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Cyclone in Burma

May 8th, 2008 friskyGeek politics | 0 Comments Digg This | ##

Almost a week after the devastating cyclone hit Burma, the first UN aid flights are finally underway. Its a shame that the Burmese government didnt let their ruthless arrogance aside and let the world help the people that cant help themselves.

100,000 people will have lost their lives as a result of this cyclone. I cant even fathom that amount of destruction. Its at this time that we need to take a step back from our daily mundane lives and count our blessings and thankful that we are alive and live in a place where we can take clean drinking water for granted. Its these basic necessities that the people in Burma and other regions of the world do not have.

I wish that we could help and actually make a difference but unfortunately donating money will not be that useful as the Burmese government insists on not letting any UN aid workers in and doesnt accept outside help. So unfortunately, a lot of people will die.

And we will let them.

The US loves invading countries - why doesnt it invade Burma to help these people? Cowards!

You can find ways to help here and here.

Recent Movie Viewings

May 1st, 2008 movies | 0 Comments Digg This | ##

Before the Devil Knows Youre Dead Marisa Tomei is naked pretty much in the entire film which is awesome. So is Philip Seymour Hoffman, which is not so awesome.
We Own The Night Just the run of the mill crime drama. Not bad, but predictable.
Away From Her What do you do when all the other movies in the inflight entertainment system? You watch this… But its not bad.
11th Hour Everyone should see this documentary. Every living breathing human being that is even a little bit concerned about what we’re doing to our planet.
Walk Hard Has some funny bits, otherwise falls flat.

People need to take a chill pill

April 20th, 2008 friskyGeek, photography rants | 2 Comments Digg This | ##

The new Virgin Atlantic area at Heathrow’s Terminal 3 is awesome.

Ive been flying Virgin since 2001 and I have to say its by far the best airline in the world. Too bad I cant say the same for the people that were working behind the Upper Class desk last Thursday when I was flying to Dubai. I was taking this photo of the area and after a few clicks, this douchebag Virgin employee comes up to me and asks whether I have “permission to take their pictures.” Im immediately annoyed and replied quite sharply, Im sorry, Im not taking YOUR picture, so I dont see why permission is necessary…. Besides, why on Earth would I need a picture of YOU??!!!” I said the last word quite harshly and bluntly. I then showed him the shots I had taken and ignored him as I started taking more pictures.

I guess he went away after he realised that he just made an ass out of himself. I hate taking pictures of people anyways - Im more interested in structures and buildings and such.

People just need to CHILL THE FUCK OUT!!!!

p.s. Happy 420 everyone!

Recent Movie Viewings

April 7th, 2008 movies | 2 Comments Digg This | ##

Dan in Real Life
The Ruins A slasher-type movie, but with brains. I havent read the book even though I wanted to but didnt get around to it. Its like the Decent, but a bit more clever and lot less blood and gore. I liked this one a lot.
21 Awesome film adapted from a true-life story of a gifted MIT student that started counting cards in Blackjack to win hundreds of thousands of dollars. The main character is played brilliantly and perfectly by a newcomer - we will definitely be seeing more of this kid.
Stop-Loss Stop-Loss is a political Anti-Iraq war movie. But its not a movie that makes villians out of Bush or the Administration like so many Iraq movies do. Its about the solider and everything the Army and the country takes out of him, including his humanity and sanity. Thats why this movie is different and thats where it prevails as the closest commentary on the reality of the war.

Pimp Your Website!

April 2nd, 2008 friskyRadio | 1 Comment Digg This | ##

Have a website or a blog? Who doesnt these days. Well, if you want to make your website a little more frisky and sexier, add the friskyRadio miniFrisky(TM) player to it today! Its basically a web player that will play the friskyRadio stream from any website. Think YouTube, but for friskyRadio. Er, minus all those annoying dog-on-skateboard videos. Here’s what it looks like:

Sexy huh? You can even configure its colours, to make it blend better with the look and feel of your website.

OK - I’ll stop yapping now. The player is in Private Beta and you can get it here!

Its I have been working on for the past two months, and I will continue to make improvements to it… I had to teach myself flash to make this little bugger. Isnt he cute?

Your April Fools Joke Sucks

April 1st, 2008 friskyRadio Linkage | 0 Comments Digg This | ##

I woke this morning to yet another lame ass April Fools Joke from Google. I dont even care anymore. In fact all day today there has been a sort of April Fools Day backlash on the Internet… People have been twittering and blogging about how much they hate April Fools Jokes…

So I went online and lo and behold it was still available!!! I couldnt believe no one had picked it up! What do you ask? This:

youraprilfoolsjokesucks.com

;-)

One Year Later…

March 26th, 2008 friskyRadio, friskyGeek music | 0 Comments Digg This | ##

I cant tell you how good it felt to hold the first friskyRecords release in my hands. A project literally 7 years in the making and my personal dream come true. Had someone told me when I first started friskyRadio so long ago that I will be here today I would have said no way.

This Destinations project started about 13 months ago with an idea… and here we are - finally released and out the door. There were challenges and difficulties sure. And I even came close to scrapping the entire project a little while ago - but Im glad I stuck with it. In the end it doesnt matter. What matters to me is that the CD is out… My dream has come true. And it feels absolutely brilliant.

You can check out the friskyRecords website here. Keep your eyes peeled for our next release - coming up on April 16. But the information for it will be up by April 09 or so…

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