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This is Dedicated to the Techno-boob...

2005-01-18T13:33:00.000-08:00

I am completely lost in all of this internet lingo...I almost feel like that old grumpy crotchety guy that comes on last on the TV show "60 Minutes". Well, almost.

I am not even that old, but all of this search engine optimization, java script, Bluetooth technology, Anchor Text Link Navigation, Boolean logic, spiders, crawlers, and who knows what else is really aggravating. I hope my brain can filter all of these keywords correctly.

Here is a site that helps take the confusion out of search engines:

http://www.free-targeted-traffic.com/

Happy New Years...again.

2005-01-03T22:40:00.000-08:00

Make a prediction -- maybe even something surprising or shocking -- for 2005!

I'm going to kick off this year's prediction and prognostications party with pragmatic apparitions of predictions for which I have a penchant:

1. In main areas of the world, real estate values will come down. Condominium apartments will suffer the greatest turn down, followed by commercial real estate and finally (and least affected) single-family homes.

2. The stock market will eventually fail as the economy resists keeping speed with military spending and increasing unemployment.

3. Terrorism will get worse.

4. Small businesses will flourish.

5. World-wide calamities will rise.

6. Some people will stop reading Blog Blog Blog everyday and sink at a snail's pace into lives of fruitless fear.

Here is a link that you should check out...

http://www.ptshamrock.com/

Killer Tsunami...

2004-12-28T19:25:00.000-08:00

All I can say is...WOW!!!! The victims are growing by the minute it seems. I have a hunch that this isn't the last of these colossal disasters. I am not a clairvoyant, but it really won't surprise me if there are more around the world. Possibly even here in the USA.

This definitely puts all things in perspective. Live like you will die tomorrow. Live like you mean it. Tell your loved ones what you really feel. Let stupid trivial arguments fall to the wayside.

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2004/12/29/latest/20420Tsunamide&sec=latest

Say hello to flu...the other virus.

2004-12-21T20:42:00.000-08:00

I tell ya, this last week was HELL on my body. I had contacted the flu from some other human being. This type of strain did the body BAD. I have never ached in this way for a long, long time. When you finally get over this absolutely horrid illness, you tend to really take your health for granted...and when you realize it, give thanks for your health. I mean, things could be ALOT worse!!!!

Tis the season...be thankful for everything that we have in life, and give to a charity that actually deserves it(do the due dilligence/research).

Viruses(all of them) really do SUCK!!!!

Bill Belichick is the BEST Football Coach...

2004-12-17T20:14:00.000-08:00

EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If I was a betting man(I am NOT), I would never bet against him. He is the best football coach. That is right...the best. Better than any other friggin football coach in the history of football to date. Obviously, he is the coach of my beloved New England Patriots.

Tom Brady was a gem in the garbage rounds of the NFL draft...but Belichick, along with Charlie Weis(Notre Dame's new coach) polished his moxy and his skills.

I still have a soft spot(somewhere) for Drew Bledsoe, but Brady is the better(and younger) man.

Belichick is a no frills, nothing fancy(except when he is orchestrating his brilliance at the mastermind level of play calling/coaching), all or nothing, no excuses making("you are what you are"), symbolic, type of coach that I would love to play for.

I mean no disrespect to all of the following: Lombardi(WAAAAAAY overrated)...Ditka(I like him even though the very daft Ricky Williams trade)...Jimmy Johnson(Good talent evaluator, and lucky that he could trade a whole draft with Hershel Walker)...Shannahan(Can you say, let's ride on Elway's coattail!!!!)...Holmgren(Wolf should have more credit then Walrus)...Parcells(demeaning son of a beeatch, how many rings do you have without Belichick?)...Shula(OK, he was not that bad, but his son IS)...Vermeil(cry baby)...Gruden(He looks more like my cousin, then he looks like Chucky)...Madden(Boom!, and turducken)...Paul Brown(He was very good)...Chuck Knoll(Sqealers are not my thing, but he did get 4 rings)...Tom Landry(Cowboy and all)...Bill Cowher(lock jaw big mouth)...Marty Shottenheimer(Marty ball is up and down)...Dan Reeves(never got the rings when he was the coach, but he was still a good one)...Marchibroda(underrated)...Billick(conceit is his best attribute)...Dennis Green(laughs)...Marv Levy(4x loser)...and Bill Walsh(He ranks very high on my list of coaches with his innovative west coast offense)...and so many other coaches that I spaced out. Comments are welcome if you care.

http://www.patriots.com
http://profootballtalk.com
http://kffl.com
http://patsfans.com

Are you a fanatic?

2004-12-17T13:36:00.000-08:00

When you live in the middle of BFE...you need to have time consuming activities.

Sports is one of my many time consumers. I'm not denoting that sports is a must...just a pastime. I'm also adding to that...that I DON"T waste all of my time doing nothing productive. In fact, in the last 30 years of my life...I have never spent so much of my biding time, working on my time management as I have done within the last year.

Quite a bit of soul searching...crappy(very censored) J-O-B(just over broke)'s...looking in the mirror and reflecting...reading MUCH self help and other helpful books/literature...etc. etc.

A human only has ONE life to live here on planet earth. You must live out this time pursuing what you are fanatical/passionate about. The rest will ultimately follow. If you are a read and react late type of person(like I am)...Than the words that I have already stated sink inside your melon while you slave away your life, working for a slave labor wage. Why do I learn everything at a belated pace?

Well, as long as we verify this fact...it is better late, then never.

Here is just a few links that come to mind that deal with bettering yourself(I am not getting any compensation for promoting these...as of yet):

http://www.earlytorise.com
http://www.changingcourse.com
http://www.psycho-cybernetics.com

Musicians and their untimely deaths...

2004-12-16T14:29:00.000-08:00

These last few months...a couple of musicians have past on to the "other side" of the looking glass. Untimely, yes. Deserving, who really knows.

Dimebag, aka, Darrell Abbott/guitarist for Damage Plan...Best known for his stint in Pantera, was a victim of a brutal/stupid/senseless/violent/ act of I believe...jealousy. I really don't recall the fools name(who cares anyways) who blew his brains out on the stage, but he either wanted his fifteen minutes of fame, or else just wanted to get rid of himself...with a few other people with him. He knew that if he shot someone else in a very public setting...he would also get fired upon, right? Common sense tells you that much. Maybe it is coincidence, but the day that it happened...was the anniversary of John Lennon's very similar gun down.

Here is some info on John Balance of Coil fame...

Jhonn Balance16 Feb 1962 - 13 Nov 2004
IN MEMORIAM
Jhonn Balance (aka John Balance and Geff Rushton) died at home on November 13 in a fall, leaving the music world and the wider world of magick without one of its most gifted and vivid voices.
He was born Geoffrey Laurence Burton on 16th February 1962 in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, later adopting the Rushton surname of his stepfather, and was educated at Lord Willliams School. He studied voice and vocal technique with Saral Bohm, wife of the physicist David Bohm. He was a member of 23 Skidoo, Psychic TV, Zos Kia, and Current 93, and in 1983 founded Coil with Throbbing Gristle cofounder Peter Christopherson. They embarked together on one of the most enduring and fruitful art/life partnerships in music.
His vocal technique was relentlessly experimental -- where many singers settle on a signature style and vocal range, he continually pushed the limits of expression to find fresh outlets for his visions.
The output of Coil ranges from the avant-garde (including soundtracks for experimental filmmaker Derek Jarman), to acerbic reflections of passing trends in popular music (such as the brilliantly sardonic Love¹s Secret Domain album), to experimental neoclassical and folk (as with the Solstice/Equinox series), to extended excursions into pure electronica (like the recent Musick to Play in the Dark albums). Many bands and composers have cited Coil as an influence. Balance frequently collaborated with others, as guest artist, remixer and producer. Commissioned work by Coil includes a soundtrack for Clive Barker¹s Hellraiser (rejected by the studio as too frightening), and important remixes of Nine Inch Nails (see the title sequence music for the film Seven, and the album Further Down the Spiral).
After an initial appearance in Berlin in 1983, Coil was a studio group until they premiered a sophisticated live show at London¹s Royal Festival Hall in 2000, commencing a highly successful series of tours that tested and proved Balance's abilities as a performer. Balance was a gifted writer whose work remains to be collected and published. A connoisseur of all things strange and beautiful, over the years he and Peter Christopherson built the important Threshold House collection of Austin Osman Spare and Aleister Crowley artworks, often loaning paintings to shows.
Balance struggled all his life with the twin diseases of depression and alcoholism -- the latter contributed to his accidental death -- but he drew on this pain as well as his great joy in living to produce art that was all the more true, immediate and poignantly relevant. An account of his life and work is David Keenan's "England's Hidden Reverse: The Secret History of the Esoteric Underground" (London: SAF Publishing, 2003).
A man of immense talent, learning, charm and generosity, he is survived by his ex-partner and lifelong collaborator Peter Christopherson, and his partner, the artist Ian Johnstone.
- William Breeze -
Threshold House
continue to Coil site

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2004-12-16T13:10:00.000-08:00

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What is a blog anyways? Do people actually read these self directed ego pumping puff posts? I sure hope so!!!! If not, then I can pretend to entertain myself. Ho-hum.

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