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SOPA/PIPA!!!

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**ADDENDUM 1/11/12**

WordPress has broken their *personal* vow of political silence to speak up about this issue here! And I’m slacking for having not visited Stop American Censorship yet, but that doesn’t mean you can’t do something about it!!!

**/ADDENDUM**

**ADDENDUM 12/30/11**

Oh wait, sorry that’s the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). SOPA wants to give Congress the authority to create a new enforcement agency that police’s the Internet looking for copyright violations and giving them the authority to shutdown sites like YouTube and Facebook for “having a vauge definition of piracy” as it were. O.o

Really Congress? Really? I mean sure it’s job creation, but who really wants the job of policing the Internet? Besides that job is reserved for XKCD stick figures who can’t budge from their computers because “someone on the Internet is wrong!” ;-)

**/ADDENDUM**

SOPA is a bill by Congress (those lovable, out-of-touch coots) that wants to change the face of the Internet all so a few big companies don’t have to fight so hard against piracy. But like anytime Congress write specific technologies into legislation, they are out of touch and have no idea what they’re talking about. The way *I* understand the effects of this bill is that they want to remove all hostnames from websites so that the only way to connect to a site is by typing in the direct IP address. :-(

GoDaddy supported SOPA for quite a while until last week when public pressure made them switch (even if just in words). So *today (December 29th, 2011)* is the first-ever Leave GoDaddy Day!

I’d vote that you come to DreamHost (and not just because I work there).

DreamHost’s Position and Promo Code! - Twitter update with link

DreamHost’s Promo Code “SOPAROPA” will take $50 off of a shared hosting plan when pre-paid for one year. It will also include four free domregs (their choice of net, com, org, info only) for the life of the hosting plan.

Normal hosting is $119.40 for 1 year + 1 annual domain registration credit of $9.95.

 

And now some links all about this crazy mess.

Who Supports SOPA and Why – Gizmodo.com

December 29th is Leave GoDaddy Day – Gizmodo.com

Ditch GoDaddy’s SOPA Loving Butt – LifeHacker.com

Wikipedia no longer supports GoDaddy – Twitter Status Update

GoDaddy No Longer Supports SOPA – Too Little Too Late – TechCrunch.com

GoDaddy Caves – GoDaddy.com

Three Letter Pie (Or Why My Wife Is AMAZING)

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The first time we randomly encountered WordWorld on public television while on vacation several years ago, we thought it was a very cute concept. Flash forward to the present where the entire series is available on Netflix Instant Watch. We had just recently completed the episode where Pig makes Three Letter Pie when my wife announces her intention to make said pie. Her pies are delicious, so I’m excited but not getting the connection. Soon enough, the pie is finished and she puts it on the cooling rack. I walk by and look at it and think, “Oh cute!”, but I still haven’t made the connection. She says that I’m not looking at it, so I look again and see this.

Home Made Three-Letter Pie
Laura’s Homemade Three Letter Pie

Three Letter Pie
Pig’s Three Letter Pie (from Word World)

Needless to say I immediately hug and kiss my wife (having FINALLY got it…I’m so slow sometimes). I can’t wait for March 14th, 2012 so she can make the π pie! :-)

Flight Thoughts (7/5/9)

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Superman Movie
Who wrote the music?
Was DC inspired by the movie to turn Kandor into New Krypton?
Why was it SOOOO melodramatic???
Of course human machines can’t read aliens just because they look physiologically similar…yeesh…

Immaculate Baking Co
“Bikes” Jimmy Lee Sudduth

Does Grease have an ultimate home release DVD/Blu-Ray with the original songs? *tear*

Palin resigns and MSNBC says that it’s a bad move – no track record

VP Biden says Obama misread the economy

Michael Jackson – insomnia + diprivan (anasthetic/knock out drug)…Anna Nicole Smith style

ZUCA suitcase – wheels, 5 removable pouches, square flat top that supports humans

Tag…you’re it!

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Tag you’re it!

Once you’ve been tagged you have to write a blog with 10 weird, random, facts, habits or goals about yourself, at the end choose 10 people to be tagged, list their names and why you tagged them. Don’t forget to leave them a comment saying ‘(You’re it!) and to go read your blog. You cannot tag the person that tagged you, so since you can’t tag me back let me know when you are done so that I can go read YOUR blog answers.

1. God rules.

2. I am fascinated with American history.

3. I don’t understand art, but I appreciate it.

4. I think Walt’s idea of edutainment is brilliant. I would rather laugh at something and then be provoked into thought then just have knowledge thrown at me.

5. I currently have 12,022 songs in my iTunes which equates to 29.4 days of music.

6. I am 5 weeks away from graduation and terrified….kind of….

7. While musical theatre/performance is my passion, I will not strive to earn money with it. I would rather maintain it as a hobby. Less pressure that way.

8. I have both my tonsils and my appendix….but not my butt. And I’ll be losing my wisdom teeth soon. Yeesh….

9. I make conversation with complete strangers quite comfortably

10. I strive to strip my life of all hypocrisies…

okay, this is who i tag:

1. Laura Greenlund – cuz I love her!

2. Tom Hong – cuz I’m curious about the ol’ Asian gun nut friend o’mine…

3. Danny Gorman – cuz I don’t really know all that much about him…except the anime bit….

4. Nicole Tate – cuz I bet she’s got some crazy awesome goals, habits, whatever

5. Rebecca Seubert – cuz it will be interesting to see what she comes up with

6. Paul Grogan – cuz I never really talk to the guy that much, but when I do, I’m always fascinated…

7, 8. Trisha Pollock and Beccie Souza – what list is complete without my other wives…

9, 10. Aubri and Michael Siebert – cuz I’m curious ;)

Random Iron Man References

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Update: 5/5/2008

Even more Iron Man references at Ctrl+Alt+Del and Evil Inc. The Evil Inc one is actually even funnier since Tony Stark/Iron Man was a big proponent of the Super Human registration act in the recent Civil War storyline (so sue me, I read the Wikipedia entry).

Update: 4/30/2008
Found another Iron Man comic references on Least I Could Do, actually a week’s worth of comics. Brilliant! Starts on 4/21 and ends on 4/24.

While watching Scott Krutz draw PVP live on UStream, he mentioned his twitter post the other day about interrupting the current story line for an Iron Man gag, and I was reminded of who else has done an Iron Man joke recently.Foxtrot by Bill Amend
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Ctrl+Alt+DelRandom, but enjoy.

The Twelve Days of Christmas

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December 26th – Happy Boxing Day!  What the heck am I supposed to do with a partridge in a pear tree?
December 27th – Two turtledoves?  What, do I cook them?  I mean using the pears as spice for my partridge flambé was nice…
December 28th – Three French hens?!?  What, do they cluck with an accent?  What’s with all the friggin’ birds? 
December 29th – Those darn calling birds won’t get off their cellphones while they’re driving! 
December 30th – The last thing I need right now is one golden ring, let alone five! 
December 31st – Are geese omelette’s a bad idea? 
January 1st – Now I’ve got seven swans in a watery ditch in front of my house…
January 2nd – Eight maids means eight cows….eight cows means….*does the math*…32 sources of milk!  And think of all that beef!  Mmmmmm! 
January 3rd – Nine ladies…are they dancing with each other?  Is it the Cupid Shuffle?  Or is there a girl left over for me? 
January 4th – Ten lords a leaping…shouldn’t that read ten gay lords?  I mean who else leaps?  I know a straight male ballerina isn’t impossible, but…
January 5th – Eleven pipers piping…I don’t have THAT big of a rat problem!  Where are the children?!?!  Kali Ma! 
January 6th – Twelve drummers drumming…are they wearing blue skullcaps or black light makeup?  Are the drums made of PVC piping? 

[random] Welcome To The New Year! [/random]

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Saving Private Ryan
Sat down and watched it in it’s entirety for the first time in like 5 years and there are several people in the film that I now recognize which is very exciting!
Paul Giamatti – “I got ankles like an old f*cking lady”
Ted Danson – Captain Hamill (kills all the Germans when Paul Giamatti knocks the timber through their wall)
Nathan Fillion – The Fake Private Ryan (“My brothers are dead?!?! But they’re only in grammar school!”).
Colby from Numb3rs – 3rd from the 506

Family Guy Star Wars Rush Limbaugh Reference

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Quagmire/C3PO: Hey, mind if I turn on the radio?
Announcer: WTAT – Tattoine’s All Talk Radio.
Rush: My good friends, the liberal galactic media is at it again. They never stop! Now they’re trying to convince us that Hoth is melting! Well that’s crazy…just trying to scare us! And if that weren’t enough to get you mad…we now have news that Lando Calrissian has been made the chief administrator of the Bespin Mining facility. Gee, I wonder how he got THAT job. Well let me tell you how he got that job…affirmative action strikes again. The time is 8:50.