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So if you read the article carefully, you will discover something interesting. Yes, that's right: The 69% of teens who believe that copying CDs is not a crime are probably right. So basically what this tells is is that the RIAA ran a study to see if teens thought copying CDs was legal. They got results that "angered" them. They published those results to show how misinformed the teens were. Then the author of the article thought they might go ask a real live lawyer what they thought, and low and behold: The teens are right?!
According to the article: Distributing free copies of a purchased CD or DVD is only a federal copyright crime if the value of the copied discs exceeds $1,000.
And oh yeah, Look at the bottom of the article Google Ads just crack me up.
It is an ongoing story about this guy who's friend had her sidekick stolen. She left it in the back of a cab and this other girl found it and just started using it. The girl who took it took pictures of herself and of her friends using it and also used AIM on it. Sidekicks automatically upload that kind of stuff, so when the guy's friend got a new Sidekick, she found the pictures and AIM logs on there. So this guy has been posting his whole story on a website. It is a pretty good story. I always love these kinds of things.
The story is probably safe for work (language and some sassy pictures of a fully clothed 16-year-old girl).
Apparently this guy is really good about responding to emails; however he has been slashdotted and dugg in the last couple days and I don't know if he is going to respond as well as he has.
Media Center Extenders rule. Actually, I am going to back that up and say, Xbox 360's rule. I bought my 360 a while back and I think it is just about the coolest gaming system ever. I love to play games on it just to play them. The graphics are jaw-dropping, and if you haven't played a 360 on an HDTV, go buy one right now. Tell them Pete sent you. Then when they ask who Pete is, tell them to read my blog. Because I need a larger reader base.
I always got a huge kick out of those PSAs on television that talk about not smoking marijuana. While the PSAs do a reasonable job at showing smoking marijuana is bad, they do just as good of a job at showing drinking, smoking (tobacco) and eating candy are bad. "Eating candy?" you ask? Yes, eating candy. The argument goes like this:
I am not, nor have I ever claimed to be, a "geography expert". I wasn't very good at it in school, I could never remember what the capital of Oklahoma was (Is it Tulsa?), where Wyoming is (but the question is, does anyone care?) or what that big country is that is north of us (Mexico?). However, apparently, I am a pretty normal kid. Because according to a study reported by cnn, 2/3 of kids my age can't pick out Iraq on a map. Now, assuming we have some pretty bright soldiers, and they are all in the top 2/3 of the population in geography, we can still safely assume that half of them have no idea where they are.
Maybe if this kind of thing stopped happening, other countries wouldn't laugh at us so much. Seriously.
So as you probably know, I am a fan of World of Warcraft. It is a fun game, and most people aren't jerks. I must admit that I am known to be a wise-ass, but I don't do things such as gank people, or spam the chat. Anyway, I was running around questing last night when I received a notice from a GM (WoW cop) informing me that I had been found in violation of their harassment policy and that I had received a warning. Since I rarely talk to anyone I don't know in WoW, I wondered how I had harassed anyone. Apparently this is what happened:
So I was watching TV last night and happened to end up watching "Lingo". It is a nifty little game show where you try and guess a 5 letter word given the first letter. You keep guessing until you get it right. They tell you if you get any letters right and if the letters you got right are in the right position or not. If you get the word in 5 tries or less, you get to pick 2 "Lingo balls" out of a container and you try to form a "Lingo" on your "Lingo" board (much like bingo). Anyway, so I am watching this and this girl gets a word that starts with "P". On about her 4th try, she gets the word right: "Prick, P-R-I-C-K". The host tells her, "Good job! Now reach in and grab a couple of balls!"
Now, maybe I am the only one that thought that was just hilarious. The girl on the show didn't laugh, nor did the host, nor did any of the audience. I am really not sure how everyone kept a straight face through that, but it was impressive. Right after seeing that, I thought, "Man, no one will ever believe this." But then I realized that I happened to be recording it (I love my media center). So I was able to take the recording, re-cut it, and convert it to a happy web form. So if you want to see it, check out my new "video" section, or click here. If you are having trouble viewing it, here is a direct download link. For Mac users, here is a Quicktime 7 version.
In other news, I am leaving for San Francisco on Thursday. It will be awesome.