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Insomnia, rich people |
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Insomnia is back, but getting better I think. Trying new things including avoiding looking at my screen at night while listening to music. Maybe programming for 10-11 hours a day is unsustainable. I usually just do half days for holidays, will finally take some in July. Even with increased spare time programming work, programming hours will reduce then, though probably only slightly.
Sunday update, yes I definitely think not frequently looking at my even dimmed computer screen during listening to music at night solves the problem, this explains why it seems to be random. Will do that going forward. Mostly had a weekend instead of doing spare time programming projects, facebook is distracting, kind of annoyed! Hate wasting time on Facebook. Taking another break from this blog next week. Life is quiet and boring, have some concerts in July. I don't really have a random rant this entry. On the subject of the Minister of disabilities saying she rather be on a boat than meet with disability groups. The whole thing felt very Orange Buffoonish on the cluelessness of the tweet. Perhaps she can be our ambassador to the US, she'll get along great with Orange Buffoon. He'd probably rather be out yachting than being president. To be honest I'd rather rich people just enjoy life than fuck things up in government. Give me 1 billion dollars. I'd probably just hibernate in a mansion with some hot guys, perhaps do some business and social enterprises. Not sure why I would want to be in government if I was rich; you don't have to be in government to influence policy. Give me 10 million dollars why on earth would I want a government job? That's just crazy to me, but I'm not an utter narcissist. If rich people just be rich and not try to fuck things up there probably wouldn't be so much hatred towards them. Her tweet was also unprofessional, if I met with advocacy groups and I do the last thing I would do would be to say that I would rather be somewhere else. How can they have confidence in you? Usually for out of town meetings I just find a quick hookup, now this on its face sounds bad but actually makes me really grateful for the weekend and the organization! You should certainly be engaged with anything you do, I don't continue with organizations if I feel my time is better spent elsewhere. I am finding it is better to create your own advocacy opportunities. | |||
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90s concert, agency automation |
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This is posted on Monday because had insomnia Friday and I like to work when I have it, I like to actually enjoy my time off.
Sunday two weeks ago now I went to a concert called I Love The 90s, I mistakenly thought it was more pop, whoops. It was geared towards hip hop and rap. I enjoyed Coolio's See You When I Get There, and Vanilla Ice put on a good stage show. No overly annoying people, a woman kept talking to me at first, couldn't understand what she was saying, I then moved up near the front, should of done it sooner. On entry I was called a \'trouble maker" for wanting to go on the floor instead of upstairs. That was a bit odd. Excuse me for just wanting to be one of the crowd. Agency automation is coming along, creating a contact extractor for people that can't be fucked hunting down Email addresses/contact form on sites. Also creating booking facilities and a web contact manager, among other things. Next blog in two weeks. | |||
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Music, Project, Shit, Auto tune |
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Probably should had this week off personal blog. Sunday night I have a concert, more names to add to my seen live list. There's about 80 at this point. Vengaboys were the worst, Anastacia was the best.
Spent last weekend improving my artist agency software, this weekend is no different. I suddenly want to launch a social enterprise that will combine a talent agency and production company, so I am creating software to automate as much work as possible, software will be for sale too, get in touch if you're interested! The social combines a few of my goals such as wanting to produce screen content, music and visibility of people with disabilities. If I automate as much administration work as possible the administrator can do more work that matters. Ultimately the goal is to get more people with disabilities in the public eye, on different TV shows, DJs, singers. Some content I want to produce myself; I'd need people to produce things for. I imagine much content production would be independent of myself. Another key point is to get it self funding so the work can continue without constantly asking for money. This requires me to be entrepreneural, I am ready to take up this challenge. This project will save thousands by having me build the software and most of the website for free. I'm not the best web designer so I don't know if to do that part.hopefully this project will run mostly by itself; I can dip in and out of it with artistic, consulting and technological contributions when appropriate. Other social enterprises may be added on too. Time to see what shit I can type, not literal shit. I'd be extremely talented if I could produce shit with typing, I'd sell it for gardens, depending on output of course. Does human shit work for growing plants? If not never mind, If so why do we throw much of it out? The government should find a way to recycle it. Googled, it can be fertilizer. Change of subject. I have nothing. Nothing? The contents of Orange Buffon's head! I was thinking about singing lessons vs auto tune, obviously not for me. Artists should do pure singing, but these days it's not really required. If it's good enough for Britney Spears and Cher, pure singing is preferred but if the situation is correct maybe an artist can be successful with auto tune alone. I also find it bizarre they have singing competitions when artists lip sync and auto tune. But anything to avoid paying actors and writers, right? By the way hire me as a writer for your TV show. You'll be impressed bigly! I'll be back next week, probably not the week after. | |||
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Projects, Budget, Music, Blogs |
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This is posted on Monday because got insomnia Saturday. Fuck Facebook! I should know better than to engage in the comments late at night. So worked six days, now have a four day week. Moving my half holidays back again, suddenly want to implement new features on my event listing software.
People have been posting about Budget 2017. I could have told you that they're still a neoliberal crapfest even without the announcement. The government is not going to make life better for me; I have to do that. I'd say that this is a spoiler for future years, but Bill English isn't really good at winning elections. Really, who's excited about Bill English? I doubt even his wife is. Uninteresting but not as extreme as Don Brash. Finally completed another music production tutorial, turned out to be the last. Maybe I'll find more, or move to experimenting. I possibly have no idea what I'm doing but that's what experimenting is for. I just decided to consider changing this blog to every two weeks or monthly. I struggle to find things to blog about, I end up just doing random rants. That is fun, but I hoped to do a psychology blog and only ended up with a single post since launching in February. Maybe the solution is to occasionally skip quiet weeks and do other blogs. See you next week. Well no, I am not seeing you right now. See you next week is a stupid thing to say. Rest assured I don't have cameras in your house. Partly because it's illegal, partly because you're not that interesting, partly because I don't know who you are. I don't have cameras in anybody's house, you're thinking of the CIA! | |||
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Projects, Stein, ideas, humanity |
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Perhaps I'll start my half holidays in June to sync with another concert. This pushes my creative projects back to July, can't be helped. Also preparing to start software to semi automate online promoting which is a big goal of mine.
Oh dear, I believe I just discovered the Alex Jones lite of the left and they're nut bars that attack TheYoungTurks for not covering Jil Stien enough. They live in fantasy world that think Stein would have won because of X or Y. While I'm on the subject I've noticed not all people that defend smart ideas are smart people, some people doing so are not very bright. Smart ideas shouldn't need you to defend them, but if doing so please FFS do it in an intelligent way. I understand the urge to correct people. It's a matter of time, do you really want to spend time on people you assume are wrong? I have better things to do. People complain that they're old. In my opinion it's not the time you have left but how you spend it. There's no reason why you can't do interesting things when you retire, well unless you have alzheimer's. Apart from that you don't have to travel to make life worthwhile; there's plenty of things you can learn on the web and from there you could do research, even do experiments. Many people see retirement as the end, but it doesn't have to be. You need not let your brain retire and play bridge. The problem with humanity is most people are stuck in repetitive jobs and instead of discovering and innovating. It is accepted by society that most people do work in this fashion. This is absurd. While I'm in tangent mode the progression of science would do better if scientists keep the profits from their inventions instead of selling things to corporations. If profits went to R&D instead of shareholders that would have some ground breaking ramifications. Finally on a similar but different note I was thinking that an Anti Hunger Industrial Complex would be a tremendous idea if done right. I am not sure if that would be workable. Though if organizations give up their million dollar executive salaries and funnel that money to political campaigns instead, that could actually work! | |||
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Green Day 2017 |
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I worked another full week. Surprise surprise. Will probably work until at least Thursday.
Tonight I am going to Green Day. I go to a lot of concerts, very few I am super excited to go to. Been looking forward to this for months. Green Day was good. At first they wouldn't let me in General Admission but they managed to be convinced. Couldn't get into the first row but 15 meters away, was still awesome. Briefly got further but decided to go back. I got a drum stick. Wouldn't have got that with stupid segregated seating. Stupid hotel internet won't let me on YouTube. High speed internet but you can do fuck with it. Home Monday, nothing special happened the rest of the trip. So fuck that, but Green Day was great! | |||
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Schedule, Zucky, Projects |
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This is posted on Monday because had insomnia Saturday and would rather work when tired than type blogs. I blame typing on Facebook late at night. Fuck Facebook.
Next entry will be posted on Monday too. Worked a few week and Wednesday is going to be my last full day for a month. This really just means I'm going to replace some work time with spare time projects. Apparently Mark Zuckerburg is going to run for president. Fuck that idea. Another billionaire white guy, no thanks! I constantly complain about American politics, YouTube is the primary reason. I try to avoid TV news, and get my news from YouTube. Unfortunately all I know are American oriented shows. If there was a TheYoungTurks in New Zealand, I'd watch that. The only show I know is some crazy conspiracy show where they think everything is poisoning us and blah blah blah. Earthquakes are caused by a secret US weapon. Cloud Cuckoo Land type stuff. I don't like being limited to US commentary when it comes to YouTube. I don't have time to read blogs. Probably shouldn't have admitted that being a blogger. Well fuck! YouTube I can have in the background. Maybe I can create a Text To Speech application that automatically downloads blogs. Maybe I am fucking busy and should avoid new projects! Maybe I can do that particular project later. Hehe if Zucky ran the US government the way he runs facebook. You'll get a letter for every stupid response to what you're commenting on (notifications), people would go door to door inviting people to events, you'll be automatically be assigned to groups by people that know you that you'll have to file paperwork to opt out of, they'll distribute funding to NGOs based on likes, the only news you'll get is the news they assume that you want to see, I was going to blog about rich superhumans and whether it's a utopia or dystopia, maybe another time. Finally I have a passion for TV writing and music production. I have never done much about them. Although I have been slowly learning music production, and have previously written a screenplay for a short film. I think I will more aggressively go after these after my half holiday. I think that I can devote one day a week to this, plus blogging. Apparently nobody writes for TV full time, in New Zealand so that definitely works. I probably can work on music at my own pace for personal stuff. I can probably cut down programming and delegate business management if necessary. I'll keep programming because I love creating technology but I'll consider a reduction in future, possibly just for periods when I have a significant creative project. | |||
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Bones, Life |
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Ran out of Bones episodes, not sure what to watch next. This isn't an invitation for suggestions. I have some idea but finding motivation to get it is the problem.
I was going to start my half day holidays May first but decided to postpone until 4th to progress my environmental controls and building navigation projects, it's possible I'll work the full week. Eye tracking project is further delayed; I'd rather make real progress on environmental controls. My main spare time project is creating hotel accessibility software and I'm probably going to do a restaurant version too. Fuck knows why I am doing these in my spare time. I really don't have a life outside of programming. I'm happily single without obligations and that's how I like it. I like the freedom. I can do what I like, do who I like... Except I spend most of the time programming, even outside of work hours. I generally enjoy programming, except the fucking eye tracking project. I also blog and hope to resume creative projects in June. Can't understand loneliness; I am too busy to be lonely! I just need someone to entertain me and leave. I also can't understand cuddling, I find it incredibly boring. Actually I randomly laugh when thoughts pop into my head, which is very strange for the guys I'm with. Again I find cuddling incredibly boring, my mind needs to be doing something. The only exception is winding down at night listening to music and only because I'm practically forced to if I don't want insomnia. | |||
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Comedy, Wellington |
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Insomia is back, hopefully temporarily. Went out to comedy shows Wednesday and Thursday. Possibly has something to do with trying to type thoughts afterward. Friday I also did some typing before bed. Won't be an issue next week. Also won't be posting my regular NP blog after this is posted.
Saturday I went to Welligton for a meeting. I thought the meeting was two days, was only Sunday! The bad: had two hours sleep, this time got up at 5AM. Also why the fuck don't they serve coffee on early morning flights? The good: had time to prepare and afterwards had an enjoyable evening. Sunday was a nine hour long meeting. Long but rather enjoyable. Also enjoyed Pizza and chips at the airport before going home. | |||
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Comedy, Facebook, Concert |
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Wednesday I went to two comedy shows. I got an applause line even though I was not in the shows! I was supposed to see something Thursday but fucked up and turned up at the wrong venue! I am thinking of trying an inprov themed set next; just because I can.
If I haven't already said that I hate Facebook; let me state for the record that I hate Facebook! It's a stupid site. Its latest cluserfuck of a feature is people marking themselves safe after a disaster. Bitch, I don't want to bothered by Facebook asking me if I am safe from an event happening miles away from me. I am busy! If people are interested in my well being they can check my facebook feed; I usually post once every 24 hours at minimum, I am now just Facebooking out random shit at night as I think of them when I am listening to music. I also don't need twenty notifications telling me that my friends are safe when many are nowhere near the affected area. Ridiculous fucking feature. Can anyone really be considered safe with Orange Buffoon randomly bombing things? Went to Blondie and Cyndi Laupa. Some random woman danced with me. She said \'this is the first dance, not the last", she never came back! Probably drunk. I went to see Cyndi but Blondie had better music to dance to. I was in the far away area I hate so much and they didn't even have big screens on, maybe I need to buy a telescope! Next blog will be posted on a Monday. | |||
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Watching, projects |
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Friday: Watched a psychology lecture last night, got insomnia. Won't be doing that again. I will watch lectures in the weekend instead of a bunch of TV episodes. Fiction should be limited for me, why watch the idiot box when you can learn about the world? I don't care if I am out of touch. With humanity today, I don't want to be in touch with. Obviously hot guys excluded. I am fine being very in touch with hot guys. The rest of humanity can continue electing ridiculous people as their leader (including John Key) and continue being outraged at stupid shit on Facebook, has Justine landed yet? I must try to expand my scientific knowledge. I basically only watch 3 TV shows daily, and I watch these at minimum of 1.5X speed, few other soaps at 4X, mainly to check out the guys! I found a bunch of psychology lectures, will work my way through those, then medical and science. Maybe some sort of engineering would be good. I viewed several marketing themed talks at night, didn't caused insomnia. Maybe I was more engaged with psychology. I guess I will just have to listen to music at night to avoid getting insomnia.
Saturday now, decided to start releasing commercial business automation products. Yes, more projects! However finishing off current projects is the priority. At least with business automation products that will help me run the other businesses. I just had an accessibility rating idea, more fucking projects! | |||
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Crazy rant, projects |
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Random crazy rant time. "Good evening Thane" Fuck off! I don't want Facebook to greet me, ever! I keep hiding the post, it keeps coming back. It's not Facebook's job to greet me, it's Facebook's job to give me random annoying posts! I am going to check the API; perhaps I can do all comments and posts from my own platform. I have made an auto poster for Twitter, just have not gotten around to testing the technology, will do soon, then work on a Facebook version. "Good morning Thane!" Fuck off, you're just a website. Bit arrogant to assume I want a cherry greeting.
The organization in charge of my accommodation transfer have been suspended for six or nine months. Hopefully by then I will have several businesses up and can just arrange decent accommodation myself. I am FINALLY starting to market, although discovered building navigation systems have additional features, so implementing such functionality on mine, then will continue marketing and build a little hotel room service ordering system. Taking a month of half day holidays in May, there's a few spare time projects I want to complete. | |||
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Dentist, Adele |
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am in Auckland but only have 300MB of data. Fuck this. Adele concert is tomorrow. Apparently it is going to be raining. Fuck that.
Thursday I had a dentist appointment. I am sick of interruptions to programming time. April is not going to be as busy. Still going away and a few meetings. Doesn't look like I have more open homes and apparently I am no longer moving. I didn't want to move to another place in Christchurch. I may as well stay put until I decide when to move to another city. Speaking of appointments I am creating reminder software to add on to the business software I am creating. My goal is to make a full business management system, to the extent it can be done. Plus I need a reminder system for myself. Sunday I went home. Adele was good. Definitely in the top half of the concerts I have been to. Possibly top 10. Think Set Fire To The Rain was the song that I most enjoyed dancing to, although I doubt that's scientifically possible as water evaporates. I sound like Bones! The previous week had a better light show. Sunday I went home. Pleased I was changed to a direct flight! Yes I said I will be posting this on Monday. That is why I need a reminder system. | |||
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Dentist, Justin Bieber |
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Wednesday I had dental surgory. Inconvenient. Vomitting and a sleepless night was more inconvenient. Didn't get pain killer, but never needed them. Half the time I have taken Codine I didn't actually need it. It does seem to cure the occasional times when I can't stop swallowing air. So that's technically not phama abuse however I can't say that I care that occasionally I take something I don't really need. I figure it's OK if I only do that kind of thing every few months. Last surgory I only took Codine once, surgory two months ago, four times. I think that is pretty restrant. I really like to minimize frequent pill usage but one occasional to hell with it moment every few months is a possibility. As long as I keep the dosage at recommended levels I can't see the problem.
Saturday I went to Auckland and saw Justin Bieber. Why? I don't fucking know. I can say that the crowds were less unberable than the One Direction concert. They assigned a guy to help look after me, I didn't really need one, but he was a cute Asian, so OK! Didn't refuse. Concert was OK. Lights looked good in the night sky. Surprised how quick getting home was considering I couldn't leave early. Crappy day Sunday, should have gone home. Monday I went home. Missed my flight but got on the next one | |||
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Opinions to war |
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Nothing to write about so I will probably just ramble. I am convinced some people just comment on facebook because they like the sound of their fingers typing on their keyboard. I am bashing Facebook users again, what a surprise. I can't decide whether I want to hear other people's perspectives or not wanting to hear utter bullshit. I generally lean on the side of getting the views of others even if you think the views are moronic. You really don't know which of your friends are away in fantasy land until they post on facebook. I also can't decide whether it's worthwhile to know what people believe. For example if someone posts something completely stupid all that tells me is that person is detached from reality; my life really isn't better for knowing that. Objective facts and evidence are more worthwhile than people's beliefs. Unless you can back up your claims with evidence, I really can't say I am interested. On the other hand if you do not know what people believe you can't challenge them. Example people running away from the US because of Trump, all you're doing is ensuring there's more support for Buffoon. Of course, bounds of reason; Jews shouldn't have stayed and debated Hitler. All signs point to Orange Buffoon being temporary, the battle of his particular ideas can be won, but that is less likely if people leave the debate.
I personally would fuck off if I couldn't win the battle of ideas and if I was in danger because of it. There are people who would want to stay and defend their country, they're admirable. I couldn't even if I wanted to. Putting rocket launchers on my wheelchair is not feasible. Guess I could hack weapons, but I could do that from a tropical beach. Only I could start at moaning about Facebook users and end up at winning wars with hacking. The next two blog posts will be posted on Mondays | |||
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Music production, nerd tangents |
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I missed out on doing two music production lessons this past two weeks, did three lessons tonight. Turns out they pretty much repeated the same content with slight variations. Maybe I will do a 2 hour trance production tutorial after I finish my current batch of lessons.
Friday I had a meeting about mounting eye trackers. I am suddenly interested in getting a gripper robot or two but that costs money. Probably 1K at least for two. I would be best waiting until I complete my environmental controls and launch some software. Robots could be useful; I could put them to work when I am not using them which would be most of the time. Saw a gripper robot when I caught the start of Big Bang Theory I should totally get one. Apparently the show has been renewed for 13 seasons. Seems people either love or hate it. It isn't must see TV but generally enjoy it on an international flight. Apparently geeks are fucked off because of stereotypes. Going off on a massive tangent. I am a proud geek and nerd, I'd rather be that than a stupid fucker incurious about the world. I don't get the appeal with Star Trek, Star Wars, comics etc. They can fuck off. I am more into crime drama; I need to download more Bones. What the hell happened to the Blacklist on TV3? Falling massively behind the US. Here's the thing about the Blacklist promos, every one of them is like the worst ever event in the series. This is somewhat ineffectual; if everything is the worst, it somewhat loses its impact. | |||
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Expo, Springsteen, Surgery, Electric Avenue |
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Monday I went to a disability product expo. I mainly looked at standing wheelchairs, hopefully I will be trialing one within three months. I also saw a home automation system, but suddenly decided to build one myself! This has been on my to do list for years but I have never had the motivation to start. Also I have been working on other things such as building navigation, word prediction and PC accessibility software. The first two are very close to commercialization so I can fit in a small home automation project. Another company is ordering the equipment for me, so the process has started.
Tuesday I saw Bruce Springsteen, overrated, sorry! Actually not sorry. I know he's like David Bowie to some people, I assume. And people are just so mental for celebrities. I would have enjoyed the concert much more if each song didn't take ten minutes each with the same bits over and over again. I think that I enjoyed the food more. I think if he did your standard three minute songs the show would have been miles better. The last five songs were decent though. Wednesday I had dental surgery and need to have more next month, inconvenient, slightly painful so far but hopefully it will be best in the short term. I never get morphine, I want morphine! I should get it as a reward. What is the point of an operation if you can't have some fun? I know health blah blah blah. Give me the morphine! Saturday I went to the Electric Avenue festival, generally enjoyed it, wasn't drunk enough, then again when you occasionally get insomnia you appreciate having a reliable sleep much more. I kept waking up, but was OK. I forgot how stupid people are. One came up and started blathering and then said there was a bunch of weird people there. I thought "I KNOW", her saying that was really ironic. Headed to the other end. Manage to find another annoying person who kept asking my age, by the end I just said a different number to amuse myself. Ran away from her too. This other fucker was touching my bag, police moved him along. Someone wanted me to point to the letter Q for some reason, idiot! People spelt out my name, as if I didn't know how to spell it. Someone give me a TV show (sitcom) so I can make fun of these idiots. | |||
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Concert, Paralympics, Wildfires |
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Thursday I went to the B52's and Simple Minds concert, enjoyed both. Never heard of Simple Minds; quite a different type of music than the B52's but pleasantly surprised.
Saturday I went to the Paralympics Open Day. I wanted to enquire about covering them for 2020. Planning to go as disability media. Hopefully by that time I will be rich from technology and can afford to go! I may as well use my disability to travel by building technology and media businesses around it. Of course all disability all the time is not going to be sustainable for my interest. so I have other technology business interests and music projects. Christchurch has had earthquakes, flooding and now massive wildfires. They're mostly away from the city so that's something. What I am wondering if this will increase in frequency due to global warming and what land changes can be made to counter this? For a city named "Christchurch" it does seem like God's dumping ground. I am an atheist, just making an observation. At minimum there should be an education campaign surrounding cigarettes butts etc. | |||
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Birthday, Sleeping, Orange Buffoon, Comedy |
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Thursday I went to a birthday, I would rank the place as "Technically Accessible". You practically have to do an obstacle course to get in. I didn't eat. I was on my tablet but engage in conversation.
I have mostly cured my sleeping problem; it's nothing like a month ago. Thinking of nothing throughout the day for a few seconds each helps. Also i listen to the majority of my news commentary shows at twice normal speaking rate in the morning and early afternoon. The downside is I listen to music much less. However I'm learning to create my own music so that's good. I am in two minds about the Orange Buffoon. On one hand I find him hilarious. On the other, I'm sick of him. It's rare that I open Facebook without seeing a post about him. My YouTube news have half their stories about him. I'll be very glad when this fucker gets impeached or quits. I have a new idea for comedy that I'm probably going to try but not for months since I need to finish and commercialize some products. In short it's about building a separate comedy brand without human performers. | |||
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Start of Auckland concerts |
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Friday I went to Auckland for a concert, supposed to be 4 bands but only 3 performed. I saw Liberty X, Atomic Kitten and B Witched. OK view despite being at the back. Atomic Kitten had a member missing so it happy had a fill in,. Technically not what i paid for but I had a great time. After seeing people with disabilities who did not have the ability to dance to music; I was grateful that I had the ability to move and dance. Another thing that was amazing was that I thought of a song earlier in the day that I didn't have in my playlist and it was the first song the DJ played.
Saturday I basically wrote five blogs and fire alarm went off, twice. Sunday I went home. The internet sucked, I couldn't go on YouTube and apparently it expired today despite having to fill in a long form just to signup, this took an hour. Apparently I can't use the information again, fuck that! | |||
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Projects, Orange Baffoon, People Power, Social Enterprises |
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Having a three day weekend next week, working today.
I am now able to make a beat with my music production software. Need to learn more skills! Programming wise I'm making more tools to automatically change programming code itself, it's important to get code up to standard and sometimes you have tens of thousands lines of code so automation is your friend, unless it takes your job. People are worried that robots will take over. However something has already taken over; they're called corporations. Governments don't listen to regular people anymore, 90% percent of the time they listen to rich and corporations. The invasion is here and began decades ago. The orange baffoon will put this on steroids. From now on I won't mention the US President by name; the entire point of his campaign was in part to get publicity. I won't feed this unless absolutely necessary. He is the orange baffoon from now on. I talked last week on NP about people power, there's still some victories here and there. Maybe the answer is to start social enterprises in the big corporation's own fields to counter the corporations; they could even fund or buy politicians. I understand that this wouldn't be easy, and will take some dedicated people and funding to start. This could possibly be a good way people could regain some power. I have ideas for social enterprises, though not in the way I just described. I am focusing on commercialization of existing products but could possibly start in that area eventually, one idea is fairly simple. | |||
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Music, Sleeping, Debates, Wheelchair, Trump |
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I purchased music creation software, I have no idea how to use music creation software! I'll learn and learned what some windows do. Unable to make a beat yet. The problem with YouTube tutorials is they don't use the default sounds so I probably need to download some packs in the tutorials. What a fuck around! Having no idea how to do things is not rare for me in work. Nobody taught me how to make websites or create Windows applications. I just did shit until I was successful. I expect music creation will be the same. I have said before I'm keen to produce for others rather than anything else.
Slept OK since Tuesday except Friday night. 4-5 hours instead of 2-1-0 regularly before then. I think thinking of nothing regularly helps, especially in bed. Not having stupid Facebook debates at night also helped. If I dislike debating, and insulting people stop debates. Theoretically this gives me an incentive to insult people and I can quickly get back to programming instead of wasting time on pointless facebook debates. I don't do this, but there is certainly a perverse incentive there. I tend to avoid debates about Trump; there is no point; either that or I have started saying things just to confuse his supporters, just for my own entertainment really. I really need to avoid Facebook debates all together. I really don't have time to waste on people emotionally attached to their beliefs and can't objectively analyze; that's most people debating politics/religion. I have started the process to get a new electric wheelchair; I am hoping for one that stands or reclines as changing positions occasionally will be better for my back. Trump is officially president of the USA. See, I told you 2017 will be worse than 2016 | |||
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Posting, Progressive News, Breaks |
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Posting today because I haven't slept for more than 2 hours since Saturday, slept for about 3-4 hours last night. Trying to think of nothing more. Not initially working, but maybe in time. Can go for longer periods without thinking of of anything.
What's on my mind lately? I am wondering what the psychological impact of getting news from progressive YouTube channels that frequently call people stupid, idiots, losers etc. If the 6PM news did this on a daily basis society would probably behave differently. I'll expand on this on my upcoming psychology blog. Perhaps some aspects of progressive media can be harmful even though they're right on the facts and issues. Calling people stupid is a shit way to reach them, this was my frustration at the NZ left after the 2014 election, some hauled insults and I was thinking if you want people on your side, don't do that! Recently I've learnt taking breaks during the work day is a good thing. For every 54 minutes you should take 17 off to recharge your brain. I kind of already did this but would work an hour extra, sometimes two to make up time. I'll probably stop doing that, or just work for 8.5 hours instead of 9, there was a period last year which I worked 10. As a future employer the break information is good to know; and what employees do is not a concern, they can do whatever in private if necessary. I have come to the conclusion that many corporations are also stupid. Collectively they pay their workers fuck all which effects their local sales. Some risk their safety which can cost them productivity. Honestly I used to want a more right leaning business manager but if their ideas are stupid and cost me long term profits and employee productivity; their ideas can fuck off. My corporation will not be stupid. | |||
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TV, accessibility software, 2016, sleeping |
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UKTV is no longer showing New Tricks on weekdays, so I have decided to try and binge watch shows on the weekend. Starting with the last season of House. Next will be the latest seasons of Bones. CSI Cyber looked interesting, but apparently it's a terrible show. Might watch Braindead too, the only other current shows I like are Blacklist and Major Crimes. A few seasons of The Closer might be good to watch, maybe The Practice eventually. Episodes take 30 minutes at 1.5x speed so you can get through a full season in a weekend, one day if you're dedicated; I'm not! I am doing spare time projects while watching, I still don't have a brand name for my event listing software.
I am developing eye tracking software (on and off) though it has occurred to me there could be smaller and more unique accessibility products I can develop. If anyone has ideas I'd love to hear from you. I can do everything from PC accessibility software to building navigation systems. I also want to do a blog dedicated to psychology and technology starting next month or whenever the fuck I get around to it. I need to resume my disability blogs, just have been busy on building navigation software so blogging has taken a back seat. Technology and psychology are my main interests, politics too but I already regularly blog about that, at least American politics though politics has become a soap opera and more recently an absolute shit show, still fun to blog about. 2016 was a good year, though boring in terms of trips, not drugs, though pretty fucking boring in that regard too. Only went overseas once, and to Australia. But scored, I think. Any trip I score is a good trip; again not drugs! I said I think, six months is too far away to remember random hookups off the top of my head. To the people I've banged, apparently you're not that memorable. Anyway I saw Madonna, Vengaboys, Joanne, Josh Groban, Nelly, and others. Vengaboys sucked. A year shouldn't be valued on how many celebrities died, it should be valued on how much sex you have, or if not that definitely not fucking celebrity deaths. A good indicator for me would be technological advances. I am pleased with my building navigation work and my event listing software, can't wait to market these more. Only had 30 minutes sleep last night, apparently binge watching is bad when you have insomnia, this is my conclusion anyway. Will do my morning idea instead. Working today and perhaps will have a day off tomorrow, will write a NP blog then too. | |||
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Facebook, 2017, Sleeping |
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Can people stop posting death notices on Facebook? I couldn't care less about your thoughts about random dead celebrities. If I wanted to read obituaries constantly I'd read the newspaper. I can handle once every three months, but it has become an avalanche of death every four days. It's like Facebook has been taken over by the under taker. ObituaryBook! I like to read things that is unique and interesting. I have no desire to read the same thing over and over; that's just incredibly boring and the reason I avoid the news feed on holidays. Why do they call it the News Feed? People rambling about their lives is not news. I made a chicken salad, I don't give a fuck!
2017, this year is probably going to suck until I launch more products, then maybe I'll fuck off to Auckland! I haven't launched my music website; I'll do that this year; I've just been developing more features for it like DJ output for phones, venue specials and next is allowing goers to post pictures and YouTube videos of the event if enabled. Due to financial circumstances I am probably going to hold off on more creative projects and probably hold off my holiday planned for February. I'll probably do music creation in spare time starting February. I am not going to be as free until I make changes to ensure I can be. Next year is inconvenient but it's time for some changes. It's time to transition, not in a trans way. Sleeping patterns continue to be questionable so I am working today and taking tomorrow off. I know it's technically holidays, but fuck holidays I have stuff to do. | |||
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Cathedral rant |
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Some people prefer Merry Christmas, some people prefer Happy Holidays, I prefer fuck it I'm getting drunk.
So random rant on the cathedral, it's Christmas! You're getting a Christmas themed rant! Religion has something to do with Christmas. I am not a fan of the Cathedral but respect many people in Christchurch want it rebuilt. I am not a traditionalist, tradition in the past has been used to justify slavery and homophobia. We have to defend traditional marriage. We can't let women vote because it's always been this way. The tradition argument is intellectually bankrupt. You only argue tradition when you don't have anything else. I am also hating on tradition because people use it to defend the Electoral College. You are a particularly stupid person if you use it in that case because at least with a cathedral I understand people have an emotional attachment to the building and the overall identity to Christchurch. I am however the least sentimental guy that you would ever meet. I would rather do a more modern futuristic building, sorry! The fact is spending millions of dollars on a building is not consistent with the teachings of Jesus; he said that you should give to the poor. You cannot argue that a flashy building is something that Jesus would want. You could argue for a reasonable building to help the community. The Cathedral was built at a time where religion was much more relevant, it's less so now. All signs point to religion fading. Again I endorse the popular view even though I strongly disagree with the popular view. I expect that the Cathedral will be rebuilt, eventually! They still haven't made final plans. Ludicrous! | |||
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Politics, Projects, Advocacy |
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So, my political theory! I have suddenly decided that policy does not matter for the most part. The key factor is likability. If people like your politician more on a personal level, he/she will probably win. There are exceptions; Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by the usual voting population of New Zealand; if everyone in New Zealand that usually votes, voted for Hillary Clinton, that was what she won by. Instead of the US exporting democracy, they should import it. The 2000 election is also not a good fit since George W Bush lost the popular vote. However even in swing states these people undeniably won the popular vote (except Florida 2000). It could be in blue states there's just more people emotionally attached to the Democrate Party and always vote for Democrates.
People say centrism is electable. I am not so sure. It could be the conservatives in the UK and US were just governing too long; people were sick of them and elected the centrists. Perhaps they didn't elect the socialists because they didn't like them on a personal level, also the effects from neoliberalism were not as bad back then. If a leftist had the X factor he/she could probably win. The problem with liberals and progressives is they are too weak and academic. In fact they are so weak they allow their parties to be taken over by right wingers. By contrast the Republicans cheat by Voter ID laws and districting and have power. I am not saying we should go that far, but definitely have a likable character with a popular message. Who does the public dislike more Andrew Little or Bill English? I don't actually know. Andrew has a fair shot at becoming PM. now that publicity clown John Key has left the building. Hosted videos are mostly integrated in my ecommerce and internet buildings software, but have decided that YouTube videos will also be useful. Going to do that next week. Monday I went to an advocacy workshop. Why? I don't know this time. Perhaps I figured I may as well get the free training even though I have attended two or three similar events for advocacy, politics. I did enjoy the lamb for lunch. I did note a point that I brought up at the beginning they later spent an hour on; speaking the language of your audience and helping them with their goals. This is my default mode. Example helping companies realize increasing accessibility will help increase their profits, or if your request fits in with the small government model; you should point that out to the government agency. Overall it was quite a different workshop and did bring my attention to some unique points. A few extra points. A tactic you can use to appear successful is specifically target goals that you can spin so it has incentives for the audience. This may be a cop out to do the easier stuff; but if your goal is having more achievements it can't hurt to be selective, but maybe you should mix it up too! Also if meeting in a group ensure members of your group don't go on about something utterly irrelevant rather than the thing that you are advocating for. I have had this happen to me in a meeting; I did not organize it. Careful who you invite! | |||
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John Key, Projects |
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I told you I was going to talk about politics on this blog this entry and now John Key has resigned. Coincidence? Probably.
Fuck it, I am taking credit. I will rant about John Key this entry and move my political theory to next week. I don't wish harm to John Key, but I certainly don't wish John Key well. Fuck John Key. He is a millionaire who is responsible for inflicting damage on this country through his policies. A lot of his policies such as trickle down economics and public private partnerships are anti evidence. Regarding TDE any competent economist will tell you the way to stimulate the economy is giving people money who are more likely to spend money; that is the middle class, not the rich. His education policies are based on ideological voodoo such as private public partnerships again and do not work based on all available international evidence. National standards cripple our education system. Everyone learns at their own pace and it is essential for educators to be allowed to be more creative. For people who say inequality also grew under Labour, and? If National was decent they'd reduce inequality. Same with house prices. Though no party will go to to the polls saying they'll reduce house prices. I could go on, but the purpose of this was to demonstrate that my dislike of John Key is based on rationality, I have no time to write a laundry list of crappy National party policies. For people that believe in the lesser evil paradox; National is the greater evil, though not if you're a right wing crazy. Key's only saving grace is he is not as batshit crazy as other people in his party. When you look at the growth of inequality internationally we're slap bang in the middle. He deserves some credit, but not much. Fuck John Key. Also a politician resigned, people are \'triggered" over the fact people hate politicians. Go fucking figure. Welcome to humanity. Oh why are people picking on a powerful millionaire? Because he's a fuckwit! I bet if Halen Clark had resigned resigned the right wing would react similarly if not worse. By the way, women don't quit! Oh why don't you love us no more John Key? Last week I implemented dual orbit and 360" photos to my Internet Buildings and ecommerce products. In the coming week I will probably add audio and video functions. Current spare time project is adding a DJ track name broadcast system to my events software. | |||
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Nelly, Work, Facebook, Politics |
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Wednesday I went to a Nelly concert. I was up the front; it was fun, enjoyed the support, maybe the DJ time needed shortening but otherwise it was a good concert.
I decided that I hate Windows programming, so will only do that one day a week. Will do web development, Virtual Reality and creative work the rest of my working week. Originally I wanted to finish off my virtual guide and Virtual Reality software, but I may as well keep developing so it is the best it can be, this platform can be helpful for people with blindness I am working on accessibility issues too! This weekend I'm setting up a new computer. Initial thoughts on Windows 10, meh. I do like how quiet the hardware is. I don't have to turn it off for speed listening. Now that I am back to working full time; I'll spend less time on Facebook; I don't even like Facebook. It is full of food porn, chain posts, stupid people, stupid opinions, people that know fuck all about what they're talking about, correcting your uninformed opinion takes time and I really can't be fucked as I type super slow, people who constantly write half a page about their personal dramas. (at least I have the decency to do that in a blog) The only thing worse is relentlessly happy people; scientifically happiness levels naturally variate. If you're relentlessly happy you're probably putting on an act. I know that I go in the opposite direction as the Grumpy Cripple. Ewhores can also fuck off; I am sick of constantly declining pretty women, spamming fuckwitts should modify their bots to send pretty shirtless blond guys my way! I hate people that add me to groups automatically, do fuck off. I can't stand invites, again fuck off. I don't want to be invited to your professional event. Thank fuck you can block event invites from particular people. I can tolerate personal invites. I don't give a fuck about your Facebook page. I only invite very limited people to mine that I have determined would be interested. Though I have about a million LOL! I block all game invites and you know what's coming; fuck off. If you direct message me; have an intelligent point or fuck off; I don't have time to reply to random people saying hi. There are seven billion people on this planet; go and find someone else to chat to. I have to approve tags to prevent people tagging me in irrelevant crap. I avoid facebook on holidays; no interest in seeing MERRY CHRISTMAS a billion times. Same with celebrities dying; it is practically obituarybook! The only reason I don't deactivate my account is I do actually like people on there; I just hate most of their posts LOL! Also I will not copy and paste anything, you can fuck off. I have formed a new theory on how to win in politics. I'll go into that next week. In short it's style, not policy that is the dominating factor. If the other side has a stronger personality, they will probably win. Policy appears to be somewhat irrelevant. Election data provided next week. The Trump victory fits this rule, kind of, if you disregard the fact he didn't win the popular vote. However he won the popular vote where in states it matters, so my theory (kind of) applies. | |||
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Half Holidays, Partying |
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My half holidays end at the conclusion of the month. I didn't achieve what I really wanted with spare time projects, but achieved various other things. I'll continue spare time projects on the weekends, I have less to do so that is good. Also will restructure my work week mid December. Perhaps I'll do more half days at the end of February as I have three Auckland concerts in the span of a month. Four Auckland concerts in total before June. Better get my NZ Gigs website up. Also working on software specific to artist managers. Yes, I have terrible project ADHD but at least some big ones should be completed soon.
Going to a family engagement party tonight (Saturday), had a meeting Monday; it's an open question which one will result in less drama. The meeting was quite entertaining. Sunday, I have a weird hangover thing, it's not a hangover but I just feel like a zombie which can still function reasonably well. Night was good. Took family photos; luckily in such a state smiling was not the problem that it normally is. I have trouble smiling on command kind of like Chandler Bing. No drama, that was quite surprising. | |||
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Earthquakes, chaired a meeting |
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There were earthquakes again. Religious lunatics blame gays. Conspiracy lunatics blame HARRP. I'm going to be boring and scientific and blame fault lines; but feel free to blame Donald Trump. If there is a God he is probably not pleased at the election; then again if he all powerful, why would he allow things that displease him to exist? Then again, don't tell me I am not interested. The ground shook for about five minutes; I thought that it was never going to end or something horrific was about to happen. As it turned out, no. Well actually other parts of the country are kind of fucked. But at least our government is super efficient at fixing things; laugh along with me. We are still waiting for the government to fix half of Christchurch; good luck to the rest of you.
Oh, and for you idiots that think HARRP is causing earthquakes and they're going to unleash it on America, you've said it for 5 years, when the fuck is it going to happen? Is it like your Agenda 21 conspiracy which they shove everyone into hobbit homes which you've been going on about since 1993. Where are the hobbit homes? You people are idiots and have no connection to reality whatsoever. There is no man with a machine that intentionally creates earthquakes; that's not a thing! Batshit crazy! Saturday I chaired a meeting through my own brilliance, not to brag. Fuck it! Yes I'm bragging. I cannot talk but now through technology I have created I have performed stand up comedy, speeches, participated in panel discussions and now have chaired a meeting. The first and last would be practically impossible without the software I created. I am brilliant! | |||
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Trump, Shapeshifter, Comedy |
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Wednesday I watched the US election on TheYoungTurks live stream. What the fuckidy fuck fuck. I literally just finished a 1600 word rant on the subject. I will say being interested in politics and psychology this will be very interesting. Trump - Because George W Bush wasn't incompetent enough!
Thursday I went and saw Shapeshifter. I was near the front. A person was really annoying at the end; Kept spelling out shapeshifter, the tipping point was when she asked "Remember". Like she was asking remember how to spell it. I need a sign telling people I'm not an idiot. After that I think I mentally said FUCK YOU and covered the letters. I don't need protection from dancers, I need protection from stupid people. Good time apart from that. As additional entertainment; I decided to guess what drugs people were on. Best night in ages. Friday I performed comedy at the Bears Christchurch event. That was fun. I would possibly do it again, even if I continue to do comedy extremely rarely in Christchurch. I like comedy for traveling purposes, so maybe I'll continue with that model, or not, undecided. I like making people laugh more than I like being famous; perhaps after music projects I'll investigate how best to do this. Plus having fame hasn't ever resulted in hot groupies. So fuck it. | |||
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Fireworks, Projects |
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Had fucking open homes this weekend, both days. I am now at the fireworks, it's fucking freezing, hurry the fuck up. Don't know if live blogging is a good idea. Now I am stuck in traffic. Fuck traffic. I hate traffic. Always fuck off from my places quickly otherwise the traffic gods will shit on you. Took some tablet pictures, because why the fuck not? Some came out good by my standards which I admit are disastrously low. This has taken over an hour. Fuck this van, I need a tank, or fighter jet.
I can in fact get a reasonably cheap version of a music application to create Trance music, will do that later this month. I hopefully have what I need for singing sync. I'll just finish my concert listing site before starting new music projects. I have decided on a brand for my internet buildings software,. Literally called Internet Buildings. Exciting to be working in this space. Hopefully once I launch some of these I can finally move to Auckland. | |||
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Vengaboys, business |
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Friday I went to Auckland, again. Usually I love going, but it's inconvenient to be away from my main programming computer. I didn't have to wait as long for the fucking dog this time. I like my apartment but the traffic is probably going to be noisy at night. So fuck that.
Saturday I went to a Vengaboys concert. Absolutely the worst seats ever to start but later people carried me down two steps and it was pretty decent. It would have been helpful if they put me back after instead of me having to wander around until staff did it.. I liked the way it had a DJ and he also brought on two singers Joanne and Sonique. Someone gave me a set list from the stage. Someone else put glow in the dark bands around my neck. People like to decorate cripples LOL! I thought they needed more original songs instead of dancing to music by other artists; I could do that myself. Sunday I went home. Business wise, I'm going to finish exhibition/virtual reality software and also has integrate it into ecommerce software. I am simultaneously creating accounting software. Next year I will launch more accessibility software too. I am thinking of trying to create Trance music in the second half of November. Found software and tutorials. Hopefully I can just purchase a cheap version. | |||
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Interact Arts Festival 2016 |
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Tuesday I went to Auckland, why the fuck do I have to wait for an explosive sniffing dog every fucking time I go? If I was going to bomb something I would have done it by now. Other airports don't do this. Stupid fucking policy. The internet fucking sucks in the apartment, I hate fucking ridiculous internet; it is an essential tool so you would think that would be reliable.
Tuesday I am at the Interact Arts Festival, performing comedy tomorrow. I really hope they are expecting a family friendly show; I don't really do that. Guess I will find out. Thursday I performed at Interact Arts Festival. There was a smoke machine. I enjoyed that while performing. Couldn't see my audience but heard laughter. Friday I went home. I have thought of a great new feature for my communication software. When I have no text loaded I could have placeholder text saying something like DON'T READ SCREENS WITHOUT ASKING to prevent people from doing so. Rude! Saturday I went out for lunch, inconvenient. | |||
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Comedy, music, plans, Trump |
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Sunday I performed comedy; perhaps I could have chosen a better set. Still got some laughs.
I must say I'm getting better at creating graphics for websites. I am learning new techniques. Useful if you're too cheap to pay designers, and I am. Although having fuck all income from websites is also a big factor. My current project is creating a music gig listing site, which was my ambition three years ago, but got side tracked with comedy. I've been working on the backend software on and off for two years; doing a site for Christchurch Comedy also helped. I'll get the new site up running within a month with any luck. I have suddenly decided since I hate being a fame whore (no offense to regular whores) I'll probably just see about releasing music through other people; managing a band etc. Either that or just buy a club when I am rich from technology. Possibly both. Yeah, in case you haven't noticed, I don't actually have a direction in my life. I pretty much think of shit and do it. Keeps life interesting. Also it's a good idea to form projects around your interests. Although other people are better off being financially stable and having one interest project. I have about ten significant business and interest projects and hoping my best years are just around the corner. Normal people aim to start a family, I'm too cheap and selfish to do that LOL. I would rather work on things that interest me and travel the world when I am successful. I have already done some traveling with comedy some having project ADHD is not a bad thing. Life continues to be interesting, soon I'll launch several major ecommerce and accessibility software projects. Hopefully a new stage of life will begin. I just encountered a Trump supporter that claims Hillary is mentally defective. Seriously? Please do not make that argument if you're supporting Trump. You're in the glassyest of glass glass houses. It's like me complaining someone is too crippled for using a cane. I find Hillary Clinton somewhat delusional. I also find Donald Trump to be utterly batshit crazy who doesn't rule out nuking Europe, who would bring back torture "even if it doesn't work", who has self destructive tendencies (6 bankruptcies), who can't run casinos without bankrupting them, who is braindead on 90% of issues, who appears to randomly grope and/or kiss women without their consent, who is desperate to appear rich and successful at any cost even the presidency. The somewhat delusional one sounds OK in comparison. Emotional attachment to a political party or candidate rots brain cells. Trump and Clinton supporters are evidence of this. If you think that Trump is competent there's something very very wrong with you. Ditto if you think Clinton is not a corporatist war hawk. You're both detached from reality; especially Trump supporters. What the fuck is wrong with Trump supporters? | |||
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Half Holidays, reducing shows |
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First week of half holidays, other stuff keeps coming up interrupting my break. Pain in the ass frankly but that is just life. I do have more time for spare time projects so I am happy.
Forgot to apply for Billy T for 2017. Kind of annoyed, but at the same time I'm probably too busy programming for a Comedy Festival show for next year. In 2018 I'll either enter having moved to Auckland, or just focus on creating technology and travel with that. I haven't decided. I like creating technology much better, so gotta follow my passion instead of doing something just because other people are fans of my stuff. It's also possible that I can find other outlets for comedy like screen productions or animations. I am a thinker, not a fame whore. So if I can do comedy without the fame, that sounds perfect. I think I have made my decision. Explore other avenues for comedy, and perhaps do irregular stage shows only if super convenient if at all. If I travel with software I'll probably retire stage shows, sorry folks. Honestly I like creating jokes for myself more than anything, it just so happens "many many" people find me hilarious. Perhaps continuing on with this approach is best. I also don't dislike being on stage per se. I have concluded that maintaining stage shows just for the travel perks isn't going to be worth it; you need a significant public profile to travel with comedy. I can probably do traveling better with other businesses. I only intended to do comedy once, but got dragged into this, and that. If I constantly need to be dragged into something; it's probably isn't for me. Time to stopped being dragged and focus on what I am truly passionate about; technology. Again, I actually like performing in the moment, but I would rather have a successful software company or three and do comedy on my terms. I am a nerd, not a fame whore. So with peace and love, I love my fans. But I am probably not going to continue stage shows as of next year. If you try to talk me out of it just because you're a fan of my comedy that will probably result in abuse, I am saying this with peaceand love. | |||
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Ellie Goulding, projects, local politics |
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Normal sleeping patterns in the past week.
Thursday I saw Ellie Goulding for the second time, mostly because I had a shit experience last time due to a guy annoying me, he was leaning on my tray and even shifted my hand so he could do so, this was at my assigned seats. Fucked me off. I had a better time, but found a specific staff member anal retentive at enforcing the seating rules. They didn't let me in the General Admissions area; this wasn't a problem at Vector Arena. I was going to make sure to request a general admission ticket but forgot, my fault. I'll make sure to do this at future concerts. Still, they could have been flexible instead of anal retentive. I hate the segregated seats. I was a Grumpy Cripple for a while, then songs I liked came on, then enjoyed myself. My half holidays start tomorrow for two months. Theoretically I could allow myself 3 months but perhaps I'll move one month to next year. I have quite a few spare time projects including testing social media automation, working out how to do push notifications. Technically counts as work but eh I don't have anything better to do. I am going to do various music projects including trying to do DJ mixes and getting a music website going. Social media automation and push notifications ties into the website side. I have other projects, some I will save until next batch of half holidays. As for regular work, maybe I'll try pushing my tourism software hard in November ready for the Christmas season. A plus of social media automation; I can post on facebook without going on the facebook website. I don't actually like facebook but it's not terribly viable to deactivate my account. I could also do scheduling, useful to maintain pages like Grumpy Cripple and possible promotion of products and events. I need to move my website backends to the 21st century. That quote probably has no relevance considering facebook didn't exist until 2007 and ecommerce was not as big in the early 2000's. I'm going to modernized my backends; then sell them. Can you read the word backends without thinking of the word ass? If you haven't previously thought of this, you are now. People have been mentioning me in relation to a person running for Dunedin Council with Cerebral Palsy. I have not looked into this, primarily because I have little to no interest in the lives of individual people with disabilities. Well you don't care about every person in your race or gender do you? At the same time it's wrong to assume a person cannot do the job without actual proof. Off the top of my head I cannot think of a reason why a person with Cerebral Palsy cannot be a councillor. The opposing councillor was probably just talking out of their ass. If I was the candidate I would ask can such an ignorant person adequately represent the people? What other ignorant, snap judgments has the councillor made and how has it affected their voting? This is not the 1950s, would he prefer people with disabilities be hidden away? I should be a political strategist. I'd do much better than whatever morons Clinton has. I considered running for DHB but everyone knows I have project ADHD, and I like it that way; I like doing whatever project I want. I'd be bored to death if I went for councillor or parliament. I believe that I can be more innovative in the private sector; creating technology, doing lobbying. Although you need to be more established for effective lobbying strategies and have to be selective, I'm not at that stage yet, soon will be. | |||
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Sleeping, Projects, Holidays |
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I will just rant about conservatives this week. They are currently offended that sportspeople aren't standing up for national anthems. On the one hand it's technically part of their job, I think? Even if it is, it is not critical. This is yet another example of how conservatives that claim for be for FREEDOM are actually not. They also get pissy when you say happy holidays instead of merry christmas. They are whiney little bitches who simultaneously accuse the left of being politically correct when we complain about racism and homophobia. In reality it's they who complain frequently if you're not adequately conforming to their ideology. if you don't do national pride in the right way or supporting the troops in the right way. Apparently it does not occur to conservatives that troops fighting for a free country means we can do whatever the fuck we want. I'm no hypocrite; if you're a racist asshole I don't really care. Feel free to come out and say it because it eliminates the desire for me to spend time with you. Unlike the authoritarian left; I actually want to know who the assholes in society are so I can educate them or counter their bullshit, if possible.
The anthem protests was about Black Lives Matter; black people getting killed by police at a much higher rate than whites. To be super clear about the context unarmed black men are over 10 times more likely to be killed by police than white individuals. This is a problem. Police need to be trained better so unnecessary deaths do not occur. Other countries have much lower statistics, also fewer civilian guns overall, this is not a coincidence. Conservatives saying All Lives Matter in response are idiots that do not or do not want to understand the problem. Of course all lives matter but it's mainly the black people who are being killed at a much higher rate in proportion to the population. | |||
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Projects, My readers are smart, Facebook satire |
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I am creating event listing software to launch a concert listing site and sell the software. I keep adding features, which is not a bad thing but it is taking quite some time. I've also added multi language features to my tourism accessibility software, probably will do the same with some of my other software.
Surprise surprise I asked what everyone thought of my idea for screen projects and nobody bothered to answer. Asking questions here is like talking to myself, and talking to myself is the only way I am guaranteed to get intelligent conversation. Not that my blog readers aren't smart, I am sure most of you are, probably not as smart as me, or egotistical. Did I mention incredibly sexy? I have completely forgotten my point. I probably didn't have one, that explains why I had forgotten it. Yeah I am mostly typing random crap that I think is funny, I don't care if you don't think I am funny. Fuck off and read something else then. I now don't have to go out weekly; the inconveniences will be random from now on. I made a satirical page on facebook, Cripples For Donald TRUMP. Also please like my other one God Hates Wheelchairs even though that's reasonably inactive. | |||
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Open home, Short Films, Projects |
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So seems I have to go out weekly because of the open homes happening, pain in the ass frankly. Last time I just worked on an open letter. This time, probably a blog.
I have started writing a short film but have decided films are incredibly difficult and expensive to make so I won't be doing that long term. Maybe a few. I am also thinking that animation could be viable instead of shooting after the initial few. I'll see how I go. Perhaps one short animated film a year could be a good goal depending on time it takes. If I am incredibly lazy, and I probably am, I can just make a few sets and do a TV show, or something. The animation doesn't necessarily have to be advanced. Even satirical interviews might be a good option, especially to start. A fake news show with fictional politicians and celebrities, that might be viable. Just throwing ideas out there. Let me know what you think. I will probably do other stuff in combination. Learning how to do a screenplay was a good experience. After writing my first short film I plan to work on music projects like comedy raps and DJ mixes. Perhaps I'll try mixing in October as I do half days in place of proper holidays. Taking proper time off is not viable this year so going to do two months of half days. This keeps projects going and gains some more time for time off and/or spare time projects. Though I can't seem to stop programming on weekends. So I'll inevitably use most of my holidays on spare time projects. Hopefully take more of a holiday next year with a free international flight with airpoints. Unfortunately I have to pay for a carer but hopefully my accessibility software business will be going by then. | |||
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Comedy, Art |
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Thursday I performed a Donald Trump themed set, it took half a day to prepare, that was after writing most of it. I enjoyed it and recently thinking that maybe I will do more comedy, but considering it takes hours and hours, it's probably best to stick to paid gigs unless I really want to hammer a subject like Donald Trump. I never refuse paid gigs, but also never get offered paid gigs. I don't know why, I am hilarious. Perhaps I should get an agent. Already tried that though; never got off the ground because they don't fucking reply. Can I just say how much I hate people who don't reply to emails? It takes me ten minutes to type an email, the very least you can do is reply saying no thanks. Spend ten fucking seconds doing that. I would call you, but I can't fucking talk. I am additionally amazed by people who are literally too stupid to communicate clearly by email. Actually fuck agents, I will just get a personal assistant when I can afford one to help with my accessibility software business too.
I was recently at an art auction, people were paying hundreds of dollars for art. People that know me know that I pretty much hate art and paintings. Though I am fine with comedy, music and theatre. (I don't go to theatre shows, but whatevs, free country) I have decided that I will start putting pictures up. Fuck paintings that cost thousands, I can just print off pictures from the internet! I would like one of Mount Cook and a particular tower in China, I think that I can get a picture of the tower when I was present at the scene. Fuck buying art, why the fuck would I do that? My idea is better! Not for an investment standpoint but there's more productive things to invest in. | |||
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Communication device, Trump, TV news |
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Have I ever mentioned my communication device is a piece of shit? Yes. Well I will mention it again, it's a piece of shit, fuck my communication device. I spent two hours preparing to chair a meeting and the text to speech function decided not to work. It's still not working. No idea why, oh yeah it's a piece of shit!
I perform fuck all nowadays but I am performing Thursday at Jane's Bar solely to make fun of Donald Trump. Why? Because I can! Donald Trump bashing has become my new hobby. Then again everybody does it and I am kind of sick of mentioning Donald Trump. On the other hand if anybody deserves a comedy set devoted to him it's Donald Trump. I don't find Donald Trump scary, I find people that seriously want him to be president scary. Take away the racism angle, he's a fuck up, he's a tremendous fuck up. He bankrupted casinos! He started a mortgage company just before the housing crash. Let's put someone with that kind of judgment in charge of the most powerful military in the world SAID NO RATIONAL PERSON EVER! If you're a supporter at best you're ignorant, at worst you're a fucking moron or crazy. I hate Hillary Clinton too, but I put her at 2% of setting off a nuclear weapon. Donald Trump is at least 10%. We can't have Trump as US president. Hillary Clinton will probably fuck things up, Donald Trump will definitely fuck things up much more. That being said I'd still vote for Jill Stien, do as I say, not as I hypothetically would do. If he does get in I'd die from laughter, or alternatively nuclear war, whichever comes first. Donald Trump would be George W Bush on steroids. The real question is what wouldn't Donald Trump fuck up in government? If I seem oddly obsessed with US politics that's because I watch no local news, I mainly watch US based internet shows. If we have any equivalent progressive shows do let me know. Maybe I can start speed listening to the local news once I've properly mastered listening to things 4x normal speed. Local news is awful though, bland boring humourless drones that do not adequately analyze issues. I don't see any reason to bother, it would just give me more things to get pissed off about, I have quite enough. | |||
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This week, Olympics, Tourism software |
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Busy week, nothing exciting. Meeting Monday, dentist Wednesday. I thought I would be clever and take my computer in to get fixed to save a call out. Unfortunately my computer to TV connection stopped working and I needed a call out. On the bright side I have changed the connection method and reading text on the TV is now clearer. My computer still appears to be randomly freezing, not good!
I watched some of the Olympics at the dentist office. I was actually impressed! Well by the first female gymnist. Turns out there's only so many women doing back flips you can watch before it gets really boring. That number is one. I plan to finish tourism software this month and work slower on adding virtual reality capabilities to it. Reason is there's actually several different APIs and I have other projects to do. Perhaps I'll be done with virtual reality integration by November. | |||
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Birthday, I hate the Olympics 2016 |
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Friday, I am in Auckland. Auckland airport took ridiculously long to get my chair, so fuck them. Tomorrow is my birthday. Cue people making bad jokes on Facebook. No, I am not liking every single post, i actually have better things to do with my life. I used to post birthday messages. I stopped for no apparent reason and I can't really be fucked doing it again. Unless I want to fuck the wall administrator. But thanks for the birthday messages! I love you all! No that's not true. I love some of you. I love myself.
I hate the Olympics. Two soaps are taking a break. Fuck the Olympics. I hate the Olympics. Additionally the Air New Zealand triva quiz are mostly sports. Inconvenient. I hate the Olympics. Fuck the Olympics. Also why the fuck do people call sportspeople our country's greats? They don't cure cancer or create innovative technology to improve people's lives. Ms Adams for example just throws something, that is inherently useless. If you want to celebrate sport, fine, I vigorously disagree with you but you can celebrate any pointless thing you want. However people that invent things and improve society should be celebrated in the same way. Saturday I am going to a Selena Gomez concert. Spent the day with ear phones and speed listening to YouTube. Did something else for my birthday and also enjoyed that. Concert was OK apart from the first warm up act being cut short due to a malfunction. Funny but did feel bad for the band. I also think that OSD should be a thing: Obsessive Selfie Disorder. | |||
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Work, moving |
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It's Saturday, worked today to take 3 days off next week. Just started to implement virtual reality in my tourism software. A virtual map is practically done, I'll try to sell to galleries, museums soon. I then should launch my word prediction software, and finally eye tracking software. I also plan on creating a small shareware site to release small pieces of software I have created for myself, finishing off the first now; it's an image projection application.
I might take some time off to learn how to mix music and try to release DJ mixes. However I'll wait until I have some products selling. I have also started a web based gaming platform, was also on my to do list. However the industry appears to have died recently. Perhaps it's strictly work for when I don't want to do anything else. I am moving into my own place soon. Temporarily until my finances are stable enough to go to Auckland. I haven't planned two birthdays including the one next week. I'll probably have a house warming at some stage. YOU ARE ALL INVITED! No actually only people I like are invited, the rest can fuck off. Temporarily moving is a massive pain in the ass frankly, fucking inconvenient. However I am looking forward to arranging things how I like and exploring new technologies such as hooking up lights and disco lights to my computer and being able to flick them on. No idea if there is a cost effective solution but I should totally look into it! | |||
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Commentary, Concert, Party, Speed Listening, Projects |
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As much as I love political commentary I'm glad that the conventions are over so I have more time for music. The DNC was a bit boring, some great speeches, though not by Hilary, the second half was decent enough though. More on NewsPooze.
It's Friday, went to a concert yesterday night. Decent, not the best though. Maybe I will work tomorrow instead of Monday. I am going out tonight and can pretty much work sleep deprived. May as well actually enjoy a day off I figure. Cramming blogging in. Sunday update. Best part of the party was getting four free jelly shots and some other shots. Music was OK. Lucky I didn't specifically go for eye candy though. #Sorry #NotSorry. I enjoyed getting a ton of free alcohol. I was winning at that party, it was tremendous, it was so tremendous it made my head spin. If you're wondering why Donald Trump has taken over this blog, I'm not sure either. I'll stop. Oh the lift stopped working, I got carryed down two steps to get to another one. People that follow this blog know that I am training my ears to speed listen so I can absorb audio books much faster. I have good enough retention at 3x normal speed, moving on to 4x. It has taken me quite a while to get here, perhaps I'll be complete with the next phase in six months and then will start listening to books. Currently practicing on TV soaps. I now watch many news commentary shows on YouTube at 2x normal speed. I regularly watch The Young Turks, David Pakman and Secular Talk. I'll probably keep this up at this speed mostly. I have also decided that my next creative project will be a rap album, possibly comedy, possibly using Microsoft Sam. I still want to eventually do a film screen play but figured I could do this in a shorter amount of time. I may eventually learn how to create DJ mixes but good programs cost money and I am already working on MANY MANY things. When projects die down and I get capital from businesses I'll probably try mixing music. DJ Grumpy Cripple, why the fuck not? | |||
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Computer problems, RNC |
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Not been a great week, computer kind of erased my primary programming file for my accessibility software. I have another copy but I don't know how damaged it is, I have some backups elsewhere plus could possibly try reverse engineering it. I'd qualify the project as slightly fucked. However I can recover. It's slightly fucked, not fucked, totally fucked or beyond fucked. Don't you love how I qualify things? You don't get this anywhere else. I can finish developing switching next week and fix problems as I come across them. I didn't have a screaming fit, that is actually very bizarre. It really didn't seem a big problem despite inevitably losing some work.
Low productivity week, computer crashed daily and I had to spend time on that. I watched most of the speeches at the Republican National Convention with commentary by TheYoungTurks. The first two days was fucking funny. Learned that I am more productive when I don't have it on the TV but listening in background. Will do that for the DNC next week. Unfortunately it won't be as funny but TheYoungTurks will probably still mock the Clintons. This election has turned into an unpopularity contest. I can't stand both candidates. Trump now wants to be the people's voice. Do you know what? I think that I am fine being non verbal. I would totally vote for Jill Stien if I was in America. I am using Sunday mostly as a work day so I can have a free day on one of the DNC day. I make my own schedule bitch! | |||
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Projects, Pokemon Go |
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Finally finished Volume 3 of my book series, sent to publisher along with possible ideas for new book projects. I may do a screen play instead. I was going to do Grumpy Cripple T shirts but may wait until my financial status isn't in the temporarily fucked stage. Regarding software development; a friend is helping creating and modifying devices so I can get the scanning side working. The passion has gone from developing eye tracking software. Maybe getting scanning fully working will assist me in getting my motivation for eye tracking back up. Luckily my other software projects are going well too.
What shit can I make up? Pokemon Go is popular. Go fuck yourself. Go completely waste time looking for things that aren't there. If I wanted to do that I'd attend church! Things like this are why we don't have a mars colony. People are looking for Pokemon, playing with balls (sport) and we have no colony on the moon. Did I say Mars? Details details. An astroid could hit and humanity could be wiped out. So to recap Pokemon Go will be potentially responsible for the end of man kind. Trump may start a worldwide nuclear war. Business tip: If Trump gets elected; invest in a bunker business.if Trump doesn't start nuclear war, lots of people will think he will = steady stream of customers! This is the next big business idea, you're welcome!!! | |||
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Inclusive Education Summit and Wellington |
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Friday I performed a speech on Inclusive Education for a conference. Honestly I'm glad my writing time is now freed up for other work, I now have to edit my third book then haven't really committed to anything. Still thinking a screen play. I did enjoy writing the speech, it really made me think how absolutely hopeless my educators were, view the speech for more information. Mental reference, 20 minute speeches take four days over a month to do. International conferences will be great to do, but spacing things out is good otherwise I may get a speech writer.
Friday (after the performance) I went to Wellington until Sunday for several meetings. My apartment sucked but at least the internet was free there. I had to turn to fit in the lift. Couldn't sleep Friday so had a double shot of coffee in the morning and a coffee plus a double expresso for lunch. I know the morning was fine. Afternoon, I wasn't required to do much, and that was regrettable as I like actively engaging. I felt the weekend was generally really productive. Had a taxi driver to the airport who was under some grand delusion that he was a comedian. There's a reason why some of us are paid to be funny, and others are not. Oh fuck, I should have whispered "automated vehicles" in his ear when I was leaving. Next time. Am I really that much of a prick? I blog, you decide! He'll probably retire before they replace him, so good for him for being old I guess. Horray for old people. I have completely forgotten my train of thought. I am limiting my Facebook time, excluding writing days and weekends. Facebook is a distraction, and I really don't like Facebook the majority of the time anyway. I go through phases where I do this. I have pretty much stuck with this for a week. I'm happy about this and this will probably continue. I now watch the majority of videos I watch at 1.5x speed which is a good way to save time. When I move I'll have the noisy computers in another corner of the room so I can hear better. | |||
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Sydney 2016, Radio, Books |
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Sunday I went to Sydney. I went there to learn about a particular industry I am aspiring to get involved in. People that know me know I have project ADHD, I do lots of different things. This is a terrible way to do a career, but my theory is once I get one up I can get the rest going with the additional resources then I'll be sitting very pretty. I have almost finished a prototype of eye tracking, hopefully calibration will be fully working soon. Except remodelling the software might be necessary as I have noticed some performance issues, but I expect the fixes will be fairly easy.
Monday to Wednesday was course. Saw a friend on Wednesday, also saw someone Tuesday. The internet was a ridiculous $22/day but after the first I noticed there was a $9/two hours so ended up using that, and just used free wifi in the bar Wednesday. The course had free wifi so I mainly used that. I have some additional material to view on a flash drive, then will reduce time on other projects to start and maintain the business. Whichever idiot decided to have hotel doors that self shut can go fuck themselves. apparently it is for fire regulations but I would be burnt to a crisp if there was an actual fire and I couldn't open the door. So in this case the regulators are fucking idiots. Thursday I went home. Shit wifi at Sydney airport. It took me half an hour to get online. Friday I did a radio interview for the Listen! Our Voices Count radio show. It will air on Plains FM July 21 12pm. I talked about accessibility software, and why I do that instead of comedy as my primary career. I have talked about that before, basically it'll be more lucrative and satisfies my need to work in the science and technology field. Like I said project ADHD. I do software, arts and I got training in an entirely different industry in Sydney. Life would be fucking boring if I just did one thing. I need variety. Probably also why I am anti relationship too. I have been meaning to finish The Teachings of a Grumpy Cripple Volume 3 for two or three months. This is the month. After that I will either work on a disability economy book or create a screenplay for a film. I'll probably do the new book later. Although perhaps I should start with a short film. Although before that I will probably get Grumpy Cripple T shirts to sell, very small project. Next blog will be a day late, that's an improvement over seven days late, so get off my back! Unless you're a hot guy. In that case move to the front, I can't see you. | |||
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Speed listening, accessibility software, splint |
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Progress with speed listening, my media player now doesn't make everything high pitched when speeding things up. I am trying to master 3 times normal speaking speed, then eventually 4. Pity that I only fixed the pitch yesterday (Friday) on my media player, makes things much easier. I also finally got my software communicating with the eye tracker on my portable computer. Progress! Tuesday I went to the dentist and got a splint because of my grinding. I am happy wearing it, it's not bothersome but getting a more permanent solution might be better. No blogs will be posted next weekend. | |||
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Listening, Computers |
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After a business coach on YouTube suggested that you should speed listen to audio books to get through a book within three hours, I have decided to try to train my brain to do this. I noticed that I can understand most things at 1.5x speed, 2.0 speed is highly problematic but just noticed that I do MUCH better on YouTube than videos on my personal computer. I will continue to train and update you in time.
Regarding my personal computer; I finally have correct APIs so I can create proper switching software. Hopefully I can get this up within two weeks. I still don't have eye tracking up but I am not that far away from it. I don't necessarily need my own eye tracking going to use my software on a a computer, I can use third party eye tracking with my software. However eventually I hope to get my eye tracking up. However using a third party eye tracker could have processor benefits so that could be the direction I go anyway. Switching was the only thing holding me up, hopefully, not for much longer. | |||
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Trip postponed, Auckland accommodation |
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I decided to postpone my US trip after it was costing $14,000 at minimum. Ridiculous. I will go sometime after I move to Auckland. My staff can book the trip instead of relying on a travel agent. Also instead of three separate people going, I can hire a carer there, possibly cheaper.
I have decided there is no actual reason I need my own place in Auckland if I need an office for my employees in the central city anyway, I can just live there. I don't want a relationship or my own family. As long as it doesn't cost hookups. I could chuck in a shower, two beds. very small private room to myself. An apartment or other accommodation might be necessary to start, but eventually, I just don't think I need an actual house or apartment if my business has a building. Earlier in life I wanted to live in a bus. Now I am completely serious about living in an office building when I get the money, my business can just buy an office building and I can live there. I'll need 200K as deposit. Would be challenging, but not completely impossible if my software takes off. The key would be fully owning the company involved in purchasing the property. I am envisioning an open work area with computers. I just have small private rooms when I need privacy, but primary use the outside area. There would be no traveling expenses. I spend the majority of my time in one small area anyway. Fuck conventional living, I am doing this. | |||
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Health, Announcements |
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I am off pain meds but now have a sore neck. The only thing that seems to help is stretching it about. I get this occasionally. Fuck that.
My first announcement is that I'm going to the United States in August. Hopefully I can get a free return flight because of years of acquiring airpoints. Booking Tuesday. I have an airpoints credit card and don't get much interest at all. So that was a great decision many years ago. My second announcement is I am moving to Auckland next year. This has been a dream of mine for years, maybe seven years. I ideally want to leave before the next comedy festival. (I will probably enter that festival) My eye tracking software testing is coming to an end, I'm building tourism software. I have "many many" other business interests that I could monetize with staff. I will soon be able to do this once I get stuff up. Comedy could be a source of income, but eye tracking, tourism could be much bigger so I to focus on that. Whether I go further than Auckland is the question. LA is in a property bubble, if that bursts and my businesses take off, it'll be very tempting, but maybe a holiday home to rent out could be worthwhile, New Zealand has some advantages over the US. Health-care expenses among other things. | |||
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Dentist, business, virtual reality |
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I had dental surgery, it went OK. The real problems happened after I heavily vomited. Well couldn't get to sleep until about 6, then after two hours sleep was up for two days because I developed an involuntary swallowing reflex which prevented me from sleeping. Friday I slept OK. I hope for the same tonight. Not been a good week. Though impressed that I can still do programming without much sleep at all.
I need to outsource sales for my many products; this is my new goal! Then once big enough hire internal staff to do customer service, sales and management. It's all about delegation and strategy. Sunday now, involuntary swallowing is dying down. Light pain killers are helping me ignore it when I go to bed, but hopefully I won't have to take them for long. After a dream that I was going to a theme park in virtual reality, then going to the theme park for real. I am suddenly interested what kind of business opportunities I could create with virtual reality. A camera appears to be $600 which is not that expensive, could be something I consider down the line whether accessibility related or not. | |||
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Blogging, Business, Grumpy Cripple |
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This will be a random entry.
I haven't drunk blogged in a while, perhaps I should start again. Don't know when. Writing intoxicated is rather fun though sometimes I felt like I should be dancing instead of writing. Limited opportunities to get thoughts out when intoxicated though. I have made a massive decision for next year, but not much point blogging about it until my businesses are making money. My new tourism software was completed Monday, I'll make further improvements tomorrow. I really want to outsource marketing somehow as I am kind of shit at that. Perhaps then I'll make some money. I'll try to sort out marketing in September to go into next year with a solid business. I am hating my Grumpy Cripple Facebook page at the moment. When I do make the very occasional post, it only gets to 800/4000 people which is frankly fucking useless. Perhaps Twitter is better for marketing, businesses should just use that. Fuck Facebook. GC Twitter account? Well before I even think about that I need to finish software so I can better manage multiple accounts. I know that there's services available, but fuck them I would rather sell my own software. I can also never think of memes to create, so I post fuck all. I expanded it to a general disability comedy page, I probably won't expand it to a general comedy page but I don't know for sure. | |||
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Concerts, Auckland |
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Friday I went to Iron Maden. I thought that the effects were shit for the most part. Needed more electronic stuff. They have a private jet but use ordinary pictures as backgrounds? That's a bit shit. Well call me a technology snob. Also the lead kept saying "Scream for me Christchurch" Bitch please, we have paid you money so we should be telling YOU what to do! Same thing with DJs who say "Put your hands in the air" We're not your slaves, fuck off.
Saturday I went to Auckland and saw Josh Groban. I enjoyed the concert but he kept bringing a woman out and I wasn't there to see her, but short don't did add something different to the show. Think I wrote that Sunday, it's now Saturday. Did I discover how to time travel? Of course not you fucking idiot. Wednesday I saw Rudimental, had Red Bull beforehand and did quite a bit of dancing. I didn't like my segregated seat, so I decided to see if they would let me downstairs on the dance floor. They did. The guys surrounding me could have been hotter, in fact mainly women surrounded me. One was slightly annoying during the final song but another one randomly told her to buzz off, almost makes me believe in ESP. The people there were OK. Thursday I went home. Richie McCaw was on my flight, got him to sign a sick bag, nothing was in it. Moments after the event I thought it had brilliant potential for comedy, I was right! | |||
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Work, Proclaimers |
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Spent Saturday doing regular work instead of spare time projects. I am kind of in a hurry to finish accessibility software for tourist attractions and event listing software. I have made significant progress on these and hopefully I can finish both within a month. The event listing software is actually two separate products. A multi artist version and a single artist version. I already use the listing software on my site, but have no events so that is fucking useless. I saw The Proclaimers. Event staff kept asking if I was a fan. Incredibly stupid question considering I was at a concert for the band.
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Exhibition software and Facebook |
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Because I have no life outside of technology I spent half the day looking up code to quickly lookup places by latitude and longatude, hopefully I have a quick formula for use in multiple projects including accessibility software for exhibitions. I think the theme parks in LA could do with it, might have to go again! Of course software is useful for art galleries, museums etc. Hopefully I can have a lot of buyers to start to fund trips. Eye tracking is in the final stages of of testing the first prototype. Hopefully I'm near the end. It's Saturday, how are you? Don't answer, the blog is about me!
It's Sunday and I have nothing to say. I did find something to rant about but the topic escapes me. So fuck that. I am just going to publish this blog so I can do other stuff and not browse fucking facebook. I am starting to hate Facebook. It's a black hole of time. Facebook would be fine if nobody posted on it! Instead people irritate me with their stupid fucking posts and their stupid fucking uneducated ignorant fucking comments. Although I have an OK system of filtering people out so it's not that bad. I have a tendency of over dramatizing things, have you noticed? Probably not, my insanity is incredibly subtle, IT'S A FUCKING SKILL BITCH! Also if I don't see your posts, facebook also does a fuck ton (very technical term) of filtering. I only unfollow people who I find really annoying and if I don't see your post it's probably just facebook not showing stuff to me. Businesses should probably use Twitter instead because the filtering on Facebook is so Beyond Fucked. My twitter handle is thanepullan. | |||
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The economics of conferences |
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I really don't have anything to write about. It's just past 12AM. I had three hours sleep last night. Fuck that. After this I am going to have a shower, because I have got to keep myself looking sexy. Don't know what for. SOMEONE DATE ME? No actually I don't want dates, I just get sick of people upon repeatedly exposed to them. Seeing people rarely makes them more interesting, or maybe I am anti social. I don't get sick of myself, because I am fantastic!
Sunday now, I had a better night's sleep last night. Back to me being fantastic. I launched a helpdesk product this week and I am now working on new event listing products which will be launching over the next two months. I still need to get someone for marketing. A thing that I want to eventually do is going to conferences but I have concluded that this is super expensive. Even a local conference on inclusive education would cost $200, that is without traveling which would be in the thousands per time. I think that this is possible if I factor travel in when pricing my accessibility software products. If I split the cost between 20 sales plus additional marketing it'll probably work. First I have to have more products to launch. Getting closer. | |||
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Week, work, stupid people |
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Spent all Saturday programming review system for my events software, because apparently I don't know the meaning of a weekend.
Monday I delivered a disability themed speech. Again, easter, what the fuck is a holiday? Thursday I saw and wrote a review on international comedian Aindrias De Staic. Regarding disability stuff, I'm not really getting enough diversity in my work, if I do one thing I get sick of it really really quickly. This includes partners haha. As I am going to continue with my disability book series I'll probably limit disability industry work to 3 days a week. I'm nearly finish eye tracking, so this should be workable. This is probably not interesting, but I will write whatever I fucking well like. Had an interesting thought. "Is it OK to insult stupid people since they can't help being stupid, is it ableist" I am not sure why I am quoting, I just made that up. My conclusion is YES. Comedy is about picking on the powerful; stupid people rule the world. Stupid people vote for stupid politicians that practice trickle down economics, raise expenses on the middle class while lowering taxes for the rich who don't spend as much in the economy than the middle class, ruin people's lives by locking people up for what they put in their body THEN SHOUT FREEDOM, increase inequality, fuck up environments, go into completely unnecessary wars. Some stupid people are just ignorant and should fucking learn some facts. Others are emotionally attached to there ideas and political parties. I'd qualify that as environmental rather than as themselves. This is certainly an interesting conversation, but I lean on the side of stupid people do too much damage for me to stop making fun of them. When sensible people run things then we can have this conversation. Although again comedy is about making fun of the powerful What would we do if things weren't fucked up? Comedy doesn't demand chaos, but it certainly helps. I don't like the word ableist, but that's a subject probably for Cripples.com | |||
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Auckland, Comedy, Flag |
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Wednesday I went to Auckland, partly to perform stand up, mostly for other business which I enjoyed. I may make creating software for new small businesses a priority. Stand up comedy went great. Had to stop countless times for applause. Wrote most of an upcoming speech about disability and what New Zealand should change; it's for a private audience. I am currently at Auckland airport and can't just get on to good Wifi, so I will write an article.
Saturday I saw comedian magician Jared Fell, I thought he was very entertaining. Skilled at crowd work. The flag debate is over. No change. Unfortunate but the process was completely fucked up. They obviously wanted to match their approach to economics! The polling was 50/50 before the two referendums. It just wasn't going to pass. I find it hilarious that people who claimed to be "fiscal conservative" just wasted 32 million dollars on something that wasn't going to pass. Although this is not rare in conservative politics, remember Novapay? Private prisons and locking people up completely unnecessarily is basically a black hole of money. The conservatives in the US have wasted trillions on war. What's interesting is conservative movement is by very definition anti change and is patriotic respecting traditions, the flag debate flipped that on its head. That was kind of nice. I voted to change the flag and would happily do it again. Having the Union Jack on it is absurd and it's too similar to Australia. I am constant and don't care if it the process was initiated by people I strongly disagree with. If you don't like my opinion, sad day for you. | |||
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Dawn French etc |
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Monday I went to Dawn French, it was a good show! I didn't pay for the ticket thanks to a News Talk ZB competition. Talk back radio is good for something, who knew? Usually it's full of idiots with nothing better to do. Kind of like internet trolling, but the target is common sense.
It's Saturday but I spent it so far designing a website, looks better than what it was which was not hard as apparently it looked utter shit before. Graphical art is not my thing. I have the skills to design sites but don't have the eye for it. Design isn't even important to me. However apparently it's important to normal people. I think that I am using GIMP better and I think that I have done a good job. I have decided I don't like spending time on marketing; I like programming far better. So I need someone for sales when I have the money. And I just spent an additional three hours on graphics. My rant this week is end of the world predictions. Shouldn't this be something people should put maximum research into? Apparently when someone goes the world is ending some other people go OK! "The world is ending in October" "Well gosh darn it what are you going to do?" It's unbelievable what people believe. I am being deliberately ironic. I don't actually think things are unbelievable, apart from fiction of course, I guess claims people make could also qualify. Hypothetical if the world was ending I'd sell everything and enjoy life. I am talking about an astroid coming to earth, though I'd try to get off this planet first. "Let me off this planet, because I am fucking intelligent, I'm Thane Pullan bitches!" That pitch probably needs work, I will work on that. By the way I am completely sober as I write this, just to scare you some more. People give me credibility? That's hilarious! I am a lunatic that says nonsense things, and sometimes I get paid for it, I love stand up comedy. By the way I am available for corporate events, Email me! | |||
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I like saying random offensive shit |
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| Nothing exciting this week so if I can be fucked I will type random shit. Do you ever wish you were drunk and then act silly, punch random people just to get the sensation? Me neither! This is the reason I will not run for office. I like saying random offensive shit. I know Donald Trump is practically winning because he says random offensive shit, I don't want to appeal to morons. I considered running for DHB (Distinct Health Board) but I have several products ready to launch and I would rather focus on that. I also have no desire to campaign for office myself. I'd help another campaign, but people seem too stupid to ask for my help. Politics is full of narcissistic lunatics but so are the entertainment industry and business. So I guess I can't really get away from such types. The music industry specifically seems littered with abusers and bad characters. I really don't understand why some rich people aren't satisfied with good looking people that genuinely want them for their money; I sure as hell would be. Instead they resort to more abusive tactics; Bill Cosby and it's known that the manager of N'Sync and Backstreet was up to questionable stuff but interestingly was locked up for a Ponzi scheme, there's also the recent case of Ke$ha's abuse, this is really the tip of the iceberg. Many people in power have personality disorders, That might be an explanation. It's actually quite fascinating seeing how much abusive stuff is in the music industry.. Business is also full of people who think short term, I am more of a long term guy. Entertainment is naturally full of attention seekers. I am in it for the perks, it's convenient. I also have started to like the idea of being an artist, even though I just say a bunch of stupid shit on stage. It's difficult for me to connect this with art, but that is slowly changing. I want to expand into different art forms, but I am currently too busy. | |||
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Madonna 2016 |
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This is the third attempt at writing this. It no longer asks to save when I exit this application, so fuck that. I am in Auckland, the plane was about 2 hours 45 minutes late but managed to do programming on spare time projects in that time. Redeemed a Koru lounge pass, had some alcohol. I went and went to The Classic then I went to Family Bar. There was a really annoying guy who wouldn't leave me alone no matter how disinterested I acted, i felt like punching him.
Sunday I went to Madonna. She was good but bit late. You would think after doing something for 50 years she would have her shit together. Fans pay money, the least she could do is to start on time. While I am complaining why do DJs tell people to put their hands up? Again it is US that pays money. WE should be telling YOU what to do. It was a good concert. I would have liked Frozen to be played but it was still awesome. Monday I am going home and will post this when I get back. | |||
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Addiction |
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y next blog will be a day late.
I have just been bitching about random topics here lately and that probably will continue. I don't drink enough, I hardly ever get drunk. Although the constant need for pissing is the major downside. I appear to be addicted to programming lately. There's no Programmers Anonymous, but considering Alcoholics Anonymous is a miserable failure of a program there would be no benefit. The success rate is something like 10%, why does society stick with shit that doesn't work? Society's approach to addiction needs to be reformed; find out why exactly they are addicted whether chemical or something lacking in life and fix that. I joke that I am not addicted to substances because other people need to feed me. It's fucking difficult to be addicted to smoking when you can't hold a cigarette. I do excessive programming because it fills in time. I imagine I'll stop when I am rich and have a hot blond. The sooner, the better. | |||
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Flag and software |
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Why the fuck are we having two referendums on that something is almost certainly doomed to fail. I desperately want a flag change, but I can see the writing on the wall. I can read the polls. When the polling was 50/50 at the very beginning it made no sense to initiate a ridiculous debate on a cloth design. I am not in any way sentimental, I will call it a cloth design. Now the polling is two thirds against. My prediction is this will be an utter waste of time and the government is absolutely moronic for doing this. I do genuinely hate the british symbol on the flag, but facts are facts.
Also people didn't fight to protect a flag for fuck sakes. They did what they did to keep us from being taken over by god knows who. It was about protecting the people and the freedom. The flag is not really relevant and some veterans would have disliked the flag. Changing it does nothing to take away from their accomplishments. People using this ridiculous argument should really get a grip. I want to launch at least one accessibility product in April, I now have about four. My live event subtitle software is going really well, I hope I finish it within two weeks. This was much easier than developing eye tracking, I'll probably make official apps for it later, until then it'll be fully browser based. | |||
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valentine's Day, quake |
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Friday I went to the doctor, visit was unusually quick. Generally best to go early in the morning, except I did that one time and the doctor cancelled, so mixed bag.
Happy Valentine's Day, let's rant about that, why not? Now, I am not pissed or annoyed about Valentine's Day. I am very happily single. I have been single for three or four years. I will continue to be single for the rest of my life. If I change my mind, I am more than likely suffering from Amnesia. In that case please tell me to read my own book "The Teachings of a Grumpy Cripple Volume 1" By the way have you brought my books? They're MARVELOUS! Buy BUY BUY! I sound like N'sync. The only thing more cliche than Valentine's Day posts are anti Valentine's Day post. I am Valentine's Day neutral, because I am fucking original! I don't care if other people celebrate love, leave me the fuck out of it, and we'll get along fine. I don't want to spend my mental energy on relationships, excluding sexual relationships but I have companies to launch first. Priorities people! I hope you enjoyed my Valentine's Day rant, and by that I actually mean I don't give a fuck. We just had a 5.9 earthquake, it's too late to rant about it. I am going to watch TheYoungTurks coverage of a republican debate and do programming. | |||
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On the TPPA |
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Tuesday I had an appointment, if I wanted to talk about it, I would. However let me continue posting things to fuck people off.
On the TPPA, the delusional left has come out. People on the left make far more sense than the right the majority of the times. However there's times that the left are utterly and completely delusional. They said that they were going to stop asset sales, they didn't. They said that they were going to stop the GCSB, they didn't. Now they're declaring areas TPPA free zones. You sound absolutely moronic as you have absolutely no power to do that. It's OK to protest something, just don't go into a complete fantasy world while doing it. Otherwise you're no different than the idiots who believe in trickle down economics and that companies can regulate themselves. Getting people's hopes up may turn them off in the long run. I wonder how libertarians feel about drug patient extensions? Surely they would believe in the freedom to offer generic drugs. How about three strikes laws? Instead of the government deciding your internet usage, it's the corporations. If they're not comfortable with the government telling them what to do, why would they be in favour of a massive agreement which tells the governments what to do? That is better, how? Pointing these things out to true libertarians of right wing parties may be the only hope in stopping it, do that. Although most "professional libertarians" are likely hypocrites who don't mean what they say and only use the small government line to fuck over poor people, you may find one or two genuines in each country, lobby them. I mostly stay away from public (local) political advocacy nowadays. I have my reasons, but finding other ways to change what I can rather than posting on facebook. | |||
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Cathedral |
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I don't know if my planned mid year break is going to happen because I have committed to a trip elsewhere in June. It depends on revenue from software, which is will be nill for a few months more. Ugh. I have started a new project for arts venues. Hopefully revenue will come soon.
I have nothing that I want to say about this week so I will just rant about a 60 million dollar cathedral. Jesus would not approve. "It's easier for a camel to pass through an eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven. What the fuck you call a 60 million dollar cathedral? Jesus said give your things to the poor. Inequality is at record levels, Jesus would have wanted to feed the poor. If you are against mega churches, this is literally a mega church! Jesus was against excess, that is just a fact! Also if God really wanted the cathedral to exist, why was it destroyed in an act of God? Obviously God's plan was to demolish the cathedral. As always if you disagree with my opinion, I really don't give a fuck. I am just taking the piss, because that's what I do. I AM NOT GOOD AT WALKING AND TALKING, I HAVE TO BE GOOD AT SOMETHING! I don't play the disability card to get away with unpopular opinions, what are you talking about? Anyone offended by this, should fucking get a sense of humour, that is all. | |||
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Comedy and Adam Lambert |
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I am in a hotel in Auckland and internet access sucks, I only have two hours free so I am avoiding going online until I have written my blog. I am just up for the night for the Adam Lambert concert. What kind of idiot builds a hotel near the central fire station? Absurd idea. No wonder it was so cheap.
Did stand up last night. Just for a free ticket to the headline show, because you know, I'm cheap. Tried some new stuff. That went OK, perhaps I'll expand and modify some content when I get back into comedy. Had two Sambucas before the show, thanks Hine! Adam Lambert was good. I was directly beside the VIP section. Views were good apart from people getting in my eye shot constantly but I would rather be close and have my shots occasionally blocked than be so far away he is only a spec. My only main complaint was he did a slower version of "If I Had You" as the last song I would have preferred the original version. Saturday now, the downstairs wifi at the airport is shitty, the one at McDonalds just flat out didn't work. Luckily I now know how to get better wifi from Air New Zealand upstairs. Sunday now, surprisingly I didn't hear any sirens when I was trying to sleep Friday. The air conditioning was loud but maybe that blocked out other noises. Wasn't a bad hotel, apart from the internet. | |||
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David Bowie, pop culture, direction |
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I have nothing to say, so I am just going to rant about stupid shit. OK? Well you don't have a choice as this is my blog.
I am going to talk about pop culture obsessive freaks. David Bowie died, seems that I am the only person in the world that didn't know who he was. Facebook was fulled with David Bowie states, It was worse than Christmas. I now understand that the man made a massive impact on people's life, but I have absolutely no desire to learn about him. That should be OK. There is no universal rule that I have to learn about David Bowie. It's not like laws of physics, do onto others, learn about David Bowie. I couldn't care less about which celebrities/icons people expect me know. People can fuck off. I learned about aspects of his life through a news video from TheYoungTurks. He stood up to MTV saying that they played too much music from white people. For that he deserves credit. He also impacted a lot of people. Again credit. I couldn't get into his music, but at least I can acknowledge that he was a top guy. What more interesting to me is the impact celebrities have on people's psychology. People get emotionally attached to celebrities and fiercely cling to them. Luckily Bowie has been without any majorly known controversy. It will be completely different when someone like Bill Cosby dies. Attacking a celebrity is kind of like attacking a person's identity. You see the same thing with political parties, but that's a conversation for another day. I am not really a pop culture fan. Sure I like some TV and music. However I not into hero worship, that's the same thing as religion, well at least you can prove the existence of celebrities. I am overly inspired by celebrities. I like it that way. I also have no real direction. Being rich has downsides. Being famous has downsides. Where I am currently has downsides. So, I don't really know what direction to take. I will continue with what I am doing with business and see what comes. Suppose what would gives me the most independence and sex could be the most worthwhile. Also being an innovator could also make me happy, and give me the other things. | |||
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Trading workshop, software |
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Saturday I spent two hours at a trading workshop. Always been curious about trading currencies. I am too broke and busy right now, perhaps in a few years, or a year. I'll give it a go after I get a few businesses up.
I am nearly up to the stage of using my own accessibility software, I'd give it a month before I can use it in the first stage, except I'm too broke to upgrade my computer right now. Though hopefully when I finally start selling I won't be broke anymore. Nothing else to report, I should be starting a local disability site soon. Although I want more variety in my work; as opposed to spending the majority of work time on disability projects. After accessibility software is complete and arts software is development I imagine that I can venture into other industries more. Jeremy Elwood is performing January 21st at Churchill's. I am also doing six minutes. I am writing new content about being a celebrity in the afterlife. "angel tits" are mentioned. There | |||
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2016 |
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I went to a Six60 concert for new years eve. It was good, enjoyed the later parts. A guy kept annoying me by constantly giving me high fives or something, I moved, that solved the problem. Ended up with some women, who were quite protective. One said she was 30 and that she was old, apparently she had no idea that I was 30. I quite enjoyed Mike Taylor as a warm up act.
My main new years goals are to launch my accessibility software and go to at least two concerts. Most of these are already planned and don't really count as goals. Shut up I'll make up any bullshit I want. I have GOALS, not RESOLUTIONS. CAPITALS MAKE THINGS VERY IMPORTANT IN CASE PEOPLE ARE STUPID AND DON'T UNDERSTAND. Can I just say how much I hate people using capitals to emphasize words? Well if I made a goal not to get side tracked, I'd fail. I have no idea of my goals for last year, I probably didn't achieve them. Do I care? No I do not. Speaking of bullshit, please like this facebook page. God Hates Wheelchairs | |||
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2015 is almost gone, new blog |
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I spent Christmas working, I probably shouldn't have, but that is done now. For some reason I decided to have an anti social Christmas, to go with my anti social life. Well if I am anti social the rest of the year, why change it?
It has been a great year. The end of the year is a bit shit. To be absolutely clear, this has nothing to do with Christmas. It's other stuff in my life that could be better, but never mind. Putting aside that it was a fantastic year; even better than last. Though work wise, a bit shit. I expected to launch my software company 6 months ago. Traveling overseas a few times and publishing two books is still a great achievement. I am further expanding my disability work with the launch of Cripples.com. I guess that I have doomed myself not to get along with the politically correct police. Oh well, people who get hung up with stupid shit really aren't much use to me honestly. Disability advocacy needs to be productive, my initiatives will be. Time to cut the crap and push things that work. I now have two dedicated disability blogs so will schedule my own posts for every two weeks on each. | |||
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Random shit |
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It's going to be a random entry where I just say random shit.
I am sick of not partying, but plan to resume when I launch my software company. I think I've only been clubbing on holiday in August and probably NYE. I am now working on the internal communication side of my software, still working on eye tracking. Hopefully things will be completed by the end of January, about eight months longer than expected. Hopefully this will have a big financial reward at the end, and I am also looking forward to starting new things. I have decided that I don't have time to do comedy as other comedians, and I am frankly more interested in creating technology. I don't care about getting famous or being on TV. Fame attracts people, and people are annoying. I'll be satisfied just doing comedy at overseas comedy clubs, I think that is a good goal. I will be ready to make massive changes to my life in the next two and a half years. (that's oddly specific) I'm getting bored, but want to launch my software company before I make any change. I was supposed to make changes when I hit 30, but the silver lining is I will be in a better position to make massive changes when the time comes. | |||
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Dentist, new flag, blogging platform |
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Time for my weekly blog, I had an early lunch and went to the dentist, sometime this week, perhaps Wednesday. I was an hour early. I knew that my appointment time, other people didn't. I should just do things my way next time.
The new flag design is stupid, looks like someone just slapped a silver fern over the current flag, looks incredibly lazy. The only reason we have it because fucking morons were voting for the "ISIS" flag and deliberately sabotaging the voting process, by the way I actually liked the black and white Maori flag and had I deliberately voted it would have been first or second, toss up between Red Peak. I really don't give a fuck if you disagree with me on this issue. I have my opinion, you have your's. Let's just get on with life. I have no desires to debate opinions on a flag, I have more important shit to do: like investing in a flag manufacturing company. I will be thrilled to dump the British symbol, ditch the monarchy while at it. If no change, the new one is also ugly and that will piss off John Key. Either way, I win. Voting to change, and really don't give a fuck about how you're voting. Go and write your shit on your own blog and I will write my shit here. Also since it's half black and white I'm going to call it half ISIS. John Key is not the only one who can be utterly ridiculous. I have started a (hopefully) major site using my own blogging platform, the same platform as I use for all my blogs. I am in the process of implementing polls so I can conduct surveys. No idea what type, but it's nice to have the option for all my current and future sites. | |||
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Continuing whatever the fuck this is |
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I haven't posted in the past three weeks due to major website issues. However they are now over, so let's continue whatever the fuck this is. (Friday 3 weeks ago) I am in Wellington and can only access facebook on the wifi. Fuck this shit. I don't even like Facebook most of the time. Full of outrage porn. This place is shit, the only thing left was a backpackers. I do have my my own room this time, so a step up from the last. Though apparently a hot blond staying in the other room, so a mixed blessing. Saturday was Elton John, enjoyed it but shitty venue accessibility. Though not as cold this time. Sunday I went home. Stupid early flights, that's why I brought Redbull. Caffeine is a good substitute for sleep. Friday I attempted to go to Wellington again, didn't happen because of the wind. At this time I was utterly sick of going to Wellington, though primarily because a guy annoyed me last time, and when that happens why not hold it against an entire city? IT'S FUNNIER! Saturday I finally got to Wellington, early morning flight. My Redbull wasn't packed unfortunately but had extra coffee as it was free and I am a cheaper fucker. I enjoyed Saturday. Sunday was also good, I took part in a blogging panel. after the day I went to the Koru Lounge, because the food and alcohol was free. Why do people keep saying that is my favourite word? Free alcohol is fucking awesome though. Thursday I did a video for Canterbury University, it went smoothly. I am grateful to be working with education institutions as I like being able to teach. I hope to get similar work. Normal people are taking holidays, I plan to keep working and take a vacation mid year, probably to America. I am finally progressing with eye tracking after months of going nowhere, hopefully I can finish it within a few weeks. It's Saturday night and I've decided to put on Christmas music "STICK YOUR CHRISTMAS UP YOUR ARSE HO HO FUCKING HO" All together now "ho ho fucking ho What a crock of shit We all work for Santa Claws, we've had enough we quit Cos we all do the fucking work while he stars in the show Stick your Christmas up your arse ho ho fucking ho." This is as close to the Christmas spirit as I get. | |||
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Basic pupil detection complete |
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Today (Saturday) I got accepted into a San Diego conference. Pity there's no way I can go with my current financial situation. Maybe if I find an investor for my accessibility software company but that chance is slim. If I can't go I'll probably go to Houston in August for an expo and LA afterwards for my birthday when my accessibility software company is up and running. I finally completed basic pupil detection this week!
I would be open to investors on my ecommerce platform. I am also working on a domain name research tool. Plus I have a number of other projects that I need people to market/could take investors. I need staff or partners to get my projects up. I'll seek them after my accessibility software is running. I am even more crippled without reliable accessibility software. Eye tracking, turns out, wasn't the most productive use of time versus web programming. If I had of known it was going to take me this long I probably wouldn't have taken on the project. Although it is good to challenge yourself and do different things. I am probably going to limit challenging work to one day per week next year so things still move. Due to my weekend schedule for the next two weeks blogs will be posted on Monday, obviously excluding tomorrow. | |||
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