James Wynn

This post has both inspired me and given me great relief.  I’ve been searching the internet for some good progress in technology, and finally I have stumbled across it.  Two awesome little tools when hooked up allow you to find and keep up-to-date on all of your favorite tv shows.  Who needs DVR!?  With Democracy Player and tvrss.net finding and keeping up to date on your favorite tv shows is simple and automatic.  Step one, find the a feed on tvrss. Step two, enter that feed into Democracy Player and start the download.  Step three, enjoy your shows everyday!

UPDATE:  After playing with Democracy Player a bit I’ve found it does not manage torrents very well.  It is best to download torrents with something like utorrent (which will handle rss feeds nicely) and then watch them from some other program.  DP still provides access to tons of other quality content though.

PraiseMoves has got to be the most retarded thing I’ve seen in a long time. People were afraid that the moves and meditations learned in yoga lure you away from the Christian god and open you up to be seized by the devil. I’m by no means a yoga master, nor really even a yoga novice. I can’t even state that I’m particularly well versed in the Christian bible, but I CAN tell the difference between reasoning and rhetoric. This “Christian Alternative” is a charlatan’s wet dream. She prays on the blind paranoia that plagues many of the young and uneducated, and the old and feeble. The reasoning will take a bit of distorted fact about yoga, quote a bit of scripture and misinterpret (or interpret with much creative license) to contort people minds into thinking this is an appropriate course of action.

Next I’m afraid she is going to try to separate Tai Chi from the Tao. I can see it: “Turn away from the Tao, for that which is unknowable is inherently evil! Tai Chi’s forms mimic congress with the devil! Flowing in harmony with the world is not following Jesus!”

I want to say that this sort of behavior makes me sad, but from a different angle I have to appreciate her entrepreneurship. She sees a demand that people dont even know they have, and develops a product that exploits it. This succeeds for the same reasons preachers in metropolitan areas have huge houses. In this she almost swindles some respect from me. Perhaps I should drop into the religious racket? Write some religious fiction, or perhaps buy an old Food 4 Less and jump into the Wholesale Jesus business.

I’ve been playing with lots of newer technology lately and I’ve been trying to update my blog in doing so.  First I added tag support, this required me moving away from blogger, which wasnt a huge issue for me.  Then I started adding more media content, videos and pictures, and music.  I started thinking about all the other things to incorporate: tag-clouds, technorati links, del.icio.us integration, playlist display.  Now the site is starting to get cluttered and gross though.  Perhaps thats why it hasn’t been posted to in a while.

Something must be done.  SOMETHING MUST BE DONE.  Oh the humanity.

“Does the noise in my head bother you?” - The Gods Must Be Crazy

Now these guys at Tiki Bar TV are truely indie. I havent found something this entertaining being freely distributed for a long time. Great work.