Zerobrains

I like my iphone. I’d like to not have funny little squares on certain websites and notes telling me to download the latest flash plugin, and I recognize that Apple, not Adobe, is the cause of this deficiency.

That said… Steve Jobs is right. Flash sucks. Most people don’t care for it. It was just a way of making spiffy presentations on websites, but it breaks browser functionality and you’re forced to endure tiny scroll bars, broken mouse functions and noise. Flash websites do not operate the way ordinary websites operate. They work within themselves and they’re only part of the browser in a container of sorts. They’re buggy, use too much memory and they crash.

I don’t know anyone who loves flash websites.

Why say this? Well. If it was just the iphone I wouldn’t care. It’s a phone and it’s a teeny itty bitty little screen. So what if you can’t see a flash page here or there? For me that’s not a big deal.The deal is what Adobe tries to make of flash and everybody else’s rejection of it. They were criticizing the Kindle format because it isn’t functional with Flash.

I hate certain aspects of the Kindle format as well, but one thing I don’t hate is that it’s not Flash based. Who in their right mind would want to read their Kindle books in a Flash reader of some sort? Is Adobe Digital Editions Flash based, too? That would explain why it crashed on the first epub book I loaded onto it.

Adobe. Fix your software, get with HTML5 and stop trying to duke it out with device manufacturers who can’t support junk that doesn’t work and which breaks functionality.

Sitting in dentist chair getting root canal. Cant feel eye and half of face. Nose numb too. Very strange feeling. I hate it.

They left me alone for a while for some reason.aye I’m bleeding. I don’t know and I cant talk. Have to read at mass on sunday. Hope I’m ok fir that. Already agreed to fil in for two people.

Weird. Fingers work but I am not getting button all right. Lots of spellin errors

Hi. Follow THIS LINK HERE TO GET TO the CoreTemp website

I am still getting traffic which uses a combination of the search terms in the post title so I thought I’d direct you to the proper location and explain. I hosted the website that had coretemp for a while, and offered a subdomain to Arthur, otherwise known as The Coolest. I was unable to continue paying for the webservers that hosted his site, among others, and worked with him until he was set up his own domain with another host. The link above will take you to his website. If you know someone who has a link to http://thecoolest.zerobrains.com/ or http://www.thecoolest.zerobrains.com/ please ask them to update the link to

http://www.alcpu.com/

Thank you. Good Day.

My neighbors own a convenience store so I popped in there and figured I’d grab a beer, because I wanted a beer. They cater mainly to people who stop in every day picking up a 12 pack of this, or a 20 of that. It’s nothing special and most of it is lousy and I prefer at least a halfway decent microbrew. Watered down beer is not pleasurable to drink. Fortunately we have access to some decent beer and wine stores that offer tastings, one of which brings back some pretty nifty finds when returning from trips, but I was tired and didn’t feel like making the jog across town.

While I was in there I saw something different, tucked in the upper left corner of another cooler. It was Budweiser, and some effort was put into giving the box a modern retro look. An actual retro look would have been much, much simpler, but this is neat, with a recycled paper feel to it and an eagle on the box. The beer was also devoid of the amped up look that is common in the “get you drunk fast and cheap” beers. I hate being drunk.

So I bought it. It claims to be a “Carefully brewed with Barley from American’s Heartland and Cascade Hops from the Pacific Northwest” American Ale. They oversold the “American” part, but this is a Belgian company now with a Brazilian president, so what would you expect. I’d have been more impressed if they had claimed to import the best materials available from around the globe, but it’s Budweiser, so I’m not expecting much.

Forget the beer lingo. You can find reviews for it HERE. They do the sniffer test well enough. I’m just going to say that I was pleasantly surprised by this beer. It was inexpensive, and halfway decent. This combination has been lacking in the American Beer market since about forever. Is this the best beer you can buy? Not by a long shot. The best beer you can buy is made by monks and you should really make the trip to Europe to get it. Is it bad? Not at all. In fact, I’ll probably go ahead and get it again, provided they continue to sell it. It’s a good beer for a cookout. It’s not too strong and would probably satisfy a beer snob while not offending the Busch Light crowd. After people have had a few you can bring out the carbonated urine. The Beast, Busch Light or even Pabst Blue Ribbon should be fine. They won’t notice, unless they’re beer snobs.

Mat 16:26  For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?

Many people have speculated whether Steve Jobs was lying about Adobe flash in a recent interview, but I don’t know about Flash. I personally hate flash, but tolerate it because so many websites use it. It destroys the control the browser has over the browsing experience and creates a secondary environment all of its own making. It’s a deficient environment at that. Mouse buttons stop working properly in the flash environment, browser plugins fail. It has its own volume controls and interactions with the computer hardware. It’s annoying and stupid. The one thing I am truly thankful for is that Apple did not allow Flash onto the iphone. Some websites don’t work, this is true, but I have always hated Flash and there is no sign that I will stop hating it in the future. HTML5 should easily fill a Flashless void.

I do think Steve Jobs was lying, however. I followed the events that happened with Gizmodo and he gave a distorted story. What Jason Chen did appears to be completely unethical. Nobody is siding with him and neither am I. That’s just one side.

The other side is Apple’s revenge. It seems clear from the events that took place, and Steve Jobs interview in which he implicates himself, that the police raid was instigated by his company. He says that he wasn’t going to back down and allow himself to be extorted. In the course of events he had already received the phone back before this so called extortion. His demeanor in the video is odd as well. He’s very nervous and he’s looking all over the place while talking about it in the video. It’s uncharacteristic for him. He took revenge and tried to flip the story around. The only “extortion” evident in the case is that Gizmodo (a website that I don’t even care much about) asked for proof that it was Apple’s property. They gave the phone back and the raid happened in the following week, after Apple had been given their property back. The raid was not to recover the phone. They already had the phone.

I firmly believe that he lied about the way the phone was lost. I believe that he lied about the way they learned about the phone and finally, I also believe that he lied about the extortion and he took revenge. Apple meet NURV.

Steve Jobs. You fought cancer, but you don’t look great. You’re going to die someday and you’ve already faced death once. I guarantee that you will not remain the CEO of Apple forever. The body you’re in now will die no matter how hard you fight it. You will be overwhelmed by either disease or old age, unless you’re lucky enough to snap your neck in a fall. You do not want to spend eternity in hell. Repent.

It is appointed unto man once to die and after that you’re judged. Hell is real. Believe the Gospel. Jesus Christ can save you. In the quiet of your home, when you’re alone and there is nobody watching, ask for him to come to you and to save you. Nobody has to know other than you.

You can change like Zacheus changed.

Luk 19:8  But Zacheus standing, said to the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have wronged any man of any thing, I restore him fourfold. Jesus said to him: This day is salvation come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham. For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

Lady Gaga, the blasphemous babe of “Alejandro” fame (where she even dared to dress as a nun, remix some old Madonna and Ace of Base tracks and eat a rosary), is calling for a boycott of BP Oil. Something called “Gather” reports that her fame alone should be enough to destroy the company now famous for ruining the Gulf of Mexico for many people.
I’m sure BP Oil is quaking in their slip resistant antistatic boots right now. All that’s left is for the Backstreet Boys to jump out from behind the curtain and shout “Boo!” The entire BP executive staff will soil their diapers right then and there.

Well. We can hope can’t we? Maybe they’ll drop their prices just to stay alive!

Fiesta! Siesta! Alejandro!
We have cheap gas!
We’re in the Green!
Alejandro!

The Backstreet Boys!
Gaga’s our queen!
She’ll pump gas with her cigarette breath!

Alejandro!
Fernando!

BP burned off my eyebrows
With their gas fumes
Just have my cigarette and boom!

Alejandro! Alejandro!

Please pray for everyone caught up in pornography.

It only says STOP to some of us. Everyone else sees “Tap brakes and pretend to care.”

There’s a school on the same block and parents drive like it’s a race.

I don’t have any photos of this product, but I bought a Drink Docker and ended up putting in a second order. I drive a Chevy Astro for work and the cup holders are terrible. When you’re driving around the city, especially Pittsburgh, it is impossible to keep a drink in the cup holders molded into the dash. They’re terrible. Drinks literally flip right out of the cup holder and fall to the floor. It’s not aggressive driving. It’s bad design.

I ordered a large Drink Docker from http://www.drinkdocker.com/ and put the spacer pads on it. It has held everything drink I put in it so far, including a fast food soft drink cup. Nothing spilled. Everything stayed where it should.

I get no commission or payment for this, but am so thrilled with this simple and inexpensive product that I just felt it was necessary to make a post specifically about it. I’ve ordered 2 more (another for my van and one for someone I work with who drives the other Astro that we have) and they sent a drink wrap with it because I gave them my testimony elsewhere. This testimony is free. Click Here to get to their site and see it for yourself.

I hate lawnmowers. I really hate lawnmowers. I also hate rap music. These two things have one thing in common. Both of them are associated with the low cost of projecting high volume noise beyond what men were meant to tolerate for long periods of time.

Apparently Foxconn in Taiwan has to hire monks to counsel their workers because of the high suicide rate in the factory. This makes sense. Apple is so secretive about their products that they hired police in California to kick in the door of a blogger who bought a bricked iphone from a guy who found it in a bar. It turned out to be a next generation iphone with a handful of new features. Apple claimed major damages, but apparently that was limited to increased exposure and a broken ribbon cable.

What are they doing to these workers in Taiwan that they feel they have to commit suicide just to escape the torment of every day life as a Foxconn supplier for Apple?

The article claims that Foxconn is making the 80 hour weeks more tolerable by forcing the men to take a day off and tattle on each other. That didn’t help Sun Danyong who “killed himself” after an iPhone prototype went missing last year.

How much blood is on the next gen iPhone?

Of course, Apple has investigated and found that there are no problems that gestapo tactics and a PR department can’t smooth over.

This is sort of a review. I managed to avoid all of these energy drinks until more recently when a need arose. I was an hour from home and needed something to make myself more alert.

Enter the Stacker 2 6 hour Energy Shot.

These energy drinks seemed to be grossly overpriced for what they are, and this is no exception, although our local dollar store has them for $1/each, which isn’t terrible. They’re very expensive elsewhere. They come in a variety of sizes, flavors and colors, and with a variety of ingredients.
The basics are caffeine, about the same as 1-2 cups of coffee, depending on how you brew it – Vitamin B complex – and some combination of taurine, ginseng, glucuronolactone, etc. They usually have one to the exclusion of some other chemical.

What’s in these chemicals isn’t a matter for this review. All I’m reviewing is the product and the effects.

1 – Taste. It’s not worse than chemically mouthwash and you’re not drinking it for taste. It’s sort of like those cheap barrel bottle fruit drinks. Nothing spectacular, or all that enticing.

2 – Energy. This did the job. Within about 5 minutes I was completely alert. This effect lasted for hours. I slept fine that night.

3 – side effects. There were no immediate side effects. They say you can experience flushing of the face, but I did not. Someone smaller might. I did not experience irritability, headaches, or any such negative side effect typically associated with stimulants. There was only one side effect. Explosive diarrhea the next day.

I called NVE to inquire about this and the woman on the phone did not know. She said it could be due to the high doses of vitamin B. B6 is 2000% of daily recommendation and B12 is 8333%. One note on B12. The actual dose in the bottle is much smaller than many B12 supplements and so it’s unlikely that B12 is the problem.

So for myself…The  Stacker 2 6 hour energy shot worked. It worked quickly and the effect was lasting. I’ll readily drink it in an emergency but will turn to something else if the situation is less serious.  I would not recommend making this a daily drink. You need Vitamin B, but not in such quantities, unless you have pernicious anemia and need massive amounts of B12 just to absorb the very small amounts that your body actually requires.

This was so effective that the only legitimate daily use I can think of may be as an extreme diet aid, but will the body get used to taking nearly 3 weeks worth of B6 every day?

You can buy this domain name from me for $500,000 US according to US money values on May 5, 2010.  Or make an offer. The offer may be lower. If I’m in the right mood you might get it. Don’t think you’ll get away with offering $50, however. The domain is worth a lot more than that.

Maybe I should just list with sedo. 10% seems to be too much. Realtors only get 6% and they have to actually work for it.

Well….. I don’t know if that’s true, and the moment a male Republican proclaims it he’ll find himself involved in a discussion that he can’t handle, being handily defeated by a capable, intelligent and extraordinarily well informed Democrat woman.

A study at LiveScience.com claims that it is true. We’ll garner from this that they don’t vote or participate in political parties, and that they are 50/50 male/female.

Some of the commenters managed to show that we are still burdened by those who would introduce witless stereotyping into the discussion like the following:

secularhumanizinevoluter wrote:

Riiiiiight. These would be the SAME morons…OOPS, republican men that…
STILL think Iraq was involved in 9/11
STILL think that Iraq had WMDs
STILL think that Bush was a GREAT President.
Riiiiiight.

Wouldn’t a “well informed” anybody also be well informed on the objective truths of the material presented above? And would opinion such as “STILL think that Bush was a GREAT President.” qualify someone as uninformed about political issues? Is it always necessary for political discussion to devolve into gross exaggeration and name calling? Why not just skip straight to spitting and obscene hand gestures.

We’re fortunate here. There was only 12 inches of the fluffy white stuff and it fell overnight, leaving plenty of opportunity for the big plows to clear our city streets. We actually receive good services for our taxes in this small city. Others nearby were not so fortunate, and a look across the country reveals that other areas, most notably Washington DC, were pounded much harder.

It took about an hour to clean off my driveway and my neighbors driveway. Those little Toro snowblowers really perform beautifully. My little monster gobbled up all of that snow and handily tossed it aside. So did the Honda that our neighbor John was using for two driveways he was cleaning. The worst part is where the plows come through. That was about 15 to 20 inches of dirty snow. How do you complain about that though? Without those plows nobody would have been moving. Some people still do but around here that’s usually the guy who got liquored up on the way home and complained because he was stuck at the end of the drive.