Don’t be a walking billboard.

You know how people put ribbons on their shirts or even their cars to raise awareness for a certain charity or campaign?  What’s the difference between a pink ribbon on your chest and a Nike swoosh?  Is Polo or Ralph Lauren a brand that you strongly believe in and want to promote?  Why are you paying to wear clothes that carry their advertising on them?  I think we should all have the confidence in ourselves and display it in the form of race car driver advertising.  If you want me to promote your brand, you should give me a contract.  Otherwise, no deal.

Kallie told me that she went to the store the other day and someone had left coupons next to a bunch of products through the store.  It wasn’t just the store discounts, but someone must have had a bunch of coupons they were not going to use and took the effort to leave them by all the associated products.  Fun!  I’m sure a bunch of people had smiles on their faces.

human knowledge belongs to the world.

You’re ridiculous if you claim your knowledge is your own.  There is so much that contributes to your knowledge that you’re taking for granted.  Also, if you keep your knowledge to yourself, you’re also preventing someone else from doing something else with it.  Maybe even making it better.

I converted over the games from the old php-nuke site to wordpress.  Let me know if you have any problems.

http://sixf00t4.com/games/

It’s been long  enough out of the original Napster era and RIAA filing extravaganzas that we can revisit this and see if there has been change.  In fact, there’s probably even room to take it a step further away from even acquiring music at all.  Some people may rely solely on places like last.fm, pandora, satellite radio, and grooveshark for their music needs.  Who needs to spend any money at all?

1. There’s no delete key.  There’s a backspace, to remove characters from right to left, but there’s no way to delete characters from left to right.
2. Prices are ridiculous.  Especially after they switched to Intel based hardware, prices should have dropped significantly.
3. Their CD/DVD drives sound like death.  All of them.  WHY?!?!?!  RRRRBBBBBRRRRZZZZRAREARE.  Every time you eject or insert, it sounds like 100 little bugs in there are choking on asbestos and they’re about to die which means you’ll never see your disk again.
4. Proprietary hardware is proprietary.  It’s so stupid that I can’t just go buy the hardware that fails and replace it myself.  In the PC world, it works just the the automobile industry.  You have a choice to fix it yourself or not.  Apple says you have to let them fix it and you can’t get the hardware out or in without voiding warranty.
5. Planned obsolescence.  They’ve forced depreciation on their customers.  With their latest generation of the ipad, they even reused the name of the first generation, so you have no clue what you’re getting any more, just that if you haven’t bought it in the past year from them, it’s old and dated.
6. What are they giving back?  Steve Jobs himself was not a fan of philanthropy.  I may just be unaware, but I don’t see huge innovation competitions or research grants or programs coming out of Apple.  Where is the investment in future of people?  future of technology? of society?  I don’t like it.
7. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain hype.  Most companies get beta testers for their new products.  They’ll have honest excitement and information and let everyone know what they’re working on.  Not Apple.  Everything is shrouded in mystery until their big unveiling press conferences.  So much hype.  I’m almost positive that strategy stems from legal paranoia or even actually stealing technology but releasing it before anyone has time to stop them.  Secrecy makes me not want to trust you.
8. Itunes on Windows is a load of crap.  I think they do it intentionally.  There’s no plugin support or API to add functionality or change it around or even customize the appearance.  Not to mention the huge memory leaks and errors.  You see Microsoft spending a lot of time and money making it’s products work on macs, but it’s not the same the other way around.  Even take a look at how they treat their app store developers.  They deny apps based on their mood that day and then turn around and put the same functionality themselves!  ^%$&3@$F
9. You need a third hand for key combinations.  I mean, come on!  4 different keys pressed at the same time and they’re no where near each other?  I feel like I’m playing a micro game of twister.
10. I hate gestures.  More prevalent on the laptops, I hate having to gesture on the mousepad to see what windows I have open or perform certain functions.  I have the same distaste for gesture driven browsing on PC.

Honorable mentions:

• No double click on the mouse – There are ways around this now, but that ticked me off that I had to use the keyboard and the mouse at the same time to perform a function.  Isn’t Apple supposed to be known for their interface design?  Or is it just their looks?
• I hate how the system bar changes by what application is open.  It’s as if there’s no way to get back to the operating system functions without closing every application you have open.

I’ve been away from the game long enough that some of you may not know my involvement in the free online role playing game, Legend of the Green Dragon.  This weekend, June 4th  (6/4), a bunch of players are getting back on as a sort of reunion, and I thought it might be a good time to share the link with you in preparation.

It’s a fun text based game, that is energized a lot by players interacting with one another and taking on the role of the character they set up.  As the creator of the site, I took on the role of the king.  You should join us this weekend if you’ve never played! Here’s the announcement from the site:

Hear ye, Hear ye
In the Sixth month and on the fourth day of this very year…

There shall be a gathering.. a reunion.. of those that once shared a fate,
A fate so epic that it has bound them,
One to the other, throughout all eternity.

They come one by one, from the depths of the sea,
From the heights of the mountains and treetop dwellings.
From castles and keeps, temples and catacombs
From the peaks of mount Olympus
And the hidden shadows of the underdark.

They gather from shore to shore..
To be united once again in the Land of Six.

Yes.. The KING Sixf00t4 has vowed he, himself, would be honored
To make an appearance at such a gathering
Of some of the finest warriors the gods have ever known…
Join us on June 4th!
For this too shall be an Epic Adventure!

When you sign up, enter one of the following codes to receive bonus gold or gems!

‘reuniongold‘ will net you 10k gold
‘reuniongems‘ will net you 10 gems.

I’m giving away free tickets to see Pittsburgh Native and 4 time X-Games gold medalist Adam Jones on Jauary 29th!

Adam is currently ranked third overall in the ASA World Championships of FMX, and has three AST Dew Tour wins and he’s from the ‘Burgh! He makes the stop with the freestyle motocross tour, Nuclear Cowboyz, at the new Consol Energy Center, so if you haven’t been there yet, here’s your chance!

What I need you to do for a chance to win is follow me on facebook.

Step 1: Click this link.
Step 2: Click the link to follow on the right hand side.
Step 3: Respond here to let me know that you’ve done it!

If you’re already a follower, THANKS! If you still want to help me out, give the site a rating or share it with some of your friends that you think would enjoy my blog. Otherwise, just post here and say that you’re following me and you’ll be entered!

I’ll contact the winner on the 22nd, so get your entries in. If you want multiple entries, get your friends to follow the blog and you’ll get an entry along with them.

Thanks for reading!



The internet is a place of free information by people just like you and me.  Sure, the quality of that information varies greatly, but it’s still information.  As they say, Human knowledge belongs to the world!  So here are the top 100 documentary movies free to watch online.  There are some real gems in there.

http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2010/01/100-best-free-science-documentaries-online/

you can now comment on the pictures in the gallery. Took a while to figure out how to use that system.

I went through the downloads and validated them. Let me know if you find any that are dead. I mihgt have missed a few. I plan to upload a bunch of stuff in the coming week too.

put up a calendar. Feel free to help me go through and add holidays. I was thinking about adding nonsense holidays as a category too…