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Sunday, May 30, 2010

Bring on the sports!

One of lifes great joys is a Sunday with some good sports.  Today promises to be a corker!  Right now the Stanley Cup Finals are beginning.  Flyers @ Blackhawks Game 1 - go Hawks!  Shortly will be NBA Western Conference Finals game 6.  Lakers @ Suns - go Lakers!  Later my West Coast Eagles will likely lose to Carlton, but its still some sports to add to the list, and then tonight is the Turkish F1 Grand Prix.  Mark Webber 1st on the grid - should be a hopefully decent day for him.

Good times!Now if only I wasn’t working a 10 hour dayshift….

posted by Johahn at 8:13 am  

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Whats the deal…?

…with websites that include huge ads that engulf the entire screen and obscure the whole page.  I accept that a lot of websites include ads, but if I go to a news website (the one I frequent is a culprit), I don’t want to wait for a full minute before I can read anything at all on the site.  Another website I frequent also just employed the same methods.  The one headline on the page I was interested in was blocked by an ad for Intel.  Now yes, I noticed that it was Intel, I even own at least 3 computers that feature mainly Intel hardware, so I guess their methods were somewhat effective. Ultimately though, when this website loses my patronage, and hopefully that of others, Intel might start to realise that their methods are a bit stupid.  I say fuck whoever writes these Intel ads and fuck news.com.au and fuck wired.com for lowering themselves to this crap!

posted by Johahn at 9:31 pm  

Friday, January 8, 2010

Stuff and Things.

Its been a while again since I’ve updated this site.  I’ve had no less interest, however struggling for motivation and being perhaps a little busier than I was 18 months or more ago doesn’t help.  I should at least try to write something more often, however I just don’t, so deal with it.

With any luck, I will commence work on a weekly(?) podcast sometime not toooooo far down the track, which I would expect to be the main focus of my creative/internet efforts.

I have completed work on an archive of the Penn Jillette Radio Show today, which can be accessed via the link to the right of the page.  Many an hour went into getting the 291 files in order.The Adam Carolla archive is in the works too, however with somewhere around 40gb of material to organise and upload,  it might take a little longer.  I’m certainly gearing up to get that content on the site though.

If anything else of note is going on, I’ll try to think about considering the possibility of toying with the notion of  attempting to be arsed posting it up…

posted by Johahn at 9:01 pm  

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Wanted: Inspiration.

So I’ve come across a few interesting people on the web lately, so I’ve been familiar with for a while, and some not so.  Seems that these people all have something compelling to write about and do so in an entertaining fashion.  I’ve enjoyed the ‘Exploiting My Baby’ blog by the articulate and level headed Teressa Strasser.  I guess its hard to relate to most of what she’s saying since I’m a male, I don’t have any kids (that I know of), and I don’t plan to have kids anytime soon.  That said, I particularly enjoyed her input to the late Adam Carolla Show, and I just find her to be the likeable type which I want to see succeed in whatever she does, so I keep reading what she’s up to.

I’ve stumbled across a couple of other interesting characters too.   No-one that I feel I need to name, but just regular people who seem to have that creative ability and manage to write something ineteresting or churn out a song at random or whatever.  It makes me jelous because I would love to write some songs, but I’ve never been able to come up with even the slightest idea when it comes to that sort of thing.

Listening to guys like Penn Jillette and Adam Carolla on the radio (via podcasts) regularly had given me far more passion for radio.  Something that took hearing something intelligent and entertaining which made me actually think to develop.  Sadly though, FM radio in Australia is mostly shit, and you end up hearing fucktards like Kyle and Jackie O (a pair who embody just about everything wrong with youth culture today - I hate them so).  I do enjoy Merrick and Rosso, however although they entertain me, I don’t feel that I’m left with much after they’re done.  Dr Karl is awesome.

I guess it would be nice to develop some kind of podcast, as with things as they are these days, its an option open to even the most boring and talentless people and brings them to just as many people as someone like Adam Carolla who has hundreds of thousands of listeners daily.  Now of course hundreds of thousands of people actually click ‘Download’, on the Adam Carolla Podcast, whereas Billy-Bob Noname probably gets six hits, three are his immediate family, two are stoners who don’t know the difference and one is a seventy year old retiree who is trying to learn how to use his ipod.  I would expect to be somewhere down the latter end of the scale.

Once again it makes me jelous of guys like Adam Carolla who just manage to turn chat about something pissy into something endlessly entertaining.   One of the other problems is that even if I could maintain a steady stream of things to talk about (which looking at this blog, its apparent that I can’t), I’d just end up feeling like I’m talking to no-one and get over it.  I think if I knew there was a good amount of people who bothered to listen, I’d feel like I was achieving more.  The fact that I still need to earn a living would restrict me from investing any serious amount of time as well.

Now my problem is that I’ve been sitting here on my patio typing for so long that I lost half of my points.  I think I was going to say that part of my problem with lack of inspiration is due to having had a very stable and trouble free life.  Like everyone I have problems, however its all relatively piddly crap.  I have parents who gave me everything I ever needed.  They are still together and seem happy that way.  I lived in the same nice house for nearly 20 years.  My relationship with my signifigant other is stable (to the best of my knowledge anyway), and she is a good person who I am happy with.  I own a house (well… the bank does), I have a job that pays the bills, I have good friends.  I guess not having anything of importance to complain about hinders the creative process.  Perhaps thats why in the past this blog has been rantings about just insignifigant BS.

Anyway, its time to hang out some washing, so I’m going to get on with it.  Peace.

posted by Johahn at 12:02 pm  

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Just dribbling….

Well I guess since I’m sitting around in the office with not a lot going on, I might as well write something…  Sadly I don’t have anything in particular that I feel is worth writing much about at the moment.  Lets go through a few things point-by-point though.  Kind of a list of good and bad, or hot and not.

The LA Lakers:  When last I checked, the Lakers had the second best win/loss record in the NBA.  This makes me happy.  Not quite as happy as if they had the best record, however I’ll try not to be greedy.  It would be just dandy to see my team win a championship this year after their loss to Boston last season.  Fingers crossed.

Stephen Colbert:  Is on my television just now.  I like his show, although I don’t watch it as much as I could.  I do enjoy it when I see it.  Thumbs up.

The Adam Carolla Podcast:  I was bummed when KLSX made the retarded decision to change formats, and axed the Adam Carolla Show, but without missing a beat, the man started a daily podcast from his own house.  Uncensored, commercial free and the same old Adam.  I would like to hear more from his old co-hosts, however many of the regular guests from the radio show have participated which is good.  Two thumbs up.

Skype:  Why have I never used this until this week?  Useful.

My New Couch:  Was about a month late in arriving, and part of it needs to go back as it isn’t right.  WTF?  Pay thousands for a custom built couch, only to wait a month longer than expected, and then its not even exactly what I ordered.  Uncool.  At least its a decent couch.

Mobile Broadband:  Has been useful since I’ve moved into my new house, however I really hope my ADSL2 is running soon because I’m starting to wonder how long I can stay under my current tiny download limits.  On the upside, the phone tech that attended today to connect my phone line was friend AND competent.  Not too often you get that these days I’ve found.  Also had a quality electrician who I will use in future if required.

Option DVD’s:  Good viewing sometimes.  Couldn’t watch toooooo much, but I do enjoy them once in a while.  Makes me want an AE86.

Hrmm… thats about all I have to say for now.  Seems like more good than bad, which is splendid.

posted by Johahn at 6:30 pm  

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Oh, Hi there!

So I’m still not dead…  I’m just busy.  Work as per usual, but add to that buying a house, which has turned into a very difficult process, mostly due to slack vendors and a settlement agent who spends more time mailing us information on her revised fee structures than actually doing her job.

My main project for this site at present is the completion of the Penn Jillette Radio Show archive, and also an archive of Adam Carolla media (see sub-page).  Both are tricky to sort out at present due to internet capping issues.  I will continue to work on both though.

Otherwise, filthypirate.com (and forum) have been fairly quiet, however I would like to dedicate some more time to it all once I have taken care of a few things and can manage to put in more effort.  Stay tuned kiddies!

posted by Johahn at 9:09 am  

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Shit Martyrs

Am I the only one that doesn’t understand why Amrosi and co. continue to appeal their death sentences? They’re clearing guilty. They show no remorse, and they claim they are ready to die for their cause. These gutless pricks claim that being excecuted by firing squad is torture. I wonder if they considered the suffering of their victims? These guys need to be shot soon, in the kneecaps, and the stomach, and then left to die painfully.

Crappiest martyrs ever…

posted by Johahn at 12:42 pm  

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Stupid Fridges

Whats with those refridgerators with no doors that’re starting to pop up around the place.  Mostly at service stations or similar.  There is one close to my job where the entire back wall of the shop is refridgerated shelving for drinks and whatever, but there’s no damn doors to keep the cold in!

Now I don’t wanna be some stupid hippy ranting about global warming and all that crap, but surely thats totally needlessly inefficient.  Is it really that hard to open a freakin door to get to your drink?

I probably should write them a letter, but thats harder than ranting on my own retarded blog…

posted by Johahn at 10:15 am  

Monday, September 15, 2008

& Teller 2

Part 2:

From Crackle: & Teller 2

posted by Johahn at 9:16 pm  

Monday, August 25, 2008

Save the Gibbons.

While I’m not as big a fan of filthy hippies as I am filthy pirates, I do share the odd similar view.  In general I dig animals and am a fan of those who are going the right way about trying to help them.  In the last week I was fortunate to be able to visit the Gibbon Rehabilitation Project in Thailand.  This project aims to rehabilitate gibbons who have been victims of poachers, or sold as pets on the black market - things like that.  Sadly some are beyond rehab and are just cared for permanently, but with any luck, most are supported and cared for until they are able to make it back to the wild.  Many were kept as pets in horrible conditions and treated extremely badly.  There is many a sad story behind the gibbons here.

Check out the site for yourself, and if you can, even donate a buck or so - this is a worthwhile cause and the money goes directly to the project for medical care and habbitat construction - not to a corporation who will possibly send 5% to a company that makes t-shirts with monkeys on them.

Big ups to the volunteers from around the world who staff this facility.

Pics soon I hope :)

posted by Johahn at 10:43 pm  
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