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Month: June 2008

Warnings from America

Published by NiteMayr on June 10, 2008

According to the May 1, 2008 CCC inventory
report there are only 24.1 million bushels of wheat in inventory, so
after this sale there will be only 2.7 million bushels of wheat left
the entire CCC inventory,” warned Matlack. “Our concern is not that we
are using the remainder of our strategic grain reserves for
humanitarian relief. AAM fully supports the action and all humanitarian
food relief. Our concern is that the U.S. has nothing else in our
emergency food pantry. There is no cheese, no butter, no dry milk
powder, no grains or anything else left in reserve. The only thing
left in the entire CCC inventory will be 2.7 million bushels of wheat
which is about enough wheat to make 1⁄2 of a loaf of bread for each of
the 300 million people in America.”

source:  http://www.fsa.usda.gov/Internet/FSA_File/wid2a.pdf

source of quote: http://www.standeyo.com/NEWS/08_Food_Water/080606.no.grain.reserves.html

Things look dire in this article, but they may not be as bad as all that.  The source article certainly makes it sound more dire than I hope it is.  I don’t trust the source implicitly.

Twitter Updates for 2008-06-09

Published by NiteMayr on June 9, 2008
  • Back at the office, shooed away flight-vermin from entrance to office. #
  • cleared some tickets – shooed the flight rats – transferred security tapes, good morning thus far #
  • Inbox is clean – tickets are clean – sweating #
  • dealing with the trauma of fanboys discussing the politics of comic book characters. #
  • “Generals Gathered in Their Masses – Just Like Witches at Black Masses”… Hmmm, that sounds right, Let’s proceed. #
  • Didn’t the keynote say the max price would be 199 USD for the phone itself? #
  • Hmm, I am teh suck at reading. #
  • What does your phone do that makes it a real SciFi affair? [if it did it 60 years ago] #
  • @JCDean I had registration turned off (due to incessant comment spam) Here you go: http://tinyurl.com/5akqsr #
  • @picard102 Looking at their prices, I don’t think they will even kiss you afterward. #
  • @ Me Gotta put the analytics code back in place dude. #
  • IUpon seeing wheel of fortune, I switched the channel. Me waving my hands : “Poof, I used my magic powers to ^*#& it off” #

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Edge of the Storm

Published by NiteMayr on June 8, 2008


Edge of the Storm, originally uploaded by NiteMayr.


Didn’t make a connection with Lynnette this weekend to get a shoot done; by the time we were both free to do anything (she was working, I was babysitting) we had other commitments. We’re going to have to plan this out some.

It stormed in Kincardine when we arrived, it has stormed here in London and I lost power.

Losing power reminded me that I have a UPS on hand to deal with storms. I installed it and took the opportunity to plug in my USB hub finally and cleared some of the wire clutter from the front of my desk.

I think in the end I might get large prints made online again, with smaller or instant prints done “wherever is closest and cheapest”.

Airport Security is for the Poor

Published by NiteMayr on June 7, 2008

Full Body Scanners Installed In 10 US Airports

Where are the threats? Where are the terrorists? Where is the danger? Is there ANYONE on /. that knows where the proven irrefutable answers are?

These scanners are not necessary in any other country. Not even those that have actual terrorist living there (according to bushco). What is the real reason for these scanners?

I’m betting that it is to acclimatize the populace to intrusive searches for ‘security’ reasons.

I had the distinct fortune to fly on a private plane recently. It was not large, but it was just for me and Jen.

I didn’t even have to produce ID.

Now, I wasn’t crossing any borders, but I also didn’t have to go through any form of security or get asked any questions about my bags either. I *WAS* going on a plane that *COULD* be used for terrorism, but no one cared to even perform the basic anti-terrorism or security checks that we are forced to endure when we board a large passenger plane.

I flew out of Person International, before anyone thinks I was flying from some out of the way airfield run by Scorpio and Co.

So, what do I think was going on? Put simply, security checks are for the poor and the “masses”.

If one was a terrorist, one could simply use a private jet to perform my nefarious deeds with planes. Considering how wealthy at least one Terrorist is; this doesn’t seem outside the realm of possibility.

Look, I’m all for asking people to leave their weapons in locked suitcases, but lets assure people that their cases won’t be opened and ransacked by underpaid unmonitored tsa (or not) employees after they leave the care of the customer.

I’m fine with x-rays and so on, but let’s not get crazy. Airport security has already veered into, totally insane, and the practice of ignoring it in the case of private planes is just insulting to the rest of the world.

What do you think?

Twitter Updates for 2008-06-06

Published by NiteMayr on June 6, 2008
  • It’s HOT already! I’m not even dressed yet! Air conditioning ON! #
  • Air Conditioning is on… it’s a bit cooler now. I’m going to cool the house down to 73 and no lower #
  • Almost Done with webcam setup #
  • My webcams are on at at http://nitemayr.com in the media window #
  • Sorry Fowgre, the scrappers came and took all the hardware this AM. (they were FAST!) #
  • @brianshaler Like Money? 10 / Important to me? 8 #

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Started work on my First "Book"

Published by NiteMayr on June 6, 2008

I’m finally going to put some of my less emo poetry together with my more stirring photography to make a photo book I can give as a gift and keep for posterity.

I snagged all of my old blog posts and now I’m going to have to get my poetry together too.

The working title is “Sometimes with Family”

First Heat Advisory of the Year

Published by NiteMayr on June 6, 2008

680News – ALL NEWS RADIO.

Environment Canada has issued a humidex advisory for tomorrow with readings expected to be near 40 degrees Celsius.
The advisory stretches from Windsor to Barrie and Orillia and includes Toronto and all of the 905.
A pronounced warm front will cross southern Ontario tonight and introduce the first heat wave of the season.
In fact several days of heat and humidity are in store for the southern portions of the province.

It’s already fairly hot in here, it must suck outside. Yesterday was terrible for me (I had on a heavy undershirt), I’m gonna go undershirt-less today I think.

Twitter Updates for 2008-06-05

Published by NiteMayr on June 5, 2008
  • Getting my hands on thew new Nine Inch Nails tour Sampler: http://dl.nin.com/lightsinthesky/signup #
  • Sweating, already. #
  • Sweating, more-so. #
  • The LCD on my I-POD is wrecked, DAMN! #
  • @fowgre Hit me up via the contact info at http://nitemayr.com I have Machines for your community group. (maybe) #
  • Thinking that if it is as hot as this on Saturday, I will not be able to resist the beach #
  • Please, continue to mourn “NitePod” as his screen continues to degrade, perhaps I will replace him with a new iPod in the coming months #
  • Heading Out – Sniff – Poor iPod. #

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Moar Broken iPod

Published by NiteMayr on June 5, 2008


Post Game Damage, originally uploaded by NiteMayr.


Here’s a close up shot of the damage in action. I think it has stopped creeping over now so I am stuck with this. It still works, so the drama should trickle off now.

Unless I go all emo and start cutting or something, then the drama would continue.

In case I DO go emo, someone get there hands on some Hanson and Avril Lavigne and stand outside my window with it on a boom box.

in case of zombies, grab shotgun