tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87944598457212672932024-03-12T20:48:54.278-05:00The Weblog With No NameChris Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594431127172500900noreply@blogger.comBlogger106125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794459845721267293.post-35074561358360952872011-08-13T22:54:00.017-05:002011-08-14T12:35:13.761-05:00Score!Found on eBay and delivered August 13th.
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<br />"TO THE MOON". From Time Life Books and Records in 1969
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<br />6 records in slipcase, plus hardbound book concerning the race to the Moon.
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<br />Both in original slipcase, with much of the original plastic wrap still in place.
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<br />All in the original shipping box. All in astoundingly great condition. Along with all the other paperwork that came with the set, including an order form to buy another book/record set.
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<br />Original price in 1969, US$29.95
<br />Price in 2011 (via eBay) US$39.95.
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<br />But wait, there's more!
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<br />The seller transferred the records to CDs. I was planning on playing the records once, in order to copy them to the Macintosh. Thanks to the gentleman I bought the set from, that task won't be necessary.
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<br />The records are recordings of speeches, space craft communications, etc. Haven't listened to them as yet.
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<br />I wanted to get this set back in 1969, but at the time, I couldn't afford it. Better late than never.
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<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU-o4EHK8CIPb_uF_g7eeyNZiBDZhXR6k0WJmrGmWD1lFR0mzaH-6qyyISzNfKzn1U0VkiBunEmM_UKtcoCa_cFzD5FCJ63a-8phs6-Dfmz3rOU5H787TwHiRuA6yIooBYRJ-UbJYU-8o/s1600/4_record_slipcase.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU-o4EHK8CIPb_uF_g7eeyNZiBDZhXR6k0WJmrGmWD1lFR0mzaH-6qyyISzNfKzn1U0VkiBunEmM_UKtcoCa_cFzD5FCJ63a-8phs6-Dfmz3rOU5H787TwHiRuA6yIooBYRJ-UbJYU-8o/s200/4_record_slipcase.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640557715451310706" border="0" /></a>Slipcase for records
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<br />Chris Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594431127172500900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794459845721267293.post-49584153690557723292011-08-01T12:37:00.002-05:002011-08-01T12:39:53.893-05:009/11 Anniversary9/11/2011 is going to be a day of unending blowfullness. Not to mention the overweening, fulsome suckitude.<br /><br />The festivities, and make no mistake, it WILL be a festival of xenophobia, self congratulatory rhetorical masturbation and all round bullshit, will likely inspire another wave of anti ground zero 'mosque' protests at the site of the planned islamic center.<br /><br />Geller and her ilk will be wall to wall on Fox Noise.<br /><br />NYC that day will be awash in faux patriotism and American flags made in China, as another few first responders die from the multiple illnesses resulting from their efforts on that day and the succeeding days as they searched the smoking rubble.<br /><br />Sure, there will be grand statements about the bravery and sacrifice of the police and firefighters. Not one word will be spoken about the fight to get those people the health care they deserve, nor will one word be spoken about the GOP refusal to grant them care for the cancers that are slowly killing those heroes.Chris Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594431127172500900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794459845721267293.post-82822299909048828942011-07-31T11:51:00.003-05:002011-07-31T12:17:36.880-05:00The Apple TV and I<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9q7InXG9df-7oBYB1-tDnEeYCu1pQbQWTcfhSYvB7V_T691KxrZWn-2g-cEICfnisGvJsS6IfnO3sNdDrrjdYuOIZjLgsBxDnyx3L4w-3yIgbdJ8MHKHYKjSGrIdkicjfwEyvk5bN9PI/s1600/atv.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9q7InXG9df-7oBYB1-tDnEeYCu1pQbQWTcfhSYvB7V_T691KxrZWn-2g-cEICfnisGvJsS6IfnO3sNdDrrjdYuOIZjLgsBxDnyx3L4w-3yIgbdJ8MHKHYKjSGrIdkicjfwEyvk5bN9PI/s200/atv.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635566779648563922" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">(</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >the Apple TV in situ, along with DVD player, cable box and external speakers.</span><span style="font-size:85%;">)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">This past July, I got a 1st gen Apple TV from eBay. Works fine, as Apple defines "fine". It's been upgraded with the current OS revision/ATV firmware. It's also been hacked with the latest "upgrade" software/firmware, and has XBMC (XBox Media Center) installed.<br /><br />Having trouble getting the XBMC to "see" the drive/folder where all my video files are kept, as well as the iTunes music library.<br /><br />Apparently, I need the equivalent of "Hacking the ATV for Dummies".<br /><br />That said, the ATV, using the ATV software, works well enough to play video and audio via the LCD TV. The Boston Acoustics computer speakers/subwoofer are a huge improvement over the stock built in TV speakers.<br /><br /></div>Chris Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594431127172500900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794459845721267293.post-18311903790496525312010-09-23T19:54:00.002-05:002010-09-23T19:56:56.790-05:00Letter to Democrats.orgEmail today. Paper mail followup tomorrow.<br /><br /><blockquote>When is the Democratic Party going to grow a pair, grow a spine, and vigorously confront the GOP on every damned issue, large, small and everything in between.<br /><br />Goddammit! STOP caving in to the goddamn GOP. America wants their taxes cut for the poor and middle class. They want those damned Bush era cuts for the rich to die on schedule.<br /><br />I am a 'yellow dog Democrat'. I've been voting for Democrats since my very first vote.<br /><br />I voted for President Obama to do what he promised to do. I voted for the Democrats here in Massachusetts to help President Obama keep his promises.<br /><br />This November, I am not all that sure that I will make the effort to vote.<br /><br />If the Democrats in the House and Senate and White House are so goddamned reluctant to do what that landslide in November 2008 elected them to do, than I can't see why I should vote for those COWARDS who are so frightened of inconveniencing the big bad GOP.<br /><br />The Democrats OWN the House. They could KEEP the House and they could OWN the Senate in November if you get off your collective asses and FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE GOP and the insanity of the Teabaggers!<br /><br />If the Democratic Party wants me to vote for them, you had better start goddamned fighting for me and the rest of the Americans who gave you their money and their vote and their confidence in 2008.</blockquote>Chris Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594431127172500900noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794459845721267293.post-14800196659463693252010-06-02T16:38:00.002-05:002010-06-03T16:18:53.752-05:00Don't blame BP. Blame yourselves!<span class="js-singleCommentText jsk-ItemBodyText">To all those Gulf Coast states that constantly and consistently voted in GOP Senators, Representatives, state and Congressional, as well as GOP Presidents. That voted against your own best economic and social interests. That voted the way Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson told you to vote. That swallowed the lies of the GOP and begged for more.<br /><br />The destruction of your coastlines, the destruction of your tourist-based economy, the destruction of your Gulf-based seafood harvesting economy, the destruction of countless jobs.<br /><br />Actions have consequences.<br /><br />You brought all this upon yourselves.</span>Chris Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594431127172500900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794459845721267293.post-38751235491964989802010-05-28T01:01:00.002-05:002010-05-28T01:05:45.781-05:00Rise of the New Tribes(Something I wrote YEARS ago. There's a big clue as to how long ago in the text.)<br /><br /><center><span style="font-weight: bold;">The rise of the new tribes.</span></center><br /><br />The "subculture" is dead! Long live the new Tribalism!<br /><br />Used to be, back in the day (1967/68) the Hippies tried to form something beyond the Establishment label of "counterculture", a label that was actually embraced by the nameless entity that the hippies were struggling to evolve into. The absurd amount of drugs, the chronic malnutrition occasioned by so-called "macrobiotic" diets, rampant apathy and the lack of wide bandwidth communication killed that idea in the womb.<br /><br />The Hippies ended up as little more than some scattered communes and a marketing ploy aimed at the middle american teens who wanted a taste, the merest frisson of the Hippie lifestyle they had read about in Time magazine, Rolling Stone and had seen on TV and propaganda films screened by the Hygiene Squad at High School.<br /><br />These were not pretty times, I know, I was there.<br /><br />Today, we no longer have a single "counterculture" or even subcultures, we are seeing the rise of the New Tribalism.<br /><br />New Age Hippies, Skaters (roller and board) urban bikers, hackers, the whole amorphous queer scene, hip-hop, 'zine creators, street gangs, goths, punks, goth punks, goth punk hackers, gay goth punk hackers. (This is getting confusing, innit?)<br /><br />Myself, I'm part of several tribes, hacker (cDc), SF fan, SubGenius, slight goth leanings, although more because of my interest in H.P. Lovecraft than any desire to wear white pancake and smoke clove cigarettes.<br /><br />The tribes I'm part of all have their own rituals and sub rosa language and customs, more to bind the tribe members together than to keep the outsiders at arms length.<br /><br />What allows these New Tribes to develop and flourish is partly the breakdown of national societal norms, and the rise of wide bandwidth communications between tribalists. Yeah, the computer is part of it, as is the homemade 'zine and the DIY music cassette and CD. All of these have taken the place of the communal sweatlodge or the longhouse as a means for bonding the tribe members together.<br /><br />Coupled with the easy access to world culture via cable TV, video and music, ethnicity is no longer a Big Deal. Who you ARE is the thing, not where your great grandparents came from or went to.<br /><br />And like all primates and most higher mammals, we prefer to hang with those like us and look with some suspicion on those who are Not Like Us.<br /><br />In fact, we like it so much, that households are often formed around a single aspect of our Tribes. Hackers, ham radio, punk music, crossdressing, heavy drug abuse, role playing games and anything else that interests people these days.<br /><br />Some households actually occupy a real house, some don't even occupy the same continent, let alone the same city, yet a member of a household is welcomed into whatever structure another member is occupying at the time. Granted, you may have to doss down on a piece of foam rubber in a corner of a room, but hey, no problem, it is, after all, your house.<br /><br />The Internet allows for households, or houses for short, to spring up and to allow far flung members of a house or tribe to keep in close touch with other members of his tribe. The same personal computer, balanced on a milk crate by the side of a cheap futon also churns out 'zines and is the MIDI driver for making music, and is the animation stand for making movies. Think of it as a multimedia Swiss Army Knife. Many of the New Tribes have an artistic bent, if not an overwhelming urge to create art, music, literature, something, anything to put a dent in the universe, to express themselves. The computer, the 'zine, the 4-track cassette deck, the camcorder, the potters wheel, the rubber stamp, the spray paint can, pirate radio, wall posters, all are part of the totem poles and cave paintings of the New Tribes.<br /><br />To an extent, 'zines are also a way for keeping a tribe informed about tribal doings. (and I am NOT going to attempt to describe 'zines in this essay. Go read the books about 'zines published by RE/SEARCH and R. Seth Friedman. Or do an Alta Vista search. Eschew passivity, you lard-butted geek!) 'zines take the place of the tribal bards and lawkeepers, who once kept the traditions and customs of the tribe. Easy to do when your tribe is an extended family unit, occupying a finite chunk of earth and space. The New Tribe can transcend national and continental borders. Kind of hard for one individual to maintain the tribal cohesion.<br /><br />Punk 'zines deal with the punk tribe, Grrrl 'zines deal with the Grrrl scene, and so on and so forth. Your tribal 'zines show up in your mailbox, and you spend hours reading them on the toilet and while chowing down on the cheap store brand Mac and Cheese. You get the latest dope on your tribe, the philosophy, the ideas, the culture that makes your Tribe, _Your Tribe_.<br /><br />Why Tribes?<br /><br />At least in America and Western Europe, there is a widespread rejection of so-called normal values. The normal values of making lots of money and accumulating meaningless material goods and status. Keeping up with the Joneses, as they used to say. More and more people have decided that this "normal" lifestyle is bunk and they want no part of it, regardless of the personal inconveniences. A satisfying job these days, one which enriches the jobholder spiritually or artistically, is preferable to large paycheck, earned via a job that stultifies.<br /><br />Coupland's book, Generation X, is a pretty decent representation of the attitude exemplified by a lot of the New Tribes. Interpersonal relationships, 'friendships' as it were, are more important than the latest luxury car or the biggest screen TV on the block.<br /><br />Some tribes, like the Skinheads, have multiple cultures. On one side, there are the anti-racist skinheads, who embrace all cultures and races. On the other, we see the racist skins, who despise any race and culture that doesn't conform to their tribal norms.<br /><br />To the outsider, a skin is a skin is a skin, lumping straightedge and doper, SHARPs and bootboy nazis all under the classification of "Skinhead".<br /><br />Then we have the groups that try too hard to be a tribe. One well-known pseudotribe is the "Rainbow Family". Frankly, their wholesale plundering of Indian customs and traditions with no regard or understanding of the cultural backgrounds involved, irritates the hell out of me. "Indians are cool, man, they like, 'embraced' the Earth and were all peaceful and everything." Yeah, right. Study some North American anthropological sources about the intertribal relationships of say, the Navajo and the Hopi or the Abenaki and everyone else in northeastern North America.<br /><br />Their yearly Rainbow gatherings are well known in the rural areas like Vermont, California and other places with large enough state or national parks to support a few thousand people for a couple of weeks of New Age crapola and the possibility of salmonella and dysentery.<br /><br />While they claim to welcome and embrace all, in reality, if one prefers beer to pot, you are segregated to a specific campsite for your tent. Not one of the hallmarks of a real tribe, in my opinion. But then, modern pseudohippies are notorious for their self-rightious hypocrisy.<br /><br />Similarly, the Ku Klux Klan is a pseudotribe, in that members of one faction of the Klan are often not welcomed by other factions, harking back to the skinheads. At least those Klan factions that aren't mainly FBI fronts to sucker redneck yahoos into providing information on the Klan, Nazis and such like groups.<br /><br />Speaking of Nazis, this is a tribe that seeks out anyone who can be influenced by their peculiar philosophies. For the most part, anyone who swallows the Nazi party line is pretty damn stupid, and would fall for someones party line, as long as it told him that he was better than anyone else. If not the Nazis, then the Socialists, the Democrats, the Republicans or the Church. But then, this is beginning to encroach into the concept of cults, where damnfools check in, but they don't check out. (See Scientology, The Moonies, et al ad nauseum)<br /><br />For the most part, the New Tribes are voluntary associations, newly evolved and haltingly developing traditions and customs. In this instance, the "Modern Primitives", Goths and Science Fiction Fans are way ahead of the hackers and GenX 'slackers".<br /><br />Generally speaking, our first exposure to tribalism is in school. The jocks, the geeks, the nerds, the bookworms, &ct. Depending on what tribe we are accepted/forced into, school is hell on earth, or just merely tedious. And what tribe you were in, or forced into by the school social hierarchy, oftens influences the social groups you associate with in college. Even to the extent of what frat or sorority one is inclined to join. And that tribe can follow and influence you for the rest of your life.<br /><br />These tribes often have a long history and specific tribal customs, particularly when it comes to inducting new members. This can be anything from ritual embarrassment to locking the prospective member in a car trunk with a quart of gin and a live cat.<br /><br />As society becomes more and more fragmented and dysfunctional, these New Tribes will gradually take the place of "Society" as the arbiter of the "normal" way of life for many people. This "customization" of society(s) by the tribe members will result in more and more enclaves in the major cities of the world, as well as rural enclaves, a phenomenon that's already occurring in parts of New England with members of the gay and lesbian Tribe. This voluntary ghettoization of the tribes, rather than an enforced dictate of the State, is becoming an attractive alternative to many people who are fed up with the B.S. and hassles of living in a "normal" society. And thanks to cheap computers and cheap Internet access, tribal communities will more and more cross national and continental boundaries, as well as eschewing the need for "cities", thumbing the collective nose at the local mores and society.<br /><br />About bloody time!<br /><br />Some will embrace this new freedom and run with it, some will act like psychotic monkeys on speed and tequila, and some will just carry on as if nothing is happening, living the "American" (or German, French, Japanese, Chinese, &ct) Dream while things get REALLY odd outside their front door.<br /><br />And then, one day, they will realize that the World has gotten SO DAMN WEIRD, they flip out and start blaming things like music, movies, TV, drugs, the Internet, liberals, conservatives, Freemasons, Catholics, Jews, Moslems, Protestants, Atheists, homosexuals &ct, everything but their nice normal dysfunctional 'Society' for the change.<br /><br />Meanwhile, their children are engaging in their own particular/peculiar Tribal rituals, activities and "society", oblivious to their parent's rants and raves and letters to the editor about "kids these days, and how they have no respect for tradition and family values!"<br /><br />Well, they are respecting traditions, their own tribal traditions. They don't care for what their parents respect, and with good reason!Chris Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594431127172500900noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794459845721267293.post-17286090179235999352009-08-29T13:36:00.002-05:002009-08-29T13:38:19.653-05:00Edward KennedyHe's being laid to rest at Arlington today.<br /><br />The Commonwealth has lost a great legislator and a good friend.Chris Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594431127172500900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794459845721267293.post-76181697954764005622009-08-27T11:57:00.003-05:002009-08-27T12:02:06.910-05:00Mac OS X<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMF4KsiPCiZrVScNCELRjQBG2BSr6NSiGTf3LlVQmkadrsNkKczyxG-cq1FPM07JpIPuqaTSO1mtgQQybtQrYz2PpoAoC8ftkkMWv63OnkQKC_MC0k-0ymikozesUKwD_gv2JTxV9dPi8/s1600-h/time-machine-icon.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 256px; height: 256px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMF4KsiPCiZrVScNCELRjQBG2BSr6NSiGTf3LlVQmkadrsNkKczyxG-cq1FPM07JpIPuqaTSO1mtgQQybtQrYz2PpoAoC8ftkkMWv63OnkQKC_MC0k-0ymikozesUKwD_gv2JTxV9dPi8/s400/time-machine-icon.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374689061877794882" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/time-machine.html">Time Machine FTW!</a></span><br /><br />Time Machine just saved me a few hours or so of re-downloading an old public domain movie from Archive.org.<br /><br />I inadvertently trashed the folder the film was in, and then emptied the trash.<br /><br />"Ah, bugger. Oh, wait. Right. <B>Time Machine!</B>"<br /><br />Opened Time Machine, went back a few hours, and there was the file. Select. Restore. Done.Chris Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594431127172500900noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794459845721267293.post-59122720864963213952009-08-16T11:53:00.002-05:002009-08-16T12:22:05.457-05:00Not dead yetThe G4 died, 6 weeks later, I have (thanks to the generosity of friends) a "new" Mac. a dual processor G5.<br /><br />So, just had some fun with it. I changed out the Nvidia video card for the Radeon 9600 Pro video card in the G4. I also installed the old Sonnet USB/FireWire PCI card I had in the G4.<br /><br />Now, the video card has its own slot at the bottom of the stack of slots. The card also has a metal shield that was dangerously close to some solder joints on the underside of the USB/FireWire card.<br /><br />I slapped some duct tape over the solder joints, trimmed off the excess and installed the card.<br /><br />(Yes, I could have installed the Sonnet card in another slot. I still would have had a slot I couldn't use, due to the potential of a short between the video card and whatever card was installed in the neighboring slot.)<br /><br />REBOOT!<br /><br />Startup chime and then... nothing. Crap! Change out the card for the Nvidia. Reboot. Chime. Nothing. Hell! I KNOW I observed all safety precautions.<br /><br />OK, work the problem. The computer booted WITH the Nvidia card. What changed? Aha! The USB/FireWire card. Pull the card. Reboot. Chime and boot to desktop.<br /><br />As I'm setting the Sonnet card aside, I noticed that some of the tape is covering some contacts on the other side of the edge connector. The side I never looked at when I was trimming the tape.<br /><br />Oooops!<br /><br />Trimmed that little bit of tape. Installed the card. Reboot to desktop.<br /><br />AHA! Install Radeon card. Reboot to desktop. USB/FireWire card works. Video card works. Heart starts working.<br /><br />Really, I am getting too old for this sort of thing.Chris Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594431127172500900noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794459845721267293.post-27594881769277108472009-06-10T23:26:00.004-05:002009-06-11T00:10:31.199-05:00It Just Won't Stay Dead!2010. Comedy Central.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.comedycentral.com/press/press_releases/2009/061009_futurama_returns.jhtml">26 NEW Futurama episodes.</a><br /><br />"Hey, Cancellation! Bite My Shiny Metal Ass!"<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgCwPAC_UPXbfq42cLQYDgW6BNfXRNMAvEW4HCIpTuH75bq2qut5AmoWWBw7tDsqMJq-YetGNj-yGipn7-0IDV_T7v6C2SXtUEkSzmhtdb1TpfjeW4c86n9aSh2jOUBsIGljvwWEtDxSk/s1600-h/bender-on-the-batter.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 246px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgCwPAC_UPXbfq42cLQYDgW6BNfXRNMAvEW4HCIpTuH75bq2qut5AmoWWBw7tDsqMJq-YetGNj-yGipn7-0IDV_T7v6C2SXtUEkSzmhtdb1TpfjeW4c86n9aSh2jOUBsIGljvwWEtDxSk/s320/bender-on-the-batter.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345932566772452978" /></a>Chris Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594431127172500900noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794459845721267293.post-83508475734995464302009-06-05T02:02:00.003-05:002009-06-05T02:23:36.224-05:00Speaking of pathetic weenies.One of the stupidest trolls on the Internet has decided to post some comments on this mediocre little weblog of mine. It showed up on the Eschaton blog a few years ago, and immediately began a campaign of vulgar and obscene postings.<br /><br />I discovered how to get under its skin, to the point where it was begging me to lay off.<br /><br />Of course, if it had come to Eschaton, seeking a reasonable discussion, couched in civilized language, it would have been welcomed, despite its political leanings.<br /><br />But no, it decided to be a pest. As ye sow, so shall ye reap!<br /><br />I shall leave its pathetic little comments on my mediocre little blog, as they amuse me. Its cries of impotent outrage are as the very music of the Angels unto my ears, and I drink deep of its <a href="http://img.skitch.com/20090605-cx7kstuj3mdeh75wrb2dmi19b.jpg">tears</a>!<br /><br /><a href="http://img.skitch.com/20090605-q5kbcyieq1axc7h5igy336u4cf.jpg">Texaschilibean: Stumpbroke & Steercotted</a>, say "hi" to your <a href="http://img.skitch.com/20090605-1w526trimkckqrquq4fp1esj6t.jpg">mother</a>, <a href="http://img.skitch.com/20090605-xg2kgwdmfiuqhtcg75f71bcxeh.jpg">sister</a> and <a href="http://img.skitch.com/20090605-xg2kgwdmfiuqhtcg75f71bcxeh.jpg">older brother</a> for me, OK?Chris Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594431127172500900noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794459845721267293.post-60715189606512944622009-06-05T01:26:00.003-05:002009-06-05T01:40:32.153-05:00Go for it, guys and gal!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3UBLdQ2iTnxP4OmbhPhiFE8LeCpJKletXM53bgwq7rThuUmej7F4K2870cIaPwxi50ZUgQV3O5-loyeU6OxsiR_QYYcKsiQzGbsgPTqgEk772ibw3XIx8qrMuyYVnEvK-aEtWyLU8X0c/s1600-h/the+right+stuff+2009.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3UBLdQ2iTnxP4OmbhPhiFE8LeCpJKletXM53bgwq7rThuUmej7F4K2870cIaPwxi50ZUgQV3O5-loyeU6OxsiR_QYYcKsiQzGbsgPTqgEk772ibw3XIx8qrMuyYVnEvK-aEtWyLU8X0c/s400/the+right+stuff+2009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343727545897813602" /></a><br /><br />So, some pathetic weenies have complained about <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2009/06/01/new-vuitton-ad-campaign-the-right-stuff/">this ad campaign</a> With Sally Ride, "Buzz" Aldrin and Jim Lovell.<br /><br />All you pathetic weenies, listen up!<br /><br />Your negative comments <I>are</I> understandable.<br /><br />You realize that you will never be as cool and as competent as those three people in that image.<br /><br />You will never do anything with your lives even 1% as amazing & exciting & history making as those three people.<br /><br />You go to work, and the worst that happens is the office coffee sucks.<br /><br />Jim Lovell went to work one day and made death in space his very own personal little bitch.<br /><br />Ed Aldrin went to work one day, and discovered that his ride home was broken. The LM was incapable of lifting off from the Moon. A critical circuit breaker was munged.<br /><br />So, in true MIT Ph.D fashion, he hacked that LM circuit breaker...<br /><br />With. A. Ballpoint. Pen. <br /><br />So, what did YOU do at work today?<br /><br />Sally Ride, oh yeah! The Shuttle has so many critical points of unrecoverable fatal to the crew failure that Chinese bottle rockets have a better safety record.<br /><br />She has more balls than a Jeff Stryker movie.<br /><br />I was three miles from a Shuttle launch, STS-4. The exhaust from the SRBs, if the wind changed, well, we were told to get under shelter ASAP. You don't want to be exposed to the exhaust of the SRBs. Not at all.<br /><br />Just watching a Shuttle launch from the press site can be dangerous. There's 14 names on the Wall at KSC that are testimony that the Shuttle can kill you in horrible ways.<br /><br />If Ride, Aldrin and Lovell can make a little coin by being in the same picture with some LUGGAGE, what the hell does it say about them, their history and their iconic status that Louis Vuitton is paying them a bundle to be in the same picture with some LUGGAGE?<br /><br />You pathetic weenies WISH someone would pay you that kind of money, just because of who you are and what you accomplished in your life.<br /><br />Louis Vuitton wants a little of their fame and status to rub off on its luggage.<br /><br />Can't say I blame them for wanting that.Chris Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594431127172500900noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794459845721267293.post-29157164501250831272009-05-03T00:20:00.002-05:002009-05-03T00:27:06.112-05:00Bob RuzzoI've known <a href="http://www.cfdisk.blogspot.com/">this guy</a> for YEARS!<br /><br />Artist, musician, all around creative fellow.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.icompositions.com/artists/w1av">This is his music website</a>. Really, you should go there and listen to some of his music. <br /><br />And if he'd get off his duff and start selling his CDs online already...Chris Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594431127172500900noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794459845721267293.post-74983282653767791372009-04-06T19:19:00.002-05:002009-04-06T19:28:37.229-05:00Wild Turkeys<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsdyxnnpIxwxiF013KsWXpSbS1XhqBrHugyXpOjOBSU3zVJmNt1XlkYYMvtYSJjz547s6UQb_ZT9urkqGUEo7s0nKhTHMBAezcFCE9-iEQTJr36bWCbjNGNiVnHrkGsMuNwAQXPAe7GrQ/s1600-h/turkey.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsdyxnnpIxwxiF013KsWXpSbS1XhqBrHugyXpOjOBSU3zVJmNt1XlkYYMvtYSJjz547s6UQb_ZT9urkqGUEo7s0nKhTHMBAezcFCE9-iEQTJr36bWCbjNGNiVnHrkGsMuNwAQXPAe7GrQ/s400/turkey.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321739658174272322" /></a><br /><br />Seen around 5:30 PM, April 5th, 2009, at the beginning of the Neponset River pedestrian trail near the Central Avenue MBTA trolley stop in Milton, MA.Chris Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594431127172500900noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794459845721267293.post-63346349367050311692009-03-16T15:12:00.003-05:002009-03-16T18:43:05.345-05:00Hey, Glen Beck, try THESE principles!"The principles by which Buckaroo Banzai, M.D., Ph.D lives are known as the Five Stresses, the Four Beauties and the Three Loves. Things to be stressed are decorum, courtesy, public health, discipline and morals. The Four Beauties are the beauties of mind, language, behavior and environment. The Three Loves are love of others, love of justice and love of freedom."<br /><br />Dr. Banzai can AND HAS kicked Chuck Norris' butt on several occasions.Chris Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594431127172500900noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794459845721267293.post-18971090385447164862008-11-17T01:12:00.003-05:002008-11-17T01:19:18.598-05:00The 'Impact' rally in Boston.I was there, along with over 2000 of my closest friends.<br /><br />Helped some sweet dykes get their rainbow flag hoisted. (Lovely women, but couldn't tie a knot to save their lives!) took a bunch of pictures.<br /><br />This is my favorite:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzdaoshG9JB5gl7k5K-7q5Eul2o6CwLLnLTcUrVKfheE3nXlAM1bQjCKag1mHylNRx7yokjOqMduG5k3rJaNAAShNGBY53IVbLAw9qqL3x4pU8Lhp4j3xFNMvUlAZxgTUbxeVDini89nw/s1600-h/100_2495.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzdaoshG9JB5gl7k5K-7q5Eul2o6CwLLnLTcUrVKfheE3nXlAM1bQjCKag1mHylNRx7yokjOqMduG5k3rJaNAAShNGBY53IVbLAw9qqL3x4pU8Lhp4j3xFNMvUlAZxgTUbxeVDini89nw/s400/100_2495.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269506066445502578" /></a><br /><br />To see things like this, fills me with hope and optimism. Seeing these two older, distinguished gentlemen, having a conversation with a teenaged Asian girl, speaks so much about what we can be as a society and have become as a society. That these people, who some would think were separated by the gulfs of race and age were engaged in a conversation, the one, learning from and about her elders, the other two, encouraged and energized by this child.<br /><br />Yes. This IS what hope looks like, what it feels like.Chris Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594431127172500900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794459845721267293.post-30292367241794830312008-11-13T15:30:00.004-05:002008-11-15T10:42:58.268-05:00November 15th. 1:30 PM. Boston. City Hall Plaza.<a href="http://prop8ma.blogspot.com/">Protest against Prop 8 in California. Rally for full equality for citizens.<br /></a><br />Both the Massachusetts and U.S. Constitutions guarantee all citizens the full and equal protection of and under the law.<br /><br />I'm straight. I support marriage equality.<br /><br />I'll be there.<br /><br />(edit) crossposting my comment from the Facebook Boston Rally page:<br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><br />"These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it Now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph."<br /><br /><br /><br />Thomas Paine, The Crisis -- December 1776<br /><br />Have fun at your "riding lessons and 'American Girl stuff", your "plays", your "other plans".<br /><br />Sorry that you won't be there in Boston because of the icky rain. Wouldn't want you to be the least bit uncomfortable.<br /><br />I'm 56 years old. I am badly afflicted with arthritis. Standing in the cold and the rain will hurt like HELL for me. I'm also straight. But I'll BE THERE for my gay brothers and sisters. No matter what.<br /><br />I can't really say that I'll miss seeing you 'sunshine soldiers' there.</span>Chris Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594431127172500900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794459845721267293.post-90757423323131358882008-11-10T06:10:00.002-05:002008-11-10T06:30:23.067-05:00If you look long enough, you can find anything on the Internet.For example: <br />Bertrand R. Brinley's 'Rocket Manual For Amateurs'. Published in 1960, it has long been something of the Holy Grail for modern amateur rocketeers.<br /><br />Chock full of technical details, design specs, and rocket fuel recipes. And that's the reason why it's been out of print for decades.<br /><br />Rocket Fuel. There are some seriously dangerous formulas in this book. You could easily kill yourself if you did something stupid.<br /><br />And of course, in this post 9/11, "BE AFRAID!" day and age, as well as the irrational fear of anything that might possibly hurt someone, no one is going to take on the potential liability for republishing this book.<br /><br />However, getting back to the subject of this posting.<br /><br />The book is on the Net as a PDF scan of the pages. I just downloaded it myself. Not that I'm planning to brew up rocket fuel in my apartment or launch rockets from the roof of the building.<br /><br />No, I downloaded it because I'm now one more person that has the PDF, making it just slightly more difficult for this book to be lost and forgotten.<br /><br />While I'd love to have a genuine hardcopy of the book, the cheapest version I have seen recently was US$50.00 via eBay. Maybe someday I'll be able to spend that kind of money on a 40+ year old paperback book.<br /><br />Oh, the URL?<br /><br />Sure. Here you go: http://www.filestube.com/1144a11ae0e8381203ea/details.html<br /><br />You'll have to download three seperate files, though, via Rapidshare, which will take you about 45 minutes to get all of them, and then use some manner of file decompression utility to expand the .rar files.<br /><br />Oh, and then there's the matter of the file password.<br /><br />It's Brinley.<br /><br />DISCLAIMER!!! I am not responsible for ANYTHING that YOU DO with this book. Don't be stupid! If you have a "Here, hold my beer" moment and wind up getting a Darwin Award, that's not MY FAULT. No way, no how.<br /><br />Got that? Good.Chris Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594431127172500900noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794459845721267293.post-29329013000105119122008-11-06T18:52:00.002-05:002008-11-06T18:56:04.730-05:00Ain't that America!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiryIVxYXTr6-XrN4P0xT8mARF17M72HjWm0bRY1tR8oovCO-FA0osdv5aIKPzewr7mLoY78RNtZa4Bn2v8z5ywnoMsR5tPFHgEc3uSsel7HnT4wLu_ocJxwlUbPA2XuebblCPt5-5FSQ0/s1600-h/shep_large.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 302px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiryIVxYXTr6-XrN4P0xT8mARF17M72HjWm0bRY1tR8oovCO-FA0osdv5aIKPzewr7mLoY78RNtZa4Bn2v8z5ywnoMsR5tPFHgEc3uSsel7HnT4wLu_ocJxwlUbPA2XuebblCPt5-5FSQ0/s400/shep_large.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265697119884899362" /></a>Chris Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594431127172500900noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794459845721267293.post-14033298278387182222008-09-30T23:07:00.003-05:002008-09-30T23:32:18.726-05:00Has it been that long?Apparently so.<br /><br />Save for two trips to NYC, multiple X-Rays and MRIs of my right shoulder, plucking a very nice Macintosh Beige G3 Desktop (with Sonnet 500 Mhz G4 drop in CPU installed) off a Cambridge street corner, said Mac to become my graphics workstation, avoiding early jury service AGAIN, and emailing my Congressman and both Senators, as well as sending actual papermail to their offices, concerning the Wall Street Meltdown and potential bailout, there's not been much writing about.<br /><br />So, here's the "new" computer:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.skitch.com/20081001-d3j74h7x6ib5wwa48y1bx5u2s1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://img.skitch.com/20081001-d3j74h7x6ib5wwa48y1bx5u2s1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Yes, that is the "My Life as a Teenage Robot" logo. Gotta love a cartoon where the aforementioned Teenage Robot says things like, "Thank Jobs!" (as in Steve Jobs)<br /><br />Time for my nighttime pills.<br /><br />"And so to bed!"Chris Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594431127172500900noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794459845721267293.post-82515551183467201812008-06-24T08:37:00.003-05:002008-09-30T23:01:12.185-05:00If it wasn't for Alan, you wouldn't be reading this!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.grabup.com/uploads/a635e488161e0a310461e26e2b037704.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://img.skitch.com/20081001-cseyap2bxed4ynkry1heqe3tts.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><center>ALAN MATHISON TURING<br />23 June, 1912 - 7 June, 1954</center><br /><br />Simply put, Turing is the father of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing">the digital computer</a>.Chris Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594431127172500900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794459845721267293.post-4393991825299129552008-06-18T16:55:00.003-05:002008-06-24T09:07:56.492-05:00Dumb Little Thug<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nLSsQeSdx2I&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nLSsQeSdx2I&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />The person holding the camera is myself.<br /><br />The older gentleman is homeless and lives in his car in the parking lot of a supermarket.<br /><br />The dumb little thug was arrested shortly after he fled from the scene. He plead guilty last week, thanks to the video evidence.<br /><br />18 months supervised probation, on top of his current probation (I said he was dumb!) and random drug and alcohol testing.<br /><br />When you're out thugging, if someone is videoing you, you don't look right at the camera and make threats, make threatening gestures, throw stuff and otherwise MAKE IT WORSE FOR YOURSELF!<br /><br />You run like hell AWAY from the camera.Chris Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594431127172500900noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794459845721267293.post-24410683466639805432008-06-11T21:22:00.003-05:002008-06-11T21:26:53.794-05:00Well, THERE'S your problem!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIBfJAPFSQNed9MzrTmXCaupAQtdcdiV86kvrxnEn6N0_5TetRiSfUkrWBhm0a_fOYj_rMLSr4ej6qTNXfw4lszAWYpc4bDHa4xKbhdlGd5e_dmh4tWaNUHem2-LPeYZ-cp22ulkpkRYg/s1600-h/100_1863.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIBfJAPFSQNed9MzrTmXCaupAQtdcdiV86kvrxnEn6N0_5TetRiSfUkrWBhm0a_fOYj_rMLSr4ej6qTNXfw4lszAWYpc4bDHa4xKbhdlGd5e_dmh4tWaNUHem2-LPeYZ-cp22ulkpkRYg/s400/100_1863.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210815141288855538" /></a><br /><br />A little parking problem on Alpine Street, just around the corner.Chris Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594431127172500900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794459845721267293.post-58056167170001122142008-05-28T15:48:00.006-05:002008-09-30T23:07:26.136-05:00The Latest and Greatest!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.grabup.com/uploads/33176a1a96b3f40c92467fe0215fae7f.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://img.skitch.com/20081001-ni8t6r7p7xd2ynisgc4xk69rhr.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><center><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2405">UPDATE/EDIT<br /><br />Mac OS X - 10.5.5</a></span></center>Chris Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594431127172500900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794459845721267293.post-26552079716897222692008-05-27T01:28:00.003-05:002008-05-27T01:37:02.176-05:00What we can do if we try.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVpy51DEvTS07hvJBuBpRxMwARIs1g5Q3_hmoqxWA5Xv76HebVh85F6wWrtRlYVGGRBYg-5gS7nwyehmFs2PdTHTGbhp1HVvrGHsfgackJmZOLsi21LTADnC1QY-h1EPabhLdiQ9gcHIA/s1600-h/230206main_9227-PHX_Lander.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVpy51DEvTS07hvJBuBpRxMwARIs1g5Q3_hmoqxWA5Xv76HebVh85F6wWrtRlYVGGRBYg-5gS7nwyehmFs2PdTHTGbhp1HVvrGHsfgackJmZOLsi21LTADnC1QY-h1EPabhLdiQ9gcHIA/s400/230206main_9227-PHX_Lander.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204941015979624098" /></a><br />The Phoenix Lander and Parachute, photographed as it descends to Mars.<br /><br />Article <span style="font-weight:bold;"><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/news/phoenix-20080526.html">here</a></span>.<br /><br />Phil Plait says it better than I ever could:<br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GuYMOWyawe8&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GuYMOWyawe8&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /><br />Humanity can do whatever we can imagine. We have only but to decide to do it.Chris Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594431127172500900noreply@blogger.com0