hi all. skip to the bottom if you want to gloss over the boring, self-indulgent blog-prose. I put in a bunch of cool, kick @$# android videos [commercials]. I was inspired because I saw one of them prior to seeing the latest transformers 3d [the "droid charge" ad below]. it really… Read full post »

hi all, while the recent murdoch/news corp brouhaha was at full swing in the media, I collected a bunch of links on the subj which I was waiting for another well-timed moment to post.

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 hi all. I havent written about one of my favorite subjs in this blog lately. "favorite" is a simplification. as facebook says, "its complicated". its more a love-hate relationship. ah but thats life isnt it.

the subj is polyamory. in the past, Ive written a long essay using recent press links… Read full post »

hi all. I was gonna write a little about rupert and his young half-as-old bride wendi deng with my last post, but I skipped it. little did I know that the whole thing would go unbelievably internet-viral. she slapped the guy who tried to pie murdoch at the UK parliament hearings,… Read full post »

hi all. happy 4th of july. Im glad I live in a free country where I can write and express myself about whatever I want [esp in a public forum]; its a freedom Ive been exercising my whole life, even as a pre-teen.

based on the recent ongoing flamewar/melee here… Read full post »

contents: 

• introduction
• the basic questions of existence
• corporatocracy
• corporations, the dark side
• Taoism & an analysis of our quandary

- introduction

hi all. a few months ago I wrote a well-received post on class warfare, a topic that has intruded into my adult consciousn… Read full post »

hi all!! it was my btd about 1mo ago & I didnt buy myself anything. then the sig.other decided to go on a long 2mo vac to south america. yow!! so Im about 1.5 week into that and its a field day around here. Ive been splurging on all kinds of… Read full post »

hi all. this Strauss Kahn incident has all the elements to make me either totally uninterested or rapt with attention.

its likely to generate mountains of media coverage, it already has. it seems to be a rare occurence of a rape case of astonishingly large international significance. I mean, this… Read full post »

hi all whats new in your life? finally the crunch mode is off in my job after nearly 3mos of hard crunching. then two key people resigned within two weeks, a 11year developer and a 1year software architect!! wtf!! ah geez.

have been feeling the permanent blahs lately. so… Read full post »

hi all. Ive been collecting links on what I call Warbotics for several years now and waiting for just the right opportunity to post on it. Ive been waiting a long time. I figured there were pretty good odds that some nasty little outrage would get the US public talking.… Read full post »

hi all, as I mentioned in recent blogs Ive been tied up with a new sweatshop job so havent been able to goof around as much in cyberspace, ouch. but, I have been reading & commenting & collecting the pics as usual. old habits die hard.

and of course, the misc… Read full post »

hi all. its been a long time since I wrote about conspiracy theory on here. but, today I just read the latest issue of rolling stone & am a bit blown out of the water.

Ive been reading alex jones for many years. probably more than half a decade. I dont… Read full post »

hi all, instead of starting with the self-indulgent biographical blog fodder, Ill just start out with the meat. here's my favorite surf movies. hope you find something you like also. anyone seen any of these? would be interested in your opinion. if we get a little dialog going Ill share my… Read full post »

hi all. at this point I can almost do these posts with one hand tied behind my back. just kidding. people ask me why I do this sometimes. the answer is, I write about politics and get respectable hits, but typically *half* as many as I get on these beautiful female… Read full post »

hi all, it is not perfectly clear but it does appear that Wikileaks instigated a revolution in Tunisia over revelations of govt corruption. nepotism by the so-called "family". bribery, kickbacks, embezzlement etc all the way to high officials.

I have very mixed feelings on this. as much as we… Read full post »

hi all. skip to the bottom for the stories if you want. in the meantime, some personal musings. Ive been working at an elite fortune 500 company for 1.5 year and just found out the contract runs out in about 3 wks. this big company merged with another big company last… Read full post »

design for new supercomputing center in China to house Tianhe-1A, now top performing supercomputer in the world

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hi all. latest Julian Assange news.

• more info on the "assassinations" related to wikileaks, assange was presumably referring to kenya writers/leakers who attempted to publicize kenyan police corruption on wikileaks. apparently shot by a quasi-police hit team, March 2009.
• "open letter to thos
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hi all, actually have a little time to kill after a very busy wknd. what better than whipping out a blog post? cuz nobody sure comments on stuff otherwise. [something I didnt guess about open salon-- old posts can get lots of hits, but typically get virtually nil comments]

had a… Read full post »

hi all. yes we all know that Julian Assange is probably one of the most paranoid people on the planet right now and that he has good reason to be. news is that he's turned against Guardian reporters that he previously worked with to release secrets because they were involved in leaking… Read full post »

hi all, merry xmas. workload low at the Corporation & I had some free time to put this together [ssssh, dont tell anyone]. my holiday gift to you. it took hours to compile this list, hope you enjoy it. its an idea I had almost ever since I started this blog… Read full post »

the news is fastmoving as usual. assange is now free on a near ~$400K bail after 9 days in jail, some of it paid by michael moore and other wealthy and/or celebrity supporters/admirers. I hope to get a list of that. remember when they were gonna put director Polanski into jail over… Read full post »

hi all. the original tron movie came out when I was 12, year 1982, and had been using personal computers for a few yrs. of course in those days personal computers were closer to very expensive toys. I got an atari 800. it was a magical device that had very sophisticated… Read full post »