by DaveStuff | Aug 21, 2010 | General
Well I decided to give the hip opinion a new look… I thought about it while I took a walk around the block for some much needed exercise and while I was staring at the moon.
So, while I was staring at the moon (it’s 89% full) I came up with the idea that the site was getting kinda tired and I wanted to give it a bit of a facelift.
Not that the site is any better.. I just installed a new theme that I found that supports the ad’s and make’s it easy to install them. Look how pretty those links are! You should visit one!!!
The whole process took about 20 minutes to complete. The only thing that is bothering me is that for some reason the code for making the text bold or initialized (etc) does not seem to be working…This could be a problem with the theme… See! This sentence is supposed to be BOLD!
Wassup?
Talk a walk and stare at the moon… At 89% full you can get all kinds of inspiration! 🙂 Of course it helps that there are tons of free themes out there for this content management software… Pretty geeky lingo huh?
by DaveStuff | Aug 19, 2010 | Culure, Music, Weirdness
I have always enjoyed “space sounding music… And I am guessing that Pink Floyd was the first to do it.. Or do it right… The first record…Piper at the gates of dawn is really a spacey sounding record… Campy too…
It was recorded at the same time as The Beatles Sgt Peppers lonely hearts club band. In my “hip opinion” it is a better record.
So the space music? Well listen to it… The opening song Astronomy Domine is just about as spacey as it gets…Then right into Intersteller Overdrive… Come on!?!
I heard Roger Waters say one tome that “nobody invented space music” Well, I dunno… His first guitar player Syd was certainly one of the first right? That guy is kinna a trip… A tortured genius…. But then Syd Barrett was on a whole other level…
Many people I have talked to over the years are into Pink Floyd.. The later stuff… I try to turn them on to the Barrett recordings but many consider it just too freaking “weird” It is that…. WAY out… In SPACE….
Give it a listen sometime…With an open mind….
by DaveStuff | Aug 16, 2010 | Culure, General
So when you call some kind of business be it a doctor office or utility company you always get a computer. …Push one for sales, push 2 for service, push three if you want to make and opponent.
To speak to a customer service representative push ZERO…
Well that’s a hard one huh? I may want to do any and all of these things. What I want to do is tell a PERSON about it. Not push buttons all day and then go on hold waiting to talk to a real person anyways…
So check it out.. The “system” will ask you to “enter your phone number” enter your name and ask other questions.. THEN…When the real person comes on to help you they ask for the very same information that you just told the machine system.. WASSUP?
OK… Push one for English.. Two for ….. French?
Happily travel by telephone :
by DaveStuff | Jul 20, 2010 | Culure, Money
Living here in OK is just a turnpike away from getting where ya need o go. You always have a choice.. You can take the free road or you can shave an hour or more off your trip by paying for the faster rout.
This isn’t a totally bad thing. Expecially if you have lived her you entire life… You get used to it ya know?
My problem with it all is a few times when I pull up to the toll gate and throw my change into the little bucket nothing happens. Hmmm? Maybe I didn’t count it right…So I grab some more and throw that in too.
The light stays RED. What the heck? I look over at the booth with the worker and they are working away… Not looking at me.
“HEY! I’m outta change here… I put plenty in and the light won’t turn green…Wassup”?
No answer… Just a sullan look my way and then back to work….
So…. I just drive on through anyways… DING DING DING DING. There goes the alarm… I keep driving looking for police to pull me over.
This has happened at least 3 times on different turnpikes. If they are going to have those things then perhaps they should step up the maintenance on the equipment.
I can hardly wait till the ticket comes in the mail from when they took a picture of my license tag.
by DaveStuff | Jul 16, 2010 | Culure, Internet Relationships
Well here we are surfing the internet with nothing to do. So much information and we sit and do it for hours.
My addictive personality confirms that when I get into something I can’t quit and just keep on going and going and going. Like the engergizer bunny.
My house is a wreck from all of the addiction I submitted myself to lately. I went ahead, despite my knowing better and just did what felt good or the moment… It was a mistake.
Now, of course I simply traded one addiction for another… Playing on Facebook, dating sites, news sites and blogs…
The internet is a hard on relationships… Or good.. Depends on how you look at. I have met many great people on the internet. Others that were great, after getting together it seemed the internet was a tool to ruin us. Go figure?
There are certainly worse things this hipster could do than sit in front of the screen 4 to 6 hours running talking to people. But how constructive is the conversation anyways… Is it for good, or bad? What are the motives?
Wow, I’m certainly asking myself a lot of questions today…And as a friend points out… I already know the answers… Ha ha…
Glad ya surfed on by… Keep coming back!
by DaveStuff | Jun 9, 2010 | Culure, Evil
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Well here it is spring time in Tulsa… I look outside and see the black sky and “wall clouds” as they say on TV. It’s an exciting time of year.
The fact that it happens during the TV spring sweeps makes it frustrating sometimes. You know, your trying to watch your favorite TV show but all you see on the TV is a huge radar screen. “Don’t worry, we will replay your favorite shows on Sunday afternoon” Hey, what if I got something to do on Sunday afternoon?
Oh I really don’t mind. It is necessary for all the channels to report about the potential of one hitting your house. I have come close as a child but never really experienced the full-blown tragedy of a tornado. We can put my show’s on the back burner. It’s not all that bad. Lost was the only show I watched at the time, and it’s over now. (As pitiful as it was)
So here in Oklahoma during Tornado season you can expect to see a lot of the colorful radar screen on you high def. TV. All our weather guys got it going on with the Doppler and all that. special gear that helps keep us safe.
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Hey, it’s kinda fun blogging again. It’s been a few months since I posted. I’m being a good boy now so I’ll try to build this site back up again. Then I can turn around and sell it for 10 bucks so I can get a pack of cig’s and a cup of coffee. And, watch the storm come in.
by DaveStuff | Mar 15, 2010 | Politics, Satan-Hell
Obama is still smoking … I commented about this during the election. That they would need a white house smoke hole.
I know this because I heard on the news he had went to the doctor for his physical and they recommened that he “continue to try and quit”
Now how is he supposed to do that given the stress of his job? I just know I’d be a smoking fool if I had that job… You dig?
Well my 1st question today is what brand does he smoke? Is he like me and smoke the homegrown ghetto brand from the Indian smoke shop. It’s just as good as a camel once you get 1/2 way through the first carton.
Hey, folks consider him the messiah or something right? How can he do that if he is smoking? (And paying the subsequent “sin tax”)
Oh wait, many consider him to be the anti christ.
Well, which one is it man? Let the hipster know….
by DaveStuff | Mar 15, 2010 | Money, Movies, Weirdness
Oh yes… I love to rent movies. I rarely buy them because when I do I watch then one time and then they sit on the shelf or get stolen… The good movies anyways.
But why does there have to be a struggle with renting movies? Oh, I just know all you hipsters understand what I’m sayin. You rent one from blockbuster, watch it and then take it back and then you recieve a little telephone call ( or not) and then they hit your bank account..
Hey, I already brought that movie back… You dig?
So you go up to the store and and say… You guys took the money out of my bank account for a movie that I already brought back… Well, we can’t see on our computer what the main office is doing. They really just don’t have any answers for me. Oh wait…Here it is… We have a some new employees.
Sure…always blame it on the new guy.
I thought I’d give redbox a try…It’s cheap and seems easy enough. I set up an account online and reserved a movie. I went to go pick it up and it didn’t work… “Can’t dispense movie at this time” Of course it hit my bank account anyways.
So. Guess I may try a mail order service… I got a really good feeling about that one.
by DaveStuff | Jan 3, 2010 | Apologetics, Beliefs, Religion
I hear it all the time; “ I don’t like organized religion”
They say “why is something that is supposed to be organized so un- organized”.
Tis true, I’m afraid. There seems to be a lot of confusion as to how organized the major religions are. And, because the tend to bicker with each other (and themselves) then many people are obviously turned off by this sort of thing.
With good reason…Who wants all that drama anyways?
Well, millions of people it seems. So given that kinda record there must be something to it right? To be completely against organized religeion is a bit silly. Millions of people look to it for hope an direction for life.
So are all these people weak? Or maybe in need of a “crutch” They can’t seem to find their own direction so they need something else to lean on? Or a book of rules to tell them how to live?
I don’t think so. Believing in something in my experience points to strength, not weakness. It is far easier for me to “let myself go” and do what I want rather than try to be obedient to some moral laws. It’s easy to simply do what feels good. – And trust me, I know how to do that 🙂
So, recently… I joined up. It’s all good, except I don’t get to sleep in till noon on Sundays anymore.
by DaveStuff | Jan 3, 2010 | Beliefs, Weirdness
Well, my latest pastime has been microblogging on facebook and other social networks.. Its guaranteed reading and often commented on.
I thought that since I am putting considerable energy and effort into this perhaps I should post these status updates here on the blog I own… At least the blog would get more updates.
My latest brainstorm has been the continuing story of My Homeboy Jesus and our adventures. It is a biblically based fictional storyline that just popped into my head one day.
The fist post got a lot of attention.
My Homeboy Jesus said: How bout ya let Me drive for awhile? I said: What for? He said: Cause I’m a better Driver than you dawg. I said: I dunno… See.. I can drive pretty darn good..Look here…Check, this…out……..CRASH. Right on Bro.. (handed Him the keys)
My second post was ignored (or not commented on)
My HomeBoy Jesus said: You jacked yer car, wassup? I said: I’ll tell ya. I got big plans, you dig? I’m gonna work and work, beg, borrow and save to get this bad boy rolling ASAP. He said: I can get it done for free dawg. I said; What? Come on now? He said. Trust Me Bro…
It may be too “far out” perhaps for some folks to get… Not any more in my opinion than the “Left Behind” series or the book “The Shack”
My ideas for this style of Bible based ramblings continues.. Perhaps I’ll start a new Topic on this storyline and simply post them here, then share it with a link on facebook and elsewhere.
In any case I think I’ll try to post any more other interesting microblogging ideas I come up with here at the Hip Opinion and perhaps explain myself better. I’m not sure folks are getting all this silly stuff.
And of course, it’s for entertainment purposes only 🙂
