pieces Of Advice: Don't Touch Crack

If you own a car there is a pretty good chance you have had a stone chip in your windshield at one time or another. Your annoyed by it and it is a minor distraction while driving. The small chip doesn't look pretty but it certainly doesn't reduce your cars mobility or functionality. It's not something you feel needs to be taken care of right away.

In my case the stone chip occured in November of this year right after I bought my car. I was extemely pissed off and told myself I was going to fix it right away but after a good nights sleep and a couple busy weeks and the upcomming launch of the Nintendo Wii it was on the bottom of my list of priorities.

Between the time of the incident and January I notice the crack got a little bit bigger most likely due to moisture freezing in the crack. This should have been enough to get me worried enough to get me to my nearest auto glass specialist but i figured I could hold out a little longer after all it wasn't covering the entire windsheild.

Wendsday of this week the weather was nice enough and I decided to clean my car. As I was washing the inside of the windshield I notice the crack was getting bigger. Now with the crack being about an inch I figured it was time to fix the problem.

I decided to wait until saturday, which would be today, as I work full time and didn't want to loose my attendance bonus at work. The crack grew about another half inch as I was driving home yesterday.

Today I went to my freindly neiborhood auto glass repair shop. I showed them the crack and they told me there was a pretty good chance the crack would get bigger as they were trying to repair it. I didn't like this at all. I went home and phoned around to check with other auto glass specialists. The general consensis was the same. as I was driving back to the location of the original buisness my windsheid crack tripled in size....

There is now NO chance of repair it will have to be replaced! The cost of this will be upwards of $260 which was about the same cost as my Nintendo Wii. If I would have gotten the problem when it had happened It would have only cost me $35 at my local auto glass repair shop.

Lessons Learned:
Get your head out of your ass! Small problems become big problems if you ignore them.

If you currently have this minor problem with your windshield I stongly suggest you fix it. It may not seem important but a small chip can quickly turn into a full window spanning crack.

Auto glass buisnesses are usually open from 9 to 5 and they are usually open Monday to Saturday. The cost to repair ranges from about $25 to $50 Most of the major shops are walk in and don't require an appointment. This means you can get your chip fixed shortly after the problem occurs.

If you wait vibrations, pressure, moisture or temperature could cause the crack to spread. It may happen in small incriments or suddenly all at once. If you let the crack get over an inch it could be too late to fix it.

Wii Are the Champions Mii Freind

It's a still a little early to tell but I'm going to call it. This generation of video games belongs to Nintendo. It doesn't take a genius to figure this out. It doesn't even take a hippie. I decided to take some time to answer some of the questions you may be asking yourself.

So were did Sony go wrong with the Playstation 3?
Well for one thing no one can afford it because Sony decided to shove a Blu-Ray drive into your video game system.

Why are what used to be PS3 3rd party Exclusives being moved to the XBox 360?
PS3 is $649.99! The Game sold per system ratio is poor. XBox has a greater installed user base.

The PS3 Controller is pretty "Bad Ass" though?
No rumble feedback and tilt sensor technology that Nintendo used on the GameBoy color with "Kirby's Tilt and Tumble". That's not "Bad" that's just bad...

So can you actually watch Blu-Ray movies on my PS3?
Yeah! Can you believe it? It seems like it was just yesterday when I didn't watch DVD's on my Playstation 2.

What games should I get if I get a PS3?
Well Resistance is exclusive to the PS3. I would get a whole bunch of players choice PS2 games there is God of War, Shadow of the Colossus, the entire Grand Theft Auto series. Chances are if your any sort of a gamer you already have a PS2 though.

I hear the Wii is just basically a GameCube with a different controller. Why does Nintendo's outdated technology have the advantage over the PS3?
Let me give you a couple examples. What game is better the original Pac Man or Pac Man World 3? Sonic the Hedgehog 2 or Sonic Adventure? Castlevania: SOTN or Castlevania 64? If you answered the first game in each consecutive question congratulations. It doesn't take the best technology to make the best games. Sony has spent the last 10 years with systems (PS2 and Playstation) technically inferior to their competition and for the last 10 years they have been dominating the home console market. Now they are telling us that advanced technology is what makes a system?

Does Sony's PS3 have the best Graphics at least?
Well it is suppose to. So far every title to appear on PS3 and Xbox 360 looks better on the XBox 360. Eventually the PS3 should have better looking games though. Of course alot of people thought the Playstation 2 had better graphics than the Game Cube, Playstation had better graphics than the Nintendo 64 and the Genesis had better Graphics than the Super Nintendo. The graphics war is and always has been totally irrelevant.

You can Download 700+ old Playstation games on PS3 that's way better than Nintendo's Virtual Console right?
You need a PSP to play old Playstation games. You can't play them on the PS3 at all. Besides what would you rather Play Super Mario Bros or Tomb Raider.

I would rather play Tomb Raider cause Lara Croft is so hot!
What? How about Princess Peach from Super Mario Bros? She's like way hotter and she's blonde!

So what! Princess Peach is like a little girl!
What are you talking about? Why would Mario be going out with her.

Who said Mario was going out with her?
No one but it's kind of implied. Why would she make cakes for him otherwise?

That doesn't mean anything! My Grandma makes cakes for me all the time!
Maybe your spending to much time with your Grandmother....

STFU! Seriously though who's hotter Angelina Jolie or Samantha Mathis?
What the hell does that have to do with anything?

Samantha Mathis was the Princess in the Super Mario Bros movie and Angelina Jolie was Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider movie.
First off the princess in the super Mario Bros movie was Princess Daisy. Second who the hell is Samantha Mathis? Thirdly there was no Super Mario Bros Movie.

Why are there an imdb link in you very answer then?
.....fake interview over!

pieces Of Advice: Credit Where Credit Is Due

I'm still a pretty young guy and like many young people I like to spend my money. The big problem with this is sometimes to get what I need I'm am forced to spend money I don't have.

This mentality is what keeps the economy going. You have a job you work hard, you have your necessary expenses, you pay your bills and on top of that you deserve to have a little fun.

Eventually you decide you want to buy a car or a home and you can spend more than you have by simply using credit. Spending money you don't have then means you are working for the banks or credit companies until you can pay off your debt. This means you are getting less for your money in order to suit convenience. There is nothing wrong with doing this however. For example, your not going to save so you can buy a house twenty years from now when you need to live in it now. Your not going to wait to get a car if you need one to get to work. Borrowing money so you can live better is pretty much a fact of life for almost everyone.

The problem is after you have your vehicle a home, pay the bills buy necessities such as food and clothes people still feel they deserve to spend their money on extras. This is by no means impossible for most people. There are some people that make enough so they don't even really have to think about it. Almost anyone can easily get a credit card and pretty much buy any extras they want.

This can be big trouble for a lot of young adults. If your spending money on top of the money you already don't have your going to find yourself putting off some of the things you need in order to pay your debts. Perhaps stop paying the bills for awhile. Skip a meal or two. This is all fine and good if your single but what if you already have a family? Where could you possibly cut expenses? Can you afford to loose what you needed the credit for in the first place?

What you need to do is change your way of thinking. You need to realize although you deserve to spend the money you have earned you do not deserve to spend money you don't have on things you don't need! If you do, your not working for yourself, your working for credit companies. You are actually working against yourself.

But don't take my word for it. It's your life you can make your own mistakes. Just remember even a hippie has enough sense not to spend money he doesn't have.

Sexy pieces: Jennifer Lopez's Big Ass

Who doesn't love Jennifer Lopez? She's got a acting career, a singing career and a great big ass! No real acting career anymore you say? Don't give a crap about her music? Well 1/3 ain't bad...

I'm sure she has had a whole bunch of albums by now. There has to be! I mean I've seen the videos. I can even remember some of the lyrics. Like the one where she's wearing the tight white pants. She sang something about comforting her and what I gotta do to get a piece. I didn’t listen to much cause I know damn well I'm not gonna get a slice. So why did I watch the video then? If you asked yourself such a question you might be:

A) A Female
B) A Homosexual
C) Clueless

So the Question here is who are the videos marketing too? I mean I watched the videos and now I fantasize about her and want to use her butt as a pillow. I guess I'm expected to go pick up her latest album. Just one problem. I don't give a crap about her music!

With that in mind it would seem marketing the videos are pointless right? Wrong! The sexy videos with J'lo shaking her ass and talking about doing "it" with you are actually marketing towards girls.

You guys must be thinking now, "hippie are you telling me dat the girls 'round me want to get wit' Jenny?" ... NO DUMBASS!!! Girls are going buy the music because they like the guys that like Jennifer Lopez. Get it? Jeeze do I got to explain everything to you?

Why do girls wear makeup and perfume? Cause they're ugly and they smell funny. Girls are generally insecure. Worried about how they look. How popular they are. Worrying about who's going to ask them out. Hoping no one notices how they smell. Long story short, put in the nicest way possible, girls are fricken crazy! So where does J'lo and her manufactured pop tunes come into play? It's really quite simple; girls want guys, guys want Jennifer Lopez, girls want to become Jennifer Lopez, girls buy crappy pop music.

Well that explains that! Guys it's all your fault! You inadvertently spawned crappy music. Did you ever think of the consequences of looking at Jenny's ass? I hope your happy with yourself! Now every celebrity, with a big butt, is gonna shake their ass all over to try and hook you and before you know it you guys will be wondering why all the women around you are walking like the got something "all up in it". Well now you know. The girls are crazy because you made them that way. At least all the crazy women aren't worried about how fat their asses are. Fat ass women, also your fault...

So remember next time you look at a nice big celebrity ass consider the consequences of your actions!

Save The Internet: Help Retain Net Neutrality

Do you want phone companies deciding what you are allowed to do or see on the internet? Perhaps have internet providers slowing connection to some services in favor of other services? Do you want to choose only from services offered by your internet service provider?

These are real threats as the giant phone and cable companies want control over what content you can access and how fast you can access it. Big companies like AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth would like content providers to pay a premium to get faster services.

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Until recently Net Neutrality has protected all service providers big and small. In August 2005 the FFC prohibited the major phone companies from discriminating and violating Net Neutrality. At the end of the summer the FCC ruling will be lifted. Currently the big companies are trying to gain control over the internet's content. If that happens content providers such as google, yahoo, youtube or insert your favorite site here _____ could be forced to pay more money to big internet service provides so users can access their servers. It seems to me that the ISPs are already making huge amounts of money from each individual internet subscriber. Annually ISPs are already making about 20 billion from broadband access fees alone.

AT&T cheif Ed Whitacre is quoted as saying in Nov. 7 Business week "Now what they would like to do is use my pipes free, but I ain't gonna let them do that because we have spent this capital and we have to have a return on it. So there is going to have to be some mechanism for these people who use these pipes to pay for the portion their using. Why should they be allowed to use my pipes."

What all this means to content providers is that the bigger companies may have to pay more money to ISPs and smaller content providers could lose their freedom. Big companies like google will take priority over smaller companies not because they are better but because they can afford too. It will no longer be about community and freedom of choice. The all mighty dollar will choose for you.

So what can you do to preserve Net Neutrality? Well for starters you can go to savetheinternet.com or itsournet.org to educate yourself on the events surrounding Net Neutrality. The sites have links to put you in contact with senators and inform you as to their stance on the issue.

Save the Internet:
http://www.savetheinternet.com/
http://www.itsournet.org/

Here I Am!

As you all know the internet is a series of tubes. It is apparent from the number of people with myspace accounts that everyone is becoming bored. It seems to me that the internet needs a hero. Someone with infinite knowlage. Someone plugged in to the "in the now" lifestyle. Someone to show you the way. Unfortunately I don't know who he is or how to reach him... so to pass the time I'll try to to entertain you.