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November 20th, 2009

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November 17th, 2009

06:53 pm - Still Working on my X-Mas List Should be done by tomorrow. Although for a sneak peak, here is a video of one of the gifts in my top five: -- Jordan Current Mood: cheerful

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November 13th, 2009

12:45 am - Two Pictures and a Drawing I'm horribly congested right now and thus I missed my class...and laundry day...and showering. Bleh! Anyhow, I just thought I would share three images with you: ( Read more... ) I just watched Changeling and it was fantastic. It had everything I want in a story: Strong female characters, murder mystery, corrupt authority and it even had telephone switching! Back to read some more Lightning Thief, maybe some Artemus Fowl. Edit more Allen Crispus, take some pills and go to bed. -- Jordan Current Mood: sick

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November 9th, 2009

08:53 pm - Rick Riordan and the Egyptian Racebending! Hello everyone! I had two serious business post ready for today. One is about my relationship problems so I've put that one off for tomorrow. The other is this little peeve of mine... Ever since the whole Liar book controversy and other online debates in the past I've been exposed to how many authors see about the racial identity of the characters in their books. The majority of books either have white protagonists or their readers automatically default to white. Minority characters never seem to get much light in books. From someone who is currently writing about a black detective main character with a Chinese love interest and an Indian and Caucasian gay man...you can see how that worries me. Never mind that I already have pet peeves about the "African" section of book stores or that I never saw myself in any characters I've ever read growing up...except maybe Cassie/Marco in Animorphs. So now, Rick Riordan who wrote the Percy Jackson series (whose main character I originally thought was black until I saw the artwork) is going to write about a new series concerning Egyptian mythology. Naturally, I'm worried. I'm worried that he might go into the same route that the 39 Clues series have gone into: Amazing research on hysterical/mythological data but cannot nail any culture other than western culture for beans. I mean, look at the story: "When a magical accident unleashes the Egyptian gods on the modern world, siblings Carter and Sadie Kane discover that they are the only ones who can put things right. As descendants of the greatest Egyptian magicians, they must find a way to defeat the evil god Set before he can destroy them." Now, that does sound exciting. I mean, the idea of these Egyptian gods coming to the modern world for the first time is a funny cool idea. And that it will go into Egyptian mythology and magic is something I would love to see. But this is my problem...look at the names. Kane is ok but... Carter? The boy is Carter? Carter is like the whitest name I know and everyone I know named Carter (like Brad Carter) are some of the most honkiest honkies to ever honk! And Sadie! SADIE!? Ok now we are in the Middle East but...dose Riordan know that Sadie is a HEBREW version of the name Sarah? Finally, don't forget their father...Julius. FUCKING JULIUS! *vomits* I already see the nightmare coming. The book cover comes out and they kids are not Egyptian but White. Never mind that they are descendant from Egyptian Magicians and must tame the Egyptian Gods and Mythology...these are White Kids mucking around and saving the Egyptian world. ARG!!! :( Also with this, now Riordan is bringing in the whole Euro-centric VS Afrocentric view of Egyptians and their race/culture. For some reason, I don't think Riordan or the publisher has realized what they are getting into. Besides, would it be fun to see some actual Egyptian people save the day in American media...instead of what they normally do on American media...blow up. :( -- Jordan P.S. Here are better names for all of them: Julius = Heqa'maat , Carter = "Heka" Hekamotep, Sadie = "Nef" Neferet Current Mood: worried

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November 8th, 2009

05:00 pm - Some Twilight Parodies before I get Serious Again Really well done. I wish SNL was like this all the time like they were back in the old days. Oh and if you want to get really weird, follow this link at your own risk: ( Dear lord... ) Will Twilight fans hate it or get turned on by it? I dunno but stay tuned for some serious biz shortly. -- Jordan Current Mood: amused

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November 6th, 2009

03:32 am - A Summary of Hackerween 2009 I did not have my camera so I had to wait for other people's pictures. Here are some of the photos I found. And I'm going to start off with a video: ( Read more... ) Fun times. -- Jordan Current Mood: nostalgic

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November 4th, 2009

05:07 am - Chime in for Charity Hay! I don't have a XBOX 360 because it sucks but here is something good that will come out of it. http://www.chimegame.com/ Please if you have a XBOX 360 buy this game. Why? The money goes to charity. This is something I've been wanting for a very long time in the industry. You have no idea how many times I have brought up Charity Games up at GDC and the IGDA and people would shoot me down because "it does not work out profit wise!" -,-; I hope this will prove those assholes wrong. I've been a supporter for the developer, OneBigGame for years now and I'm glad projects are now seeing the light of day. It makes me mad that my industry makes as much money as we do and we give nothing back. Imagine if like, half of WoW's profits went to charity? Or hay, since Africa is mostly a wreck, why not have some of those Resident Evil 5 profits go back there since you have decided to use that place as your setting? Speaking of that, that's always been one of my dreams. To make Charity games that open light to real issues. Mine's would be on Darfur. GTA free roaming mixed with Gears of War style shooting and CoD:MW style action. You are a USA platoon on loan to protect a Darfur camp. See the real horrors of Darfur that the Sudan and other first world countries are putting on these people. Plus in the game, you could find out how you can help Darfur, poverty in Africa and most of the profits would go to Hackers for Charity. Ah, now that is a dream! -- Jordan Current Mood: optimistic

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November 3rd, 2009

02:47 pm - This is to all my Furry friends. I know I have not been active for a while in the community. Scratch that, I have not been active in any community due to work. So I thought I would pay some respects back to some of those communities. P.S. This show is hilarious. -- Jordan Current Mood: amused

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November 1st, 2009

07:06 pm - Going to post about Halloween shortly. But first, tell them Jon! The news media is bullshit! The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c For Fox Sake! www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis P.S. If you are in another country and cannot see it, let me know and I'll try to provide a transcript. -- Jordan Current Mood: amused

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October 26th, 2009

08:14 pm - Halliburton does more wrong. You know being a part of The Yes Men and promoting our new film so we can raise social awareness and donate money to charity, I sometimes get some confusion of why attack Halliburton and the problem with a 100% total free market. "But Jordan, I don't believe in the climate change thing. So why should I be mad at Halliburton and corporations doing what ever they want. Total free market does not harm anybody!" ... John Stewart, do you have anything to say about it? The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Rape-Nuts www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis -- Jordan Current Mood: grumpy

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01:52 am - How Open Hack Day Turned Out I was originally going to make a post about a serious issue about a "friend" of mine but that can wait until later today or after I get some real sleep. Instead, I wanted to share this since this is too cool! I let the Facebook NYC2600 members know about this. I dunno who went because I could not make it but it looked like tons of fun! Hope they have another one next year! P.S. Rob, are you going to do a Hackerween post on the NYC2600.net site? That way I can link to that instead of the old one. =P -- Jordan Current Mood: amused

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October 25th, 2009

06:42 pm - So Many Linux Choices I'm still on my hunt for Dual Booting Linux on my Lappy. I know that common thing said is just to erase Windows, however, I actually do very well with Window's OS most likely because I never listen or do anything Microsoft tells me to. My problem comes from which version of Linux I should install. There are so many options that they have been hard to narrow down. Here are some of my final choices... -- Weak Net Linux 3 http://weaknetlabs.com/linux/ -- Fortress Linux http://www.fortresslinux.org/ -- Slacker Ware http://www.slackware.com/ -- BackTrack Linux http://www.remote-exploit.org/ -- TopologiLinux http://www.topologilinux.com/ I'm sure I'm going to go through a few of these before I find the one I want. Thoughts? -- Jordan Current Mood: contemplative

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01:12 am - Tom J. Donohue: "I will make it legal!" So after hearing that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has downsized very recently, I started to go over what they do and what we did to them as The Yes Men. And I realized something. Take this... Get Mike and Andy some glow sticks, replace Jedi with the name Yes Men, make the Commerce up as robed green aliens, change the name U.S. Chamber of Commerce to Trade Federation, set all the Activist for corporate/environment control on Naboo, give one of the female Supreme Court Justices a powder-on and put Tom J. Donohue in a dark robe through a hologram. And you get this... Perfect summary IMO about what the Chamber of Commerce is. =D For more info go here: http://www.velvetrevolution.us/stop_chamber/ -- Jordan Current Mood: giggly

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October 24th, 2009

02:33 am - A Video Montague of The Past Three Weeks Doing lots of work for The Yes Men. I'm still working for them (including our most recent prank) but here are some of my stuff. I did both events but I'm mainly in the first video. I'm handing out coal and I'm the guy in the tie that you first see drawing on the bank: This second one I helped out with a lot but I'm not in it because my job was to get security off of our backs: ( Read more... ) More in the near future. -- Jordan Current Mood: accomplished

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October 21st, 2009

01:03 am - The Yes Men are my favorite bosses! I was going to show some crazy video from three weeks promotion of The Yes Men Fix The World but we took down the videos for what ever reason, hopefully temporary. Instead, just know that everything went awesome and was tons of fun. And as a bonus, here is a video I took when I got my bosses on WBAI's OFF THE HOOK: The Yes Men on Off The Hook -- WBAI from Sidepocket on Vimeo. -- Jordan Current Mood: accomplished

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October 19th, 2009

06:30 am - A Few Things for my friend heycheri I was reading a post of a friend who shall not be named on another social networking site and so I thought I would repost one of the comments. Not only because it's a good introspective but because it also reminded me of my friend heycheri for some reason: "Don't let it happen. Simple as that. Better to be rejected by someone you MIGHT have a chance at true love with than being used and discarded by someone who didn't feel the same way you did. It really is hard to find that perfect someone. Really hard. Harder to find it in this day and age when a lot of people have a one track mind too and commitment is NOT a factor 9 times out of 10. I've said it a dozens times before, don't just jump into anyone's arms that will keep you warm for a few moments and then leave you in the coldest times. That's pointless- no, that's actually bad for your mental stability and ultimately effects your conditions of commitment. It's like a virus, in a way. It sucks, but rather than finding that cute guy to be with who obviously has a 'rockstar' complex will probably leave you hanging in the worse times, too. Hey, it sucks to hear but I've known you for a while and look at your batting average. What to do about it? Endure. Endure and tough it out. Mr. Right is out there and hopefully you'll get him and keep him. Man, Our generation really fucking sucks. Fucking asshole kids. Keep the hope alive, little one." P.S. I'm convinced that Cheri is the real life Ada Wong and if they did the Resident Evil movies right she would play her live action: ( The semblance is uncanny... ) -- Jordan Current Mood: tired

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October 18th, 2009

07:49 pm - My New Lappy! Toshiba Laptop is Awesome from Sidepocket on Vimeo. -- Jordan Current Mood: satisfied

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October 16th, 2009

09:01 am - The Last Hope -- What Worked and What Didn't Work Since it's nine months until The Next Hope and that the forums went to crap, I thought I would do this here on my own personal LiveJournal do-hickey... ::WHAT WORKED:: -- Registration This was the only tech conference where registering took a few seconds. Just showed up, name, if you did not pay you payed and you got your badge. I like that it was that simple. -- Badges The badges and the whole AMD project was the huge storm hook that year and it was cool to be a part of. Plus some how, you guys were the only people that actually got badges that DID NOT flip around every five seconds. -- Help Desk The help desk was one of the most informative help desks ever. Maps, directions and a list of recommended places really helped not only the con but the people out of state to know where they were going in NYC. -- Radio Statler I did not have many times to tune in but every time I did it was pure awesome. There was some funny bullshit moments and serious interviews with the Keynotes on air. I hope to see this greatly expanded next year! -- The Huge "Big Brother Screen" Since many of the talks, especially the "keynotes", get crowed very fast I thought that having the big screen stream those popular talks in the main plaza area was a great way to get everyone involved even if there was no real physical room. -- The Telephreak Phones One of the best ideas ever! Not only making free phone calls but free phone calls on Payphones and Rotary Dial phones! Zawsome! Do this again or better next year! -- Hackerspace Village Again, another great idea! It opened me and many other people to the concept of hackerspaces! Plus they had cool ongoing projects and T-Shirts! We should have this every year, I'm sure it will keep getting better and more involved. Plus, it already has inspired a few new spaces to open up! =D ::WHAT DIDN'T WORK:: -- The Segway Track Oh brother, where do I start with these things! While I love the racetrack idea, I felt that more room could have been used for better positioning of the other parts of the Plaza. Such as more room for lock picking or more demonstration tables. Also, which I felt was a huge problem, was that Radio Statler was RIGHT NEXT to the tricky end turn of the track. I believe like five people crashed drunkenly through those thin walls, so maybe having the Segways far removed from people and expensive equipment might be a great idea. -- AMD Run Time By the time the project was fully functional, the con pretty much has ended. While this is something that I don't blame the team working on AMD for, if you guys are going to do something like this next year, I hope that it will be mostly and fully operational at the START of the con rather than the last hour of it. -- "Big Brother" Screen Right Next to Hammocks Playing Videos All Night I actually tried to take a nap in one of those things at night. It would have been ok...if people had not trying to have a Club DJ contest with the music and playing the most random shit loud on that screen. Folgers has nothing on waking up to the large video and audio of druggie black men and women giving interviews, beating each other up and preforming sexual favors in an underground documentary called "Crack Headz Gone Wild!" Maybe having a time limit on that fucking thing would help us all. -- Express Elevator I know the idea of having an express Elevator is a good idea, but maybe we can convince the hotel to have more than one of those. Never mind that it was hidden from most of the plaza...or that sometimes it would randomly go to a service floor so when the doors opened they were suddenly attacked by disfigured 1950's wooden furniture. -- The Lecture Rooms While I did like the names for the rooms t his year...even with a map most people I met got lost. I know it took me awhile to figure out where the Zeus room was and what it was for. I learned a lesson from Conflux: Color Coated Rooms. That way not only the rooms have a name but colors are quicker to identify. It's much easier and efficient to tell someone to go to the "Blue Room" than the Telsea room or whatever. -- The Lego Table It was a great idea. But seriously, it was one of the loneliest table at the con. It really ended up as a pile of Legos, one or two small figures and a coffee stain. Hell, someone got so board that (s)he made a bridge out of White Castle burger boxes! I think if we do Legos again, we should have some sort of contest around them or something for more motivation. -- Faulty Recording Equipment, Especially in the Zeus Room Oh god, the AV people making the DVDs were TERRIBLE! Many camera guys asleep on the job. Cameras focusing on the wrong people. Audio drop outs. Audio glitches. And to top it all off, huge chunks of panels that went UNRECORDED! The worst was in the Zeus room, where there was some amazing and informative panels going on such as how to control the New York City Power Grid and Video Game Homebrew VS Piracy, which were completely lost by the recording guys in the room. ARG! Either hire some real recording people or at least let us kick the shit out of them if they suck at their job! -,-; Ok, that is all from me. What about you all? -- Jordan P.S. Post about The Yes Men Fix The World coming soon. Oh and so will new Laptop pictures! I used it right now to type this all out! =D Current Mood: reflective Current Music: Ayria -- Selling Rebellion

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October 14th, 2009

06:22 pm - RIP Captain Lou Albano! One more time...just for you...swing your arms... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65uNCLBTje0 Current Mood: busy

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September 29th, 2009

02:30 pm - Here is a good cause! My good friend An Xiao made this. I already donated, it's very simple. Please help out! Manila, the city where I spent much of my childhood and where many of my family still reside (they are doing okay) is underwater after the worst flooding to hit the Philippines since the 60's. Frustrated by the lack of good ways for those abroad to give money (most are *so* last century, like mailing a check or wiring money), I'm setting up this Kickstarter account to make it easy for anyone with an Amazon account to send a donation. I'll then wire the money directly to a local charity such as the Red Cross, the social advocacy (not evangelical) arm of the Jesuits in the Philippines or Catholic Relief Services (again, not evangelical - it's pure aid). I am researching organizations at this moment, but I understand that both the Jesuits and CRS have very low overhead, so most of the money will go directly to aid. More entries later today, actually happy ones! =D -- Jordan Current Mood: hopeful

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