Apparently Mcdonald's in the UK are charging people who stay in the parking lot after going through the drive thru if they are there longer than 45 minutes. The ticket costs 225$ Let's organize a sit in, everyone get all your contacts together and let's spend an afternoon at Mcdonald's. As long as we buy something every 4 hours it is not loitering. Come on, we can not stand for this. Ok, we can, but it's more fun to cause trouble. Are you with me?
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Mcdonald's tickets
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Bad taste
I am a big fan of video games. An even bigger fan of video games with controversial content. I still have my limits however, and someone has gone too far. Game maker Danny Ledonne created a game whose content is as offensive as it's name : "Super Columbine Massacre RPG!" I will not waste much time on this so as not to glorify his attempts to become famous and circulate his name around. Short summary: It was a download able game, in the which you are a high school shooter and you kill people. You play as Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold and then re-create on your own scale the tragic school shooting. There is now a similar game about the Virginia Tech shooting called V-tech rampage.
Please people, get away from this and go back to the innocent calculator games where you are a pimp or drug dealer that high schoolers play in class. Make something to mock our nation's politicians or laws, make a game about Johnny Cochran in court called "I know this guy's guilty but I'll pretend that I don't" Make something so controversial that the media raves about it for weeks, but please... Make something tasteful.
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Please people, get away from this and go back to the innocent calculator games where you are a pimp or drug dealer that high schoolers play in class. Make something to mock our nation's politicians or laws, make a game about Johnny Cochran in court called "I know this guy's guilty but I'll pretend that I don't" Make something so controversial that the media raves about it for weeks, but please... Make something tasteful.
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Monday, December 10, 2007
Great empires
Historically many great empires have been built, only to come crumbling down in a very short period of time. Let’s consider Napoleon's French Empire, The Ottoman Empire, The Roman Empire, Babylon, Assyria, Persia, etc. Many of these civilizations were large and powerful before their inevitable fall. Unfortunately it is one of history’s great lessons for us that what goes up must come down. You can quote me on that as “Doxey’s gravitational law of societies” Few can survive the challenges of time. The Stone Masons, who claim their existence since ancient Rome may be among the oldest societies still standing. Although still existent even they have been changed by time. Once a group so powerful and skilled that their services were sought for by King Solomon; now revered as little more than a conspiracy theory and gentleman's club. While my intent in writing this evening is not to humiliate, degrade, or insult by any means any group of people it is to point out that even the strong are not invincible versus the falling apart of what has grown. Alexander the great. While conquering the world was within his grasp, even he did not accomplish the goal he had originally set out for. The causes of such downfalls is highly debatable, and truly insignificant for the matter at hand.
There was, not so long ago, a group so headstrong and set on power, so dangerously prone to success, so innovatively brought together that it was thought to sweep the world. In a short time it had become very popular among those who associated with the members of such a grand group. Things were looking up, but then, as it always does, failure reared it’s ugly head. The downfall of this society was not militaristic power. It was not brought on by warring ideologies. In no way was it caused by social stimuli, but rather human nature. Where once there was a sleeping giant, a beast ready to tear into the world and make it’s presence known; now there remain but two. The tragic fall of this band was unfortunately all too familiar in the music world, although the group in and of itself has little to do with music. There were no deaths caused by a single person being drowned in their own vomit, no struggles for power, but women. They who are able to dissolve all friendships and allegiances. There remain but 2 in the faithful cause. The rest effected by the desire to be betrothed in holy matrimony… The pieces will be picked up. The puzzle will be put together. There remains but one true shot at glory, and that glory is out of grasp until February. New members will be reared to take place of old faces, now disloyal. New culture will be defined more fitting to the goals of the organization, and never again will one so weak be allowed to be so fully en grained in the goal. The cryptic message will not be clarified, for those who read it is clear. Those who wish to delve will see the results or lack thereof in short time and this will be a thing of naught or a revolutionary piece much like the manipulative literature used by revolutionaries to achieve their cause.
Hope is still alive.
And it will come.
Step into my lair and see the minds at work.
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There was, not so long ago, a group so headstrong and set on power, so dangerously prone to success, so innovatively brought together that it was thought to sweep the world. In a short time it had become very popular among those who associated with the members of such a grand group. Things were looking up, but then, as it always does, failure reared it’s ugly head. The downfall of this society was not militaristic power. It was not brought on by warring ideologies. In no way was it caused by social stimuli, but rather human nature. Where once there was a sleeping giant, a beast ready to tear into the world and make it’s presence known; now there remain but two. The tragic fall of this band was unfortunately all too familiar in the music world, although the group in and of itself has little to do with music. There were no deaths caused by a single person being drowned in their own vomit, no struggles for power, but women. They who are able to dissolve all friendships and allegiances. There remain but 2 in the faithful cause. The rest effected by the desire to be betrothed in holy matrimony… The pieces will be picked up. The puzzle will be put together. There remains but one true shot at glory, and that glory is out of grasp until February. New members will be reared to take place of old faces, now disloyal. New culture will be defined more fitting to the goals of the organization, and never again will one so weak be allowed to be so fully en grained in the goal. The cryptic message will not be clarified, for those who read it is clear. Those who wish to delve will see the results or lack thereof in short time and this will be a thing of naught or a revolutionary piece much like the manipulative literature used by revolutionaries to achieve their cause.
Hope is still alive.
And it will come.
Step into my lair and see the minds at work.
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Sunday, December 9, 2007
Another Plug
Another plug
And as usual you would think that I would get some sort of following for my taste in music or movies or games, or that I am at least paid off by some large corporation to promote their interests. I am not. I do, however like to share things I like even if no one is going to read, comment, or act on what I write. Anyways… It is not every day that you can listen to real, original Christmas music that is entertaining rather than annoying. Today (and for the last year or so) is one of those days. Jump on over to purevolume.com. Ya, the music site that used to be huge until myspace launched it’s music section which totally took over for indie artists looking to promote their music for free. Anyways, they have a full-length holiday sampler CD that is totally free to download. Some of the tunes are covers, but are done in such a different way that it is borderline original; or are just such good covers it doesn’t matter. Anyways, here is the link. Download it for your IPOD or burn it to a cd. And enjoy this holiday season with some music that is not totally mainstream. Then if you really like the music you can check out the individual bands and buy their stuff or listen to their free tracks also. My personal favorite from the CD is the band As Tall as Lions, which also has their own video feature on the purevolume.com home page.
THE LINK
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And as usual you would think that I would get some sort of following for my taste in music or movies or games, or that I am at least paid off by some large corporation to promote their interests. I am not. I do, however like to share things I like even if no one is going to read, comment, or act on what I write. Anyways… It is not every day that you can listen to real, original Christmas music that is entertaining rather than annoying. Today (and for the last year or so) is one of those days. Jump on over to purevolume.com. Ya, the music site that used to be huge until myspace launched it’s music section which totally took over for indie artists looking to promote their music for free. Anyways, they have a full-length holiday sampler CD that is totally free to download. Some of the tunes are covers, but are done in such a different way that it is borderline original; or are just such good covers it doesn’t matter. Anyways, here is the link. Download it for your IPOD or burn it to a cd. And enjoy this holiday season with some music that is not totally mainstream. Then if you really like the music you can check out the individual bands and buy their stuff or listen to their free tracks also. My personal favorite from the CD is the band As Tall as Lions, which also has their own video feature on the purevolume.com home page.
THE LINK
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