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Monday, November 05, 2012
Voting Isn't Revenge, It's Resistance
Voting for us isn't revenge, it's resistance. It isn't a choice that emerges out of reasoned debate between two sets of values, it's an act of resistance against the revengers, the looters and the destroyers. The voting booth is a form of sabotage against their regime, their corrupt interests and their oppressive regulations.
These last four years we have endured an intensified occupation of our political, religious and personal freedoms. We have been robbed, lied to, ordered around and in some cases even killed. These crimes have been carried out by elected officials and the election will allow us to remove some of them. It will not end the reign of terror, but if successful, our act of electoral resistance will inflict a severe setback on the plans of their ideological movement and the unelected officials who rely on them for funding and political support.
The election will not end the occupation, but it will interrupt the forward momentum of the occupiers. It will force them to fall back into their think tanks and formulate new strategies for dismantling the Constitution, eliminating our civil rights and ending elections as anything but empty shows with no meaning.
Some of us act as if elections will be here forever so that we can wait for the next one to come around and the one after that when the right candidate will lead us to victory. They won't be. The ideology that we are resisting believes in populism only when it serves its ends. Its judicial appointees have acted repeatedly to neuter referendums when the results do not go the right way.
The ultimate goal of the occupation is to shift power away from elected officials and into the infrastructure of unelected officials, so that their elected officials can draw on nearly unlimited powers by dictating to the bureaucratic oligarchy of the state, while elected officials not aligned with their movement will be narrowly constrained and have very little influence over the bureaucracy.
The occupation is not here to take power for another four years, but another forty years and another four-hundred years. It is not playing a short term game in a system where power shifts back and forth, but putting in place the infrastructure for the permanent occupation of the United States of America. But despite all its power and control, the miles of video screens that spew forth its propaganda, the billions of dollars that flow from its coffers into the pockets of its supporters and the cultural control that its proponents wield-- it still has one vulnerability.
A piece of paper, a push of a button, and the occupiers have to fall back, gritting their teeth and planning a renewed offensive in the spring.
The left overreached itself in the last four years. Its occupation was poorly managed and the native population has been alienated. While its Chief was sacrificing thousands of American lives to win over the natives in Afghanistan, his occupation of the United States was crumbling. The economy is rotten and the people are tired of being lied to. The resistance is popular and the community organizers are running scared.
This is our moment and in a single day we can push the occupation out of the countryside and back into the cities. We can undermine its morale, strip it of the money with which it bribes collaborators and force it to rethink whether it really wants to spend the next few decades battling to control an unruly population. We can make men like George Soros and Ted Turner decide that their money would be better spent terrorizing Eastern Europe or Africa, instead of America by making oppressing us seem like a bad investment.
Our goal is not an absolute victory, but like all resistance movements, it is to remain viable, to be there sabotaging their latest initiative, undermining them and remaining free of their control. The potency of a resistance movement derives from its sense of freedom. The occupation seeks to impose control while the resistance negates it. Our task is easier than theirs and every election is a chance to remind them that they have no won and that they will not win, that they must despair of going the electoral route and must impose their will without regard to popular sentiment. And once they accept that premise and abandon their facade of moderation, then we will be on the road to a true victory.
The occupation needs to believe in its own morality and its own popularity. Every time we take that away from it, we are embittering its leaders and its activists, we are teaching them to hate the people that they claim to want to help and distancing them from the people by making the people into the wedge that denies them power.
Elections must be used to humiliate the occupation, to rub its nose in its own unpopularity, to show that no matter how much it controls the means of communication, its agenda will always be rejected over and over again.
Every form of rejectionism of its agenda further drives home the message that the left can never wield power over the native population except by force. Each vote cast against it, even in blue states, even in places where the left can never lose, is an act of resistance because it reminds the left of the limits of its power and warns it that even in its own heartlands, it is not completely in control.
The left derives its power from the human impulse to conformity. No matter how many people may take issue with its insane and vicious program, most will not dissent from it in public, especially if they are barraged with countless media messages that appear to show that the vast majority of the population is in favor of it.
This national Milgram experiment is aborted every time the left loses a referendum, every time it is defeated in an election, every time it is saddled with another Carter or McGovern, every time the American people wake up and see that the rest of the country is not a hive of Obamanoids, but free people just waiting to find their voice.
Even if we lose this election, it will have been worthwhile to make it as close as possible, to bring out massive rallies of people who are waking up out of the daze and realizing that they don't have to take the occupation and that there are tens of millions of people out there who feel as they do. It will have been worthwhile to deliver a message to the left that its occupation stands on shaky feet and that the next gust of wind may tip it over. It will have been worthwhile in order to remind the left that the people are rising and that while this uprising may not have toppled over their golden throne, the next one might. It will have been worthwhile to remind the left that it is not on the path to a thousand-year world-state but to a collision with growing numbers of people who want their freedom back.
Our vote at its most potent, is not just a protest vote, but a blow aimed at the political heart of the occupation. But even if the blow does not land, then the protest vote reminds the occupation that we are united, not so much behind a man, as against them, and it will remind us that when we come together, we have the power to terrify the occupiers.
Mitt Romney is a symbol, a convenient shorthand for freedom of expression, enterprise and faith. Whether or not he embodies these values is a secondary concern. As Obama became a vehicle for the left to express its identity, Romney has become a vehicle for traditional Americans to express theirs. If Romney wins, then he will become a politician and if he loses, then the symbolic identity, which transcends him, will go on, because it is an expression, not of one man, but of the values of a country.
The occupation does not have these values. It is a disruptive force that can borrow and mimic warped versions of these values, but it cannot put them forth except as a mockery of the values it has displaced. It urges its followers to vote for another four years of repression as a form of revenge against us because it has no inner light, no goodness and no truth. Inside it is a heart of darkness with no hope, only a ceaseless turmoil of change for the sake of change and destruction for the sake of destruction, power for the sake of power, and revenge for the sake of revenge.
Our resistance is a form of love, love for our country, our communities, our families and our values. That love has motivated us to spend the last four years fighting to preserve these things that we love. It will take us into the voting booth and whatever the outcome, it will keep us warm even in the coldest winter, as we go on fighting through our own Valley Forge for the redemption of our nation.
26 comments:
- VA_Rancher said...
LOVE the pic of General ObaMao in the tinpot dictator uniform!
You mush have power and internet again.
I am praying as hard as I know how that we will win tomorrow.
The other pic, "Live Free or Die" says it all.
Be well,
- 5/11/12
- Ravis said...
I want Romney to win only because it will upset liberals, especially the media. I have no illusion whatsoever that he represents some kind of resistance, or that he will fundamentally change the direction of the country.
- 5/11/12
- Daniel Greenfield said...
I didn't say that Romney is, in his own person, acting as a force of resistance, I said that voting for him disrupts the power of the left and that is an act of resistance.
- 5/11/12
- Anonymous said...
You are able to put things in perspective several years earlier than could be imagined.
Thank you
- 5/11/12
- Unknown said...
God help us if Obama some how pulls this out. I have a bad feeling there is going to be a lot of shenanigans going on behind the scenes. Saw an article this morning that the problems they were having in Fla where the electronic polls kept defaulting to Obama even if the voter picked Romney was in fact caused by hackers linked to the OWS punks.
Things like that and the UN observers, I have a bad feeling Obama will win by cheating that he will have permanent deniability on.
- 5/11/12
- Anonymous said...
What an absolutely wonderful and uplifting essay.
On this election eve, I needed to read a message of authentic hope based on the Rock that truly is America.
Thank you so much.
I shall share the link to this far and wide.
- BarbaCat
- 5/11/12
- Edward Cline said...
Daniel: Of all the columns I've read recently urging people to vote, yours today is the most inspirational and encouraging. It's a good thing you're not a girl, or I'd hug you to death.
- 5/11/12
- Anonymous said...
Thank you for another superb article.
For all that conservatives face to right this nation again, I believe we live in a remarkable time. And, we are a remarkable people. There is so much honor, dignity and love of country amongst us.
I have much to say upon reading your article but I'm not a disciplined writer. A point I will try and convey, however, is that what we've seen in the last four years has been said by some in my own personal circle (I live in a heavily misguided, gullible, anti-American area), is that we've seen how disappointing and clueless he is, what could he possibly do in the next four years and that he's trying to do good, or whatever. I say this: we haven't seen a damn thing, yet. For as overt and hostile as this administration has been towards half its population, we can count on a ratcheting up of getting the boots put to us over and over and over. In fact, at the pace he's proceeding, what's to prevent his handlers from making he and Imelda permanent puppet squatters.
I remember what elders tried to instill in us kids about what they've endured, witnessed. I remember being told of the disbelief and horror of sad events and belief that it's happening to others because there needed to be some sort of culling but they are safe. That, nothing will happen to them because they've been there for decades, they are educated, they are esteemed members of the community. I don't forget other peoples history. I don't want that to become part of my history or a daily misery of my descendents.
My roots are not part of The Holocaust. I don't want to imply anything but would like to remain vague, for myself. There were and are bad, bad things that happen all over the world. I immigrated to this country. I have always felt a strong sense of duty towards it.
Keep up the great work, Mr. Greenfield.
- 5/11/12
- Michael Moskow said...
This was beautiful, inspiring, and needed.
Thank you so much.
- 5/11/12
- American Genie said...
- 6/11/12
- fsy said...
If Obama wins (G-d forbid), we have to get together and present him with a solid gold crown (maybe we can pick one up second-hand from one of Europe's bankrupt former monarchies) to show him that he's not foolin' nobody.
- 6/11/12
- Ron said...
Respect and love your work, even if sometimes it's only because I'm a sucker for a lost cause.
I hope you get a measure of satisfaction from this voting process. As for me, I simply don't believe in it.
Good luck man.
- 6/11/12
- Ex-Dissident said...
Daniel, this is the best motivational essay I've seen. Whether we win or lose this election, violence will come to this land. More than 2/3 of the white American population wants Obama gone. Romney is popular among all Americans by a likely 5 percentage points. Among black Americans Obama is favored by over 90%. Either side will refuse to believe that they've lost a fair election. This is a divided house. Today, our country is far more polarized and divided than it was 4 years ago. I no longer believe that we will resolve our problems at the voting booth. I will still vote tomorrow and, as you say, it will be an act of resistance, but I expect our country to turn violent we will all need to find protection. God help us.
- 6/11/12
- Mr ED said...
DemocRAT: The party of begrudging aggrievement, self-professed victims and narcissistic pseudo intellectuals. They believe - like little Leftist Pattons - that their job isn't to sacrifice anything themselves, but to use the political arena to make the "other guy" sacrifice in order to assuage their own personal selfish guilt.
- 6/11/12
- Unknown said...
This morning as I got out of my car, I saw my neighbor across the street about to get into hers. I stared at the political sign in her yard--the opposition, no less--and decided to give her a holler:
I said, "Vote for___ ___, today, Ms.___.
She gave a good-natured laugh and came back with, "And you vote for ___ ___ ___, today."
It was my turn to laugh good-naturedly.
Then she said, "I'll invite your whole family to dinner if you do." (In case you're wondering that's nine people).
I paused (I'm not good at thinking on my feet) and yelled back, "Tempting..."
"Tempting..." she repeated and laughed again..
And so was a pot of red stew to the exhausted Esau after the day's hunt. But unlike Esau, I won't be selling the futures of my children and grandchildren for a mess of pottage.
Plus dinner was out of the question anyway--I'd already voted--for the other guy and for a change I can believe in.
"Let his days be few, and let another take his office." ~ Psalm 109:8
- 6/11/12
- Anonymous said...
Intelligent, well said, educated, wise, GREAT as usual! My thoughts exactly, thank you, Daniel.
Zdena, Prague, Czech Republic.
- 6/11/12
- VA_Rancher said...
"And so was a pot of red stew to the exhausted Esau after the day's hunt. But unlike Esau, I won't be selling the futures of my children and grandchildren for a mess of pottage."
AMEN MS Davis!
Amen & Well said.
I'm praying for a landslide today...
- 6/11/12
- Ex-Dissident said...
Hmmm. A land slide would be nice but I don't think there are any mountains close enough to DC.
- 6/11/12
- moshe said...
The Left has thought of the problem you describe, Daniel. And they have a solution. you even wrote about it. I believe the essay might have been called "Electing Another People". 48% of the voters depend on federal handouts. The bookies are giving Romney only a 25% chance of victory. I am afraid we will have to go through a full-blown economic meltdown, and maybe even a civil war, before the occupation is driven back.
- 6/11/12
- Will48 said...
Well, the America of love and mutual respect has lost.
The coalition of hate and entitlement has won, after running the perfect campaign of hate opposite the campaign of love and self-reliance.
Given a choice between the hater in chief and an actual nice person who went out of his way to include everyone, America has chosen.
She chose her own executioner. For the second term in office.
But the runner up did not warn her about this. He wanted to be oh-so-nice to everybody. This is what he believes in, after all. Love.
America had shown it to him.
- 7/11/12
- Will48 said...
Now what will Obama do? Nothing.
His goal is bankrupting America, after all, and bringing her down a notch - or ten.
Now with the fiscal cliff and the sequestration fast approaching, he can sit back and relax.
The USA is done for.
- 7/11/12
- Lisa G in NZ said...
Nice sentiments and good article...
too bad in America the takers now outnumber the producers...
have a nice upcoming 4 years! Guess America deserves the government it voted for...
geebuz, the entitlement idiocy continues...
- 7/11/12
- Keliata said...
I would normally agree with you, Daniel. And believe me, I have tried to convince myself and others that voting was the most effective form of protest.
But as the election approached I experienced something impossible to express in writing. My mind kept going back to grammar school, sitting in the aud watching Born Free. School officials made everyone watch that wonderful film. What I remember most is the incredible score by John Barry--no lyrics--of freedom.
That is the problem with this country. The Right and the Left are far to conformist and demanding of conformity that it crushes the spirits of many people.
From what I recall of the Milgram experiment the subjects continued to deliver electrical increasingly high volt electrical shocks even after people stopped crying out in pain. They never questioned, it seems, why the person stopped crying out.
Count me among the many who believe Born Free should be the American anthem. Not the lyrics, the melody. If that doesn't touch the soul of the American people I don't know what will.
Shame on the (Tea Party and Occupy mov't for this.
This is a very sad night. Not because Obama won and Romney lost but because the American soul is not free.
How wonderful it was as a child to sit in a school aud and learn more about freedom in a musical score than in any American history book. So important that a school full of children were required to watch it.
- 7/11/12
- Anonymous said...
Why are we unable to put a name to Obama's ideology - communism? Obama, after all IS a communist. Davud Axelrod is a communist. Valerie Jarret is also a communist. Michelle most likely is also, but that would be pure speculation. Why aren't we able to say aloud what's going on; that this administration is simply the final culmination of the 90-year old dream of the European Marxists - the take-over of the United States. It's all well & good to talk about fighting on, but I really can't see freedom ever rising in this land again. Once communism settles in a land it never leaves. And that land never heals.
It is as final as pancreatic cancer.
- 7/11/12
- Keli Ata said...
Anon--I agree with you. America is on the road to Communism. But I do believe we will (or have the potential) to see American freedom restored.
It all starts with the soul. There must be a way to kindle the American soul.
- 8/11/12
- Leo said...
Patriot's Handbook: a Practical Guide to Restoring Liberty
By James Simpson
America has become detached and largely ignorant of the core principles that made this country great. It is critical to our long-term survival that we rediscover and embrace again the key concepts of individual freedom, individual responsibility, limited government and the rule of law.
The founders of this country gave us an incredible set of documents: the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. These documents provide a firm road map to return our country to fiscal and moral responsibility, and are the reason we have been a beacon of hope for the rest of the world for over two centuries.
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Lawyer: No gunshot residue on suspect
Defense attorney subpoenas slain boy's mother to testify Thursday
BRUNSWICK, Ga. – The lawyer for one of the two teens charged in the shooting death of a south Georgia toddler says investigators found no gunshot residue on his client.
Thirteen-month-old Antonio Santiago was killed March 21. His mother, Sherry West, said she was pushing him in his stroller on a Brunswick street when two robbers confronted her, shot and killed her child, and slightly wounded her.
The next day, police arrested 17-year-old De'Marquise Elkins. He's scheduled to go on trial next month on charges of murder and attempted robbery. Dominique Lang is also charged with murder in the boy's killing.
Elkins' Attorney, Kevin Gough, made it very clear Wednesday that his client did not have any gunshot residue on him to link him to the shooting.
Gough has subpoenaed West to testify in court Thursday. He said he wants to know why she identified Elkins as a suspect.
"There is no gun shot residue on Markie Elkins. There is no gun shot residue on his clothing," said Gough. "We feel confident about saying that after reviewing evidence provided by the state in discovery."
But Gough believes this new twist weakens the prosecution's case against Elkins.
"I think it does because the gunshot residue is not on the hands of my client, but it's on the hands of Sherry West," said Gough.
Earlier this month, the defense filed a motion that revealed that the parents of the child, West and Louis Santiago, had positive traces of gunshot residue on them after the boy had been shot.
West said in a phone interview the residue likely got on her after touching her gunshot wound. She said the baby's residue may have gotten on the father when he visited her and the baby at the hospital.
West said she believes the suspect washed off the gun residue after shooting her and her baby.
Elkins' attorney responded to that claim.
"I'm not aware that Sherry West is any kind of expert on gunshot residue," Gough said. "I think we should let the experts address this issue when we go to court."
Local forensic expert Michael Knox said gun shot residue is short-lived evidence and can disappear from the skin after only four hours.
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Knox said it's also common for gun shot residue to transfer from person to person. He said examining gun shot residue in general is not that significant in law enforcement procedures, and may not be a smoking gun of evidence in court.
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Results tagged ' Glory Days '
My Favorite Baseball Song
With all the increasing negativity and the constant grumblings lately about what has happened during this previous summer along the Jersey shore, it was exciting to me last night to see one of New Jersey's own sitting right next to President Obama and the First Lady during last night broadcast of the 2009 Kennedy Honors. The Working class hero Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen more than deserved his place among American culture icons.
Maybe last night's honor will let the rest of the country take a breather on New Jersey and center their attention towards the positive as "The Boss" was being honored last night for his lifetime contribution to American culture of the performing arts. I know I have attended his awesome concerts more than a few times, and each time I see him on stage, his music legacy grows taller with every song.
And it might be fitting that his classic tune and the video for "Glory Days" is my personal favorite baseball song/video because it always seems to remind me of those awesome sandlot baseball days with my friends when we never cared what the final score of the game was, or who hit a Home Run or single.
And maybe that is why I love this baseball inspired song and "The Boss" for giving me this tune of my youth. From the first vocals on the song where he meets an aging High School baseball star, the song is a constant reminder of lyrics that evokes the subtle love and passion I had for the game as a kid.
Sure there are other baseball inspired songs that have caught my attention over the years like John Fogerty's "Centerfield", or even "Tessie" by Red Sox followers, the Dropkick Murphys, but Springsteen's tune is the only one where I find myself going back in time and throwing up memories of games or people while holding a bat or in the field. Some people are against the addition of music into our baseball culture.
But to me "Glory Days" has always had a positive affirmation for me with the National Pastime and reaffirms my love for the game. Everyone has a song or even a verse that binds them to the game of baseball. It could even be one of the older songs about former pitching great Catfish Hunter by Bob Dylan or even the tale of an autograph hunter going awry in the song by the Summer Hymns called "Pete Rose Affinity."
Music has always had a place in baseball from the classic "Take Me out to the Ballgame" in the bottom of the seventh Inning at some ballparks, to the interesting and always entertaining walk-up and warm-up music clips of our favorite stars. My own local team, the Tampa Bay Rays have even begun to cement their own musical tasty bits out there for us to begin to enjoy and maybe turn into a team clult classic like the Red Sox's do with the song "Tessie."
The game of baseball is enjoyed better when you let all five senses of the human body experience it. The sights, sounds and smells are all key ingredients to having the perfect baseball experience. But to me, music sets the tone for the entire game, and it doesn't have to start with a clang of the cowbell either.


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At long last, Android has landed on AT&T. The last of the Big Four American carriers to carry an Android device, AT&T is now on board with the Motorola Backflip. Backflip is named for its unique form factor, which takes a horizontal flip phone and turns it inside out, placing the touchscreen and full QWERTY board on the outside of the device instead of the inside. And get this: While Backflip runs the Google-built operating system, it's been stripped of every possible reference to Google, right down to defaulting to Yahoo! for all search engine queries. All of which makes Backflip the most Un-Googly Google Phone yet to hit the market.
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AT&T could have come in high-end with its first Android phone, but they instead went after the Sidekick/messaging crowd with a low-to-mid range device, perhaps to avoid any head-on competition with their flagship device, Apple's iPhone. Backflip – and it's Motorola cousin, the Verizon Devour – are part of a growing trend of lower cost, lower spec smartphones that have started to squeeze the featurephone out of the picture. Where two years ago a texting and social networking hungry consumer might have opted for a Sidekick or LG Voyager, now they can choose from a growing range of Android-powered devices including the $99 (on contract launch price) Backflip. Backlip and Devour look, feel, and act much like the Sidekicks and Voyagers of yore, but with the added power of a full-fledged smartphone operating system in Android.
Backflip's industrial design is interesting and clever, though I'm not sure it'll catch on in a big way. As mentioned, when the phone is closed its touchscreen and QWERTY board are still exposed. This affords a number of potential advantages, including using Backflip tablet-style via the 3.1″ HVGA touchscreen in portrait orientation, being able to open the device partway and prop it up on a table to watch movies, and the inclusion of a unique rear-mounted trackpad. The trackpad, which resides on the backside of the display panel, acts like a laptop trackpad, allowing the user to navigate around the display and double-tap to select icons and links. At first I found myself inadvertently grazing the touchscreen with my thumbs while reaching back to the trackpad with my index finger, but eventually I got the hand of it and found the pad quite handy.
The phone's design also allows for a roomier QWERTY board than a similarly sized horizontal slider – like Moto's Droid for Verizon – could offer, as no room is taken up by the sliding mechanism itself. Backflip is actually pretty compact and light for a touch/QWERTY hybrid, measuring 108 x 53 x 15.3 mm and weighing a reasonable 133 grams. Chalk the relatively light weight up to the use of "Platinum Silver" colored plastic in the phone's compact housing, as opposed to Devour's fancy but bigger and heavier aluminum unibody shell. But wait, there's more! Motorola got extra clever and mounted the 5 megapixel camera (and flash) on the edge of the QWERTY board, which means it's easily swiveled between inward (self-portrait) and outward facing modes.
There's a downside to Backflip's design, though. Leaving the touchscreen and QWERTY board constantly exposed means you run a greater risk of damage when the device is stuffed into a pocket or purse while not in use. Phone displays are routinely exposed like this, so there's no greater risk of scratching Backflip than any other touchscreen phone, but exposing the QWERTY board like this seems like it's tantamount to begging for lint, coins, and other goodies to poke, prod, and embed themselves in between the keys. I didn't experience any such problems in five days of testing the device, but I obviously can't speak to the long-term risks involved here.
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First off, phone calls were good and battery life decent on Backflip. AT&T claims they've taken measures to upgrade phone performance in the San Francisco, CA area where I live and work, and it seems like they might just have done a little good over the past few months. I didn't experience any dropped calls during four plus days of testing, and call quality was generally pretty good both in the East Bay and during a quick trip to downtown San Francisco. Data connectivity via AT&T's GSM/HSPA network and over WiFi was also pretty solid.
Backflip is quite similar to Motorla's other MotoBlur devices, Cliq (T-Mobile) and Devour (Verizon) when it comes to usability and performance. MotoBlur, Motorola's custom user experience, adds a layer of social networking-based widgets and apps to the standard Android install, and this latest version of MotoBlur is the same no matter which device you run it on. What's odd, though, is that Backflip ships with Android 1.5 installed, instead of the newer version 1.6, which comes standard on most anything else these days not privileged to run Android 2.0/2.1. (Note that Backflip is officially upgradable to Android 2.1, at some point in the future, as per Moto's official product page).
Using Backflip, to go back to my earlier comparison, is a lot like using a messaging phone was a few years ago. The design is edgy, there are a lot of cool features packed in, but the whole thing suffers from a bit of performance lag. Whether you're scrolling, panning or opening the phone to switch screen orientations, you'll feel some lag in pretty much all parts of the user experience. Built around a 528 Mhz Qualcomm processor and 256 MB of RAM, Backflip is no Droid or Snapdragon-powered Nexus One, performance-wise. Running MotoBlur atop Android puts some extra drain on the system, as well, and you're also getting an old version (1.5) of Android no doubt slowing things up a bit more.
So while the phone is certainly plenty usable, it's a budget smartphone experience you're getting on Backflip, not a top of the line ride. Then again, you're paying a Honda Civic, not BMW 5-Series, price for the phone, so you can't really expect high-end. And it's worth re-iterating that a 2.1 upgrade is coming to Backflip, which is reassuring if you're signing up for two years with the device. Then again, who knows how 2.1 will perform on Backflip's somewhat outdated hardware.
Backflip's display is clear and bright and sharp enough, if not of the AMOLED-Stunner variety found on its higher-end Android brethren. 3.1″ looks kinda small next to the 3.5″ and 3.7″ screens found on Droid and Nexus One, but it's good enough big for swiping and tapping through social widgets, Web pages, and Email Inboxes alike. Then again, there's so much empty space surrounding the display on the phone's bezel that it's hard not to feel like they should have made the screen bigger.
You won't get multitouch on Backflip's display, but that funky rear-mounted trackpad came in handy when I navigated through Web content packed full of small HTML links. I actually found it preferable to using either Devour's optical pad or Droid's old-fashioned D-Pad. As for the QWERTY board, what it lacks in tactile feedback is offset by the sheer size of the buttons – it's like a Droid's keyboard but with more of a membrane feel to it and much larger buttons. I got used to it after a few days and found it good enough, if not stellar.
As for the software itself, I still find MotoBlur to be a good idea but kinda confusing all at the same time. The RSS reader widget and Universal Inbox are cool. "Happenings" reminded me that, oh yeah, I still have some use for Facebook, but frustrated me when I tried to use it to dive deeper into my social networks. So I wound up installing Twidroid to deal with Twitter, went back to ignoring Facebook altogether, and disabled both Happenings and Social Status. But hey, that's what makes Android cool: You can rock MotoBlur, you can disable it and run your own widgets setup, or you can root the phone, flash the ROM, and illegally install someone else's software. Wait, actually, you can't do that last part without breaking the law, so nevermind. But you get the point – it's super easy to customize Android to your liking.
Except, that is, for the fact that AT&T and Motorola disabled every instance of Google Search from Backflip! Seriously – there's no voice search widget, there's no setting something other than Yahoo! as your default search provider in the Browser, there's nothing Google here except the Android platform itself. It's crazy!
The rest is pretty standard fare, though standard on today's smartphones is really pretty nice: 5MP camera with flash and camcorder, 3.5mm headphone jack, HSPA data, GPS, 802.11 b/g WiFi, accelerometer, microSD slot, microUSB and Bluetooth connectivity … all of which perform well, but not abnormally spectacular as compared to similar devices. The camera software handles geotagging, Android is great with media sharing, and so on, and the camera itself actually seemed to perform a bit better than Droid's image-taker did.
I always like seeing innovation in gadget design. Sometimes new designs catch on and sometimes they don't. While I'm not about to put money on Motorola Backflip's reverse-folding, rear-mounted trackpad concept catching fire in the wireless world, I actually think it's kind of cool and kind of handy after a near-week of testing. Over the long haul I'd have concerns about exposing my phone's QWERTY boards to the elements in (and out of) my pocket on a daily basis, but this review cycle didn't allow for long-term testing, so who knows what all of those Backflip keyboards will look like six months down the road.
Backflip is another in the growing ranks of Android-powered budget smartphones, phones set apart . Like MotoBlur and want AT&T? Awesome! Backflip gets you some MotoBlur on AT&T. Like Android and dig Backflip's funky design? Great! Swallow a wee bit of performance lag right now and you've one unique Android phone that's ready for its 2.1 upgrade. And if you just want to TXT, tweet, and Facebook on the go, look at Backflip as a newer, more futureproof version of that Sidekick LX or enV Touch that your friend from Algebra class has been carrying for the past nine months.
Just don't expect Droid or Nexus One type performance – or any sort of Google-powered search whatsoever – and Backflip should hold up as an Android messaging-smartphone on the cheap. Motorola has finally ushered in the age of Android for AT&T users.


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'Teen Mom' Kailyn Lowry Gets An Expensive Tattoo
Kailyn, you said you don't have money for diapers or rent, so WHY are you spending money on an expensive tattoo!?!
Teen Mom 2 star Kailyn Lowry has talked openly about her money problems — including struggling to afford diapers for Isaac or rent on an apartment — but in a new bonus scene from MTV, we see her spending money on a large, pricey tattoo! She says it's for Isaac, but wouldn't he be better off using that money toward things he actually needs?
On average a tattoo costs at LEAST $40, and that's the minimum price for a small sized tattoo! Kailyn's goes across her back and features the quote, "To the world you are one person, but to one person you are the world." A custom tattoo of that size most likely costs $100 at the very least! That's a lot of money for somebody on a small income like Kailyn!
In the clip, we see Kailyn go to Sacred Art Tattoo Parlor in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. "Are you excited?" Kailyn's friend asks. "I'm more nervous than anything," she replies.
As she gets the tattoo, Kailyn is clearly in pain. "I'll never get another tattoo," she says. "Definitely worse than having a baby."
In the end, she loves her new tattoo. But was it worth it?
UPDATE: HollyBaby.com spoke with the tattoo artist who did Kailyn's tattoo and learned that the tattoo was a present from Sacred Art Tattoo Parlor. "As a mom, she really doesn't have a ton of money, obviously," Stacey Donadio told us.
Kailyn's tattoo normally would cost about $100 to $150, depending on the detail of the work, Stacey added.
Kailyn was very grateful for the gift. "She didn't expect it to be free," Stacey said. "She was really easy going, very friendly. She's a very, very nice girl."
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Nah, diggy's cool. Diggy vs Lil Chuckee... no contest haha Maybe drake could stand up to these guys but the rest of Young Money got no chance, even Wayne couldn't take Wale or Lupe
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Drew McManus pointed out a piece written by Michaela Boland which had some interesting quotes by Greg Sandow with whom I don't necessarily agree on many points though he is one of the critics of the current status quo of Classical Music in the US.
Among the orchestras that have shut their doors and dismissed players there are some groups that have survived due to radical restructuring, which is where Sandow sees the future of the industry. Columbus Orchestra, by way of example, staved off closure in 2008 and retained 53 full-time players by reducing salaries by 27 per cent. Detroit Symphony Orchestra is engaged in similar talks with players.
Sandow argues that players in America's top orchestras have traditionally been well paid, with salaries above $100,000, and the cuts are having an invigorating effect. "It's interesting to talk to young musicians about this; they don't see it as a problem, they'd consider themselves lucky to get any of these positions," he says.
Historically, however, because of the status and the good pay, few of them could secure such jobs.
Sandow says that if the Philadelphia Orchestra were to suddenly discharge all its musicians and replace them with young players on contract, what might be lost in polish could easily be made up for in pizazz.
"I wonder if that wouldn't be more exciting to hear," he says. "It might really surprise people."
This echoes some things said by Eric Edberg during the Detroit Symphony Orchestra debacle
I'm living in New York this semester, and have met a number of young free-lance players, some of whom are graduate students at big conservatories. Guess what? Most have little if any sympathy for the DSO players (who have not managed to successfully reframe the conversation and are losing the PR war, even with music students). They love all sorts of music in addition to classical music. Plenty find traditional symphony (and other) concerts boring. There are plenty of classical-change advocates, in various stages of self-awareness, among them. Right now, they have little or no work. Student and, in many cases, instrument loans to pay. Fantastic players.
Many see the union as the problem (even if they're not going through one of those college-age Ayn Rand phases). The players have been successfully characterized to/construed by them as greedy, selfish, and/or out of touch. A lot of these incredibly-accomplished young players (and I bet there are bunches more in Baltimore, Bloomington, Cincinnati, Cleveland, LA,Miami, etc.) seem excited at the idea of going to Detroit to work in a "new model" symphony.
While Unions may or may not be the problem (cf. Michael Kaiser's recent post, Are Unions to Blame?) there is this sense that for good or ill, with younger musicians (many of whom are, as Eric says, struggling as freelancers much less in this economy) who haven't matured in the Union environment, few are going to have as much sympathy as those musicians who rely on collective bargaining to sustain their livelihood.
On the other hand, a question I've been exploring–or rather, I could reframe the title of this blog post in a different way–is, "Are Western Orchestras Replaceable?"


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How Factory Production Is Being Made More and More Automatic by Amazingly Accurate Methods of Measurement and Control
By CARL DREHER
YOUR life after the war is going to be affected by electronics in many ways. The great impact will come, not through any one spectacular development, but through the expanding uses of electronics in industry. Why? Because the production of countless necessities of life— houses, autos, machinery, tools, will be immeasurably speeded up and improved.
The extraordinary strides made by electronics in war production have pointed the way. We now know how to control manufacturing operations with superhuman accuracy, how to assemble materials with amazingly precise methods of welding, and how to run motors at infinitely varying speeds to suit each changing phase of machine operation. And we can do much of it automatically.
As Carl Dreher outlines the wonders of industrial electronics in this article, they give marvelous promise for the future. But they also present a great—perhaps an even greater—challenge because of the extent to which electronic controls may replace skilled workers.
THE variety of functions of which electronics is capable, in industrial applications alone, could not be described in anything short of an encyclopedia. All we can do here is to glance at a few things electronics can do better than they were done before, and others which, without electronics, could not be done at all. When, less than two centuries ago, James Watt began working on his steam engine, he was at first unable to obtain a round piston that would fit snugly inside a cylinder. With the machining methods then in use, there might be spaces of a quarter of an inch through which the steam could escape. Nowadays, machine parts are commonly made with a tolerance of less than a ten-thousandth of an inch. Length, thickness, speed, time, mass, illumination, chemical composition, electrical quantities—are all measured with an accuracy of only a few parts in a million, and usually you find electronic or semielectronic devices doing the measuring.
An example of a wholly electronic measuring instrument is the cathode-ray oscillograph. Called "the most versatile measuring instrument ever devised by science," it has been used in industry for not much over 10 years. The operating principle of the cathode-ray tube is the deflection of an electron beam by electrodes in the neck of the tube, to which an unknown variable voltage is applied. Functioning as a weightless pointer, the beam traces a curve on a fluorescent screen, which shows how the voltage varies with time.
In industry, the cathode-ray oscillograph will reveal exactly what is happening inside a radio transmitter or receiver. It will draw a picture showing how lightning affects a transmission line, an alternator, or a circuit breaker. The magnitude and duration of welding currents, the behavior of electronic motor controls, and of every other electronic or electrical machine, can be studied in the utmost detail. By using some form of pickup to convert mechanical into electrical energy, the vibrations of machines, engines, musical instruments, and timepieces may be analyzed. Metals may be tested for composition and characteristics by observing their magnetic or electrical behavior when subjected to high-frequency fields.
When the middle-aged engineers of today were at college, the usual method of measuring the speed of a rotating machine was to stick a mechanical tachometer or revolution counter against the end of the shaft. In the case of a very small motor, the tachometer load might be enough to slow it down. With high-speed machines, the method was likely to be inaccurate because of slippage. By means of an electronic straboscope—a light flashing at a known frequency—the speed of a rotating object may be measured accurately without contact.
Electronic measurements may deal with quantities inappreciable except by almost incredibly sensitive instruments, or as great as the distance of a star from the earth. They may soar out into space—or burrow into the earth. In scientific exploration for oil, dynamite is exploded in a shot hole, setting up a small artificial earthquake. Suitably disposed pickups, designed to convert earth vibrations into electrical vibrations, respond to the reflections from the underlying rock strata. The outputs of the pickups are amplified electronically and recorded as seismograph traces, which permit mapping substrata as deep as 20,000 feet.
The new technique of resistance welding requires electronic control. The process consists in joining metal parts by pressing them together mechanically, sending an electric current through the joint, then shutting off the current and maintaining the pressure for another instant while the molten metal "freezes." It sounds simple; the catch is that the number of amperes sent through the weld, and the length of time the current flows, must be precisely controlled. When a welding engineer specifies that a given number of amperes of 60-cycle current are to be sent through the metal for, say, a quarter of a second, he doesn't mean 14 or 16 cycles, he means exactly 15 cycles. Any deviation may mean the difference between a perfect weld and a poor one. Some types of precision resistance welding are actually done in a fraction of a cycle, and it has to be the same fraction each time, in the same part of the cycle.
Welding even thin sheet steel calls for currents of several thousand amperes. For large parts, welding currents may be in the vicinity of 50,000 amperes. These currents are produced by a step-down transformer, but even the primary current of such a transformer will run to several thousand amperes. Making and breaking currents of this magnitude is a ticklish job, and it has to be done automatically hundreds of times a minute. About the only kind of switch that measures up to the job is a frictionless and inertialess device in which small amounts of power can control large amounts —in short, an electronic device.
Resistance welding with electronic control, applied on a commercial scale, is now well over 10 years old. The war, plus the inherent reliability, speed, and economy of this type of welding, has given it a powerful impetus. Already over 10 percent of the rivets used in airplane manufacture have been replaced by spot welds. Ultimately there may be a 100 percent change-over in this field. This is only one application of resistance welding; gasoline tanks, automotive parts, refrigerators, and vacuum tubes are others.
Induction heating, a comparatively new method of applying heat in industrial operations, has also contributed materially to war manufacturing, and promises to play a significant part in postwar electronics. By older methods, heat is caused to flow into the material from the outside, so that the surface gets hot first and may be overheated before the inside is even warm. With electronic methods, heat may be produced within the material, so that, if desired the whole mass can be kept at a uniform temperature throughout the process. Or, with equal ease, electronic heat may be applied selectively. By using a small radio-frequency coil, for instance, it is possible to harden the slotted end of a setscrew to a depth of 1/10 inch, leaving the rest of the screw soft so that it will make a gastight seal. Gears or crankshafts, for example, may be surface-hardened without causing internal brittleness. A smooth coating of tin only 30 millionths of an inch thick may be electroplated on sheet steel heated inductively to a temperature of 450 degrees F. Many similar applications will be found in which electronic heating results in a better product.
There are two general types of induction heating: electromagnetic and electrostatic. If the material is a good conductor, it may , be placed in or near a coil of wire in which alternating current is flowing. The electromagnetic lines of force cut the material, inducing eddy currents that release heat. In other words, we make the material to be heated the secondary of a transformer and the secondary is also the load. If the material is a poor conductor or an insulator, we place it in the electric field between two metal plates connected to a radio-frequency oscillator. The material then becomes the dielectric element of a condenser or capacitor, and is heated by dielectric losses.
Electrostatic heating requires high frequencies; its present band is 500 kilocycles to 50 megacycles. Up to about 12,000 cycles, alternating-current generators are the usual power source, but in the kilocycle and megacycle ranges, vacuum-tube oscillators and, to some extent, spark gaps are employed. The process is then truly electronic and the name radiothermics is sometimes applied to it. (P.S.M., May '43, p. 56.)
A comparatively recent application of electrostatic heating is in the quick curing, or drying, of the glue and plastic adhesives in bonding plywood such as is used in airplane propellers. It is also important in the plastics industry. The preform, or piece to be molded, may be heated electronically so that when it reaches the molding press it is uniformly hot and plastic inside and opt. In the electronic "sewing machine," thermoplastic sheeting, such as is used in raincoats and packaging, may be joined by application of heat to soften the material and form a seam under pressure. The material is fed through a pair of rollers connected to a radio-frequency generator. Since the rollers are merely terminals and do not get hot themselves, the material has no tendency to stick to them and is readily welded into an air-and watertight bond.
In the development of mercury-arc and other electronic rectifiers for large-scale conversion of AC into DC, we see one of those long-term swings in technological history that color the lives of millions. . Around 1880, Thomas A. Edison created the electric-power industry from the theoretical materials of Faraday and the other pioneers. DC was his baby and he could never see anything else. But for some decades thereafter, the development of AC technique, associated with Westinghouse, Stanley, Tesla, Steinmetz, and other great names, was the principal feature of electrical engineering. Although DC remained important in electric traction, in communication, on ships, and later for ignition and lighting in automobiles and airplanes, in this period it was definitely in second place.
Now we are witnessing a veritable renaissance of DC. One reason for this is the superiority of the DC motor where flexible speed control is needed. A much bigger influence, however, is the rise of the electrochemical industry, in which DC is needed for the electrolytic production of magnesium, aluminum, copper, and other light and heavy metals. Since power distribution remains an AC province, this calls for increasing numbers and higher powers of electronic rectifiers of the ignitron type. Rotary converters could be used, but rotating machinery has its disadvantages, especially at high voltages. Tubes are less liable to become damaged from overloads, and are better adapted to handle varying power requirements.
The availability of convenient and efficient rectifiers, in turn, encourages industrialists to use DC equipment for still other purposes. So DC and electronics, in partnership, are going places—and the technological irony of it is that all rectifiers derive originally from the "Edison effect" of electronic emission from lamp filaments, which dates back to 1883. AC won out over Edison, but now, to an increasing extent, we are converting AC back to DC, using another of his nuclear ideas.
Even in the field of long-distance power transmission, in which AC has reigned unchallenged for half a century, it may have to move over and make room for DC. Among other engineer-prophets, J. D. Ross, the public-power magnate of the Northwest, foresaw vast power transmissions over thousands, not hundreds, of miles—from generating sites near deposits of cheap coal to the great industrial centers. Ross talked of blocks of a million kilowatts to be transmitted from the lignite beds of the Northwest to Chicago and New York. But not by AC.
For one thing, the potentials required would be of a half million volts and up. With AC this would entail peak voltages 1.41 times as great, which at a given point would become impossible to handle. A DC voltage is always the same and, since it has no peak value, is less liable to trouble from corona and flash-back. DC is also free from inductive and capacitative losses.
Alternating current would remain in the picture for generation and voltage transformation, but once the voltage was stepped up, grid-controlled mercury-arc rectifiers or equivalent electronic means would convert it to DC for transmission. At the other end, the power would again be converted to AC, stepped down for local distribution, and consumed either as AC or, after another rectifier stage, as DC.
The first modern factories generated water and, later, steam power in large blocks and distributed it mechanically to the machines through a maze of ceiling drive shafts, pulleys, and belts in which the greater part of the power was lost. The only method of speed control the individual operator had was to change pulley ratios. He stopped his machine by letting the belt run free, or by means of a clutch. Individual electric-motor drive, which began to come into use in American factories in the late 1880's, gave the operator much more accurate and flexible control. But it still involved human reactions and judgment, and it was necessarily discontinuous. Something happened and somebody did something and the machine responded, early or late, rightly or wrongly, depending on the skill of the operator and the inertia of the intervening mechanism.
Engineers and industrialists realized that the ideal method in mass production would be to let the material being worked make its own predetermined and continuous adjustments of the driving mechanism. This obviously required some form of feedback by which the material could talk back to the machine. An example is seen in Fig. 1 on page 131, where a loop in a sheet or wire strip that is being fabricated regulates, through mechanical or electrical linkage. the speed of the driving machine in proportion to the increasing diameter of the material as it winds up on a reel.
But what was the feedback linkage to be ? If, in order to control the power source, it had to handle considerable amounts of power itself, the inertia of the parts would slow down the response and make the mechanism less effective. Obviously, what was needed was an amplifier. The electronic engineers furnished the solution in the form of a system of vacuum tubes and associated circuits which, given a small stimulus, would react in a big way—silently, reliably, and in practically no time at all.
Fig. 2 shows one form of electronic motor control. A DC motor has its field and armature supplied from an AC source through an adjustable voltage rectifier using thyra-tron tubes. When the loop becomes too long, the reactor core enters the coil, altering the phase relations of the grid and plate voltages in the thyratron and causing the motor to speed up. A short loop withdraws the core and slows down the motor. Instead of a reactor, a photoelectric system may be employed, as in Fig. 3, where the loop varies the amount of light reaching the photocell and regulates the speed of the motor accordingly.
An outstanding advantage of this type of electronic motor control is that the tubes act as both rectifiers and regulators, making it possible to use DC motors on existing AC power lines. The AC motor is essentially a constant-speed device, since its speed bears a fixed relation to the frequency of the current. Manufacturing processes often require a variable-speed drive. The DC motor fills this requirement perfectly. It is possible not only to vary speed as required by the manufacturing process, but to control acceleration, deceleration, and even direction of rotation. The electronic control will start the motor, bring it up to a preset speed, change the speed, brake and stop the motor, then reverse it. All the operator has to do is put the material into the machine, press a button, and take the finished work out. In some cases, all he has to do is press the button.
Devices of this kind have been in use for about 10 years. So far, electronic motor control has been applied only to motors of relatively small horsepower, particularly in the machine-tool industry, but with larger tubes there is no reason why it cannot be used to control larger motors.
Electronic motor control belongs to a class of devices capable of doing something electronically that otherwise would have to be done—usually not so well—by human effort. The converse of this is when something is kept constant under changing conditions, like the output voltage of an alternator under varying load. The same thyratrons that vary motor speed can be used to vary the field excitation of the alternator, raising and lowering it in proportion to the shifting load more accurately than a human operator could do it, and keeping the AC line voltage constant to within a fraction of a volt.
Then there is a multitude of electronic detecting, counting, sorting, and inspecting devices. The inertia of electrons is negligible, and photoelectric relays are now made to operate reliably 1,000 times a minute. Some electronic counting systems will respond to half a million counts a minute. From counting it is only a step to sorting. If defective rivets have a different color from sound ones, the photocell will differentiate between them and, through a relay and motor system, knock the defective rivets to one side as they pass down a chute. Differences in magnetic or acoustic behavior can likewise be used to separate the sheep from the goats. Phototubes will detect irregularities in the width, thickness, or hardness of sheet metal, or pinholes that cannot be caught by the human eye.
Finally, electronic devices can be used not only to replace the human senses and muscles, but to veto human actions. The operator of a machine gets his hand too near the cutting tool. A light beam is intercepted and the machine stops before anything can happen. Industrial accidents are one of our chief enemies. The National Safety Council reports that from the time of Pearl Harbor to the spring of this year, industrial accidents killed 102,000 war workers, permanently disabled 350,000 more, and injured no less than 9,500,000. Anything that electronics can do to reduce these tragic totals will be welcome indeed.
Electronics will certainly play a large part in the new world and solve many industrial problems, but it may create new economic and political ones. Electronic devices in industry are, in great part, labor-displacing devices.
True, postwar electronics will create jobs in other fields, as in television, and perhaps by reducing manufacturing costs of many articles. But we have no guarantee that on net balance it will increase employment. If, then, we want progressive factories, we shall also need progressive thought about what we are going to do with those factories. Such questions will inevitably arise, and no electronic machine will provide the answers.


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At a panel event in Austin, producers of niche internet TV said they are pinning hopes on the next charge of set top boxes, led by Apple TV. Advertising cash follows eyeballs, and Steve Jobs' other 2007 launch will be their turnkey to release programming from its current techie audience, members of the SXSW crowd told The Register.
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Zeppelin Attack!
She responded, "Oops :( "
...and then at the same time, we both said "Well we'll just let her go in the alliance district, then!"
(This all was happening in /say... but of course, the alliance around us don't speak Orcish, so it just resulted in laughs from the scattering of horde players that happened to be nearby!)
Now, walking circles in Dalaran only keeps you entertained for so long, even with humorous conversation, so I pulled out a zeppelin kit from the toy store.
One single zeppelin can result in over an hour of fun.
We took turns throwing the zepp back and forth as we ran around Dalaran, keeping just out of range of the zeppelin graphics catching us. A small fleet of them chased us through the city. We eventually went out to Krasus' Landing and just ran circle-laps around the landing pad, going in opposite directions, tossing the zeppelin back and forth as we crossed paths, forming a relative bee-swarm of zeppelins between us.
...and we were giggling like children.
It was not the first time a pair of Vortex girls had an hour+ of fun with a zeppelin kit. Many months ago, two of our other raiders had discovered the giggle-fest that is the zeppelin toy, only they actually took a video of it!
(edit: and I can't spell zeppelin.)
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heheh... I don't know why Youtube squished the video, but I didn't have time to look into it. Was busy with another project :)
If I fix it will update you for new link.
- March 16, 2010 at 12:10 PM
Wow, my 8 year old just goggled over the multitudes of the things...a n yes, she has indulged in the fun that is the paper zeppelin, throwing them and being chased by them all over Dalaran! :)
(btw, she's home sick from school today, in case anyone wonders) :)
- March 16, 2010 at 12:12 PM
- Kae said...
Hehe, what a perfect way to spend time when you're not feeling well :)
- March 16, 2010 at 3:54 PM
- Sorrel said...
Loved the Zephelin video, just fantastic and very playful.
Farming Wintergrasp? You should get your lovely guildies to clear ulduar 10 to Freyas room, and take out the Elders but not Freya. The herbs (inc Frost Lotus plants) respawn every 30 mins. You will need to do some stealthing around on your druid, or its even easier on a alt rogue. Just extend the raid id and hope ulduar isnt the raid weekly.
- March 17, 2010 at 1:39 AM
- Kae said...
My herber is a terribly undergeared shaman alt. ;) She's also not gone anywhere near Wintergrasp.... Wintergrasp is for fish feasts (and happened to be the fishing daily)!
- March 17, 2010 at 8:18 AM


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If I run
top -p <myPID> -n 1 with a terminal that isn't wide enough, the CPU utilization % is omitted from the output. When trying to find a process' cpu utilization via bash scripting, this is a huge problem, as the script won't work if the terminal you're running it in isn't wide enough.
ps -oe pcpu,pid,cmd will give me the total average cpu, but not a running utilization.
Is there a command that I can use to get the current cpu utilization of a process that isn't dependent on terminal width?