Yes! My boss, Joe Friedman (the “J’ of “J&R Music and Computer World”), can park at hydrants because he is rich and rich people are above the law. I just needed to share with all of you.

Anyone who makes “slide shows” on youtube, Knock it off!!! No one wants to see still pictures of a band you like put to one of their mediocre songs.

To all portable media hardware manufacturers, please make a device that is truly plug and play. Make it drag and drop, and have all the application and codecs ready to go on the device. This would eliminate using software that we all hate and wasting our time converting.

To anyone who lives outside of the U.S. … we know…we really do know…if you think we don’t you’re basing it on the guy running the country and not his disloyal and disapproving subjects.

People, if we all decide to do something, we win the numbers game. Don’t want to pay all the extra fees on your cell phone bill that seem made up? Just don’t pay them. If we all do it, eventually they will have to just do away with him. In fact, how about we get unlimited calling and everything else, 40 dollars a month. That’s it, there’s no reason I should have to pay x¢ to send a message and someone else y¢ just so eventually, over (T)time, (x+y)*T = Big ass yacht for some douche working at T-Mobile. We all as a society say “We pay 40, that’s it.” They can’t stop us. Even if they try to pull the plug the groundwork is already a-lay if you will.

Vince McMahon…my once great Vince McMahon, what happened to you? So much careful thought and planning…became so little concern for prestige and giving the fans a feeling of content.

BluRay Vs. HDDVD, I think is starting to feel like a BluRay victory is closer. If BluRay discs outsell HDDVD discs 2 to 1, with the price of the players being more expensive on the BluRays by almost double mind you…I think that’s a bad sign for the HDDVD people. I don’t know what else you can do though. They each have half the movies, same quality really, the difference is the hardware, BluRay costs more…May HDDVD just needs a sexy girl in some marketing campaign … like the cavemen were to Geico.

Linux, you actually betrayed me! In what seemed to be a glorious day, your new update came out, 7.10 (Ubuntu). I have a graphics card in this machine that should be able to run you in its sleep, won’t work! Someone out there please just make a master list of hardware that is certifiable for Linux distros. Plenty of these companies have nonsense stickers and insignias that make their way onto the packing of this stuff, make one for Ubuntu, or any of the zillions of Linux distros and just pop them on stuff so I can buy optimal gear. By the way, I realized I didn’t know the plural of “Linux” so my cop-out method was saying “Linux distros.” Does anybody know?

Here’s a turn for everyone in the 180 degrees statement, I bought a Zune. That’s right, a Microsoft Zune, and of course how could I end that notion without the final part, the Zune I bought was Brown! Guess what, it plays music. What do I like about? The screen is actually nice, the music sounds good, navigation is easy. Pictures and Video are a nice bonus, I don’t know if that’s the purpose of this device for some, I just wanted a music player that was portable. What don’t I like? Syncing it to the software isn’t the easiest thing in the world. For one, it tries to two way sync, meaning unlock the way Apple does it, if you deleted a song from your library and then re sync, the song will be copied from your Zune to the library. Sometimes you will delete stuff discover it’s made its way back somehow until hunt around and find that the Zune software (also called “Zune” reads from sources and despite removing items from your library, it will simply reproduce them. Frankly I really don’t get why with all the Windows Media certified devices thing Microsoft did for so long, and building in a device tab and music store into Media Player, would they then make a second and completely devoid of that entire real program which the Zune uses to “sync.” One the music is synced up though it’s done and good to go, although the actual syncing seems to take a little longer than I thought it would, I guess I’m not used to 30 gigs over USB 2.0, but I miss Fire wire already, Ditching fast and more efficient technology for slower and older technology make a hell of a little sense. What can justify this anyway? People like flat connectors? It has the word “Universal” in it? Overall I like the Zune. Frankly given the option of getting an iPod (80 gigs at that) and a Zune w/30 gigs, Zune seemed to hold the interest. Perhaps dealing with Apple products just makes me wonder what else is out there, feeling as though worst that can happen is something not apple will be so unbearable and I’ll run back to Apple and they can have the bragging rights that they will so rightly deserve. Again, that was all a big what if, we’re only at the beginning of the adventure “M2J gets a Zune.” It was also recently that I had noticed that most of the girls on my prior top ten lists turn out pretty high up on the chain. I usually nab ones that are not strikingly obvious. Perhaps my sacred list possesses some blessing ability. Perhaps I am the CZAR of all chicks hot! I guess we’ll find out during my next list? hehe

Oh Smackdown Vs Raw 2008, I think this is the one where M2J’s contact wasn’t renewed. Simply put, the game play has just mutated again and again, it is now something else. Picking up this game for a first time and learning from here on in would work, but adjusting as I must do…ain’t gonna happen. Luckily, on that same day, when kiddies all over the country are going to be making “hardcore” matches of Cena and Bautista, I’ll be delivering the Delphin Diving Elbow Drop to one victim while my Tag Team Partner Curry Man delivers the Spicy Drop [CRITICAL!].

In my never-ending quest for knowledge, I found myself finally taking on the often-confusing realm of streaming my own audio over the international network, or “Internet.” Knowing some folk who DJ at Manhattanville College in New York (which you can visit at wmvlradio.com), I opted to listen to their shows when I could. A problem one day started, however, where the music was completely over-amped and distorted. It was practically impossible to understand what they were saying and the music was unlistenable. I decided to try to and help them as best as I could, not having any official ties to the school, doing this would require me to remotely trouble shoot and leave it to the internal folks running the show in my stead. The first step was to find out if the signal transmitting over FM was okay, it was. Right off the bat, we can deduce that the problem is the output to the machine streaming the audio or the machine streaming itself (or both). Meanwhile, I decided I wanted to see how this whole Internet radio worked. I had seen a zillion methods of how to stream before, but they all seemed confusing, application specific (as in what media player you could use to hear the stream) and frankly, full of geek jargon even I couldn’t understand. Finally I got to narrow some of the possibilities down and discovered Icecast. I think there’s a distinct possibility if you are still reading this you have had some woes with this program and it took me a while to figure out exactly how to do this. Despite how complex they make it seem, with all the configuration files and encoding dlls you need, it’s actually simple.

http://amateurtech.org/wordpress/?p=64

There are the directions I put together and put to work as well. Here is the link to my “radio” station, which is off 99% of the time. The benefit of having it is if I want to play a song for someone, from something or anything…whatever the reason, the ability to quickly broadcast something out live comes in handy if for nothing else.

http://m2j.us/radio.php

On a sadder note, my employer, who probably has already found this page because his amazing ability to act on paranoid micromanagement compulsions, needs to shape the frig up. You can motivate your team via fear, or…MOTIVATION! Why do you choose fear each time? It’s not that we don’t want to cooperate or get along. Everyone gets along there, no one has any strong gripes, partly because the disdain for the customers mixed with the intolerable nonsense coming from the big wigs. We always are told we didn’t follow direction, and we’re going to be fired and no one listens…if the majority of a staff is having serious trouble following some rules, one should examine the possibility that the rules are simply too stringent. Motivate, incentive, give people something back. Try it for a week, like really try it. …wow I could be talking about a lot of jobs in the country today…Well, all of you learn!

Some advice for some of the younger ones behind me. Although only a few years older, I can give you some heads up. Don’t sweat the special someone in your life too much after drama because regular, know when to burn it out than fade it away. Eventually you won’t care, you’ll have moved onto the next sweet special someone part 2 and you feel 1000 times better starting off with a clean slate and now just a little bit stronger than you used to be. At the first sign of any trouble this time, you bounce. Eventually this cycle always repeats. To those of you who are doing okay, don’t go too nuts either. These things have a way of coming down and the longer and more time you invested into this, you could find yourself returning back to a world which you no longer recognize. If you have met that once person that everything has been perfect ever since and still is and looks like it’s going to be…well, you win.

I’m Hulked Up Baby!

I want 2004 back again to just regroup and get going But I guess I’ll have to move passed it, that rut is just about over anyway. You shall see, You will all see…

In my adventures in the realm of retail, I have pretty much narrowed down a comprehensive list of customers that one will encounter. I would like any one of you reading this who has ever shopped anywhere ever to read carefully and determine where in the list you belong. One should also note that these categories aren’t mutually exclusive.

The Pretender: This particular breed aggravates me for several reasons. What this person takes advantage of (but doesn’t deserve) is the customer’s treatment. You see, as we all have heard at some point, “The customer is always right.” For argument sake, let’s assume this is true (it’s not by the way). Well as far as I am concerned, you are NOT a customer until you buy something, period. Until you actually buy something, you’re a shopper, not a customer, and there is a difference. The problem is, because of the politics that occur behind the closed doors of a business, you are granted the customer’s rights and immunities strictly for the potential that you (maybe) will become a customer. So what does this person do? Simply, they pretend. This person acts as if they’re going to make a purchase, for various reasons. Some like the feeling of being a customer. Some just want information and figure they’ll just waste a salesman’s time. Again, this person is NOT a customer, and luckily for them, the business still treats them as if they are.

The Caveman: Sometimes these aren’t all bad, but the caveman can be a very draining to deal with. The caveman doesn’t know anything about anything, it’s a wonder he even knows about stores. Whatever the caveman is interested in, he simply is more intrigued that the technology exists to produce the item of interest than what it does. What’s good about the caveman is that the level of shock sometimes will have him or her throwing their wallet at you. The bad is sometimes they’re just trying to learn more about this amazing new invention. Dealing with this can be very tricky, if you touch on the wrong topic, you’ve opened a can of worms. You may mention a technology or use of the item that overlaps with something else. Now you have to explain more.

The “Educated Consumer”: You can tell from the quotations that the consumer in this example is far from educated. The “educated consumer” is fully loaded with more useless knowledge than an Antarctica history teacher. They have studied long and hard all the buzz words that exist in the world, and also feel as if they know things about the business and are on the inside track…they’re not. The “educated consumer” for example knows that when buying a budget brand item of just about any genre, they’re much smarter, the foolish ones paying a lot of money for Vercace or Sony are just paying for name. Or maybe that’s what they tell themselves to justify being cheap? In either case, this breed will tell you you’re wrong on topics you know in your sleep.

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What’s the dilly with everything lately? For many years there was a very simple structure to people’s roles in society. I can’t speak for everywhere in the world, but this applies strongly to America. Let’s start with the government. For those of you not up to speed on American history, here’s a quick crash course: Back when the country was put together, millions of years ago (okay, like 230 years ago) we were at war with [Not So] Great Britain. Why? Well there was some dude over there named George who decided he was boss of the world, which for the most part was correct. Anything Britain wanted, they took. Basically, they were an empire. Now, we being America…at the time “The Colonies,” whom were under British rule, we figured, “No prob, we’re part of the big empire and since we pay taxes, there rests no doubt in our minds that our opinion matters.” Well, George the Douche King basically told us that wasn’t the case. We paid taxes, but uh, what we wanted or thought didn’t matter. So in a nutshell, we said, “Oh fuck this then…” and then we stopped paying taxes dumped a buncha tea out and kicked the shit outta them. I wasn’t alive to give any personal account of the events that took place, but I have many confirmed reports from trusted sources that say something like, George Washington yelled something out to the British survivors when they were on their battered boat headed home, something like, “Piss off, Fuckers!” I think he flipped them the bird too. So it was around this time that a buncha our forefathers got together and decided that we were gonna be our own country now. The United States of America was born. We made an Independence Declaration, but since this was the 18th century people used to say everything backwards to sound smart, it was called “The Declaration of Independence.” Grouped together with the Rights Bill (again, reversed so “Bill of Rights”) and some other stuff, we now had what was called “The Constitution.” Luckily it was only one word, so no backwards nonsense. Anyhoo, Laws were passed, many simple, but timeless, designed with great ideas of what was to come in the future. What was it that made America different? It was that the PEOPLE would run the country. At the time, this was like … what podcasting is today. The comparison simply meaning it was relatively new and while it had some traction, it was still a new way of doing things.
So now we had established that people would run America. No dumb kings or churches, the people would be the ones who decided what was best for the people. The common man was meant to run the country. Farmers, blacksmiths, grave-diggers…all potential leaders of the country…as well as any other political job that had an opening. The politicians would simply vote on bills, laws, amendments, work with the treasuries and deal out the money as per needs and fundings to be had, and then go back to their 9-5 once that work was over. How did you become a politician? Easy, your fellow man would have to be convinced you were understanding of what he wanted or needed. Ideally we had a country that ran on common folk adjusting things as they went along to make things better, ultimately, any decisions would benefit them as they would everyone! Something happened though. Somehow, at some point in our history…being a politician became a full time job. It became more and more important and eventually the law-makers and leaders of the free world were too important to be the “common man.” Suddenly, what we had was no longer politicians, but Royalty. The only difference is, they didn’t call it royalty, they kept the same names to the different ranks. Something else happened, the worst part of all…people got used to this…for the most part.
What happened next? we had a bit of a war on our hands. See, basically the Southern part of the country thought that they could basically be stupid morons and get away with it. They decided to make their own laws, ideals, money, and my favorite, made their own stupid flag. It was such a rip off of the originial and that is just in such bad taste. [scoffs] So the smart, handsome, sophisticated heroes of the North paid them a visit and basically wiped the floor with them, banged all their women, pissed on their flag and headed back home. Again, just a rumor I heard, but I have it on good word that Abe Lincoln would try to be proper and just snap, saying things like, “Well I want America to get along, but the south is just like a retarded brother to the north and they’re just a bunch of dumb hillbilly southern yucks.” You gotta love that man. He had balls. So even though the war was over and the North had clearly won…the south began doing things their own way. What this means is…the wrong way. They started all making outlandish claims, like that they won. Sometimes claiming that the war wasn’t over…they also spent a lot of time in church, perfecting their goofy accents and all talking about how sinful and bad premarital sex was…all the while having a lot of premarital sex. They have some weird Barbecue fetish too. Fucking wackos. I think it’s every southerner’s dream to lick BBQ sauce off of Jesus’s penis or something…while being sodomized and plotting to lie about it. Enough about them though, this is about America.
So we now have half the country being BBQ Jesus freaks. The other problem, is we have half the potential royalty of tomorrow coming from this land. Easy pickins, the new blood starts hollering about how when he’s in office, he’s gonna run things like Jesus did, and viola, he’s elected. All hail king BBQ Jesus. So with all uneducated people who from the south electing the few people with a greater mind than most from the south…a devious mind for the most part… slowly we have Jerk-off Southerners running the country (that’s the North and the South sadly). Even though we are supposed to separate church and state, the BBQ Jesus freaks of the south don’t feel that way…and part of their religion is simply making everyone have to think like them, or they are infidels. You can equate them to the Borg…give yourself 2 points if you got that reference.
Let’s review real quick. We go from free thinking commoners of the 18th Century being chosen to make the one nation we all share as perfect for all of it’s people as possible…to ultra conservative suppressive dickwads basically controlling their empire with an iron fist. They don’t even have to try now that the ball’s rolling. No one takes time to learn anything anymore! You see a name on the ballad, you choose one … if you’re even gonna vote, which plenty of people for the most part don’t for some strange reason. What do we have to show for it now? A nation which I personally once pledged to every day, making note of key terms like, “indivisible” and “liberty” now torn apart. One good way to judge how a country is doing is simply to look at the spectrum of money. If the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, something has gone terribly wrong. Well I’d say something HAS gone terribly wrong. Fatcat owners of huge companies, be them retail, record companies, motion pictures…and especially monopolistic companies like phone companies are nearly royalty themselves. The government once for the people, who would never stand for this kind of corruption and bastardization of the free world, is gone now and replaced by the elite royalty of which we are now under the rule of. Rather than help those in need, they collect money from everyone…collect YOUR money and spend it on…regulating radio to make sure shock jocks don’t say words like “fart” or tap Internet traffic to see what kind of google searches you and I do. I’m not sure how it has come this far, but it has. The powers that be have become too strong and the majority of their time in power is to figure out how to keep themselves in power and you beneath them. It has been this way for a while, but it wasn’t as publicly flaunted with prior kings of America. What makes Bush an amazing president, yes amazing, is that he is such a fucking buffoon, that he can’t even keep any of this stuff hidden from us. He’s almost flaunting it right before our very eyes, that this is how the government is, whether we [the people] like it or not…and SOMEHOW got re-elected…well again, I forgot I can chalk that up to the BBQ Jesus south.
In ‘clusion [my world, my words] I could easily blame the south for a lot of the problems with this country. In fact, I think I have done that somewhat and surely my feelings of this come through in this …dare I call it an article? But, blame only tells us whose responsible and after a certain point, focusing on blame only becomes counter-productive when more time can be spent on the solution. What is the solution? Well sadly, no one has a clear cut solution or…let’s face it, it’d be done with. However, why don’t we learn from what’s been stated above. Let’s maybe try and unify what our goals are. How about becoming more educated in politics. Learn a thing or two, don’t just wander in to the booth and throw away a vote. Being a politician is a cushy job with a lot of perks. Dick Chaney is basically a robot…and he shot someone for no reason. In the movie Robocop, Robocop tries to arrest the chief of the Detroit Police and within like seconds, he’s being shot at from every direction with orders [promptly followed] to have him destroyed. Dick Chaney though…shoots someone and no one gives a hoot. Getting to the point, being a politician is like royalty…and if politicians actually were under pressure to be applicable at their jobs…knowing if their weren’t that they’d be out on their ass, they might actually perform to some level above sub-standard. Fuck man, we live in a country where you can work a full time job and come away with like…less than 300 dollars a week and right of the bat the same government keeping you making this little amount of money takes almost a third of it?? Well this is fine by the people keeping things this way… while they’re eating their lobster dinners and smoking fine Cuban cigars…which you and me can’t buy because that’s illegal and only the rich and powerful are above the law. Please everyone, especially those of you who say things like you’re not that political or “I don’t follow politics…” …fucking follow politics! Shit if you had to hire someone to fucking garden you would at least meet them and evaluate them a little. You’re gonna tell me anyone could just waltz the fuck in to rule the country and you “don’t follow politics.” Fuck you! You don’t have to know the guy’s stance on everything, just watch one debate, read one newspaper. You know how when you write papers for just about anything, school/work at least, you tend to try and optimize the spelling and grammar? Well tell me how someone who shows what an ignorant douche bag he is like Bush can king of America when the fucking guy can’t spit out a complete sentence.

On a personal note, I am sorry to have put any readers who know me as being a little more lax and fun-loving through this read, but I have had so much pent up aggression and rage with this…I finally had enough. Anyone who knows me knows that I have always been a bleeding-heart patriot. I’ve always loved America and always was proud to be an American. I’m the guy that owns a billion different varieties of USA bandannas, shirts, and other attire. I’m the guy who gets a hard-on on July 4th. I’m the kinda guy that memorized all the songs this country has dedicated to it. I’m the fucking guy who wears red, while and blue feather boas on American holidays and isn’t embarrassed to be patriotic. A snap-assessment now would be to turn my back on this country and say I’m no longer and patriot or I’m anti-American. However, it dawns on me that this isn’t the case…I’m a REAL American! I didn’t turn my back on this country, nor did it turn it’s back on me. We let a few people with sticks up their asses ruin it for all of us and I know I’m not alone as a real American, patriotic or not, you’re out there. If you ever couldn’t pay a bill or had to eat fruit and cold-cuts for a week, washing it down with nothing but water just to get by because your fucking rich fat cat boss decided that bringing home 200 dollars a week is more than enough for any average person … then you’re a real American too! It’s long about time we take back our country and get things back how they were supposed to be…some sort of semblance of how our forefathers planned things out. Oh, and if you’re from the south…take note that just about every culture’s silly myths and superstitions are long since dead…Jesus turning potatoes into French fries or whatever the fuck he did that made him so popular is just another myth and you people have to learn that when guy can’t say big words like “nuclear” and is a burned out coke-head, he shouldn’t be president because he likes Jesus so much. You’re better off electing a guy whose really into spiders or something, at least spiders are real and accounted for. Thank you.

Wanna bitch back? Feel free to do so.

So I’m wide awake on a breezy Monday morning night, actually I don’t know if it’s breezy, I’m inside. Anyway, I got to think ing a little bit and I decided to just throw out some random thought.s For one, to anyone who has wronged me in the past, I just have to wonder,,, what the fuck? Seriously, what did I ever do to you? Honestly, I’m willing to bet in fact that through out all the time I’ve known you, I have probably enriched your life somehow or another. Namely on the opposite side, I never took a damn thing back for any of it. Never did I retrieve anything or return the favor, I just was a plane damn nice guy. I can’t understand why you have selected me to snake your mongoose…if that makes any sense. Just close your eyes and thnk back to my roll in your life, and if maybe annoying at some times…did I ever do anything that bad?

You know what else? I don’t think women should be president! EVer!

Another thing I’m sick of is NTSC broadcast signals, enough already!

Furthermore, Podcasts rock, and if you don’t listen to podcasts, you’re living in the 20th century, which is 100 years ago already.

A lot of people have disagreed with some of my choices for the top ten girls, save it, you are all wrong.

Hulk Hogan still is God!

I have also been thinking about redesigning this site, anyone disagree, is it nice enough already?

Myspace annoys me so much! John C. Dvorak, whom I think worlds of calls it livejournal 2, and he’s pretty much right, I can’t think of many things he’s wrong about.

What the fuck happened to professional wrestling also?? I could give a shit about every character anymore. They’re all the same. I mean, back in the day, you never heard guys talk about winning the championship until 3 months until a championship match. Heck, the whole roster could go for years and not cross paths. Now it’s all “I’m gonna be champion” and then there’s a pay per view each month, that’s stupid. Matches used to be hyped for like months…I know it’s a money thing, 30 a month…just make 5 pay per views a year for 50 or 60, people will bite, especially if you know…there’s matches worth paying for.

Sirius radio is one of the best investments I ever … invested in. Without Howard in my daily life, I’d kill myself.

I HATE George Bush, he’s so ridiculously stupid, I can’t believe he got re-elected still. I hate the south, you guys should all be fucking nuked or form you own country and leave us alone. All we need to run this country is the entire North East, Illinois, Michigan, Florida, California, and Nevada. We also need to legalize prostitution, because … why the fuck not?

Abortion rocks!

Girls of the world…your AOL does not run slower because you “downloaded a lot of mp3s”

Nintendo is still the best by the way…The PSP is BS …P…. Get a DS and a portable media player. Fuck Sony, they’ve always been a shitty company. Other than a Playstation, I don’t think I’ve bought one Sony piece of hardware in like 10 years or so.

If you’re talking, you’re doing the wrong thing.

My eighth grade French Teacher, Ms Wang, was awesome but scary. Why? Because when she got fed up with you, she’d pull down her blouse and squirt you with her poisonous acid-like Milk! and she’d yell “MIIIILK” when she did it.

Girls, just because guys wanna fuck you does not make you hot. Guys will fuck anything really easily. The real test of how hot you are is if a guy will tongue you in a bad place.

Instead of taking vitamins, just eat food.

Don’t bother bitching about how great your cats are…I assure you mine are 1000 times cuter and have more personality.

Nobody likes Muslims

If I were rich, I wouldn’t donate to any charity, but I would probably invest money in making a big sign or banner proclaiming that I have not donated any money to charity, and fly it in a Helicopter in front of a charity place. Gotta let em know whose the bitch in this equation.

Whoever your childhood Superhero is…Hogan could beat them…The Green Ranger could smash him, Batman could bash him, and Palpatine could trash him.

I’ve decided to deem myself “Technophile” Hot right? Here’s a pic of 4 computers in my house right now…

That’s excluding 2 more.

Well everyone, I’m gonna be drunk off the net now…the 1st ammendment was fun, peace.