given the data at hand, and those theories evolve over time. Big bang, oscillating uiverse, dark matter, expansion theory, string theory, M theory etc. Science will continue to evolve its ideas and goals, and religion will not. When science is wrong it admits its mistake and recalculates. And when its proven beyond a doubt religion relents. I can gurantee you the "ID" people will never stop spinning the evidence to support their theory even if its not there. Therefore its detrimental to finding the truth.

So while its true one day science could find the data and prove that there was an intelligent hand in creating the universe, its important to let science figure out that on its own. If you're religious think of science as the search to figure out how God did it. I think we can look at some of the past transgressions of the catholic church and its oppression the last 1000 years on scientific discovery to see why the church should stay out of the way. Think where we could be as a species if they had just stuck to theology, and left the scientists to do their work.

If you ask me the devil is in the church, not in the details.

You'll burn me in effigy and I'll burn you in effigy

Oh how clever I am.. tying modest mouse lyrics into my blog..I've never done that before.(wink, wink)

Let's talk about burning flags. I've noticed recently that there are quite a few people who feel this is an abomination and people who do it should be thrown in prison. Believe it or not, its a popular sentiment and a extremely crazy and dangerous one. You see we have this whacky document called a constitution, its pretty cool and although its been trampled repeatedly by people who don't deserver to live in this country, we are nothing without it. Burning the flag is something that I consider extremely disrespectful to those that have given their lives to make this country, (especially those who fought for our independance) but the right to do it is guaranteed in our constitution. The moment we start jailing people for not respecting a piece of cloth is the moment we can take the consititution and throw it in the trash. Like I said its disrespectful but it should not warrant vigilante violence or criminal charges, it is as I said just a piece of cloth. People put such emotional stock in odd things, like some re print of our flag probably made in china.

"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
-Albert Einstein

ehh.. these blogs have been way too serious... more robot paranoia and more modest mouse and less lunatic rants...promise.

You can have the easy button..

I need a STFU button. I'll be happy to return it after election season is over. It seems everywhere I go there is some blowhard jerk off spewing political hate speech. Yesterday's flight home was no different. Only on an airplane I can't get away from it, and it was 2 solid hours of some guy spending the entire flight in the seat in front of me attacking some lady who mentioned she was voting for obama. If only I had a STFU button, or a gun, but you can't have those on airplanes so the STFU button would do just fine. To think if I would have beat this douche bag unconscious on the flight home I would have been the one on trial...

I have found that even though most of my political ideals lean to the right, republicans are by far the ones I see that can get pissed off just by mentioning the word democrat, liberal or worse Obama. Republicans tend to be the most hotheaded, illogical, mudslinging, retards in the world and the reason I couldn't fathom being a member of their party. Besides most of them seem to be repressed homosexauls anyway.

So while most of america is busy sharpening their teeth, counting down to the stupid presidential vote, I'll be counting down the days for a different reason. 24 days until they all can shut the fuck up, and I don't have to hear about it anymore.

Imagine there's no xmas..its easy if you try

What I am about to tell you is 100% unfiltered truth. And you damn well that I don't often talk about events in my personal life unless its really really urgent.

CHRISTMAS MUST BE STOPPED.

Yesterday, which by my calendar was October 4th, I went to Lowe's to pick up a few household items while my car was getting an oil change. I walk in and over to my left to my total and complete surprise was fucking christmas decorations. And by total and complete surprise I mean toal and complete surprise. I'm a pretty cynical person and I look for this type of shit. I was astounded. Christmas 3 weeks before Halloween! Christmas is 88 days away, and there are 365 days in a year. So yea... christmas is about 25% of the year now.

25% of the year on a supposed "christian" holiday that really is a holdover pagan tradition. I wonder how many people have no idea why the hell the celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ with a decorated pine tree. At any rate this xmas juggernaut has to be stopped. Only I haven't the slightest idea how, maybe that can be a subject to tackle as the season gets closer and my christmas induced rage is at a higher level.

Feel free to offer any suggestions.

Do I feel like blogging today?

No I don't actually, but I will anyway..at least half-assed. But I think if I watch one more episode of WOW WOW WUBZY I might have a stroke, if you've seen it you would agree that they must be trying to induce a stroke in their viewers.

So the vice presidential debates are on tonite. I guess it will be interesting in the same way a train wreck is interesting, or the same way American Idol is interesting. Hardly worth not showing the Office.

Since I don't feel like blogging, I'll just go ahead and post a few thoughts I have on how to fix the country.

-Take away the right for american citizens to vote for president. Its the only part of politics people care about and it has become a parody of itself. Most people probably couldnt name their state senators, representatives or supreme court justices. The founding fathers used electors. these electors could be the electoral college, but they could just be congress as well. This would force people to pay closer attention to the people that represent them directly, and avoid the national cirucs of a presidential election. Don't like the president your congressman voted for? Vote him out of ofice.

-Term limits for congress. These guys serve way too long for their own interest. Change the terms to 4 years and have a max 2 term limit. Also every year make it possible for their consituents to hold a vote of no confidence if their congressperson(i got this pc shit down) turns out to be a d-bag.

-A possible 3rd congressional house run by joe six packs and use a selection process similar to jury duty. These people would serve very short terms and provide common sense oversight to the elected officials that re passing the laws. You could make this a public service requirement. This way maybe when the country is on the verge of collapse you don't have d-bag senators attaching earmarks to financial bailout bills to lower the excise tax on wooden arrows.

--OR--

I could serve as benolavent dictator.

I promise this is the last political blog I will post for at least a week. See what happens when I don't feel like blogging? Pure crap.

These robots are more sinister than I originally thought

Someone needs to go up to MIT and teach these nerds how to tap a keg and roll a joint so they stop wating their time hastening the end of mankind....

Voice-Commanded Robot Wheelchair Finds Its Own Way
— MIT researchers are developing a new kind of autonomous wheelchair that can learn all about the locations in a given building, and then take its occupant to a given place in response to a verbal command.

I know I can't speak for the rest of you, but I sure as hell don't won't my gramma getting wheeled into oncoming traffic by some deranged "autonomous" wheel chair. On the other hand if we put "differently abled"(that's what your supposed to call them now) people in these wheel chairs it could serve as an early warning system to the rest of us. "Lot of wheel chair related incidents lately, they must have become self aware..time to head to the compound."

One other thing of note:

-I added a web tracker to my site today, not to inflate my ego(nobody in their right mind would follow this nonsense), but I need to keep an eye out for you know who....





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Everytime you make a pot of decaf coffee baby jesus kills a kitten...

Ok listen...



If you drink "decaf" coffee you're retarded. FACT! Nothing in the world pisses me off more than getting a nice hot cup o joe in the morning only to find some idiot has wasted precious natural resources filling up another pot with fake coffee. It is complete pointless to consume decaf, as well as extremely selfish and rude to your normal non retarded co workers who are eagarly awaiting a nice hot cup of wonderful delicious coffee. Seriously you know who advocates the drinking of decaf? Mormans. You know the large group of idiots in Utah who worship some that jack ass that supposedly found some tablets in rochester NY that had some more jebus commandments on them...the ones that nobody else was allowed to see but him. Need I say more? Didn't think so. Stay the f*ck away from the coffee maker jerks.

Random Musings

Quick hit thoughts of the day:

• 700 billions dollars / approx 130 million taxpayers = $5,000 per taxpayer.  You're welcome idiots who bought houses you couldn't afford. Hope you choke on it.
• The arctic ice is melting.. don't care. Not as long as people think its solely the cause of man, and ignoring the giant fireball at the middle of our solar system.
• Palin.  I'm no longer speaking to people that think she is capable of running the country when McSame finally succumbs to that bowling ball on the side of his face for fear that stupid is contagious.
• Ahmadinejad.  You are a retard, stfu. We are all aware the empire is crumbling, you won't survive without it.
• Large Hadron Collider.  6 billion dollar fail. We could have built 116 of them if people knew how much mortgage they could afford.

Staying Humble..hiding from skynet.

I have added the gadget over there on the right that lists your blog followers. That way if I start getting out of hand I can take a deep breath and relax because nobody cares what I say. Don't worry though that's a good thing as I don't really say anything worth reading, that is unless I'm talking about robots in which case you need to pay attention and probably jot down a few notes, everything else is mostly bullshit just to confuse go*gle( search engine bots are not easily misled) . from now on skynet will be my codeword for g0*gle. Ok? good. Think I'm paranoid? Read this:



IT at sea: Google to launch a computer navy


ccording to a patent application seen by London newspaper "The Times," Google is considering launching barges up to seven miles (11km) offshore to host the massive data centers required to run its Internet search engines.
The plan would likely see the data centers -- which consist of huge supercomputers -- use wave energy to power and cool themselves while stationed at sea.
In the application Google states: "Computing centers are located on a ship or ships, anchored in a water body from which energy from natural motion of the water may be captured, and turned into electricity and/or pumping power for cooling pumps to carry heat away."

To think just a few years ago skynet was simply a nice internet search engine.. now it looks like its gearing up to take over the world. You guys worry about "Al Qaida" I'll worry about skynet, the real threat. Maybe its pissed off because the internet is by far the most important tool in the history of man kind and we mostly juse use it to watch porn.

Here is something you can take to the bank...

If you own or have any desire to own an apple iphone I hate you. Right now if I had one wish it would be that Steve Jobs and all his apple fan boys would suck on the business end of a shotgun. Bunch of birkenstock wearing, tree hugging, elitist, soul less, yuppie scum bags each and every last one of them. Sitting around in coffee shops on their macbooks drinking $6 lattes out of styrofoam cups talking about global warming and how their making a fucking difference by driving a toyota prius hybrid that has a higher negative enviornmental impact that a Hummer H2.(yes that's true, the nickel required to make the batteries is very eco unfriendly),but they really don't give a shit about the environment, just about the perception of saving the environment. These people are just like homeless people they just have a trust fund to live off, while they finish that liberal arts degree in pottery making that will ultimatly land them a job managing a gap store at the mall.

I really just don't like the iphone, that's all Im saying.

Everyone's life ends, but no one ever completes it

The title? Just a lyric stuck in my head this evening, modest mouse of course.. ;). Once again I'm not really sure what to blog about but I'm not going to ramble on aimlessly like the other day. I'll stop typing at the end of this sentence and come back when I have an idea, or something pisses me off.(maybe I'll go read the news,brb)

Ok I'm back..

(I apoligize in advance if you don't want to hear me talk about politics)



I'm going to post a news article..you...ready? Make sure you are sitting down because this is the most absolutely retarded thing I've read in awhile, and it proves once and for all without a doubt that all politicians are batshit fucking crazy. you ready? Put your seat belt on.



Here's the headline:



Adviser calls BlackBerry 'miracle' McCain 'helped create'



(give me a minute or 10 as I wipe the tears from my face)



So John McSame helped to invent the blackberry?



(According to one of his lackeys apparently)



Pressed to provide an example of what McCain had accomplished on that committee, Holtz-Eakin said the senator did not have jurisdiction over financial markets, then he held up his Blackberry, telling reporters: "He did this."
"Telecommunications of the United States, the premiere innovation in the past 15 years, comes right through the Commerce Committee. So you're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create," Holtz-Eakin said. "And that's what he did. He both regulated and deregulated the industry."



(LOL)



I may have to vote for him now.. If you can not know how many houses you have, never sent an email, have no idea how to use a PC but somehow invented the blackberry, and still had the balls to run for president with a straight face. That's impressive.



When I run for president I'm just going to tell people I invented pants. If they dont like it I'll call them a terrorist and throw them in a prison for years without a trial, and tell everyone that doesnt agree with me that they hate their country.

Hmmmmmmmmm.......

That's what I was thinking when I decided to sit down and write a blog, because honestly I don't really have anything planned to blog about. I was kind of hoping that if I started typing some words here on the internets that maybe something would come up, but nothing yet. I'm still just sitting here typing aimlessly. Sure you might be thinking "well jason, why dont you just stop typing?" Good question I would say. I really got nothing else going on this very moment, so I'll just keep typing maybe I'll have a thought. No surprising that I'm still sitting here with nothing to blog about. I mean I could blog about politics but who cares honestly? I could blog about the new particle accelerator over there at CERN everyone is all up in arms about but everyone knows about that already. I could blog about the idiots in texas wasting my tax dollars because they were too stupid to leave when they were told. I could blog about the new smoking ban that just went into effect in pennsylvania this week, wait... that just might work.

Yes in case you didnt notice the commonwealth of Pennsylvania passed a law banning smoking in all public places. Now I've mentioned before the retardedness(is that a word?) of non smokers and their crusade the make the world a more miserable place, but this is more about the sad state of affairs when a business owner loses control of his own business. This is America last time I checked. , I was at my favorite local bar a few months ago when the smoking ban passed. I was sitting there talking to an eastern european immigrant who fled his homeland to come to america 20 years ago. He made a comment about fleeing to the states to get away from socialist big brother crap like this, and how he sees the same things happening here that he saw over there. Those of us that have lived here all our lives may take it for granted but to hear from the mouth of someone who came here for a better life, well it kind of hit home a little bit. You see its not really about the smoking its about taking the power away from the owner of the establishment. If people don't want to be around smoke, they will not frequent a bar that allows smoking, thus creating a market for a non smoking bar. Smokers won't want to go to a bar they cannot smoke.... you get the point. That's the beauty of capitlilism and free enterprise, people get to and will vote with their wallets.

So the next time you non-smokers are out for a night on the town enjoying your fresher cleaning smelling bar, that thanks to people like you this country is coming apart at the seems.

Computer Scientists Program Robots To Play Soccer, Communicate With Bees

No, I didnt make up this title, this is real news. Article below.

Computer Scientists Program Robots To Play Soccer, Communicate With Bees
July 1, 2008 — Engineers built humanoid robots that can recognize objects by color by processing information from a camera mounted on the robot's head. The robots are programmed to play soccer, with the intention of creating a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots able to compete against a championship human team by 2050. They have also designed tiny robots to mimic the communicative "waggle dance" of bees.

I want to meet the person idiot who decided what the world was really lacking was robots that communicate with bees. As if bees aren't enough of a pain in the ass, now they will be lead by a super robot type of bee. Soon enough we will be begging for the days when killer bees were the biggest bee-related worry.

Keep inventing shit morons.

I don't care about homeless people because they are poor.

Is that a terrible thing to say? I don't think it is. I was told that I had to make this the title of my blog so there it is. Homeless people serve no useful purpost to society, they add nothing of value. The only thing homeless people have over regular poor people is they usually do not breed. The world has more than its fair share of morons and there is no reason they should be allowed to multiply. Watch Idiocracy for clarification.



There are many ways to get unsightly homeless people off the streets. We could mulch them, harvest them for organs for non homeless people, use them for stem cells, medical trials, stunts for movies, target practice, I could go on all night. Hell I'm sure we could make a great alternative energy source out of them.

"That's cruel.. homeless people could just be regular people down on their luck" Ummm...no, they are nothing but a drain on resources that could be better utilized. But I bet you could use them to make candles or lamp oil or something. At the very least if you want to help the situation next time you see a homless person just go ahead and hoist them into the dumpster their sleeping next too, they are probably too drunk on sterno to notice anyway. Its not ideal but at least you can go home and sleep soundly knowing you made a difference.

Working on leavin' the living

In heaven everything is fine
In heaven everything's alright
In heaven everything is fine
In heaven everything is fine
In heaven
Working on livin'
I'm working on leaving
I'm working on leaving the living
Love you more than everything
Loved it more than anything
Loved everything more than anything
Working on drinking
I'm working on driving
I'm working on driving my dreams so
Working on living
I'm working on leaving
I'm working on leaving the living
In heaven everything is fine
In heaven everything's alright
In heaven everything is fine
In heaven

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPTJy9FMtrc

Modest Mouse > your mom

Watching football...so talk to you tomorrow internet.

Elmo and the NFL

Before we get into the first sunday of football season I want to point out how much I hate it when people refer to themselves in the 3rd person. In fact when I take over the world anyone who does it will face immediate execution, and that includes elmo. I had to listen to that creepy little muppet while my daughter was watching him on the internet this evening. If I was a better parent I would probably not let her watch him for fear of her adopting some of his self absorbed narcissism. Anyway onto football...

Happysad.

The Eagles won but the dolphins lost and its looking like another season of heartbreak as their rebuilding process continues. Tuna if you read this, please either get pennington bionic implants for his arm or bench him and let Henne play. That last ditch wounded duck pass to the corner of the end zone was pathetic. In the fins defense the jets are the only afc east team that the dolphins don't have a winning record againsts, they always seem to have their number.. what was that in like 95 when they blew a 35-7 fourth quarter lead agains the jets.

Tom Brady blew out his knee, which makes me happy because I hate the patriots but he was the best player on my fantasy football team..happysad. Nothing like sitting down with a plate of junk food on Sunday afternoon getting ready to watch your fantasy team kick some ass, and then seeing the tv cut to the new england game and hearing the words "Now watch Tom Brady's knee".... happysad.

Not very many people read my blog and that's probably good, but I do mention that I do it on occasion and people usually ask me what I blog about. "Mostly robots" I say. "..." is the typical response followed by eyes rolling. I keep note of this and these people will not be invited to my heavily fortified compound when the robots take over. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Untitled boring blog

What to blog about today? I have no idea. You got any? Feel free to post up any suggestions or comments on any issues in which you would like to hear my jerk-ass opinion. No new developments in the artificial intelligence world that i've seen (maybe they're reading my blog) so I got nothing to add there.

There is an election going on but for some reason i don't even care. I'm usually quite the political junkie, at least in the past, but I have been paying little attention. I'm not entirely sure why, I'll think about that and let you know. Maybe its because this country has completely lost its way and the founding fathers are rolling over in their graves seeing the socialist, imperialistic nightmare we are slowly but methodically turning into. But seriously I don't feel like talking about politics today so enough about that.(ironically the episode of the simpsons with lisa going to congress is on).

Edit: I take back what I said above about there not being news in the robot front. see below:

"Stanford computer scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that enables robotic helicopters to teach themselves to fly difficult stunts by watching other helicopters perform the same."

I know.. I know..... you're rolling your eyes thinking jason for christ sakes shut the hell up about the robots already. Well I'm not going, so don't ask  This is a cheezey action movie waiting to happen. Killer robot helicoptors..yup definetly going to happen you'll see.

What happens when you die

This came up in coversation today briefly and I figured I would explain here as so many people seem to be unsure.



Im going to divide this into 3 sections one for each.



-what definetly won't happen when you die.

-what most likely will happen.

-what is not out of the realm of possibility.





Part I (faith) What definetly will not happen when you will die:



You will not go to heaven, but don't fret as you will not go to hell either. In fact its 100% fact that any "religion" based account of the afterlife is absolutely false. How do I know this? Well its relatively simple if you think about it. There are several thousand religions in this planet some extinct, some still practiced. All believe their own beliefs are the only path to salvation. Since all of them cannot be true, and there is no emprical evidence to support any of them, its pretty safe to say none of them are. Most of them made up thousands of years ago to explain things that science could not. Many of these things have since been explained, like the Sun, moon etc. And from a christian standpoint "God" certainly would not create all these children in his image only to send the vast majority to hell, remember even competing denominations ofthe christian churches think the others are going to hell. Religion does nothing for us anymore, all of its good points have been absorbed into the secular governments (do not steal, ,kill etc) and all that is left is the faith closing the mind to hope and reason.(but this isnt about religion that's another topic).





Part II (reason)- What will most likely happen when you die - You will die. You will cease to exist. Its a pretty crappy deal, but if you think about it, it makes the most sense. As you have no conscience recollection from the beginning of the universe to now, you most likely will not have any recollection of any of the time that happnes after you die. Even if you continue to exist with no recollection of your memories here on earth, the person you are here is still effectively dead. Our memories make us who we are. People have a starting point (birth), things that are infinite dont have a starting point or an ending point for that matter.



Part III (hope) - What is not out of the realm of possibility - We continue to live on. Its still possible although unlikely that there is a supreme being, or even if there is not there is very very much we don't know about our universe, that it would be completely ignorant not to leave the door open for any possibility(except religion). We are just scratching the surface of our understanding of our universe, the possibility of parallel universes, other dimensions etc. You get the point.


Since we can be 100% sure that god doesnt exist in a chrisitan sense, but only 80% sure that he doenst exist at all, we have no choice but to be agnostic. We hope that this isn't the end even though all we know now points in that direction.



I read a book awhile back by TL Galin called "I'm dead, the hell you say, so now what" which the authors take on death is that we chose the life we live it before we live it, and based on how difficult of life we pick is how much our soul grows during that life. Interesting concept and certainly possible, and just as valid as anything else ever written.



So there you have it, absolute undeniable facts as always :)

Rolled up aces over kings

Its been a slightly busy week, and thats a good as an excuse I can come up with at the moment for not blogging the past week.

Couple of things that happened this week

-I saw both the atlantic ocean and pacific ocean in the same week.
-Drinking once again proved its usefulness as it created the great idea of going down to the Taj for a nice 13 hour session at the tables.
-I actually had a good time DDing for some friends who shared a birthday saturday. I didnt plan on dding it just kind of worked out that way. (I tried to get some cell video of adam telling chris he was going to eat his throat so he didnt have to hear him talk anymore but it didnt save... you had to be there)
-I hate new jersey and their never ending toll roads and so should you.


One day my better half will realize that I am not to be left unsupervised.

The best part was I got to see some jerk wearing american flag pants at the dog on saturday night. American flag pants no lie..apparently he was some redneck who was there to sing songs for "charity"...

On this whole charity thing...

The charity was for the humane league.. you know that place that takes all your unwanted pets, Some lady walked around the bar with a hat asking for donations.. I respectfully declined. Its not just because I'm cheap its more that I guess I find it a bit obsurd that people are out there raising money for animals... Animals are cool and all but If I have a few extra bucks to give to charity I can think of so many more worthwhile causes then a fucking animal shelter. As future ruler of the world I would make it a point to make sure that before we go around saving baby puppies maybe we should make sure all the people are fed, clothed and educated. Who knows maybe we could feed the dogs to the poor people...

Third time's the charm...(when you suck at your job)

3...



Thats how many attempts it took the jack ass pilot to successfully land the plane. Yup... after 5 hours and 25 minutes on a greyhound with wings, I had to put up with a pilot who obviously is not that good at his job..comforting.



Not much else, we went to little italy for lunch at some italian market with a pizza shop in the back, kinda cool but I dont really think san diego is known for its wop food.

dinner was actually kinda cool too, got to sit outside and some downtown trendy restaurant, ate lots of foot i never heard of.



Oh and there is a homeless person sleeping next to the dumpster a half block away.. guess if you are going to be homeless might as well be in socal.

Laugh hard it's a long ways to the bank (or remote heavily fortified compound)

Sorry I know you think its annoying to keep using MM Lyrics in my blog titles but fuck you its my blog and it pleases me. Anyway on to more important issues...

This will not end well...

"A new low cost platform for swarm robotics research which makes it possible to produce robots for as little as £24 each is being presented at the first European conference on Artificial Life which will be held in Winchester from 5-8 August."

24 pounds is about $45 or so...in case you were wondering.

When robots become as cheap as a programmable coffee maker you know its time to consider packing up your valubles and moving to the heavily fortified compound(more on that later) you've been discussing building with your friends when you've a little bit too much to drink. You know... that one jerk friend of yours that has spent way too much time contemplating the impending doom of civilization..oh wait that would be me.

On another note, I'm sitting here eating some popcorn with Haley watching Blues Clues and I'm proud to say she is wearing her Zack Thoms Miami Dolphins jersey to bed tonite. Score one for the good guys in the battle for my daughters soul. Eat your heart out Brian Dawkins.

Id love to sit around and blog some more but I have to get up at 5 am and fly the whole way across the goddamn country for a meeting on Monday. (the government loves to pay people to stand around)

So the next 3 days will be a special west coast edition of my jerk ass blog.

Sleep well and it might be a good idea to unplug your toaster before you go to bed...

You're not mild mannared you're often liquored up and rude

bonus points if you know what that line is from..(no its not modest mouse today)

Rant of the day:

Here is something I do not understand. I was at Hershey Park today, and you see how they have reduced people who smoke to huddling in little gazebos like lepers. You know.. to protect all the non-smokers "health". I'm willing to go out on a limb here and say that nobody has ever died from second had smoke related injuries from amusement parks.

The truth is that non-smokers are just elitist whiny bitches. I just as much as anyone else don't necessarily want to have to smell cigarette smoke while sitting have dinner, but an amusement park? Its outside for god sakes. In fact I bet more people have become sick/ill/dead from catching contagious diseases from standing in line like cattle waiting to ride the latest roller coaster. In fact I think I read something earlier this year about some jack-ass getting his head runover by a coaster trying to fetch his ballcap. So there you have it 1 person confirmed dead by the attractions, 0 by second hand smoke. Makes me want to smoke.. just to piss off jerks.

On a personal note:

Never shying away from a chance to make a jack-ass out of myself I sold my pride for $25 today. My "esteemed collegue" paid me $25 to wear some fugly miami dolphins crocs that he purchased for me as a thank you for providing him months of entertainment watching my "seemed like a good idea at the time" purchase of some crocs stock. The $25 is great for 2 reasons, I am now $25 richer and it teach my "esteemed collegue" to part with a little bit of the cash he's been hording for no reason. Now if I could just pay him $25 to have a cocktial or 7.

Embarrasing myself aside the highlight of the trip had to be my daughter's reaction to the bears at the zoo "Lood Daddy there is a daddy bear, mommy bear and "sweetheart". At least she didnt say superbaby...

tomorrow back to robots promise.

The Stars are Proejctors(and hipocrits apparently)

MM reference.... A pretty good song I might add. I did promise to reference them as often as possible because Modest Mouse is awesome.


Anyways...


I just got done filling out some of the profile options here, and had a good chuckle that I thought I would share with you. Apparently blogspot thinks Astrology is kind of a big deal. Since entering my birthdate gave me both my "astrological" sign and my "zodiac" sign(go ahead and click my profile to see what I'm talking about). Well apparently the stars insist I am both a Leo(Lion) and a sheep. How retarded is that? I am a lion and a sheep.. a "shion" maybe or a "leep". So basically its saying hey you might be an extroverted leo or an intraverted sheep, you might be a leader but you might also be follower. Confused? Me too. Don't feel bad because your not the one who spent an hour of their life finding out what being a leo means, and what being a sheep means only to find out their complete polar opposites. Which leads me to the conclusion that astrology is bullshit. Hopefully you can come to the same conclusion.

Moral of the story?

Astrology is for losers who need to be told what kind of person they are.

On Child Racism..

Figured I would come back to this before I forgot about it. I mentioned it briefly yesterday, and since I'm really not that creative of a person I'm sure not going to turn down material.



My daugther Haley(or superbaby or Linny depending on her mood) was at a store with her mother and from the way it was told to me when a bit like this:



Haley upon seeing black man: "Mommy what's that?"

Mommy: "Its a man"

Haley: " I don't like him"

Mommy: "Why?"

Haley: "He's chocolate"



Now....



Is my daughter racist? Well maybe, but she is a huge Barack Obama fan( I don't have the heart to tell her hes a marxist, socialist, turd). In fact, maybe it just proves the point that people inheritantly dont like people that dont look like them, or fear what they don't understand. It would make sense in neanderthal type of tribal sense, but of course it doesn't apply in today's world. Maybe it even says that racism and prejudice are an instinctual behavior and equality and open mindedness are learned...not the other way around. whatever... the point of all this is that kids are freaking hilarious. In fact as I sit here typing this Haley is watching Dora(people that make cartoons have to be on drugs) jumping around the living room singing a song about a chocolate tree or something(again probably a lot of drugs). The cool part about dora is it teaches you spanish. Who knows I may start bloggin in spanish in a few months. Dios Mio, donde esta mi lapiz?

Well I've done this two days in a row now..still doubting I'll keep up with it.


No news is good news on the robot front....but this blog will still be your official robot resistance website.

Testing...1...2..

Is this thing on? Ok, that was a rhetorical question. I feel like I should spend a little bit of time introducing myself as this is my first foray into blogging but then again I would imagine the chances of anyone reading this who doesn't already know me are slim to none. So I'll skip all that besides I think anyone of sound mind has to be at least a little bit skeptical of talking about their personal life on the internets, that or you are a narcisist and you just like hearing yourself talk err type.

I'll do my best to keep the personal details to a minimum and use this small corner of the virtual world to talk about important subjects like the impending robot takeover, zombies, aliens, child racism(more on that later), iphones, airports, scientology, why that movie sucked, my paralyzing fear of spiders, things that are white trash, etc. I may occasionally throw my hat in the political ring as well. (oh and I will try an reference modest mouse as much as possible)

I'll do my best to keep this updated on a regular basis but to be honest I get bored quickly, and the only reason I started it was because a co-worker does it and he bet that i wouldn't keep up with it.(more on him later)

Rant of the day:

This is a repost from my myspace blog but I read an article on CNN(liberal media) about the possibility of using "robots" as substitute for humans as teachers. I am not going to begin to try an comprehend how an idea such as this takes hold in the first place. An Excerpt from the article:

"Although robot teachers of varying abilities have existed for more than 30 years, ITS developments such as Whitehill's and Olney's are pushing beliefs that robots could soon be as effective -- if not more effective -- than human teachers."

More effective than human teachers.... seriously WTF.

This is the worst idea in the history of worst ideas's. Letting robots teach our children? Are you fucking nuts? What will you do when your children come home from school wielding a knife chanting "kill, kill, kill". Then what? Are you ready to be faced with the idea of having to fend for your life from your own children who were brain washed by evil robots when they realize they no longer need humans? Well don't come running to me for help, yes I will be there to tell you I told you so. Scientists need to be focusing their energies on how to defend against the upcoming technological singularity(google it) instead of trying to fan the flames.

Now that I think of it, this blog will make a good punchlist of things that will be "fixed" when I take over the world(its in the works more on that later)

Hopefully the quality of these "blogs" improve over time as well....