Urge to kill rising. I find the reaction here far more threatening than both the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street combined.

Seriously, just read through a bunch of these. It paints an ugly picture.

If you really need access to blacked out Wikipedia pages, Google’s cache feature works wonders.

1. uncle jesse
2. lord gonchar
3. uncle
4. xmas tree up an arse
5. homies
6. metallica christmas
7. long goatee
8. s.e.cupp
9. “barely legal swedish girls”
10. “christmas tree” ass

Needs a little fine tuning, but I’m pretty much reaching exactly the audience I need to be.

1. lord gonchar
2. uncle jesse
3. every piss begins with pee
4. homies
5. i wanna do flo
6. my body is a lockbox of diamonds
7. brown sugar fountain
8. usps clown commercial

Least used:

“I love that thing you do. You know, that thing. With your mouth…and the ice cubes…and the blowtorch and the 13 trained poodles and the autographed photo of Merle Haggard made out to someone’s Uncle Norman and the mp3 of La Bamba. That thing. I love it.”

It doesn’t appear on the list anywhere.

The final cost to us (after insurance pays their piddly portion) would have bought us about three or four weeks of amusement park travel (based on past trip costs).

The funny thing is that we still haven’t gone to a single park this year and no one seems to miss it. Short, much needed break or larger trend coming into focus?

We’ve traveled pretty extensively to visit amusement parks for the past 10 years and I’m trying to remember the last summer we didn’t visit at least one amusement park (long before coasterimage) and I think that year would be 1992. Starting in 1993 we made yearly visits to Kennywood and/or Cedar Point. Might have skipped a year around 1997 or 1998, not really sure. The point is it’s been a long time (before kids) since we didn’t visit at least one park during the year. Not sure if I’m relieved or scared that we might not this year.

But, yeah – my daughter is getting braces put on next month.

Came across this the other day. For some reason I’m absolutely enamoured with the gif/movie-quote format. The gif style is dead on too. It’s like some bizarre museum where the pictures come to life…but just for an instant. I can’t quit admiring them.

Map Of Metal

Curve Appeal

Good stuff.

I noticed that more and more I post the little things on Facebook. It’s just too easy to post a little link or snap a pic with my phone and send it to Facebook. It feels more and more like this blog only gets half of the story.

I’m not sure how I feel about that.

Wow! Really nice stuff. The map now changes from map view to aerial to bird’s eye automatically as you zoom in and they’ve added a “Streetside” feature that viciously crushes Google’s Street View. The whole thing is ridiculously smooth and intuitive – it just feels right and it looks damn good.

Definitely go check out the beta.

(note: this is the 600th entry to my blog)

Click over to watch the biggest version (HD) and skip ahead to around 1:30 (right after I use the Diamondback logo to fill space) and watch the track after the train passes over. I never realized it moves that much on the drop. Crazy stuff that I only noticed when I slowed the shot down.

“No problem douche”

This was the response from Mark Meadows at MVM Data, mark@mvmdata.com, when I contacted www.shawneeshuttle.com to remove a photo of mine they used in a commercial setting and without attribution.

That’s so much bullshit. I’d drive to that dude’s house and punch him in the mouth. I hate the way the net has spawned this “everything is for the taking” mentality.

Two pieces of advice for all of you photo-taking types out there:

1. Register your photos with the US Copyright Office.

It’s easy to do electronically these days and depending on the nature of willful infringement, the payout to you as a photographer is anywhere from $750 to $150,000 plus fees per photo.

2. Put a copyright watermark on your photos.

If you find the need and/or effort to register your photos to be too much, at least put a copyright mark on them. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) makes it illegal for someone to remove your “copyright management information” from your photos to disguise infringement from unauthorized use.

Even if you haven’t formally and legally registered your photo with the US government, the DMCA still allows for fines starting at $2500 and runnng up to $25,000 if you can prove removal or alteration of the copyright mark/info on the photo for unauthorized use.

Don’t let people just take the things you work hard to create. Whether you expect full professional licensing fees or nothing more than a simple acknowledgement, it’s still fucked up when someone takes what isn’t theirs.

Scary that unprofessional assholes like the one Tyler had to deal with are able to make a living in this world. Maybe if that guy created anything worth stealing, he’d understand.