tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91703522011-12-14T21:45:43.390-05:00A discussion about things that I find interesting and especially situations where greed and emotions seem to block the use of common sense in our great nation.baceman007noreply@blogger.comBlogger301100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170352.post-22944141192796782532010-02-23T10:49:00.002-05:002010-02-23T11:00:42.634-05:00

I'm surprised that it took me so long to write this post since I retired my Roomba over 6 months ago when the $90 battery (that was about a year old) only provided the pile of crap with about 5 minutes of power. When I first got my Roomba 560 I was impressed with it. We quickly Roomba proofed the small place (at the time we lived in a place that was less than 1000 square feet) and set it up to

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So Apple has basically been running the same kind of anti-PC commercials for years now, from when OSX was slightly better than Windows through when they started to suck a ton of ass. Now they just really focus on their overpriced phone, complete with monthly financial molesting from AT&T, and their overpriced MP3 player because the public just simply isn't aware that there are cheaper, better

baceman007noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170352.post-64694832818235939912009-11-09T15:58:00.002-05:002009-11-09T16:00:43.084-05:00

So I just wanted to say that the trailers for this look very cool and I am definately going to see it. There is one small point that is already bothering me though; ninjas are assassins. This title is annoyingly redundant. I hope the film does not follow suit.

baceman007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170352.post-83809604982877702752009-10-30T02:31:00.004-04:002009-10-30T02:42:34.302-04:00

So I had some trouble with some web development lately. I designed a webpage using Bluefish Editor on GNU/Linux using some code that a friend provided and modifying it. and checked my pages with Firefox and Ganelon. So far no problems. Then I tried multiple versions of IE. My page would display but not the images, except for on 1 page, and only in IE. My doctype was good meaning <!--<!DOCTYPE

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I have been working on the Netflix/Ubuntu 9.04 problem for quite some time.I offer the following obervations with no implied warranty.I started with looking at the directions here http://fatbuttlarry.blogspot.com/2009/02/netflix-ubuntu.htmlbut since this user had the most success with 8.04 I had to keep looking. Which lead me to this forum amongst many other places. At any rate here's what I did

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Ok, so I never actually tell anyone what they can and can't complain about. It's a mostly free country after all, and the mutilated first amendment certinally still covers the rights of people that complain about smoking and smokers. Every once in a while I have this conversation with someone who will often say "I guess" in response to my facts as if they aren't facts, or "I'll complain about

baceman007noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170352.post-13591310665886261912009-09-28T15:16:00.002-04:002009-09-28T15:20:08.968-04:00

So I remember having to figure this out some time ago, and then forgetting about it since I don't use Microshaft for the most part, but anyway I had to decode an .eml on my GNU/Linux machine today for the first time in a long time and was fortunate enough to find a solution here. Anyway, this solution worked for me.http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-45838.htmlAlthough this is an Ubuntu

baceman007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170352.post-25995025518603013352009-09-26T12:56:00.002-04:002009-09-26T13:21:21.624-04:00

I won't waste a lot of time talking about the technical aspects of the iPhone. I also know that any publicity can be good publicity, but I feel that I should post about this anyway. As with many Apple products, they are pretty decent, and listed along with "in your face" advertising in many places. Still I am led to say who cares whenever Apple releases a new phone because of their philosophical

baceman007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170352.post-59547928139187492972009-08-05T14:37:00.003-04:002009-08-05T19:10:23.673-04:00

Although I am unwilling to side with either the republicans or democrats on this issue I have worked on cars for a long time and I find that, although this program is successful, it is deeply flawed as I will explain below as a series of points.-- First the republicans need to get off of saying that the money for this program was mismanaged and this somehow has to do with how the government will

baceman007noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170352.post-4389587134243200022009-04-19T22:53:00.004-04:002009-04-19T23:06:33.353-04:00

So I had to write up some instructions recently for Quick Books Pro 2004. Yeah I know, old application. Anyway, I'm posting them here. They may work on later versions, I don't know. I personally use open source software as much as possible and don't understand why we keep supporting and insisting on proprietary software. Still it's out there and critical to some... Anyway as long as I had to do

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I've had 2 people that I know, that are among the 1 Million people that have lost their jobs in the last 2 months, lose their jobs recently. Like many of the stories that are coming out of this time period, they have been let go without real remediation offered, and on ridiculous accusations or loosely trumped up stories where they were not allowed to even file their side of the story. One person

baceman007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170352.post-42042793136367639532008-11-21T17:51:00.002-05:002008-11-21T17:54:06.292-05:00

http://www.movieweb.com/news/NE5Fq875B8XR88 -- I didn't want to sign up for yet another account just to comment on the idea of a Robotech, probably live action, movie at the link above, but here is my commentary as a big fan of the series. Overall I have to say, why can't hollywood leave old franchises alone and just be creative for once. Robotech The Shadow Chronicles came out just a couple of

baceman007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170352.post-68464969488444470312008-10-26T18:30:00.003-04:002008-10-26T18:37:00.418-04:00

So today I found out that both the Anchorage Daily News and Hartford Courant have announced that they are endorsing Obama. I just wanted to say that although I understand that people want to take a stance against the bullshit we've seen from the White House for the last 8 years, well 60 if you ask me, it is totally inappropriate for a newspaper or any other major news source to throw their

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Ok, so it took me a while to see this one and I know that this post is way overdue. As Jason of jasonwatchesmovies.blogspot.com and I agree this movie sucked. Still making a movie, as those of us who do and who have tried know, is a lot of work so I always try to find something worthwhile to take away from any movie. My film teacher used to say that you should be able to learn something from any

baceman007noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170352.post-25864199975973903672008-09-28T09:44:00.002-04:002008-09-28T09:47:13.198-04:00

So I was bored and typing stuff into search engines to test our new fiber and to make a long story short I found that another blogger, on blogger.com no less, registered the url theministerofcommonsense.blogspot.com and named his site such. Now I know that my URL is baceman007.blogspot.com but the page has been called Minister Of Common Sense for years. So that's lame.

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My overall rating for this movie on a scale of 1 to 10 is an 8. Part of this probably has to do with the fact that I'm a huge Futurama fan. The only criticism I have about it is also a strength. It can be enjoyed on its own. Meaning that I would have liked a more direct historical tie-in with the last feature length film, almost like a previously on Futurama section or something of that nature.

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Earlier today I posted the approximation of the more in depth commentary below on another blog site. There I promised more in depth commentary. So here it is with some more elaboration.A company that prides itself of being "rebels"? Apple made a movie in 1984 about Big Brother. They were different right? IBM and eventually Microsoft were the enemy right? We'll ignore the fact that MS and Apple

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I've posted my commentary on this on jasonwatchesmovies.blogspot.com

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This is a stop motion film commentary about wastefulness in our society using stuffed animals, etc. It is rather offensive. So don't watch it if you're an easily offended douche bag, etc. www.humphreyimaginative.com/Site/Movie.htmlConstructive criticism is always appreciated. Other forms of criticism will be delt with in relation to their source and content. Thanks :).

baceman007noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170352.post-51928121277164923962007-05-11T22:46:00.001-04:002007-05-11T22:55:06.130-04:00

Podcast LinkTo subscribe to the podcasts, click on the link above, then click on the subscribe link in the lower right hand corner of the page that comes up. My first podcast is about the movie Spider Man 3.

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So I went to a large format theater yesterday to try and see something that would be cool on a large screen. I went to an Odyssey theater, because although I prefer IMAX our IMAX theater is too far away, and too expensive. The Odyssey format still covers your horizontal line of vision unless you sit in the wrong part of the theater. At any rate it is a cool format as well and tickets are about as

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This is a continuation of commentary that started out about the movie "Cars" from jason watchesmovies.blogspot.com when Steve and I started ranting about politics and I suggested that we move it here.

baceman007noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170352.post-84521734038919643542007-01-20T08:46:00.000-05:002007-01-20T09:33:55.852-05:00

So let me start out by saying that overall I like John Edwards. I mean for a democrat he actually seems like he has a backbone and may actually want to win the next election. He's a far better choice than Tyson Fresh Foods Pawn Hillary Clinton and seems to have grown up like a regular person. Now on to my rant. One of the issues I'm very passionate about these days is energy. I have always owned

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Well it looks like the last time I posted anything was in April. That's kind of sad. Since I've spent some time on jasonwatchesmovies.blogspot.com I thought that I might give you my opinions on the idea of putting TOS back on the air. I've seen a remastered episode, and I've read the article about rerecording the theme, and I love TOS so I'm happy that others will get to see it again, but now on

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I was going to take alot of time and explain why I felt this way. Overall any guy that takes a multi million dollar bonus, builds cars that people don't want, and then blames his personal failures and his boards failures on his employess is a douche bag. In an age where Honda and Toyota employ more American workers than ever before, and American companies are more than happy to ship our jobs

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I have nothing but good things to say about the MIT researchers that are creating a 100 dollar Linux based computer with the hopes of allowing all school children to be able to have and use a computer. The truth is, as they point out, that inefficient bloated operating systems like Windows have taken away alot of the power of all of the new hardware we have anyway. Bill Gates tomed in and said

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I was just reading an article that I found through a google news search on twincities.com stating that "police warned Sheehan 3 times that they were breaking the law by failing to move along, then began making arrests."Isn't it disgusting that in a country that has a right to free speech we will arrest our own citizens for exercising that right if they happen to bother our kings in Washington. I

baceman007noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170352.post-1125753564963524052005-09-03T08:59:00.000-04:002005-09-03T09:19:24.976-04:00

We have had one of the worst natural disasters in recent history happen to one of our own cities. Putting aside the fact that it is stupid to build a city below sea level or on a fire plane, and putting aside the fact that the Bush administration stopped the funding to improve the levy and pump systems around New Orleans, I have to ask myself what is wrong with the government? They are using our

baceman007noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170352.post-1114616966800467832005-04-27T11:25:00.000-04:002005-04-27T11:50:11.646-04:00

Let's say you break your wife's favorite antique lamp at home. You have 3 choices, don't fix it, fit it half way, or fix it all of the way. You could also try to run away but your wife will notice that the lamp is missing. So if you're a decent person, even if you can't afford it you'll probably save up until you can and have the lamp fixed. The original value of the lamp is not what's important

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Check out my monthly newsletter on mypage.iu.edu/~jphumphr and let me know what you think. If you disagree with me please present your points in a civilized fashion. I will not respond to idiotic rants.

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