RelationShapingtag:relationshaping.com,2008-08-27://12009-07-01T12:00:26ZHow We ReShape Each Other ->(Movable Type Pro 4.261Peggle My Hearttag:relationshaping.com,2009://1.34392009-07-01T12:00:16Z2009-07-01T12:00:26ZDavid W. Boleshttp://bolesblogs.com
Peggle is a game I have played and won
and then re-played again and again. Once you beat the game, you can call on all your in game character friends to specialize in your continued destruction towards the win.
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The challenge is to aim, anticipate and take your shot before the opportunity passes.
I started playing Peggle on my old iPhone 3G and the game ran fine; but Peggle really screams and loads so much faster on my iPhone 3GS and that speed increase alone demonstrates the rationale for upgrading your iPhone!
Peggle will cost you five dollars in the iPhone App store and I urge you to hand over your hard earned dollars because Peggle is worth every single penny.]]>
Green Tea Coke and Midol Diet Pepsitag:relationshaping.com,2009://1.34272009-06-19T14:15:14Z2009-06-19T14:15:30Z The end of the world got a little closer today with the discovery of "Green Tea Coke."...David W. Boleshttp://bolesblogs.com
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We love green tea, and we love our soda pop -- but we drink soda for the decadent taste and we drink our tea to counteract the bad behavior in the soda -- so mixing green tea with Coke is like drinking nothing... or drinking Coke Blak and a spoonful of baking soda.
In Japan, you can soon have your cola flavoured with green tea or basil. Coca Cola (Japan) Co. spokesman Katsuya Sato said green tea-flavoured Coca-Cola will hit Japanese stores June 28.
Sato says it contains tea antioxidants called catechins, leaves a slight green tea aftertaste and is mainly targeted at health-conscious women in their 20s and 30s.
What's next?
Midol Diet Pepsi?
Prozac Dr. Pepper?
High Fiber Mountain Dew?
When will this mixing madness end? ]]>
WaMu Boo Hootag:relationshaping.com,2009://1.34102009-06-03T15:50:36Z2009-06-18T10:46:18ZI am beginning to wonder if banks are really serious about keeping their customers or if they are more interested in driving them away so that they can have more free time to stare at the walls of the building....Gordon Davidescuhttp://bolesblogs.com
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I went in to a Chase bank in December to try to make a deposit at the ATM using the nifty system they have - you can insert a check directly without a deposit slip or envelope or anything. It had no indication of allowing me to make a deposit. I asked a teller when that would be available and they told me that it would be in February, when a lot of Washington Mutual banks that were redundant (right next door to Chase banks, etc.) would be closed.
Come February I tried the trick again and even though my preferred Washington Mutual location was now closed, I could still not make deposits at the ATM or at the teller. I was told that my account was still a Washington Mutual account.
Last week I had to make a deposit and I had just gotten an email telling me that I was now fully a Chase customer. When I went into Chase bank, I was told that I was still a Washington Mutual customer. I then went to Washington Mutual and was told that I was no longer a Washington Mutual customer and was now a Chase customer.
I felt like a child being tossed between two parents, neither of whom want him. I found out that because my Washington Mutual account was opened in Washington, I was a Chase customer. However, they assumed that I had opened my account in New York because that's where I was standing at the time.
This morning, the situation somewhat repeated itself but I managed to assert my Chase membership. The teller told me that because I was still a Washington Mutual customer, it would take two to three business days for the transaction to go through. Not so, I told her, and explained. Her supervisor backed me. Nevertheless, the receipt told me that "Further review may result in delayed availability of this deposit."
All of this, by the way, was done with nary a smile. I remember when I used to go to the bank and the teller was more than happy to help me. Sometimes now I can hope for a smirk at best.]]>
Electric Erotica: How to Turn On Jesustag:relationshaping.com,2009://1.34062009-06-02T14:50:53Z2009-06-02T14:49:17ZDavid W. Boleshttp://bolesblogs.com
Jesus-Light-Switch-With-Children semiotic is more or less offensive than our previous winner, The Unholy Blow Job.
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Irresistibility is Your Faulttag:relationshaping.com,2009://1.33942009-05-26T14:07:41Z2009-05-26T14:08:02ZDavid W. Boleshttp://bolesblogs.com
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beautiful and smart -- how do you expect us to resist you?
I'm not talking about stalker behavior or anything negative or threatening -- I'm only bringing up the matter of human irresistibility and if it is a learned trait or if it is something inborn and undeniable in its core. ]]>
Leaving Jay Lenotag:relationshaping.com,2009://1.33862009-05-20T12:38:13Z2009-05-20T12:38:12ZJay Leno is leaving "The Tonight Show" after hosting it since 1992 and it makes no sense for NBC to dump Jay in favor of the flavorless -- and frankly bland and unentertaining -- Conan O'Brien....David W. Boleshttp://bolesblogs.com
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The reason for Jay's undoing is that NBC wants to keep and preserve their Crypt Keeper -- in the creepy skin of O'Brien -- to win back younger viewers.
To cover their bet against O'Brien's failure, NBC is giving Jay his own show at 10pm five days a week.
We hope Jay will nab all the big superstars for his show and leave only leftovers for O'Brien and crew to chew on with this craggy jaw and crinkly, humorless, face. ]]>
Lori Drew Gets Her Duetag:relationshaping.com,2009://1.33762009-05-13T14:06:50Z2009-05-13T14:07:12ZDavid W. Boleshttp://bolesblogs.com
most infamous convicted Cyberbully and, thankfully, the law is still pressing her bad behavior against her.
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Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles are urging a U.S. district judge to allow the parents of a deceased girl to speak at the sentencing hearing of Lori Drew on Monday. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Krause, in writing to the court, argued that Drew's crime led directly to the death of 13-year-old Megan Meier in Missouri in 2006. Therefore her parents, Ron and Tina Meier, were unquestionably victims of her crime.
Krause argued that under the Crime Victim's Rights Act, a victim was defined as "a person directly and proximately harmed as the result of the commission of a Federal offense. . . ."
Therefore, he said, "depriving the Meier family of their right of allocution would be an error."
Prosecutors were responding to a request Drew's defense attorney made last week, asking the court to not allow family or friends of the dead teen to speak at the sentencing hearing. Defense attorney H. Dean Steward told the court that Meier's family and friends were not victims, since Drew was not convicted of causing Meier's death, merely of unauthorized access to a computer.
We are stunned at the Drew defense team's wrangling of the legal system to diminish her role in Megan Meier's suicide.
The matter is all about intent. If it were not for Lori Drew purposefully pressing pain and cruelty into Megan by using fakery and disingenuousness, Drew would not be in her current position of peril.
To excuse Drew's bad behavior as something funny or harmless misses the point of being a responsible member of society and right of the rest of us not to be bothered by a bored mother looking for the thrill of a kill online.]]>
Kentucky Fried Cheapskatetag:relationshaping.com,2009://1.33702009-05-11T11:34:24Z2009-05-11T11:34:33ZDavid W. Boleshttp://bolesblogs.com
Oprah coupon for the new "Kentucky GRILLED Chicken" special was refused or rain checked.
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close down traffic and hold a sit-in protest?
Where was your activism against the illegal invasion of Iraq and the subsequent state-sponsored torture? Were you clipping Papa John's coupons and redeeming the free small fries you won playing McDonald's Monopoly?
I've never seen such bad behavior in good people who claim to be righteously upset over a chicken coupon.
Does any nation of mature people need a rain check for anything grilled?
I've seen people on TV "demanding their rights" for the KFC dinner and how their "trust has been violated" and how they'll "never believe another the Colonel Sanders says" and how they're going to protest and fight for their chicken dinner.
I haven't eaten chicken -- or any meat -- for the last decade or so, and I vow here and now to continue to never eat another bite of any chicken unless and until Americans grow up and take responsibility for the real liabilities in their lives instead of jousting with these cutout cartoon dragons and hand drawn paper straw men they live so hard to pretend to slay every day to protect their herb-infused grilled fantasies from our deep-friend reality. ]]>
The Pet Society Reviewtag:relationshaping.com,2009://1.33632009-05-06T17:23:12Z2009-05-07T00:06:28ZAfter my wife's insulting debacle with the creeps at Slide.com and SuperPoke Pets, I was looking for an online play replacement, and I was delighted to discover Pet Society on Facebook!...David W. Boleshttp://bolesblogs.com
debacle with the creeps at Slide.com and SuperPoke Pets, I was looking for an online play replacement, and I was delighted to discover Pet Society on Facebook!
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You are in total control of the game in Pet Society. You create and "become" your pet as you travel around your "society" and you interact with other pets for fun, health, fame and fortune!
You can hug, dance, tell a joke and even kiss your friends to earn coins and gain a healthy heart!
You will always need to make sure your pet is clean, healthy and well fed. You buy your pet clothes and furniture and even some fun luxury items. You can visit the food store to stock up on edibles you can share with your friends.
In your "chest" you keep the items of your life. You have soap for cleaning, a brush for grooming and sports equipment for working out your reflexive skills. You can also get something to eat, decorate your rooms, or even send a gift to a friend. The best thing hiding in your chest is the Recycle Bin -- you use it to get rid of stuff you don't want any longer. You get points -- and even gifts! -- for doing right recycling thing by the earth you inhabit in your habitat.
Visiting your Pet Society friends is as easy as clicking on their pet!
I warn you -- Pet Society is addictive fun -- and you won't ever want to stop playing.
If you're on Facebook, look me up, and we can lay down a Pet Society playdate for some hugging and dancing and kissing -- all for fun in the name of pet profit!]]>
Arrested in Obamatag:relationshaping.com,2009://1.33512009-04-29T15:21:48Z2009-04-29T15:21:30ZI'm not sure what these 15 people have in common other than being arrested and mug shot in an Obama t-shirt -- but it does make one wonder if there are similar mug shots of the arrested in Dubya shirts....David W. Boleshttp://bolesblogs.com
being arrested and mug shot in an Obama t-shirt -- but it does make one wonder if there are similar mug shots of the arrested in Dubya shirts.
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Obama, as a brand, is much more suited for application on urban outerwear and underwear.
Do those mug shots suggest Obama has more criminally inclined fans?
Or is Obama's reach so powerful that he's an image to be coveted and memorialized on cotton shirts -- and politics and belief have nothing to do with the wearing of his message?]]>
The Unholy Blow Jobtag:relationshaping.com,2009://1.33412009-04-23T08:04:44Z2009-04-23T08:05:08ZDavid W. Boleshttp://bolesblogs.com
allegedly from 1973 and it won a Los Angeles design award.
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$660 million payment by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles to settle 508 claims of child abuse.
We shudder in the logo's semiotic sounding of silent alarms.]]>
The Ethics of Adderall on the Average Mindtag:relationshaping.com,2009://1.33272009-04-16T18:02:54Z2009-04-16T18:03:16ZIf a drug exists that creates enhanced cognitive thinking -- are we required as a society of the shared common good -- required to provide equal access to that medication without a prescription?...David W. Boleshttp://bolesblogs.com
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Today, on university campuses around the world, students are striking deals to buy and sell prescription drugs such as Adderall and Ritalin -- not to get high, but to get higher grades, to provide an edge over their fellow students or to increase in some measurable way their capacity for learning. These transactions are crimes in the United States, punishable by prison.
Do you think the next advancement of the mind requires artificial enhancement with drugs?
Or are coffee and tea and caffeine and Red Bull and other non-regulated herbal "enhancements" enough for our minds to reach maximum capacity? ]]>
Obama Needs Turkeytag:relationshaping.com,2009://1.33082009-04-07T13:25:41Z2009-04-07T13:25:46ZDavid W. Boleshttp://bolesblogs.com
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"We seek broader engagement based upon mutual interest and mutual respect," Obama said in a speech to Turkey's Parliament. It was his first visit to a predominantly Islamic nation as president, and he struck a balance between extending a hand to Muslims in general and discussing Turkey's central role in helping to bring stability to a post-war Iraq and the wider Middle East.
"Our partnership with the Muslim world is critical, not just in rolling back the violent ideologies that people of all faiths reject but also to strengthen opportunity for all its people," he said. He portrayed terrorist groups such as al-Qaida as extremists far removed from the vast majority of Muslims.
Turkey has NATO's largest Army after the U.S., but relations between the two countries soured after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which the Turks opposed. Turkey barred U.S. forces from going through its country to attack Iraq. Now, however, since Obama is withdrawing troops, Turkey has become more cooperative.
Getting along with Turkey is vital to international American interests and President Obama comprehends the urgency of that need and he is actively trying to create change in the world so the USA can once again stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the rest of the world as a moral leader and an economic powerhouse.]]>
Rhythm as Readingtag:relationshaping.com,2009://1.32982009-04-01T13:55:04Z2009-04-01T13:55:43ZDavid W. Boleshttp://bolesblogs.com
helping the disabled lead a better and more productive life. Once the disabled have been served, then the average-bodied among us are able to reap the benefits of the advancements in favor of the human condition. First, we had Bluetooth breadcrumbs for the Blind; now we have a rhythmic touch screen with Braille bumps for the Blind.
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Three novel interaction methods were designed for reading six-dot Braille characters from the touchscreen of a mobile device. A prototype device with a piezoelectric actuator embedded under the touchscreen was used to create tactile feedback. The three interaction methods, scan, sweep, and rhythm, enabled users to read Braille characters one at a time either by exploring the characters dot by dot or by sensing a rhythmic pattern presented on the screen. The methods were tested with five blind Braille readers as a proof of concept.
The Deaf iPhone is on its way and now, with this news of a rhythmic touchscreen for portable devices, the Blind iPhone is only but a touch away. ]]>
Nicholas Hughes as Genetic Suicidetag:relationshaping.com,2009://1.32862009-03-26T17:30:06Z2009-03-26T17:30:45ZDavid W. Boleshttp://bolesblogs.com
sorry life of Nicholas Hughes, you begin to ponder the undeniable mandate of predestiny.
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On March 16, childless and unmarried, Nicolas, following in his mother's footfalls, killed himself. Sylvia used a gas oven when he was a baby to finish her end. Nicholas found his finality hanging from the end of a rope.
Was Nicholas intended to die by his own hand from his birth?
Or was his father the center of despair that others used to loose their spirit into the netherworld?
Hughes was only 9 months old when his parents separated and was still an infant when his mother died in February 1963, gassing herself in a London flat as her children slept. A few months earlier, she had written of Nicholas: "You are the one/Solid the spaces lean on, envious/You are the baby in the barn."
Not widely known when she died, Plath became a cult figure through the novel "The Bell Jar," which told of a suicidal young woman, and through the prophetic "Ariel" poems -- "I shall never grow old," she wrote -- she had been working on near the end of her life.
The immediate cause of her breakup with Hughes was his affair with Assia Wevill. Plath's legacy haunted her husband, hounded for years by women who believed he was responsible for her suicide and by a procession of biographers and fans obsessed with the brief, impassioned and tragic marriage between the two poets.
Ted Hughes relived the tragedy not only through the constant reminders of Plath, but also through the suicide of Wevill, his second wife, who in March 1969 killed herself and their 4-year-old daughter.
We are required to wonder about Nicholas Hughes' death and ask if his fate was sealed in the stars, or held between his fingers, or condemned by his father's pen?]]>
