RT Tuesdays : 01/11/11

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Every Tuesday (slightly delayed today because a ‘effin CONCRETE CRANE took a bite out of my ROOF!) I re-post all zee tweets that didn’t originate from this blog just to keep everything in sync.

This week on Twitter…

  • Thanks @Ploom. With my roof getting busted up by a crane, this little package is exactly what I need today. http://yfrog.com/hsrphej (about 3:12 PM via Twitter for iPhone)
Ploom!

Ploom!


  • A ginormous concrete-pouring boom crane took a long bite out of my roof. Welcome to 2011. (about 9 AM via Twitter for iPhone)
  • Westboro to picket funeral of 9 y/o girl killed in AZ shooting. Town making “angel wings” to contain and surround them. http://j.mp/hFI8uG (about 8 AM via Twitter for iPhone)


  • WSJ: Chinese J-20 stealth fighter looks a lot like MiG-31 from 1982 “Firefox” movie. Print version only p.A9. http://yfrog.com/h2mo6poj (about 9 PM 01/10/10 via Twitter for iPhone)
J-20

J-20

  • As a man it is also in my DNA to safely eat anything labeled as “food” in a gas station without taking any permanent damage. (1:16 PM Jan 10th via Twitter for iPhone)
  • Wait. “Fancy bread” as in “whimsical idea origin”? Not “fancy bread” as in “olive loaf with jalapeños”? Damn. I thought I had that one. (5:21 AM Jan 10th via Twitter for iPhone)
  • Q: “Where is fancy bread, in the heart or in the head?” A: Depends. Are you wanting split-top, wheat, multigrain, stone ground or hawaiian? (5:20 AM Jan 10th via Twitter for iPhone)
  • “@wikileaks: WARNING all 637,000 @wikileaks followers are a target of US gov subpoena http://is.gd/koZIA” – so reading = criminal activity? (8:43 PM Jan 8th via Twitter for iPhone)
  • ebertchicago: Sarah Palin rummages online frantically erasing her rabble-rousing Tweets like a Stalinist trimming non-persons out of photos. (6:04 PM Jan 8th via web Retweeted by RoyceEddington and 100+ others)
  • Apparently there’s a market for an automatic egg cracker for those elusive “perfectly cracked eggs”. http://yfrog.com/gz162hj (7:02 PM Jan 8th via Twitter for iPhone)
Egg Cracker

Egg Cracker

  • Schnook: (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised; “don’t be such a shnook”. Now a kids toy! http://yfrog.com/h7d1vvzj (5:10 PM Jan 8th via Twitter for iPhone)
Shnook or Schnook?

Shnook or Schnook?

  • nytimes: U.S. Subpoenas Twitter Accounts of WikiLeaks Figures http://nyti.ms/h5AFvI (9:11 AM Jan 8th via The New York Times Retweeted by RoyceEddington and 89 others)
  • Drunken rambling or 80s song? “We’re heading for Venus and still we stand tall / ‘Cause maybe they’ve seen us and welcome us all” A: 80s! (1:42 PM Jan 7th via Twitter for iPhone)
  • Late new years resolution: only drop and break cheap easily replaceable things. Breaking expensive impossible to replace things is so 2009. (8:10 AM Jan 7th via Twitter for iPhone)
  • WSJ: “AT&T flipped a switch and turned on 4G Wed… the switch, however, was (only) in their marketing department.” http://j.mp/dQ9rqE (7:35 PM Jan 6th via Twitter for iPhone)
  • Overheard at WalMart – old man w cane to a kid playing DS: “Quit them video games. You gonna brag about pushin buttons in the nursing home?” (11:02 AM Jan 6th via Twitter for iPhone)
  • HuffingtonPost More unexplained bird and fish deaths http://huff.to/hYpi9L (6:48 AM Jan 5th via web by HuffPostGreen Retweeted by RoyceEddington and 100+ others)
  • Motivational speaker at seminar said “think of your life as a movie!” I said “the CG budget sucks and I want to direct”. He wasn’t amused. (8:46 AM Jan 5th via Twitter for iPhone)
  • iPhone/iPad “Meteor Notes” app warning: update posted today will wipe out all data you had in older MN version. Now not even on app store. (8:16 PM Jan 4th via Twitter for iPhone)

Monday Morning Music : 01/10/11

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Every Monday I like to post some music to start the week off on the right foot.

This week… music to race past a series of deadlines with.

The Killers – Somebody Told Me



The Chemical Brothers – Believe



Maria Daniele y Su Sonido Lasser – Baila Duro

Dan Balan – Chica Bomb



…and finally, David Bowie & Mick Jagger – Dancing In The Street



News stories the mainstream media missed : 01/08/11

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Here are some news stories from this week that I think the mainstream media completely missed out on. All links are from legitimate news sources and not the fringe / wacko sites.

* To every man who said a woman’s crying isn’t fair… well now there’s SCIENTIFIC PROOF!!! A woman’s tears… “may temporarily lower [a man’s] testosterone level. Those tears send a chemical signal as the man gets close enough to sniff them – even though there’s no discernible odor” AH HAH!! IT WAS SECRET CHEMICAL WARFARE ALL ALONG!! I KNEW IT!! [HUFFINGTON POST]

* I’ve got an idea. Come up with a product that’s a kid’s favorite toy. Make it addictive. Make it something small enough so they can take with them everywhere. Get them addicted to the toy. Then come out with an update to this amazing product that PERMANENTLY DAMAGES THEIR LITTLE EYES. Mu ha ha ha ha!!! MU HA HA HA HA HAAA!!! Wait, hold on, what’s the goal of the evil plan here Nintendo? [NEOWIN]

* Speaking of evil plots, those “Power Balance” bracelets? The ones that are advertised as metal medical genies that will cure just about everything that’s wrong with you? Just because you wear one on your wrist? Well the company was forced by an Australian court to post on their website that…. “We admit that there is no credible scientific evidence that supports our claims and therefore we engaged in misleading conduct.” Too bad America doesn’t have strict “must be the truth” advertising standards like, oh, Australia, England, and the rest of the bloody world does. [POWERBALANCE]

* OK, so eating dead monkeys = world melting diseases, virologists are borderline mental cases, and I’m totally buying a Ploom. That is all. [THE NEW YORKER]

* NASA’s super-high tech orbital cameras are also used to detect skin cancer? Science rocks! [NASA]

* We can make rain now? For real? In the middle of the desert? Science really rocks! [TIME]

* A new finding shows that going under anesthesia is like putting your body into more of a “deep abyss-like coma” than a “restful happy-dreamy sleep”. OK, science is sometimes pretty scary, too. [SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN]

* In very serious news, police in California can now search your cell phone without a warrant. This means they get all your contacts, voicemails, call history, internet history, app use… everything on your cell phone. Without a warrant. Some “new and improved” administration this is turning out to be. [ARS TECHNICA]

* According to a secret found by Wikileaks, Israel is treating Gaza like something from the old cowboy movies. They’re leaving them in the middle of the desert without a firearm, food, water or a horse, but hey, they aren’t going to kill them! So who are the ones in the white hat again? [HAARETZ]

* The Economist has details on how to beat full body scanners at the airports! You know things are finally going to change when rich people start getting bothered and post stuff that gets poor people indicted and thrown in jail. [ECONOMIST]

* Texas is now a nuclear waste dump site? And they’re putting all the “gonna be deadly for a million-years” crap over a major state aquifer too? Dude! Even for deep West Texas, that’s not cool! [HUFFINGTON POST]

* And finally, speakin’ of my home state of Texas, Dallas busted out “Don Giovanni” at their opera house, but with palm trees, no conductor/actor sync, and “melodramatic lighting effects certainly made for what was evidently intended as a “grand opera” experience.” Ouch! Opera News magazine sure knows how to damn with faint praise!  [OPERA NEWS]

Opt out of “targeted” advertising on your iPhone/iPad

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Have you noticed some of the ads on your iPhone are for things you are marginally interested in? That’s because the iPhone iAd system is passively targeting your “Demographic(s), Application preferences, Music passions, Movie, TV and audiobook genre interests, Location, Device (iPhone, iPod touch) and Network (WiFi, 3G)”

So Apple sees me when I’m reading? They know when I’m awake? They know… waitaminute, that’s Santa’s gig!

Fortunately, there is a way to opt out of targeted advertising on the iPhone.

While you are on your iPhone, go to…

http://oo.apple.com

Once you visit that site, the message “You have successfully opted out” will appear and you will be automatically opted out of interest-based ads”.

You will have to do this on every device you have, though. (It’s not account based, but hardware based.)

You will still see ads on the apps that push them, but they will only be “generic” ads and not anything based on what they know about you.

RT Tuesdays : 01/04/11

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Every Tuesday I re-post all zee tweets that didn’t originate from this blog just to keep everything in sync.

This last week (and the holiday week before) on Twitter, I said…

  • I blame hoarding on Disney movies. Mild psychosis + too many movies = “I can’t throw anything away! They’re my friends! They’re all alive!” (Tue Jan 4 around 8AM 2011 via Twitter for iPhone)
  • New game: drunken rambling or 80s song. Q: Shake up the picture the lizard mixture / With your dance on the eventide. A: 80s! (Mon Jan 3 11:52:56 2011 via Twitter for iPhone)
  • As a man it’s in my DNA to yell at sporting events on TV, acquire tools I may never use, and safely eat three day old pizza and/or chinese. (Sun Jan 2 14:16:06 2011 via At Once – iPhone App)
  • Found little known semi-circles of hell: “surprise visiting relatives”, “high decibel kids’ screams” and “New Year’s migraine.” Drawing map. (Sat Jan 1 18:27:27 2011 via Twitter for iPhone)
  • HAPPY NEW YEAR YA’LL!! (Sat Jan 1 00:04:40 2011 via Twitter for iPhone)
  • The new years’ eve ball drop for a nearby town is on a boom crane. That’s a major upgrade from the forklift drop a few years ago. (Fri Dec 31 23:51:16 2010 via Twitter for iPhone)
  • Just saw a neti pot in action. Dude. Who thought of waterboarding for colds and sinuses? (Fri Dec 31 20:17:35 2010 via Twitter for iPhone)
  • New law: DJs can only say their name once every hour. Nobody can groove to constant reminders that IT’S DJ BABY BUTT IN DA HOUUUUSE!! (Fri Dec 31 11:07:32 2010 via Twitter for iPhone)
  • What would happen if you poured boiling water into an equal amount of liquid nitrogen? Ultimate iced tea? Insomnia scientist wants to know! (Fri Dec 31 03:16:45 2010 via Twitter for iPhone)
  • I think doctors should be given a free pass to coldclock anyone who smokes outside an ER entrance. Their looks of pure rage need an outlet. (Thu Dec 30 16:31:34 2010 via Twitter for iPhone)
  • “@ConanOBrien: how come the Hulk’s shirt falls off, but never his pants?” Two words: atomic wedgie. His legs go blue from bad circulation. (Thu Dec 30 16:18:14 2010 via Twitter for iPhone)
  • Light up laser gun with attached chainsaw? When I was a kid, we had to use real chainsaws! And we liked it! http://yfrog.com/h3ny0cij (Thu Dec 30 16:16:33 2010 via Twitter for iPhone)
Laser Chainsaw

Laser Chainsaw

  • Saw “Knight and Day” yesterday. C+ movie / A+ quote: “Someday. That’s a dangerous word. It’s really just a code for ‘never’.” – Tom Cruise (Wed Dec 29 11:44:22 2010 via Twitter for iPhone)
  • WSJ p.A16: “White House aides say they are working up an executive order… to hold enemy combatants indefinitely.” http://yfrog.com/h4htuqj (Tue Dec 28 19:20:43 2010 via Twitter for iPhone)
WSJ Detainee

WSJ Detainee

  • RT @HuffingtonPost Man faces up to 5 years in jail for reading wife’s email http://huff.to/dP71ty (Mon Dec 27 16:24:58 2010 via web by bbosker Retweeted by RoyceEddington and 100+ others)
  • RT @TheEconomist Which American airports have the new full-body scanners? http://econ.st/g5WHWN #economist (Sun Dec 26 03:49:07 2010 via SocialFlow Retweeted by RoyceEddington and 51 others)
  • The look of awe and bliss on my godchild’s face when he “caught” Santa putting presents under the tree was epic. Already scheming for 2011. (Sat Dec 25 01:50:16 2010 via Twitter for iPhone)
  • WSJ 12/21 p1: investing in other’s life insurance next big $ thing. Buy and cash in when people die. Morbid much? http://yfrog.com/h3zubij (Wed Dec 22 01:22:53 2010 via Twitter for iPhone)
Insurance Investment

Insurance Investment

Recall : Albuterol Sulfate Inhalation Solution from Ritedose Corporation

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Yow. This is a scary recall because I know someone who is using this specific product to get over their pneumonia.

Albuterol Sulfate (the Inhalation Solution) “is a prescription inhalation solution, administered via nebulization, for the treatment and maintenance of acute asthma exacerbations and exercise induced asthma in children and adults.”

“This product is being recalled because the 2.5 mg/3 mL single use vials are embossed with the wrong concentration of 0.5 mg/ 3 mL and therefore, represents a potential significant health hazard.”

Um, yeah. Slight difference in .5 mg and 2.5 mg doses. Albuterol Sulfate doesn’t play nice with significant increases like this, either.

“Administration of this defective product could result in a range of potential health effects that spans from temporary and medically reversible to life threatening and death. There is significant concern that health professionals who read the incorrect embossed concentration may upwardly adjust the volume of product used resulting in an administered amount that is 5 times the recommended dose.”

“The following lot numbers manufactured by The Ritedose Corporation under NDC: 0591-3797-83, 0591-3797-30, and 0591-3797-60 are included in the recall: 0N81, 0N82, 0N83, 0N84, 0NE7, 0NE8, 0NE9, 0NF0, 0P12, 0P13, 0P46, 0P47, 0PF0, and 0S15. No other Albuterol formulations or products are included in this recall.”

If you know someone who has a nebulizer and is using it to get better, please check with them to see what specific meds they are using.

Here’s the link to the FDA article.

Monday Morning Music : 01/03/11

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Every Monday I like to post some music to start the week off on the right foot.

This week… it’s back to work!

Bass Down Low – The Cataracs (feat Dev.)



Skillet – Awake and Alive



Berlin – Like Flames



…and finally, Van Halen – (Oh) Pretty Woman

Christmas and New Years’ break

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Things have been more bananas than usual, so I’m going to take a much needed break.

Posts should get back to normal around the new year.

Merry Christmas everybody!

RT Tuesdays : 12/21/10

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Every Tuesday I re-post all zee tweets that didn’t originate from this blog just to keep everything in sync.

This last week on Twitter…

  • wilw Wow! Obama lied about enforcing Network Neutrality, too! What a gigantic surprise! I wonder what’s next? I can’t wait! http://bit.ly/dWvDnZ (12/21/10 via web Retweeted by RoyceEddington and 100+ others)
  • Lunar eclipse is beautiful. I’m somewhat hypnotized. Once in a 500-or-so-year event. Philosopher nerd totally emblissed right now. (12/21/10 via Twitter for iPhone)
  • wilw Some of your Android and iPhone apps, including Pandora and Text Plus 4, are spying on you: http://on.wsj.com/eFRFRD (11:16 AM Dec 18th via web Retweeted by RoyceEddington and 100+ others)
  • “@breaknews246: Tropical Tropical Storm Hermine Heads For Mexico, Texas – http://xrl.us/bib3q2” – WHAT? No way! That was back in September! (7:49 PM Dec 17th via Twitter for iPhone)
  • RT @Wolfire: The Humble Indie Bundle (pay what you want for five awesome indie games) http://bit.ly/fRYX0C (11:08 AM Dec 14th via web)

Monday Morning Music : 12/20/10

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Every Monday I like to post some music to start the week off on the right foot.

This week… it’s the music needed to calm the “AHHHHHH! ONLY FIVE DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS AND I’VE STILL GOT PRESENTS TO PRINT AND PITCH! PROJECTS TO BUY AND GIFT WRAP! AHHHHHH!” spirit.

Vince Guaraldi Trio – O Tannenbaum



Keith Jarrett – Long As You Know You’re Living Yours



Brad Mehldau Trio – Knives Out



Ahmad Jamal Trio – Darn That Dream



Bill Evans – Waltz For Debby



Oscar Peterson – If I had you