WrecktAngle Apparel is under way!

Michael Jackson's Thriller

2009-10-26T11:05:00.000-07:00

My wife was one of the zombies... Awesome!

Two-Handed Multi-Touch Technology Gains Renewed Exposure

2009-10-03T16:35:00.000-07:00

AppleInsider points to a patent application filed in June and released yesterday that brings renewed attention to two-handed multi-touch capabilities previously included in patent applications from Apple and Fingerworks, the company acquired by Apple in 2005 for its multi-touch technology.

The latest patent application appears to be a slightly edited version of content found in several patent applications made by Fingerworks in mid-2006.

Apparatus and methods are disclosed for simultaneously tracking multiple finger and palm contacts as hands approach, touch, and slide across a proximity-sensing, multi-touch surface. Identification and classification of intuitive hand configurations and motions enables unprecedented integration of typing, resting, pointing, scrolling, 3D manipulation, and handwriting into a versatile, ergonomic computer input device.

The technology has gained renewed interest as a rumored launch of Apple's much-anticipated tablet computer appears to be approaching and speculation mounts about how the device will function. In brief, the Fingerworks patent application addresses multi-touch functionality extended to be able to sense full touch input from ten fingers, as well as the palms of the hands. The complex touch sensing would allow for such features as intelligent typing capabilities and graphical manipulation abilities more sophisticated than the "pinch and zoom" found on the iPhone and multi-touch trackpads, and provide the versatility for multiple types of input without the need for multiple input devices.

Courtesy of MacRumors

Check out Film Riot pretty awesome show!

2009-09-03T09:10:00.000-07:00

Film Riot

New episodes: Thursdays

Film Riot is a how-to trip through filmmaking from the hyper-active mind of Ryan Connolly. From how to make great effects to following Triune Films through production, Film Riot explores the art of filmmaking in a way you’ve never seen.

Check it out!

More Evidence That Snow Leopard Is a Touchscreen Operating System

2009-09-01T08:55:00.000-07:00

The more I play with Snow Leopard, the more it looks like it’s designed to run Apple’s upcoming tablet.

Look at Expose in the Dock — the new feature that reveals all an application’s open windows when you click and hold the application’s icon. It’s tailor-made for fingers. Even more convincing is Stacks in the Dock. Hit a folder icon in the dock, and up pops the folder and all its files. Each icon is a big target for your finger, and the window has a big, fat slider for scrolling up and down (no more fiddly little arrows at the top or bottom). Both of these UI tweaks scream ‘touchscreen.’

And then today I discovered an unheralded feature that the minute I saw it, I thought, “Game over! Here’s rock-solid proof that Snow Leopard is designed for touchscreens. This is a tablet operating system.”

The new UI element s a virtual keyboard, a must-have for a tablet. Snow Leopard includes a big virtual keyboard that looks clearly designed for typing on a touchscreen. It’s a big, bold version of the iPhone’s virtual keyboard with large keys that scream “type me!”

The Mac OS has long contained a virtual keyboard, but previous versions were half-sized (see below). The old virtual keyboard was clearly not designed for actual typing, and was hidden away in the “International” tab of System Preferences. (Yeah, the keyboard could be enlarged by hitting the green button in the upper left of the folder toolbar, but still, it expanded to only three-quarter size).

The new virtual keyboard in Snow Leopard now lives under “Keyboard” in System Preferences, and is clearly put there as an alternative input method.

The virtual keyboard can be made as big as your screen — 30-inches wide, if you have a big Cinema Display — by dragging the window resizer at bottom left.

Of course, it can’t be used as a real virtual keyboard until Apple introduces a touchscreen device. At the moment, it just records the keystrokes on your physical keyboard and shows the characters that will be typed when the Option key is held down, and so on.

Yeah, I know, this isn’t proof that Snow Leopard is designed for a touchscreen device — IE. the tablet everyone knows Apple is working on — but I got pretty excited when I saw it. It looks like a key touchscreen UI element to me.

Here’s how to see it yourself:

* Go to System Preferences>Keyboard
* Click the box “Show Keyboard & Character Viewer in menu bar”
* Go to the menu bar at top right and click “Show Keyboard Viewer”

For comparison, here’s the old soft keyboard in Leopard. This is not a touchscreen keyboard.

Via 9to5Mac Via CultofMac

Lego / Nintendo Fans!!!!

2009-08-24T10:53:00.000-07:00

The video reportedly took about 1,500 hours to create, and I pretty much had an acid flashback-type experience while watching it, during which time I traveled back to the 1980s and relived my entire youth all over again in the span of about three and a half minutes.

Comic-Con: Alice in Wonderland Teaser Trailer

2009-07-23T20:54:00.000-07:00

Perhaps the most interesting footage shown this morning at the Disney Comic-Con panel was the short teaser trailer for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. Patton Oswalt, who was moderating the panel, flipped for the footage and demanded it be shown three times. This was probably for the best, because aside from the very short teaser Burton had nothing else to show from the film. The teaser starts off with the Mad Hatter questioning Alice, shows her falling down the rabbit hole, and then quickly glimpses all the main characters including Helena Bonham Carter’s Red Queen, Stephen Fry’s Chesire Cat, and a smattering of scenes meant to show off the 3D elements, all cut to MGMT’s Kids. We also caught our first glimpse at an eyepatched Crispin Glover as the Knave of Hearts. In the Q&A, Burton mentioned that it was very difficult for him to get used to shooting with green screen. He mentioned that he stuck to a fast and involved method of shooting with his actors to help maintain a sense of reality. Burton also mentioned that they didn’t use much motion capturing in the film—instead, they stuck to animating the digital characters by hand. Overall, he felt the most difficult aspect of making this film is the process he’s currently stuck in, editing and putting together all of the many pieces of the film.

In contrast to many other Alice adaptations, Burton mentioned that the film will utilize elements from the two Alice books (Alice in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass), as well as reference smaller material found within those books such as the poem Jabberywocky.

Towards the end of the panel, Burton unveiled Johnny Depp as a surprise guest. He didn’t stick around for too long, but did reveal that he unfortunately can’t see films in 3D, so he’ll probably never get to experience this film fully.

For a film that seems to be the culmination of Burton’s career, the footage so far looks promising. It’s currently scheduled for release on March 10, 2010.

All Blogging Credit goes to SlashFilm

2009-07-23T10:23:00.001-07:00

CrunchPad Tablet to Arrive Soon?

2009-07-13T07:02:00.000-07:00

You must have heard about Michael Arrington’s CrunchPad web tablet concept by now. Well then you should also know that the device is said to arrive really soon. According to various sources the CrunchPad is expected to be available “as soon as possible” and an official release should occur sometime in July or August.

The CrunchPad will cost around $300 but will you pay that much for just a web-oriented device? That’s right, the CrunchPad will only get you Internet access! There’s no internal hard drive and there’s no Windows support. It’s not a netbook tablet but an Internet tablet that boots straight to its WebKit browser. The device will offer you a 12-inch touchscreen, Flash support, an Atom processor and support for a physical keyboard.

The CrunchPad might just be the gadget we’ve been waiting for. Unfortunately it will be quite useless when there’s no Internet support, wouldn’t you say?

via Bits, via mobilewhack

2009-06-10T08:23:00.000-07:00

Starting June 8th, Square Space giving away 30 iPhones in 30 days via Twitter. Here's how to win:

To enter the contest, just send out a tweet with the #squarespace hashtag included. We will randomly choose one (1) winner per day who will get their very own, brand spankin new 3GS iPhone!

We'll be announcing winners on this page and via our Twitter account, @squarespace, so subscribe there to see if you've won!

Check here for more info...

Hulu’s Desktop Wants You to Keep Internet TV Out of the Living Room

2009-05-29T12:10:00.000-07:00

Hulu’s newly released Desktop application may or may not put Boxee on the ropes, but it could end up being the best thing that ever happened to the Mac mini.

Released Thursday by the popular television content aggregator whose major partners also happen to be some of the biggest Hollywood content producers, Hulu Desktop signals a major move away from the “online only” model that once served as a thin veneer of protection against the ire of cable companies that pay good money to get content from Hulu’s partners.

Still trying to have it both ways, Hulu issued comical Terms of Service with the desktop product that purport to prevent users from using the software on “Prohibited Devices,” to whit:

“You may not download, install or use the Hulu Software on any device other than a Personal Computer including without limitation digital media receiver devices (such as Apple TV), mobile devices (such as a cell phone device, mobile handheld device or a PDA), network devices or CE devices (collectively “Prohibited Devices”).”

In the real world, however, don’t be surprised to see news of an AppleTV hack by this weekend (if not before); and Mac mini users who employ that device’s excellent media server capabilities with a connection to plasma screens in their living rooms should be sitting pretty, too.

Will you use Hulu Desktop or stick with your web browser? Will you keep the content on your computer screen or take it into the living room? Let us know in comments below.

Grabbed from CultofMac Posted by Lonnie Lazar in AppleTV, Media, News

I'm Going to empty my Sack before you do!

2009-05-25T13:39:00.000-07:00

Have we found the missing Link?

2009-05-20T22:05:00.000-07:00

Feast your eyes on what a group of scientists call the Holy Grail of human evolution.
A team of researchers Tuesday unveiled an almost perfectly intact fossil of a 47 million-year-old primate they say represents the long-sought missing link between humans and apes.
Officially known as Darwinius masillae, the fossil of the lemur-like creature dubbed Ida shows it had opposable thumbs like humans and fingernails instead of claws.

Scientists say the cat-sized animal's hind legs offer evidence of evolutionary changes that led to primates standing upright - a breakthrough that could finally confirm Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
"This specimen is like finding the Lost Ark for archeologists," lead scientist Jorn Hurum said at a ceremony at the American Museum of Natural History.

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Cube Fights!!!

2009-05-18T06:26:00.000-07:00

Disney Lab Unveils Its Latest Line Of Genetically Engineered Child Stars

2009-05-15T06:51:00.000-07:00

Disney Lab Unveils Its Latest Line Of Genetically Engineered Child Stars

Courtesy of the Onion

Green Light: Chandelier from Apple Packing Material

2009-05-14T06:27:00.000-07:00

Eric Lawrence crafted a chandelier from the molded Styrofoam packing material Apple used to use for shipping laptops. What once cradled MacBooks now lights up with 16 bulbs (5W compact fluorescents) that generate little heat but produce the same light as 20W incandescents. His creation, called Styrolight, won the Sustainable prize in Design Within

Reach Austin’s M+D+F competition.

Wonder if I’d hoarded the packaging over the years whether I’d have enough to do something with it… Via Make

Posted by Nicole Martinelli in Cult of Mac News

MotherLover

2009-05-14T06:14:00.000-07:00

Some Teaser Pictures form the Photo shoot!

2009-04-22T21:55:00.000-07:00

Check out these teaser shots from the

WrecktAngle / DJ James Photo Shoot.

More to come... Stay tuned!

2009-04-11T18:14:00.000-07:00

Finalizing a Deal with the Notorious "DJ James" and future Reign. Should be exciting, stay up to date and up to the minute with these links...

Twitter

Facebook

MySpace

Twitter in plain English

2009-03-12T07:01:00.000-07:00

Mt. Bachelor Trip... Glorious

2009-02-23T20:10:00.000-08:00

Want a Free Shirt?

2009-02-12T09:08:00.000-08:00

We are rapidly gaining
followers on Twitter...
Who ever is the 100th
follower will receive a
FREE WrecktAngle
T-shirt.
Who will it be?

Twitter

2009-01-23T12:30:00.000-08:00

We are at 39 followers on Twitter... Who is going to be the 40th?

2009

2009-01-02T09:40:00.001-08:00

Well we did it... We all survived 2008. Thank you all for a great year and may everyone's 2009 be filled with a prosperous outcome.
Team WrecktAngle

WTF? Hot Pants?

2008-12-17T14:06:00.000-08:00

Take Control Of Your Holiday Displays With Griswold

2008-12-17T13:07:00.000-08:00

“Wouldn’t it be cool if you could control your

Christmas lights from your iPhone?” That simple
question, posed in passing eleven days ago by a
good friend, set off a flurry of activity which has
become Griswold.app (for the iPhone/iPod touch)
and Griswold Server (for OS X Leopard, Windows
and Linux/BSD). Both are being released here
with full source to each and you may just be able
to download it from the App Store by the end of the
week as well.

If you are one to deck the halls…and the family room…and the kitchen…and the roof then you know how difficult it can be controlling all those displays. Timers are somewhat effective, but are always out of sync with each other. Simple RF remotes provide better control but must be in range or have line-of-sight to work. It really would be cool to be able to control these creations from an iPhone!
Read the rest of this article »

Introducing... The Mactini

2008-12-17T13:03:00.000-08:00

Got Spam? Blame Canada!

2008-12-16T12:50:00.000-08:00

Getting any spam recently? Well, at least now we have someone to point fingers at. Canada!

A report published by Cisco on Monday shows that over 9 billion spam messages are sent from the Great White North every day, accounting for 4.7% of the world's spam.

Canada only came in fourth place in the report however, with the US accounting for 17.9%, Turkey for 9.2% and Russia for 8%. But on a per-capita basis, Canada is numero uno, eh!

News Source: CBC
Reposted by JCXP

Just Added Twitter!

2008-12-15T17:58:00.000-08:00

Now you can follow us along the way.

Feel free to check up on our progress

and get informed about new events...

_____over there ->

It's been a while.... But it was worth it!

2008-12-09T12:44:00.000-08:00

So we all have been pretty busy and as a result, no blogging. With the challenges of everyday life and the economy on the skids. We have something to hang our hat on! We are excited to tell the world that we are officially in a RETAIL business! Clackamas Town Center to be exact right near Sears on the bottom floor. The store is called ACME Gifts, filled with humorous and eclectic finds. A great store to check out for the Holidays. Big thanks to Eileen Sheridan for giving a small local Portland company a chance. Also Big thanks to Ben Fraticelli (neb) for all the updates and the willingness to help us when ever possible. Anyway, check it out! we will be there through the holidays so come stop by and be a patron to a local business... Thanks Team WrecktAngle

Come one come all!

2008-10-30T15:41:00.000-07:00

The 3rd Annual
Turkey Bowl 2008
Oregon City , OR
1:00pm
Saturday
November 22nd

More Info to come....

Sick!

2008-10-24T08:40:00.001-07:00

I hate feeling and getting sick... I have to wonder why there is a "cold and flu" season. Is this brought upon us? Or is it a slow spiraling event that happens when the seasons change. The days getting shorter and colder it seems depression sets in easily.

Horror of McCain

2008-10-17T14:49:00.000-07:00

Ed Shultz in Portland!!!

2008-09-24T13:47:00.000-07:00

Ed's "Straight Talk from the Heartland" makes him a 21st Century Teddy Roosevelt who believes the salvation of the American people lies in their voices, not in the parties. He represents the thousands of Americans whose collective beliefs are the foundation of the United States.
Big Ed has won Marconi, Peabody and The Eric Sevareid Awards. All this from a former conservative who became a liberal ( but not a wacko liberal ) because I basically got out in the world

Ed Schultz has delivered 20 shares on KFGO/Fargo for the past 15 years. He considers himself a gun-toting, meat-eating lefty.
Courtesy of 620KPOJ

Anyway... We were there Last Friday, It rocked!
I highly recommend tuning in to his show, he is truly a visionary when it comes to the future of our country. We even had an opertunity to meet in after
the show. We were have
cocked and it was pretty
sweet non the less.

Apology from Acme Coffee & Gifts

2008-09-23T15:39:00.000-07:00

I was hoping to make a new announcement about a new location where WrecktAngle apparel would be displayed but unfortunately it seems the Acme Coffee & Gifts dream is over.

I moved to Oregon in 2005 with the purpose of helping my mom open urban-humor retail store. The idea was to create something fresh, unlike what was in the current marketplace. Our temporary location in Washington Square was a big hit, so we had high hopes of continuing the success outside the mall setting.

It seemed only natural to mix good humored gifts with highly caffeinated drinks, so my mom decided to open a hybrid coffee/gift shop in the fall of 2006. Like some sort of nervous uncle, I watched the birth and subsequent growth of the store. The store made my mother proud and I was happy that she had her own creative outlet which seemed destine for success.

But like so many small businesses, the stress & financial burden has become to much for my mother and step-father so Acme will closing probably next week. We hope that someone will by the store and continue the tradition. The store has really turned around into something profitable but its too little too late for my mother.

Blah - I didn't mean to turn this into a eulogy, but I just wanted to apologize to the WrecktAngle community because we had very high hopes of nice little union between the two companies.

Adios

We've Got some new ones!

2008-09-17T16:40:00.001-07:00

There are some new designs on the horizon & some changes coming to the website! Stay tuned...

So... "it's not all politics"

2008-09-15T13:07:00.001-07:00

Sure, some people are talking about the new blog and voicing there opinion. Saying "It's all about politics" this couldn't be further from the truth. The fact is WrecktAngle wants to be on top of what's happening now... It just so happens that it's been politics. If you want to see some different discussions, please post some. Thanks!

Team WrecktAngle Apparel

Top 10 Facts Everyone Must Know About Sarah Palin

2008-09-11T11:21:00.000-07:00

1) She is presently under investigation in Alaska for abuse of power

2) She offered a bounty of $150 for each right front leg of freshly killed wolves

3) She is opposed to abortion even in cases of rape and incest

4) She is a champion for big oil and supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and everywhere else

5) She believes creationism should be taught in public schools

6) She believes man-made global warming is a farce

7) She is opposed to listing the polar bear as an endangered species because she thinks it will limit oil exploitation

8) While mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire the city librarian because the librarian refused to censor books

9) She supports aerial hunting of wolves and bears even though Alaskans voted twice to ban the practice

10) She used $400,000 of state money to fund a media campaign in support of aerial hunting

Check out the video on this page *** CRAZY ***
http://www.grizzlybay.org/SarahPalinInfoPage.htm

Disgusting Truth

2008-09-09T18:27:00.000-07:00

Hey guys! Just got this e-mail from my grandma and felt the need to pass it on. What a charade.... If these two get elected, I'm moving to Canada. Have a great week!

"Here's the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even the anti-feminist right wing -- the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party -- are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president. We owe this to women -- and to many men too -- who have picketed, gone on hunger strikes or confronted violence at the polls so women can vote. We owe it to Shirley Chisholm, who first took the 'white-male-only' sign off the White House, and to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who hung in there through ridicule and misogyny to win 18 million votes.

But here is even better news: It won't work. This isn't the first time a boss has picked an unqualified woman just because she agrees with him and opposes everything most other women want and need. Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

Selecting Sarah Palin, who was touted all summer by Rush Limbaugh, is no way to attract most women, including die-hard Clinton supporters. Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton. Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that opposes pretty much everything Clinton's candidacy stood for -- and that Barack Obama's still does. To vote in protest for McCain/Palin would be like saying, 'Somebody stole my shoes, so I'll amputate my legs.'

This is not to beat up on Palin. I defend her right to be wrong, even on issues that matter most to me. I regret that people say she can't do the job because she has children in need of care, especially if they wouldn't say the same about a father. I get no pleasure from imagining her in the spotlight on national and foreign policy issues about which she has zero background, with one month to learn to compete with Sen. Joe Biden's 37 years of experience. Palin has been honest about what she doesn't know. When asked last month about the vice presidency, she said, 'I still can't answer that question until someone answers for me: What is it exactly that the VP does every day?' When asked about

Iraq

, she said, 'I haven't really focused much on the war in

Iraq

.'

She was elected governor largely because the incumbent was unpopular, and she's won over Alaskans mostly by using unprecedented oil wealth to give a $1,200 rebate to every resident. Now she is being praised by McCain's campaign as a tax cutter, despite the fact that Alaska has no state income or sales tax. Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them. Or perhaps McCain is following the Bush administration habit, as in the Justice Department, of putting a job candidate's views on 'God, guns and gays' ahead of competence. The difference is that McCain is filling a job one 72-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency.

So let's be clear: The culprit is John McCain. He may have chosen Palin out of change-envy, or a belief that women can't tell the difference between form and content, but the main motive was to please right-wing ideologues; the same ones who nixed anyone who is now or ever has been a supporter of reproductive freedom. If that were not the case, McCain could have chosen a woman who knows what a vice president does and who has thought about

Iraq

; someone like Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison or Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine. McCain could have taken a baby step away from rig ht-wing patriarchs who determine his actions, right down to opposing the Violence Against Women Act.

Palin's value to those patriarchs is clear: She opposes just about every issue that women support by a majority or plurality. She believes that creationism should be taught in public schools but disbelieves global warming; she opposes gun control but supports government control of women's wombs; she opposes stem cell research but approves 'abstinence-only' programs, which increase unwanted births, sexually transmitted diseases and abortions; she tried to use taxpayers' millions for a state program to shoot wolves from the air but didn't spend enough money to fix a state school system with the lowest high-school graduation rate in the nation; she runs with a candidate who opposes the Fair Pay Act but supports $500 million in subsidies for a natural gas pipeline across Alaska; she supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, though even McCain has opted for the lesser evil of offshore drilling. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.

I don't doubt her sincerity. As a lifetime member of the National Rifle Assn., she doesn't just support killing animals from helicopters, she does it herself. She doesn't just talk about increasing the use of fossil fuels but puts a coal-burning power plant in her own small town. She doesn't just echo McCain's pledge to criminalize abortion by overturning Roe vs. Wade, she says that if one of her daughters were impregnated by rape or incest, she should bear the child. She not only opposes reproductive freedom as a human right but implies that it dictates abortion, without saying that it also protects the right to have a child.

So far, the major new McCain supporter that Palin has attracted is James Dobson of Focus on the Family. Of course, for Dobson, 'women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership,' so he may be voting for Palin's husband.

Being a hope-a-holic, however, I can see two long-term bipartisan gains from this contest.

Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time. A loss in November could cause the centrist majority of Republicans to take back their party, which was the first to support the Equal Rights Amendment and should be the last to want to invite government into the wombs of women.

And American women, who suffer more because of having two full-time jobs than from any other single injustice, finally have support on a national stage from male leaders who know that women can't be equal outside the home until men are equal in it. Barack Obama and Joe Biden are campaigning on their belief that men should be, can be and want to be at home for their children. This could be huge."

2008-09-06T11:27:00.000-07:00

I want the t-shirt:Lizards of Satan for McCain-Palin.

Below are some actual quotes by Governor Palin during a series of interviews by the Anchorage Daily News in 2006 when she was running for Governor...

On Creationism:

The simple yet elegantly awkward moose proves God's creation and not evolution is the source of all life. How could something as oddly shaped and silly looking as a moose evolve through so-called "natural selection?" Is evolution a committee? There is nothing natural about a dorky moose! Only God could have made a moose and given it huge antlers to fight off his predatory enemies. God has a well known sense of humor, I mean He made the platypus too.

On oil exploration and drilling in the ANWR:

God made dinosaurs 4,000 years ago as ultimately flawed creatures, lizards of Satan really, so when they died and became petroleum products we, made in his perfect image, could use them in our pickup trucks, snow machines and fishing boats.Now, as to the ANWR, Todd and I often enjoying caribou hunting and one year we shot up a herd big time, I mean I personally slaughtered around 40 of them with my new, at the time, custom Austri an hunting rifle. And guess what? That caribou herd is still around and even bigger than ever. Caribou herds actually need culling, be it by rifles or wolves, or Exxon-Mobil oil rigs, they do just great!

On Alaskans serving overseas in Iraq:

Well, God bless them, and I mean God and Jesus because without Jesus we'd be Muslims too or Jewish, which would be a little better because of the superior Israeli Air Force.

I want the t-shirt:Lizards of Satan for McCain-Palin.

OUR SOCIETY IN CRUMBS

2008-09-04T20:43:00.000-07:00

THERE ARE TOO MANY PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT ARE TOO LAZY TO GET A JOB THAT THEY FIND REASONS WHY THEY DESERVE MONEY. MAKE HOMELESS PEOPLE LEAVE, GET A JOB, WORK FOR THEIR MONEY. THERE ARE PLENTY OF WAYS THAT WE CAN MAKE THEM WORK. AT LEAST ON THE EAST COAST THEY WILL DANCE, SING, OR EVEN WASH YOUR CAR WINDOW. THEY ARE DOING SOMETHING. HERE IN OREGON THIS LAID BACK HIPPIE STATE ALLOWS THESE FUCKERS TO SIT AROUND WITH A SIGN THAT SAY HOMELESS ANYTHING HELP GOD BLESS. WHEN IT SHOULD READ LAZY WANT MONEY I WILL FORGET WHO YOU ARE 10 SECONDS BEFORE YOU GIVE ME A DOLLAR. WHAT GOOD ARE THEY. THEY DO NOTHING BUT SIT AROUND, AND PISS ALL OVER OUR BELOVED STATE. AND THOSE CRACK HOE MOTHERS THAT THINK THEY DESERVE FUCKN WELLFARE. HERE IS WHAT I THINK. MAKE THEM GET A JOB, HAVE THEM REPORT OR THE COMPANY REPORT HOW THEY ARE GOING TO GET PAID (MONTHLY, EVERY OTHER WEEK, WHATEVER) THEN GIVE THEM A WELLFARE CHECK. NO JOB, NO MONEY. AND AFTER 2 KIDS THEY GET CLOSED UP DOWN THERE SO THEY CANT HAVE ANY KIDS. DONT LIKE GET A JOB THAT WILL PAY YOU THE MONEY THAT YOU CAN DO IT. OTHERWISE GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE. I DONT KNOW WHO IS WORSE BUMS OR CRACK HOE MOTHERS.

Craigs Second Rant

2008-09-04T20:41:00.000-07:00

So in my first rant I talked about someone who called my work yelling at me and my fellow co workers to fix a problem that a completely different location did. Well on Saturday August 30th a man came in with his kids and rudely demanded me to tell him why he couldn't get his money. Well I told him "You have a legal garnishment on your account and you have used up to many direct deposit advances." His reply to that was " I'm not going to tell you what I am thinking but I hope there is a spot in the corner of hell that is a little warmer for you and your company" This only gets better. I told him that it is not our fault that you didn't pay your bill and got sued, we don't determine when you get your direct deposit or when his rent is due. And that I personally don't make the rules. I guess that wasn't the best thing to say because his response to that was " I need my money and you guys are fucking me over, you are fucking me over". With a grin on my face and a puffed up voice I told him that if he is going to continue to use that language he is going to have to leave because his voice tactics to scare me aren't going to work and that it only makes him sound ignorant. He stood up and yelled "FUCK YOU BITCH" hahaha honestly what kind of man says that to another man. I told him that I would gladly close his account and he can be an ass somewhere else. That is when he calmed down and replied "No I will wait till I get my money back." So a word to the wise be careful on who you try to intimidate because they could have all the power to make your life worse then it already is. At that point I wanted to call CSD and tell them that he is verbaly abusive to his children and that he isn't suted as a father. This guy is a bum. He lives off of his 2 kids social security check. No job and doesn't do anything to help there advances. Now some people might say well the programs out there are expensive. BULLSHIT. Use their money for the programs, get a job and come tax time you can write off the expesses of the programs and get the money back. Here is my little spit on the world.

You can put lipstick on a Pit Bull, but it still doesn't have any good experience in politics!"

2008-09-04T14:26:00.000-07:00

"You can put lipstick on a Pit Bull, but it still doesn't have any good experience in politics!"

Room for One More?

2008-09-03T16:49:00.000-07:00

Yea Yea Yea...... ..

I was supposed to be one of the first posters, but it looks like I'm last. August has been bonkers, but Ben is back on track. I have a unique style/flair that will entertain the masses. I like to ramble and use lofty terms, but its a fun so don't worry. Anyways - time to get back to my real job.

Adios

Welcome to my blog!

2008-09-02T01:02:00.000-07:00

I haven't had a blog before, besides the occasional myspace posting, but I'll try and make this a weekly thing. But for now, all I have is an awesome joke. Hope you have a great week!

~Me

A nun, badly needing to use the
restroom, walked into a local Hooters.

The place was hopping with music and
loud conversation and every once in a while "the lights would turn off."

Each time the lights would go out, the
place would erupt into cheers.

However, when the revelers saw the nun,
the room went dead silent.

She walked up to the bartender, and
asked, "May I please use the restroom?

The bartender replied, "OK, but I should
warn you that there is a statue of a naked man in there wearing only a fig leaf."

"Well, in that case, I'll just look the
other way," said the nun.

So the bartender showed the nun to the
back of the restaurant. While she was in the restroom, the lights went out in the restaurant.

After a few minutes, she came back out,
and the whole place stopped just long enough to give the nun a loud round of applause!

She went to the bartender and said,
"Sir, I don't understand. Why did they applaud for me just because I went to the restroom?"

"Well, now they know you're one of us,"
said the bartender, "Would you like a drink?"

"No thank you, but, I still don't
understand," said the puzzled nun.

"You see," laughed the bartender, "every
time someone lifts the fig leaf on that statue, the lights go out.

Now, how about that drink?" (Hell yeah lol)

Craigs Rants

2008-08-28T22:49:00.000-07:00

So I think I am going to start giving a weekly rant on some topic. Most of the time it will be me bitching about something that bothered me today or in the past. So here it goes.

Today at work I had a bitch of a lady call my work yelling me for something someone else did at another location. Now I will let people talk a bit because things happen but once you start making it personal and you are not going to work with me then my guns come out. I know that I was in a professional atmosphere so I composed my self and did what any right person would do... I passed it on to my boss. HAHAHA. I don't get paid enough to deal with these self righteous assholes. Now here is the kicker she owes over $150,000 and has no money when she claims that she makes 10k a month. HAHAHA she will never get out of debt. Makes me feel much better about myself. My boss and I have dealt with her before on some lame claims that she "didn't know" and my boss handed it to someone else because if I took care of the situation I would have gladly wrote a note saying that we no longer want you as a customer and that she will have to take her business elsewhere." mailed it to here and then a few days later a check would arrive. And the best part is my boss knows that I will do it. Don't be an ass for no reason. If it's your dad that didn't love you enough or your man/woman isn't giving it to you, don't take it out on someone else. Because soon you will find someone that won't take your shit and make you feel 10 times worse then you make other people. Know if I was in a public, non-professional setting I would have gladly said something to her.

The moral of this story is this if you are being an ass there is someone out there that is worse. Don't take your personal thoughts and feelings to the table of where you do business.

P.S If you or someone you know is being an ass, a dick, disrespectful, or just not being a good person let me know. Put me in their place of business and I will talk to them in their own language. So please let me know I love talking back to arrogant bigots.

WE are REAL. The TV NETWORKS are NOT!

2008-08-28T15:21:00.001-07:00

No Caption Needed!

2008-08-22T14:59:00.000-07:00

Our first offical design "hot off the press"

2008-08-22T14:12:00.000-07:00

We're really doing it!
This design is called "Lookout"
& it's ready to sell... Check out the
Main site under the gear page for more details.

McCain '08

2008-08-21T15:56:00.000-07:00

Condi-witch

2008-08-21T12:22:00.000-07:00

There's more than one way to win an election...

A new Addition to our arsenal

2008-08-21T11:54:00.000-07:00

One of the many reasons that we havebeen slacking to get this off theground is...... We didn't have a press!The past 3 months we hired a privatecontractor to build us acustom screen press...here are some of the stages...

For some reason ...

2008-08-20T22:16:00.000-07:00

For some reason I love Thursdays. I can't explain why, maybe it because it's one day closer to Friday and then the weekend... It seems like my favorite TV shows are on Thursday's & it feels like Im able to stay up a little later... I don't know?

PICTURES ARE ENCOURAGED

2008-08-20T18:34:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone I want people to know that we would like to see pictures on here. If its of just the outdoors with a story to you and some people having fun please send it in and tell us about it. Share your love.

Like this one. This picture was taken on Heather Canyon at Mt. Hood Meadows. It was a glorious day. Even though I think this day I almost fell off of a blind cliff. Yeah that was fun.

Just a Test!

2008-08-15T21:53:00.000-07:00

Trying out this new thing... awesome so far!

Stay tuned for up coming info about how our company is doing!

Thanks

Welcome

2008-08-15T15:17:00.001-07:00

Stay Tuned for Kick Ass info