writ. dodging classification

so mat tagged me to do a blog survey.. much like we have seen before in e-mail forwards or in myspace bulletins. Lets see how it goes.

From mat’s weblog: “This is one of those new-fangled web fads where you fill out a preset questionnaire, then tag other people. Easy. Buckle up, we’re leaving to the enchanted land of “Four things”…”

Four jobs I’ve had in my life:
Air Force Officer
Software Developer
Systems Engineer
Lab Administrator

Four movies I can watch over and over:
Swingers
Galaxy Quest
Office Space
Napolean Dynomite

Four places I have lived:
Minot, North Dakota
Brookhaven, PA
Columbia, MD
Biloxi, MS (for a couple of months)

Four TV shows I love to watch:
Mythbusters
Star Trek
Simpsons
Seinfeld

Four places I have been on vacation:
Ocean City, MD
Southern California
Florida
South Dakota

Four websites I visit daily:
digg.com
slashdot.org
washingtonpost.com
espn.com

Four of my favorite foods:
mushroom vegie lasagna
pizza
buffalo wings
triscuits and cheese

Four places I would rather be right now:
At home
On the beach
Disneyworld
Australia

Four bloggers I am tagging: (the real trick i guess is to see who actually checks my weblog enough to realize they’re tagged!)
Jimmy
Joey
Melissa
Erin

If I tagged you, the rules are you have to come up with a list like this. No changing the categories.

long exposure off my back porch, originally uploaded by iammikes.

come see my other pics from the house and my new Exilim Z750 Digi cam at my flickr stream

Office goodies from my bro for my b-day, originally uploaded by iammikes.

Sam’s taking joe’s file cabinet!

as mat pointed out in his comment on the last post. I’m getting Older!! .. 27 to be exact.

Basically all the following links are about $ony’s “guerrilla” style marketing campaign for the PSP. Here’s the basic idea. Sony, a major international corporation, paid ad artists, to go around in major cities and paint PSP ads, that look like graffiti. These ads were 1. not paid for 2. painted on other people’s property and 3. vandalism basically. But still i think they figure since they’re a big corporation, they can just go around and put stuff on other people’s property just because they feel like it. This for some reasons sounds a lot like the Sony DRM scandal, which resulted in Sony recalling a whole slew of Sony BMG CDs, because they basically installed a malicious program onto peoples computers and made it hidden, so you wouldn’t even know it was on your computer if you had it. Even more so, removing this thing could break your OS.

It just really disturbs me that some big company has this blatant disregard for personal property, when on the other end of things they are hyper-concerned with people copying their own copyrighted work (which can actually be copied legally for limited use. Even more so they’re trying to block this legal copying anyway).

Well either way. Philadelphia has actually fined Sony corp for putting up these illegal advertisements. Go Philly.. i love my hometown ;).

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/13513545.htm

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/13524305.htm

http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/la-na-graffiti2jan02,1,7831128.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

I’ve seen graffiti that actually looks cool… this stuff looks stupid.. its as bad as some idiot painting Dude! on the overpass of the highway (and at least i can give that guy credit for having the ingenuity, or stupidity, to figure out how to hang down from the overpass over a highway to write that.)

So 2006 is here. Happy New Year. Laurie and I are moved into the house. (still i swear i’ll have pictures up here some time. I hardly have time right now to make this post.) We’ve made pretty amazing progress since we moved in on the 28th.

Anyways… hope everybody’s new year was exciting!