Just Don’t Bite

Several months ago a friend told me of a book. This book was a simple book. Small and brown, hard cover. The title “What’s your poo telling you“. I ordered it off of the Amazon. The Book arrived and I found it funny as sin. What’s not funny about poo? We all do it, most don’t like to talk about it. This is a book about it. A book you can open to any page and read the description and KNOW that someone else in the room has had that poo. That someone has experienced that feeling. The book spent some time in the bathroom as reading material. No it sits on my table and is picked up and thumbed through by damn near anyone that comes over. Never fails to get a laugh.

Now if you don’t think I’m serious about this book and that it is actually a good read for you, Salon has a nice 2 page jot of the book. Along with a video of “man on the street” questions. So i encourage you, the next time you go and drop a deuc to look before you flush. When you take the cosby kids to the pool, check on them before you leave. When the brown bear has left the cave, take a look and make sure he is healthy.

Seriously… look at the crap that comes out of yer butt and make sure it’s ok and there are no issues. Your health will thank you for it.

Things to note:

• Blue food coloring will make yer poo green.
• Fire Hot Cheetos  will give you red tinted poo.
• Spicy food might give you burning poo.
• Keep your diet in mind when looking at it.

Also known as DRM or by the proper name it is Digital Rights Managment. Or maybe it is just a Damn Retarded Method of annoying your customers and unless you work for a media company you’ll probably agree. They like to argue that DRM is a must for digital media since you can make perfect 1:1 copies and a copy of a copy doesn’t degrade the quality. Also with the advent of the Internet you can share them at a really nice speed. Now that we’ve got the “but what about just coping tapes” argument killed we can move on as to why DRM and this mess is suddenly a problem and a waste.

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Time and time again I get asked about mp3s and how to deal with them. This might have something to do with having a sizable mp3 collection and the fact that I keep it very well maintained and clean. What will happen typically is someone will get a new mp3 player, and not surprisingly want to add music to it. Now I love mp3 players, I really do. I just hate how they deal with media most of the time. For me it has always made sense to organize my mp3s as follows.

\Artist\Cd\Track-Title.mp3 -or-
\Artist\Cd\Track-Artist-Title.mp3

Thats how they’ve always lived on my hard drives, it makes using just about any media application a snap. I can quickly and easily locate and load a cd. Now when it comes to things like iTunes, Windows Media Player, and the newer Winamp you get these nice library functions. This can make for a mess if your mp3s are not organized or were not ripped properly. You see these application rely on the ID3 tag to get info about the file, and (possibly) the file name to some extent. Or course when you throw things on your mp3 player, they like to use the ID3 tag.

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Ok, just so that I don’t have the comment run and mess in the other post here is more on what I’ve gathered. As I said before a Google shows up that this is a fairly common error. Now while I don’t have my browser history to find the exactly link I had came across last night, I do have a fair bit of memory, and found a few of them again.

Kotaku had a little blurb about it and points you to the Nintendo Repair Form to get the forms. Now keep in mind that Nintendos official stance on this is “A very small percentage of Wii consoles may have trouble consistently reading data off this large capacity disc if there is some contamination on the lens of the disc drive.”

Let us ponder this for a moment. At one time the slot loading drive of the system was a selling point as a method of keeping the discs and internals clean. I for a fact know my discs are clean and scratch free, I really do tend to take care of my games. Also I have a launch system, so it’s old. I have no problems with any other discs…. but I’m drifting here. IF it is as they say caused by a dirty lens, then ALL Nintendo Wii systems will at some point develop the problem of not being able to read dual layer dvd discs. Sooo either they need to develop and sell some little Wii cleaner disc, or let us know what is really wrong.

My own personal idea for the source of this problem is simple. The potentiometer isn’t adjusted right or a focal motor isn’t set right. When you send it in, they fix this and send it back. Or as some have stated, they replace the machine. Now I’m not really to keen on the idea of shipping my Wii back to Nintendo for a fix (yet). However if getting the disc to read is causing more ware on my Wii than it should, perhaps I should send it in.

[UPDATE] Here is the link I couldn’t find earlier @ Destructoid

After having the pre-order slip sitting in my wallet for oh so damn long, Super Smash Brother Brawl released. For some reason I’ve been looking forward to this game and awaiting it’s launch. After a few delays… I has it. Get home toss it in my Wii and “Disc Read Error”. First thought, call Gamestop and ask if anyone else has had issues and about swapping discs. This really is out of the question for a few reasons. One being that I always give them crap for trying to sell me a disc warranty. I don’t like the pre-order crap they push and let them know that I’ll pre-order when and what I want. Lastly I think the strategy guides are retarded and have no issues tell them that.

Anyhow a quick Google later and SURPRISE! Turns out that the Japan release had the same issue. Sometimes the game just don’t work. The solution, send it back to Nintendo and get it fixed. There are a mess of guesses as to what causes this issue, but they seem to center around it being the first dual layer dvd disc game. Well given the abuse my Wii has taken… I admit I giggled there… I’m surprised it plays any discs. I have occasionally had disc read errors. But Brawl has given me more than any other disc has.

Didn’t stop me from playing the game with a few buddies for about 8 hours though.

100 Photographs that Changed the World, take your time and thumb through them. Now what did you notice?

How many of those photographs where of violence, of pain, of suffering, and how many were of awe, beauty, and joy. Kind of a sick world really. These are photos chosen by Life Magazine (that is apparently a sub of Time Magazine). What is it about the negative side that is so life changing? What is so fundamentally wrong with us that it takes something wrong for us to act. I really wish I was kidding, but from what I’ve seen we are a very negative group of beings. Our news, our entertainment, our actions at times.

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Given that I am a news junkie and spend a vast amount of my time reading different aggregate sites, I come across a wonderful mix of news. But this little article titled Seven Kinds of Sex EVERY Relationship Needs really made me think. Not because it’s from a site that is apparently about being over 40. Or that it’s really just one of those girlie fluff things. But because I agree with the damn thing. Granted I’d think there are a few more that need to be added to it.

Pissed off Sex: Cuz lets face it, after an argument you’re both pretty damn heated and it’s a great release.

Public Sex: Hey nothing like the risk of getting caught. Of course this could be considered a quickie.

Shower Sex: The risk of slipping and falling with the joy of sex, two great things at once.

I dunno, I could probably come up with a bunch more. However I really do have better things to do than spend half my day thinking about sex.

I touched on the fact that my home town recently enacted a smoking ban. This ban kicks in on June 1st. The crux of the matter mainly being that my right to smoke and your right to clean air ends at your nose. Now I happen to like our local newspapers forums and tend to make a regular idiot of myself there. Unfortunately no one bit on my comparing smoking to bottled water. Rightly so, after all water is known to be good for you, while smoking is known to be bad for you.

However this twisted logic of “your right ends where my xxxx begins” applies wonderfully to the bottled water fad. Simply put your “right” to have a bottle of water end when you fail to recycle that bottle of water. Maybe I’m stretching a wee bit there, but given the stats on bottled water it’s hard to view it as a good thing.

The EPA and the FDA both have oversight on water, but you have to look at who is doing it and who is stricter. Turns out it’s the EPA. Guess witch one looks at your tap water? It ain’t the FDA, they look at that bottle that you spend two bucks for. You know, that two dollar chuck of plastic that is made from… oh wait I’m going to guess that most of the general populous of this great nation are idiots and would not guess that plastic is a petroleum product (oil for the slow). So you hummer driving, bottled water swigging soccer moms really are at the top of my list for people I don’t like.

Now I’m no chemist and can even pronounce phthalats but apparently it’s a chemical that can leach out of the plastic in bottled water, and then you drink it. But hey thats YOUR choice ain’t it? Never mind all the other random crap (notice where the word fecal shows up) that can end up in that bottled water that only has to pass FDA specs when your tap has to pass EPA specs. But the kicker is the amount of junk you create by using these bottles. The energy spend creating them, the water wasted there, the space in garbage fills, the amount of them I see on the street.

And I hear the cries “But your cigarette smoke sticks to my clothes!” Deal with it you pansy. Your plastic waste sticks around my environment for a heck of a lot longer. So instead of worrying about how some cigarette smoke stuck to you at the bar, worry about how you’re going to get busy with the chick you brought home from the bar and leave my damn smoky treats alone!

Super Smash Brothers Brawl is finally a week away. I checked the little preorder slip I have and it’s dated August of last year. The delays have been horrid on this game. Really hoping that they do a midnight launch of the game on Saturday, means my Sunday will be very well spent. Do have to get my Wii back sometime this week though so that I’ll be ready for the game.

Also turns out that in our fair little town we have decided to enact the whole “Smoking Ban” idea. Seems that we’re late on it since the state passed one already, however it means we go smoke free a year earlier. On the plus side they did get rid of the 10 foot from any door rule. I should be a little upset about the whole thing given that I am an addicted smoker and do enjoy my smokie treats while at the bar. But I’m not, I just don’t care about it. Here’s to the non smokers that have gotten rid of the smell that covers up all the other smells that flood a bar. Enjoy the smells that used to be hidden.

It seems to have been on the news, and in the news, and around our waists recently. But America is seemingly getting fatter and fatter as the years go by. Who knows what causes this. Be it the stress of working all the time, the crappy diet, or what ever. Fact is we’re getting fatter. The troubling fact though is our toilets seem to be getting smaller. How does this make sense?

The way I’m judging this is that in older houses that I’ve been in I find the toilets have a nice size bowl and there is no need to tuck down and scoot and make sure your not going to be left with fecal matter squishing up your backside. However in newer houses with newer toilets it’s like a game of chance. You must sit what seems like perfectly to relax and not get your winky in the water.

Now what I want to know is how on earth obese people handle this? Girls presumably have little issue with this, but guys. Come on, seriously. If you’re so big you can’t see your tool and bits, how do you sit on one of these little toilets and get the job done.