Oh, and by the way...



... The Swans should be played for preschoolers.

Because its my birthday (yup! I am older cuz its the not-quite-the-ides of November. Because like seriously, what the hell is wrong with the concept that ides of march being the 15th also makes the ides of November the 15th? But no... apparently the ides of November is the 13th.) and because my benevolence goes as far as I can spit a live rat (which in this case is just far enough), I have something to share that has been occupying my near 100% attention this morning of the numerical advancement of my inching towards death... link available for clicking commence.

Super nifty Distortion Without Frontiers remix of Peter Gabriel's Games Without Frontiers

Ok, this is pretty much built for me to like. Its got the big guitar, its got electro/industrial things going on, and its still heavily drenched in Gabriel, which I appreciate greatly (after Gabriel's Last Temptation of Christ soundtrack, he pretty much wins at life). Take a thoughtful song and lace it with menace. Tasty.

Anyway, I have to figure out how to juggle fitting people into the one day a year that my inevitable creep toward death is not easily ignored, but I will be doing so with music induced sensory deprivation.

This, in my opinion, is bad.

HERE IS A STORY... VIA WARREN ELLIS... FROM THE BBC

Note:  The headline clearly says, "Indian Shot for Public Urination".  To me, that implies some guy with a gun came over and said, "Hey you with the pecker and the yellow water in public!  *FUGGIN BANG*", and the guy falls over holding his member for this heinous act of public yellow watering.  Yet clearly the story involves friends of the piddler in question, an argument or a fight, and then the man ending up being shot.  So in essence the headline could as accurately be, "Indian Shot After An Argument", which would lead you to very different conclusions.  (and likely not actually be interesting enough to read)

So, was the man shot because the fight got out of hand, or was he shot for public urination?  Is this worthy of attention or headline spin on a sad, yet pretty damned ordinary event.  Even though the reporter added some spice to the stew by talking about the trials and tribulations of a spitting and urination epidemic, it pretty much sounds like folks got angry and someone got shot.  

Journalim failure.  This makes me quite irked actually.

Noticed a few oddities lately with my computer.

Once again, after a period of relative quiet, my fans got noisey.  This is odd.  They have done this and gone quiet and nice before.  The last time I specifically remember an issue with fans corresponded to an overall power issue from the box.  It was NOT my computer, but merely not enough power going around (ie, turn on bathroom like, bedroom light dims... turn on microwave, bathroom light dims... that sorta thing).  In theory that could be the problem again, if so I will surely turn something on and something will go boink and I will know.

BUT... while gaming at off power usage hours, nothing else on AT ALL, I had throttle like issues with FPS.  Someone said that sounded like my CPU overheating.  So I opened it up, did some dusting, noted all the fans seem to have their noisey issues and together its annoying the only thing that seemed at all hot was the video card.

So... I downloaded one program that checks that shit... and while setting it up it was nice enough to tell me that it would not work on my compy as the program didn't recognize the heat sensors.  I downloaded another, Speedfan (and no I am not mucking around with clocks speeds... I don't have the sort of understanding to even grasp what that does) and it seemed to work like a charm.  And indeed, my GPU is rotting hot as all hell (like 80C), even while just on LJ, nothing taxing going on otherwise.  But other than telling me things are hot, I am really not sure how to make this damned program do anything that will help me. 

I did a bit of research and found that it might be my video card... or it might be my power supply (HMMMM... power supply... but if there is problems with power in general here, might that factor into the equation?).  On a limited (ie 0$) budget, how do I figure out what is the issue?!!?!

Is there some magical Star Trek diagnostic device I can use like a tricorder or something!?!?!  I fear taking it to some compy pro, cuz they will charge me compy pro prices even before I have to buy whatever might be the problem.  

And said compy pro might see my porn...

So yeah.  Gimme answers, cuz I am teh stoopidz.  Really I am pretty close to computer illiterate and only got as far as I did through the magic of google and clicking links.

That said... it does make me wonder.  I had strange computer issues of very similar nature when there was a blown fuse in the MAGIC DO NOT OPEN box that controls everything (not the reg fuses that we are supposed to muck around with... who knew there were two types even!).  So I am hoping some magic fix comes along and makes it all moot like it did last time.

Its funny because its true:

"Don't mock the genius of Steven Segal. Segal oozes more subtly in one scene than most actors do in their entire career. The sheer amounts of subtleness that he can convey in just one sequence, using his "I'm so mad I'm going to kick your ass" sneer then switching to his "I'm mad and now I am kicking your ass" sneer, then finally transitioning to his "I just kicked your ass and while I'm still mad, I'm going to go kick ass elsewhere" sneer is deserving of some sort of lifetime achievment award."

- The KBBL Party Penguin (I decided not to fix his typos! rawr!)

Its official, Facebook HATES Canadians that have the audacity to try to make money and be like Americans!

See?! :

'Book closed on radio host

CFRB's Doyle shut out of popular networking site

By BRETT CLARKSON, SUN MEDIA

Last Updated: 25th September 2009, 4:29am
 

Four days after joking on the air about being booted off Facebook, that's exactly what happened to Newstalk 1010 CFRB host Ryan Doyle.

"I'm gone," he said yesterday. "I'm a ghost, it's very bizarre."

Doyle, 32, who anchors the 7-10 p.m. Ryan Doyle Show on the station, interviewed Playboy model and former SUNshine Girl Anissa Holmes on air last Friday about her ordeal in getting turfed from the popular social networking site.

Holmes, whose story was first highlighted in the Toronto Sun, was booted from Facebook in August. She lost about 12,000 contacts associated with her personal profile and fan page.

Holmes confirmed she has filed a formal complaint with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada over Facebook's refusal to grant her access to the hundreds of pictures she posted on the site, as well as Facebook's apparent refusal to delete the pictures from its servers.

After his interview with Holmes, Doyle joked on air about how he might be next on Facebook's chopping block because, like Holmes, he also uses the site to promote himself and his radio show. Doyle said he had about 650-700 friends on the site.

Because one of Facebook's terms of use is that users are barred from using their profile for their own commercial gain, Holmes wondered whether self-promotion was the reason she was booted.

On air, Doyle wondered aloud if his self-promotion would be his Facebook undoing.

"I use it for the radio show just as much, you know; I post videos," Doyle said on the Friday broadcast. "Now that I've said that, my whole account will probably be shut down on Facebook and I'll have this fight with everybody on Monday, which will be great because let's see how much the media pays attention to a 32-year-old man in a hat, as opposed to a woman in a bikini."

On Tuesday when Doyle tried to log on to his personal profile, he was greeted with a message notifying him his account had been disabled.

"It looks very coincidental to say the least," Doyle said yesterday. "I joked about it on Friday night, and then Tuesday, I'm gone."

The most disturbing part of the whole episode for Doyle is that Facebook officials haven't explained their actions.

Doyle, who said he has only received vague form letters from Facebook about his deletion, was surprised yesterday to receive a bizarre e-mail from the site requesting that he "reply to this e-mail with a scanned image of a government-issued photo ID (e.g., driver's licence) in order to confirm your ownership of the account."

Doyle wasn't impressed.

"I think I'll take a pass on that," he said.

Facebook reps were unavailable for comment.

"For a social networking site, they're not very social," Doyle said.

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It would be interesting to see how many folks are getting zapped by the Facebook anti-self-promotion squad... and the nature of their business.  Seems to me that a WHOLE LOTTA people could fall under this category of networking through Facebook to advance their careers...

So Bowen is retiring.  Not Scotty BowMan of Red Wings fame (no no... not THOSE red wings.  Hockey! ...sick bastards).  Not Randy Bowen from Bowen Designs (although his new Hulk sculptures look pretty cool, but the White Queen is extra nifty).  Bruce Bowen. 

Now I am not much of a basketball fan, but when there is no hockey being played, I find myself wandering to the sites that post the scores... and feeling empty... alone in the wasteland... a hole in the center of my being.  It is at these times of deepest, most consequential melancholy that I find myself seeking and finding barest solace in things like NFL pre-season scores, Major League Baseball stats (numbers and lists are KEWL) and the basketball page of such sites (even though the basketball season pretty much mirrors the hockey season).  And so I read that Bruce Bowen, defensive (and MORE!) specialist for the San Antonio Spurs is retiring.

THIS IS ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW:


The man is a defensive marvel. 

In tough with a team threating to disrupt your post-season aspirations of a run at a championship.....?

KICK HIM IN THE FACE.

Its a dark day for the NBA.

(wtb hockey now please)

Right and the very end, the last possible moment before newspaper became paper free Tim Horton's table, they dropped a bomb...

(and yes, probably everyone on the planet EXCEPT me knows all about this already, but this is about me reading about it, not everyone else reading it.  Those ramblings will appear elsewhere!)

( LJ Cut Feature adds essential vitamins and nutrients )

For people in the Toronto area this commercial is nothing new...


Is it just me, or does this make anyone a little uncomfortable...  First of all, do you really want to arrange a loan with a man making faces and seeming as ridiculous as he does near the end of his ummm... dance number.  Pawning *ahem* used jewelery to him might be more acceptable.  (cuz like, I am just the sort of fella to have a drawer full of bling I am not longer entranced by... though I might be persuaded to wear a giant ass gold rope ala Wesley in New Jack City.  I already have the kangol!)

But seriously, his foray into the world of dance music really strikes me as sounding pretty damned 'Pet Shop Boy'.  Does Russel Oliver even know who the Pet Shop Boys are?  Does Russel Oliver know that a song by the Pet Shop Boys is perhaps not the vibe to feature this sort of back up dancer?  If he does, and whoever made this commercial does, do they know that, at least to me, it seems depressing rather than anything one might consider a positive quality?

Anyway, I see this damned commercial nearly every day, and it really makes me feel kinda bad for the guy.  He better be one hella pile of rich to compensate.

So LJ is doing this thing...  I go onto my Friend's Page and it seems to scramble up everyone's videos, like all the video on the page is on shuffle!  I am not even sure how this would happen, but its been doing this for a while for me, and its PURE AMAZING.  Read a sad post about lost loves ending with a poignant song and blammo there is G-Force guinea pigs doing dumb shit instead!  Later you find a story about how terribad G-Force is (because it has nothing to do with Battle of the Planets... which if it was about all the terribad would instantly melt away) and blammo there is this utterly soul wrenching song by some girl I have never heard of but reminds you a lot of Sarah McLaughlin!  The incongruence is truly powerful mojo and...

THIS FILLS ME WITH MIRTH!

So yes, your carefully crafted posts are being shattered by this strangeness, but its OK!