New Blog

I am starting a place to upload all the collectible cassette artwork I have collercted ..
although there's nothing to see yet.. it will be here

Soo Kewl .. like.. tubular.. man...

Wow.. now if this aint the most tubular digs ever man.. It's an actual hotel in Mexico in Tepoztlan, Morelos..

and here's a different shot

All i can say is wow...

If you want to read the original article.. check HERE

Freddy and B.B are further back (previous postings..)

Or just use this link

Unbelievable!

This is a complete 1/16 scale wooden model of a Caterpiller excavator..by Michigan art studio Woodchuck and Co.

That's right.. it's all made out of wood!
I used to make 1/8 scale model Ferraris and Porsches (sometimes for dealerships), so I know how much work goes into one of these, and even though I sold them for up to $3000 it actually worked out to about $1.50 per hour (so yeah ,I only made a few!)

These guys are selling this one for $35000.. a lot of cash.. but I'd say worth it...

There's enough people these days that can afford it..what with the increasing level of wealth of the top 5%..
It used to be 1% , but what with the new 'cherry picked' version of Adam Smith's policies (y'know.. the Gordon Gekko approach) it's changed.. on the backs of the other 95%, mind you..and who said you can't draw blood from a stone?

oh..pps.. I'll have some new tunes soon.. now my harddrive transfers and new comp tweaking , is done..
Any preferences anyone?
more blues? or bootlegs?

Only out-of-print albums, and quality boots here.. always

re-post some icons for a tired desktop

music an collecting boots isnt the only things i do...
Couldn't find any icons i liked, so i made my own...

If you like any of these I'll put up a few sets.. just ask in the comments...
and if anyone is still running mac OSX 103x Panther.. i have some awesome (IMHO) themes , like the only existing OSX port of the rare OS9 theme 'HiTech'ill make available, if asked... (Pics to come)

Windows and OSX on the same desk top

Since I've had so much trouble with all these supposedly 'easy ' programs such as Parallels, and wine doesnt work right (butr wine wrapper sure does..)..
I fooled around with virtual Box.. and now with the click of an icon on the taskbar, i've either got the windows desktop icons, or the mac one.. both of the taskbars are always there in any case, transparently..

I have it in an animated GIf, but it's such a pain trying to add one to blogger, it appears you need a photobucket account and it's fu*ked.. it keeps saying my 'zipcode' is wrong.. stupid piece of shit.. we don't *have* zipcodes in Canada..
Here's my desktop.. it would be a lot easier to understand if it were an animated gif as then you'd see that the desktops are perfectly aligned...

Aint this kewl?

In case i still have readers..

I will impose on y'all..
I went and left negative feed back on an ebay form.. something i am loath to do..
I felt lousy about it..
But it was not an error that could have been resolved..
The items in question were misrepresented...

Specifically, they were compilation CD-roms, the type you get in mark down bins, or free with a video card, but portrayed as the retail items with pictures to match.. and prices in line with such..

This one seller had three items like this..
And upon receiving them..i realized i could have probably complained to the vendor.. and perhaps received a make-up.. but had i done this, since it was clearly intentional, ands not in any way a 'mistake'. the vendor would have simply continued the practice with the next person.

By leaving Feedback in this way, i likely forced his hand in making truer representations of the items for sale..
You can probably guess that he was NOT pleased, on reading the feedback..

and what's worse, he raised the 'guilt' factor as he obligingly corrected an addressing mistake during the transaction, an error all of my own making...

Waddya'll think.. is it worth the hassle to try, in some small way , to make the world a little bit better for someone else..or should i just have stayed out of his business, and just left good feedback like everybody else does, regardless of the circumstances of the transaction?

Keep in mind that if it was simply a matter of personal dissatisfaction, I would never have left this feedback, but as it was clear that it was intentional misrepresentation (perhaps the vendor didn't think it significant to mention that it was NOT, as it was portrayed, either in the description, or the picture...)..
Should I have minded my own business, as everybody does these days?

I am making a post at my pinball blog..

Which is getting more attemtion than here.. but then.. that's not saying much...;-)

A video is worth 1000 words..

Some kind of record!

1... or One..
That's around how many visitors i've had to my blog in the last month..
i have a counter at the bottom and it's one digit higher than it was last time I checked...

..................oops .. seems that was me...........