kyl3 (the band)

So you think you own the things you buy right?  Not really.  Any software, Music (CD) or Movie (DVD) that you buy you are really only buying a kind of usage and not actually buying it.  In the case of software you can’t modify the code and tweek it for your particular need nor can you install it on any other machines than the one you bout it for unless the software license agreement specifically states otherwise.  And all the music you bout on iTunes; you can’t technically mix it up and burn a disc with your favorite Neil Diamond songs, because you didn’t agree with the Greatest Hits version.  All those DVD’s that you have purchased you can’t legal use the HandBrake software to transfer them to you iTunes so you can play them on your new video iPod.  Thanks to giant movie companies like Paramount that have legal lobyist by the tons, the interpretation of anti piracy laws means that when you buy a DVD you only buy the DVD to play it as that medium.  If you transpose it into any other medium be it for the reason of selling it or just so you can watch that stupid movie for the 100th time….it’s ILLEGAL.  And the same goes for music.  Thanks to conglomerates like RIAA you can not make an mp3 into an ogg file.  If they new how to charge you for each time you listened to the song or watch the movie, they would.  I found a great website titled the culture of ownership.   It knows more than I ever could.  Dive in for some eye opening reading about the stuff you think you buy. Coperate America just wants us on the monthly pay plan for every little thing we touch in our daily lives.  That would make us all the ultimate consumer; yet aren’t they at the same time advocating going green???? 

A friend of mine sent me these pictures from Franklin, Indiana.

Check out this motorcycle I looked at today here.

It is really nice looking and rides well, I just don’t know if I could own a Harley Davidson Motorcycle.  In most cases they are way overpriced and that goes against the entire motorcycle code.  I am still shopping for a new motorcycle as you can tell.  My friend Jeff told me his friend is selling a triumph legend for about 3 grand. You can see a pic here.

But yesterday Roger told me that he might just sell his motorcycle.  He was so sick of it just sitting in the garage.  In the current geographic location that we find our selves living momentarily it is not condusive to owning a motorcycle.  Only during the months of May through September is it possible warm enough to ride and then you have to take into account all of the rainy days.  Currently we are under a constant flash flood warning and it storms just about every day.  What really is “funny” is that in August it will be about 100 degrees and we will be in a drought and will have ordinances against washing cars and watering lawns.  Ridiculous.

I just left work and it is Saturday.  I was the only one in the office for 8 hours.  I also could not find the light switch for the lights directly over my desk.  The switch has to be hidden.  I found all of the other light switches for every area except mine.  It was a wee bit dark at my desk.  Luckily I have lights at my desk.  But that just makes me feel like I am working late into the night with a little desk lamp trying not to interrupt anyone else sleeping in the house. 

 Meanwhile it is sunny and warm outside for the first time without meanacing rain clouds in over a week. 

I have enough work that I should come in on Sunday.  I have decided not to as I now have worked 57 hours this week and I know that I will be working 12 hours on Monday and probably 10 hours on Tuesday in order to make the deadline of the 20th. 

I just started this job two months ago.  I can’t help but notice that I am the only one here and probably have the most hours racked up.  This is not because I procrastinated on doing my work, but I have that rushed, stressed feeling like I did.  I recevied my data late and thus there I was all by myself on a Saturday. 

I feel quite overwhelmed and dumped on.  I hope things get better.  Otherwise I will have to change things.  But isn’t that always how things are? 

Last Friday night my husband and I were telling a friend about a geographical location that we will be going to some time soon.  This friend proceeded to speak very negatively about this geographical location.  He went on and on about how bad it was.  Then with his last sentence he said something like, “well I have never been there.”  I did not even have to ask that obvious question he just ended the rant with it as if it were a punctuation point. 

The next time someone takes aim at a geographical location that I am looking forward to visiting I will just deliver a swift upper cut to to their jaw.  This will stop them from talking out of their ass about something that they usually know nothing about.  Thus I will aleviate myself from listening to their five minute rant and I will also save myself the agrivation of trying to make sense of their maddness.

Ok, you are right.  Violence is not the answer. Next time I will just get up and walk away. 

I cannot beleive that there really is an “Academic Freedom BIll” rolling around in state legislations.  They don’t really want academic freedom.  I admire that they want their view out there but they are just like everybody else preaching that their idea is right. 

Legislators argue about all the tiny little details that don’t matter at all.  I mean really why don’t they focus on making kids go get an education.  And then those kids can argue about the evolution theory.  Darwin came up with his idea because he had been taught how to think for himself.  Galeleo was right and he was burned at the stake for his different ideas. 

Can’t we just focus on educating everyone and then letting them come to their own educated opinions.  According to a radom study I found in 1998 only 71% of United States senior class graduated high school and the breakdown on that is as follows:For white students the rate was 78%, while it was 56% for African-American students and 54% for Latino students. Not that White, African-American or Latino really describes anyone at all but that is for a different rant. 

I woke up today and I could not get out of my angerous funk.  I can not beleive that it is so cold in mid april.  If it is below 50 degrees F than I am livid thus I am livid half of the year where I currently live.  Thank goodness we only have a year left.

There used to be PSA (public service announcements) commercials about how buying marijuana in the United States was funding terrorists in Colombia and if you did this then you too were a terrorist.  While this is in a roundabout way true.  A demand exists and suppliers are meeting it.  The suppliers happen to be rebels that offer rural Colombian farmers protection with their AK 47s in return the farmers lose their yield. Etc etc. Like any good corporation the rebels have a drug lord who incorporates and bureaucratisizes everything.  If you are selling drugs you are not part of the revolution.  You are working for the man.  You might as well work for corporate America in a cubicle and get some health insurance.

This rant was influence by the most recent news report from msnbc.com world news “A U.S. Jewish organization on Tuesday said a multibillion-dollar Swiss-Iranian natural gas deal makes Switzerland ‘the world’s newest financier of terrorism’.”  You can read the article here. 

Instead of everyone slandering people by calling them communists (thank McCarthy) now everyone who doesn’t agree is called a terrorist.

*note: there are real terrorists out there and they should get their karma returned to them as it’s what bullies can expect from their lifestyle choices but not everyone is a terrorist.

Where I am right now it is 6 degrees Celsius {43 degrees Fahrenheit}.  In Puerto Rico in the Rio Piedras (university) area it is 25 degrees Celsius {78 degrees Fahrenheit}.