Motivation HEH!

Who did I really work for?

When I was a kid in my 20's I had all this motivation. Stupid notions like "I'm going to buy tools and learn to use them and work for myself"


Sounds good enough to pass, huh?


It don't work that way.


I got all the tools. I got very good at what I did. I thought I owned those tools. I bought them, right?


I didn't own them, they owned me. I didn't work for myself, I worked for them. The day I finally came to understand was one day using my (at least) tenth table saw I noticed that I had only ever used one for me and that was my first one and that was only to learn how to use it well. I kept thinking and thinking and now 5 or more pressure washers, airless house painters, 100's of saws, hundreds of drills and accessories. All of them I only ever used for myself to learn with and from there they were nothing but parts of something that owned my ability to make a living.


Without me they are trash fit to be taken from me and used by another. Hardly what I'd call a good friend. More like a woman waiting for someone else to run off with. But I on the other hand am a tiny bit more loyal. Not because I'm polite or consumed with concerns about them but because I need them to survive at any level above extreme poverty.


That my friends is the ultimate insult, both to my ambitions and myself. To fall into a trap like that is a sign of arrogance, shortness of foresight and a lack of ability to see beyond ones selfish pride.


I don't know anything beyond the fact that I miss my tools and loved my work even though I never worked for myself....

Monsanto will poison all of our food, they are already trying to....

Below are two films dealing with what has been going on with our food supply and permanent changes that will effect our health without a doubt.

Both videos are better viewed in full screen. There is a full screen box at the bottom of each allowing you to view them that way.

Controlling Our Food
1:48:57 - 2 years ago
On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television - a documentary that Americans won’t ever see. The gigantic bio-tech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years.



Taken from [here] 
Next one is from here   http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6262083407501596844#docid=-8098965482866581381

The Future of Food: What Every Person Should Know with Deborah Garcia
57:46 - 3 years ago
What should every person know about the food they ingest. The documentary "The Future of Food" changed the way we think about food(and continues to do so) by answering this very question. But, just how has food actually changed? Do we need to worry about genetically modified foods? What about artificial foods? Learn all this more as Kurt Olson, host of the Educational Forum, sits down with Deborah Garcia the award winning creator of "The Future of Food."

Dobie Gray, Drift away

It was springtime 1973, long walks to school, most of it through the woods alone and a very confusing time for a kid my age.

I remember listening to this on my crappy old AM radio and it was BEAUTIFUL!

Thank You Mister Dobie Gray Sir for the smiles then and now.

How to save music, convert FLV to MP3 and save video's from the net...

This one I posted on my other blog, but it's still good for here...

You can save any file I post here very easily if you follow the steps below. Most will be saved as flv format which stinks if you want to put them on your I-Pod, flash drive (to view on your nice new digital-TV) or burn them to DVD. All you need is listed below to do it all for free.

First are two download devices. One is a program extension for both Mozilla Firefox & Internet Explorer. It's called "Orbit Downloader". I like the program and use it most all the time but the upgrades never seem to work for me. I built a brand new PC yesterday and installed the latest version and it does not see content from YouTube. I have had that same problem in the past and my cure for it was getting an older version and keeping a copy of it. My next option is Ant.com's AntBar. It is a browser addon, but virus free. I have never tried it on Internet Explorer because I won't use internet Explorer but it does work fine with Firefox. The only couple complaints I have on that addon are that everything goes by default into it's own folder and next that it gives the file the name that it chooses. I hate that because I download telivision shows in series and it's almost impossible to put them into proper order for viewing when the names are something like "oyouu iiuoo 0ast" & "agth fgres tytytyooon" & people name them that way for a reason (to avoid search engines). Between the two & with a little bit of messing around with em you can save just about anything you view or listen to.

Here is the version of Orbit Downloader that I'm still using [version 2.71], here is their site for the newest one [link here]. Here is the site for Ant Bar...

Download from any video site

Download version 1.5 for : Internet Explorer - Mozilla Firefox

Those are to save with. To view I recomend you get 2 players. First is VLC Player from Media Lan because it will play almost everything "if" you get the additional plugin package. Both are free at this link [here] for Windows or Mac. Some flv movies and vids will not decode properly with that application, so you might need another. It's a sweet tiny stand alone program (means you don't need to install it and can even run it off of a flash drive), it's called appropriatly "Wimpy Media Player". Here is the link to that [link]. One great thing about Wimpy is you can toss it onto a disk or drive with a movie or some vids and you don't get screamed at for installing anything on yer friends computer. Just click on it and browse for the file or drag the file onto it & it plays.

Last is FormatFactory:

You should grab this right now and save a copy of the program in your storage files because out of about 100 progs I've seen, used (& paid for) this one is the tops. It can convert anything except SWF & FLA to anything and it's FREE. I have seen these progs jump from free to "fork over $89.00 for a working version" within days and without warning. Here is the link for the free version out now [link]. One tad bit of advice with this prog is you gotta use the settings if you value good sound quality. By default it has audio output set to 122 bit, I'm not a fan of blurry sounds, it is set same for ripping cd's. I just go into settings and increase the quality settings and file is a little larger but worth the extra effort & space consumption.

Aunt Gini the first post is for you Hon.

Please bear with me here because I haven't formatted it at all except for the basics. I'll get on that soon though.

Here are some interesting video's like the ones I was talking to you about earlier. Please enjoy and on most of these there is usually a box down on the right corner that allows you to view in full screen.

First is called "The Missing Secrets Of Nikola Tesla ". I'm sorry but it's 46 minutes long and still a fantastic film.



Next is a 3 & 1/2 minute short on how to snag electricity from potatoes.



Or with a lemon...



Or leave the food alone and just take some out of the earth...



Prefer 12 Volts???



There are many-many more examples but the point is "Electricity is everywhere".

Love Ya Auntie...

Dave