Happy Holidays!

Good Times

Well, I said it; good times...

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What would ya do if...

You had a project. You had someone come in around 10 - 15 hours a week or so to work on the project. You then decide the guy isn't going to hit the deadline. But he has been working on it over the last couple of months on and off before you decide he's not going to hit the deadline. He shows promise to hit the deadline given recent progress, but you still need to make the decision as a project manager.



Do you pay him for the time he put in or apologize for coming in and that he's shite out of luck?





I've worked downtown and doing my kind for work long enough to know, ya pay for the time put in. If there was a decision to be made and it was made too late, it is of little consequence to the person who put in the time. It's not good for either party, but it's a bad situation that you don't pawn off on the one doing the work.



Sometimes, I swear, I hate my job. But silver lining, Kayla's Blessing should look good.





Don't ask either, just needed to vent. Those who know the story, know it's not a good one, for anybody.

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One of the msot amazing things I have EVER seen.

STAIR-SCAPE

"The Wind Shaped Pavilion is a design proposal for a large fabric
structure that can be used as a public or private pavilion. As a
lightweight fabric structure, the wind slowly and randomly rotates each
of the six segments around a central open support frame. This
continually alters the shape of the pavilion, while at the same time
generating electrical power for its nighttime illumination."



Found at HypeDiss

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Social Networking: Digg and Blogger Beta Users Are Still Early Adopters - The Logical Philosopher

It's a pretty solid article, good reading. My only concern is how hyped people get about digg.com and such things, it's run by people that half the time just have too much time.

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I just couldn't resist...

10 films the US Government would rather you not see. | The Skeleton Project



Well?

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Story of my life....

The PS3... Orgasmic.

The PS3 has been said that it is going to be the end of Sony, the fall of the giant.

Well sorry, but it won't be. Anyone who says otherwise under estimates the Asian market. When whole countries let their kids off school when games launch. When Final Fantasy 10 came out, school was let out. Across the country... ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

There is no real point to this point but I have to say I am thoroughly impressed by the PS3. Why? Because the cell processor, is amazing, I'd want one in any self built box. And considering Linux Fedora has already been installed on the ps3, if you are looking for a cheap but substantial home media center, the ps3 is the best way to go. This isn't to discredit XBox 360, but the PS3 is worth the wait.


I had to post this to get the lust out of my system. Just had to...

My 280z Race car is up for sale!!!

Well, the time has come to sell the 1977 Datsun. Not the best feeling but it's part of the hit taken by starting Simple Coffee.

:(

Reserve is $4,500 on it, and well worth it considering the fuel cell.

Voting machines in Texas change "Democrat" votes to "Republican"

"Friday night, KFDM reported about people who had cast straight Democratic ticket ballots, but the touch-screen machines indicated they had voted a straight Republican ticket."

Come on guys, electronic voting machines are something to protest to for crying out loud, DON'T VOTE ELECTRONIC ON NOVEMBER 8TH.

Introducing SideFlicks

An important but long post...

You need to read an email I sent to my mother at one point in figuring the best use of generic words to describe something even simpler than those generic words in English.

I do not post to perpetuate motion that picks up so much momentum (faith through the mass of things we accept as absolute truth/fact in our subconscience) to create disinformation.

I post to show relationships to things we, as citizens, can use to empower us, if we look past our scope and negate judgement (which is really just finding your mental relationship to another).

So the following, is the email I wrote to my mother. It also discloses my age.

Mom, I don’t know how. But I have just unraveled the world ahead, before, and presented in front of me. I have no anger, I have no passion, I do not believe in good and evil but do not discredit or debunk anything. Science or faith. Good or bad. Pain and euphoria. It is between everything in the spectrum and through that all is connected at one point.The best I can say it is as follows.

Understand the need for bigger and better and you can connect everything with a single line. Equate us all to goldfish in a bowl, and it becomes a matter of how big the bowl is, period.The romans called it string and made tales about it. Christianity calls it being made in his image. Science calls it theory of relativity. Equal and opposites reactions everywhere. And it comes back to one thing.

Always, one thing. No matter where it goes, it comes back t one thing, everything.But this is beyond you saying ‘well no shit’, its about being able to talk to a scientist in clarity, meaning mutual understanding, despite detailed knowledge on either side.I found a balance that brings 23 years of life and chaos to a halt. I know why I have ever done anything and everything. Why to heal my wounds I had to believe growing up my family was doing it’s best individually. I can explain original sin and the limits of science. I understand your patience with each child. I understand what Dad is, what Glen is, what you are. Jenny, Chris, George Bush, Bob Lazaar; everybody. I understand your love of science, I understand Chris’s love for pot, why 3 thousand “had” to die and why I couldn’t “accept” it . I understand everything I said is completely subjective, but the root of it is not. I understand medicine, ADD, menopause, cancer; everything.

To those who know me, do you understand why it's quite possible to happen upon this, yet I agree with you all if we sit down and talk as we havein the past? It's hard to give it weight, but if a Christian tells me 'let me read you somethin from the Bible' and I already have read it so iI grasp everything; otherwise how could I still be a Christian? And a scientist tells me read more, but we agree on empirical science, and a philosopher tells me to read more philosophy but we agree on any concept given generic enough words between us, well, then you realize why I have a hard time talking to someone, yet have shown the capacity to work with anyone, as long as we have a similar scope.

That is why the triangle, is the shape that comes out when you put three circles together in the center.

This is why Steve feels like a monster when doubting me but is assured of our concept of Simple Coffee. It's why Josh can show me a sketch and it's done in my head. It's why I am healed from previous wounds and understand a seashell just makes have a heart, a place of balance.It's why you believe in true love, love in first sight.

If you don't believe in love at first sight then you don't realize that the reason you don't is because you are saying 'well you need to get to know them'. Well, if you keep looking forward without being able to understand your world can change any moment and be alright with that security, then you don't realize that if u look behind you, that person is right there essentially. You can only go half way through the woods before starting to come out right? This might not make sense, but if given time, it does.

But it's incredibly simple, I cannot try to find generic words for 2 people at the same time, unless they're both christians, both scientists, both Jews, etc . Because if I stop every fish in the bowl, well, you've seen chinese fish...

This is why, I say it accounts for everything and anything, but discredits nothing.

Guys and gals, I don't need to read more philosophy, more science, more of the Bible, Old Testament, etc. I can be fascinated by how others interpret it, but ultimately it comes down to knowing if I can't be happy being a farmer, and be happy in waiting for science to give me hydrogen energy, well then I have no place. Therefore I go from one, a number a relationship can come from, to zero, something nobody can relate to except those things inside me. I become the ultimate idea of an atom or a cell, yet completely alone devoid of complexity found in spirituality or science.

It is ultimate free will with a true perception of the word hell. A void between you and God ( but do not avoid God). Well if you can't understand Him until you talk to Him, then you can only get closer by the more people you know, things He created in whatever way He did whoever He is.

And now understand why the atom is so powerful and dangerous, and the ever lasting strength of a seashell. Our orbit around the sun, etc.

Anyone else seeing the immense power of true free will? If you do, then you know the extreme dangers as you understand the whole spectrum (a single line with infinite detail).

Josh, you love driving because you account for it without math, it's why we got Steve hooked on it, it's why Darren is amazed by it now, and it's why Brad understands us and the point of logic in which Brad undertands me. You know its a matter of finding the spiral found in the a seashell the ultimate line, and most efficient, is bringing speed into control through precision. It's why me and you hate drag (both that which slows down a plane and the slang term for racing to one point), but give credit for the guys doing nascar for going 200mph, it's just we know we can. But rally, we can't account for, nobody can, it becomes the ultimate in knowing your machine, the end of product of you blood and sweat. We love rally because it's the only damn thing that is uncharted, but can explain drift or drag without any hesitiation.

Because if you did understand rally, you would lose the amazement in it. You would loose the amazement in Aurora, of me, of you mom, etc.

Me saying this accounts for why we are such close friends, why we understand distance in miles/km, etc is nothing. Because we understand that if we are that close, we can't exist. It's why your sketch, makes both of us see the center, and know if we go your way, or my way, we cant get there with the most efficiency in relation to the gfoal we both see.

It's why I live in harmony with a person believes everything is subjective and finds balance through spirituality and a guy that knows 1-0 is the ultimate.

It accounts for everything, discredits nothing, and in that you find you love everything and anything in existence through all time without interaction or complete understanding in detail.

So everyone, stop telling me to read more this or that if we agree on the core concept.

Now if you don't understand me at this point. Then don't ask me to explain on aim. Because it's the same thing isn't it? It's not me saying to shut up or speak up, its letting me take care of what's in front of me because you are effected by it. Because if you think of how shut up and speak up are the same, then you realize the weight of the word down. You understand why we equate down to Hell. Because without knowing what Hell is we still know the center of the Earth is hotter than anything you can touch, right now.

:)

Center point logic. Give it a bit.

UFO - The Greatest Story Ever Denied, Disclosure Project

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA?

You have got to kidding me. Guys and gals, ya might want to think very long and hard about this video. If you want to download the full two hour video then download it at http://disclosure.netro.ca/npcc.wmv.

OFFICIAL DISCLOSURE MOVEMENT WEBSITE

If this is factual, then HOLY ****! Wait, did more research... Yes, it is. Least so far.

So I looked on you tube and followed the trail of linked videos from this...

Ionized propulsion systems have been tested by Nasa; click HERE to see what it looks like from the ground and click HERE to see the video from NASA. Here is an extended version of the shot from NASA. To wonder what that orb was in the video it was possibly Zero-Point Energy which you can see an explanation at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w1O2rl8dn8&mode=related&search=
but it's held with alot of criticism. So there is ZPEnergy.com and takes a bit of sifting but you can find alto on there, can't speak for quality.

If you are wondering who was the first to hear of zero point energy it was the Nazis from what I've read and seen in documents from video clips. They also had been building prototypes as well which you can see the rough but original blueprints at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaEUcR_0Lho at exactly 30 seconds in, a very crude sketch that is then broadened upon. Why is this important? Because the current administration has ties to Nazi Germany. And the current administration's father wanted to put lazers in space...

I will be try to write a full timeline to explain why I think this is a huge matter. But in the mean time, please look at the videos. It creates a bunch of dots that have a possible line to them all.

What's up and what's down at this point? I'm not sold on anything, just putting up dots as I see em at this point. If you can find things to be total bs and if you find something that brings that to light then PLEASE post a comment. I want these things discussed if possible. From scientist to pop culture; I would like it to be fluid and open. It'll take some time if that momentum is picked up, but please, please start talking about this.

And yes, I know Phat, Bob Lazaar. And you dang well better comment on this with some solid links :)


"When nothing is sure, everything is possible." - Margaret Drabble



So, many of you are asking about credibility and looky looky I got hookey. But sadly the original stories have since been pulled from the official sites.
CNN TRANSCRIPT of BUSH TALKING ABOUT UFO DISCLOSURE

Video demonstration of Diebold voting machine hack

"Princeton security researchers Ariel J. Feldman, J. Alex Halderman showed that they could easily install software on the machine that would allow an attacker to steal votes from one candidate and give them to another -- they showed that this would be undetectable, and easily done."

Found on Digg.com and kinda scary...

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Fiat unveils Tri-powered Car

"The Multipla Multi-eco concept, meanwhile, runs on methane, gasoline or E85 bioethanol. Like the Panda Panda, the methane is stored in separate tanks, while the main tank takes either gas or bioethanol, leaving the ECU to switch modes automatically according to the fuel used."

Why is methane import to burn?
Cows produce more methane than a car does CO2 in a year... Yes, we harness the power of cow anus and we will be in better shape. Methane is 10x more destructive to the ozone layer than CO2

And you said you hated Wisconsin.

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Apple screwed up on the batteries, now this?

HP and Apple's toxic laptops exposed | Greenpeace International

Mac zealots can blow me. Yes, anyone can be progressive with marketting and product... But at what cost? Other companies concentrate on using funds to help the greater good, which ends in slower progress, which ends in closet buttholes getting each other on a high horse.

To be specific, ZEALOTS not mac fans, I'm a mac fan myself. But people who get over the top and aren't practical.

Send An Email To Yourself in 2036! (Send it now, recieve later!)

"http://futureme.org/ automatically sends you an email of what you said on whatever date you specify. For example I could send my self an email reminding me to get married in 2036!"

... dope

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Roast Coffee At Home with a Popcorn Popper

"I've been roasting my own coffee at home for the past year. This is a writeup on the process I went through to get started. The fact is, Starbucks over-roasts their beans, you can get a much better cup of coffee from a popcorn popper for half the price. You get all the satisfaction of brewing your own beer, without the tedious bottle cleaning."

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Bush is making his rounds on the internetz

That's just funny.

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From Ojai, Cali w/ LOVE

I sware I'm moving to California SOME DAY...

Despite this;

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A List Apart: Articles: Text-Resize Detection

A List Apart: Articles: Text-Resize Detection

An answer to prayers. When I completed Three R Plastics recently an issue arouse (and still exists) of people resizing the text and it pretty much breaking my work. And the more I read; the more I saw it was no easy solution. A couple hours more and the site will be an amazing accomplishment in using css and savy Web 2.0 bs.

But, there is no budget or time for a couple more hours. So sadly it is what it is. But for all future projects in the category, it will do you some good to read up on this.

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:)

Waiting to board a flight to Denver then to LAX

I'm being flown out to LAX to take care of a project that has taken a bit too long due to Simple Coffee launching. I'll be in Ojai, California till the 26th, so if you are in the area then email me and we'll do some hang'n.

I'll post as the days go on...

Start up company giving away free espresso/coffee machine cleaner

"Simple Coffee seems to have a consistent dedication to the world of coffee; this is just another effort to do so. Internally they looked for a cleaning solution for their personal coffee and espresso machines but had little luck. Having trouble finding it on mainstream sites, they're offering free cleaner to coffee and espresso drinkers."


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Some help for Flash and Css

I will be speaking at my old high school for the second time come tomorrow (Sept 14th, 2006) and realized I haven't made the links to the resources I made the sutdents apparent.

So...
Whydoyouwork Tutorials
The Ropes

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California here I come

I'm going to be heading to California from the 16th - 26th to wrap up some *cura stuff. If ya know me, and are in the area of Ojai, CA then shoot me an email. I'll be bored out of my mind for the ten days since I'll be staying at the studio.

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A few shots from Las Vegas

I was lucky enough to get a small vacation in the midst of things thanks to my current (and hopefully last) girlfriend. She had business to attend to in Vegas to so I hopped along for the ride. Overall it was a blast. Vegas is something ya can't describe nor can you really do any justice. All the movies that take place there, you can almost taste the odd realism found in most of them while roaming the strip. It's good stuff, I suggest anybody to go.






More to come...

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How powerful is css?

Css has proven it's weight in the recent years of web development by providing a means of good and proper delivery of information independant of visuals. This makes for amazing SEO abilities and portable web sites. Meaning a website is structured so on a desktop or notebook the site is in full fource and when viewed on a pda is strictly about information and smallest load times. If you aren't sure how important it is look at the following links.

This is a site I launched today... yes, I know, there is one or two things I need to finaly tweak...
CSS - http://www.threerplastics.com/index.html
No CSS - http://www.threerplastics.com/index_noCss.html

Powerful?

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Making you site good-to-go for mobile devices

Opera might not be a popular browser for desktops or notebooks but you gotta give em credit for their mobile browser. In many ways, it is the best out at the moment. Solid support for standards and css make it the browser to follow. Keep in mind Mozilla is working on a mobile edition of Firefox and anyone who knows about it is excited; as they should be considering the justified popularity of Firefox from it's beta releases.


The popularity of mobility though creates a new stress for web developers which any good web developer has already experienced or is researching. So in doing a little searching around A List Apart I found http://alistapart.com/articles/pocket/. A solid explanation of what it takes to create a well designed mobile web site.


Hope ya found it useful.

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Working at the Starbucks at the corner...

In a 5 mile radius of my Chicago apt, there is 55 Starbucks locations...

That's just kinda gross. Why do people drink so much coffee? Why don't people drink less coffee while having better coffee at the same time. The biology behind a good cup of coffee is immense. More chemical reactions go on in coffee than wine.

So why don't people drink it like it is something special, cause it is. It's an aquired taste, but still.

I might be starting a coffee company, but people should drink less coffee. It's beomcing under appreciated. Yes, there is a rise in appreciative coffee drinkers, but I don't think it's enough to outweigh the overdose of caffeine people are taking.

Blogged with Flock

Well, I have been using Flock as my main browser, and it's got dang nifty blog and flickr features. So I figured it has been a bit overdue for whydoyouwork.com to get a blog. I could have gone Word Press, but through using WP on Simple-Coffee.com's blog, I am a bit underwhelmed by it's odd use of divs and spans and the css being convoluted (spelling?) imo.

Anyhow, so as everyone knows, the Apple WWDC has come and gone. And everyone is all antsy in the pantsy for the Xeon based towers. Which they should be, for the price, I might just get one, lol. I'd want to overclock and watercool once the new AMD quad cores come out and do alot of damage, but that's just me. Anyhow, in light of the WWDC, I was thrown back by what I saw as childish and short sighted pokes at Microsoft. I'll only say it once, Microsoft is not comparable to Apple. Apple is comparable only to Sun Systems, and notice how Apple won't make that comparison.... Maybe because Sun Systems does a much better job at being a niche company based on user experience and performance over being hip? Anyhow, I could rant, but I'd rather just have anyone interested go HERE. if you are a "mac zealot" prepare yourself, the facts don't weigh on your side.

Anyhow, work is underway on Transit, Stereotype and *c**a. Closing up the new Three R Plastics right now actually. It's a quick use of css and using LiteBox for the image viewing. Could have made a nice Flash piece to do the same, but hey, this works too. The script weight to do it is far more than what Flash would be, but hey, everyone loves the buzz of "Web 2.0", so I gave it a shot.