Post #499 The Last One Before #500

Well I wanted to do something awesome for my 500th Post so I thought I would give a chance to all my viewers who are to lazy to comment to actually remain more hidden but have a voice. A Real Voice to call my voicemail box.

(206) 973-7886 Long Distance Charges May Apply

This doesn't have caller ID so I please request if you wish to state your name and you can say whatever you want about my 500th Blog Post. I will throw them all together in an audio clip with all kinds of hoorah and fanfare. This isn't my cell phone # or anything like that. But it actually is a real phone # so please call it and you will hear my voice pickup. It will stay annoymous I won't know who you are unless you say who you are.

So please call and rant away I look forward to hearing some of these. So that will be post #500 with all your call ins.

Again the Voicemail Box for Tristan's Blog
(206) 973-7886



Okay working on the audio now. Getting all the permissions done with the audio. Coming soon I promise. Still taking a few more calls. Little odd thought some of you who said you would call would call. But anyways tomorrow night is the last night I will be accepting calls and will have the 500th Post on Wednesday!

Enjoy

Edit
Well the post is coming this evening! I am taking calls till 3PM PST. Give myself some extra work. I have a lot of stuff that isn't related that is just so funny I have to get into this. Even the mighty Dave has sent in some clips that I will have some comments on.

Anyways. Stay Blogged In!

Students Banned from Blogging

Catholic School Bans Students from Blogging

Okay I found this article on /. and this got me thinking. Would I want to prevent my child from blogging under the assumption it lets predators invade my childs life. I am not sure about you but since I have been blogging I have had the chance to get to know some really cool people and some not so cool. I check out the other personal page sites and remember my first page over at Expage. I did a Tripod Page and then moved on to a side project called Teen Alliance. I then kinda took a break and moved into the Satellite Radio Forum world and I have been in that public light since that moment.

I have hosted many personal pages and I have never really liked the format of being limited to the engine behind Xanga or MySpace. I love the blogger engine because you can customize everything in a tasteful way. But blogging is a new trend and hasn't really been made easy until recently. I am not a fan of the MySpace culture and never really been into that because it's just annoying and to much for me.

Xanga was an engine I looked at but again it's something you have to pay for to make it worth any while and I have yet to see any Xanga page to impress me. I have not linked to any in a long while. LiveJournal is an alternative but you have to pay for that also to make it worthwhile. And I really do not want to pay for a service on top of my web hosting fees. I love the open standards of Blogger and just enjoy this wonderful community of Bloggers. I need to change my links page because the only people that seem to update are Jon and Junniper anymore. I need to expand my blogging horizons. Out of all the people that feed my hits Junniper comes in at #1 from the blogging community. I get 66% of my hits from blogger just from her. Kinda weird I only know her through blogger. She has asked me a couple questions I would like to answer for her but just not publically on here. But if you are reading this shoot me an e-mail and I will answer your questions.

But back to the topic at hand. If I had a child would I let him or her blog. Well being the bit of the computer guru I really don't think I would let my child have access to myspace at home. Beacuse well most guys I know on that site are just out for sex. That is all they seek and the women they find are willing to give it to them. I wouldn't be cool with that. There are exceptions to the rule. But blocking a site is easy enough but then I get to thinking where would I stop to protect my child online. My parents tried to block me from the internet when I was little. But that just inspired me to find ways around their stupid filters and being the young genius of computers at the time we had no real problem with doing this.

My High School North Kitsap High School had this filter known as Bess. Me and Darin had it cracked 2 days after the first day of school. We were not real concerned with being filtered we just liked the challenge of getting around it. Then they got smart and start blocking ports to the proxy servers we had setup. So we just got a bit more clever and would telnet into the library to surf the web. Then we discovered RDC with Windows 2000 Server and with the idea of Broadband we got around again. It wasn't that complicated but most people our age had no idea how to do that.

Pretty much every rule that North Kitsap High School has in place for computers was because of me and Darin. We got into a lot of trouble but easily got out of it. We were banned from the High School computers for our entire sophmore year but we were in so many computer classes they just couldn't take us out so that "punishment" was null and void. We were just a giant cause of stress and the rule book was just getting larger and larger.

I remember me and Darin tried to start a after school computer gaming club to try and learn the Half-Life 3D Map Modeling engine to map out a model of the school using the Half-Life engine but that plan was shot down because of the violence involved in making a mod for Half-Life. Then Columbine happened and we were probably put on a watch list.

But I guess what I am trying to point out you can't stop anyone from doing something like that if they are determined but I could outsmart any kid probably and block out their intents to blog. People are all running these linksys and netgear routers. Those are easy to login to because 98% of them I come across everything is still on default. I like my Pentium 3 700mhz Box with 12GB HDD and 64MB of RAM running Red Hat Linux 9 as my Router/Firewall/Wireless Access Point. I have complete control and can lockout everything or nothing. I don't know many 14 year olds that like to blog and would want to try and tamper with that thing.

So don't filter kids blogging from the school level. Let the parents talk to the kids about responsible internet use. But in this society parents actually stepping up to talk to their kids and take some action and showing them how the internet works. Probably will never happen because most adults don't have a clue about what their kids are doing on the internet. It's kinda amazing being able to drive around at night open up my Mac use FINK to compile Ethereal and just grab peoples Instant Messages right out the air and read them if I so choose. Most of it is pointless dribble but everyone just be careful and secure your wireless network. Or you can hire me to do it for you. =)

-Tristan

Nerd Test Stole from Jon

90% scored higher (more stupid),
2% scored the same, and
8% scored lower (less stupid).

What does this mean? You are 8% stupid. This means...

You are our next Einstein. Wow! Keep up the great thinking

Thank You Jon for your Wonderful Test. I don't feel so stupid now. ;-)

Work Stories Part 1 (McDonalds and Wal-Mart)

I have been told there are a few topics that I never blog about that I should blog about. The major ones are work and school. So this post is all about my views of work and how I think about Work.

My job history goes like this. I got my first job when I was 16 working at McDonalds in High School. I started off working the front counter and my first day I didn't understand how to operate this DOS POS system and they thought I was not capable of doing the front end stuff. So that summer I got moved to the grill area and was the nominated "Meat McBitch" Where your sould purpose was to cook the meat used in all the food. They had two types of Beef. 10-1 and 4-1 which basically means 10 patties in 1lbs and 4 patties in 1lbs. They cooked in 41 and 92 seconds and it was a hot ass summer and but it was great people and we could just have a good laughing time. Then they moved me to making sandwiches and I was the only crew person who could handle "McBitch" and "McGuy who Makes the Sandwiches" they were like woah this guy doesn't suck and I was promoted to a manager at 17 of McDonalds. I worked there until August 2001 and then moved to Indiana.

When I got to Indiana I was jobless for about a month and then I job possibly the worst possible job that any person could get. Which was a Wal-Mart cashier at store #1492 in Kokomo, IN. There was this demon bitch manager named Linda Leake who ran the store. She was just a total psycho and her husband was some manager above her. Gave new meaning to working your way to the top.

Now I have an amazing hate for the Wal-Mart Corporation for the way they do business and how they treat their employees. This store I worked in was at the heart of the Ghetto of America which is the midwest. I enjoyed the first three days of my working for this company.

Now Wal-Mart is where the cheap people who have nothing or just slightly above come to shop to save 3-4cents on whatever. Then Bitch if the price is off by one cent. This job brought my attitude to this amazing negative point and just gave me a bad impression of the midwest. I was the only male cashier in this store the rest were either old ladies or pregnant teenagers.

Anyways back to the topic at hand. Wal-Mart Cashier. Now the hours were never set and you got your schedule 3 weeks in advanced. Which means you have to plan your life 3 weeks in advanced which means you have to be prepared for everything. I had one Saturday off in 2 years that I worked for this company. But the hours were always something like this and I would have been given 40hrs if I had wanted them but I needed an extra day off from the hell of this company. So here is my example work schedule with school at the time.

M- 2pm-11pm
T- Work Off School 6am-7pm
W- 4pm - 1am
TH- Work Off School 7am-6pm
F- 2pm-11pm
S- 6am-3pm
SU - 2pm - 11pm

That was my schedule 90% of the time. The benefits at Wal-Mart you got a discount card that gave you 10% everything in the store except for groceries. You had to pay out the ass for health insurance that you can't afford working for just above min wage.

Now I wish I had my DVD of Clerks with me with the famous quote that says "This job would be great if it wasn't for the god damn customers" Being a customer of anything seems to have the mentality that you have the right to bitch about anything and everything. But do you really expect me a guy making just over min wage to really care what you a fat ugly person who is shopping at Wal-Mart arguing with me about the price of 13 cent Top Ramen being 10cents last week? I could really give a shit about what you have to think and would just enjoy having you shut up and having your kids shut up.

Now as most people know I am not religous and being in Indiana is a religon haven for everybody. You see more churches then you do coffee joints. People were so narrow minded that they couldn't accept me for a person they saw me probably as some form of the anti-christ. I remember this customer went through my line and checked him and his wife out and at the end I was like have a good day and they told me "God Bless you and Jesus Loves You" (WTF?!) I responded with something polite along the lines of "I appreciate that but that is not my thing" they were beyond freaked out so after that next day I come in all these people are waiting for me and are waiting to get in my line and come to me and say "Jesus Loves You" I had 268 customers that day and 126 of them told that to me. I have no idea why I remember that fact but it serves me an odd memory to recall that. But anyways I finally snapped on one of these bible thumpers and was like "I can respect that you have your own beliefs I would ask that you respect mine. But trying to convert me to your beliefs by pissing me off probably is not the best way. You just had me develop a more negative attitude about what you believe in. Now I suggest you call your little cult off before I seek the managment about this" They loved their precious Wal-Mart to much to want that to happen after that day never happened again. (Side Note: At my current school I have yet to see anyone outside passing out bibles like they did at the schools in Indiana. I thought this was a bizarre action. On a Side Side Note according to a survey of book stores the most shoplifted books are 1. Cliff's Notes 2. The Bible 3. The Koran)

Customers are what pay for your pay check yes I understand this. But if you have a valid complaint make sure it's worth my time over 3 cents on crappy MSG noodles. Calling off Sick for Wal-Mart is a bunch of bull shit. Now I have only called off sick 3 times from any of the jobs I have ever had.

1. McDonalds - Coming back on a Bus Trip from Indiana from sitting on a Bus for 53hrs my feet got swollen with water in them and I could hardly walk and had to have a tube put in to drain all the extra water. I called off for that since that job was standing 8hrs a day.
2. Wal-Mart - I had 2 days off in a row and I got sick and had been introduced to my friend John on all my days off. I called in Sick and had to talk to the Dick known as Manager Dean. He told me to take Pepto Bismol and come in anyways. I was like screw this I called off and hung up the phone.
3. Wal-Mart - I called off because I was just in a bad mood and wanted to go turn in job applications all day.

Anyways the best experience I had at Wal-Mart was when I got hired at Best Buy in Carmel, IN and I was at work on top of the world because I knew I was leaving. I am not eligible for a Re-Hire at any Wal-Mart in the world because of this. I put in my two weeks notice and Best Buy called me and said Hey can you start on Monday. I was like sweet so I turned in my two weeks on Friday. I didn't show up on Saturday the day before Easter one of the busiest days of the year. That was a No Call No Show I was laughing all day I felt so devious. =) Then on Sunday I came in to work 2pm-11pm and said Yeah today is my last day. I got there at 2pm and I told 6 Customers to go Fuck Themeselves. 5 to Go Brush their teeth because their breath could strip the paint off a buick. (This joke holds a bit of reference because Kokomo, IN has the Chrysler Transmission Plant and 98% of Kokomo, IN works there. So they found anything GM offensive). The manager came and got me off the register and said Your going home now. This was awesome I got to go sit in the back room and they were like how come you didn't show up on Saturday. I said because I hate you with a bizarre passion and everything you stand for and the overall fact you are a annoying bitch who only gets off on feeding your lies of shit to everyone and I amazed that so many people follow you. I think she wanted to rip my eyes out because she left the room. Linda Leake I hope she is on welfare somewhere. (Funny Note about this since I am ranked in Google shortly after this is posted you can type Linda Leake in Google and this will come up. I feel so powerful sometimes)

But leaving that place I was so happy I took that shitty blue vest and burned it and destroyed it for all eternity. Then I went to work for Best Buy as a Tech. I will save all those stories for another post.

I used to have a graphic I made which I will locate when I get home that had the Wal-Mart Font in a Logo I modified that ran like this "Wal*Fucks*You*In*The*Ass*And*Steals*Your*Soul*Mart" it was beautiful I think it's hidden in the archives of my FTP Server. So I will pull that up when I get home.

Stay Beautiful World.

P.S. Mwa Ha Ha

Tanks on the Road!

Rock Climbing Pictures

The Lovely Teresa finally hooked me up with some pictures we took of one of the four walls that I conquered. That is all that I got but man kinda awessome getting to the top. Worst part was coming back down. She was like lean back with nothing but a rope holding you. She played with me dropped me like 10 feet and then laughed.

I was scared shitless she was enjoying my fear just a bit to much. ;-)

XM Comedy vs Sirius Raw Dog

Okay this is the SiriusDude.com Blog by Tristan Pipo but you can access this via www.xmdude.com/blogger but I was looking for this comedy bit by some unkown comedian where he goes to a party and he talks about how life should be more like movies where you could break out in song randomly at any time. And goes into this awesome bit about being called Rif Raff and goes off on this Aladdin bit.

So I sent off an e-mail to XM Comedy and Sirius Raw Dog Comedy. This is just a comparison of the services customer support.

XM Comedy didn't send me an e-mail the Program Director Joel Hass over at XM called my cell phone and we tried to look for it and we talked about XM and how the commercials are kinda taking over XM Comedy. I then talked to him about a few issues I had and they took that into consideration. Then we talked about the Tom Leykis show boys night out.

It's not to often you get personalized service that they actually call you thanking you for your feedback.

My Sirius Response went like this.

It was totally canned from a Customer Service Rep that had no clue what I was talking about and it will probably be passed along into no where. I love my Sirius but the customer service has never done anything to impress me. XM keeps making me think no wonder they are #1 I mean with personalized support that I had been offered was amazing. He could have just sent me an e-mail that was totally canned but he took the time to make a phone call and let me know he was working on finding it and would get back to me.

I am a SiriusBackstage.com Moderatoro and Love Sirius Satellite Radio but XM Customer Service is a lot better. Well The DJ feedback is better on XM then on Sirius.

Podcasting Thought

I was thinking while I am sitting here baking up 3GB of Outlook Files to an external HDD to put on a customers new laptop and I am listening to the Daily Source Code and I check out new podcasts now and then and there is this one where a guy is driving and he just records in his car. And I thought a cool idea would be to bring my headeset and plug it into my laptop and use Audio HiJack Pro or Garageband to just do a mobile Podcast in my car. Because I have a 2hr drive home from class or do it going to class. And I find that a lot of bizarre stuff tends to happen on the road. I made an attempt at his on my cell phone with the whole tank experience driving home last night.

Just stuff like that comes to mind or just saying what is on my mind while I am sitting in traffic. But eh just an idea. I listen to so many podcasts now. I currently have 11GB of Podcasts sitting in my iTunes Library and subscibe to over 25 of them.

Anyways Peace Out

Cat vs CAT-5

Cat killing my leg and cat-5 cable

Crazy Client Cat

Some clients cat violating my laptop bag lol damn cats.

Well I am doing a favor for a friends girlfriend she has a few computers she needs tweaked and backed up and just overall craziness she has this cat that is beyond insane raping my laptop bag and my legs with it's claws of death. But when it's like attacking my arm it doesn't use claws other times it does.

I hate my crappy camera phone.

Back to Work.

Boys Night Out Comedy Tour 2005

Well Archive.org just approved my review of the Tom Leykis Show Boys Night Out Comedy Tour for hosting since I didn't want to foot the bill for this bandwith and I should have a link for everyone in the next day or two to download this review. Almost a month late but I guess that's how it works with Archive.org.

Link Coming Soon

Updates to My Blog and Podcast Snip

Well been an odd day but have been working on a new layout for the Blog. It's basically the same but a new cosmetic look. Just have to add a few more of the custom things before we get it converted over.

Also me and the MikeE have come up with the name for the podcast. Which we will be setting up in a few days and should record the first show in a few days. Maybe early next week.

Been playing a lot with MegaSeg Demo and Audio HiJackPro and Skype and Garageband and all kinds of cool software for the Mac and done a lot of research and we are going to use Feedburner for our RSS Feed powered with Blogger and going to use this site as a host for now until we can get the situation with CCPublisher and Archive.org in proper order.

I am thinking about copying the Adam Curry Style metaWiki for Time Code Show notes. And we will be on iTunes and a few other of those podcast portals on the web.

Anyways Rock Out Everyone.

Mary and Karla Video Podcast

Well I heard this podcast on the Daily Source Code Of this Podcast called the Mary and Karla show and they have a video podcast so I downloaded a few shows and I must say this show just wants to make me want to cry. The girl was talking about some guy she met and she was saying "O-M-G O-M-G" Crap like this makes me thing "W - T - F" They are just so high on themselves. But they wanted us to e-mail them saying what we think so I thought I would blog this and then send them an e-mail.

There are a few podcasts I listen to by females one is The PodPrincess she is somewhat tolerable but she mentioned me on her podcast in episode IV so I feel like I am obligated to listen and when I get mine launched I will give her a plug.

They Whine and Complain. But I give them massive props for having the courage doing this amazing podcast but which tells me they are attention whores "Please E-mail Me!" "Look at me Shake my Ass" and being a guy this totally works for me. Even though I can't stand them it's crazy. But I think females will get along with them or hate them or critique them over and over again. They say they have two degrees each and I don't know how but they must have put themselves out there and they are growing the female podcasting market?

There promo they have says "They don't know an RSS Feed from our Tight LIttle Asses" pretty good ringer for every 13-30 year old male. So it's worth a watch if you can stand them for more then 5 minutes you get massive props from me. But I have no idea about this show. I don't really like it but I don't hate it but I won't be downloading a whole lot of episodes of this podcast. But the more I watch this episode I am doing the test on Video Podcast - #17.

Here is their Audio Promo Hijacked from the Daily Source Code - Mary and Karla Podcast Promo MmmKkk

I am sure they fall into the cliche of having a MySpace and all that fun jive. So check it out comments are welcome I will be shooting this e-mail off to them. Thanks for checking out my blog. And if you dare check out their podcast.

Weekend Insights

Well I wanted to see Elizabeth town but my "date" canceled on me cause we went rock climbing and she kinda got destroyed by gravity and her boyfriend came back into town. (Laughs on the Inside Nice Huge Relief) But the Rock Climbing was awesome I have never been in so much pain afterwards. I would kill for a nice back massage. Well maybe not kill. She took some pictures of the wall I got to climb. I tried four walls and made it to the top every time. I was surprised when I walked in and I said I needed size 15 or 16 rock climbing shoes they said we have them all the way up to 18's. I managed to fit into the 16's. But you can tell that those walls are not meant for size 16 feet. A little tiny place to put your foot as you climb the wall. It was a great workout if it wasn't so expensive I would do it again. Maybe me and the Teresa will go try to hit up the Pinnacle in the Seattle REI That would be a fun day perhaps. But would probably kick my ass since I am still a hell of a newbie. You can see this when you are driving south on I-5 when you are coming into Seattle. Looks pretty looming driving by it.

But I guess I have a new addiction. Since I switched gym's been working out with Nick and Jack and Chris now and Jack is this scrawny dude that is really into wrestling but he showed me like 6 new lifts that rocked my arms into a new type of pain. I am pretty tired of trying to motivate other people to go to the gym or do something with their life. Just let them find their own path. Maybe I just try to hard.

It's been a pretty weird experience in life recently felt like my life has been enriched a bit. Looks like January I will be heading out to the great state of NY for a week or so. Looking to finish school in March and probably move somewhere new after that. Kinda just ready to start Life Version 3.Tristan currently in Version 2.Tristan but just like me to make something as random and unlogical as life try to fit in some weird version schema of logic.

We are about to hit the roman numeral of D for 500 posts on this Blog. Which seems small in comparison to my posts on Forums which range in the 1000's I have yet to break 10k anywhere. But should do something for that special occasion.

But anyways for those who just want a quick summary we have this elegant bulleted list.

• Didn't See Elizabeth Town =(


• Went Rock Climbing Loved It


• New Work Out Friends


• New Interest


• Life Versions


• Almost 500 Posts


• Summary with HTML Bullets!

This is Tristan Over and Out from the college campus.

I Have a Tech Question

This is a rather basic question since this seems different to me then in the Linux/Unix world. I have this program that eats a lot of processor time and can stall a bit and I want to assign it with more processor time in OS X 10.4.2 so I want to move it up in the Utility list.

But I am not exactly sure on the syntax and the man page for nice wasn't exactly helpful though I did learn that if you assign a negative # it raises it up in the que for processor time higher and it has been around since Version 6 of AT&T Unix.

So I switched over to the directory my Home Folder which has a path to where I want like this.

/Users/tristanpipo/desktop/MegaSeg 3.0.1

Some reason when I attempt a SU and try to login as root I it says my password is invalid but I don't believe OS X requires you setup a root user password.

I think I am just missing a step here is a Screenshot but any help is appreciated

Some Fine Dining

I have been testing some Yahoo Searches as related to my Blog trying to raise the ranks on all the search engines. I ran a search for Tristan and I found a restaurant in South Carolina called Tristan.

www.tristandining.com

I thought this was pretty cool. I can now go tell people to go eat me and have a laugh on the inside that they can if they go to South Carolina. Looks like a pretty fancy place. Kinda like this individual. ;-)

Post #482 - A Classic Tristan Moment

Well as a few of you know I am one of those Satellite Radio Legends who has been in the community ever since the beginning. I got XM first day it was released and Joined ClubXM.com in Feb of 2002. Became a Moderator in March of 2002 and have been around XMFan.com and SiriusBackstage.com since they were in the new. But I came across a classic post I made archived by the one and only guy who took the time to archive ClubXM.com in a Best Of way.

How Fast Can You Drive And Not Lose Satellite Radio

Now I made this post with the idea when I was in Indiana that everytime I would go to the Drive up ATM I would lose Satellite Radio service because of the covered bay area. But I would also keep service for a few seconds after that. So I got to thinking if you had a car or something to basically lift up off the ground and drive on imaginary road that just went in a circle around the earth how fast would you have to be driving between signal loss and gain that you technically would never lose signal.

It turned into a pretty good debate and it's gone down as one of the few greatest posts in History. I would like to thank that site for archiving that post. It was crazy to see that again. It was a good laugh. Then an XM Engineer came on the board and said don't worry about it slow down and enjoy the music. Well where is the fun in that and I still never got an answer.

MySpace Thoughts

Well MySpace.com just got hacked again MySpace gets Hacked. I am not sure if you are aware of this community of users but it's basically a site where you setup a profile and post your pictures so people you didn't talk to in High School and want to talk to you now can come find you.

I have a myspace profile I haven't update it since I created it back in early 2002. I have put a few clever things on there like I have a FeedRoll saying come check out my real blog which is updated in real time. But the way I view myspace is pretty much a giant cluster of morons making these horrible profile pages that crash most web browsers on the Mac. I have used IE, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Camino, Safari these pages will crash the only thing that can stand up to the horrible HTML/CSS Cluster Fuck of MySpace is Opera.

People are so hooked on Myspace they fail to realize there are other solutions out there. The one that has the most interest for me is OrkUt which is powered by the none other Google. Which means it doesn't suck and it has lots of cool features and it works with your gMail account and Google Talk.

Now what MySpace basically does is you get a list of friends. Which is always a popularity contest people you don't even know want to be your friend. I currently have 52 friends I think I have never met personally like 5 people on my list. I think one is a Club in Seattle so that might be even less. I could delete some of them but that's to much work because MySpace is so damn slow. They allow you to customize your pages using CSS and HTML and most of the time people have no idea what they are doing so they piece together a giant barrage of HTML hell.

Lets look at a few examples.
Salena - Preston's Ex Well we look at this site and we have Red Text on a White Marilyn Monroe Background with a song by Her. I just feel like my laptop is raping my eyes and banging my ears for good measure. Crapness Rating : 6

Brittany - Some Chick Local Well we go to this page and see she is a Britney Spears Addict. With Stars Blinking in the Background I disabled Music so I can't test that and frankily wouldn't doubt it. I got a few errors on loading because of Windows Media Player. Now I thought this was just a place for us young people to hang out but even her mom got in on this comments and said a Hello. I am thinking she might be insecure about herself and possible attention whore to build herself up this much on the internet. Crapness Rating: 9

Josh - High School Friend Since 1st Grade Well we look at this site and the colors are just here we are lets rape your face again. We Have Black, Red, Some Tealish Color, Some Purple Color. We have a giant Black Gap in the middle. We got lucky with No Video and it's just put together sloppy as Hell. Crapness Rating: 7

Well lets putmyself on the chopping Block.
Tristan Pipo Myself I have all the defaults and a little feedroll saying go to my Real Blog I don't update this Blog. I use the default scheme to hell with no mods. Crapness Rating: 3

That is just a small example but it seems every page is like this. I hate the ones that have nothing but glitter and are just a giant cluster fuck of like system crash.

I did all my testing on OS X Tiger 10.4.2 on my 1.5Ghz G4 Powerbook 2GB of RAM on my ATI Radeon 9700 with 128MB of Video Ram. I used Safari 2.0.1 and Opera Version 8.5 Build 2173

I am sure it's a great community but it's more of annoynace on the internet. It violates every rule for coding HTML that I have ever learned back when I was in High School and used Web Pages that Suck - Learn Good Design By Looking at Bad Design but people still think blinking green text on a fire background is just plain cool. Back when the web was run by the few people that knew how to make a website now it is out upon the masses. I hope these people never become real web designers trying to sell themselves to comapanies to make websites just like the MySpace pages.

Another Problem I have is the lack of RSS on mySpace they have an RSS feed for the Blogs on there but you have to actually look for it. It's not automatically done. Like this Blog I have given you the luxury of either ATOM or RSS using Feedburner. Sadly Blogger does not allow you to change your Header Tags by Default with the <$BlogMetaData$> area of your Template. Because that contains all your header information which is where you can change where your default RSS Feed be it RSS or ATOM you view on default.

Anyways Just wanted to vent again on why MySpace is by far the crappiest community on the net. Next comes Xanga. I can't say I have found anything really bad on Blogger other then the Spam Bots which have caused making commenting a Bitch for the rest of us because we have to enable a graphic test where you type in the text of a graphic. But makes life easier for me in the end.

Post 480 - Movies, Pictures, Gym

Well lets start this post off with Movies.

Well there are a few new movies that have caught my eye.

Match Point
This is a Woody Allen Movie starring the lovely Scarlett Johansson. Which brings me to another story I haven't had many celeberity crushes in my life my first was Jennifer Love Hewitt and that died down when she started doing horrible movies like the Tuxedo. I remember my ex girlfriend was so paranoid about my crush she wouldn't allow me to see anything with her in it. Then my dream crushes were in a null period until I saw Lost in Translation one of my all time favorite movies. Seeing her was like crush sparked again. I recently just saw "A Love Song for Bobby Long" I didn't have much hope for this movie but I enjoyed it. Wouldn't buy this DVD but I didn't feel like my time was wasted. But anyways back to Match Point. The trailer doesn't really show much about the film but a brief summary explains this "At a turning point in his life, the former tennis pro Chris (Rhys-Meyers) falls for Nola (Johansson), a femme fatal type who happens to be dating TOM (Goode), Chris's nemesis and soon-to-be brother-in-law." But the trailer just grabbed me and made me think I have to see this film.

Which brings me to another movie I am really interested in seeing that I have blogged about Here Again I would like to say Thank You to the lovely but mysterious Junniper that has been reading and commenting on my blog ever since my little Pissed off at the Country when Bush came to office post. She was also the only person to get "Big Trouble" on my Movie Quiz Post.

But anyways that was a lot of links to myself in one paragraph. But anyways October 14th Brings around the release of Elizabethtown Comes out Friday and if you would like to go I really don't want to go by myself because going to this type of movie by yourself would be pretty lame. Going on Saturday hit me up if you want to go.

Pictures
I actually put a picture of myself on the profile. Taken with my broken Sanyo 8100 Camera Phone with horrible low res.

Not Bad kinda cliché having the "camera" in the mirror. All Myspace like I guess.

Gym
My and Nick switched Gyms this new one has a pool and a sauna and raquetball been looking at raquets and how to play and the rules really want to try this out. The KGB Mafia Man has been teaching me some Thai Chi (Correct Spelling?) that is some pretty cool stuff. How to focus energy I was a total skeptic until I tried this one thing resisting pressure on my arm.

But anways there is a kinda low down on what's new and what I plan to do. Thanks for Reading my People.

Coming Soon Podcasting - Post #479

Now most of my regular visitors know that I am a Podcast Addict. Which has got me thinking when I first heard this new idea called Podcasting was when I was watching the Apple WWDC Apple WWDC Quicktime TV For those to lazy to go watch this video I grabbed the audio from the video from the part all about Podcasting.

Steve Jobs Explains Podcasting 5.5MB MP3

I have listed what podcasts I subscribe to. Now some of you may know that Me and Preston started a little website NailsInTheRoad.com and we got the idea to start writing some short comedies. We have filmed a couple but the idea never really took off. But I still really like the name NailsInTheRoad and I am planning on launching a podcast. Using NailsIntheRoad or as we have started to called it NITR. I have found this to be a lot of Work. My Partner in crime has launched a videocast under the NitR flag and it requires iTunes. And the new iTunes 5.0.1 has Quicktime 7 and the new H.264 Codec so you can view that VideoCast or Podcast

A Short a Week - Nails in the Road Productions

I recommend iTunes to everybody I can't find a better player out there it's your all in one Jukebox. It Rips your CD's to MP3 or AAC, You can purchase music and download it to your iPod. I manage all my music with it and it's the easiet program to use out there for this work.

So reading this the thought has crossed your mind. "Tristan WTF are you going to podcast about?" Well the format for the show that I have planned as of right now is mainly about life. We have toyed with a few names "The Essentials - Computers, Life and Girls" has come to mind. Then we got to thinking we don't get a lot of girls so we crossed that idea out. Though Computers and LIfe are good. And Life can be anything including Girls when we get them. I also planned on featuring News Articles Of Interest.

I am planning on Getting a SkypeIN Phone # so we can have call in guests for those that are to lazy to install Skype and VoiceChat. I also plan to have cohosts I planned on rotating through Preston, Mike And the Russian ;-). I have always had this crazy dream that Talk Radio Personality would be a great job to have. But I haven't really found a way to break into this type of industry so just going to do it with this new Podcasting Technology just have been doing a lot of behind the scenes work and lots of testing.

The most difficult part has been the audio production getting music, effects, content all lined up and all the legal crap with what I can and cannot play. Been messing a lot with Garageband and thought about getting Logic and Soundtrack and testing those programs on my Mac seeing what I can do. But this has been in the planning for a long while.

Also if you install iTunes that Top 10 List you see is actually an Ad for iTunes that is why if you have ever clicked those links and they don't take you anywhere you need iTunes cause they will take you to the song in the store.

Also if you buy anything after clicking on any one of those links I make 5% of whatever you buy in 24hrs after clickong on one of the links. =)

Peace Out.

I should try one of those mood things.
Current Mood: "Pleasant"

A Rut!

I feel like I have been in a creative rut recently. Just have had a lot on my mind but nothing really to say. Lots of cool stuff has been happening. Seen a lot of movies, talking to some great people, joined a new gym, been looking at moving to a new area and a new school. Life has been pretty good but creativity has been down as of recently.

I had a really bad day today everything just has seemed to have been going down today. But anyways wanted to do an update on my reason for lack of updates.

Sign of Things To Come

I Heard it on a Podcast - Cruisebox
Audiopium
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Drunk Rants

Man was I drunk. Boys Night Out Pioneer Square After Show Drinking will do that to you.

I try the post again.

This post came about because when you call AudioBlogger you have to enter your phone # and then your pin. Then press # when you are done recording then 1 to post. I pressed 1 and it said okay re recording but you visit the blog and it was up there so I guess I did it right. But I was drunk and blah who cares. Hope it doesn't come back to haunt me in the end.