Blog It Out Your Pie Hole

I have been watching for a certain domain to become available. I watched as its expiration drew near, and I watched it as it entered the redemption period. I watched it as it entered the list of domains that will soon be expiring. I watched it as it entered the list of domains that are expunged from the official records.

It was officially expired in April 2008. Today, it was officially removed from the list of domains that are already taken. I watched this using Go Daddy, a discount registrar. If I remember correctly, the domain had been previously registered to someone through Go Daddy. I pop on over there, just 20 minutes after it had officially been removed, and found that it was snaked up by “Go France Domains.” Strangely enough, it is a subsidiary of Go Daddy.

Is this one of their business practices to snake unexpired domains and sell them at a premium? Bastards. I just did a quick check with them for “piehole.com,” and they list some “Premium Domain Names.” They claim that

Premium domain names are more valuable than typical domain names because they are based on common words and phrases.
GoDaddy.com does not own these names but is one of the few registrars offering them on behalf of their third-party owners.

“Third-party owners” sounds suspicious. Let’s do a whois query of a “Premium Domain Name” that’s related to piehole.com: PieShell.com

WHOIS information for: pieshell.com:

[whois.fabulous.com]

pieshell.com is FOR SALE.
Please visit www.pieshell.com for price and purchasing.

Domain pieshell.com:
  Domain Active Pty. Ltd.
  PO Box 262
  Clayfield, QLD 4011 AU

Next step in this search sends me over to Google Finance:

Dark Blue Sea Limited is an Australia-based supplier of online direct navigation traffic. The Company owns a portfolio of over 400,000 direct navigation domains. Through its primary product, Fabulous.com it manages over 600,000 third party domains, giving it a distribution network of over 1,000,000 generic domain names in 550 industry areas. The Company’s business units comprised: Roar / PageSeeker pay-per-click online advertising portals; Fabulous a domain name registrar and domain name traffic manager; Dark Blue, an online advertising affiliate network manager; Domain Distribution Network, a platform for real time secondary market domain name sales, and the Company’s domain name portfolio. As at 30 June 2007, Domain Active Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dark Blue Sea Ltd, owned approximately 539,000 Internet domain names.

Hmm. This gives me a dead end. The good news, I guess, is that “Go France Domains” has this for a one year term. That means that in about a year and 70 days, I can try for my domain again. If only I had the time, energy and resources to actually form a corporation using my wanted domain name years ago, then I might be able to file a WIPO complaint to get it.

Bastards! The real pisser of this is that it was going to actually be used for the benefit of mankind, not just a throw a way domain like isnortedkeithrichardsdad.com

Until a year and 70 days or so, until the domain expires again, Go Daddy can BLOW IT OUT THEIR PIE HOLES!

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48 of the United States’ 50 states just switched their clocks forward an hour for the beginning of Daylight Saving Time. Firstly, if you call it “Daylight Savings Time,” you need to blow it out your pie hole. It is a time of saving daylight. Benjamin Franklin, or Ben to his friends, suggested waking up earlier in the long summer hours in order to use the light from the sun instead of candles.

It wasn’t until 1905 when William Willett actually “invented” Daylight Saving Time, causing problems and complaints for early risers in perpetuity. But is Daylight Saving good? In the years since Ben’s 1784 satire, candle usage has dropped, in the same way that the federal excise tax on your long distance telephone bill has more than raised enough money for the Spanish-American War. So for the candle recyclers, business is good. For candle manufacturers, business is bad. For the workers dependent on people’s buying candles, they’ve probably lost some jobs, per capita, over the past 224 years, and they’re needing more money to feed their families. Business is bad for them.

For the sun, it is good. The sunshine that lights the Earth in the morning during the summertime can be used, and not wasted. Because the sun, by sending light that will not be wasted, will last longer, or be more ‘green.’

However, in the past 224 years, we have these wonderful inventions in most homes, called “durable goods.” They are products that are durable, they will last, not be consumed. Things like washing machines, dryers, refrigerators, air conditioners. When people are home earlier, using more afternoon sun, in the heat of summer, they are going to use their air conditioners more. Since they’re home earlier, they are going to crank up the washing machine earlier. Overall energy consumption will increase.

Since there is more sunlight, there is more driving to do, increasing the demand for gasoline. Except, of course, in Ed Begley Jr.’s house, where he will need more electricity for his car.

Health is always a concern. I remember reading an article about either police or fire stations in a city that had the workers in eight hour shifts, and every week or two, they would rotate. The shift that had been working a midnight to eight am had rotated to 4pm to midnight. Once the shift rotated the other way, sick time and other health related incidents decreased. Of course, I can’t find this now (because I don’t feel like trying to look it up), but I remember reading it. In fact, The government of Kazakhstan cited health complications due to clock shifts as a primary reason for abolishing DST in 2005.

As an exercise for the reader, I leave the rest of the Wikipedia article about Daylight Saving Time. I also ask if calling Daylight Saving Time is not as correct as calling it Standard Time, since, according to US law, we’re in Daylight Saving Time for eight months out of the year. We’re in Standard time for half as much time as we’re not in Standard Time. Seriously, who was the idiot who screwed that up?

There is a proposal afoot to abolish Daylight Saving Time, but since the site hasn’t been updated in over a year, it’s hard to take it seriously. On the other hand, there was a proposal to keep California permanently on Daylight Saving Time, but it appears that it didn’t pass something. Now that’s thinking. Since Daylight Saving Time is really the standard time, why not keep Daylight Saving Time as standard time.

By the way, if you have a Wordpress or Drupal site in the US, you need to go to the admin panel and change your time zone offset because most computer systems are too stupid to know when Daylight Saving Time happens, I guess.

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“The Hole” now has the reCAPTCHA anti-spam plugin. Automated scripts are a pain in the ass, and hopefully they can’t read. With the reCAPTCHA, humans must type in the words, not unlike purchasing Hanna Montana tickets. I still blame Comment Kahuna as it requires someone to actually look at the site. Sometimes. Up to today, we’ve been getting spam crap like

Great Job Boys 8675309af5c
This is just what I was looking for. Keep it up 234ac33d
I too, have issues with [insert name of post here].
This will help me back in Bangalore.

Donncha recently wrote about these spam comments and how they generate Google love without backlinks. Today, Lynette cries that her blog is drowning in spam, and there are CAPTCHA tools to use with Blogger. Hopefully, Lynette will see a decrease in her spam comments.

The question I have for these comment spammers is “Where does it work?” It’s the same question for the 858 spam emails that I have wanting me to purchase “\/i@gra.” Who is the idiot who buys this crap from people who don’t even know how to spell it? Obviously, some moron has to be buying from the spammers or they’d stop, wouldn’t they?

“I sent out my link to the top 10,204,285 emails and got twenty people to buy this crap. Must be a pretty good deal. I think I’ll change my web address and send it out again. Maybe I’ll get another 20 purchases.”

Anyway, I added the reCAPTCHA yesterday, and in conjunction with Akismet, I’m getting no spam comments. The next step is defeating the splogs who copy a paragraph of your post and adding it to theirs.

Today, Pie Hole wrote:
“…question I have for these comment spammers is “Where does it work?” It’s the same question for the 858 spam emails that I have wanting me to purchase “\/i@gra.” Who is the idiot who buys this crap from people who don’t even know how to spell it? Obviously… read more“

Seriously. Spammers must die. Until then, they can BLOW IT OUT THEIR PIE HOLES!

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Plenty of people out there will tell you how to make money with a blog. Darren Rowse is apparently one of the best. John Chow is another guy making big money off blogging. A quick Google search reveals 47 pages of web pages (20 at a time) that want to tell you how to “make money blogging.” I’m not sure how many people have time to read each and every one of those 928 Google entries to learn how to make money with a blog, but I have a good idea how they read, and I’m sure that many of them will sell you a program to show you how to make money blogging for just $500 $400 $300 $197 $37.

In no particular order, this is your standard list of ways to make money blogging.

Keyword Content

You need to have good content, with your embedded keywords jammed into each post as many times a possible, but without seeming obvious. If you want to help people make money blogging, you should tell people that you can help them make money blogging. It’s like a thesis. You tell them that you have tips to help make money blogging, you tell them the tips to make money blogging, and then you tell the reader that you have given them tips to make money blogging.

The content of your blog should be focused on Read the rest of this entry »

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Now that there’s a light at the end of the writer’s strike tunnel, Film School Reject wants to know When Are My Favorite Shows Coming Back? Honestly, I want to know that, but my favorite shows weren’t affected by the writer’s strike. All those neat shows like Futurama, and that other one with that guy from ST:TNG who was a lawyer in Los Angeles, and that other one with the guy from Monk before Monk. You know, all my favorite shows that I used to watch and now can’t remember them.

So what would happen if the writers never came back and Hollywood had to get scabs to write completely new shows all from scratch? Honestly, people would be stuck to the boob tube for hours on end, just as they are today. No difference, people would still develop new favorites, and big hits would be sent to those giant bunny ears in the sky and fading memories.

So what difference does it make that the writer’s strike is over? Hopefully it will mean the end of the crappy game shows that they have sitting in a file just waiting for the next writer’s strike. By this, I mean specifically The Moment of Truth. Holy cow, whoever it was that thought this show up should find a new job, out of the “entertainment” industry. What a crappy show. All by itself, it makes me yell “BLOW IT OUT YOUR PIE HOLE!”

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Last week’s National Geographic’s news report that the Earth is bareley big enough to support life gives us the whole reason we have global warming. Ecobridge gives us what they believe to be the reasons for global warming. Number one item on their list is Carbon Dioxide, and every reason on their list is human created Carbon Dioxide. Nothing on their list of Carbon Dioxide sources is the Earth.

Of course nothing on Earth would ever create Carbon Dioxide. Nothing on Earth is ever to change. That’s why we’re still in the middle of the Ice Age from 15,000 years ago. That’s why we’re still in the “humid, semi-tropical environment” of the late Cretaceous period.

Milutin Milankovitch described “variations in the intensity and timing of heat from the sun are the most likely cause of the glacial/interglacial cycles” (my emphasis) in 1938. What? Cycles? Impossible! The Earth never changes. The Earth is 100 percent stable, which is why we don’t have plate tectonics and earthquakes.

Tectonics—the continent-shifting forces that build mountains and fuel volcanoes—recycle Earth’s crust by drawing it underground, where it melts and later re-emerges as magma, pointed out Diana Valencia of Harvard University.

That helps keep carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere more or less stable, as excess gas is removed from the atmosphere by reacting with fresh rocks in a process called “weathering.”

The carbon dioxide is later returned to the atmosphere via volcanic gases.

That tells me right there that the Earth is a living, breathing organism. People walking around on the Earth cannot drastically change it. That’s not to say that we shouldn’t be stewards of the Earth, but that we can’t stop what the Earth is doing naturally.

Since I’m stepping in it, there is another thing that really pisses me off about the doomsayers. It’s the “if you’re not part of the solution you’re part of the problem” mindset. If doing one thing is “good”, then doing the opposite is “bad,” but they take it another step futher. If you’re not doing the “good,” then you’re doing the “bad,” even if you’re not doing the “opposite of good.” And who is to say what good is? Maybe “Good” as we know it is univerally accepted as “evil.” Who is to say?

You have these wackjobs running around screaming “You’re causing problems! You’re causing problems. You’re not helping the solution, so you’re causing problems.” They make no allowances for people who don’t give a rat’s ass about some red-tailed green-tongued spottled salamander, that is probably some genetic mutation that’s developed in the past 1200 years, and was going to die off naturally because it’s extremely tasty to hawks, but once we built the Fontenelle Townsite Road bridge across the Green River it had a place to live where the raptors couldn’t eat them.

All I know is two things.

1. If you’re not part of the problem, you’re part of the solution
2. BLOW IT OUT YOUR PIE HOLE!

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Today is the date of the Iowa Caucuses. Through some secret elections and processes that baffles anyone outside of Iowa, and most people inside Iowa, they are still confusing. To be quite honest, the only people who really care about the outcome of the Iowa Caucuses are the presidential nominees and the news stations. Since Iowa only has seven Electoral Votes, having it be the first state with any sort of presidential nomination gives it some extra money.

Wikipedia claims that

An electoral college is a set of electors, who are empowered as a deliberative body to elect a candidate to a particular office. Often these electors represent a different organization or entity with each organization or entity by a particular number of electors or with votes weighted in a particular way. Many times, though, the electors are simply important persons whose wisdom, it is hoped, would provide a better choice than a larger body. The system can ignore the wishes of a general membership whose thinking may not be considered. When applied on a national scale, such as the election of a country’s leader, the popular vote can on occasion run counter to the electoral college’s vote, and for this reason there are some who feel that the system is a distortion of true democracy in a democratic society.

The entire United States Constitution was built around a system of Checks and Balances. Since “Many times, though, the electors are simply important persons whose wisdom,” it is obviously another Check and Balance built into the Constitution. People vote for someone. What if it’s the wrong person? The Electoral College checks the people. The House and Senate are Checks against the Electoral College. Even in spite of the people espousing their belief that the Electoral College is not needed, there are some who read between the lines of those who want to discard the Electoral College.

Most states have an “All or Nothing” system that gives all of the state’s Electoral Votes to one person from one party. The Iowa Caucuses are a method of whittling down a party’s nominees to offer the people just one person on election day. Unfortunately, since more and more states want the dollars that the media circus brings, they have been pushing their primary and caucus dates forward to create “Super Tuesdays” of media and political blitz. It stretches the Primary season so much that it begins as soon as Inauguration Day, and stretches three and a half years until the conventions in the summer before election day in November of every fourth year, and most voters are burned out.

The obvious solution to voter burnout is for the largest states to move their primaries back as far as possible. If California, Ohio, New York, Texas, Illinois, Florida, and Pennsylvania (all states with 20 or more Electoral College votes) moved their primaries back to the earliest weekend they could before the parties’ conventions, some of the other states with three Electoral College votes would jump on that “Mega Tuesday” to add clout to their states.

I can see that this is starting to drag me into a tar pit of exponiferation, so I must stop here. Remind me in a couple days to keep writing about this so I can get more elaborated and insightful comments. In the mean time, most people who are not politicos or in the media who really really give a rat’s ass about what happens in Iowa today should probably BLOW IT OUT YOUR PIE HOLE(S)!

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Last night, I had, quite arguably, the world’s worst pizza. Think the complete opposite of Jessica Alba’s ass, and you have the pizza. I’ve seen ads for it, got a flyer in the mail for it, so I thought I would try it. Big mistake. I’m sure you’ve seen ads or something for Pizza Hut’s new Double Deep Pizza. It claims to be so overloaded with toppings that they just have to fold over the edge. Nice, in theory.

Let me tell you how the pizza came. First, since they fold the edge over, it’s a smaller pizza. But since they don’t want you to think it’s all that much smaller, they stretch out the dough. Stretching out the dough makes the pie crust thinner, and with the “50% more cheese” and “double toppings,” the slices don’t hold up. Most of the slices broke when pulling them out of the box. Those that didn’t were so thin that they’d break when picking it up.

Not pleased. I think I’m just going to stick with the Stuffed Crust or Pan Pizza. My official Blow It Out Your Pie Hole.com recommendation is to skip the Double Deep Pizza, since it’s not deep, nor is it pleasing.

Hey Pizza Hut! BLOW IT OUT YOUR PIE HOLE!

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It’s the moment of the Winter Solstice, the time at which the sun’s equator is directly in line with the Tropic of Capricorn. It’s the time of the shortest day of the year, and the longest night time in the Northern Hemisphere. Common sense tells you that for the past 6-1/2 weeks, the weather has been getting colder, and for the next 6-1/2 weeks, the weather will start to warm up as the sun’s rays become more concentrated on the northern hemisphere until the Summer Solstice, when it all starts diffusing again. In fact, Wikipedia states that “Calendrically, in most countries the time of the winter solstice is considered as midwinter.”

But, oh, no. Not here in the U.S. Some dumbass calendar maker wanted to charge more for his calendars, so he decided to put “Official First Day of Winter” on the date of the Winter Solstice. There’s no “Official First Day of Winter.” There is no federal legislation declaring the seasons. Every kindergartener knows that when it’s getting cold, it’s starting to get on to winter. When it starts warming up and plants start growing, it’s spring. When it’s really hot, it’s summer, and when the weather starts to cool and the leaves fall off the trees, it’s fall.

So, you “news anchor” who does nothing but read from a computer screen with a really sad and concerned tone of voice on the ‘All News and Traffic except the Traffic that I’m in’ station, BLOW IT OUT YOUR PIE HOLE!

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So we were talking today about places to go for lunch, and I started thinking about Bella Roma Pizza. All I really remember about the first couple of times that I went there was ‘Good Atmosphere.’ They had a Mighty Wurlitzer, and that was all I remember. Watching the train go around the track during Chattanooga Choo Choo and watching all the other percussion instruments clack around.

Back in April, we journeyed over to find they were closed. All Gone! Bastards closed up and didn’t tell me. I found out, somewhere on the blogosphere that they were moving somewhere downtown. In the meanwhile, I think it was in October, I called their phone number, (925) 228-4935, and the OGM on the answering machine said that they would be opening no later than November. Today, the OGM says “We’ll be opening shortly next week, any time.”

We’ll See. In the meanwhile, since I’ve been deprived of the Wurlitzer, they can BLOW IT OUT THEIR PIE HOLE!

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