I might as well...

I listen to a video-podcast from 1up.com that has alot of electronic game-based news and reviews and stuff, and I had to get the scoop in the next-generation systems ( PS3, Wii, Xbox 360) and how they are doing. I found a website that has stats on sales of these systems. Here it is.

Another Random Chuck Norris Joke

Chuck Norris doesn't shower, he only takes blood baths.

C₈H₁₀N₄O<sub>2

What is that? Well, dear friends, this is the greatest substance in the world.
In case you haven't guessed, this is the molecular substance for caffeine. I could go into the specifics of the substance, but anyone who has internet access has access to the substance, so I'll leave with this: the best (and cheapest) way to consume the chemical is to drink coffee. You can get the most caffeine for the smallest price. I recommend Starbucks.</sub>

Having an accent.

I grew up in the South. This may come as a shock to you, because I seem so laid-back and haven't mentioned anything about Southern ways or politics or anything. I'm saying this because it pertains to my having an accent. Some think that I have a very noticeable accent, but I cannot see it. I have one in some words that I pronounce, however for the most part, I sound like I could be from anywhere. this is strange, because most of my friends have noticeable accents, yet I do not. Last year I went to visit a college in Washington that specializes in engineering, and I tried an experiment. While I was eating lunch at the cafeteria, I said a southern word as I left. When I took my tray to the garbage, I said, "bye, Y'all." They freaked out. That's the only indication that I was southern in any way, aside from the fact that I said that I was from Texas. Besides that, I left no linguistic (big word, I know!!) traces that I had any accent. It blew their minds, however.

I apologize for the lack of content, but I was originally gonna write about something, but I forgot about it, then I was going to write about Pandora, but I found that I had already posted about that. I kind of did this in the spur of the moment, that's all. However, I have not regrets because, after all, this is my blog.

Random Chuck Norris Fact

Some people wear Superman pajamas. Superman wears Chuck Norris pajamas.

'Tis True.

Chiristmas, X-Mas, Happy Holidays, whatever!!

I'm tired. I'm tired of all the politics.
I was at work today, and I was setting up all of the Christmas decorations for the department. While I was doing this, I got to thinking. Every Christmas I hear about some legal litigation about if it's political correct to say 'Merry Christmas' or 'Happy Holidays' or some variant. This is not what the season is all about. It's about the coming together of people to care for each other more than at most other times during the year. Just kidding, I don't care what other people think about it. I will say whatever I want. I'm not on any specific side in this Christian vs. Non-Christian crusade, to aptly put it, I'm against the whole controversy. I'm tired of hearing about it.

I don't want this to become a rant blog, so I will end with this: Merry Christmas!! Haha!!

Coming Up: My New-Years Resolution (Not that you care)

iPods Freakin' Rock!!!

I just got an iPod nano, the second generation one. It is awesome and has all kind of cool features like a super bright screen, long-life battery, and more. That sounded kind of like an ad, so I'm going to say some things that I don't like about the ipod nano. First off, the thing that I noticed was that the memory on the device, while technically 4 gigs (i bought it at walmart, and that was the $200 bargain-price model), actually only lets you access 3.68 gigs. That 320 megabytes of space apparently is sort of ROM for the ipod itself. The next thing that I didn't like was that my screen got kind of scuffed right off the bat.
However, the whole space thing, I haven't even filled half of the space in it, so that doesn't matter. As for the screen ,when it is on, the small (tiny, nano, even) scuffs are not visible.
All in all, this is a really great device. And I'm tired of typing.

Women shouldn't wear ties

Note: This was taken from a previous post on my earlier blog.

Call me what you will, I don't believe that women should wear ties. There are just some things that should be kept to a certain gender. If you were going down the street, and you saw a man in a dress, even in this day and age, it still wouldn't look right. If you were to see a woman pull a cigar out of her wallet and light it up, you wouldn't like it (or at least I wouldn't, and you should think like me). The only exception to this is at some sort of costume party, where it is in pure jest. I mean, come on, even the name of the knot (the Windsor Knot) has a manly regality to it. In fact, the other day, I saw a woman in a tie and said to myself "this is what society has gone to. Hell. Wait, why am I talking to myself?" but I digress. The main point is, whatever point a woman is trying to get across, she can do it without wearing a tie. And if she can't, it's probably not worth getting across. Either that, or she it sick in the head, like that guy in the dress.

^DRM is crap^

Note:this was taken from a previous post on my earlier blog.

The other day I went to WalMart and bought a Music Gift Card. I went home and redeemed it, and downloaded the songs that I wanted. Now here comes the fun part. When I opened the songs, which were in WMA format, they executed something in Windows Media Player that made them retrieve Licenses off of the WalMart site. All went well when I found that I could only, among other things, burn them to CDs a set number of times. This was tolerable, knowing that I could rip them license-free from the CD that I was about to burn. The thing that REALLY pissed me off was that the last song wouldn't give me the license and therefore wouldn't play. DRM, or Digital Rights Management, is to blame. Basically, I believe,that if I am paying good money to them, without limits on how they spend the money, I should get good music from them (the download site, artist's site, etc.) without restrictions. The argument that DRM will stop piracy is wrong. There is no technology, wether in hardware or software, that someone hasn't hacked or broken into. This said, why should DRM be any different? Also, I've noticed, is when a file sharing network (P2P) gets killed by the large corporations and Hollywood, even more pop up. E.G. Napster, then Kazaa, now limewire, morpheus, and others. The process will continue, regardless of how many rights are stolen from us, the consumer.
Drop me a line to tell me what you think.

Thumper's Thoughts

Thumper's Thoughts

I personally think that this blog is the coolest blog ever!!

Pandora

Pandora Internet Radio - Find New Music, Listen to Free Web Radio

This website gives you music recommendations based on your taste-you just type in an artist or song, and it configures your own personal station to the "music genome" -or something like that.

Chuck Norris Facts

Chuck Norris Facts

Chuck Norris once roundhouse kicked someone so hard that his foot broke the speed of light, went back in time, and killed Amelia Earhart while she was flying over the Pacific Ocean.

I love coffee.

I went to Starbucks the other day. That place is great. Expensive, though.

Interesting Stats

Number of results when 'free' was Googled.
-7,890,000,000
Number of results when 'porn' was Googled.
-118,000,000
Number of results when 'Bible' was Googled.
-187,000,000

Wierd

What you focus on determines what you miss.

Singingfish - the audio/video search engine

Singingfish - the audio/video search engine

To search for music online (legally?)

flea

I just found a flea on me, and I tried to kill it.

I couldn't, it got away.

I'm a clean person. Honest.

Hello all.

I am really excited about this blog!!!

Isn't "blog" a funny word?!?

Anyway, I also have a blog over at modblog- it's www.rockpirate.modblog.com but I don't want to detract from Blogger, and I actually like this one better. It's setup is a snap, and best of all (the reason that I selected it) is because it is supported (and endorsed) by Google.

Isn't that awesome?

I am really excited about this blog!!!

Beginning

This is a test. The beginning.