.:. gotblogua .:.

so if i want to embed
the shoutcast from:
http://64.236.34.97:80/stream/1016
right here in this post…

i can write :

[ audio:http://64.236.34.97:80/stream/1016 ]

and low and behold, it seems to work:

WOW - first time i had 4 cores under my desk… and in such a damn sexy metal box too…

this machine rules and i loaded it to the brim with software and storage and RAIDed up 1.5 TeraBytes of hard disk space and this puppy is stable like a coin ducktaped to the underside of a 4 ton rock…

i had 3 processes over 100% CPU usage SIMULTANEOUSLY… while listening to iTunes, browsing the web, moving 1.5 GB files (on the same drives that the video encoding process were working)… and not even a burp…

i am so grateful to have access to this machine… and look forward to digital creativity explorations and explosions in the coming times!

if you want one of these, and you think you can actually make use of the horsepower… you don’t need to think twice about if its worth it… every penny and more….

so easy to install extra memory and hard drives, that i could kiss the designers feet…
so fast and stable that i feel that i can create anything digitally imaginable…

anyway… i don’t like to tell people what to do, but… GET ONE!

http://www.stoptherod.net/
http://www.stoptherod.net/biblical-child-training-excerpt.html
this book is for sale… right now in 2006…
http://homeschool-books.com/xcart/product.php?productid=16688&cat=439&page=1
also at amazon:

What do customers ultimately buy after viewing this item?
86% buy the item featured on this page:
What the Bible Says About Child Training (2nd Edition) by J. Richard Fugate $10.39
6% buy
Child Training Tips: What I Wish I Knew When My Children Were Young by Reb Bradley $8.00
5% buy
Shepherding a Child’s Heart by Tedd Tripp $11.16
3% buy
Standing On The Promises : A Handbook Of Biblical Childrearing by Douglas Wilson $8.50

i am a bit out of breath at the moment…

very disturbed.

so i reviewed an item at amazon:

Tragic Blasphemy
Dear Dear Citizens of earth,

I write this review with a heart heavier than stone. A deep sorrow runs through my being as i become aware of this book and the horrible practices it seems to suggest. This review is based on the reading of chapter 17 on a website called stop the rod dot net. you can search for the title of this book on google and see the whole chapter there. I keep wanting to THINK it is a hoax or something… but the title of chapter 17 is clearly visible in the table of contents here at amazon: “The correct use of chastisement”

I suppose everyone is entitled to their own opinions and views and decisions about child raising and punishment. I don’t intend to judge anyone for their opinions. I am intending to point out some observations.

Over the years of humanity’s recorded history, we have seen MANY repetitions of a cycle or behavior that is very crass and in my opinion extremely blasphemous. People rationalize power hungry suppressive and VIOLENT behavior by using the name of God (eg. The Crusades). I cannot condone this behavior, i have trouble to accept that there are still humans on this planet who are employing this painfully destructive cycle.

If I were in front of you right now, i would beg you not to beat your child, not with your hand, not with a “rod” as this book blatently suggests, not with your words not even with your thoughts. The children of earth deserve better than this, my dear brothers and sisters.

I would like to make this perfectly clear with a small painfully true adaptation of the back cover: (integrating some material from chapter 17)
“J Richard Fugate accepted Christ as his savior in 1968 at the age of 28. Three years later he totally committed himself to serve God wherever he was called.”(back cover). These days he is selling books that encourage parents to beat their children with a rod in order to “bring a rebellious child’s will under control” (pg.173). In cases where the child is excessively willful, Fugate suggests that it may “require enough strokes to receive stripes or even welts” (pg. 173).

I can not manage to reconcile this incredible injustice, and i truly hope that you will never have to read this review, because amazon will soon remove this book from its system of moral, ethical, if not legal grounds.

I am happy to suggest that you have a search for a book about indigo children (if you do a google search for: indigo children gotjosh … you can find a site that includes some audio readings of a fantastic book that is not widely distributed.)

blessings on your path, and virtue in your child raising decisions,
joshua

Please join this campaign if you have a moment… even if you don’t have a dime, just your attention and prayer (or hope or whatever you wanna call it)…

http://www.feed333.com/

I hope you have time to go over to http://www.defenders.org/
and write something like i did:

Hopefully you are already aware of technologies like:
http://www.shec-labs.com/OM_enviro_society.php
information such as:
http://www.knowledgepublications.com/solar_hydrogen.htm
and organizations like:
http://www.clean-air.org/

As a constituent, a supporter of Defenders of Wildlife and someone who cares about protecting wildlife and promoting real energy solutions, I strongly urge you to oppose any legislation that would dramatically expand oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

Earlier this year, the Senate passed legislation that would open up as much as eight million new acres in the Gulf of Mexico to harmful oil and gas drilling (S. 3711). Now it’s your turn to weigh in on this bill.

The pollution and increased ship traffic that comes with new drilling could be disastrous for sea turtles, whales, dolphins and other wildlife in the area. Worse, it represents yet another hand-out to big oil companies, rather than the forward-looking, environmentally sustainable energy policy that our country deserves.

I urge you to oppose this bill and support real solutions to America’s energy needs, such as increased fuel efficiency and new innovation in clean, renewable energy sources.

assuming you have mplayer properly installed on your mac os x (Tiger) system,
you can create applescripts to grab movies from the web.
i made one for wmx files that works quite nice.

this little tidbit from ericlager in a comment at macosxhints was helpful:
set newFile to POSIX path of (choose file name with prompt "Save movie as:" default name "iTunes Video.mov")

Over here:
http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?p=742664
someone reported the same error and then ./configured with –disable-win32
and was able to get past that WINE related error…

then i got an error related to mp3lame

then i found this command:
sudo oprt    port -dv install mplayer
via google on the opendarwin list

i had already installed macPorts from the suggestion here:
http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/macos.html

and that seemed to work like a charm…