Disco Legend Zeke's 2009 Blog

Saturday, December 5 2009. The First Photons
When we talk about the size of the universe
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A single photon is actually two or more particles orbiting around each other in 10 or eleven dimensions.

Many mistakenly call it a wave, and valid formulas exist to predict because the path taken by the particles looks like a wave from the side. (from the front it looks like a circle or ellipse)

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Tuesday, November 24, 2009 There is no "Higgs Boson"
Those of you familiar with "Zeke's Yin Yang Model of the Universe" will recall that gravity is not actually a "force" but rather an observed effect of the distortion of the space-time continuum. Photons, which are the only objects in the universe, consist of two (or possibly more) particles which orbit each other in several dimensions. Here is a very simplified diagram: A two dimensional view of a ten (or eleven) dimensional photon.

A two dimensional view of a ten (or eleven) dimensional photon.

The two (or more) dots, each surrounded by a force, and circling each other, easily attach to (or possibly even form) the fabric of time and space, rather like a rider attaches himself to a street car.

Shortly after the "Big Bang." however, there was not enough room for these sub photonic particles to expand into proper photons, so instead they took very convoluted orbits that involved many, many photons.

The individual photons dancing within these clusters still attach to the space-time continuum, but because they are bound to many other photons, cannot move with it. As a result, a portion of the space-time continuum is "captured" by the object.

Going back to the street car example, imagine two indestructible commuters, handcuffed together, each grabbing onto streetcars going in opposite directions. Then just scale it up by a gazillion or so and you can visualize what is going on: a tiny part (yet extending to the edge of the universe) of the space-time continuum becomes attached to the object, and moves along with it.

This creates effects we call INERTIA and GRAVITY, no boson is needed to make it work.

Monday November 23, 2009 ...OUCH!
It started last Tuesday in the morning, a successful trip to FRY's, to trade in an L to L eSATA for an I to I, which is what was needed. Opening the hardened clam shell with a pair of scissors resulted in a cut outer jacket of the $12 cable. D'oh! And a tiny hint of what was to come.

I wish I could report that this was caused by strenuous use of the missionary position, but pathetic truth is I was struggling to get the aforementioned eSATA connector into the back of my computer. I was thinking how clever I am using a mirror so I don't have to move the CPU. ...and ZAP no sound, but a burst of immobilizing pain.

Most of the week was spent in bed. Movement got better each day. A friend loaned me his cane. This morning I got up and moved around a bit without the cane, and for the first time sat at the computer.

I am hoping I'll be mobile enough to visit PURE on Tuesday.

Monday November 16, 2009
Today's search: cougar
By request. Saturday was a Fight Night, so the general net worth of the Strip crowd was a few sigmas above the c-list.

Most notably to me, several Sharp Dressing Men. Suits vests, etc. Real World Dapper Dans. What a wonderful new sight on the walkways of center strip. Let's hope its a trend that continues and grows. On the subject of fashion, what I see in the men these days is somewhat ordinary shirts and jackets with extraordinary graphics, done in every medium from silk screen to miner cut diamonds. Because club dress codes require collared shirts, many high end graphics artists have moved tothem,, and now even sport jackets.

So... I am noticing this, and the delicious "potato sack" dresses on the ladies, in the Red Room at Pure, when a security guy taps me on the shoulder. "One of the girls at that," he nods, "table wants to dance with you. She will be back in half an hour." I hastily agree, and he adds, "She's beautiful."

I don't wear a watch, but made a round of the PussyCat Dolls room and the big room before returning to the spotlight in the Red Room. Gentle Readers, it is moments like this that make a man believe in a God (by whatever name) that not only loves me, but also knows what I Like.

When you dance, you can feel how you, that is the mass of your body, is connected to the fabric of the universe by Inertia. When you, for example, wave your arms from side to side, in the time space framework of your hand, the mass is at rest; a small but infinitely long piece of the universe moves along with your hand. When you get to the end and reverse direction, you must apply an external force to stop that portion of the universe, and begin moving it in the other direction. You can feel the universe tugging back.

And to share that with another... One much better than yourself! Thank you beautiful lady!

Monday November 9, 2009 National Asshat day.
1. Clearwire (Clear.com) Advertises service in Las Vegas, but if you call and you are actually IN Las Vegas, they tell you service is not available. They advertised great prices, but will not give a rain check if you don't live in one of the areas they DO cover as of the date of the ad. Talk about bait and switch!

2. Wells Fargo Bank operates a "service" for other banks that have crummy customers like me. It appears that their primary function is to stonewall us on mortgage restructuring. I have been attempting to renegotiate for three years, ever since my mortgage shot up from about $800 a month to $1,200 per month. Sure enough there was the rate hike buried in the fine print on page 6. It took a year and a call to corporate headquarters to get them to even admit that there was a department to handle that. Every little niggling excuse has been used to delay my restructure. They even made an offer, which I accepted, and now are trying to withdraw it. All i can figure out is that they are paid by the hour to deal with poor suckers such as myself, so the longer they put me off, the more money they make.

3. Yahoo! STILL! sux! (but! see! edit!)
The latest round of booters and other assorted hackers in YAHOO! chat rooms has reach new levels of bringing down a once-excellent service, my favorite room is totally disabled. Complaining on the Yahoo blog does no good at all, you simply get iggied by uber Yahoo Chatter Sarah Bacon, and your posts are deleted. I am glad to say we got rid of all our YAHOO! stock a long time ago. Yahoo! has always been an "also ran" since the bubble burst, but they have taken customer service to a new low.

So, i guess the message here is: avoid YAHOO! for anything that is important. Or for entertaining yourself, for that matter. EDIT: Yahoo has pushed new code, and the particular DOS attack seems to have been netted. Booter Code is a significant vector for botnet propigation, and there is a huge traffic in them. Kudos to Yahoo! security and interface guys for the fast response. Yahoo! needs a few civil court judgments to publicize the cost of screwing with someone else's text messages.

Monday November 2, 2009 Halloween
At the insistence of the XMZ, We went out as Dr. and Nurse. Now, getting her to stay awake past 10PM or so is a major challenge, so I attempted to get her to take a nap and wake at 10pm. This was partially successful, she at least rested horizontally. and was up getting her costume on, etc.

First stop, sports book at Mirage to watch the end of the Yankees game. Beautiful big projection screen, just waiting for a SONY 4K projector. This new projector has 4 times as many pixels as HD, rivaling 70MM print film in resolution. To late to place a bet, but from the applause, there seemed to be many happy fans and ticket holders.

Then a walk through the Shopping arcade at Caesars Palace. Just one or two shops, BVLGARI and Tiffany and co. The first stop was at my request, we had seen an older watch and I was hoping to see a similar one. The only thing in that size was $17,000 in plain 18k and a $27,000 diamond paved version now to see if i can still buy the one i saw for $200. The Tiffany stop was just out of sentimentality, or possibly some secret magnetic homing device they build into their products.

Next time you are passing a Tiffany location, ask to see the Emeralds. I am sure other jewelers have eye clean emeralds, but clean emeralds are rarer than clean diamonds.

Still too early for the club, so we played penny slots for a while, then started loitering in front of PURE. What a mob scene, i have not seen such a crowd in the pussycat area in a long time. And many were in costume. The XMZ started whine^H^H^H^H^H worrying about getting in, as table after table crossed the rope ahead of us. After a very short time there was a break in the true queue and we went inside. It was was already packed, we headed to the PussyCat Dolls showroom, and watched the show, then up to the terrace. Packed, packed.

But, alas, her costume shoes started hurting and so we had to retreat.

Tuesday October 27, 2009 To Err is Human.
Getting the huge Venice gallery up to the web server has been many days sprinkled with D'oh! moments. And, as I'm sure some corollary of Murphy's Law recites, You don't discover a typo until the binding is finished. Or in the case of websites, until after two time consuming steps, Rendering the thumbnails and resized main images, and then FTPing them up to the server. These intervals are collectively known around our house as "Paint Drying." So all too frequently it is only after 5 hours that we notice the simplest of mistakes.

Pomegranates are ripe enough to eat, some splitting their sides as the seeds cover themselves in sweet juice. XMZ reports that they are $2.50 each in the supermarket. As stated before, in additional to their health values, pomegranates are the most beautiful of the fruits, the arils of a ripe berry more beautiful than the best rubies (though not as durable.)

Friday, October 16, 2009 Venice
When The RetroRoamer returned from Europe, she brought back 12,000 stills and 8 hours of 1400 X 1080 tape. She has invested 4 months in sorting and titling. For each day, she has a SONY VEGAS project, which is rendered in many formats and made into .iso files at many standards and resolutions. from AVCHD down to 320X in Zeke-O-Vision.

The website version was given to me as a folder. I used ACDSee to set order, rename, and add EXIF to each image. Then a website Image tool called Extreme Thumbnail Generator massages the folder into a gallery website. New on this gallery is creation time of the image, because the CHRON directory likes temporal organization.

The first Page, her Train ride South to Venice Has over 200 beautiful images, and a few, err... artistic interpretations. All images are now uploaded.

Thursday, October 15, 2009 Energy
I came across a lovely website for converting various energy units and comparing storage modalities. For example the energy in 1 gallon of gasoline is equal to a lead-acid battery weighing 2149 pounds. Try a few yourself here.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 The Age of Disclaimer
Except for religion, you had better be careful to state only provable words. The latest from actual TV broadcast "Tasty appearing grill marks." A claim made by the maker of a very clever product, a microwave oven accessory that heats up and puts grill marks on food.

Bloggers must now disclaim all gifts and payments. Although the FTC promises that this is a tool to curb corporate abuse, it was pointed out in comments to a PC Magazine article that endorsing a product could make you liable for it's failure. Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball!

Snow
The local ski lodge launched water into the cold air, and made enough snow for their earliest opening ever.

Here is a picture of snow formed at about 7000 ft elevation. It was the fluffiest I have ever seen, making a miniature Christmas Tree from a wildflower skeleton.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 Misc
Well, much change, improvement on the domestic situation, the clubs are still plugging along through the recession. Crowd is slightly lower, but VIP is $ignificantly lower.

Nonetheless, my favorite singer/dancer Jamie Preston of the Las Vegas Pussycat Dolls continues belting out the songs. If you visit the gallery, you will see the opening "bathtub" solo dance. Sadly, this has been cut from the show, apparently due to budgetary tightness.

Really Dumb TV commercials
I don't subscribe to any cable or satellite services, so i am subjected to a constant stream of commercials. Usually this is not a bad thing, on a frame per frame basis, commercials are some of the most expensive productions, and mostly the money ends up on the screen, but sometimes i just have to make a big cartoon question mark and beat myself over the head with it. For example: General Electric "11/16 wrench," a truly high end commercial, beautiful and inspiring. Except. Well, except for a few legacy products, all GE products have been metric for over a decade. Applying an 11/16 wrench to them is gonna void the warranty.

AAA insurance "Jill," this is a hard commercial to miss, she is at the dry cleaners, and her blue car gets T-boned by a runaway car. She gets into the car and drives away, the body damage repaired. But if you look closely you will see that its not very good body work, the surface of her fender is rather rippley.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 Migration Migraines
Hmmm is that customer still here? Did I change the DNS yet? The major sites are moved, i have a bucketfull of domain names that need to get pointed somewhere. Because of all the publicity CragsList is getting, I should be promoting my Classified site. It is working on the new server, and I really believe the $1 charge will keep the spammers, murderers, and thieves away.

In Las Vegas, the agencies that send girls to your hotel room are licensed, as are massage therapists. Hopefully this will keep the amateur hookers out of the site.

Friday, April 17, 2009 Migration
The classified ad site is moved and running on a 64 bit back end, but I am still leaving the Vegas machine in production. Plenty more to migrate from Vegas. including legacy services that might need to run in 32 bit, at least for now.

In the garden, the fig trees are in fruit. I am not going to put much into the garden this year, but want to keep the trees going.

Saturday, April 11, 2009 New Server
In furtherance of my desire to move myself into the cloud, we, the editorial we it seems these days, have rented a server in a major data center. First on the list is moving content from the Texas Server. If you are reading this, the server is operational, but many sites lack Front Page features like counters, and a much needed change in directory structure will provide employment for 50 man years, or 3 woman years.

Learning curve for 2008 server is a bit steep, but it made me finally get a handle on .ASP programming. My first opus detects the URL you typed, and redirects browser to the proper homepage. Finally the Bikini, Destination-Fun, and Retroroamer indexes can all sit in the same directory above CHRON.

Since last writing, have installed an off the shelf classified ad server at Live-Vegas-Classifieds.com it is still running from the Las Vegas location, but i want to have it migrated ASAP. Power outages in Vegas are short, but frequent.

With a rather modest starter payload, factory towns could convert iron from meteor impacts and construct infrastructure. Collecting solar power is very efficient in an airless low gravity environment. Many processes are cheaper in low gravity, and shipping is very cheap from moon to earth due to gravity well. This is hardly a new idea, its the underpinning of the wonderful Heinlein novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Every time i read it, i picture Jane Fonda in the part of Wyoming Knott. Why not (funny once) read it again, or for the first time, for a wonderful and prophetic look at 42. Thank you, Robert, for showing me personal truths.

I still want to make the movie, just hope Jane is still up to it. I read the book for the first time about when Barbarella was the hot new movie. Interesting that so many movies come from comic books. But then, every movie starts as a story board, which looks just like a comic book.

March 4, 2009 Traffic is the New Money
The Information economy, which began long before the Internet brand Network of Networks, was once the purview of governments, a few elite individuals, and the priesthood. As computer power became cheaper and cheaper, ordinary corporations could use the power of information processing, to strategic advantage in the pursuit or their competitive goals.

When this was brought to the desktop and finally to the home, our economy became truly digital. Not only was money just bits on a hard drive somewhere, software was in place that created more. At the peak of the bubble, the amount of software money (including derivatives) is said to have been more than a thousand times the net worth of the entire country.

At the other end of the spectrum is hard money. Gold. Oil. Phosphates. There is a finite quantity of each on earth, and demand is constant. The amount of phosphorus available is one theoretical limit to the expansion of life on earth, oil for it's energy and lubricating qualities, and gold for its utility and beauty.

Somewhere between these extremes is traffic, people visiting a website. A known percentage of those visiting will click an ad, buy a gizmo, or perform some other action that results in a benefit to the webholder.

Will the perfect speech save the World? I just must say what a spectacular job Obama's speech writer does! But it is the underlying policy and legislation that represents the direction our government must take to ensure each of us the Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness that our Founding Fathers envisioned.

But these steps do not go deep enough. There is a fundamental flaw in the monetary system. Money is created by profit motivated corporations. Yes, banks CREATE money. Of course this is regulated; the amount of money any one Bank is permitted to create is a multiple of the Bank's assets. One important component of these assets is mortgage paper. So when the Bank writes a $100,000 mortgage, it adds $100,000 to its assets, and can then loan another multiple of this new asset. So the banks can create money endlessly as long as they can find customers.

Alas, its a little more complicated, due to an accounting rule called Mark-to-market which allows the asset to be valued (marked) at the current price. So our hypothetical $100,000 mortgage would be carried on the books at the appraisal value of the underlying asset.

The Banks were probably very happy with Mark to Market; as long as real estate prices rose, the Banks could create more money. When home prices fell, the assets of the bank were devalued, and they suddenly ran out of money. Nobody bored into the vaults and carted off stacks of bills or bars of gold, the loss of money was merely a bookkeeping entry.

There is nothing wrong with creating money in this way, It encourages banks to find good uses for money, but the profit motive clouded their vision.

So, ANYHOO, here's a few fundamental reforms that would improve life in the USA.

2. The government can print money, why not eliminate the Personal Income Tax. Think about how happy YOU would be if that happened!

3. Corporate taxes, and the sale and redemption of bonds would control Inflation.

There's lots more, of course... but this simple change would change our future for the better.

I have been working on a gallery for my NYC trips last fall. I left the templates in Manhattan at LUI's place so first I had to re-create the templates. Once the templates are made, its just a matter of writing captions for the photographs. So here is the link to my NEW YORK GALLERY.

Last Tuesday i arrived at PURE just as the Pussycat Dolls were starting their first show. It was quite crowded, the show was great, etc. I went dancing in the main room, then came back for the second show. About halfway through, I started feeling really sick, flushed and weak. I bolted out. Jamie and all, I'm really sorry to miss even a part of the show!

Last night i got to PURE just as the first show was starting. Since it was still Valentine's Day, it was still my birthday, so i got a full night of extra hugs and kisses from the PUSSYCAT DOLLS and the general female population of the club.

The guest celebs were Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt. Heidi was such a sweetie to her fans, who truly adore her. And with her ultra hottie boy toy in hand, the Love was so thick i had to swim upstream to find dancing space.

The Patio was open, and on my way up the stairs the cold draft made me think this was going to be a brief visit. Arrival on the deck confirmed my fears, glass cutting cold. But as i rounded the corner from the South side to the East side, we were on the lee side of the Caesars Palace building, sheltered from the wind, and warmed by patio heaters. Great music, and more beautiful women.

Arrived this morning at PURE at just past Midnight, so officially my Birthday. In addition to the always-hot PUSSYCAT DOLLS, there was a fashion show for BEBE, and a zillion bachelorette parties. What better Birthday present for a man that loves women so much.

Finally Las Vegas got a nice slow soak-in rain. I got my nap early and headed out to JET and PURE. Everybody said Friday was a bust... slowest night they ever had at PURE, but Saturday was pretty good in both places.

JET has added flat panels across the stage VIP area. You lightshow freaks out there will kick yourselves in the butt forever if you miss experiencing this. Due to the extreme rainburst (according to my spell checker, i just invented that word) when i parked at Mirage Valet, I hit JET first, even though it meant missing the first show at the PUSSYCAT DOLLS LOUNGE.

There are advantages to being early into a great club like JET. The light show effects are viewable from whatevere angle because you can still move about. Also, most clubs let the girl's line in first, so at a certan point, there will be a sea of hotties, with light effects dancing on their proudly displayed bodies. For a visually oriented guy like me, its straight to the heart.

The spring dresses are here, very draped, like bunting on a Fourth of July grandstand... But swaying back and fourth as they dance, teasing us poor males with the promise of a glimpse. I said, "That dress looks like a potato sack... But, Darlin'... Those are the nicest spuds i ever seen." Hmmm. how much of the audience did i lose with spuds (potato in slanguage.)

Emerged from the Mirage' to a light sprinkle, and got to PURE just in time to have a Guinness outside before the Midnight Show. The hotel has set up a bar at the east end of the PussyCat Dolls pit, it serves draught, but, well, Guinness really shouldn't be gulped. It was good thing i did, or i would have missed the first show.

The place was packed, and when Jamie has a crowd to reflect her energy, it resonates through everyone in the room and charges the show to another level.

NO disco last night! Oh, my! I didn't get to bed for my nap in time, and so i was too tired to head out to the club last night.

Seeing Red I spent the closing months of 2008 in Manhattan at my friend Chi-Tien Lui's Tribecca studio/store. The focus of my visit was setting up his new RED CAMERA. This amazing video camera produces an image the is sharper than 35MM movie film, and has already taken over TV commercial production, and several feature length movies are being shot with it. As if Hollywood did not have enough to worry about.

Although RED has been around a few years now, it is far from a completed product, unlike a film camera, which "processes" the film in a purely mechanical way, RED relies on firmware to define the functions of every button and connector. Each release gives us improved functionality and reliability.

One of my projects at CTL was getting the entire west wall of the second floor studio painted process green. Green studio wall at CTL studio in Tribecca Manhattan

Green studio wall at CTL studio in Tribecca Manhattan

With a super high resolution RAW image to work with, chroma key allows us to work with virtual sets and background.

Got the software to work on my web pages in this machine, my usual machine is still freezing in the studio in New York.

FIREWORKS FIASCO I got home to Las Vegas in time for the New Year celebration. Because of a roof fire earlier in the year, the fire marshal prohibited rooftop fireworks launches without some red tape, which didn't get done.

Needless to say, there were many unhappy campers. From most locations it was difficult or impossible to see the fireworks. Mayor Goodman opined in his sound bite that if we can't have world class fireworks, then we shouldn't have fireworks. right on, Mr, Mayor.

The XMZ was with me in the strip for the 2009 New Year's Celebration and we just happened upon a spot with an unobstructed view due to an empty lot construction site, and got some pretty video. That made me think about using construction sites as temporary staging areas for stages, vendors, rides, fireworks, and like ephemeral venues..

HAPPY LADIES And, i do Vegas Pussycat Dolls Singer JAMIE PRESTON

love happy ladies!
I planned my return flight so that i would be able to get to PURE the night after my return. The PUSSYCAT DOLLS were happy to see me, Jamie Preston even came down off the stage and danced with me as the video of JUST LIKE ME played on the big screen.

The lounge featured beautiful new semicircular VIP booths on each side of the central stage. Jamie is an amazing trouper, Through distractions from someone spilling a drink, people talking, glasses clinking, crowds moving about and Celeb entries, she just continues through the show, never losing her rapport with the audience. If you are planning a party, this is the room. Be sure to check in early with your VIP host so that you won't miss the start of the show.

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