My Grandpa Can Beat Up Your Policeman

I’ve got all the respect in the world for police officers, but when 3 of them can’t subdue an 82-year-old man in a hospital bed hooked to an oxygen tank without hitting him 3 times with a Taser, it’s time to find a new line of work, preferably one that never allows them to roam free in the world.

Yeah I know the guy was “delirious” and had a small knife in his hand, but again, there were 3 of you, and he’s old as the hills, not to mention sick. Are we honestly supposed to believe that one of you couldn’t have grabbed an arm or flicked the thing out of his hand while the others held him in place? I know some of those old guys are pretty feisty, but methinks this is just a tad beyond the ridiculous to put it mildly.

Take It Out, Take It Out, Take It Out, Re-Move It!

Oh god. Yuck! *Wrinkles nose*. Ug. Ok, I’ll stop now. What I’m trying to say is I think I’ve found something worse than dog piss in the central air vents. Wanna guess what it is? Maybe you don’t. It’s skunk! Yep, you heard me right, fucking skunk. Now their house is destroyed, they’re having to live elsewhere, most of their belongings had to be disposed of, and their insurance company is saying “skunk? What skunk? You just want to redecorate, that’s all!”

Ug. And here I thought the worst thing ever would be if Trixie got sprayed by a skunk. Nope. They win.

Kids Today!

Oh boy. Is this a case of Jacob Bowring trying to retaliate? Nope, the guy’s name is Leonard Litt, strangely enough he was pretty lit up when they found him, and he hit the wrong car. Why in hell would he want to ram his dad’s car anyway? That’s never explained. And did he think that if he gave that as a reason for all of this, the police would say “Oh ok then. You’re free to go!”? All we know is he scared the everloving hell out of a poor woman whose car he did ram, then he abandoned his SUV, then came back hours later to get it, ran shoeless through people’s yards, heaved a bottle of vodca into the woods, and hid in a tree. The dogs found him anyway.

So now he’s off to jail. I guess he won’t be calling dad for help with bail.

Shitty Logic

Wow. If I thought a pair of shoes were ruined every time I stepped in dog doodoo, I’d have bought a lot of shoes by now. But that’s what Kelly DeBrocky is claiming is the case with her one-year-old son’s shoes, and she’s suing for reimbursement from the city of Norwalk.

Ok then. It sucks when you step in dog poop. But never have I needed to discard my shoes afterward. You clean it off, end of story. And why were his soiled clothes thrown away? First, how did they get soiled? How big was this “pile of fecal matter”? And don’t you usually bring extra clothes along when you have a toddler? So if he did manage to get crap on his clothes, couldn’t you just change him and wash the nasty clothes when you got home? Wy would you have to throw them away? And why would she let him walk around the museum barefoot? Wouldn’t that be more hazardous than treading on some dog tirds with his shoes on?

This whole thing smells of someone looking for a little money. By the looks of it, she’s not going to get it.

I Couldn’t Come Up With Things This Stupid If They Paid Me

It’s amazing. Just when you start thinking that maybe the folks at the RIAA might be growing a clue, something like this hits the news.

According to RIAA technology head David Hughes, digital rights management software is not dead, and even though the trend now is to sell regular mp3’s that people can use when, where and how they’d like, the technology is about to make a comeback in a big way.

Excuse me a moment.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHOHOHOHOHARHARHARHAHAHHOHOHAHMMMMPHHHHH!!!

Thanks, now where was I? Oh right, I was trying and failing to say with a straight face that DRM isn’t a dead in the water idea. I was also trying and failing to take seriously a prediction from an organization that has been so far behind the curve when it comes to adapting to what the market is calling for that it can’t help but make itself irrelevant and eventually run itself out of business. If you want to disagree with me feel free, but I won’t listen to you unless you can explain to me how they have failed to learn anything from the success of Napster and all of the alternatives that have come since.

Hughes does have the right idea I’ll give him that much, but the way he figures he’ll get there is completely backwards.

Hughes also said that DRM must change so that the public sees it less as a sort of policeman that locks music a way. He would prefer a mode where consumers don’t notice DRM at all. “People just want music when they want it,” he said. “It’s about access. If they get that then they don’t care about DRM.”

Try to get your head around that. People want their music where and when they want it, and the way to accomplish this is through the use of a technology that by design stops them from doing that very thing, only in the dream world he’s living in it doesn’t. Um yeah ok.

The thing he’s missing is that people already do have access to files that will allow them to use their music when and how they’d like. They’re called mp3’s, and the sooner his industry realizes that there’s a market for them [something the rest of the world has known for the better part of the last 10 years], the safer his job and the jobs of his bosses will be over the long haul.

Will Work For Booze

A survey of 1000 individuals and 250 businesses reveals that 1 out of 3 employees has gone to work hung over and that many of them have been drunk on the job.

I feel that this news is noteworthy for 2 reasons. First because the numbers sound a tad low to me, and secondly because of this snipfrom the article:

More than a third (36%) found it hard to concentrate, 35% were less productive, 42% felt tired to the point of being sleepy and 25% did the minimum amount of work and went home as soon as possible.

Maybe it’s me, but doesn’t that sound like the way most people approach work whether they’ve been drinking or not?

You can read the full story
here.

Jason Dunkerley’s Winning Track

I made a
joking mention of a friend of ours in my last post,
which reminded me that I owe the guy a plug. So since I’m nothing if not a forgetful man of my word, here goes.

Jason Dunkerley is not only a talented musician and top level Paralympic runner, he’s an all around good guy who has some great stories to tell and good advice to pass along. If you’re interested in learning about him, if you want tips on training or if you’d like to book him to speak at a function you’re putting on, check out his website,
www.winningtrack.ca.

Trust me, you’d be hard pressed to find a nicer, more humble and more articulate guy. And if you can’t trust me, who can you trust? Ok, maybe I’m not the best person to be trusting, but take my word on this one. You can’t go wrong booking J for your event.