PSYC3D web 3.0
The inner chaos of a web guy's mind.
Stereotyping
Mar 20th
Ok so something has been bugging me for ages so I figured I would write about it. I drive a modified Honda civic that is a little on the loud side with the performance exhaust etc. I know what your thinking “OMG one of those, delinquent tuner kids who street race and cause accidents” Hey don’t sweat it I’m used to it. I get the looks all the time when I am driving to work or picking up groceries and even dropping my daughter off at school. You know EVERYONE who is into cars and modifying cars is an adolescent gang member out to do no good or is street racing.
Guess what to all you id10ts that cant look past my car and see that I am a 32 year old adult who is a contributing member of the business community who happens to be married with 2 little girls. When you stand on the side or the road or sit in your plain old everyday vehicle and stare me down as I drive by I would like you to know that both me and my 8 year old daughter sitting in her seat in the back on her way to school is laughing at your “Funny Face”.
Hey I like cars I like customizing things, my computers are all custom, my R/C models are custom, and when I was a kid I put cards in my bike spokes to get that “exhaust sound”. Guess it all started there. I like difference and being creative guess thats why I am this business. So before you wreck your face trying to stare me down because my car is loud and customized, stop and think that maybe it might be a mid 30′s Father of two that just happens to like custom cars. Get over yourself and move on with your day. On the other hand it does give myself and my family something to laugh about on our way to where we are going.
Oh and as for the street racing thing, I’m not a street racer and I laugh my ass of when the same people that stared me down while sitting a light, floor it when it turns green like they have something to prove in their stock leased economy car. Don’t worry I wasn’t looking to get in your lane, there is no need to take off like a bat out of hell trying to block me. Finally for the record if I was as irresponsible as you and floored it off the light you would see nothing but my tail end and if I really NEEDED to be in that lane in front of you I would. But I’ll let you waste your gas and get the speeding ticket. My family and I will yet again cruise pass you laughing all the way. HA HA HA….
Piracy? My 2 Cents…
Mar 20th
Ok well this topic has been flogged to death over the years but man it bugs me how bureaucracy gets in the way of common sense all the time.
For years now I have been saying why doesn’t the Music and Film industry say to hell with it we can’t fight piracy and just offer the ISP’s a deal $5/Month charged to each client and it all goes to the industry and then make downloading music and video legal. Instead of spending countless millions of trying to pass laws and shut down torrent, ftp, and other files sharing sites why not just cut a deal with the ISP’s. Well now such a deal is in the works and I for one am all for it. $5/Mon to have access to all the music I want DONE DEAL! and you never have to worry about getting busted for downloading music. Now if the movie and television industry would just get on the bandwagon we would have some great internet freedoms and everyone is compensated.
To the people that say well I don’t download music, why should I have to pay $5 per month extra for my internet. Well let me ask you this: Have you ever downloaded a picture you found on the internet and used it in a picture frame, for a wallpaper, distributed it to a friend? Well thats EXACTLY the same thing and downloading music. The unfortunate thing in this scenario is that the artist that created that image will never be compensated for his/her work. It has happened to me and I know how the artist feels. I caught a company using my images from my website to sell their DVD of tutorials no doubt stolen from the internet also. I could not even get the company to respond to me and E-Bay did nothing about the copyright infringement. Taking it legal was not worth it so I chalked it up to the risks involved in displaying my work on the web.
The problem with the music and film industry is they refuse to embrace the future and be creative in dealing with the availability of distribution on the net they choose to fight it because they have the money to do so. To these industries I say EMBRACE the future save your money and put it into making a better product so that people will be more likely to go and see it in the theater and then buy the DVD.
I own a rather large STORE BOUGHT DVD collection because I like to contribute to the industry in the hope that they will start making higher quality products. I am not advocating piracy, but I can totally understand where the advocates of free distribution are coming from. But seriously folks waging wars no matter how small they are is futile and no body wins in the end. Sit down! Drop the EGO’s! and work it out for crying out loud.
Well that is my 2 cents on this topic don’t even get me started on the software racket my bang account is still reeling from the 3K i just spend on new software for the company. Maybe a later post 
How do kids know?
Mar 19th
My kids love Treehouse the television channel but like all children they have the attention span of gnats. For us adults it becomes just background noise to us so we ignore it. However in no time the kids have wandered off and we haven’t them in 10 minutes and for some strange reason we are still watching Treehouse. Realizing that both the kids are playing downstairs with each other we decide to change the channel . No more than 30 seconds after we change the channel the 3 year old wanders in the room “tweehoose, where is tweehoose” HOW DO THEY KNOW YOU CAN’T EVEN HEAR THE TV DOWNSTAIRS.
This hasn’t happened just once it happens ALL THE TIME
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