Naked Paul Toast’s Insights

This is the first time I have used a third party web host. I find a lot of the cpanel web interface clunky, and wish I could get at a shell.

I had a hell of a time connecting to the blogs mySQL database, I followed the instructions to a tee, researched all the FAQs, scoured the forums, and finally opened up a support ticket. What an absolute joke.

The only thing I learned, was not to follow their advice, and to use my own instincts and good judgement.

I’m not interested in “outing” the hosting provider just yet, based on a negative first experience. I’m equally not interested in promoting them, although the cost is absolutely bargain basement.
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CAPALERT (ChildCare Action Project: Christian Analysis of American Culture) are a bunch of fundies. One of their roles is to analyse movies from a Christian perspective. They state; they don’t quantify the “artistic” or “redeeming” entertainment value.

Basically, they look for inappropriate Christian content in movies.

They reviewed 10,000 B.C., and wrote the following:

http://www.capalert.com/capreports/10000bc.htm

10,000 BC? How can that be since non-ape biped life is only about 6,000 years old? Only in the movies. The title would be more accurate if it were, say, 3,000 BC. Or 2,000 BC.

“non-ape biped life is only about 6,000 years old?”

“Only in the movies.”

Absolutely stunning!

This Nova documentary chronicles the Dover trial.

Two hours in length, conveniently broken into twelve chapters. You don’t have to watch it in one sitting. The trial demonstrates conclusively, that Intelligent Design is nothing more that Creationism in cheap sheep clothing. It also shows how Micheal Behe, Christian School Boards and other ID proponents will outright lie, even after swearing on the Bible.

www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/id/program.html

A few weeks ago the Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate, moderated by Tim Russert was on.

In the closing minutes Russert asked:

RUSSERT: Before we go, there’s been a lot of discussion about the Democrats and the issue of faith and values. I want to ask you a simple question.

Senator Obama, what is your favorite Bible verse?

He then gave all the candidates an opportunity to respond.

The very question disgusts and saddens me.

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Am I the only one who found the following topic amusing.

The guy is asking how to get started learning to program 39DLL, but his signature is advertising his 39DLL programming skills.

Better get in now, if you want him. He only has time to write three games.

Today in Ontario, are the provincial elections. Added to the ballot was a referendum on electoral reform.

The referendum was to change the current system, to a new system where the boundaries are redefined, and then after the election, members are added to ensure that the house represents the voters wishes proportionately.

This was a no-brainer for me. The very idea of politicians in office that are not elected is repulsive. There isn’t enough accountability now. We need more accountability, not less.

The MMP change was rejected soundly.

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I’m back playing at Party Poker. I withdrew my winnings about nine months ago. I’ll probably blog about it sometime.

Anyway, the final board is: 10, A, K, Q, J, no possible flush.

I make a pot size bet, and the other guy folds.

Now if you’re not a poker player, especially hold’em, let me  explain what just happened. There is a straight on the board, now since there are no pairs, and no more than two of a suit, the board has the best possible hand. A straight to the Ace. It would have been a tie, and we would have split the pot. No matter what cards either of us had.

How can you not make money off these guys?

A few days ago some laptops are stolen from Workplace in Vancouver.

Later on that day, “someone” uploads some pictures, taken with the webcam on one of the stolen iMacs, onto Flickr.com.

Get this, the pictures are uploaded into the flickr account of the iMac owner  The flickr account’s username and password, were saved locally on the laptop. So now, the owner of the stolen laptop has pictures of the person using the stolen laptop. He starts posting, the story spreads, and the person who has the laptop turns himself in.

Of course, he “bought” it from a friend.

Flicker.com pictures and comments

Vancouver Sun Story

Lesson to all you thieves, take a couple computer courses, before you start using your stolen laptops.

This entry could very well could be called “idiot of the day”, or even “idiot of the morning”, “afternoon”, “hour”, etc. I just don’t have the energy to keep up with the prolific posts that are constantly appearing. Plus, I just loose way to much blood from banging my head on the keyboard, reading what they have to say.

I struggled with the decision of actually linking to their post, or just writing a quick management precis. For now, I’ll just summarize. Of course some gems might just be to good to pass up, with out a link.

Today, I’m not talking about any single idiot, but rather a certain breed of idiot. These are the guys who think that after somebody has answered their topic, the topic should be closed or removed. These guys haven’t yet figured out that once a topic is answered and people stop responding it will gracefully descend down into the forum abyss, where all the other topics go to die. It’s a natural process.

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Every once in a while there is an invention or discovery, that unleashes onto the world, something that simply can not be undone. I’m sure it’s well intended, and there are often good uses, but I can’t help but think that the inventor must forever be haunted; waking up at night in cold sweat, fists clenched screaming, “Oh no, what have I done”.

Nuclear fission, leading to nuclear arms, gun powder, the automatic phone dialer, all come to mind.

Today, September 19, at 11:44 , marks the 25th anniversary of yet another one of those evil creations, and it can’t be undone.

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