Wednesday, July 27, 2005

I didn't do it he said, as he held up his hands. I was only robbing the registry, I hope you understand...

Fascinating, This article is about O.J. Simpson. Apparently the police raided his house in 2001 and found that he had been tapping cable-tv illegally. He now has to pay the cable-company 25.000 dollars. O.K. so far so good, nothing weird. But if you take a few excepts the story looks different :

Quote 1 :

Simpson's attorney, Yale Galanter, said Tuesday that the judge "basically denied us our right to a jury trial. ... This was a decision made by a judge in chambers. They say he did it; we say he didn't. A jury should be able to make that decision."


--> So they don't agree and want to take it to court. I can live with that. But then there's this :

Quote 2 :

'DirecTV executives were pleased with the ruling.

"The evidence was overwhelming since the devices seized in Simpson's home were connected to his TV and in operation and receiving unauthorized signals at the time of the raid," said Dan Fawcett, an executive vice president with El Segundo, Calif.-based DirecTV Inc."'




Oh, and the subjectline comes from Bob Dylan's "Hurricane" of course.

Monday, July 25, 2005

R.I.P. Long John Baldry

Everyone under the age of 35 will say 'Huh?' and I admit even I was born too late to enjoy the man in the flesh. But Long John Baldry gave us Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Ginger Baker, Jimmy Paige, not to mention Elton John(who took his last name from Baldry).

And now he has gone to the ultimate jamsession. Let the Heartaches begin...

Friday, July 22, 2005

Thursday, July 21, 2005

The fact that you're paranoid does not mean they're not out to get you...

Completely ridiculous but always fun to read : one of the most entertaining conspiracy-sites.

Yep, and my grandfather was the Great Magoo of the planet Zog...

Scotty in space

And of course nothing else would do :

From the StarTrek-site :

"According to Stevens, the family will fulfill Doohan's wish to have his remains shot into space on a "Memorial Spaceflight" provided by Space Services Inc. of Houston. Similarly, a portion of Gene Roddenberry's ashes were sent on such a flight in 1997. The date of cremation and of the spaceflight are not yet known.

Terror

Main Entry: ter·ror
Pronunciation: 'ter-&r
Function: noun

Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French terreur, from Latin terror, from terrEre to frighten; akin to Greek trein to be afraid, flee, tremein to tremble

1 : a state of intense fear

2 a : one that inspires fear : SCOURGE b : a frightening aspect c : a cause of anxiety : WORRY d : an appalling person or thing; especially : BRAT

3 : REIGN OF TERROR

4 : violence (as bombing) committed by groups in order to intimidate a population or government into granting their demands
synonym see FEAR
- ter·ror·less /-l&s/ adjective


Terror has almost nothing to do with casualties, it has to do with fear...

Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Bye Scotty...

The legends are falling... RIP James Doohan 1920-2005.

That which never dies

Felt like watching some good music on Dvd yesterday. I had already borrowed 'Does humor belong in music?' from a friend. I've always been an incredibly great admirer of Frank Zappa and this show did not disappoint me. Whether it was a sensitive rendition of 'Zoot Allures' or the funky 'Hot Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel', everything sounds good. The musician are of an incredibly high level and why Bobby Martin never became a big star in his own right is beyond me.

If you ever get to watch this video here is a bit of advice : don't forget to turn up the volume when you get to 'The Whipping Post'. Even Duane Allman couldn't have done it better, that is one Hell of a steaming pumping song. Which I will play again tonight...

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Drunk Driver Arrested For Knocking Over 17 Street Signs

Drunk Driver Arrested For Knocking Over 17 Street Signs

CASSELBERRY, Fla. -- Police in Casselberry arrested a drunk driver who knocked over 17 street signs in a neighborhood near State Road 436 on Monday night. More...

Friday, July 08, 2005

Now that's what I call a hobby!

I don't usually post these Big Boys-things but this one WOW!! I've GOT to get me one of these some day.

Mosaic

Check this out. Don't forget to zoom in and out a lot!

Straight from The Splinter...

Old fart who doesn't know this music has become bad.

As I said on GeenStijl, I find this disturbingly relevant after the latest bombings. It was written 1974 by some completely uncool english boys.

"You're sitting in your comfort, you don't believe I'm real.
You cannot buy protection from the way that I feel.
Your progressive hypocrites hand out their trash.
But it was mine in the first place so I'll burn it to ash."

Genesis

I hear echoes of yesterday.

A terrorist's words :

"No time for romantic escape when your fluffy heart is ready for rape".

Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Olympics 2012

Ooooh, sour grapes don't make good wine but they do make a good whine...


Paris Olympics failure is a blow for Chirac
Wed Jul 6, 2005 7:16 PM BST

By Timothy Heritage

PARIS (Reuters) - Paris's defeat by London in the race to host the 2012 Olympic Games was a bitter blow for French President Jacques Chirac that was all the more painful because he lost out again to his rival Tony Blair.

Chirac badly needed a victory to lift his political fortunes after a French "No" vote on the European constitution that left him sorely wounded and a furore over comments attributed to him criticising British food.

The prime minister not only emerged as the winner in what was billed as another showdown with Chirac following a row at a European Union summit last month, but he did so with the flair normally attributed to the French.

"Tony Blair acted brilliantly. He has a dynamism which makes him win all his bets, win all the gambles he takes and win all the challenges he sets himself," said Pierre Durand, an Olympic gold medallist in equestrianism for France in 1988.

"They have the luck to have a prime minister who is young, emblematic, charismatic, deliberately looking to the future and at odds with 'Old Europe'. You can feel it on every level."

How galling such comments must be to Chirac, who failed in his own gamble of going to Singapore at the last minute to lobby members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

How unfortunate for Chirac that his flight from Singapore took him only as far as Scotland where the 52-year-old Blair will be his host at an eight-nation summit -- and the cooking will be British.

Newspaper Liberation said Chirac cracked jokes to Russian and German leaders about bad British food on Sunday. "You can't trust people who cook as badly as that," it cited him as saying.

CHIRAC OFFERS CONGRATULATIONS

"I am of course, like all French people, disappointed by this decision," Chirac told reporters on arrival in Scotland, where he said he would have the chance to pass on "warm and personal congratulations" to Blair and Queen Elizabeth.

Chirac, 72, had hoped that securing the Olympics would have lifted the sagging confidence of French voters and given a boost to the sluggish economy by creating jobs and generating revenues for tourism, construction and the service sector in general.

Critics speak of a "fin de regne" (end of reign) after Chirac's 10 years as president. His hopes of winning or even running in the next presidential election in 2007 are now slim.

Chirac's popularity has dropped since French voters rejected the EU's constitution on May 29 -- partly out of discontent with his policies -- and he suffered a new blow late last month when a row with Blair meant the EU did not agree a long-term budget.

Chirac labelled Blair's stance "pathetic" at the EU summit after Blair said he would make concessions on Britain's budget rebate from the EU only if the bloc agreed to a wider review of spending, including the hefty subsidies French farmers receive.

The two men also took opposing positions over the U.S.-led Iraq war, in which Blair was U.S. President George W. Bush's staunchest ally while Chirac led resistance to the invasion.

Chirac has little to encourage him on the economic front because growth is slow and the unemployment rate is at a five-year high of 10.2 percent. Opinion polls show many French centre-right voters would also prefer Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy to be the conservatives' presidential candidate in 2007.

"What is certain is that there is a feeling of a France that doubts itself, and this vote will accentuate it," said political analyst Pascal Boniface.

"Bizarrely, one would not ask questions about a British decline if Paris had won and London were second."

Tuesday, July 05, 2005

How to convert atari floppies to cubase - conclusion.

As an update to this...
I was able to read the converted atari-files without much trouble. So it looks like I saved my digital ideas for another hardware-generation or so.