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Hey Google, just because I’m asking for Spanish to English doesn’t mean the translation of ‘Espan?ol’ is ‘English’. Come on guys, I mean I’ve used your translation service before, even with lots of editing but this takes the cake.

This was actually me trying to figure out how to talk about my high school diploma correctly. I was a good boy and found a real world example of a news quote from mayor Bloomberg. So I plugged my example in to (Google) translate the phrase “Diploma Avanzado de Regentes Endorsados para Español como Lengua Extranjera”. Google returned the supposed English translation of “Advanced Diploma of Regents endorsed in English as a Foreign Language”. At first glance you might even accept that. Then hopefully you realize, the translation for Español is not English. Let’s look again shall we?

Diploma Avanzado de Regentes Endorsados para Español como Lengua Extranjera

Advanced Diploma of Regents endorsed in English as a Foreign Language

That second line there, and this is mind numbing, the translation of Español is Spanish, not English. So, I just wanted to be one of the first to say; “Hey Google, recuerda que el español no es el inglés.”

 

 Castro McCain Clinton and Obama [0:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Again, standing in line for tha Anne Frank House, here comes a-ridin-by several well known political figures… namely visible; Castro, McCain, Clinton and Obama…

 

 Crazy Pidginz [0:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Standing in line at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Crazy pidgins are out here hoping for some bits of food… check it out.

i’ve been watching television… that’s as opposed to the podcasts that I normally watch during the week via the Internet (www.getmiro.com). so… CNN… lovin the news coverage regardless of the form… so right now i’m watching on TV…. anyway…

i keep seeing these commercials, however; that start talking about (paraphrasing) ‘we have taken 1.2 billion dollars and reinvested it in finding new sources of energy’… and while this rolls on the screen a picture of drilling depth analysis comes across the screen. i refuse to take that. i believe that is misleading immediately.

i think that finding news sources of energy would not include new places to do the same thing we’ve been doing. if oil companies just sucked it up and a handful invest in solar, another bunch invest in wind and so on then we could all just shut the hell up. EnergyTomorrow.org … let’s get real eh?!

so CNN, while i’m at it. why don’t you just replay the footage of McCain out in Columbia getting briefed about the rescue of Ingrid Betancourt? and remind the world that McCain was one of the individuals that had spoken against bush while overseas (to mention people that have broken that ideal Obama touched on while speaking with Sarkozy).

next order of business is the nuts. what do i mean about that? well i was watching the other day and i saw a news special about a commercial banned in the UK because it was anti-gay. Mr. T busts through a neighborhood to shoot snickers bars at this hip-swishing jogger boy. it was some funny stuff i tell ya. i didn’t mind the totality of it. the last part here he screams “get some nuts” was hilarious.

so in the same space, why can’t other people say nuts without it being n**s or n*bleep* expletive whatever. really. i won’t go on at length about this. but yeah… wow.

last thing… Obama isn’t acting like a president. the only people that are literally listening to this are listening to you guys in the news room. you treat him like a rockstar before, and now that he’s international you, the news outlets, have helped us put him on the presidential pedestal. don’t let’s stand back and act like current heads of state, former heads of state and all staff alike haven’t given their opinions A-PLENTY on all news shows. so… stop treating him like a friggin rockstar. clearly, however; the guy knows how to book a nice whirlwind trip. i could envy his passport stamps! (Paris will be so nice this year). either that or start treating McCain like a rockstar.

naughty naughty CNN…

comments? rebuttals? like it?

So for anyone out there interested, I recently upgraded to WordPress version 2.6 at the behest of my hosting provider. I got an email basically telling me to upgrade or else they’d suspend my account. Needless to say, in addition to this site, I also host like 12 other sites. So I totally upgraded.

Unbeknown to me, this upgrade breaks the podPress version 8.8 that we all use to post the podcasts you see here. Well, I would like to thank Philip Molly Malone for posting a fix for this yesterday. I implemented what he said and BOOM we’re podcasting again!

Here’s the link to his fix and I suggest that anyone with a broken podPress 8.8 installed on WordPress 2.6 complete this very easy edit of your wp-config.php file. One little thing to make sure of is that you’re using the correct apostrophe when editing the file. I copy and pasted and the apostrophe used on the fix page isn’t the the right kind. You would do well to type it out manually into wp-config.php, using the apostrophe key that sits to the immediate left of the ‘Enter’ or ‘Return’ key on your standard QWERTY keyboard.

By the way, as he states, the thing that breaks podPress is the new “revisions” feature of WordPress 2.6. I don’t really care about revisioning when it comes to my blog posts or podcast episodes so I’m more than happy to have it turned off by this edit anyway. HAPPY BLOGGING/PODCASTING EVERYBODY!

so i realized today that i hadn’t written a blog post in a while… thusly… this is the random post that will hopefully get me back on track to updating the ol’blog once and a while. since we last met, the BF and I went to chicago with a friend of ours for what turned out to be (basically) a really amusing tailgate party 45 minutes outside chicago, il. it was fun, we drank alot! the blue pt cruiser we rented was totally choice for this adventure. kudos to budget for renting it to me. so yeah, it was supposed to be the midwest electronic music festival but it was more like 250 people at the county fairgrounds rolling face off dopey pills. i wouldn’t recommend the orange playboys. i’ll give it up to infared productions for trying tho… a for effort!

After visiting several popular social networking sites, all seem to be showing ‘Server Too Busy’ after login attempts. Could this be Pennsylvania bogging down the virtual world in response to the political world? Probably not, but something is snagging a large block of the East Coast and Central States bandwidth; with routers in Missouri, Kansas, New Jersey, Florida and even parts of Massachusetts reeling from the interstate packet switching (could be on behalf of PA?).
With an overall packet loss of 9% this evening in North America, it’s no wonder we’re all a little on edge.
Compare this to the 14%, 17% and 31% being experienced in Europe, Asia and South America, respectively and Tuesday’s business world is shaping up to be a tense one, hung out to dry by empty dreams of ‘Server Too Busy’.

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“A strong and dynamic wind fetch associated with this expanding wind field produced extreme wave growth, and spread large and very long period swells propagating across the entire regional Atlantic, to the Bahamas, across the Greater and Lesser Antilles, to the northeast coast of South America, and across the entire tropical Atlantic, continuing to the west African coast and into the south Atlantic. Locally across Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, extreme breaking wave heights of 20 to 30 feet were common from early on the 19th through the 21st, with occasional breaking waves reaching 35 to 40 feet and higher across the outer reef lines.” ~ http://www.srh.noaa.gov/sju/Events/2008/Swell/index.php

(don’t worry, it’s not me that i’m talking about… for once… but here’s a pic of my friend jay falkner…)

((i miss you guys too!!))

i mean… if it’s practically your name sake shouldn’t you go out and give it a run every now and then?

it inspires creativity and imbues a fanciful lack of reality… where could one go wrong?

i think i can sum it up in one word however, which incidentally was one of my words of the day back a while ago, redonkulous.

not a greek name though it’s spelled kinda like one, it is however, just as effective as any italian racial slur.

for once i was on the receiving end of the redonkulousness… but just in case you don’t already know my slogan…

“redonkulous – for when ridiculous just doesn’t cover it”

~chris

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