New post tomorrow. Just heard a sweet interview with the first ever Corporation running for a senate seat through their DH (designated Human). So much to talk about!
Dick
Friday, February 26, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Scott Brown: Democrat?
I friggin called it! As soon as Mass. elected Scott Brown to the senate, I friggin knew exactly how it was going to play out! Scott Brown will (like Olympia Snowe (R-Maine)) buck the republican leadership on virtually every issue and vote with the democrats. And it's brilliant! And it can only help the democrats and the people of Mass!
"Why are you so sure about this, Dick", I hear you say. "Hasn't one of the strengths of the Republican party in these recent years of there minority status been their ability to close ranks and deny the Democrats the ability to do anything productive at all?" Yes, this is quite true. And very very very very irritating, espcially in this era of hope and change. But Scott Brown comes into his seat at an immensly intersting time. Mass. has historically elected democrats, particurally of the Kennedy variety, but by electing a republican, one would think that they were bucking this trend. But Scott Brown is not an idiot. He knows that his job, which he essentially snuck into because Teddy died, is hanging by a thread come the 2012 elections. If he goes too far to the right, he will anger his moderate and liberal constituants, leading to his being dumped for a more moderate candidate. But if he plays it smart, i.e. by voting with the majority party and becoming a very moderate candidate, he can have his electoral cake and eat it too! By trading his (fairly important, as he can bring the democrats back up into a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the senate!) vote for concessions on the health care bill and others that will appease his conservative base, while helping the democrats to pass useful legislation, which appeases his liberal base, and still receive enough pork for his hometown state to make everyone happy! My guess is that with all of the pork-barrel spending he grabs for Mass. will create more jobs and lead to a higher standard of living there, as well as securing his own job for the indefinate future! It's a triple crown of win! We get health care, Mass. gets a literal shit ton of pork-barrel spending, and the democrats get a 60 vote filibuster-proof majority once again! Scott Brown is a friggin genius! He is going to play this whole situation for his own gain, and will come out of it smelling like midas took a huge dump! God, I LOVE IT!
And that's just the short term! The real changes will happen when other Republicans realize that by following his example they will gain everything and lose virtually nothing. Sure, the Teabaggers are going to raise a stink about this, but what are they, like 5% of the total voting population? Fuck them! Besides, what are they are going to do against a unified moderate-liberal front? But what really gets me all wired is the possibility that this could be the opening death knell of the Republican party as we know it! Strike One (for the republican party): the teabaggers are already setting the repubs up for a fall as they split the republican party vote along ideological lines, allowing the democrats to maintain or even increase their lead in the house and senate. Strike Two: As other republicans see how well Scott Brown is treated by the Democrats (in terms of money brought home to his constituants)it could lead to more republicans jumping ship and cashing in on the democratic money train.
"Why are you so sure about this, Dick", I hear you say. "Hasn't one of the strengths of the Republican party in these recent years of there minority status been their ability to close ranks and deny the Democrats the ability to do anything productive at all?" Yes, this is quite true. And very very very very irritating, espcially in this era of hope and change. But Scott Brown comes into his seat at an immensly intersting time. Mass. has historically elected democrats, particurally of the Kennedy variety, but by electing a republican, one would think that they were bucking this trend. But Scott Brown is not an idiot. He knows that his job, which he essentially snuck into because Teddy died, is hanging by a thread come the 2012 elections. If he goes too far to the right, he will anger his moderate and liberal constituants, leading to his being dumped for a more moderate candidate. But if he plays it smart, i.e. by voting with the majority party and becoming a very moderate candidate, he can have his electoral cake and eat it too! By trading his (fairly important, as he can bring the democrats back up into a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the senate!) vote for concessions on the health care bill and others that will appease his conservative base, while helping the democrats to pass useful legislation, which appeases his liberal base, and still receive enough pork for his hometown state to make everyone happy! My guess is that with all of the pork-barrel spending he grabs for Mass. will create more jobs and lead to a higher standard of living there, as well as securing his own job for the indefinate future! It's a triple crown of win! We get health care, Mass. gets a literal shit ton of pork-barrel spending, and the democrats get a 60 vote filibuster-proof majority once again! Scott Brown is a friggin genius! He is going to play this whole situation for his own gain, and will come out of it smelling like midas took a huge dump! God, I LOVE IT!
And that's just the short term! The real changes will happen when other Republicans realize that by following his example they will gain everything and lose virtually nothing. Sure, the Teabaggers are going to raise a stink about this, but what are they, like 5% of the total voting population? Fuck them! Besides, what are they are going to do against a unified moderate-liberal front? But what really gets me all wired is the possibility that this could be the opening death knell of the Republican party as we know it! Strike One (for the republican party): the teabaggers are already setting the repubs up for a fall as they split the republican party vote along ideological lines, allowing the democrats to maintain or even increase their lead in the house and senate. Strike Two: As other republicans see how well Scott Brown is treated by the Democrats (in terms of money brought home to his constituants)it could lead to more republicans jumping ship and cashing in on the democratic money train.
It's a wonderful time for politics, but I really just hope that we finally get some health care going. Anything, really. This lack of progress is really starting to get stuck in my craw. Patience, thats the key. Patience.
Dick
Friday, February 19, 2010
No new post tonight, waaaaay to pissed off about Utah republicans and their insistence that global warming is a hoax. And it's just a coincidence that Utah has some of the most polluted cities in the god damn country. Gaaaah! Ok, ok. Calming down. Also, CPAC was this week, so there is tons of material about them to bitch about (with video goodness! jokes about the american terrorist! angry speeches about gay and lesbian republicans (who knew they existed?)! it's a shit-storm of epic proportions!!). Ok. signing off now. And for the love of god, someone else needs to post some material to this site! GOD!
Richard
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Tech Rave
Tonight, lets talk about tech. Here's what I want, and I really don't feel that this is too rediculous of a wish list: First, I want a hard drive for my head. Nothing crazy, just... oh, maybe 10 or 20 terabytes. "But Dick! A hard drive of that capacity would explode your head like that AWESOME movie "Scanners"!" Well, NUH-UH! BOOM! Yeah! How about them technological apples? Sure, it's only up to the 1 terabyte level, but how long will that last for? What's the curve? Processing power (and hard drive levels) double every six months? So, lets say I wait 2 years to get it, that's... carry the one... square root... interger... pascal... random science-y sounding words... that's 16 terabytes! (No, you can't see my work. This isn't freaking 7th grade, after all... God!) And when it's only the size of a postage stamp, you could def fit it under my skull somewhere, maybe just shove the brain stem around a bit. Besides it doesn't even need to be in the brain! There is plenty of room in the chest cavity for a small piece of electronics. Just look at pacemakers. Anyways, I'm going to need a massive amount of hard drive space for when I hook up my.... #2: Wi-Fi connection in my head! As the giant jug of juice would say... "OH YEAAAH!" Imagine, if you will, a semi-distant, not really dystopian-future, where at any time, on any day, a normal human being can, while at work, or at the beach, or even at the step-parents house attempting to "enjoy" an over-cooked meatloaf, delve into the super awesome world of the internet! LOL-cats as you go to church! Fail-blog as you sit on the, ahem, powder-room throne! The possibilities are endless and immensely awesome, sort of like Arnold Schwartzennager fighting Jean Claude over a vat of bat-wielding vipers while guitar solos and explosions rock the very air! It's... it's...! Monty Python's Flying Circus! By which I mean, of course, that it is the very definition of awesome!
Furthermore, imagine the possibilities of combining them! In the Matrix, you can download info-directly into your brain, and just know it! While that might be a bit far fetched, if you downloaded 10,000 hours of video of someone demonstrating theoritical physics, you would probably know it pretty damn well! Sure, you might have to digest the info for a week or two, but still! The absorbtion rate would still give you a huge advantage over anyone else. Or, you could waste this potential with stupid numa-numa videos, or star wars kid, or whatever. The effects on teaching and education in general would be both profound and nearly instantaneous.
However, this would come with a possible (sort of?) downside: We could, if we adopted these techs as a race, become the borg. I know, I know. Awesomeness. "But Dick", some party-poopers whine, "What about free will and personalities and being your own person and wah wah wah bitch moan I hate progress!...". Screw that noise! You know what I worry about on a daily basis? The survival of the human species! What with nukes, and super viruses, and asteroids, and pulsars, and the super volcano that is practically under my god damn feet!, yeah! I worry a bit! If the human race banded together into a human cyborg killing machine amalgam that set out to dominate the universe, yeah! I'd be down with that! Way down! Like, Argentina down! No, Antarctica down. (That's are far as you can get down, unless you're Rick James. Then the funk scale takes over.) The point is that we, as a race, as a people, as a god damn species! would survive! And that's what all this procreation and civilization and nations and what have you is all about! God! Bring on the upgrades, science! Make me unto a god! Like Iccarus, I wish to climb to the highest heights and spit into the very eye of god himself. Of course, my wax wings will be computer viruses, and my fall will be the inability to buy the newest upgrades. Oh well. Such... is life.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Friggin Ads!
Hey! Pop quiz: when you have a product that is inferior in quality or more expensive, how do you convince the public to buy your product that they would otherwise never buy? With advertising! Yes, this benificial boon to the world has been duping the gullible public for nigh on 40 years now!
Aaaaaaaand now I lost track of my rage. Crap. I'll be back later tonight when the Rant is renewed.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Plea from Pandora
Ok, I'm just gonna go ahead and say it: If you haven't seen Avatar yet, now is the time.
Lets look at the facts. It's been out for 8 weeks and is still making a stupid amount of money, stupid in this case meaning a huge amount, over 2 Billion, an amount so monumental that James Cameron is, at this very moment, building a mountain of one dollar bills so high that it requires breathing gear to survive on top of. We're talking Olympus Mons huge. It's so massive that this mountain is actually beginning to actively draw more money in to itself because of it's own intense gravitational force. This is a large amount that we are talking about here. And it has managed to make this amount of money because it has continued to draw huge sell out crowds into the 3D and 3D IMAX screens, where tickets cost anywhere from $10 to upwards of $20. For reference, here in Utah we've been paying $13.5o a pop. Not cheap. I have personally funded the north face of Mt. Cameron on my own, and I hope to one day have a small plaque erected there saying, "Here lies Dick's money. It could have gone to food. It did not. Amen." However, I digress. The point of all this is that the big screen version of Avatar is an extravaganza for the eyes which has seldom been attempted, let alone achieved on this scale of breath taking beauty and wonderment. And sure, the writing is a bit... predictable. And to be blunt, the dialouge leaves much to be desired. To be honest, if you took the plots of "The Last Samurai", "Dances with Wolves", "Fern Gully", "Pocahontas", and "Dune", threw them in a blender, added a cat and some blue dye (see? not making a smurf joke...) for spice (that, however, was a Dune reference... Bu-dum-cha), you would get something quite like Avatar, with about the same quality of writing. However. HOWEVER! Despite these liabilities (or rather, in spite of them) this movie will suck you in and make you it's bitch for two hours and fourty five of the most amazing minutes you will ever have the option to pay for. Unless, you know, you're into the whole WINK WINK MONEY EXCHANGE thing. Then, well, whatever. My point is that this movie will not, CAN NOT, be the same on the small screen. Seeing that friggin huge tree crushing me to death, the amazing flying scenes, the FRIGGIN AMAZING battle scenes, the spectacle, the breathtak-aweso-majest-supe-sweet-ness that is this movie. And by this movie, I mean 300 MILLION IN SPECIAL EFFECTS. Trust me. Go see this movie, before IT'S TOO LATE. Small screen? F THAT.
Lets look at the facts. It's been out for 8 weeks and is still making a stupid amount of money, stupid in this case meaning a huge amount, over 2 Billion, an amount so monumental that James Cameron is, at this very moment, building a mountain of one dollar bills so high that it requires breathing gear to survive on top of. We're talking Olympus Mons huge. It's so massive that this mountain is actually beginning to actively draw more money in to itself because of it's own intense gravitational force. This is a large amount that we are talking about here. And it has managed to make this amount of money because it has continued to draw huge sell out crowds into the 3D and 3D IMAX screens, where tickets cost anywhere from $10 to upwards of $20. For reference, here in Utah we've been paying $13.5o a pop. Not cheap. I have personally funded the north face of Mt. Cameron on my own, and I hope to one day have a small plaque erected there saying, "Here lies Dick's money. It could have gone to food. It did not. Amen." However, I digress. The point of all this is that the big screen version of Avatar is an extravaganza for the eyes which has seldom been attempted, let alone achieved on this scale of breath taking beauty and wonderment. And sure, the writing is a bit... predictable. And to be blunt, the dialouge leaves much to be desired. To be honest, if you took the plots of "The Last Samurai", "Dances with Wolves", "Fern Gully", "Pocahontas", and "Dune", threw them in a blender, added a cat and some blue dye (see? not making a smurf joke...) for spice (that, however, was a Dune reference... Bu-dum-cha), you would get something quite like Avatar, with about the same quality of writing. However. HOWEVER! Despite these liabilities (or rather, in spite of them) this movie will suck you in and make you it's bitch for two hours and fourty five of the most amazing minutes you will ever have the option to pay for. Unless, you know, you're into the whole WINK WINK MONEY EXCHANGE thing. Then, well, whatever. My point is that this movie will not, CAN NOT, be the same on the small screen. Seeing that friggin huge tree crushing me to death, the amazing flying scenes, the FRIGGIN AMAZING battle scenes, the spectacle, the breathtak-aweso-majest-supe-sweet-ness that is this movie. And by this movie, I mean 300 MILLION IN SPECIAL EFFECTS. Trust me. Go see this movie, before IT'S TOO LATE. Small screen? F THAT.
Friggin Teabaggers...
Not really a rant, just absolutly amazed at how incredibly dense the Teabaggers can be. I mean, for christ's sake...
Bit of a long article, but well worth the read. The NYT does a great job of taking it seriously, which only adds to the hilarity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/us/politics/16teaparty.html?pagewanted=2&em
Fuck you, Glenn Beck. This is your god damn fault.
Bit of a long article, but well worth the read. The NYT does a great job of taking it seriously, which only adds to the hilarity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/us/politics/16teaparty.html?pagewanted=2&em
Fuck you, Glenn Beck. This is your god damn fault.
Pizza vs. Sushi
Ok. I admit it. E, I ate your two leftover slices of pizza that were in the fridge. I was drunk, they looked tasty, and I found myself enslaved to their siren-like call of deliciousness. For that, I am very sorry. When I heard how pissed you were in the morning, I was ashamed of my actions, and my apology to you later in the day was heartfelt. And, when I left my sushi from valentines day in the fridge, I even kind of expected a little revenge from you. Again, I deserved it.
However, I didn't friggin expect you to eat all 12 pieces that were left! I mean, seriously?!? That was like 15-20 bucks worth of sushi! Revenge is one thing, eye for an eye is one thing, but two pieces of cold pizza is worth, what? Two dollars? God damn! And it wasn't even like you ate it all before I got up. No. You ate most of it before I got up, then went back for seconds to finish the job while I was skiing, like a commando sneaking through enemy terrain to search and destroy. It was malicious, uncalled for (considering how much I apologized for eating your pizza...), and gratuitous. I can only imagine that you were saying "Fuck you, Dick!" each time you bite into another delicious bit of fish. Fuck. You're still awesome, E, but this amount of overkill on the food revenge from was just... well, dickish. Shit. Now, I'm gonna eat all your... ummm... hmm... dog food? Yeah. Take that. Logan goes hungry tonight!!!!
However, I didn't friggin expect you to eat all 12 pieces that were left! I mean, seriously?!? That was like 15-20 bucks worth of sushi! Revenge is one thing, eye for an eye is one thing, but two pieces of cold pizza is worth, what? Two dollars? God damn! And it wasn't even like you ate it all before I got up. No. You ate most of it before I got up, then went back for seconds to finish the job while I was skiing, like a commando sneaking through enemy terrain to search and destroy. It was malicious, uncalled for (considering how much I apologized for eating your pizza...), and gratuitous. I can only imagine that you were saying "Fuck you, Dick!" each time you bite into another delicious bit of fish. Fuck. You're still awesome, E, but this amount of overkill on the food revenge from was just... well, dickish. Shit. Now, I'm gonna eat all your... ummm... hmm... dog food? Yeah. Take that. Logan goes hungry tonight!!!!
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I'm still fairly new to this stuff, but one of my main goals is to set up this site to be user generated and created, and to do that I want anyone to be able to come to this site and blow off some steam with a nice snarky rant. Until I figure out how to make this open to all (any suggestions?), if you want to make a Rant just email me @ rhutchin.chewbacca@gmail.com and I'll add you to the list of accepted authors. Again, if anyone can help with the opening up of the site, I'd be very appreciative! Thanks!
Monday, February 15, 2010
Getting Started
So, I've finally decided that I hate working. I hate everything about it, from the semi-awful hours to the tedious mindlessness that comes from putting super-fun backcountry toys (awesome!) that I can't afford (shitty!) into boxes for hours on end. And yeah, yeah, I def don't have the worst job ever, and yes, I know I should be THANKFUL that I even HAVE a job in this super shitty economy, and I do need a paycheck so I can pay the rent, eat, other stupid but necessary functions of this meat-bag body. But still: working 2-10 sucks, and if there is a way to get around it, I'm gonna do it. Which I guess brings us to this blog. I need someplace to vent my frustration about the stupid shit I see on a daily basis, whether it be in the political realm, at work, a movie I hate, whatever; this will be a place where I can let it all out, as well as being a place where I can just write what I want when I want, put up my interests, and just put myself out there creatively. Eventually, I want to add a user function, where anyone can come to blog and put there own rants up, creating a community of ranters. That's down the line a bit, but I'll keep you posted. Thanks, and here's to many snarky and irritated Rants!
Dick
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