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A Police State or Guilty until proven innocent!

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So a few days ago my wifes cousin got arrested, he’s 18 years old and from what I know he’s never been in trouble with the law… the best part is that he didn’t do anything to get arrested except look like someone.

Apparently some guy got jumped, beat up, robbed etc by a group of (insert word here) and my wifes cousin was wearing clothes similar to what one of the guys were wearing.. sweatpants and sweatshirt (common clothing isn’t it?). Anyway, from a distance the victim pointed him out as being one of the ones that assaulted him, well the police didn’t ask any questions at all, six of them jumped on this 18yr old kid, handcuffed him and scared the shit out of him.. he ended up with a concussion, and scrapes and bruises all over his body.. he was trying to ask them what he did and they were screaming at him to shut up or they’ll taser him?!?!

So after they roughed him up, they put him in the patrol car and took him over to the victim to identify, of course the victim said NO it’s not him…

so our wonderful police of course had to let him go because he didn’t do anything, but now he’s like afraid to leave his house, and he’s traumatized and rightly so…

and the police came over and said ‘sorry’ and that’s it.

hrmmm……  there’s a problem with our police abusing their authority, I don’t think they’re supposed to assault someone and then ask questions

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This site may harm your computer.

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So, this site, MY site, is listing as possibly harming your computer.. Thanks Google!

The great thing is that they don’t give you any information about why or what caused it?All my info in on file with them, I’m registered with Google for many things.. they couldn’t say that there’s a problem with my site!?!?!?

So I just finished going through EVERY blog post since February 2007 and I didn’t find anything wrong at all…

I did find a funky directory in my FTP account that had gambling stuff in it.. not mine, so apparently it was hacked by someone.. that’s so nice of them to do that isn’t it?

I’m guessing that’s what the problem was or is still.. who knows how long it’s going to take Google to fix it now.

I went though and filled out the form to ‘request reconsideration’, but still it would have been nice had I been informed of them doing this…

bah

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busy, busy and busier

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wow.. I’m just so busy lately it’s hard to get anytime to myself to do anything I need to do..

I need money is what I need really, I need to upgrade my site to a dedicated server, but with three kids I just can’t do it..

I was all set ready to go, but I lost an advertiser with no explanation or anything. I emailed them, I even called them but they just never responded, just plain rude really it was. Just really unprofessional all around, at least give me the decency of an email response as to why… so anyway, that killed my idea for upgrading the server. I have advertising spots available but no one is inquiring, well I did have two people inquire but I believe they were just spammers…

oh well, I just finished a major upgrade to core of site and mysql database, added a commenting system as well.. going to be doing some other tweaks as time allows.

I’ve got articles and reviews to write and websites for a friend of mine to create, and an apartment to finish… on top of all of this I decided to learn Japanese, the language as spoken not written just yet…

eh…

G.I. Joe

More GI Joe stuffs.. Pictures of toys this time!

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So I do have more Blueprints to scan in yet, but I’ve taken a bunch of pictures of the actual toys I have as well…

(all thumbnails open to large hi-res pictures)

so here we have the FLAK or Field Light Attack Cannon:

 

  

Next up we’ve got the G.I Joe SHARC Flying Submarine

 

and here we’ve got the Sky Hawk

 

That’s it for today.. I’ve got tons more to come, including play sets, accessories and more…

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The Very Hungary Caterpillar

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Yes I know it’s ‘hungry’ and not ‘hungary’

If you have children, then you are very familiar with the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ , I’ve got three kids and have read it so many times I’ve lost count…

anyway, my middle child, Nick, is in kindergarten and today he came home with this little book that they made in school… It’s a variation on the original story where in the end he says his stomach hurts and from now on he’ll only eat good food instead of junk.. but anyway, here’s a picture of the cover:

Notice anything wrong there?

I’m guessing he’s a very Hungarian caterpillar?!?  as opposed to be a plain Hungarian caterpillar…

The best part is that this little booklet thing is actually to help them learn to spell!!!!

Amazing isn’t it?!

Oh, well…

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Bodies the Exhibit

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So, my wife and I went to see Bodies the Exhibit yesterday (Friday) at the Carnegie Science Center and it was interesting from what I saw… but the overall experience sucked.

Apparently they had several high schools there and many, many people also. I bought the tickets at the beginning of the month actually hoping we could avoid the crowds, they mention if you buy your tickets before you get there you won’t have to wait and you can avoid the crowds. Now I understand that they need money etc, but it seemed to me that they were just letting as many people as possible in there at the same time.

Each exhibit has a display card telling you what’s going on, and some have a few of them, it was pretty much impossible to read the cards with people standing in the way, literally pushing you out of the way and being generally ignorant. It was so crowded that when you moved you bumped into someone or they bumped into you, and of course no one said excuse me, they basically gave me a dirty look like I was in their way and how dare I try and even look at something they are looking at.

And of course the high school kids that were there were all immature, laughing, giggling and of course pointing out the male and female reproductive systems. One guy was going along and actually fingering the vaginas when he could get to them, and pointing out how great of a job they did at shaving the pubic areas of the women on display… mind you you’re not supposed to touch the displays at all, there are signs all over the place regarding this.

The entire thing took us less than an hour to get through and the experience was not worth the $47 for the tickets and parking on top of that.

I really couldn’t get to see much of what I wanted to see, it was just the most miserable experience I’ve been through regarding the Carnegie….  I can recommend NOT going to see bodies unless you know there won’t be lots of people there, it’s just not worth the money you’ll pay to deal with that…

I was very disappointed at how unprofessional the entire thing was, the Carnegie is usually much better about there exhibits and such.

Articles/Editorials, Giveaways

Giveaway of the Day

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So a couple weeks ago I ran across a site called Giveaway of the Day, and it’s web address is http://www.giveawayoftheday.com  imagine that right?!

Anyway, the site is actually cool and useful, everyday they feature a new free version of a software product, Today, March 28th they are giving away StarBurn v.10, which is a basic CD/DVD burning suite, but it also supports HD and Blu-Ray as well.

The only catch is that with the free software there is no technical support and no updates, but eh free is free right? Also you have to install and activate/register the software the same day.

They give away some good stuff actually, usually it’s a very useful program like StarBurn today, Driver Magician on the 26th, Partition Table Doctor on the 25th. It’s not just utility software either, there are even games and things like the Easter ScreenSaver as well.   I’ve got it bookmarked and check it now everyday, so drop on by and check it out, you never know what you’ll find…