MooPig Who Would Win in a Cage Match #10 :: McGyver vs Rick Dale

Let's call it a Grudge Match between Old Style and the New ...
by Pat Darnell  |  Jan 15, 2013  |  Bryan TX

One of these two stole his act from the other. You can guess why that would make this a motivation for a grudge match. Yes, one is the other's modern day disciple ... or is it just fate. MooPig Department of Cage Match Authority wants to bring it to a head.

History Channel has a jones for Rick Dale and his hit show American Restoration. His show is aired at all times of the day. Instead of showing History, the channel shows reality series of Mr Dale and his crew restoring Americana stuff, you know, rusting obsolete junkyard stuff. He does it at a hefty cost for wealthy collectors.

McGyver, actor Richard Dean, over twenty years earlier on a TV show, would take junk and stuff and fashion life saving devices from them. We suspect that Rick Dale must have devoted a lot of time watching McGyver, until he decided that would be his moniker.

Fix stuff. Restore stuff. Make a million bucks, doing it better than any one expects. They only thing missing is Rick Dale doesn't have a mullet.

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McGyver, Richard Dean

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Rick Dale, American Restoration

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All bets are final after the fighters enter the cage. Let's call this an: "Old style McGyver meets the New style American Restoration." BLIMEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Who Would Win in a Cage Match is an invention of Pribek.net

MooPig's Archaeology Update :: "Office Relics"

Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Nov 11, 2012 | Bryan TX

7 office gadgets headed for the graveyard - Slide Show - MarketWatch: "NEW YORK (MarketWatch) —

1. The Rolodex is first up on a list of office tools that may soon become obsolete. Invented in 1956, this rotating filing system for business contacts remained a fixture on most office desks well into the computer age. But some 58% of the 7,000 professionals surveyed by LinkedIn say the devices will likely be seen only on exhibit at the Smithsonian within the next five years. "

'via Blog this'

2. Fax machines: The demise of the fax has been predicted for years, but these office workhorses may finally be put out to pasture, according to 71% of those surveyed. Indeed, they are No. 2 on LinkedIn’s soon-to-be-extinct list. Some of those who regard their paper-eating ways as environmentally unsound have even filmed themselves smashing their faxes to make their point.

3. Desktop phones: Now that email and instant messaging have rendered most phone conversations unnecessary, 35% of professionals say the desktop telephone will soon be merely decorative. This may not be as far-fetched as it sounds, especially if home phones are anything to go by. Only a decade ago, 97% of American homes had a land-line, compared with just 74% of homes today, according to a study by Pew Research.

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4. Tape recorders: When Mark Spoonauer, editor-in-chief at LaptopMag.com, wants to record an interview, he uses the record function on his iPhone. Smartphones are already replacing digital recorders. It’s no wonder that some 79% of those surveyed by LinkedIn say tape recorders will soon be obsolete.

5. USB thumb drives: Around 17% of professionals in the LinkedIn survey say USB thumb drives — the successor to the floppy disc, Zip drive and re-writable CD — will fall out of favor within the next five years. But Mark Spoonauer, editor-in-chief at LaptopMag.com, says they will probably be obsolete even before then. In addition to becoming unnecessary, the devices — which are typically plugged into many different computers — are increasingly being blamed for the spread of computer viruses, he says.

6. Business cards: Why carry around decks of business cards when social networking makes faster — and stickier — connections? LinkedIn says 15% of those surveyed expect business cards to become obsolete. Apps like CardMunch now allow people to hand out an endless supply of digital business cards.

7. The office cubicle: Call it corporate glasnost. Nearly 20% of those surveyed say management will tear down the walls of cubicles and replace them with open-plan work-spaces  But while such layouts may foster teamwork and brainstorming, a recent survey by the Berkeley Center for the Built Environment says people are more sensitive to noise in open-plan offices.

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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/7-office-gadgets-headed-for-the-graveyard-2012-09-29?link=MW_story_insert
http://www.steampunklab.com/

Dear Mr Brooks ...

By Pat Darnell  |  Jan 5, 2012  |  Bryan TX

Dear Mr Brooks: I have a quiz fer ya' -- In the current World stage of the ritualized\institutionalized events in the world, which takes the honors in a Smack Down WWE sort of way??

• Mardi Gras, NO LA vs. ... 
• Choosing Next Pope, Vatican City vs. ... 
• Ramadan, Mid-East vs. ...
• Super Bowl Sunday, Miami vs. ... 
• Bilderberg Meetings [locationunknown] vs. ...
• World Cup finals vs. ...
• Obama in Las Vegas, Hawaii, ... and so on.. ...

... there are many more typical events -- the point being that these are occurrences that might compete with the usual religious Sunday or Saturday Sabbath's on local churches attendances.. savvy?

I know you've tickled the world with your presence so I want your opinion... eh?

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Who the Hell is Terry Brooks you ask!!??

Terry says “It began it’s life as a stretch limousine out of California. Worked it’s way East until it landed here in Houston. Saved from the scrap yard at the last minute thanks to Craigslist and unbearable amounts of peer pressure from the Art car Community, oh and the fact that my wife was out of town for a few days. It was sad and dull machine when I first found it. It had all the usual limousine accoutrements, bar, TV stand, I ripped all of those out!”

The inspiration for the car is actually related to Terry’s profession, one aspect of which is the analysis of various compounds using light.

He's a dear old friend of mine... who I tracked down in faceBook one day: now you know him too.


Terry Brooks
" ... Ramping up to Mardi Gras.........."

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1184341/How-Milkybar-kid-drunk--showjumper-musician-gardener-We-stars-rode-sunset.html
http://www.artcarsofhouston.org/blog/2011/05/01/terry-brooks-illuminaughty/
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=605911647

PART TWO: A Hat, those Lips, pose Akimbo and Prophesy Prefigure

[Lerner, M. A. M. 2007; SOURCE]
The New Nostradamus
Words By Michael A.M. Lerner | Photos By Ethan Hill

Can a fringe branch of mathematics forecast the future? A special adviser to the CIA, Fortune 500 companies, and the U.S. Department of Defense certainly thinks so.

If you listen to Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, and a lot of people don’t, he’ll claim that mathematics can tell you the future. In fact, the professor says that a computer model he built and has perfected over the last 25 years can predict the outcome of virtually any international conflict, provided the basic input is accurate.

What’s more, his predictions are alarmingly specific. His fans include at least one current presidential hopeful, a gaggle of Fortune 500 companies, the CIA, and the Department of Defense. Naturally, there is also no shortage of people less fond of his work.

“Some people think Bruce is the most brilliant foreign policy analyst there is,” says one colleague. “Others think he’s a quack.”

For instance -- Back in March 2004, when al-Qaeda bombed a Madrid train station, influencing the course of Spain’s general election three days later, a lot of U.S. security folks were nervous. Worried that al-Qaeda might try something similar here in the run-up to the November, 2004, presidential elections, the Pentagon hired Bueno de Mesquita to run some data through his forecasting model to tell them what to expect. The results were unequivocal. “I said there would be no homeland attack. I also indicated that bin Laden’s second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, would resurface around Thanksgiving, 2004,” he says. Just after the elections in November that year, Zawahiri released a new videotape. Bueno de Mesquita was right on both counts. “One of the things government needs most is advice that’s not wishy-washy. I try to be as precise as I can.” (GOOD; magazine)

[blah, blah, blah...] Then this Comment:

Do homework first.

For all of you who are questioning Bueno de Mesquita's methods, predictions, etc., I suggest you do your homework first. It's not all that difficult to find his publications. A quick internet search will yield his curriculum vita which lists most of them.

While many of you may not have access to them online, you can certainly go to any local university library and gain access to at least part of them. I would refer you first to his work entitled The War Trap (1981) which is a standard on most international relations reading lists (at least in graduate school).

Then I would direct you to a follow-up piece, "The War Trap Revisited," in the American Political Science Review. Then maybe you could check out some critiques of his work such as one that appeared in the June 1984 edition of The Journal of Conflict Resolution. That piece is followed by another piece by BdM defending his work. You can also check out works such as War and Reason (1992) co-authored with David Lalman or Forecasting Policy Futures and The Logic of Political Survival (2003) co-authored with Alastair Smith, Randolph Siverson, and James Morrow (quickly becoming a stable of graduate education in political science as well).

His predictions are not something conjured up as if out of a book of spells and incantations. His methods have been rigorously tested and critiqued over time by some of the top scholars in the field.

His methods, as with those of any other scholar of rational choice and game theory, are based on basic assumptions about values and preferences of individuals and societies as well as their attitudes toward risk.

Is he perfect in his predictions? No, of course he's not.

Does he do a good job? Yes. Calculating and predicting human action, even that which many people are not sure is understandable (like that of many dictators), is something BdM seems to have been able to do well thus far.

For those who are critics: Before you criticize him, I would suggest you try to find a more accurate means of prediction. Otherwise, you will not be heard, nor will your critiques.

Or we could just ask Brian Jones if these lines are parallel each other? And rely on the Eight Ball foreteller... or... who the hell knows? What do we want to know anyway... ?

Day TWO: BLOGGER STRIKE

Boggled & Blogged
Bunged highways are not an unusual occurrence in Houston. Absence of collisions is a new concept, that has police confused. Certain groups have shut down the highway to our Blogoshpere, in a collision-free coupe. Was it by subversion; does it pose any threat?

The quiet hum of the Internet is appreciably quickened at the start of the BLOGGER STRIKE yesterday. Somehow 'http://~header' has been replaced nationwide with 'http://~STRIKE Blogger.'

MooPig has been running extra shifts to make sure it is available when the news comes out. "We have assembled a team of cracker jack Aggies at an undisclosed location to monitor and report."

Apparently last night two people were taken into custody. Websites led special agents to an industrial office park in Valparaiso, IN. It turns out all pre-planned as at that location were a man and a woman in their late twenties who had handcuffed themselves to a post in their office. Some say the postal event was recorded of course by live feed webcam. The tiny surveillance cameras were fitted in NY ballplayer B. Williams' bobble head dolls all around the room.

Alledgedly son of billionaire Roy Welch, Roy jr., and Annabelle Leviton have been monitoring players of parts in a game called "Attrition."

Early views of the video recording shows Roy, jr. sort of spelled it out for us in the video stream, before the detectives arrived. He said, "After 9/11 his research team stumbled upon a quatrain written by Nostradmus that alluded to a Scribe Walkout in late 2001." It also referred to a communication break in long-standing invisible waves upon the air occurring about 2012.

"We started right away in 2001 organizing Internet Protocol state-of-the-art into a second internet, using rapid xenon processing," says Roy in the video. "We relied on web crawls through the IP to supply us with the body of knowledge we would need to start up. For instance we searched for the ignition key for the large subdural bootlog, and we found the answer in a business log. We needed the cosmic debris of baby Giraffes being born, so we set up shop at the Herman Park Zoo Giraffe tunnel. Yes, docents aided us in that task, and it works."

In interview with a docent on duty at the Hermann Park Zoo's Giraffe Tunnel, she offered this: "Well, giraffes do have seven neck bones."

"We needed a substantial grounded housing; we found willing Texans to fund our activity and help us. We chose the locomotive at Herman Park in Houston as the best low lying remote grounded vehicle," says Annabelle. "The Miller Outdoor Theartre Roof nearby is the dish we use to communicate with the satellite that Texans sent to orbit for us late in 2001."

"Even though it all seems clandestine; we are allowing ourselves to be incarcerated today in civil protest of the way writers are treated throughout history. If we don't do this now, who knows what will happen in 2012?" says Roy, jr.

Good question says MooPig. "Giraffes, tin roofs, quatrains, clandestine satellites? What next?" >pd/draft