Archive for March, 2006

How William Shatner Destroyed the Lewis & Clark Expedition

This is a little rant I put at the end of a history project I did. The project was about Lewis and Clark and there journy to the ocean… Enjoy:

After doing this project, I had a couple of thoughts and “what ifs” that I just wanted to right down. You can read this if your incredibly bored, but most likely you’ve already stopped reading…

Throughout the Lewis & Clark expedition, the Corps of Discovery met with several and many Native American groups, and they socialized and traded with all of them. They even had one of them, and her child, join them.

What if Jefferson had given them a prime directive of non-interference, not allowing them to interfere or contaminate any culture so that it could evolve naturally?

Most likely, they would have died. Without there Native American guide, Lewis & Clark would have been long lost, and without the lodging and food that the expedition received, they would have frozen and starved many times over.

They were able to interfere and trade with the native people because of Manifest Destiny, and idea stating that all the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific would one day belong to the United States.

If this document did not exists, and instead, a document of non-interference, to allow cultures to evolve naturally and to bring up there own empires, the western United States would be much different then it is now.

Sure, interfering was needed for Lewis and Clark to survive, but perhaps something greater might have come about if there was a prime directive. Perhaps the Native Americans, in the fascination with nature, would have developed the most advanced form of biological science ever.

So we must ask ourselves, which is better? The destruction of cultures so that all people may share the same views and enjoy the same sciences, or allow for cultural diversity, so that new and different views and sciences can arise? Complete unity or complete diversity… the topic has been argued about for ages, and will probably be agrued for many more…

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Jemez Delays, HTMLViewer in REALbasic unstable.

Sadly, the first Jemez beta, which was scheduled for today, is going to arrive late.

So far, the entire application has been working just fine, except for the preview… “Preview in browser” works just fine, but I can’t seem to get an HTMLViewer to work with a folderitem. Generally, I pass it the folderitem, and it renders just the text, not the HTML. I’ve gotten it to work a few times with VERY basic HTML code, but anything remotely complex seems to crash the program (unexpectedly quit).

I searched on the forums for a little bit, and I came to the conclusion that the HTMLViewer is simply unstable. I will either have to use an editfield and just display text, or remove the feature as a whole.

Once again, sorry for the delays.

(It’s not my fault! /cry)

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Priest Talent Changes

This is my pre-writting for a segment in the All Things Blizzard podcast. Its basiclly just jumbled notes, but you might find it interesting to read:

– Holy spec priests are targeted more towards damage then healing
– — Holy spec priests get an AoE, Holy Nova
– — – Causes no threat, heals all friendlies around the caster (caster included) and damages all mobs
– — – Low mana and cooldown
– — – WSG/AV/AB uses… Holy Nova spamming!
– — – The rogue killer

– Shadow spec priests got some major nerfing.
– — Angled more at keeping the caster alive rather then dealing damage

– Discipline spec priests stayed about the same
– — Power Word: Shield nerfed!
– — – More absorbotion, more corrupted soul

My full talk will be in episode 10 of All Things Blizzard.

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Jemez Update!

I am pleased to announce that Jemez has made major progress over the past few weeks.

So far, I can add files to the site, remove files from the site, and view all of the files in the site along with their “Last Modified” dates. Currently, I am using toolbar items as well as menu items, so everything can be accessed (on a mac) from the toolbar and menu and (on a PC) just from the menu.

I plan to add contextual menus to the individual items in the listbox for things such as “Open”, “Preview”, “Preview in browser”, and “Upload just this file.”

I should get around to posting some screen shots later today.

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Some Ranting About “The No Child Left Behind”

Hello everybody, I would like to tell you a sad a tale… A tale about me personally, a tale about how I was… The Child Left Behind.

As we all know, while our genius vice-president is not forcing his victims to apologize on national TV, he is supporting the treacherous act of the no child left behind act.

First, I would like to tell you all why this act is so dumb.

  • It states 81% of all childern must be above averege.

It sadens me to think that I need to point out that… Once 51% of everybody is above averge… The averge.. CHANGES!

  • School’s that are doing well get more money.

Alright.. Its the schools that are doing badly that need more money, not the schools doing well.

Although there are many more problems with the act, those are the two stingers.

Now, on to the story.

While the act does allow for childern with special needs to be treated better, it sucks back all of our talents.

It does not take a genius to figure out I have good computer skills… Way more then the averege 14 year old…

This act makes it so the schools can not take advantage of our skills. Because each student needs to be givin “equal opprotunity, regardless of disabblities.”

As you also might know, I am the student administartor at my school… I help manage the computers because I have the most “uber 1337” computer skills at my school.

Well, some jeolus kid thought that because I possesed talent he should be able to do everything I can do.

So now I have to deal with an absolute retard while I am working… this person shall remain nameless.

This retard knows nothing about anything, so I have to spend the time I would be using to fix things to tell him what I am going to do… Thus leaving me behind.

End of rant. Don’t we live in a nice little world?

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The One Chuck Norris Joke to Rule Them All..

We where doing the CRT standarized tests at school today, it was the last testing session (yay) which ment we had to write our paper (nooo). The prompt was: Should students be paid to get good grades? Why or why not?

I enjoy making fun of these tests, so I turned my paper into one huge Chuck Norris joke… I’m typeing it from memory, so excuse any mis-spellings.

I strongly belive that students should be paid to get good grades. Not only does “getting paid to get good grades” rythem, but it was an esseencial aspect of Chuck Norris becoming the Messiah.

When students are paid to get good grades, they are forced into having an enthusiatic view about getting good grades. Think about it. Which would you rather have, a pat on the head and a “good job,” or $10,000 in non-sequencal canadain one dollar bills? Chuck Norris is living proof. If his parents had not paid him for his grades, he would have never had the smarts to become the Messiah.

Getting paid for good grades also prepares you for a job in real life. When you do well, you get paid. When you do badly, you get fired… If Chuck Norris did not have the finical skills he learned as a kid, he never could have paid for all those ore-to-the-head injuries.

In final conclusion, students should get payed to get good grades. The $10,000 in non-sequencal canadain one dollar bills is a great way to incourage them. Remember, if you get grades, you could become the goal of all hummanity… Walker, the Texes Ranger. You could be the next to shout “Hi-Ho Silver, Away!”

I wish they had let me keep my rough draft.. I know it was so much better when I did it for the test.. I wish I could remember all of it…

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No more CHAT on battle.net… and Blizzard screws themselfs over!

It seems Blizzard no longer allows CHAT connections to any of thier servers. Which means every single chat client or bot that used the CHAT protocol to connect to battle.net will no longer work.

I can’t believe Blizzard can’t see what is about to happen to them.. Every single newb who ever used a CHAT bot on battle.net is going to start using one with a CDKey, which basically will change the population of non-CHAT players from 1 bot to every 3 people to 3 bots to every 1 person..

I am officially running a bot with a SC CDKey because I got tired of playing and not being able to control my iTunes… It’s a pretty harmless bot, it just sits in op Luxer and allows me to do everything Luxer normally does.

Which brings me to my next announcement.. Luxer is back. Blizzard no longer allows me to use my bot for CHAT connections, so I am going to write it as a binary bot again. I don’t see a problem with having a harmless iTunes control bot on battle.net, and if Blizzard says otherwise… well, screw them.

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Somebody tell me I am not crazy…

6:48:23 PM holmziswack: Jesus was a twink huh?
6:48:56 PM holmziswack: I happen to know for a fact that Jesus turned wine into a water – I doubt a ‘twink’ could do that
6:49:16 PM kraftybowman: lol
6:49:21 PM kraftybowman: read http://rmarcus.info
6:49:40 PM kraftybowman: you don’t know what a twink is.
6:49:41 PM kraftybowman: lol
6:50:02 PM holmziswack: Unless it means “savior” or “son of god”, I doubt I’ll be interested, you blasphemer
6:50:12 PM kraftybowman: read the damn post.
6:50:18 PM kraftybowman: think before you act.
6:50:38 PM holmziswack: How about I crucify you like they did the son of God?
6:50:53 PM kraftybowman: how about you know what I am saying before you judge me on it?
6:50:58 PM kraftybowman: “

I have gotten several complates about my newest status message which says “Jesus was a twink.” and I would like to explain it.

The first thing you need to know is what a twink is. In role-playing games and MMORPGs, twinking refers to outfitting a new character or player with items or other resources that are not normally available to a character of that level. A twink in this usage is a type of powergamer and munchkin.

So, when I say “Jesus was a twink.”, I mean that he was handed all of his power, and he did not work for it.. which is true. God gave Jesus his power. *

* All of this is written from a completely Christian point of view.

6:51:33 PM holmziswack: So basically you’re calling Jesus a cheater?
6:51:37 PM kraftybowman: no
6:51:40 PM kraftybowman: its not a cheater
6:51:49 PM kraftybowman: if he said he was not the son of god and he could just do it on his own
6:51:52 PM kraftybowman: then he would be a cheater
6:51:53 PM holmziswack: Um, looks like you’re going to sizzle slowly in hell
6:52:03 PM holmziswack: You’re done
6:52:26 PM holmziswack: Saying such things about J-Man issues an eternity in the firey depths of Hell
6:52:36 PM holmziswack: You ready for it?
6:52:53 PM kraftybowman: saying that god gave a gift to his son when he entered the mortal world will make me BIH, huh?
6:53:08 PM holmziswack: Yeah, you’re a goner
6:53:08 PM kraftybowman: then me and every single other christain on earth is in for a problem.
6:53:24 PM holmziswack: Nope, you callled Jesus an internet slur
6:53:30 PM kraftybowman: lol
6:53:30 PM holmziswack: Now you’re going to rot for it
6:53:34 PM kraftybowman: you called him J-Man.
6:53:38 PM holmziswack: That’s not a slur
6:53:42 PM holmziswack: “twink” is
6:53:46 PM kraftybowman: yep.
6:53:48 PM holmziswack: I called him by his pet name
6:53:56 PM kraftybowman: God’s uber. I guess I am going to burn in hell..
6:54:03 PM holmziswack: Nope, you’re done though
6:54:25 PM holmziswack: JC is going to strike you down with a quick bolt of electricity from the Heavens -
6:54:48 PM holmziswack: Listen – I need to go pray

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Jesus was a twink.

I have gotten several complates about my newest status message which says “Jesus was a twink.” and I would like to explain it.

The first thing you need to know is what a twink is. In role-playing games and MMORPGs, twinking refers to outfitting a new character or player with items or other resources that are not normally available to a character of that level. A twink in this usage is a type of powergamer and munchkin.

So, when I say “Jesus was a twink.”, I mean that he was handed all of his power, and he did not work for it.. which is true. God gave Jesus his power. *

* All of this is written from a completely Christian point of view.

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Intel Mac-Mini and iPod Hi-Fi

Apple annouced a new Mac-Mini with an Intel chip and all the features of the MacBook Pro without the iSight. They also annouced iPod Hi-Fi, a home stereo for your iPod.

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