Florida Amendment 2: Ban on Gay Marriage - Shame on Florida.

November 5th, 2008

Florida,

Stop being a prick. You need to realize that you really are not part of the ’south’. Don’t feel bad. I’ll let you in on a little secret, the south lost and it will not rise again. This is was your chance to get up from the kiddie table and come sit with the grown ups. You were ok with a black guy running the show but those dirty crazy gays getting married, that was too much?

I really thought we would do the right thing and give everyone equal rights. Every black person who voted Yes on Amendment 2 you should keep an eye out for colored only water fountains and restrooms. If fags can’t get married why should you have you get to share our water fountains, maybe you’ll get black germs on them and the little white girls will get them, better be safe than sorry right? Women who voted Yes on Amendment 2 why were you out voting? Shouldn’t you have been in the kitchen making pies? After all, thats what women are for right? Voting is serious business I don’t know if your little minds can handle it.

In closing. Good fucking job Florida. Way to show off just how fucked up we are. Black guy for president A-OK. Fags and lezzies want to show they love each other not ok.

I don’t know if I should be angry or just go sit in the corner and be sad at how shitty this is.

Sometimes there is light at the end of the tunnel.

November 5th, 2008

Holy crap! Its over. The 44th President of the United States of America has been selected.

Good job Florida; You didn’t manage to fuck this one up. I am very excited to see how Obama handles his first term. GO TEAM!

Graces’ first Halloween: oh god its dark lets cry alot

November 1st, 2008

Grace’s first Halloween didn’t go exactally as planned.
Cute costume: Check
Bag for candy: Check
Safe neighborhood to take her around in: Check
45 minutes of crying: Check

Wait. What? After getting her all dressed up as snow white with a bow and shoes and everything we hopped in the car with her grandma and were off to score some candy. Mmm candy. As we were getting close to where we were going she started to get upset. We figured of was because she didn’t want to be in the car anymore. Boy were we wrong.
She go more and more upset as we walked around. We made it all of 100ft from the car before we decided to go back and take the costume off and see how she was. It didn’t help. She was angry and tired.

Let’s hope thanksgiving goes better.

Pictures showing Obama being a real person

October 24th, 2008

A friend sent these to my wife and she in turn sent them to me. These pictures seem to really show Barack Obama as a real person, doing things normal people do. Picture “K”, “D”, and “J” really show what seems to be a normal Father / Husband and working man.

Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (Third Edition)

October 24th, 2008

I’ve had my macbook sense sometime around June of 2007. It’s was the first Mac that I’ve had that I actually used on a daily basis, before the macbook I had a G4 Cube I picked up off eBay to play with PPC OpenBSD so that doesn’t really count.

I can honestly say that I love my macbook. It is hands down the best computer I’ve ever owned. The only thing that I wish was different was the graphics chipset. I would love, I mean love to be able to play WoW and have it not run like crap.

In the year and change that I’ve had my macbook I’ve been ever more interested in learning to code for Mac OS. Now that the iPhone App Store is up and running and the SDK has had its NDA lifted I figured that I might as well try to cash in on the App Store Gold Mine.

I know Python, Perl PHP and bits and pieces of a few other languages but I have not touched C or C++ sense my 10th grade C++ course. I figured that it couldn’t be to hard to spin my Python knowledge of objects into C objects and decided that I should just dive right in.

I didn’t want to go it alone though. I spent a day or so looking on Amazon for Objective-C books and reading reviews. I finally decided on Cocoa(R) Programming for Mac(R) OS X (3rd Edition). I’ve had the book for a few days now and am really enjoying it.

New Linux Kernel Naming Scheme?

October 18th, 2008

Skimming digg this morning I found a story discussing a visioning change to the Linux Kernel. Historically odd numbers were development versions and even numbers were stable. The 2.6 Kernel series has been out for five years now.

Greg KH posted a new naming scheme YEAR.NUMBER.MINOR_RELEASE. To me this seems silly. Referring to the kernel as 2.6.22 sounds better. 2.6 is a known stable version. I can see it being very confusing to people to call the kernel 2008-10 or 2008.2.1.

Photoswap for the iPhone by Padadaz: Simple and Addictive

October 13th, 2008

My wife, brother and I have been playing with Photoswap by Padadaz for a few days now and it is now one of the most used applications on my iPhone.

You take a picture and send it out. It is received by one and only one person. If they find it interesting they can directly reply to you with a picture of their own. Thats it.

I’ve personally had a ‘conversation’ last for over two hours, sending pictures of random toys in my office and getting random toys in return.

The Republican National Committee tries to convert me using Hitleresque imagery

October 7th, 2008

I guess the Republican National Committee thinks that I should not vote for Obama and should vote for the Dinosaur McCain. I think they chose an interesting Image to uses on the front of their mailer. The very first thing that I thought of when I saw it was how much it looked like propaganda from Nazi Germany. I understand that they are going for an image of strength and pride and that the image of Hitler is not the image they had hoped to bring to mind.

If you are eligible to vote. Please do it. Your country needs your help. Stand up. Be heard.

October 5th, 2008

With the election coming up soon everyone needs to be registered. If you are eligible to vote please, please go register. Every vote counts. Unless you are in Florida. Going by past elections Florida’s votes are bought and sold or all together throw away and then new votes are made up.

We as a people need to stand up and make sure that our government will talk to us like adults, not talk down to us like children which is what the last 8 years have been like. They tell us things because we can’t handle it. We don’t have our big boy pants on. I think we all know how well that has gotten us. 

Do the right thing. Vote for someone who has more going for them than they were a prisoner of war and has a side kick who is nothing more than a piece of ass. If you think about it, does the fact that he was a prisoner of war mean he wasn’t very good at his job? 

I just want to know that something will change; Anything. We can’t take the same ideas and policies that we have had for the last 8 years. It doesn’t work.

Vote-scam fliers target black philadelphia neighborhoods

October 4th, 2008

This is crazy. I would say its a new low for the GOP but it isn’t The GOP has stepped up to the plate once again and swung for the fences. According to the Philadelphia Daily News there has been an anonymous filer being passed around some black neighborhoods in philadelphia warning residents that there will be undercover officers arresting people with outstanding warrants.

I guess the Republican plan has changed to keep people from voting so they have a chance of pulling off a win in this election. I wonder if they are still holding that Diebold card up their sleeve. If you can’t win an election by votes on your own and you don’t have friends to help you buy or rig the election there really is only one answer.

Keep the other side from voting there by making your sides votes count for more.

If by some chance the republicans do win, I wonder how long it will take before we get a knock on the door from the gestapo asking us for our papers.