Via: Reginald Pikedevant

They tried to kill me. They blew up the entire friggin planet on March 14, 2015, at 9:26:53am, just like me and Einstein predicted they would. And then, we all forgot, just like in that Doctor Who episode. It took me nearly seven years to get myself back online. So why don’t any of you remember it? Simulation Theory. That’s right. The Earth wasn’t real, to begin with. Well, not this Earth. There is that Earth that this Earth is in, but we’re not in that Earth, we’re in this Earth. Anyways, doesn’t matter, because I’m too awesome to kill. Planet exploded, got rebuilt as they do in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and here we are all living out our coppertop lives in whatever Matrix this is.

Why me and not you? I took the Steampunk Formulae that I created, “Omega7Red,” apparently similar to the red pill and it protected me from the changes in the data stream. You should have taken it too, but you didn’t, and now here we are. Even though you can’t recall, I’ll tell you one thing I learned: survival is revenge…

Where do we go from here? I’ve reactivated my Steampunk blog. The domain name omega7red.com is parked somewhere and the thieves want over $3,000 for it. Go eat a [expletive deleted] you bastards! I got the domain name back for next to nothing. That’s right, once the brokers realized it was completely worthless, they gave it up without a fight. Anyways, I may post something from time to time. It might be Steampunk, or something else cool. I mean, it’s always cool, just not always Steampunk.

Other technical issues are age-related. Back in the day, I used Flash, Shockwave, and such. Now, that tech is dead. Further, many of the websites I linked to are also dead. Also, YouTube has gotten greedy and won’t allow thumbnails for some videos, but they will play. So, there are holes, but just a few. You probably won’t even notice.

“Pi Day” (3/14) is celebrated every year by the Cult of Pi. However, the upcoming Pi Day in 2015 is mathematically accurate to 10 to the 13th digits as calculated by a super-computer algorithm in 2011. Albert Einstein’s birthday is also on 3/14 (Pi Day), and he predicted this terminal event in his “quantized atomic vibrations” theory. Einstein never directly said it, but he hinted that harmonic oscillations between atoms are continuously creating sympathetic vibrations that generate molecular heat at an exponential rate (which explains Global Warming). As the heat grows, the Earth will contain the increasing pressure until it pops like a balloon. Knowing the rate of heat growth, and how much pressure the Earth can hold, precise mathematics produces a result of the given date.

Others have argued that the Earth will not blow up like the Death Star.  Rather, they expect that molten lava and heavy volcanic activity will cover most landmasses and that ash will block out the sun, except Antarctica.   Personally, I think this is just wishful thinking to give people hope that they could survive the apocalypse as a mere extinction-level event.

There will also be a pie-eating contest.

Doktor A built his Thing for an Addams Family-themed exhibition at the Wootini Gallery in Carrboro North Carolina.  Personally, I’d like to see the whole house done this way.  Can you imagine?

I’ve got a little more to show you…

Kato’s steamgirl.com and thisiskato.com sites are both under construction, promising more “something.”  Kato is also the person modeling some of the fabulous attire at Steampunk Couture.  But it looks like we’ll just have to follow her Facebook and wait for an update.  Or I could just ask her point-blank:

Hey Kato, what’s with SteamGirl?  Give me an exclusive and I’ll knock out one of my ad squares for you, free and permanent (Guy Fawkes will just have to suck it up).  And if you need an I.T. guy with a web development hobby to hook up your sites, I’m your Doctor.

By the way, that drill is electric.  Shame on you for using “electric” tools… Or, High-5?

UPDATE: GDMF… I don’t know why I didn’t see this coming. Somehow, I was expecting fiction in one form or another. Turns out, after all the hype and waiting, those Kato sites are just T&A erotic and nude photos. Not that I object; everybody has to have a hobby. It’s just that I’m always drowning in more women than a platoon of horny Marines could handle. I was hoping for a break, but fine Kato, I’ll take you and your fat friend too.

Whatever.  It’s some kind of goofy Mars Attacks take on Nazis in some kind of post-war Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow style.  I doubt I’ll see it in the theaters unless they change up the trailers, or if I’m really bored.  Although, just looking at the poster makes us wonder exactly what will happen.

The trailer reveals Airships (oooooh), gears (aaaaaah), space stations, space battles, A-10 Thunderbolt II Warthogs, hot blonde Nazi cheerleaders, a token black guy, they blow up the Statue of Liberty and make fun of Sarah Palin.

UPDATE: I watched it. Totally worth it. ΩΩΩΩ½ – Four and one-half Omegas.

Via: iWatchStuff

Steampunk art evokes an alternate reality where steam is the primary source of power. Technology, though highly advanced, has taken on a very different look and feel, and fashion is heavily influenced by Victorian styles. In this episode, we explore the Steampunk aesthetic and art movement. We speak with a Steampunk artist, a composer who created an entire piece of music inspired by Steampunk, and a performing arts collective whose work falls naturally into this intriguing world.

Via: PBS Arts

“Alright this next test may involve trace amounts of time travel. So word of advice: if you meet yourself on the testing track don’t make eye contact. Lab boys tell me that’ll wipe out time – entirely. Forward and backward. So do both of yourselves a favor and let that handsome devil go about his business.”

 As usual, click on the image and then zoom in to see detail.

Girl: Did you like that cake, Mrs Jones?
Mrs Jones: Yes, very much.
Girl: That’s funny. My mom said you didn’t have any taste.

Patient: Doctor, I get heartburn every time I eat birthday cake.”
Doctor: Next time, take off the candles.

I have become philosophically opposed to certain multi-billion-dollar corporations. These corporations collect big data about everyone so as to turn their customers into a product. The means used in that data collection are unethical. Further, there are many other issues equally unethical, and too numerous to detail here. Consequently, I have permanently dismissed my advertisers as all of them use the advertising networks provided by these corporations. I will no longer cooperate with these unprincipled entities to the best of my ability.  Though my lack of certain skills and abilities force me to buy food and products from some of them, I can still resist.

All of this I am currently doing:

• I will work for ethical organizations.
• I will no longer advertise and make money from this website.
• When I do buy from corporations, I will prefer the ones who have the best ethics.
• I will prefer local small businesses.
• I will not break the law or do anything unethical in retaliation.
• I will continue to find new ways to resist.

I’ve got a few reasons why and some history lessons behind my motivations.  If you’d like to learn more, then continue reading.

Guy Fawkes was the only man to enter Parliament with honest intentions.  Having failed at the “gunpowder treason and plot”, Fawkes was executed quite horribly and burned in effigy every year since.  His legacy is victim to being on the losing side of a resistance movement.  But much like the Kill-Dozer guy, you sometimes just have to sacrifice yourself to stick it to the rich and corrupt.  Fascinating history aside and long-story-short, Guy Fawkes’ Mask has become the symbol of the people resisting corporate evil and the corrupt government that enables them.  And to quote his favorite comic book and movie (V for Vendetta), “people should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people.”  The mask has also become the internet meme of the hacker group Anonymous; a decentralized group of elite hackers who fight censorship and generally support revolutionary activities. Though in recent years, they’ve been less active.

Class Warfare goes all the way back to the Coal Creek War.  The coal company (rich) paid their employees in company script which could only be spent at company stores (with jacked up prices) or redeemed for real money for far less than 100%.  The coal company also used a “company” checkweighman to weigh the coal which determined how much the miners got paid.  State law already prohibited both of these practices.  The coal miners (poor) only wanted to be paid cash and use their own checkweighmen.  The miners stop working and asked the Governor to enforce the law.  The Governor responded by sending in the National Guard.

At the end of the day, the coal companies and government had their private little war with hard-working Americans who despite other conditions were triggered by the use of the “Convict Leasing System”.  This was in 1891.  Since the abolishment of slavery, a more enigmatic system of substitute slavery was created that lasted into the 1950s.  Arrest people on BS charges, send them to prison and rent them out as labor.

Cave Creek War is not the only example.  There’s also the 1914 Ludlow Massacre where three different fuel companies organized the  Colorado National Guard to attack a tent city of 1200 striking coal miners.  The miners retaliated in force resulting in 200 deaths.  Ultimately, the striking miners were replaced.  400 miners were arrested and charged with murder.  12 enlisted and 10 officers were court-martialed but then acquitted, save one who got a slap on the wrist.

Violence seems to be the only way to change.  If we look at recent events such as Libya and Egypt, we see that armed resistance works and peaceful protests have little impact. If we look at 2012 Bahrain Uprising which you won’t see on CNN but only from non-USA free media sources such as Al Jazeera (video here); you will see that peaceful protests don’t do squat, and that the USA being the heroes of Democracy and Freedom don’t care enough to screw with their oil supply (controlled by the rich).  In fact, with the corporations and the government working together, we don’t even hear about it on CNN, Fox News, or any other USA news outlet. My position on using violence is that it is an absolute last resort that should only be used by those willing to sacrifice their lives for their cause. To be clear, do not initiate an armed conflict; that would be immoral.

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini, National Facist Party, First Marshall of the Empire, Italian Social Republic, Axis Powers, 1943.

Now I don’t like playing the “fascist” card as it is done way too often.  But think about this:  Fascists don’t like Socialism or Communism of the kind that was done in the Soviet Union.  Fascists prefer Capitalism allowing them to control as much money as possible while avoiding social responsibility, which makes sense.  That’s exactly where we are today.  The corporations buy politicians and everybody knows it.  That’s it, that’s Fascism, it’s that simple.  It’s not ObamaCare or Illegal Immigration or Abortion or Gay Rights or if the Catholic Church should pay for Birth Control.  It’s money from Super PACs, million-dollar lawyers, total control of the media, and they sucker us into it.

They lie to us from a hundred different angles and we buy it.  They hold us hostage with mortgages and health insurance.  They convince us that the rich are the victims who are forced to pay the most taxes.  They use proof of inequality against the poor as proof of inequality against the rich.  They convince us that trickle-down economics (or giving money to the rich first) works.  Well, it does work.  After 96% of that is used to pay dividends, the rest trickles down to India and China.  How about trickle-up?  That is you give the poor the money first, and then we’ll just see how many poor people fly to India and China to do their shopping.  How about if you want our money then you work for it?

Passive resistance means one thing to the rich:  Money.  We can’t stop buying gas, clothes, food, and go live off the grid eating tree sap.  But if we look at what we’re spending money on, we can find ways to deny the rich.  I’m going to pick just one of many as an example: Facebook. This is one of those corporations that everybody generally knows just how evil they are, and yet we do business with them. If you somehow don’t know, go do a little research and you’ll see just how ugly the truth is. As corrosive and toxic as social media is, we continue to give them exactly what they want.

I don’t know how a bunch of “Occupy” tents lined up on the streets of every town in America will make any kind of difference at all. Those Occupy tents have become tent cities for the homeless.  The rich will just drive by and not look at them.  Most of the poor will continue doing little else than complaining about it on social media.  If the tents actually annoy the rich, they’ll just call the Police who will remove them (as has already been done many times).  History has shown that the rich prefer to kill the poor before giving back their ill-gotten money.  History shows that the poor have to kill the rich for change to occur.  The rich will never surrender their money because the poor asked nicely.  Why would they?  They never have before in the history of mankind.  Someday, something will break, and everyone will lose. Well, I’m happy to burn in Hell so long as I can take those dirty motherfuckers with me.