Friday, October 30, 2009

Artie on Jimmy Fallon

Part 1


Artie on Jimmy Fallon

Part 2

Artie Lange on Jimmy Fallon

Part 3


Artie Lange & Olivia Munn on Jimmy Fallon

Way funny clip from the show.

Friday, October 23, 2009

Thousands join online fight against new NY plates

Published October 23, 2009 06:53 am - St. Lawrence County Clerk says it's an outrage to ask families and businesses to pay more for new license plates they don't need or want.






CANTON, N.Y. (AP) — An upstate New York county clerk is carrying out an on-line petition drive to thwart Gov. David Paterson's plan to require all New Yorkers to purchase new license plates next April.

St. Lawrence County Clerk Patricia Ritchie said Thursday it's an outrage to ask families and businesses to pay more for new license plates they don't need or want when they are being battered by the ongoing recession.

"New York residents and motorists from as far as Plattsburgh and Brooklyn are raising their voices to tell Albany to stop picking our pockets to pay for more wasteful spending ... while our representatives add to their burden, instead of bringing relief," said Ritchie, estimating residents and businesses in her county will pay about $2.5 million for new plates.

More than 5,000 people have signed the petition since the Web site went up Monday to protest the new license plan, Ritchie said. Another 200 people who didn't have Internet access came to her office to sign their names, she said.

Beginning April 1, the state will require new license plates for every one of the estimated 10 million cars, trucks, trailers and ATVs registered in the state at a cost of $25 — a $10 increase over the current cost. If you want to keep your same license plate number, it will cost you another $20.

In September, the state increased driver's license and registration fees 25 percent.

The governor's office has said the new licenses could make $129 million for the cash-starved state, which has a projected budget deficit next year nearing $5 billion. The legislature last spring approved a measure authorizing the license plate plan.

"If the St. Lawrence County Clerk wants to eliminate $129 million in revenue for the state, she needs to suggest a way to replace it," said Morgan Hook, a spokesman for the governor.

"Is she calling for a $129 million tax hike? Is she calling for $129 million more in cuts to school aid? Because that's really what this petition drive is all about. This is the type of irresponsibility that led to the crisis we face today," he said.

New York license plates were last issued in 2001 and they need replacing for safety reasons because the reflectivity on many has worn out, Hook said.

"It's just pure revenue raising," said Myron Burns, president and CEO of Ray Burns and Sons Trucking Inc. in Canton, who signed the petition in Ritchie's office.

His company will have to switch over its entire fleet of 60 trucks and trailers. The registration fee hike in September already cost it more than $200 a truck, and now there will be more additional costs associated with the new plates to change all the company's overweight permits and amend its commercial registrations in Pennsylvania and Vermont, where it does some of its milk hauling business.

"It gets a little pricey," Burns said. "Just to say everybody should have new plates is ridiculous."



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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Hunter arrows monster 13-pt buck in Moravia after seeing it during summer on trail cam


By David Figura/The Post-Standard

October 22, 2009, 5:38PM
monster1.JPGDarren Moore, right, poses with his brother, Derek and the 13-point buck that Darren shot Sunday with his bow.Darren Moore shot this monster, 13-point buck with his bow Sunday (Oct. 18) in Moravia.
Moore wrote: "I also enclosed a picture (below) from August that I got of him on my trail camera on my land. He weighed 188 lbs and gross/green scores 161 2/8 inches.
"It was the culmination of weeks of dreaming about getting him and to have it come true is like nothing else in the world. Keys to my success were guessing what thick area he was bedding in and staying out of there after I got his picture. I set up my on the downwind side and I caught him coming in to lay down for the day. He made a mistake to have the wind at his back."
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The big buck was capture on Moore's trail cam over the summer.


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Sunday, October 18, 2009

Yankees win w/13th inning walk-off to go up 2-0 in ALCS


NEW YORK -- Alex Rodriguez rescued the Yankees with a home run in the 11th inning and Maicer Izturis committed a game-ending throwing error in the 13th as the Yankees defeated the Angels, 4-3, in an instant classic on Saturday in Game 2 of the American League Championship Series.


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It was a game that neither team was sure could be played, thanks to a threatening forecast, but the rain held off long enough for a full game -- plus some -- to be played, as the Bombers grabbed a commanding 2-0 ALCS lead and remained undefeated in this year's postseason.
After the Angels pushed ahead on Chone Figgins' RBI single off Alfredo Aceves in the top of the 11th, A-Rod crushed his third late-inning homer of the postseason the opposite way off closer Brian Fuentes, a line drive that just cleared the right-field wall.
Dave Robertson pitched out of trouble in the next two innings, and Cabrera hit an Ervin Santana grounder to Izturis that sent home Jerry Hairston Jr. with the winning run, giving the Yankees their second walk-off victory of the postseason at Yankee Stadium after celebrating 15 such wins during the regular season at the new Bronx ballpark.
The Yankees leaned on their bullpen late after getting a two-run ALCS debut from A.J. Burnett that was mostly crisp over 6 1/3 innings, though he came unhinged in the fifth -- his only troublesome frame -- as the Angels scored twice to tie the game.
Angels starter Joe Saunders was just as sharp, limiting the Yankees to a Robinson Cano RBI triple and a Derek Jeter solo home run over seven innings.
Challenging a stiff, driving wind, Jeter's drive made it over the right-field wall and was his 19th in the postseason, moving him past Reggie Jackson and Mickey Mantle for third place on the all-time list. He trails only Manny Ramirez (29) and former teammate Bernie Williams (22).

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Izturis led off the fifth with a ground-rule double and stole second, then Erick Aybar drove him in with a one-out single before Burnett hit Chone Figgins in the foot.
Allowing the Angels to tie the game on a wild pitch that caromed off catcher Jose Molina and sent the game-tying run home, Burnett completed his effort after 6 1/3 innings, leaving to a loud ovation but scowling after his 114-pitch outing.
Phil Coke and Joba Chamberlain escaped trouble in the seventh, and the Yankees also had to evade trouble in the eighth, which included a rare Jeter postseason miscue. The shortstop flubbed a routine 6-4-3 double play that hit the heel of his glove, his leg and then fell to the ground.
With Kendry Morales representing the go-ahead run at second base, Phil Hughes worked toward escaping that two-on, one-out situation, getting Gary Matthews Jr. swinging at a tight curveball before Mariano Rivera was summoned from the bullpen for 2 1/3 scoreless innings.
Facing rookie Kevin Jepsen in the ninth, Hideki Matsui connected for a line-drive single to right field and immediately yielded to pinch-runner Freddy Guzman. Brett Gardner followed with a looping single that bounced into left field, putting the winning run 90 feet away, but Cano managed only a soft tapper that sent the game into extra innings.
After Jeter had been ruled out on a fifth-inning double play in which he appeared to be safe, there was more controversy in the 10th. Second-base umpire Jerry Layne ruled Cabrera safe on a double play, saying that the shortstop Aybar had been off the bag. The call became a footnote when Darren Oliver got the next two outs to move the game forward.



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Friday, October 16, 2009

Jessica Biel Striptease


This is a clip from an up-coming, straight to DVD release of a Jessica Biel movie called, "Powder Blue".


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Thursday, October 15, 2009

monster truck backflip

No words.......just watch.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Twitter For Dummies Cheat Sheet - For Dummies

Twitter For Dummies
From Twitter For Dummies by Laura Fitton, Michael Gruen, Leslie Poston
Using Twitter is fun and surprisingly easy. It doesn’t matter where you access Twitter — online, with an iPhone or Blackberry, or via text-message; you can quickly navigate the Twitterverse with just a few commands. Even Twitter etiquette is straightforward and simple. Before you know it, you’ll be sending tweets and following on Twitter like an expert.

Using Twitter’s Access Points
Twitter isn’t just for computer-users. You can access Twitter from your iPhone, Blackberry, or any mobile phone with Internet access. You can even text tweets from any cell phone with SMS capabilities. All you need to know is the right Twitter access point. Here’s a list of the places where Twitter is available to you:

Device Access Point
Web http://twitter.com
Mobile phone — with Internet access (such as an iPhone or BlackBerry) http://m.twitter.com
Mobile phone — texting 40404
How to Use Shorthand Codes for Twitter
Send tweets even faster with Twitter shorthand commands. Shorthand codes work within the Twitter interface, anywhere you can update, or over text messaging. These commands aren’t case sensitive, which is especially useful when you are using Twitter on your cell phone.

Task Command
Direct message D username This is a message!
DM username This is also a message.
Follow people F

follow username
Reply @username What you just said was really smart!
Favorite a tweet fav username
Note: If you’re receiving updates on your mobile phone, sending fav by itself will add to your Favorites tab on your Home screen the last update you received.
Nudge (remind a user to update after he's been silent for 24 hours or more) nudge username
Stats (get your followers and following count) stats
Get the last update from a user get username
Get a short user profile for a user whois username
Silence updates to your mobile phone (from your mobile phone) Quit
stop
Silence updates from a specific user off username
leave username
Turn on updates to your mobile phone (from your mobile phone) on
Turn on updates for a specific user (from your mobile phone) on username
F username
follow username
Invite a user to Twitter invite friend@example.com
invite 212 555 1212 (her text-enabled phone number, such as a mobile phone)
Twitter Guidelines to Live By
The Twitterverse doesn’t have many rules, but there is such a thing as Twitter etiquette. Writing tweets of 140 characters or less isn’t the only guideline. Your experience on Twitter will be a positive one if you keep the following tips in mind:

Say what you think and are doing.

In general, try to keep tweets longer than one word so that your followers can understand you.

Listen to what your Twitter friends are saying.

Respond to Twitter friends when you can add value to the conversation.

Update your status at least once a day.

Fill in your profile and biography so that other people can know more about you.

Use your own picture as your avatar. If the picture that you use contains more than one person, make sure that people can tell which one is you.

Whenever you’re referencing another Twitter user, use his name with an @ sign in the front so that the user can see you mentioned him and so that other users can see whom you’re talking about.

Use hashtags to give context to updates that may not make sense otherwise.

What NOT to Do on Twitter
Twitter etiquette isn’t only about what you should do. Unfortunately, bad tweets and poor Twitter practices sometimes show up within microblogging communications. While you can’t really go horribly wrong on Twitter, you’ll make your life easier in the Twitterverse if you follow these guidelines:

When you first sign up and before you start regularly tweeting, don’t follow hundreds of people. If you follow someone, he checks out your profile to see whether he might want to follow you back; if he sees that you’ve tweeted once or twice and you’re following hundreds of people, he may think you’re just a spam account.

Start out slowly, following people you know and who know you. Then, as you start tweeting regularly, follow more people based on your interests.

Avoid using punctuation in your username. Typing punctuation on mobile devices is difficult.

Don't share information that you might regret making public.

Don’t send an update when a direct message is more appropriate — for example, when the update is meaningless to anyone except one person. If the person doesn’t follow you, you can send an update that contains her name, asking her to contact you over another medium.

Don’t feel the need to thank everyone publicly for following you. It’s a nice thing to do, but not always necessary.

Don’t think Twitter success has anything to do with your Followers count.

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Saturday, October 10, 2009

What’s wrong with America


A Modern Parable


A Japanese company (Toyota) and an American company (Ford Motor) decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River. Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race. On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile. The Americans, very discouraged and depressed, decided to investigate the reason for the crushing defeat. A management team made up of senior management was formed to investigate and recommend appropriate action. Their conclusion was the Japanese had eight people rowing and 1 person steering, while the American team had 7 people steering and 2 people rowing.

Feeling a deeper study was in order; American management hired a consulting company and paid them a large amount of money for a second opinion. They advised, of course, that too many people were steering the boat, while not enough people were rowing. Not sure of how to utilize that information, but wanting to prevent another loss to the Japanese, the rowing team's management structure was totally reorganized to 4 steering supervisors, 2 area steering superintendents and 1 assistant superintendent steering manager. They also implemented a new performance system that would give the 2 people rowing the boat greater incentive to work harder. It was called the 'Rowing Team Quality First Program,' with meetings, dinners and free pens for the rowers. There was discussion of getting new paddles, canoes and other equipment, extra vacation days for practices and bonuses. The pension program was trimmed to 'equal the competition' and some of the resultant savings were channeled into morale boosting programs and teamwork posters. The next year the Japanese won by two miles. Humiliated, the American management laid-off one rower, halted development of a new canoe, sold all the paddles, and canceled all capital investments for new equipment. The money saved was distributed to the Senior Executives as bonuses.

The next year, try as he might, the lone designated rower was even unable to finish the race (having no paddles,) so he was laid off for unacceptable performance, all canoe equipment was sold and the next year's racing team was out-sourced to India...

Sadly, the End.

Here is something else to think about:

  • Ford has spent the last thirty years moving all its factories out of the US, claiming they cannot make money paying American wages.
  • TOYOTA has spent the last thirty years building more than a dozen plants inside the US the last quarter's results.
  • TOYOTA makes 4 billion in profits while Ford racked up 9 billion in losses.
  • Ford folks are still scratching their heads, and collecting bonuses...
IF THIS WEREN'T SO TRUE IT MIGHT BE FUNNY

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Google Wave 101


Google Wave 101

So you've snagged an invitation to Google Wave—or a pal is sending one your way—and you've already taken a look at what to expect. Let's dive deeper into Wave features, etiquette, and extensions.

Learn Wave's Keyboard Shortcuts

Every good webapp has a full set of keyboard shortcuts for getting around and performing the most common actions, and happily Google Wave is no exception. While Wave is still missing a whole lot of shortcuts, there are a few you must know now. Here are the essential shortcuts to learn first:

  • Arrow keys: Move up/down within a list of waves, and left/right from inbox to open wave panel with your arrow keys.
  • Spacebar: Go to the next unread wave in a list
  • Ctrl+E: Edit a selected wave
  • Shift+Enter (in edit mode): Finish editing your wave; equivalent to clicking the "Done" button
  • Enter: Add a reply to a selected wave directly under it
  • Shift+Enter (in view mode): Add a reply to the bottom of a list of waves

Here's the full list of keyboard shortcuts. Alternately, you can click on the image below to see them all.

Filter Waves with Advanced Operators and Saved Searches

Wave is a very Googly product, so searching is simply a matter of typing a keyword into the search box. But like Gmail, Google Wave also offers several advanced search operators that let you find waves based on who they're with, what they're tagged, and other attributes. For example, to see all the public waves—that is, waves in which anyone using Wave can see—use the with: operator. In fact, if you're feeling lonely in Wave, the first Wave search you should try is with:public.

To save a search for reuse, click on the "Save Search" button on the bottom right of your Wave inbox. When you save a search you can also specify filter actions for all the waves that match it. Right now the only choices are "Archive" and "Mark as read." Once you run that with:public search, every public wave you read will end up in your inbox, which becomes overwhelming almost immediately. So save your with:public search and check off "Archive" so they don't clutter up your inbox. (You can also "Mute" chatty public waves that did make it into your inbox if you're not interested in every new update.)

The opposite of with:public, the with:me search is very useful for just seeing waves that are explicitly with you as an individual (versus in the public group). To limit your results to only waves you've updated, use by:me.

Other search operators include tag: for tags, and has: for attachments like images, files, and gadgets. For example, has:gadget returns waves with gadgets; has:image returns waves with images in them, and has:attachment returns waves with gadgets, images, or files. You can combine search operators, like with:public has:gadget, and use the minus sign to exclude waves as well, like -has:image. Here's the full list of Wave's advanced search operators.

Make a Wave Public

Now that you know how to find public waves, you probably want to make one of your waves public—especially if you don't have many friends on Wave yet—but there's no one-click button to make a wave public. The trick is to add public@a.gwave.com to your contacts list. To do so, click the + button on the bottom right of your Contacts module. Type public@a.gwave.com into the Address field, and even when Wave says "User does not have a Google Wave account", press Enter. The public group will appear in your contacts list, as shown. Add public to any wave you want to make public, but be prepared: Public waves often get destroyed by newbs and bots who haven't been in Wave long enough to grok the etiquette (see below). Also note that if you switch computers, you may have to add public@a.gwave.com to your contacts list again.

Know Wave's Bot Etiquette (and Bounce Unwanted Bots)

One of the biggest problems with public waves is that anyone can edit them or add recipients to them: including content-changing, and sometimes busted, bots. When you do your with:public search, you'll find dozens of waves that have been destroyed by newbs adding bots to them that delete or mangle the existing content so bad that even playback is broken. Good Wave etiquette dictates that you don't add bots to public waves. If you want to mess with a public wave, from its menu choose "Copy to New Wave" and go to town with your private copy.

If you've created a public wave and someone added a bot to it that you want out, add the Bouncy bot to your contacts (bouncy-wave@appspot.com). Then, add Bouncy to the wave, and reply to it adding the commandbounce:botaddress, replacing botaddress with the email address of the bot to bounce. Bouncy will oust the unwanted bot from your wave. This only works on bots. After Bouncy's done his job, you can delete the wave with the command and Bouncy's response. Speaking of...

Garden Your Waves

Like a wiki, useful and popular waves require oversight and gardening, or else they fall in to disrepair or go out of date or get vandalized (especially if they're public). You can oversee, clean up, edit, and update any wave you're a participant in, and everyone will appreciate it if you do.

First, empty "blips" or replies are a common occurrence around Wave, which is still kind of twitchy in different browsers and new to a lot of folks who might accidentally hit Enter when they didn't mean to reply. Delete empty blips when you come across them by clicking on the wave action drop-down on the top right of it, and choosing "Delete."

To automate this process on waves you create, add the Sweepy bot (sweepy-wave@appspot.com) to your contacts and to the wave itself. Sweepy will not delete existing empty blips, but it will delete any newly-added empty replies automatically. (Sweepy is one of the very few bots that may supersede the "never add bots to public waves" rule, as Sweepy's functionality cleans up the wave. For more on bots and gadgets, see this Google Wave Extensions list.)

If a wave becomes totally destroyed and you want to restore it to a former useful state, use its playback feature. Pause at the revision you want, and use the "Copy to a new wave" menu item to fork it into a new copy.

Bookmark a Custom Wave Layout

Netbook owners or those who keep Wave open in a sized-down window appreciate the ability to minimize unneeded Wave modules and maximize the reading or writing area on the wave you're working on at the moment. To load Wave with certain modules minimized by default, you can use a custom Wave URL with the #minimized parameter. For example,https://wave.google.com/wave/#minimized:nav,minimized:contact launches Wave with the Navigation and Contacts modules minimized. Thehttps://wave.google.com/wave/#minimized:nav,minimized:contact,minimized:searchURL minimizes Navigation, Contacts, and Search panes as shown here.

URL-observers will also notice that every individual wave has an ID that appears in the URL when you click on it. This means you could bookmark or IM a link to a public wave to anyone on Wave.

What Doesn't Work in Wave

The Wave Preview is a pre-beta webapp, and lots of things aren't working or just simply aren't implemented yet. From the "it's not just you" department, here are some notes on what's not working:

  • Some bots and gadgets: A couple of bots I mentioned in my first look at Google Wave worked in the Developer preview, but don't work in the regular preview, namely Bloggy, Polly, and several others. The best way to see if a bot works is to just try it, or search for its name and the with:public operator to find discussions about it.
  • Requests, or waves from other servers: The Requests link in the Navigation pane is presumably for you to approve waves that come from other servers. However, while Wave server federation is part of the protocol, it's not yet working for real. That's why users on the Developer preview can't wave at users on googlewave.com. Yet.
  • Removing Wave recipients: Right now you cannot remove non-bots from a Wave once they've been added to it. Copy your wave to a new one and reinvite folks instead.
  • Uploading files (that are not images): While you can drag and drop images into a wave (and be sure to try that, it's fantastic fun), you can't upload other filetypes using the Files button yet.
  • The "I'm online" green dot: When the Wave preview first launched, a pretty green dot would show you which of your contacts was online at the moment. This feature had a serious bug involved so the Wave team had to pull it. Expect those dots to come back in the next few weeks.
  • Playback (sometimes): If a wave is huge and has lots of revisions or a bot has made extreme changes, playback on waves can be wonky or just not work at all.
  • Blog publishing: The Bloggy bot does not work right now, and while the Madoqua bot will give you Javascript embed code to add to your blog, ONLY people who are signed into Wave will be able to see your wave (and it has to be public, which makes it editable by anyone). So, while publishing waves on any web page with proper permissions and access by anyone on the web will happen, it's not working right now.

Overall, Wave is a rich platform with a huge community of people discovering more of its ins and outs and quirks and workarounds every day. Wave users, what are your favorite tricks and tips for getting more out of Wave? Post up your comments below or in this public wave.