January 23rd, 2008
Looking at this list of 2008 Presidential Candidates it really surprises me that people actually still support a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. I mean… really? A constitutional amendment? Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Fair and Speedy Trial, and No Marriage for Fags. A bit of a non sequitur, don’t you think?
Didn’t we learn anything from that dark time in our history when it was illegal for whites and blacks to marry? Oh, but that’s different I suppose… at least they were still opposite genders, right? I mean, the fact that they tried to use the Bible to support their argument then doesn’t mean anything, right? Not like today. Today it’s totally different, and the use of the Bible to try and support the argument is completely valid.
It sure is nice to live in a Theocracy.
Meh.. at this point I’m already blue in the face. What makes scares me more is how States are starting to pick and choose which legal contracts from other states they will honor and which they wont. Same-sex marriage issues aside, I feel this is a dangerous precedent for States to be setting. I wonder if Texas will begin to not recognize marriages between a Republican and a Democrat. Talk about an abomination!
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December 4th, 2007
John and I took the dogs to the Mall this past Saturday to view the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell silent protest. Here’s a link to some pictures! Yay, pictures!
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November 23rd, 2007
Okay.. so.. John and I went to the movies this afternoon. We saw Beowulf. It was a good film, but took great liberties with the story. Afterwards we had dinner at Outback.
We had just walked up to our building when we heard some screams for help. We had the front door open, as we looked around for the source of the calls. It was the screams of a woman, “Help!” A man on the sidewalk on our side of the street was yelling back, “Where are you?!” as we could not see any signs around the street as to who could have been calling for help. “Help! I’m in the building!” Was the reply. At this point a very broad-shouldered man bolted from the building across the street from us and ran at top speed across the street… right for us. People on the other side of the street called to us, “Look out!” and we promptly shut the door to our building. Though… we were now stuck on the OUTside of the building, with this crazed man trying to get IN. It was at this point that I noticed the blood on his hands.
It came as quite a shock to both John and me that the man was able to break into our “secured entrance” building simply by pulling hard on the door. At this point John calls 911. I check through the windows to see if I can see where the guy went, and observe him rolling on his back under the lobby counter by our mailboxes. A few moments pass, with John repeating our address over and over again to the rather inept DC emergency call service, and then the guy runs out of our building. John screams into the phone that the man was fleeing the scene. That’s when the man grabbed John and started pulling him. Another resident of our building and I jumped on the man and pulled him off of John. We attempted to calm him down, and to keep him from reaching into his pockets. As soon as he heard the sirens he tried to run back into our building again. I managed to pin him against the wall at one point, but he was desperate. He pushed back, and tried one last time to get past the three of us. The other resident who was there tackled the man, at which point the police rushed up and handcuffed the man.
He ended up getting blood all over my jacket, and ripped my shirt to pieces (I really liked that shirt too). There were 5 or 6 police cars, an ambulance and a fire truck, all in a chorus of disarray in front of our building. It didn’t appear to me as though there was anyone “in charge” of the situation, which was kind of frustrating because no one seemed particularly interested in the woman we heard screaming for help from the other building. They just seemed confused as to why neither John nor I wished to be taken to the hospital.
After the cop cars had left, and John and I were walking the dogs, we noticed a single car over at the building across the street, with an officer speaking to people in the lobby. That made me feel better; I was glad they had actually heard that part of our story. Wanting to make sure that the man was charged with as much as possible, we went across the street to speak with the officer. Now that things had calmed down he was in a better position to take down our information properly. We were relieved to learn that the woman was not hurt. The blood was apparently his own from trying to beat the woman’s door in… unsuccessfully.
Whatever her doors are made of, I want for our building’s doors.
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May 10th, 2007
In case you didn’t know, my friend Roy and I decided we would start doing a vidcast. “What about?” - i hear you asking. Glad you asked.
The show is called Stray Geeks, and we talk about whatever we find interesting 
Tech news, movies, video games.. whatever. Our first official episode was released today, but there is an “Episode 0.2″ that you can see as well (there is a 0.1, but that’s not up anywhere… far too horrifying for public viewing).
Point your browsers to http://www.straygeeks.com and you will find the blog with all the subscription links you need 
as well the ability to download episodes right from the post. Streaming seems to be a problem… we’re not sure why though. I suspect its a file size issue.
If you want you can subscribe right now through iTunes (the link will launch iTunes and take you directly to our directory entry).
We’re aiming for a show every two weeks… keep your fingers crossed, hehe.
Questions and comments can be directed to me (if you know my email address :P) or to questions[at]straygeeks[dot]com
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March 14th, 2007
CNET News: YouTube’s fate rests on decade-old copyright law
YouTube and Google’s strategy to force notification of each infringing content “has been a huge source of frustration to copyright owners because what that does is it puts the onus of policing infringement on the copyright owner,” said Carole Handler, vice chair of intellectual property litigation at the Los Angeles firm Foley & Lardner. “It’s a very inadequate kind of a case by case, specific by specific remedy, which is not tailored to the seriousness of the infringement.”
Umm.. hello, just like with trademark infringement, it is up to the holder to make sure their image isn’t being misused. You have to defend your trademark, so you have to defend your copyright. It goes back to the defendable exsistance of ignorance (or lack there of) of the facilitating unit (in this case, YouTube)… are they aware that this is a violation of someones copyright? If it’s not something famous, or from a major “studio” how are they to know even if they do view each and every video? What if i get a copyright for something of mine, and someone uploads it to YouTube without my permission… how is YouTube supposed to know? Shoot, anyone can add a little “Copyright 2007 - Me” text at the bottom of their video, it doesn’t mean you actually hold anything.
As long as YouTube honors their “notify and take-down” policy i don’t see any problem in what they have been doing all this time. So yes, Carole Handler, the onus IS on the copyright owner.
…In MY opinion
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