April 30, 2003

Morning in Studio

Friend #2: Grubbykid, you are wierd.

The Grubbykid: It's 3:52 in the morning. I can be whatever I want!

Friend #2: I'm a cowboy.

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April 28, 2003

I'd rather be a slut than to be smart

"I'd rather be known for this instead of being smart or something," Roxanne, one of the twin sisters, says. "There's a million people who are smart. There's only 16 of us who were in Cancun together."
-- Rozzanne from the DOA movie, The Real Cancun.

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April 17, 2003

Matrix:Reloaded

Can't wait until Matrix:Reloaded is released? Then check out the Animatrix, which is not only wonderfully rendered and animated, but offers a back-story to the events surrounding the Matrix. And for the more esoteric among you, check out the Philosophy of the Matrix.

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April 14, 2003

Coolant Leak

IMG_4395-coolant_leak.jpg Two people who were moving flat files hit the bleeding valve for the radiator, thus rupturing the valve, thus leaking coolant all over studio. This image is but one in a series.

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April 13, 2003

Frankfort Capital Posters

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After visiting Frankfort, Kentucky we went to the old state capital building. This was the 3rd building on the site - the first two burned down.

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April 11, 2003

Dogs in Studio

AB: Is there a large group of people around the dog?

the grubbykid: Yup.

AB: It's just like a bus going into Chinatown.

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Studio Quotes

D: I rip apart the imperfect leafs.

B: Why?

D: To punish it.

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Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraqi Minister of Information

We Love the Iraqi Information Minister

Presented without any hint of irony.

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April 10, 2003

Cost Of War

Cost Of War

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Wargasm

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This is exactly what I feel like those at Fox News - among others - are experiencing due to the current war with Iraq.

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April 9, 2003

Neo-Cons want to invade another country

Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz wants America to invade another country:

On Sunday, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz said, "There's got to be a change in Syria," which has been accused by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld of allowing war materials and Islamic fighters to cross its border to help the government of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. "The Syrians need to know . . . they'll be held accountable," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press

Who is this Wolfowitz guy, you might ask? Well, he and a few other Neo-Cons wrote the National Security Strategy of the United States of America which claims why preventive war and anticipatory self-defense, is essential to the survival of America. Please remember that this strategy just so happened to be the doctrine with which the Japanese justified Pearl Harbor. This agenda is driving the Neo-conservatives who advise the Bush Administration. Ask yourself, is Syria really a clear and present danger to America. If you don't personally feel threatened, then there might be a problem with this policy, right?

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The making of the Matrix 2 & 3

The making of the Matrix 2 & 3. Damn, this is sweet stuff.

The old Bullet Time rig had produced the illusion that reality was a big CAD file, but it was just an effect, not a three-dimensional world that could be manipulated as easily as if it really was a CAD file. The universal-capture rig enabled ESC to smuggle the faces of Neo and Agent Smith across the border between the digital and the real, into Gaeta's Matrix - a zone where skyscrapers, skin, flames, and marauding machines are all re-created equal.

What this means for moviemaking is that once a scene is captured, filmmakers can fly the virtual camera through thousands of "takes" of the original performance - and from any angle they want, zooming in for a close-up, dollying back for the wide shot, or launching into the sky. Virtual cinematography.

How deep did the rabbit hole go? A cast of each actor's head was sent to a company called Arius 3D, makers of ultrahigh-resolution scanners employed in 1999 to archive the works of Michelangelo. The Arius scanner is accurate down to 25 microns - the diameter of a mold spore. To get the clothing simulations just right, ESC sent swatches of Reeves' black cassock and Weaving's jacket to a company called Surface Optics, which builds devices to measure a property of light called the bidirectional reflectance distribution function. Surface Optics happened to have one machine on hand scheduled to ship to Lockheed Martin a month later, where it was to be assigned to its usual task: evaluating the reflectivity of paint on stealth bombers.

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April 8, 2003

Slander and the power of TRACERT and simple IP Tools

So we love when people are really stupid. Especially when they are looking for underage porn on the internet. When it gets to be the greatest, is when they are looking for underage porn on the internet and when they figure out that there is none on your site, they flip out. Like this guy, who left a message on the Olsen twin post entitled, Google and the Olsen Twins. Here is his wonderful and eloquent diatribe:

Rocco Thinks:
You must be one of those lonely fat guys cause those two young girls are two of the hottest girls in hollywood and since you cant get even near a celebrity you got to bust on them and bring them down. Cause either your so fat or so ugly and probably masterbate every day if not twice or more daily... your the kind of people that piss me off, weird-os like you who are fagots... o and by the way buddy their bodies are just fine, no need to get bigger like you ass, bye~

Well lucky for you, we logged your IP address - 205.188.209.70 and the comment post time - April 8, 2003 02:42 PM EST.

So come, one and all on our tour of discovery who this Rocco really is!

We remembered seeing that IP Block somewhere, so we did a simple tracert on 205.188.209.70, and this was the route:

  • Tracing route to cache-dm02.proxy.aol.com [205.188.209.70] @ April 08 2003 21:26:14
  • 10 ms < 10 ms < 10 ms ERCDistBL3-to-ALM-05105-A.manage.uc.edu
  • 10 ms < 10 ms < 10 ms CoreHPB-to-ERCDistB.manage.uc.edu [10.30.1.1]
  • 10ms <10 ms <10 ms CoreSvcsHPB2CoreHPB.hpb.uc.edu [10.31.6.3]
  • 10 ms <10 ms <10 ms 192.168.1.1
  • 120 ms 241 ms < 10 ms UCInetRouter-to-FW.manage.uc.edu [192.168.0.1]
  • 10 ms < 10 ms < 10 ms 192.88.194.25
  • 10 ms < 10 ms < 10 ms clp4-atm4-0-0s2.cincinnati.oar.net [199.18.107.177]
  • 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms oebc2-atm1-0-0.columbus.oar.net [199.18.202.2]
  • 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms swbbq1-atm12-0-0s2.columbus.oar.net [199.18.112.198]
  • 10 ms 10 ms < 10 ms acr2-so-2-1-0.Cleveland.cw.net [208.172.209.129]
  • 20 ms 20 ms 30 ms agr4-loopback.NewYork.cw.net [206.24.194.104]
  • 20 ms 20 ms 20 ms dcr2-so-6-3-0.NewYork.cw.net [206.24.204.189]
  • 20 ms 20 ms 20 ms america-on-line.NewYork.cw.net [206.24.207.218]
  • 20 ms 20 ms 20 ms bb2-nye-P1-0.atdn.net [66.185.151.66]
  • 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms bb2-vie-P8-0.atdn.net [66.185.152.201]
  • 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms bb2-dtc-P2-0.atdn.net [66.185.152.110]
  • 31 ms 30 ms 30 ms pop1-dtc-P15-0.atdn.net [66.185.140.7]

So that didn't quite pan out. So we did a IP Lookup courteously provided by Network Tools. This yeilded the following:

IP Lookup @ April 08 2003 21:26:14
IP address: 205.188.209.70
Host name: cache-dm02.proxy.aol.com

Big surprise. An AOL user. So, cross-referencing our referral log, we found this entry [screenshot]:

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So here are the facts:

So, all of this information took less than 5 minutes to find out. Assembling it into a coherent format took the longest time using documented and legal methodologies.

Why, you ask? Because people like this annoy us, and should be brought to. We are glad that the level of discourse on the Internet is this low. We really are. Really. And in truth, out of everything that we have wrote on this site, you are bitching about the fucking Olsen Twins. Give us a fucking break you moron.

We would like to go point by point of this "Rocco's" comments:

We are happy to report that we are not fat, but are showing some extra girth around the tummy. We also feel quite secure about our appearance. We feel that the members of Grubykid.com, while no Chippendales Dancers, cut quite the dashing pose. Now and again. We would like to talk about our masturbatory practices, but we feel that is better left between those members actively partaking in the act. Such as the penis, hand and clean-up crew. But, we are happy to report that some of the members here are in loving relationships, especially with a blonde-haired woman named Herself. We are sorry to disappoint you that, while we wholly support the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender community, we are not part of that community. When will you hate mongers realize that those in the LGBT community are just as "normal" as you are, and that - no, they are not going to hell. People who hate are. And finally, some of us here at Grubbykid.com have been wondering if our collective asses has been getting fatter, but we think they are not. See, we have been walking a lot lately, so we are becoming lean and mean.

So you slanderous, child-porn searching fool - FUCK YOU. At least have the balls to say the illogical, idiotic and downright poor grammar crap without giving bogus information.

We have emailed AOL Abuse about this incident, because we are sure that they will be interested in infractions like these.

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April 6, 2003

What happens when we have too much debt?

United States near The Statutory Debt Limit
In February, the United States federal debt reached its current statutory limit of $6.4 trillion. For now, the Treasury Department is taking the usual stopgap measures involving the G-Fund, but Congress will need to increase the limit soon to avoid a default.

Most likely, Congress will approve an increase before any default would happen. But this time, there is actually a smidgen of doubt, given that last year's bill to raise the limit was barely passed by the House at the 11th hour. What would be the effects of a government default? For one thing, it might put a damper on the administration's New American Century agenda.

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April 5, 2003

Perspectives of reporting

Al Jazeera - It's just as fair as CNN
American TV news has always presented an American perspective, just as Al Jazeera presents an Arab perspective. But in wartime, the American slant has become more obvious, and as a result Al Jazeera's Arab slant has become less objectionable.

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Tax cut for the Rich

The New York Times reports that, "Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes," the House majority leader, Tom DeLay, blithely told CongressDaily.

What utter bullshit. Lets recap this tax cut. This tax cut is based on eliminating the dividend tax. The Bush Administration claims that this is a "double tax" - because corporations are taxed on income and then the dividend given to the shareholder is taxed.

OK, lets spell this out very simply: The fact is, this is designed so that the top income earners in America can receive a further tax break, and while simultaneously pushing America into the deepest debt we have seen in fifty years.

The facts are there are two different entities, corporations and shareholders. Each are receiving income, each should be taxed on that income. Plain and simple.

Ask yourself why is the President sending a US$600 billion tax cut at a time of war - a war that they created? This is neither the time, nor the place to be cutting taxes. This is pure political payback to the uber-riche, and will hurt America in the long run.

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April 4, 2003

New hosted Sisters Blog

We would like to welcome our first grubbykid.com hosted site! Our readers might know these two famous sisters who are constantly in the papers. They currently reside in New York City, but are known to fly to Los Angeles, Vail, the Hampton's and Europe. Who are these two wonderkids? Well, they are Paris and Nicky Hilton, of course. Their blog entitled Project Hilton: The Hilton Sister's Blog will [hopefully] take us into the minds of multi-billionaire heiresses who cavort with all sorts of people. Their daily and weekly exploits will grace and augment our jet-set lifestyle of Grubbykid.com. We hope you enjoy Paris and Nicky's new blog, and if any other international jet-setting sisters need a bloghost, we will be happy to oblige.

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An-Thrax is leaving

Ann Coutler, better known as An-Thrax for her far reaching jigonism, is leaving New York City for Miami, the Bastion of Right Wing America. [or something]

Good riddance, it means that we will definatley not see you in the streets of The City.

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April 1, 2003

A WARMONGER EXPLAINS WAR TO A PEACENIK

A WARMONGER EXPLAINS WAR TO A PEACENIK
WM: The main point is that we are invading Iraq because resolution 1441 threatened "severe consequences." If we do not act, the security council will become an irrelevant debating society.

PN: So the main point is to uphold the rulings of the security council?

WM: Absolutely. ...unless it rules against us.

PN: And what if it does rule against us?

WM: In that case, we must lead a coalition of the willing to invade Iraq.
This pretty much sums up the rhetoric of the neo-conservatives and their wargasm of invading Iraq.

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