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i like Rich Pav‘s Herro Flom Japan podcast… especially the video casts. his kids are really cute… and he’s a total DILF… *giggles* i also like how his show is pretty amature… it gives it a more reallist feel… or something… and his sound seeing tours were really amazing…

See, that’s the kind of compliment I’d show off to friends, but if you have too high of a profile on the Internet, pointing out something like that’s about yourself makes you seem like you’re bragging. But to be successful, you have to be able to do that, and whitewash over your shortcommings. That’s always been tough for me.

When I’m coding it seems like time speeds up 5-10 times. Is it like this for all programmers? I just spent 10 hours programming and honest to God, it seems like it’s been only one hour. It’s not fair!

Give me some credit, I’ve been doing better with staying away from politics lately. But you really have to watch this.

Thanks to the internet and all the bloggers that wouldn’t let Colbert’s performance get swept under the rug, it would seem that the spineless media’s testicles are finally beginning to drop. Either that or they’ve merely wet their forefinger and stuck it up in the air to see which way the wind is blowing, and now they’re giving their audience what they want to see.

Notice how many times the newscaster compares this smackdown of Rumsfeld by former CIA analyst Ray McGovern with Stephen Colbert’s performance in front of the president. Not only that, but they completely side with McGovern and against Rumsfeld. Had bloggers (And BoingBoing.net in particular) NOT brought attention to Colbert, I would bet the media would have ignored this most recent confrontation also.

I really do believe that Colbert made history, and we’re going to see more and more people willing to stand up to this administration, and, more importantly, the media more willing to cover it.

I wonder how this goverment of ours is willing to go to silence its critics. Next thing you know, they’ll be tapping journalists’ cell phones.

This is from digg.com. The title doesn’t mention that it’s only available from 7-11 stores in Japan, and specifically only those in my neck of the woods.

Yes, I will buy it and try it and report back.

And after I fill my brain with enough Ruby on Rails, Javascript, CSS and SQL to put together this web site I’m supposed to be making, I might start up the podcast/videocast again. (In other words, don’t hold your breath.) See, a few weeks ago my parents in the US finally upgraded from 56k modem to broadband, so my father is finally able to listen and watch everything. I figure by the time the new company website is online, he’ll be ready to absorb new episodes and I’ll have to time to make them.

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If the oceans rise 7m from our inablility to drink bottled glacer water faster than they’re melting, most of Tokyo Disneyland, which is built on reclaimed land, will be under water. And the company I work for will have an ocean view out the front door.

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Me and My Toys in There

Originally uploaded by RichPav.

A furnished house, a tree with a hidden loft, hot tub, sandbox, two buggies, a monster truck, a feelium ball (it was a freebie) and an invisible hoverboat.

Why? Because There.com is as addictive as crack.

And if some Eastern European nutjob decides to take up residence next to me, I can simply pick everything up and put it back down someplace else.

The rest of the podcasting world can stay in Second Life. I like There.com a whole lot better. Less cluttered, less smutty, less complicated and better physics.

You’re all invited to our house. Just send an IM to “Pavster”.

Update: Here’s the teleport link. Don’t worry about interrupting me in the middle of cybersex. I don’t have the imagination for it.

From The Washington Post:

The traditional media’s first reaction to satirist Stephen Colbert’s uncomfortably harsh mockery of President Bush and the press corps at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents Association dinner was largely to ignore it.

Instead, the coverage primarily focused on the much safer, self-deprecatory routine in which Bush humorously paired up with an impersonator playing his inner self.

The result, however, was a wave of indignation from the liberal side of the blogosphere over what some considered a willful disregard of the bigger story: That a captive, peevish president (and his media lapdogs) actually had to sit and listen as someone explained to them what they had done wrong; that the Bush Bubble was forcibly violated, right there on national television.

Now the mainstream media is back with its second reaction: Colbert just wasn’t funny.

Yes, it turns out Colbert has brought the White House and its press corps together at long last, creating a sense of solidarity rooted in something they have in common: Neither of them like being criticized.

When was the last time a political event was so ignored by the mainstream press but caught fire on the internet to the degree we’ve seen with Colbert’s performance? Never. Because it shouldn’t have been ignored. Adding it here was my contribution to helping make sure the press couldn’t get away with sweeping it under the rug. The US is the last nation in the world where something like that should ever happen.

There’s a quote about evildoers and the people stand back and let them do evil. I can’t remember it right now, but the point of it is each person in the category of people who do nothing are less guilty individually, but as a whole carry much more guilt. Something like that.

It got repurposed as a soccer-themed lounge. XBOX is a sponsor, so there are still some kiosks there.

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I’m like, seriously smiling right now because Adam Curry replied to a message I posted in his blog about There.com. I included a link to the video I made and he replied, “Wow, very cool! Does it work on Mac as well?”

So I just spent 15 minutes writing my two-sentence reply, because I wanted it to be perfectly worded.

WTF is wrong with me? He’s just an average human being. I wonder, did people who listened to my podcast feel the same way when I replied to them? I hope not. I have to admit, that’s one of the reasons I stopped. I have no wish to be famous–even a little bit. Having more friends is great, having a positive influence on others is great, but being famous means nothing. But if that’s true, then why does getting a reply from AC make me feel giddy?

Lately I’ve been spending every other night sleeping in the office, trying to learn enough Ruby, JavaScript, CSS, etc. to put together a new website. Yesterday I spent hours trying to figure out why Ruby on Rails mangles Japanese text only when it comes out of the database encoded properly as UTF-8 but not when it’s stored in utf8. Hours.

Then this morning I’m just standing there in the shower and the solution comes to me out of the blue. Or maybe it came out of the shower head, I don’t know.

This happens ALL the time. What is it about showers? Why do they hold so many answers? Would it be possible to create a virtual shower? Some kind of contraption you stick your head into at work when you need to solve to a particularly hairy problem.