Geek-Fu Grip!

Student: Honorable Geek-Fu master.
Master: Yes student, you may speak.
Student: Please tell us of the enlightened Tauren quest again.
Other Students: Yes, please master tell use.
Master: Ok, I’ll tell you again, Gather around the masters feet so that we may become enlightened as a group of the power of the Geek-Fu death grip.

One would expect to hear something like this, but it only gets better. Mur Lafferty’s Lessons From a Geek Fu Master really gets to the convergence of Geeks to a self proclaimed master of the fabled Geek-Fu. And a Master she is with her impressive geek accomplishments. This includes video games, Warcraft RPG, and World of Warcraft credits. Like Damn!

She shows how geeks really are resilient pioneering and enduring people leading the way for the rest of society to follow. How we build the world for other non-geeks to say, hey, that’s cool, and we claim this coolness for ourselves.
Making us geeks to go forth further into social abnormalities to claim our own geekiness so we can say, We geeks are still cooler!
She does audio work for podcasts such as escape pod along with her personal podcast Lessons From A Geek Fu Master

She covers everything geek, and reminds me why I love my wife who occasionally displays hidden geek tendencies. If only I could really get her to come fully to the geek side of the force instead of just dabbling in it, then, as Vader would say, "the circle would become complete."

Yoda would say, “Aaah, enlightened you have become, but master of 360 you are not.”

And of course the ever popular “Some one set us up the bomb!” and “All your base are belong to us!"

If ever one could cause a geekgasium, she could, I think she unknowingly has become a geek goddess, even though she admits she geeks out at cons and conventions over other geek icons, I think she doesn't realize she has risen to the level of a geek icon herself.

Ho! Ho!, Frigge'n Ho!

It seems this is the season of political discontent (I wouldn’t even call it political correctness anymore as this is just sick and wrong.)

It seems that the life long tradition of Santa is now something that is offensive to politicians and word governments at large because Santa is a happy guy. “By God! We aren’t happy unless you aren’t happy!”

It seems A Santa claimed he was sacked from an Australia/New Zealand company from saying "Ho, Ho, Ho!" and said structure banned all other Santa's in Australia and New Zealand from saying “Ho, Ho, Ho”

Sacked Santa

Santa indoctrination,

Santa banned

The grounds for this is, The Aussie's and Kiwis feel that by saying "Ho, Ho, Ho." That individuals, particularly women, as children do not enter into this equation, that the governments and corporations of countries who never seem to have anything nice to say about the U.S, who also claim we (Americans) do nothing right, and other various dispersions cast at us Americans. Has taken a stance that the idea of a slang term "Ho" as in "Ya bee-yitch ho!" started by the seemingly uneducated street gang youth of America, is to dictate how civilized society is to live and speak. (No traditions and no freedom of speech allowed!)

So by saying "Ho, Ho, Ho," which All us (Fracke’d up, war monger, uneducated Americans) use as a “slang Term” Note how they recognize it is a "slang term", can not be used in the possibility of offending non-American women. like "Yo, Yo, Hu?"

So for a tradition that has been around longer then the nations in question, at what point do these places care what under privileged school drop-out’s say?

Why does the gang youth, and often uneducated (not all, mind you, but the majority) school drop out, drug dealing, gang bangers language, in any way relate to how a kid can enjoy a family tradition that has been around longer then the law makers in question.

So it seems frivolous, soulless, hostile and ethic less lawyers, can retroactively change a societies ability to enjoy a season,

by stripping an individuals ability to say words that have no actual meaning or context,

except in the twisted minds of individuals looking for big cash payouts for being struck as imagined as possibly insulted by a being a gang wanna-be from things seen on “fictional” movies and TV shows of how things are in America, that actually has no bearing on actual American lifestyles at large.

But apparently this has a profound effect of people living on the other side of the globe as they now get to sue Santa’s, and stores with Santa’s because he is happy enough to have a gut wiggling laugh.

Perhaps these other nations do not understand that "Ho" was due to broken run down English because they couldn't speak clearly enough to say "Whore" as they don't really know how to spell.

As in..

"Bee-ietch! Yow Fucking Bee-ietch, I is tak’en to ya-all!, Now got yar ass out there and make yowDaddy s’more dead prez-dents, for’n I slap yo monkey mon-ay mak'n ass in da ditch!

Frigge’n Ho’s, I swear yaz got to keep on their ass, or dey jit be wawk'en off-n wit a pipe sucking down all yo mon-ayz wit dat frigge’n crack!"

I, guess I can honestly see how non-Americans would incorporate that into their civilizations speech and society.

Now honestly is this how Aussi’s and Kiwi’s talk? And who gives a crap what American slang is when they all throw shit at us in the media all day about how wrong America is on every level, including and especially our youth gang issues.

One thing you’ll be hearing from us Americans in the malls this Holiday season.. “Ho! Ho! Ho!”

-It’s called freedom of speech, looks like you guys could use some lessons..

..Ya Ho’s

Pearl Harbor, 2008, Aka Red Dawn...

.. So another Saturday drive to work, I work on the weekends, which mostly suck, mostly.

And heading off the island, onto the mainland, down the freeway and across the river to my job I go. And hopping off I-5 onto the trestle to marine view drive, on the Everett Waterfront.

As I was crossing the trestle a white military jet was coming across down the river on the deck as they would say. No markings I could see.
I live in the general vicinity of the air base on Whidbey Island, I am no stranger to U.S. military air craft, I know the profiles and I know the side profiles and underbellies of the jets in the area because they tend to fly over Camano Island now and then. I know our aircraft because I follow the military as a sort of sick hobby, and practically live on the military channel.

This one however was white, and much to slim for the ones I know, and had a hint of "Russian" to it’s side profile. From the aircraft I been watching on the military channel.
If I was to guess it looked like a hybrid fighter-bomber, with all the items on the inside of the plane instead of being loaded on the outside.

It first off was super quiet, which our planes are anything but. I often tend to stop any podcast I’m doing when they get near Camano Island, because they drown out my dog barking at two paces when their fifteen miles away.

This was quiet, on the deck, so low I thought it was going to ditch into the water, it got to the Puget sound and abruptly took a right turn heading north towards deception pass staying on the water.

I have never seen a plane fly that low and that quiet, I know Civi-planes would get their balls busted for pulling something like that, especially that close to the Navy base. This was not a civilian plane, it was a jet, as in a single seat jet, and no civilian jet is going to do anything like this.
Military planes are up high enough that you can see them regardless of what part of a hill your on. As far as I know military are forbidden to do what this guy was doing due to safety issues around civilian populations, roads, bridges, etc. being less then a 100 feet off the water and skimming the top of bridges.

So question is, we get some new planes? Or someone visiting us who isn’t supposed to be here, A.k.a, flying under the radar? They where traversing the valleys and came in from Marysville area apparently following the river.

Things that make you go HMmmmm. I’m wondering if I need to start arming myself..
I didn't have my camera with me or I woulda Snapped a picture of it. Though it had no markings of any kind.

I did some searching around on aircraft and the profile it was closets to was the ATD-X,
though the ass end was a bit fatter so the body coming from the back end of the cock pit was pretty much even all the way back instead of tapering off like this one does, the body was slightly longer and the wings where a bit more forward. however this was the profile I saw.
Our bad boys usually have ordinance under the wings (or pylons to attach ordinance if no ordinance are present), this one didn't have anything.

Lock-out / Tag-out

Wired seems to be the way to go lately, so heres a wire of the fish tank design.

Have been off line for almost a year. Didn't log in, forgot my gmail account because I do not use it for email, and took me the better part of three months to "hack" back into my blogger account, mainly because I didn't have any email account tied to this so I could get my password recovery info.

So alls well that ends well, or so they say.

The period of being locked out is over, Though there is the possibility of being locked out at work, The whole union Vs company issue, normal corporate operations. SOP

Been grinding and loosing days, not in terms of weeks but terms, as in presidential terms.

Get busy, new kid, house, etc, next thing you know The boy is in pre-school and those business deals you been working on turned to dried up cereal stuck on the bottom of a bowl for days on end. Hard and useless. You got to scrape it out, re-wash the bowl before you can get started again.

So far, Liquid metal hasn't been touched in over a year, the E.D. stuff has been sitting and cooling off, so I have to heat that back up before I can work with it again, and over all. I lost several more years of my life to drone work.

Now the issue I am facing isn't so much loosing a couple years of my life to make some corporation very wealthy. The issue I am facing is that for every month I stall on my projects, I get another year behind the competition, and that is because game design and development is still shooting forward.

By working on it full time as an Indi-developer, I slowly slide farther behind other companies who are shooting ahead with big money and big teams. By not doing anything Its like trying to run on foot after a drag racer, there is no way in hell it will happen.

Good news on this picture though. As I have been sitting on my ass watching my beer gut get bigger (So-long six pack, hello pony keg!) Some industries developed which will help me catch up again. Engine middle ware for MMO developers are srpouting up left and right, so you get an MMO engine, plug in your graphics, models, and scripts, and it goes. you do not have to build everything from scratch, like with the first release of Everquest, and Asheron's Call.

Server clients, player clients, server hosting, heck all you gotta have is the IP and ambition to stick your neck out on the block to publish an MMO now a days. Partly good, but so many are being published that it dilutes the quality and people's willingness to try new stuff, because everything else is crap.

So while I bury my head in the sand, I have been listening to podcasts a lot lately, and pod books. (audio books for podcasting.)

So many new industries are springing up that It gives me a glimmer of hope. It seems old school things are fading fast, however new school items are rising to take it's place. So as long as your plugged in you still have your feet under you.

For you writers out there, check out www.Podiobooks.com perhaps it's time to reconsider the whole publishing paradigm. Audio seems to be a better medium for those on the go or for those stuck in traffic for three or more hours a day.

Some suggestions is the Share series, Quarter-share, Half-Share, and Full-Share. To get a better idea of what I'm talking about. Tons of stuff out there, and I'm tempted to start publishing some of my closet writings in audio format.

I never had the ambition to get a book published, though I am a published writer, in magazines, newspapers, and business periodicals, I just didn't get into it that much. but this format seems like it would be some serious fun to make, and get published at the same time.

There again, you need to weed out the bad writers from the good one, but the best part of it is. Fresh blood can get into the market without having to be related to someone in the business.

And there is good blood out there.

Well now that I have access to my blog again I'll start writing some more, and keep everyone up to date.

and remember, don't forget to lock the hatch BEFORE you dive your sub.