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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
No particular reason to share this, just pulling some photos off of the iPhone. I love St. Augustine, although I never did find the fountain of youth.
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Monday, February 11th, 2008I apologize in advance for this… I wish I could offer an explanation.
Screenplay – Mark Wahlberg defeats the Terrorists (9/11)
Sunday, February 10th, 2008Music to set the mood while reading…
[intro narration]
Mark Wahlberg, actor and former lead singer of Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch narrowly escaped disaster in 2001 by leaving Boston one day too soon, on September 10, to party with a friend in Toronto before continuing onto Los Angeles. Wahlberg, with his reputation as a Hollywood bad boy whose real life entourage is the basis for the HBO hit show Entourage canceled his original flight, one of those flown into the World Trade Center on the morning on September 11.
[shot of plane flying into WTC]
[narration continues]
What would have happened if he and his bad ass crew had been flying first class that morning out of Boston’s Logan Airport? Could crisis have been averted?
[cue music, "Good Vibrations" by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch]
We see Mark Wahlberg and three bad ass south Boston white boys walking through an airport, girls swoon on the side, the woman at the counter blushes from his obvious charm as they priority board the flight. You can see his Rockstar/ Boogie Nights Charm carries over into real life. In the back of the scene, we barely see several Middle Eastern men scattered throughout the terminal. One of Mark’s assistants is carrying a leather briefcase.
We see him send a message to his friend Rasta Phil via blackberry:
“sorry we couldn’t come last night, see you in vancouver”
Next shot, everyone on the plane, its taking off, guys are joking around, you get the sense that these guys are majorly bad ass. We all know what happens next. Terrorists with box cutters try and take over the plane, they subdue the coach travelers, who are scared shitless, and come to the front of the plane, prepared to take it over.
They are met by four bad boys from South Boston, ready to fuck up these wicked queers. The fight breaks out, and its a battle. A few terrorists get taken out, then one of Mark’s boys gets knocked out. Mark’s short Irish temper flairs and he starts knocking heads together. Finally, his buddy with the briefcase unlocks it to reveal Mark’s special weapon: (of course the briefcase opens with a blinding white light, Tarantino style) his Boogie Nights prosthetic penis, which he always travels with, “Just in case”
He pulls out this impressively long shaft and wields it like a kitana blade, slapping the remaining terrorists into submission. He finally captures the “leader” and forces him to deep throat the entire thing, plastic balls nearly on his chin and he gasps for air. The terrorist begs him to stop, Marky, now in complete control demands to know what their now thwarted plans were. He pulls the huge cock out, the terrorist starts to tell him, in very broken english, says, “Bin Laden, Trade Center, Two Planes”
One of Marky’s crew quickly runs off to the Pilot, signaling that another plane going to NY was to be taken over.
Finally, the near dead, cock-choked terrorist says, no longer in broken English, now with perfect pronunciation: “You have defeated us Marky, Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with it.”
[song ends]
[cut to] Mark Wahlberg being awarded a medal by President Bush. We see Dick Cheney next to him, with a glint of disappointment in his eye.
[follow up]
Mark is cast to play himself in the movie version, called “Too Soon?”
Updating Twitter from Google Talk Status
Thursday, February 7th, 2008As you may have noticed, I’ve been aggregating a lot of personal data, both to mine for my own interests, and to give you, my faithful readers/ friends/ internet stalkers, a comprehensive way to keep track of me. Notably recent has been My Twitter Feed, which I’ve been updating fairly often. While there are some limitations with the Twitter Facebook App (how about a very simple way to find facebook friends who twitter to follow?) you CAN automatically update your facebook status based on your tweets. Synchronicity isn’t just a great Police album afterall!
Well the only other place I find myself updating status regularly is Google Talk (ICQ is so Eastern Europe, and AIM is so 1996) It’s wonderful that you can update your Twitter status by sending an im to the twitter@twitter.com bot, but I was thinking that it would be cool to have Twitter update when you change your Google Talk Status. Remarkably this hasn’t been done (other than using a ghetto spanish jabberbot) Please let me know if it has, because I wasn’t able to find it!
There’s a cool Twitter API and a very cool Jabber::Simple library. So I thought I’d play around for a few minutes. Unfortunately according to the XMPP people, the status part can be a little buggy, especially for Google Talk, because of multiple instances, etc, etc. So this is nowhere near perfect, and represents a very quick proof of concept. (duh) Anyway, I thought it would be fun to post some code, because I haven’t for a while.
So here it is, this was written from the point of view of having a bot to monitor your status updates, then twitter for you. Enough rambling.
require 'rubygems'
require 'twitter'
require 'xmpp4r-simple'
include Jabber
puts "Connecting Monitor..."
@jabber = Jabber::Simple.new('another_account@gmail.com', 'pass')
@twitter = Twitter::Client.new(:login => 'TWITTER_NAME',
:password => 'TWITTER_PASS')
@latest_tweet = @twitter.timeline_for(:me, :count => 1)
puts "Now Doing Update Checking"
@jabber.presence_updates do |update|
if update[0] == "YOUREMAIL@gmail.com"
&& update[1] == 
nline
&& update[2] != nil
&& update[2] != @latest_tweet.to_s #twitter it
@twitter.status(:post, update[2])
end
end
sleep 15
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