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04/07/2008 19:19 #43939

Jays Bandits Weekend
Category: photos
So On Friday night Club Diablo was having this Fetish Ball thing and I thought it would be cool to go. I didn't wind up going. After going out to dinner and eating a lot I didn't really feel like it plus I figured I was going to have a busy weekend so I would just skip it. Friday was my mother's Birthday so we wound up going to JP Bullfeathers the plan was Indian but there was no parking. There where a few hot sexy ladies there as a slight distraction. We wound up getting sat in the same area where (e:ladycroft)'s dinner was. It wasn't the same table but it was close by. I'm not sure what is up those stairs or that doorway but some people went up there. I thought my food was pretty good.

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I think though so this blog is more fun and more exciting instead of getting into Saturdays Bandits game I go to the Blue Jays game. It is good that we got to Toronto early because as luck would have the keys got locked in the car. Waiting around for Triple A wasn't fun but at least it was warm and sunny out. Here are my pictures of TO



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The Jays Played the Redsox. With the waiting and buying some merch I did miss some of the on field stuff like there was a band out on the field and I only heard the anthems. It is kinda odd to hear the US one first you get so used to hearing it the other way around. I was in line as listing and watching it as they cooked my Noodles. It was cool to watch them kinda stir fry them in front of you, the noodles in a box where pretty good.


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One thing I do have add that I forgot is how many lovely and sexy ladies there are in Toronto. From the Beer vendors to people in the crowd. Well ok some of them may have been from Boston or other parts of the states. The Asian girl (with BF) was cute and the blond behind me was so pretty and her boobs looked like they where pretty nice also. A Few more random pictures from the game well it won't let me upload any more so for those that care maybe I'll do a part 2.
theecarey - 04/10/08 18:43
mmm the food pics are making me hungry!

Looks like a good time! I like the picture of the bridge with the people walking across.
metalpeter - 04/07/08 20:09
I went and added some spaces between pictures of Toronto as you suggested, it was a good idea, I'm not sure if I prefer the hitting enter once or twice though. I also left some of them together as a way to remind my self of this and also to remind my self it was an edit. On a side note the weird thing about eating there was as soon as I walked in I remembered Timika's going away dinner and it took me back to that place, also glad you like the pictures.
metalpeter - 04/07/08 19:57
Yeah that Penne (however you spell it) Alfredo was very good. That is a good Idea about the pictures I seem to forget that after I up load them to then space them out I will try and edit my part 2 and see what that does, you do make a good point.
imk2 - 04/07/08 19:43
otherwise, those are great pics. thanks for posting them.
imk2 - 04/07/08 19:43
mmmm...that pasta you had at jp bullfeathers looks soooo good.

peter, i hope you don't take this the wrong way, but would you be able to put some space between your pictures when you post them, so that they are a little more spaced out and not so close together? you don't get to appreciate each individual picture if it doesnt have some space between itself and the picture below it.

04/03/2008 17:36 #43887

"The Real World" Awards
Category: reality tv
So last night I caught this show on MTV called the Real World Awards. It was an hour and a half and there is some 2 hour version on Friday. It was also kinda a reunion also. The thing that was interesting is it didn't seem like there where that many awards, but that is just me. I guess when this next season starts it will be the 20th season. I have not all ways watched it but some seasons I have been really into it. It is tough to believe it is really 20 years. I don't know if I had MTV when it first came on. Well wait 20 years isn't really right 20 seasons but not sure how many years ago it started. There was a small part on how issues in peoples lives where reflected in the show. I know some people really can't stand reality shows and think that a lot of it is all about the drama and some of that is true but that isn't all ways the case. I would say that the Real World at least started out as very good. I would still like to see what they call "The Real-Real World". What it would be is you go to a city and take anywhere from 4-8 people and make them stay to gather in the same house and film it. It is TV so they would all still be hot. But I think that might get more interesting. One thing that makes the real world a little hard to believe is that the houses are all ways these amazing houses that no one really lives in. One other thing I would like to see is the stuff that is two hot for TV. I have never seen big brother but each week on Showtime I think they have like this 3 hour maybe it is 2 hours called big Brother after dark. I would like to see maybe an hour show on a pay channel of stuff each week that MTV couldn't show. It could even be on right after the show ended on MTV. For some reason looking into other peoples lives is fun sometimes. For anyone who says no it isn't what are you talking about, let me remind you that when you read someone else's blog that is what you are doing. Yes you are reading there version and only there side of the story but it is really the same thing. I had some other points too but I kinda blanked on them.
metalpeter - 04/04/08 17:38
I know I have seen clips of the first season of the real world but not sure if I have seen any full episodes of it. I guess I should look for it on line and see if I can find it.
ladycroft - 04/04/08 02:30
You know the very first "Real World" was just that Peter. The first season (1992)was in this tiny apartment in New York City. It's completely different from what it is today. I'm sure you can find episodes online and watch them :)

04/04/2008 17:37 #43905

online photos and privacy
Category: internet
So I saw this article on line on Yahoo. At first I thought who are these crazy people suing google over privacy. My next thought was but what happens if they win. Could that mean that anyone who has a house or building picture that shows up on this google service could sue. Could that mean that if I take pictures at a festival and there is a house in the background the owners of the house could sue me for posting the picture on line? I do understand that people have a right to there privacy and security for there home. But I think that as long as there is nothing that shows who lives there or a car with the license plate showing or anything that gives away information like that then privacy isn't violated. We aren't talking about taking interior pictures of someones home, that would be different. In any event it is an interesting article and thing to think about.

Couple sues Google for posting house pix

By JOE MANDAK, Associated Press Writer 38 minutes ago

PITTSBURGH - A western Pennsylvania couple has sued Google Inc., saying pictures of their home on its Web site violate their privacy and devalued their property.


Images of the home Aaron and Christine Boring bought in the Pittsburgh suburb of Franklin Park in October 2006 appeared on Google's "Street View" feature, which allows users to find street-level photos by clicking on a map.

"A major component of their purchase decision was a desire for privacy," according to their complaint, filed Wednesday in state court, which also says the couple suffered mental distress.

The images must have been taken from the couple's long driveway, which is labeled "Private Road," and that violated their privacy, according to the complaint.

To gather photos for Street View, Mountain View, Calif.-based Google sends vehicles with mounted digital cameras up and down the streets of major metropolitan areas taking pictures. Many other companies take real estate photos the same way.

Google spokesman Larry Yu said the site indicates that property owners can get the company to removed images if they cite a good reason and can prove they own the property depicted.

"We absolutely respect that people may not be comfortable with some of the imagery on the site," Yu said. "We actually make it pretty easy for people to submit a request to us to remove the imagery."

If the Borings made such a request - especially if they told Google its photos must have been shot from their driveway - Yu said he is confident the image would be removed.

The couple's attorney, Dennis Moskal, said the point is that the Borings' privacy was invaded when the Google vehicle allegedly drove onto their property.

Removing the image won't undo that damage, nor will it deter the company from doing the same thing in the future, Moskal said.

"Isn't litigation the only way to change a big business' conduct with the public?" Moskal said. "What happened to their accountability?"

Yu declined comment on the suit itself because the company was still reviewing it.

Google is not the only Web site with a photo of the Borings' property.

The Allegheny County real estate Web site has a photo, plus a detailed description of the home and the couple's names. Similar information, including pictures, of nearly every property in the county is on the Web site.

Moskal said the county's image appeared to be taken from a public street.

"The county's not trespassing," Moskal said.

Moskal said his clients did not wish to speak to the media. The Associated Press could not find a listed phone number for them.

The Borings paid $163,000 for the property, according to the county Web site. The county describes the home as a single-family, four-room bungalow with a full basement. The one-story frame home was built in 1916 and sits on a property that's a little less than 2 acres.

The home is 984 square feet with a fireplace and central heat and county assessors graded it as being in "Fair" condition. The county Web site does not mention the property's two detached garages and swimming pool, which are visible in the Google pictures and are mentioned in the couple's lawsuit.


jenks - 04/05/08 14:58
the other thing is just that it acts like they are super-celebrities living in some amazing mansion. Which they are NOT, according to the description.
bleh. people can be so ridiculous.
metalpeter - 04/05/08 12:13
Your point did remind me of something that happened at someplace I work (again this is from me who kinda saw it from some else so it would be called hearsay or what ever that is called). There was this women who was very secretive on purpose and did it in a way that was annoying and not fair. She would start talking about something and you would ask her something and then not say anymore. like "me and my girlfriends went to eat" "Where did you go" "A restarant". It was all ways stuff along those same lines where she would answer the question but not tell you anything. Some times they where conversations that she would start and as it being an everyday thing it was so stupid if you don't want to tell people stuff just say it is nun of your buisiness or don't start talking about stuff, I think she did it just to get people up set or to seem like her normal life was exciting or mysterious.

Some how that led to her and this guy talking and she pissed him off so he said he would find out where she lived. "Little Mystery Girl" thought she was a super sleuth and he never could. Well when he found where she lived got directions and pictures of the place she was really pissed, and very upset. He looked the place up online, off course I and others thought it was very funny.

I would love to hear how the buyers figure that pictures of there place makes the value go down. I could maybe see if the house had also been in the news for something like a murder or rape or something like that but other then people going oh that is that house I don't see how the value could drop. It would be interesting to hear their point maybe it is valid.
tinypliny - 04/05/08 11:59
Who the hell wants to spy on people who are named BORING anyway? It probably was a well-deserved surname.
trisha - 04/05/08 09:48
hm. tricky...on one hand, if privacy was so darn important, they should have made the request right away, and i definitely think "oh whatever" on the "damage is already done" thing. but it is a little creepy that anyone, anywhere, can look at your house IN detail if they had the mind to do so. if you're going to stalk someone, at least go the old fashioned route and do the work of driving the car, finding the house, and looking in the windows, for god's sake. what's the world coming to?
metalpeter - 04/04/08 20:48
In this case I don't feel sorry for them. I can understand if someone did go on their property to take pictures but I doubt that happened. The other reason I don't feel sorry for them is that Google says just let us know and we will gladly remove pictures. I think that statement means that they really don't have much of a case. I could see if they where in the pool at the time or something like that. Or if the people at google watched them leave then took pictures. But at the same time what I do understand the "What If". What if someone they don't like was looking for them, now that person knows what the house looks like as they drive past it. But again I don't feel sorry for them and don't think that they lost and privacy.
jenks - 04/04/08 18:43
I have zero sympathy for those people.

03/31/2008 17:45 #43851

Great work ethic isn't all ways great
Category: work
First of all if anyone from work is reading this it isn't personal. I do understand that there is a difference between how people are work wise and personally and try to separate that. I think I do a god job of that but it isn't easy. I wish I could have written this in the morning when I was more pumped up and a wake.

I think that I have a good work ethic. I don't think I'm the only one like that. But sometimes having a strong work ethic can be bad. I'm not saying that it is bad, but if it is to strong then it can cause problems. For example when you want to do a really good job then when things are not how you think they should be or could be or when there are things that bother you they are worse. When you care a lot you can't really just go oh well who cares. The other problem is that if you decide that you are not going to care about that "little Stuff" then that will effect how hard you work. Lately work has been driving me a little crazy. I'm not saying that I don't like where I work or anything but sometimes where you work just gets on your nerves and lately it has been on mine.

That being said I do like to goof around some and still have fun at work. That being said the work still should come first and be the main focus not what is done after the fun and goofing off. But just because you have a good work ethic doesn't mean you do the most work. There are other factors like your abilities and the type of person you are. For example someone who hates to work but who is a stock boy might work super fast and get everything thing filled then go fuck off in the back for a few hours then come back out and check everything out a little bit before they have to leave and then quickly fill anything else they need to. But then you can have someone with a great work ethic but they are an over organiser and planner so they think about how they will save all this time and plan all the shit they have to do out and then wind up doing so much thinking that they don't wind up doing really anything at all.

On a side note I ordered Wrestlemania Last night and it was pretty good. I heard on the radio that some people got hurt from some pyro that went off wrong at the end. I'll have to look that up. I wonder if this will cause WWE to not do pyro anymore. I doubt it since the event last night was outside and there is wind and stuff that might have been a factor.



03/29/2008 16:57 #43824

World of Wheels 2008 updated
Category: photos
So today I went to The World Of Wheels at the convention center. I got there and there was a pretty good crowd but it wasn't too bad you could see all the cars. Some of them where classics and then some where pimped out and then some where motorcycles. I had a good time and really liked the Hamburger I got. I won't post all my pictures but I'll put up a lot of random ones. Here they are:


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If you made it to the bottom of these pictures then I would say you like cars and should go to the convention center. It was $12 and I had a coupon that took $3 off that price. It didn't get picked randomly but I also didn't go to the end of my photos either but there is this really cool huge Motorcycle there that with out seeing it is hard to describe. The mustang room is pretty cool to. There is so me amazing paint jobs on some vechiles. The things with pictures is that the show only part of the car you can't really see the interior or all the angles. There was this one pretty sweet looking car with skulls on in black and white. I don't have my pictures up on Webshots yet but hopefully Sunday I will have time to put them up. My computer is moving slow otherwise more pictures would have gone up. I will admit that there where a couple cars I saw last year like that semi but the ones that I did where pretty cool. There was a Bently there and a few really nice classic cars there also.

Hey why not throw in a bonus 6 pictures and see what we get.

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Just to clear one thing up the reason that the photos are random is first of all it would take to long to put them all up here. Second of all and more importantly I guess with my old camera the software was different and when you used estrip you knew what the picture (small version) was but now you don't so I just do it randomly. Hope if people read this it didn't bore you or if you did that you went to another journal.

I just wanted to add that I have a lot of my pictures on photo hosting site called webshots. I myself like that site a lot. I think it is a great site to put pictures up on. Back to the car show, I wanted to remind everyone that it is still going on today I think from like 10 to 10 but not sure I'm not sure if this will show up as a link or not but if anyone wants to the can at least copy and paste the link then. My webshots album isn't in order that I took the pictures but nothing is timely so it doesn't really matter.