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So, just as I'm silently celebrating the fact that I have FINALLY stayed in a place for a year... I see a notice on my door.
The owners are putting the house on the market mid-October. The plan is to sell by December.
*sigh*
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Hey guys, I have a favor to ask.
A couple nights ago, a good friend of mine was hanging out in Oakland, and her car was stolen. Took less than two hours for her car to disappear.
I'd appreciate it if anyone noticed it and contacted me.
It's a 1990 Oldsmobile 88. Light blue, really faded paint (clear coat is peeling all over). It is completely stock, except for the stereo, which was replaced with a CD player. This isn't a picture of this specific car, but it does look almost exactly like this:
It is the same color and body style as the above picture, however the hubcaps are spokes.
The antenna is bent, and the trim around the driver side headlight is popping out (I've had to push it back in before).
If you see it around, please either respond to this post, send me a PM, email me at pyroja2kx@hotmail.com, or call me at 831-236-3142.
I appreciate the help, guys. My friend would really love to have her car (and her schoolbooks!) back.
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I'm whoring this out on all of my social network accounts.
Yes, I know the images are a bit noisy/crunchy. It was the first time I've shot an event like this and my flash didn't step up to the plate. It's tough being a poor college kid with limited gear, but I did what I could and pulled about 60ish shots from the fray and posted 'em online for the world to see.
Hopefully there's a few in there that stick out and you enjoy. I know I can't hold a candle to the other photogs there, but practice makes perfect and this is only the first step.
View and enjoy: http://s807.photobucket.com/albums/yy355/Tukayex/
[Photog, DJ, Techie, 'Rickipedia', Gamer, Gay Robot... I wear many hats from day to day, primarily because I need a haircut.] |
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ACQUIRED
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2xTechnics 1200MkII
Numark DM3001x
Shure M44-7 Cartridges on headshells
Crown CE1000 Power Amp
Yamaha BR15 (Pair) (THANKS DAD!)
Yamaha RH10MS Headphones
DESIRED
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2xTapco Thump TH15A
BFM Tuba Subwoofer
dbx DriveRack PA
2xBehringer 3031A
AEM-100i 2 Channel DJ Mixer
Behringer EURORACK UB1002 Mixer
Serato Scratch Live
Just a little wish list...
[Something Witty.]
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"Women really like this song" - Uncle Bethel
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"SINCE county supervisors passed a social host law in an attempt to crack down on teen drinking parties, 23 adult hosts have received $750 fines. The county law has been on the books for 18 months, but it is still surprising that some parents haven't gotten the message.
We commend county officials for enforcing the law and not deciding a symbolic statement was enough. That apparently is the approach in most Marin cities and towns, which all have passed social host ordinances that hold parents and other adults accountable for hosting or just condoning big teen drinking parties. "
Read the rest at the Marin IJ.
Thoughts? Opinions? Insights?
[Food for thought.]
Apr. 14th, 2009 @ 03:05 pm
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ACQUIRED
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Turntables
Mixer
Cartridges
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Headphones
PA
Monitors
Serato Scratch Live
Just a little wish list...
[Food for thought.]
Apr. 13th, 2009 @ 12:19 am
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[Food for thought.
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Apr. 6th, 2009 @ 01:19 am
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In some states, the age of consent and child porn statutes have the same age limits. For instance, a quick read of NV law shows the AOC to be 16. Child porn is defined as sexually explicit blah blah blah involving a person under 16. Federal law makes it a crime with a person under 18, but there may be some state line/interstate commerce nexus that needs to be fulfilled. I didn't feel like looking at too many states, but found this same AOC/CP thing with NH-16/16. Many states forbid distributing/exhibiting obscenity to people under 18, regardless of their AOC/CP statutes. SO, excluding the feds, it's not a crime to have sex with a 16 year old or film it. But, she can't watch the tape afterward. It's a crime to allow her 16 year old friend to watch the act as it occurs, but not a crime to have her join. Neither of them can smoke a cigarette or have a beer afterward. If either one were to rob,beat,kill one of their fellow participants, they would be tried as an adult in every state in the country.
[Food for thought.]
Mar. 30th, 2009 @ 08:38 am
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Canon just released the 500D! Not in stores yet, but should be soon -> http://www.dpreview.com/news/0903/09032504canoneos500d.asp
I'm excited. And on that note, anyone want to buy a 450D w/ kit lens in original box with all original accessories for $600? =DDD
[I am Rick, and I just need to grow up.]
Mar. 25th, 2009 @ 01:28 pm
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March 24, 2009
Strip-Search of Girl Tests Limit of School Policy
By ADAM LIPTAK
SAFFORD, Ariz. - Savana Redding still remembers the clothes she had on - black stretch pants with butterfly patches and a pink T-shirt - the day school officials here forced her to strip six years ago. She was 13 and in eighth grade.
An assistant principal, enforcing the school's antidrug policies, suspected her of having brought prescription-strength ibuprofen pills to school. One of the pills is as strong as two Advils.
The search by two female school employees was methodical and humiliating, Ms. Redding said. After she had stripped to her underwear, "they asked me to pull out my bra and move it from side to side," she said. "They made me open my legs and pull out my underwear."
Ms. Redding, an honors student, had no pills. But she had a furious mother and a lawyer, and now her case has reached the Supreme Court, which will hear arguments on April 21.
The case will require the justices to consider the thorny question of just how much leeway school officials should have in policing zero-tolerance policies for drugs and violence, and the court is likely to provide important guidance to schools around the nation.
In Ms. Redding's case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, ruled that school officials had violated the Fourth Amendment's ban on unreasonable searches. Writing for the majority, Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw said, "It does not require a constitutional scholar to conclude that a nude search of a 13-year-old child is an invasion of constitutional rights."
"More than that," Judge Wardlaw added, "it is a violation of any known principle of human dignity."
Judge Michael Daly Hawkins, dissenting, said the case was in some ways "a close call," given the "humiliation and degradation" involved. But, Judge Hawkins concluded, "I do not think it was unreasonable for school officials, acting in good faith, to conduct the search in an effort to obviate a potential threat to the health and safety of their students."
Richard Arum, who teaches sociology and education at New York University, said he would have handled the incident differently. But Professor Arum said the Supreme Court should proceed cautiously.
"Do we really want to encourage cases," Professor Arum asked, "where students and parents are seeking monetary damages against educators in such school-specific matters where reasonable people can disagree about what is appropriate under the circumstances?"
The Supreme Court's last major decision on school searches based on individual suspicion - as opposed to systematic drug testing programs - was in 1985, when it allowed school officials to search a student's purse without a warrant or probable cause as long their suspicions were reasonable. It did not address intimate searches.
In a friend-of-the-court brief in Ms. Redding's case, the federal government said the search of her was unreasonable because officials had no reason to believe she was "carrying the pills inside her undergarments, attached to her nude body, or anywhere else that a strip search would reveal."
The government added, though, that the scope of the 1985 case was not well established at the time of the 2003 search, so the assistant principal should not be subject to a lawsuit.
Sitting in her aunt's house in this bedraggled mining town a two-hour drive northeast of Tucson, Ms. Redding, now 19, described the middle-school cliques and jealousies that she said had led to the search. "There are preppy kids, gothic kids, nerdy types," she said. "I was in between nerdy and preppy."
One of her friends since early childhood had moved in another direction. "She started acting weird and wearing black," Ms. Redding said. "She started being embarrassed by me because I was nerdy."
When the friend was found with ibuprofen pills, she blamed Ms. Redding, according to court papers.
Kerry Wilson, the assistant principal, ordered the two school employees to search both students. The searches turned up no more pills.
Mr. Wilson declined a request for an interview and referred a reporter to the superintendent of schools, Mark R. Tregaskes. Mr. Tregaskes did not respond to a message left with his assistant.
Lawyers for the school district said in a brief that it was "on the front lines of a decades-long struggle against drug abuse among students." Abuse of prescription and over-the-counter medications is on the rise among 12- and 13-year-olds, the brief said, citing data from the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Given that, the school district said, the search was "not excessively intrusive in light of Redding's age and sex and the nature of her suspected infraction."
Adam B. Wolf, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, which represents Ms. Redding, said her experience was "the worst nightmare for any parent."
"When you send your child off to school every day, you expect them to be in math class or in the choir," Mr. Wolf said. "You never imagine their being forced to strip naked and expose their genitalia and breasts to their school officials."
In a sworn statement submitted in the case, Safford Unified School District v. Redding, No. 08-479, Mr. Wilson said he had good reason to suspect Ms. Redding. She and other students had been unusually rowdy at a school dance a couple of months before, and members of the school staff thought they had smelled alcohol. A student also accused Ms. Redding of having served alcohol at a party before the dance, Mr. Wilson said.
Ms. Redding said she had served only soda at the party, adding that her accuser was not there. At the dance, she said, school administrators had confused adolescent rambunctiousness with inebriation. "We're kids," she said. "We're goofy."
The search was conducted by Peggy Schwallier, the school nurse, and Helen Romero, a secretary. Ms. Redding "never appeared apprehensive or embarrassed," Ms. Schwallier said in a sworn statement. Ms. Redding said she had kept her head down so the women could not see that she was about to cry.
Ms. Redding said she was never asked if she had pills with her before she was searched. Mr. Wolf, her lawyer, said that was unsurprising.
"They strip-search first and ask questions later," Mr. Wolf said of school officials here.
Ms. Redding did not return to school for months after the search, studying at home. "I never wanted to see the secretary or the nurse ever again," she said.
In the end, she transferred to another school. The experience left her wary, nervous and distrustful, she said, and she developed stomach ulcers. She is now studying psychology at Eastern Arizona College and hopes to become a counselor.
Ms. Redding said school officials should have taken her background into account before searching her.
"They didn't even look at my records," she said. "They didn't even know I was a good kid."
The school district does not contest that Ms. Redding had no disciplinary record, but says that is irrelevant.
"Her assertion should not be misread to infer that she never broke school rules," the district said of Ms. Redding in a brief, "only that she was never caught."
Ms. Redding grew emotional as she reflected on what she would have done if she had been told as an adult to strip-search a student. Dabbing her eyes with a tissue, she said she would have refused.
"Why would I want to do that to a little girl and ruin her life like that?" Ms. Redding asked.
- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/us/24savana.html?_r=2&hp
Mar. 24th, 2009 @ 06:46 pm
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Went to Rouge on Saturday. Good times. Brought the Rebel with. Got some pics.
The pics are up -> http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v72/Pyroja/Rouge%2021MAR09/
[I am Rick, and I just need to grow up.]
Mar. 23rd, 2009 @ 02:04 pm
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Does anybody do LAN parties anymore?
[I am Rick, and I approve this message.]
Jan. 14th, 2009 @ 12:30 pm
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Hi Danielle.
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[Trojan.]
Dec. 13th, 2008 @ 07:33 pm
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Hmm.
I think I violated my own morals.
Nice.
[I am Rick, and I approve this message.]
Nov. 20th, 2008 @ 10:45 am
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It's my birthday.
Whee!
[I am Rick, and I approve this message.]
Nov. 18th, 2008 @ 01:25 pm
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| » Same as it ever was... |
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Reading old conversations from years gone by, I realize that so little has changed.
More than 3 years now, and it's the same as it ever was.
[X]: what are these plural mistakes you speak of?
Pyroja: Missed [opportunities.] Faltering at critical moments. Making bad choices. Various things.
Pyroja: I dunno.. My theory was.. I was a great guy, because I was myself, as good as I could be... [Then], I.. Changed a lot.
Pyroja: And I started despising that.
Pyroja: And wishing things were different.
Pyroja: Wishing I had made different choices.
Pyroja: Trying to figure out where I messed things up because there was a [path] there I should have taken that was a definite greatness and I didn't, I did something stupid and lost that chance.
Pyroja: And then [I] started thinking about how I was then, how am I now.
Pyroja: [Am I] really ... happy or am I just coasting along, going with the flow because that's what I always do?
Pyroja: And I was thinking.. Y'know, I don't really think I am.
Pyroja: But I can't even come up with that myself and be sure.
Pyroja: I have to keep asking others.
Pyroja: [Bring] the situation to them and see what they say
Pyroja: And I have to act confused and shiz because I can't [bring] myself to go through with what I should.
Same as it ever was.
[I am Rick, and I approve this message.]
Oct. 26th, 2008 @ 12:02 pm
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Good day,
I am MR.CHAO WEI, Bank of China (Hongkong),I have a business proposal
of (US$18,600,000.00) for you from my bank.Finally after that I shall provide
you with more details.Please send your details to My direct email:
chaweihk1@yahoo.com.hk for more information. Note if you are interested
send your response only to this email :- chaweihk1@yahoo.com.hk
Regards,
CHAO WEI.
I dunno guys... This sounds like it could be a helluva deal... What should I do?
[I am Rick, and I approve this message.]
Sep. 30th, 2008 @ 05:02 pm
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Why do I feel strangely alone?
[I am Rick, and I approve this message.]
Sep. 22nd, 2008 @ 11:57 pm
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Moved in.
That was a tiring weekend.
But it's done now.
Gotta hook up all my electronics still, though.
That'll be a heckuva chore.
[I am Rick, and I approve this message.]
Sep. 22nd, 2008 @ 10:07 am
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