I was listening to this week’s TWIT when I heard a comment from Leo Leoporte regarding some guy that had a patent out for “episodic content.” I couldn’t believe my eyes when I found this to be true. Apparently this is “old news,” but hey, I’m about to get married, had a bit of drama last year, so I guess some news fell through the cracks. This, however, should have caught my eye. And for those of you who don’t know, I thought I’d reinvigorate the conversation once again. I had always known there to be a reason why Apple didn’t push magazine subscriptions through its store front. Now I know why.
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Beware the patent trolls.
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010Fast food rots your mind. Here’s video to prove it!
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010I am absolutely terrified of drive-thrus. Here’s another good reason why I will never EVER use one.
Those crazy drivers in Dallas, let me tell ya.
Friday, June 4th, 2010And this is why hardly anyone is open at 6am.
So I have some bad days lately
Saturday, May 15th, 2010Outside of not having cancer, being healthy, and alive, I’ve had some pretty bad days as of late. I had a prospect tell me she didn’t want me to do her website because she felt I wasn’t experienced enough. Honestly, I have never had anyone tell me that I wasn’t experienced to do anything before. My computer blew up, forcing me to replace the damaged parts. And, believe it or not, my insurance check has yet to arrive. Yet something is very different. There’s a part of me that just want to be stressed out to the max, but another part of me, a larger percentage of me, is thankful of being alive. I suppose that this is what my near collision course with cancer was supposed to do. Nothing surmounts to the experience I had just endured. I am extremely grateful for friends, family, and coworkers as they helped guide me through this rough patch in my life. The problem was just so great, I couldn’t handle it alone. But for once, I find that these so called problems can be managed or solved through patience, determination, and fortitude.
I feel as if this is a new beginning. Tim, meet world. World, meet new Tim. By the way, I promise to blog in a more optimistic fashion. I had to blog what I was currently feeling as many other cancer patients who decided to blog, were true to themselves and helped me along the way. It is nice to know that people still feel things online. We lose that spiritual element in words.
A game of chance
Sunday, May 9th, 2010I started writing about chance and life and all this other pillow talk that I really know nothing about, but actually I thought I would talk about something I know. The honest truth is that I am an acosmic pantheist. Every step I make in life has been predetermined by my own social construct of who I want to be. Think matrix, but without all the computers or CGI. It is the universe which propels me forward in life and the law of nature which keeps everything so damn entertaining. I guess I could believe in a god, but why bother. Why create a construct of a construct? In my mind, heaven, or what some call heaven, is where we are today. It is man’s inability to see it which perplexes me. How many heavens must men/women be able to create or envision before they are happy?
Chances are I might have cancer. Chances are I might die from it. I am also confronted with the chance that there may be no cancer at all. What worries me is why I have never thought of life being so fragile in the first place. I mean, I just gaze up at the stars every night when I come home and I see the universe at work. An infinite number of stars are dying and becoming born again. Some collapse unto themselves, others become a portion of the mass they use to be. In either case, each scenario is confronted by chance, or a simple roll of the die. If life for a star is so up in the air, then how could I have even thought that I was any different?
An abnormal growth…
Thursday, May 6th, 2010Today was the hardest day of my life. I went to the emergency room having a nagging head ache after a car accident yesterday. The doctor was for certain that my head was not of issue, he did pay particular attention to a growth on my tonsil, however. Turns out the growth could be cancerous. I go to an ENT Wednesday to find out if I need to have a biopsy conducted on a portion of a sample. This is a weird situation for me right now. I will blog whenever I can.
A Nationalist America
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010I think Obama is picking up on the same thing I have been picking up on just talking to friends. I believe this “tea party” movement is the Republican party trying to shift the debate from that of political discourse to nationalism. You may not believe in Obama’s politics, but he is our President. For the tea party to continue to protest for reduction of government spending serves no point at all. Individuals who side with the tea party do not want to subsidize the poor. However, having no children of my own nor plans to have any, I have to subsidize the gross overpopulation of middle class America. Where are my tax breaks? It is due to our inability to control children making that we find ourselves in the situation we are in. But you don’t see the couples with no children out in open revolt, demanding adults have less children and more accountability for their bedroom activites. Maybe we should march?
No You Can’t (Featuring John Boehner)
Thursday, March 25th, 2010I love politics!
Sonic the Hedgehog 4
Friday, February 5th, 2010Looks like Sonic is making yet another appearance. I wonder if the game will be featured on XBox 360.
The “Do-Nothing” Minority
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Today’s actions or behavior of the Republican minority reminds me of a familiar theme from United States political history. In 1948, President Truman had to face a similar environment, but with a Republican controlled congress. Known as the “do-nothing” congress, the Republicans themselves called upon social security expansion and the promotion of health and education by the federal government. The Republican majority, however, was divided, creating a climate whose forecast involved President Truman’s failure to seek a second term in office.
We all know how that fairy tail ended.
The Republicans are predicting a great victory in November. Are they not students of history? If there is one thing the American party hates most, its the perception of being lazy (even though I think we are a very lazy people). We like to drive our big gas hungry trucks, drive 80 MpH down the freeway, and bestow upon the rich the powers to eliminate tens if not thousands of jobs. A storm of chaos is brewing when countries such as France or Spain is perceived as being “more” progressive than the United States. President Obama stated in his state of the union that he doesn’t accept second place. Well neither do the citizens of the United States and nor should the Republicans. When Ford’s theme of like a rock evolves to that of drive one, there’s a problem. Rocks can’t float in a sea of change.
So where do we go from here?
The Democrats need to follow George Bush Jr’s strategy to “stay the course.” In a sense, the Democratic majority have absolutely nothing to lose. If “change” brings about a Republican strategy of forcing a stale-mate, doing nothing as their Republican counterparts would most certainly force the Republicans to go on the “offensive.” And the Democrats don’t want to be perceived as the problem, they want to be seen as the solution. After all, the democrats do have a mandate brought about by the American people. Creating an environment where Obama will be forced to use his veto powers is not wise. There isn’t much unifying the Republican party other than religion and greed. If it involves giving women the rights to do anything, or take away the banks right to steal from anybody, you can forget about it. Let the Republicans speak! After a while ( Sarah Palin ), people will see and hear how idiotic and extremist they really are.
If I were Republican, I would have taken this “do-nothing” stance in the summer as opposed to spring. But as of now, I believe President Obama is doing the right thing. Up the rhetoric and expose the Republicans for who they are and what they are doing. It’s free air time for Obama and will only drain the banks of the Republican party coming into the November elections.
