Government Uses FedEx to Smuggle Contraband

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 | Smartass | 4 Comments

So while my friend and I were driving to Wisconsin last week we got stopped in Missouri where all traffic was being forced to exit for an accident ahead.

The accident which I could see fairly clear was a FedEx truck that wasn’t moving. Now it was only using one lane and wasn’t scattered all over the road. It looked as if the truck just stopped moving and broke down.

There did not appear to be any other vehicles that had collided with the truck so one would assume that they would just slow down traffic and keep them in just one lane.

Since everybody was getting sent to the right upon exit we ignored them and we went to the left and used GPS to find our way back to the interstate.

During our process we saw a tow truck and a FedEx truck going towards the broken down truck. Then we continued to see a massive amount of FedEx trucks everywhere. Far more than would be needed to carry the packages.

We eventually got on the interstate again (at the same time as another FedEx truck was driving away from the scene). We had skipped probably 2 hours of stop and go driving with how far the traffic was backed up going to the right (suckers).

Still seeing what a huge deal was made out of this and how it all worked I would say that it would of happened the exact same way if a government truck carrying say, WOMD’s or other contraband had broken down.

So I have decided that FedEx is working with our nations leaders to help smuggle goods.

It makes perfect sense. Nobody will suspect that the million FedEx trucks on the road are anything but a standard package delivery system. Not even other truckers would suspect them. They stop at a truck stop and are wearing a FedEx hat and all is understood.

Before you rule this out for good I suggest you just start paying attention on the road. I didn’t see hardly any UPS trucks on the road, but after this for the rest of the trip we were seeing huge amounts of FedEx trucks… and UPS costs less and is available from more websites.

Now I don’t think they are all in on it. I think at least 50% of the FedEx trucks on the road are genuinely delivering our packages. It’s the other 50% I wonder about.

260 New Pieces of Artwork

Sunday, November 16th, 2008 | Site Updates | 4 Comments

I was bored with the current art. So I spent a bit extra time collecting new artwork. Now I normally go and do a “new artwork week” and then I mix the old art with the new art but now I think I will leave this up until December since there is enough artwork to maintain the random without the 600 old pieces of art.

Now today I am also going through the old artwork and throwing it in a folder called “bored” so even when I mix the new artwork with the old stuff I will have cleaned out all the artwork I was bored of seeing. I mean I am not joking when I say there were 600 pieces of art on random, but if you visit the site every day like I do then you would know that it still likes to show you the same 40 pieces of art all the time for some crazy annoying reason.

I have seriously tried 3 different random scripts to fix this but there really is no such thing as a good random script. I need to write one myself that has some kind of memory so it knows how often it is spitting out the same artworks… Anyways that is for another day.

For now, if you don’t like the artwork that shows up click the artwork button to the upper left corner and change it. If your browser doesn’t load a new piece of artwork hold the shift key on the keyboard and click the browsers reload button. This will force it to reload my page without using the cached artwork.

Enjoy the new art ~ Soon it will be in a database and you can pick and chose only your favorite artists to show up.

Attacked By Terrorists

Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | Smartass | 2 Comments

I have had a popcorn husk stuck in my throat near my adam’s apple for over a day now. If it was a normal piece of popcorn it would have dislodged while I was sleeping, however It has hung on. I have tried all sorts of things to get this dislodged but have failed.

The only reason I can see that I would fail would be if the popcorn were deliberately put into my bag of popcorn as a new type of terrorism.

I mean think about it. It’s very distracting. You are trying to talk, or breath or read something and you have to fight to get your mind to keep focus since all it wants to do is think about the piece of popcorn constantly stabbing at your throat.

I for one think as one of Bush’s last acts as president he should send more troops to various locations that might contain weapons of mass distraction like this popcorn.

Biggest Douche In The Universe 2008

Thursday, November 13th, 2008 | Smartass | 3 Comments

South Park started an awards ceremony once where they gave John Edwards an award for Biggest Douche in the Universe. In keeping with the tradition today I was given a web address of somebody that I believe should win the award for 2008.

So today I nominate Gary Johnson of Phenomenon1111.com.

I would elaborate on the reasons why, however it will only take you 2 minutes to read his entire website.

iTunes Ate my ID3 Tags

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 | Bad Ideas, Life | 4 Comments

So I thought I would throw all of my music into iTunes now that my desktop computer is up.  I mean that way I can have it download more cover art and can have last.fm read my library from it.

Seemed like a good idea at the time. 

So it ends up in there and there is this new “album view” and I quickly notice an album the artist says “Amos, Tori”, and knowing that was not how it should be listed I right clicked on the album and chose “get info” which is where you go to update the ID3 tags on iTunes.  So I checked in the box for Artist and Album Artist and I typed Tori Amos instead of Amos, Tori.

I hit okay and went back to watching a video.  When I was done with my video I noticed that iTunes had finished “correcting my album”. 

Though now it seems that not just that album was “fixed” but ALL of my albums were “fixed”.  250+ gigs of mp3’s from my Everything Else folder (or 63,439 songs) all had their ID3 tags changed to say that they were by Tori Amos. 

I mean I didn’t think the album Abbey Road was by Tori Amos.  Grr…

There is no such thing as an “undo” for changing 63,000 songs.  So that means every single song in my entire library has bad ID3 tags. 

Oh, I can just hear my friend Josh laughing now…

How to fix this. 

Winamp has this “auto-tag” thing that actually works pretty well, but it’s not perfect.  To prevent it from getting totally confused I need to remove the artist from all of my mp3’s so it doesn’t first look for Tori Amos albums. 

So when it completes that I am going to throw ALL of my music into auto-tag. 

Now, this will actually kind of suck.  My music is VERY well.  I mean I am very anal about my filing system.  Artist\Year - Album\Track# Track Name.mp3

The ID3 tags are just as clean because of it.  When I put them into my Everything Else folder I go and make sure all the ID3 tags are nice and clean to match the filing system. 

So until an hour ago I had the world’s best sorted and cleanest music collection.  After auto-tag it’s really a total crapshot as to if it will even be picking the correct information.

Some of it will be correct, some of it will be wrong.

I guess I am glad this has happened in 2008 and not earlier because mass ID3 tagging didn’t have an even half-ass effective global database even a year ago.

Seriously as stupid as I feel for having done this, I looked through iTunes and in it’s default mode this is 100% for sure going to happen to other people.  Seems that every single file is checked in by default, only you can’t see that it’s checked in.  When you right click on one album it highlights JUST that one album.  So iTunes doesn’t care what is highlighted, only what is checked in, and as I said.  It doesn’t show you what is checked in under the default album view mode. 

I have never liked iTunes but this is a MAJOR design flaw.

BOOOOOO Apple.