Blog of Josh Hall

I looked through the archive and I couldn’t find this topic, but I’ve ranted about this before.  I’d be in total support of cutting the world’s dependency on commercialized food products down and replacing the obligation of eating with nutrition tubes.  These tubes would be something you could wear on in a backpack or belt pack or something.  I don’t expect them to be too large, since they would just be raw nutrients. 

Just like diabetes patients have little insulin cartriges they were like beepers, the same thing could be done with these nutrition packs.  And i see different "flavors" for activities.  one would be a sports pack that has caffeine and protein in it.  Another would be a cleansor that would have lots of antioxidants and such.  When you body build, they say you should be consuming proteins and such every 3 hours or so.  This takes the obligation of preparing food out of the equation.  Saves time, dishes, and effort.

And you don’t have to give up food.  You can still eat if you want to.  Your daily nutritional value is coming from the nutrion cartridges, you don’t have to make sure you have that "breakfast of champions" or whatever.  You’d probably even appreciate food more.

I was just reading some threads of people going back and forth between HD-DVD vs Blu-ray technologies and which was better, and which is going to survive, and all that jazz.  It’s a template argument where item X and item Y can be replaced with a bunch of different things.  They never get anywhere, so here’s a list of the most common ones I can think of.

1. HD-DVD vs Blu-ray
2. Microsoft Xbox vs Sony Playstation
3. ATI vs Nvidia
4. Intel vs AMD
5. Pepsi vs Coke
6. McDonald’s vs Burger King
7. Ford vs Chevy
8. East Coast vs West Coast
9. Microsoft Windows vs MacOS
10. Ashley vs Mary Kate

Wow, I’m down.  wasting away.  malnourished.  lethargic.  tired.  bored.  unmotivated.  lost.  a perfect time for a personal update entry…

work is slow.  money is slim.  someone is breaking into the estate and stealing copper and other crap.  rachel went back to cleveland.  no inspiration to play or write music.  no real aspirations to do anything right now.

nothing exciting happening this week or next.  Deirdre turns 19 saturday.  we’re all working at the estate this weekend to take out a whole bunch of stuff so people quit breaking in.

I’ve been working on a relaunch of legend of the green dragon.  we’ll see if i can get it back to where it once was with 1500 players from around the world.  that was fun.  I walked away from it in Feb 2006 once I got a new job and it just slowly died off due to internal drama.

I got a slot on the pa rock show, an internet radio show.  I’ll be playing friday, february 8th around 7:30pm.  I’ll send out a newsletter closer to the date.  I’d like to get a good CD mix before I play so i can get some regular rotation.  We’ll see.

No more school.  Might go for my MBA in the fall or next spring.  We’ll see what’s going on then.  I’d like to go to pitt i think.

back to wallowing in self pity and low self-esteem.  wallow, wallow, wallow.

I hate politics.  I always have and always will.  The bigger the politics, the worse they are, and in my opinion, the less effect they have but they get the most attention.  To quote the movie waking life, "Do you want the puppet on the left or the puppet on the right?"

I’m getting sick of all the Mitt romney, obama, ron paul, blah blah blah blog posts i’m seeing.  I DON’T CARE and YOUR OPINION MEANS NOTHING IN THE LONG RUN.  Politcal opinion blogs is the filthy blogosphere haze that covers Los Angeles.  Name one thing that Bush did that affects me.

•  Patriot act?  I’ve never given the FBI reason to tap my lines, that I’m aware of.  I don’t use pay phones.
•  RFID chip in passports? – Bush didn’t do it.  I got mine before they went into effect.
• "War" (any of them, real, imaginery, or media hyped)?  I’m a conspiracy theorist at heart, check out loose change, zeitgeist, michael moore movies, and/or alex jones and tell me you don’t think differently afterward.  They all have their extemist curves, but let the facts filter through, and you’ve got some eye opening stuff.
• Gas prices?  HA!  Exxon reported the highest profits in Q4 2006.  It’s all money motivated, and it makes me sick.  I walk to work anyway.

My point is with the check and balance system, the election of a single president pretty much means crap.  The majority of those elected have to be corrupt to have any effect.  I think that’s why we saw so many resignations after Bush was re-elected.  Throw in the electoral college, and YOUR vote is worthless.  You do not have final say.

The only time people have the power to do anything is in local government because it’s much easier to slip under the cracks, and no one takes it seriously enough.  When I moved school districts in highschool and still wanted to go to California, all it took was going to the school board and saying "can i stay?"  and they said "Josh is cool, let’s change the policy so Josh can come."  You can do whatever you want in local government because no one cares and you are the law.

The facts:

• People are not going to move because they don’t like the president.
• I’m pretty sure an "Enslave america" Act won’t pass the popular vote.  America is too large to enforce any life changing laws at the federal level.
• TV and national news outlets bring the political drama to the masses readily because it’s topical and people will argue about it all day.  Don’t let it waste your time any further.

and for the record, I’m only bitter because Bob Dole didn’t win in ’96.  There, I said it.

Remember when the residents of Pittsburgh’s Hill District burned their own homes and community to the ground in the 60s?  I wasn’t there to remember it, but the people who burned the Luke Ravenstahl’s proposed plan for redevelopment were, but it seems like forgot.  These people are going ego-tripping, power-hungry, and ostentacious.  They’re stuck on the terms of the plan having no defined promises, only concepts, and vague at that.  They’re right.  The problem is though they think they’re owed that.  The Hill District doesn’t need special treatment with it’s own development comittee.  No other district in the area has one.  The One Hill Group needs to stop riling up people in protest and start working with what the politicians are giving them.  Even Councilperson, Tonya Payne stated she thought the terms were good, but she would like One Hill ring in on their own.

I’m a land-owning resident of the Hill District.  I have been to these One Hill meetings and they all end up the same.  a few topics get barely covered and at least one person stands up, rants, raves, and hollers, turns to the rest of the group to rile support, and then all diplomacy and Robert’s rules of order and decorum is lost.

"this is what i figure: the higher your activity on facebook OR myspace, the more unhappy you are."