Archive for the 'Westside Representation' Category

Monday, June 5th, 2006

Amen Brother

Most people have no idea that 6 seconds of drumming from a 1969 B-side is the foundation for almost all modern Jungle and Drum & Bass music. Used in literally thousands of songs, from hip hop to electronica, and even in commercials, the drum break from The Winston’s Amen Brother is the single most used sample of all time.

Sure the video is kind of long (at 18+ minutes) and all you ever see is a turntable, but it’s quite informative for those who dont know the story. Once it’s been pointed out, you will hear sample’s of this song everywhere.

-CGP fo Life-

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

419er Gets What He Deserves

This guy was selling a nice video camera used on Amazon and was being pestered by Nigerian 419 scammers. When they went to the extreme of faking Amazon purchase conformations he decided to get revenge. Instead of getting a Cannon GL2 in his scamming little hands, this Nigerian recieved a box of feces, and had to pay the FedEx bill to boot.

“A day or so after listing the GL2 I started receiving emails from interested parties. I was immediately suspicious when I received multiple inquiries wanting to pay for the GL2 via Bidpay and requesting that I ship the Canon GL2 to Nigeria. Each time I responded that the Canon GL2 had to be purchased via the amazon.com purchasing system and that I could ship the GL2 to Nigeria. I also would inform the prospective buyer that I would ship the GL2 as soon as I received confirmation from amazon.com confirming the sale of the GL2. Soon after responding I would receive another email  that looked as if it originated from amazon.com, I believe this is called phishing, stating that my camera had been sold and to ship it to some person in Nigeria. Whenever I receive a sale confirmation email from amazon.com I log into my account at amazon.com to verify the legitimacy of the email and each time the camera was still listed as not sold and there was not any money transfered into my amazon.com account. At this point I was certain that the confirmation emails from amazon.com were fraudulent and I was being scammed.”

The above photo is from the always excellent 419Eater.

-CGP fo Life-

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Saturday, January 7th, 2006

TivoToGo for Mac NOT Vaporware!

Long promised but never delivered, Tivo is showing early test versions of TivoToGo for Mac OS X at CES. TivoToGo lets you download recordings from Tivo Series 2 and presumably the newly annouced series 3 to your Mac and from there move it to other media devices. Burn a DVD, put it on your PSP, or watch it on your iPod Video. The question is: “How long till this shows up on BitTorrent?”

-CGP fo LifÉ™-

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Thursday, December 1st, 2005

LivePlasma

LivePlasma is a music suggestion (movies too) service with a twist. It makes stunning relational charts with a nice and simple (DHTML??) interface. It’s still in beta but seems pretty funtional to me.

-CGP fo Life-

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Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

Kazakhstan Looses Sense of Humor

Kazakhstan doesnt like Ali G, damn commies.

“Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry threatened legal action on Monday against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who wins laughs by portraying the central Asian state as a country populated by drunks who enjoy cow-punching as a sport.

Baron Cohen, who portrays a spoof Kazakh television presenter Borat in his “Da Ali G Show”, has won fame ridiculing Kazakhstan, the world’s ninth largest country yet still little known to many in the West.”

-CGP fo Life-

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Monday, November 14th, 2005

Beer Container Protocol

So I’ve been drinking (which I do a lot) and thinking (which I don’t do nearly enough) and came up with something amazingly brilliant. But then I forgot it and scribbled down this instead. Like most of the women I sleep with, I am sure I’ll regret this tomorrow.

Beer Container Protocol

Keg - Always the preferred container for Gods Gift. The man with a keg controls all. They can even be mobilized thanks to dollies and indentured servants. Bringing your keg out in public will attract moochers nine times out of ten, so be sure to bring lots of bear repellant.

Pitcher - If above mentioned indentured servant is otherwise occupied then this is your next best choice. Don’t want to share your pitcher? Damn right you don’t, and by drinking directly from the pitcher, no one but the drunkest slob will want to share your Saliva Pale Ale.

Pint Glass - Simple, elegant, and always there for you (unlike your girlfriend, who’s always there for ME). In the Beer Protocol, the Pint Glass comes third.

Glass Bottle - Hey at least it’s not a can!

Yard Glass - Frat boy novelty. If there’s good beer in it, the second foot and a half will be warm and flat by the time you reach it. If there’s bad beer in it, then I hope you trip and cut yourself on a yard of glass you schmuck

Beer Hat - Makes up for the use of cans by being considered formal-wear in Kentucky. Two beers at a time means you can get funk draster!

Beer Bong - That sixer of Naughty Ice that some loser brought over isn’t gonna drink itself. MGD, Bud, PBR, or any other beer that is only valuable for the liquor content can quickly drown your troubles via a large funnel and 3 feet of smelly rubber tubing from Home Depot.

Beer Can - Consider this simply a momentary container before filling your beer bong. Canned beer tastes bad, is not a usable weapon, and despite what your gay uncle told you, it will not make you forget that time he touched your no-no spot.

Plastic Beer Bottle - What good is a beer container if you can hurt a Major League Baseball player with it?

Beer Goggles - Not a Beer container but something everyone should always be wary of. If she’s talking to you and not trying to steal your wallet, then she’s ugly.

-CGP fo Life-

Monday, September 26th, 2005

Wookies need love too

From Witz.org via BoingBoing. I dont care if it’s real or fake, either way it’s still funny.

-CGP fo Life-

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Monday, September 19th, 2005

International Talk-Like-A-Pirate-Day

Arggggghhhh me matey, today be International Talk Like A Pirate Day. The holiest day of the year for Pastafarian’s around the world.

So grab your wench, fight the scurvy, and raise your grog!

-CGP fo Life-

P.S. - Yes I know the PirateBay Logo is for a totally different type of pirate but it’s such a cool logo.

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Thursday, July 28th, 2005

Sony PSP Development for OS X

A guy by the name of Mr. Spiv has released a PSP SDK for Mac OS X!

“Precompiled binaries of Oopo’s GCC 4.0.1 toolchain dated 20050725 and PSPSDK revision 792 for Mac OSX. This time also PSPSDK doxygen docs are included. Download the dmg (46 megs). The toolchain and the sdk installs under /opt/local/pspdev/. Remember to set up your PATH environment variable to point to /opt/local/pspdev/bin and PSPDEV to /opt/local/pspdev and PSPSDK to /opt/local/pspdev/psp/sdk PSPSDK documentation is located at /opt/local/pspdev/psp/sdk/docs/html”

Why not give it a whirl?

-CGP fo Life-

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

Jagermeister Tap

I dont drink much Jagermeister, but this dispenser is so cool I may just have to start. It holds 3 bottles and cools each shot down to 12 degrees before dispensing. Of course I want one.

-CGP fo Life-

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