On behalf of all of us who are too busy making a living to watch the View
or care what the spoiled, mean spirited pitbull Rosie O'donnel has said lately,
we endorse the spirit and content of what this sensitive, intelligent, articulate
man has to say...
And incidentally we are damn sick and tired of hearing four back to back recaps
while we are trying to relax after bustin our humps to make said living.
We have heard all we care to hear from and about Ms O'Donnel.
Hello, hello? Is this thing on?
Urbansurvivor here. WBF invited me to become a guest columnist a year and a half ago. I'm just now getting around to joining. If you have cruised over to the Urbansurvivor, you probably have read a rant or two. If not, you can read a little about the things that set me off, various interests and my newsfeed on Bloglines RAW. Oh wait, you can do that here as well.
VagrantMemories & Urbansurvivor's points of view sometimes clash. I do not anticipate a 'he said, she said' type of exchange but you never know. If you are bored by now, check out the Heartside.Tribe over on Tribe.net. Interesting independent art over there. Check out some of the other tribes associated with Heartside as well.
-Urbansurvivor
Ok, how'd I do? I certainly hope we passed the audition.
It seems there's a whole lot more going on under the earth's crust than we expected. I found the following article in YahooNews! fascinating...
Huge 'Ocean' Discovered Inside Earth - Yahoo! News
Does anyone know how I can get some beachfront property down there, eh?
I was poking around Tribe.Heartside today and one of my colleages, VagrantMemories has a link to a diy tribe...so being the Urbansurvivor I am, I checked it out. I found the post on scrap paper floor treatment preceeding this one but could not tear myself away. [yea, it was a cheesy pun]
Voileee! The Headbanger Threads:
These two live creativity. Concept to video report, Nicely done.
scrap paper floor - DIY - do it yourself - tribe.net
I ran across this post and comments, what a great idea! Great reason to go back
to paper bags, recycled ones of course. Filing this in the 'remember this one' file.
P.S. many profuse apologies to my heartside tribe friends, been pretty busy this year.
We have failed them all. We have sold the hopeless romantics down the river. We have taken the fragile, tender blessing that those blissful souls once bestowed upon us and we have crushed it like a rose petal beneath an Ugg boot.
Don't pretend you don't know what we mean.
Love in the 21st Century is a joke. It's a scam. It's a punch line in a sitcom. It's an e-mail with a lame smiley face in place of an original phrase. It's a hasty text message (LUV U) with a hieroglyph where your heart ought to be.
This review probably belongs over on my colleague's blog VagrantMemories. I concur with the above quote and will go you one further; a large part of the target purchasing demographic is influences by the 'hip-hop nation', and that fact has some interesting overtones.
In the hip-hop nation, thugs dominate the social landscape, women are objectified to an extreme just short of sex-slave and to quote Notorius B.I.G. "You're nobody 'till somebody kills you." I find the contrast of a rose petal being crushed under an Ugg a particularly telling. Women wear Uggs more than men do, get where I am going with this?
Let us throw in the technology aspect. I remember way back in the ancient days when there was no graphic element to the internet, the spelling and typing skills of people were not up to real-time communication, necessitating some creative shorthand. Those who for their own reasons, did not learn to spell or type have contributed their little part.
I found the above article sad and telling. I agree with the author JKeller, we want mad love and do not know how to get it. Guess I'll stay single a little longer...
For those of you who still play in the sandbox, read the Register's article regarding the 'private' setting for profiles....
Teen data on Myspace compromised
Hack allows 'private' entries to be made public
By OUT-LAW.COM → More by this author
Published Wednesday 30th August 2006 07:02 GMT
Find your perfect job - click here for thousands of tech vacancies.
A security hole in the popular MySpace social networking site allowed users to view entries marked "private", a crucial protection for users aged under 16, according to weekend reports.
www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/30/myspace_teen_data_hacked/
Scientists discover 'shadow person' | COSMOS magazine
Chalk one up for the Coast to Coast AM listeners, they beat the scientific community to the punch once again by their diligence and open mindedness. Read the COSMOS article detailing the cause of some of the 'shadow people'.
Some realistic resources for foreigners living in Italy, or wishing they did. Yes, there's lots of sunshine, pasta, and good red wine in Italy - but you'll need a few more things to actually build a life here. Lots of money, for starters...
read more | digg story
Ebay Sellers, Amazon-iers and other online vendors as well as independent artists and non-profit organizations can benefit from this site. Backed by ebay, sellers can designate a percentage of sales for a charitable organization. Great Resource for the socially responsible and progressive.
read more | digg story
A funny guide to business terminology for people who work in an office.
read more | digg story
For no particular reason, my email server took a powder therefore;
urbansurvivor@cachette.com
is the thing.
-urbansurvivor
1. Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of
me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either.
Just pretty much leave me the hell alone.
2. There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.
3. It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.
4. Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
5. Always remember that you're unique. Just like everyone else.
6. Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
7. If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of days at work or car payments.
8. Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
9. If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
10. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
11. If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
12. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
13. Some days you're the bug; some days you're the windshield.
14. Everyone seems normal until you get to know them.
15. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.
16. A closed mouth gathers no foot.
17. Duct tape is like 'The Force.' It has a light side and a dark side and it holds the universe together.
18. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and leaky tire.
19. Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are moving.
20. Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
21. Never miss a good chance to shut up.
22. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night
I believe I have finally become a bit jaded, my cynisim has gotten the better of me today.
Nope, did not drop off the face of the earth. Have been busy now that the warm weather has finally arrived. I have checked in from time to time at the Heartside tribe on tribe.net. Seems like things are picking up again and heading in the right direction. Congratualtions to the Heartside Neighbors for electing an interim board of directors to tidy things up.
Congratulations to the local Heartside Artists on two successful art shows this season. Sorry I missed them, keep up the good work! Hope to see you all toward the end of the summer.
-urbansurvivor
Research is a dangerous pursuit for me, I eventually end up getting side-tracked by way more interesting things that the original research subject. Today was one of those days. Check out the cool stuff Blue Man Crew have dreamed up...
Blue Man Crew Toys
This non-blog, blog layout article from Spring 2005 NY-Times discusses in brief good blogging strategies. Personality is key, single focus is not as important as *interesting* content. Reader comments build traffic, ya just gotta have 'em, no way around it. Urbansurvivor agrees that comments and the resulting traffic come very s l o w l y.
read more | digg story
Recently I jumped on the 43 bandwagon. You know, the social networking tool-ish sites which are so popular and allow you to rate, review, build upon 43 stuffs you are into? Thought it was a really cool idea, a-la Kevin Bacon six degree concept. Wrong.
I began happily reviewing one of my favorite authors, reasoning that reviews lead to amazon revenue, occasionally.
Wrong.
What I found out was that after I reviewed my author/book, logged out then looked at the review as any anonymous surfer would, I had put traffic linkback into the coffer of some other reviewer. Traffic=revenue and not mine.
Lesson learned: Just because a service, website, fill-in-the-blank is popular does not mean it is right for you or is what it appears to be.
A very interesting caveat to this experince: I was amused to see the one name moniker of a local politico from my urban area of operation as a registered user. What makes this amusing is that this particular creature is feking paranoid about not revealing the former birth name as said creature has legally changed the birth name to this one name affair.
Add to the hilarity the one thing any techno-geek knows: You are never alone on the 'Net. Someone will accidently find you eventually.....even if they were not looking and wouldn't look for you anyway.
You gotta check out the "Moped Army" from www.coolhunter.com
Who would want to be tagged as a "Moped Soldier" anyway? Wait, yes we have it.....
....the French!
http://www.thecoolhunter.net/lifestyle/MOPEDARMY/
Check out the awesome ad campaign images created for Harley Davidson...
cool hunter-HARLEY DAVIDSON-AD/2/
For you Geeks give gojobby.com a glance. They're only looking for Geeks currently, and yes it's beta.
Finally if you find yourself with some downtime, check out this site www.hackaday.com/
Happy Wednesday!
urbansurvivor
