Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Thailand Travel Kit: Huts, Trip Itineraries, and Tips for the Budget or Upscale Tourist by a Thailand Insider who has lived in Thailand for 8 years by Jack B. Wily ... see you in Thailand ...
The idea that people are the result of some combination of an advanced life form and the animals. That this had something to do with original sin. I am a little bit interested in this topic because it seems to me that people are so radically different from those creatures that live naturally. It is hard for me to believe that we were not a combination. We look so similar and have all the physical characteristics of the animals and I am tempted to say that we are one of these animals, but when you look at the intelligence aspect ... I mean, this seems to be what separates us from them. The question that can be asked is is this intelligence meant for earth. I mean we seem to be the only animal so to speak that is capable of destroying so much of the environment that we live in. We all eat each other. That is pretty much a given ... but why is it that people are capable of polluting huge areas of the planet to the extent that they can not sustain life? I mean a monkey might climb up a mango tree and eat the entire mango, seed and all. I have watched one rip a mango seed in half with its bare hands ... so to speak ... and eat the inside of the seed. I mean not to many people could rip a mango seed apart or would endeavor to do so. I was able to rip one open when I tried, so can I say the monkeys taught me something? As I watched them I could see that they knew their environment, knew what to eat and what was good and edible. They can survive where probably a lot of people can’t.
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I Mean ... is it shit or Porn?
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Okay ... here’s a little take on porn. I mean ... I am not a big porn watcher. I am not adverse to watching a porn movie while alone in a hotel or on occasion. I am not fearful of admitting that. What got me started on this was a flick I downloaded on LimeWire. I mean we know there is some of that stuff available over there. A lot of us know. Well, some movie that I downloaded really shocked me. I mean it wasn’t a video showing groups and stuff and the standard fare ... get ready ... I doubt you have seen this one ... I have deleted it and don’t have the link ... but I mean it has got to have something to say about the human race. This video. What do you think was in it. Okay, here is the description ... I put it here because like I say it has got to have something to do with us. This download was a group of about seven girls. They were wiping each other’s feces all over their bodies and eating it. They were on a farm. I mean, it disgusted me so much that I almost sent out the link to the media. It went on for quite a while. They painted their bodies in the stuff. They were streaks of brown and ended up in the barn like that. I look for adventure and some of my writing is about trying stuff. I like to try stuff. I mean I live on the fringe. But this was too much for me, even with my naturalistic ways and even being curious as to that heath idea that drinking your own urine is good for you. Even being curious about sex and free sex and sharing sex and stuff. But I couldn’t for the life of me see this thing. I mean, I could only wonder what had been so extreme in their lives as to make them film this stuff. I could even see some sort of skin treatment ... I am that adventurous, but this thing struck me as being pretty sick. Take it from there. Ted Bundy said porn made him kill all those people. I didn’t really buy it. I thought it was more the sexual mores of the time he lived in, or something about his own psychology. I mean the cops knew he killed 36. When they asked him he told them to add a one in front. I mean the guy was sick. He clubbed them to death and had sex with the bodies. The thing was that he was most often taken as a great guy with smarts. I mean people saw him and said he was a gentleman. All the while he was doing this stuff. He laughed at the cameras in the court house.
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Which Tonka Toy Will Win?
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Mad Magazine VS National Lampoon . A Satire. Which one is the one to bring in to your high school? I mean, I KNOW mad magazine. I never read the National Lampoon. But I have a feeling I would like this magazine. I mean with the way our economy has failed, I guess I would love any magazine that was still viable. I mean this jerk criticized me just now for having a love of the National Lampoon. Excuse me, but has anyone noticed how much better GM is now that the money loving pigs have been kicked out. I mean, they are actually on their way to making cars that people want to buy. You know. The ones that don’t guzzle gas like it cost a buck, like in the days that GM controlled all the markets. Yeah, stuff like that. Like now they are actually talking about releasing the new cars that run on electricity and hybrids. Yep, just like the ones I saw in Japan years ago. That’s why I say the Japanese will take the market long before the American car makers will . I mean if you look at Honda ... they are releasing stuff like that now and our companies are waiting until 2011. I know that market. I lived there for twenty years.
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Sunday, September 6, 2009
Stephen King
Okay, here it goes again. My take on Stephen King. I mean most of us fans are still waiting for another Pet Cemetery, another Needful Things. What we see now is a lot of wordy things that don't really include the social commentary and the intelligence of his earlier writing. I mean ... somehow in his quest to write for this new society, he has lost his ability to or has chosen not to write like he did before. He is a horror writer and has been criticised for that. I always looked at him for craft and story telling and like he once said ... he knew his craft ... but i think this new society of ours is taking the spirit out of life. I mean ... you cant't just write and be a terrific writter anymore. You have to directly address ... some created concern of multimedia. I mean, I wouldn't want to write for those people. Yeah, it's 1984, it got here late, but it arrived. It kills off creativity. I mean now we smoke just to stay alive. We've got all these government heads telling us of the perfect society that awaits us. But, now it doesn't look so perfect. Well. I somehow am reluctant to blame King for what America has become. I mean his books were rational. I think his failure to write more are due to kingpins in Washington over the last twenty years who have been anxious to suck off taxes for their own 'polite' endeavors. I don't think it is his fault on the whole. It is more like the weight of the world on one man's shoulders. I mean will I buy 'Under the Dome' in January? I might, but it won't be because I am looking for a King classic. I think he wrote those already. I think, he should write more of the same ... or just move on. Ain't no harm in moving on. If I had that kind of money ... I think I would spend some time on the beach. I would get back to my soul. Because this idea of horror books not cutting literature ... well ... it doesn't wash with me. I think the guy cut it damn fine. He gets in trouble when he starts splitting his genres. I think he should get back to those indian cemeteries and reincarnated zombies and let the good times roll ... please?
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Island of Sand: The Software Killings
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I have been working on this three book series ... Island of Sand: The Software Killings for years. I even submitted it for publishing once, but I pulled out because I did not think it was finished. Well, I'm finally going to offer it as a six part series. It is a bizarre story. I mean this psychotic computer programmer plots to kill off all these people because he doesn't like the new politically correct society and blames the downfall of his company on it and stuff ... a lot of stuff really. Then the economy falls and this guy finds out all of his predictions were correct. It scares him and stuff. I mean he has been told one of these armagheddin stories by this apparition he sees from the porch of his hut while he is in his hammock. The scary thing is the apparition tells him he has to carry out his plan in order to save the world from another plan ... the plan B kind of thing where ... well ... life just ends cuz things have gotten so evil and out of hand that God doesn't like Earth anymore. Should be on Amazon in about three weeks.
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Amazon Forums
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If you have a Kindle (one of those electronic book readers)you may be familiar with the Kindle Forums where people go to shoot the crap about the .. you got it ... Kindle. I find these forums incredibly difficult to navigate. I mean you go to the first page ... i mean there isn't anyway to know if or what a first page is here even. It says there are like twenty-thousand quote ... discussions. Then it lists ten. Then once in a while somewhere where you can never navigate back to ... you see ... list all discussions. Then in the middle of the page you get this ... related discussions ... like i mean ... related to what. I finally found this permalink thing that says ... this will make it easier to get back ... now i can't find any list of permalinks ... never mind what a permalink is ... do you mean bookmark by chance? To me the format of these forums makes me feel like i am back in the age of the dinosaurs using the first mosaic program where you typed in some number of a forum or something and got a list output. I mean don't get me wrong ... i like amazon ... just not the format of the forums ... i mean you'd have to smoke a lot of weed to even imagine that a person could actually find there way around in that maze. Don't get me wrong ... I love my Kindle ... I just like to write about things in an effort to make them better. And anyway, like I say ... I have never been ... a forum kind of guy ... I like my browsers clean, clear and simple. Sayonara. Over and out.
Friday, September 4, 2009
I Mean the Recharge Cord For the Kindle
Thailand Travel Kit: Huts, Trip Itineraries, and Tips for the Budget or Upscale Tourist by a Thailand Insider who has lived in Thailand for 8 years by Jack B. Wily ... see you in Thailand ...
I mean this thing is biodegradable to the extreme. It has flaked away in my case. I mean the cord is eaten. It is gone. Amazon made some mistake with this thing. The cord melts like an eatable ice cream cone. I mean ... I like the biodegradeable idea. But I don't like to have the melting cord... I mean ... I can tolerate a melting cord, but I think it is best to report it first. I mean, I don't think this sort of engineering is the final answer ... Okay? I mean, who wants a cord that melts? Stuff like that.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
A Bit on Amazon and its Automatic Removal
Thailand Travel Kit: Huts, Trip Itineraries, and Tips for the Budget or Upscale Tourist by a Thailand Insider who has lived in Thailand for 8 years by Jack B. Wily ... see you in Thailand ...
I just read this stuff about Amazon removing some digital files from their e-reader (Kindle) because the person who published the files didn't have the digital rights. This one guy mentioned that Amazon gave him thirty dollars after the uproar. I guess he paid a coupld of bucks for the edition. If i got thirty dollars for a book that i assume cost very little, i would think Amazon had great customer service. In the consumer realm at least (i don't know a lot about the follow-up on publishing titles etc., though mine have gone through the system well (Thailand Travel Kit by Jack B. wily), I would have to say they are the best in the world. What other company simply removes charges and even sometimes tells you to keep the products when a customer complains. Try that with one of our amazing auto companies. I think this amazon hate thing is probably being financed by the other conglomerates, more traditional vampire like ones ... microsoft mnbc? (so much in the mass media today seems to come spurting at us while having as its basis a simple competitive ugly motive that is being paid for ... really, really sad)and people who are just jeolous of Amazons success? To me this issue of DRM (the Kindle book protection software thing) is nothing but an attack to turn the kindle books into free downloads like the mess that the music arena is in. I was happy to know that anything i write on the kindle will NOT show up on LimeWire. I don't really get these author advocates of an open system. Books don't grow on trees and they arn't anyone's basic human right ... they are donated or purchased by libraries ... not downloaded for free. Just a little opinion here on Amazon digital.
Follow Me to the Stairway to Heaven
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I don't usually write about networking, but see that follower icon on the left. If you visit a site you should click it. It will help your site gain recognition too. Those little spiders crawl through their webs gathering information like that. The one on the left here is the google freind connect widget ... it is designed to bring traffic to your site. So, I'm not the pied piper or anything like that, but follow me anyway. I swear I'll get you back.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
I Sold my First Book. I am an Author.
I just sold a proof of my Thailand Travel guide for 500 baht. It is the first of the lot. It means a lot to me on a personal level. I cannot think of too much sarchastic stuff to say about it other then I have always beleived in it. It is very satisfying. It was a direct marketing effort from the heart, but it was real. It was very, very real.
Thailand Travel Kit: Huts, Trip Itineraries, and Tips for the Budget or Upscale Tourist by a Thailand Insider who has lived in Thailand for 8 years by Jack B. Wily ... see you in Thailand ...
Linguistics and German
Thailand Travel Kit: Huts, Trip Itineraries, and Tips for the Budget or Upscale Tourist by a Thailand Insider who has lived in Thailand for 8 years by Jack B. Wily ... see you in Thailand ...
I met this Australian guy on Elephant Island in the huts at Klong Prao. He was on his way to Europe. When he got there he sent me a rather drunken email. I mean it looked drunken, but it wasn't quite so drunken ... yeah, exactly like that. He said the keyboards overthere are sort of different and the linguist in me was interested. All of his words had a German twang to them. I mean everyone almost. It got me to thinking ... German is a parent of English and the written form when typed on a German typewriter reflects that fact. I am amazed by this. I am weird. I mean the written form when typed on a German keyboard generates German sounding English. I think there is something in that. But hey, I a learned a lot of my linguistics on the street.
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