Why! Why the hell does Honda run these ads? Why so often?

You know the first time I saw one I thought it was for some kickass water gun. Then the punchline, Honda has made a Hydrogen Fuel car.

“NO!? A hydrogen Fuel car? It’s almost as if I really did see that episode “30 Days” like 2 years or more earlier. It’s also as if they really did cover that very car, where the CEO actually drank the water that came out of the tailpipe.

I see this ad nearly every other day. What do they want me to do? I checked they’re only trying them in areas with Hydrogen fuel centers. That’s like Bakersfield or something. So why run the ad nationwide? Why not include that you can actually make Hydrogen fuel pretty simply in your garage.

Then there’s McCain. For the love of god sir, give the 3 mil to Honda, or maybe the guy who made the first electric car ages ago in the nineties.

I’d like to make an analogy here. Yugo automobiles were better automobiles, than the American government is a government. Let me go one step further and say that Yugos, as automobiles, were just about the worst pieces of crap you could ever hope to accidently waste several grand on.

Well, what can be said for our country? Can’t solve poverty, can’t manage credit (re: paying minimum payments with SS funds, repeatedly), moron leader, mis or false representation (major reason for founding country)… it goes on. So, we were going to go over and fix all these other countries? So we’re the fat lady in that movie? The meddlesome one we all hate causing more problems than fixing, because she can’t even fix a sandwich, let alone her life, let alone someone else’s life.

That’s great. Thanks a lot, conservatives. Yeah, you guys are just leaking quality aren’t you? Don’t go patting yourself on the back liberal. It’s half your fault, and it’s been your fault before. You both suck. You’re the past, over, useless. Get out of the way, it’s time to back and yet forward. Preserving what should be, like a responsible government truly for and by the people with honesty, and removing the rest.

Party politics…. scoff. A pathetic, unintelligent, archaic and antiquated system is what it is. It only worked by monopoly and the sad social system of early America. Don’t read polls. What does a poll prove? Who investigated that poll, were they thorough, was it verified? Pragmatism, people, pragmatism.

Indeed. Ask a question. Question an answer. Nothing is more American than saying, Prove it, or Why, or No. Only we don’t say it nearly enough. Suddenly we of all countries are the ones afraid to question? And no one is even holding a gun, or standing at a pulpit. Except that moron. Does anyone here fear him?

I’d love to meet someone still rooting for Bush. Still believing. It’s disturbing at the very least.

We’re the saddest example of a free country, at best. I hate it, it makes me sad. How’s that go? We’re the smartest guy at remedial camp? The happiest guy at a depression clinic? We let our freedom go, we don’t even notice it leaving. We notice when we need it and it’s gone, and we let it happen because we’re kept fat. It’s the smartest of all the tyrannies. It’s like smuggling drugs on purpose into ghettos in third world countries. No revolution, the citizen is seemingly, falsely happy. He does what he’s told to get the drug, to stay happy, doesn’t rock the boat, and is locked into it. He’s a better slave if so happy he cannot think. Only this is even more sad. It’s not drugs!

It’s time for change. I’d like to see us depart from world politics. Bring our troops home. Stop using a system based on fluctuating markets. You want to know what I find sad & un-American? We need to borrow money. Yeah, we’re really powerful. I’d like to see us make real change. I’d like to see us go for the common good, JUST ONCE, the first time around rather than later… late… uh… never.

Anything is better than this. Obviously what we have now doesn’t work. Let’s not be complacent and boring let’s actually… maybe… be the fucking best, eh?

Birthday.

Where is the justice, karmatic or not, in only having good vision when looking where you have already been? The theory that says that if we were right where we need to be, happy, and truly enjoying our lives that really we’d be unhappy. This theory always existed. You only know it now probably because you liked the Matrix movies. Who knows, I could be wrong, maybe your well read. Regardless, it’s bullshit I think. I know we define the good by the bad, but it’s like any recipe, you find the perfect mix of ingredients that makes the cake taste and texture above all others. In life you would have to find that mix of happiness and unhappiness, good and bad, that your forever in that state where your simply content. I think it’s possible, maybe not in this current world, with it’s rules and policies, it’s society. Sure relativity tells us that a small bad is the worse for any man. I mean if all you knew of the worst thing ever is jail, then being raped is something you could say was bad but you don’t know and it’s not your hell, your hell is jail, it’s relative. So you supplant the memories of crises and tragedy, and they have the frame of reference but none of the actual “issues”. I believe in it, but then maybe I must.

Passed that first interview for the Linux job. They use CentOS, so that’s good. But it’s not coming fast enough. I’m in real despair over this Wal-Mart job. If one more motherfucker out there at that warehouse tells me how getting a job at Wal-Mart changed his life I might just actually die from it. I’ve had a great many jobs, some were terrible, some great. This is neither of those, it’s okay at best. Wal-Mart loves to blow it’s own trumpet though, maybe it likes the taste, who knows.

Why is that all the best songs have been around two years? Why do I refuse to like popular things until they aren’t popular and then love them? This song’s been out since 06 and only now did I hear it and realize it’s one of the best things that’s ever happened to me. Aren’t those the best? Like anything good they never seem to come often enough. Boy, if that isn’t a theme for me lately. Maybe all this leads to something and maybe it doesn’t, but getting there, at least at times is worth every moment.

Moments. That’s all were made of. Suspended reality in time. Smells, a song, her smile, his goodbye, their last words. Anyone who denies themselves these feelings, probably men far more than women, I really feel for them. Magnolia comes to my mind. I meet people all the time to but only some do I ever connect with. I don’t mean those casual friends, or friends of convenience. I mean the real ones, people you can say embarrassing things to and not be embarrassed, even if they do give you a hard time. They simply know you and accept. Those people. Seems there are far fewer of them these days. What is the end result of all of this? Would I want to see it if I could.

At any rate, whatever it is is coming and it’s not taking any roadside cafe stop and rests. I say despite the not knowing, the indecision, the fear… despite all that I say let it come. It’s all been just leading to it anyway, our moments to have fame, to fear, to lay down, to die, to be something…

So I applied on these Linux admin jobs because honestly I know I can do them. Linux, to me, is no more difficult than DOS was. Some may disagree. I say that anything that is basically a skill can be learned. Either way I never felt there was that big of a curve.

So I go to sleep intent to wake up, install Linux, and reaquaint myself. Except that’s not what happened. During my ever so badly timed slumber, some unknown oddness of death happened to my computer. It froze the router, and now I’m having IDE and SATA issues. So RMA for cross ship from EVGA this next thursday.

Tax season is here again to rape some of us and grant some of us a new thing or two. I’m getting the latter, after last years camera death fiasco, I am now buying a Nikon D80! Comes with the kit lens thats 18-55 and the usual 4.some to 5.some aperture. But I’m buying with it, a Nikon 70-300 f/4.5-5.6 AF-S VR. For those who do not know this lens is pretty awesome for the $470 they ask. Vibration reduction alone is worth it, but the glass is well known for it’s clarity, and it’s got fast focusing, and good aperture considering it’s range. Equivalent to right around 400mm in film.

You know my family used Nikon’s in my youth, and I guess I grew into that brand. I did go and spend time looking at Canon’s and Pentax’s. Holding them, taking store shots, but the Nikon wins me over, every time. I won’t make excuses though, this last round of cameras disappointed me on features but, then I want my cake too so…

Beyond that, new host is way better and served on Linux… ahem It’s Linux day… I get a free pack of gum and 1/2 pint of orange juice everytime I find a good reason to say Linux.

New graf going on. Hopefully alot more of that in the time to come. Some writing coming up too. Also I’m once again starting up the Hot Summer Beer and T-shirt Designs Shop. I love screenprinting to good music on summer nights, after some grilling. I wish I had more of those days. There seems to never be enough. Cause it’s those nights that stay with me, those nights that make it what I call living. No real fights or drama just laughter and buzzes. I never remember those nights at parties where whats-his-face got in that fight and made an ass of himself and those one girls were fighting. I fondly remember those good nights though.

TTFN

Here is the alpha version of Shameless.

Comments are appreciated. it is far from finished but does appear to wrok well in at least Firefox 2 and IE7, sorry to IE useres for the blunt Firefox upgrade scheme but… if your a firefox user youm wont see it and so your in the dark.

Still trying to find the right header picture, here you see the color scheme comes from some paid theme, some page menuing code courtesy of Nightlines, and I stole the class coloring like so…

I took the code that makes this and about 5 or so other class codes that supply this box themeing fromRedoable, but I think it’s native to K2. A good deal I hand coded, and this is the current result after one week.

Sooooo… taught myself php. Not the whole thing, you know, but most everything needed to make a theme from scratch. The idea was to steal great working ideas that I think are important, maintain integrity as much as possible, and make something I could live with for at least a while.

If I can finish, then I can start working on something even better, the next progression in both style and functionality but for now in it’s infancy have deemed it Shameless, on account of all the stealing and what not. It’s coming along OK, as best as could hope for being into theme making for all of 2 days. It will be appearing here soon, and although it is technically viewer ready now, it’s lacking small things that are driving me crazy meanwhile things like my AdSense bar and plug-in stuff goes uncoded.

!Viva Customization! One thing I want is site-wide light-box photo viewing, IF it can be done in a respectable size and resources manner. I also want a plug-in, or maybe better yet server side script that rotates a head image stock with each page load??? Nah, that would probably bring the server to it’s knees, how about every hour, or 30 minutes…

Beyond that… and photo wise, I have learned from my fatal camera death encounter and I am looking forward to taxes supplying me with any Nikon DSLR camera. I hate the D40 after my D70, but you make do and at least it is Nikon.

Winter months take a huge chunk out of train photos or murals, or anything. Bad lighting, too cold, malfunctioning equipment, it goes on and on. Trying to find some scrap carpet for cheap. Not sixty cents a sq foot that ends up costing $60 cheap, I mean like the real definition of cheap, like “Free if you just make it go away, Cheap.” Then if I can get the backroom done… if that happens, I can start screen-printing my own shirts again. I fashionably never steal existing logos or sayings either, at least not knowingly, or that company is also too… indie.

Not only that, but I can start making the messenger bag I custom designed for graffiti projects. I tell you, I got so sick of cans rattling around, no where to put even 2 beers, all this riding perilously on top of my blackbook which started to fall apart after just 3 weeks in that bag. This thing has under flap front space mounted pockets for phones, drawing supplies, markers, and marked pockets for caps. Inside is a system along the walls of elastic tight enough to fit cans comfortably while still removable and yet able to also hold a can or bottle. With a midsection for paper supplies. All the while waxed and sprayed for waterproofing and custom stenciled by yours truly.

Stickers too… oh so many sticker designs to be sadly wasted on this art and culture wasteland.

We’re nearing completion of the site… oooooo… smell the progress.

After horrendous hosting issues, bad support, etc. I am back with a new host, and a new schedule. One easier to meet my hopeful posting goals… hopefully. The past has made it’s peace and the future is what i make it. Nevertheless, I’m here and hoping to do some good work.

2008. What can i say, a new year is hopeful isn’t it? This year maybe I’ll get “all city”, or write that book, travel more, or any of those plans i hope to someday get done.

This blog is mostly about art. I write, photograph, draw, paint, and generally try to enjoy the chaos of life rather than look down on it. I look at this blog as an informal area, protected by that lovely Internet anonymity. Objects are no good for me because I will certainly destroy, lose, or otherwise obliterate them. So I don’t plan on putting anything too good here, so don’t expect a whole lot. In fact, it’s probably best not to expect.

I have potential to be a great writer, but it’s finding those stories locked in me amongst all the detritus. This is relevant due to the fact this medium relies heavily upon words. Somewhere in the maze of old broken down houses that I imagine make up my mind, are stories. Each lives in it’s own room. Some are long winded and not fun to hang with, while others are quite short but never fail to entertain. Stick around and you’ll meet all sorts of characters.

Anyway, i also hope to meet some like minded people. Writers, photographers, poets, painters… all welcome and great, but… well, really nothing can beat a great peacefully drunken discussion with people who have an inkling of intelligence. Where I live though, well, that’s a special order everyone promises will be in next week that i am still hopeful for years later. A rare vinyl 45 of personality, atmosphere, and intelligence that is all to likely collecting dust, or more likely, being played and protected at this very moment in some warmer climate of my hopeful future travels or even residence.

Bear with me. I’m finding a theme for this software that doesn’t make me feel so predictable, and still doing all the exhausting setup. While you wait, you should fire up Wreckless Eric, the song is The Whole Wide World.