OK, as requested by nobody, I am continuing on my quest to SLOWLY digitize all my old VHS contents... OK, not all. All would be almost realtime... painful. I am picking only the most memorable to me - those that we either found entertaining at one time or took a lot of time to do. At one point, I think we were pumping out so much of this stuff (and music), I thought I'd always have the time and people around to pursue whatever ridiculous notion of the day occurred to us. Of course, I was nearly   more...jobless, searching for meaning in my life, too depressed to enjoy what amounted to nearly complete free-time (some would call it failing out of college)... Those days dried up, I re-parented myself, filled in the lower blocks of my psycho-pyramid thing, got domesticated... now I resume my search for both time and people to continue to do pointless things (and occasionally something with purpose). Ironic. Don't you think? I suspect these skits are about as awkward and uncomfortable as I was at the time. Still, they are chunks of my history and I must face who I was. Most of it is still in me. A lot of it was me trying on different hats. Perplexed by the whole capitalist notion that I needed to find some paying skill... ah yes, my glory days hehe.  less

OK OK, I feel a little dirty. But now that the game is over, I can reveal. My name is not Jay, it's Jim... and most of the stuff I made was for a game (worldwithoutoil.org). My wife played Illiana Speedster - and I took on a character named Jay - which was me - with the wrong first name... and that is all. Everything else was true and real and, well... me (us). So now that the game is done, and I have come clean, I can keep making stuff and putting it here. The game changed us in real life.   more...Ironic that gas prices started climbing when the game started. It really was... for the most part... just a slight premonition of what I think is really coming anyways. And we, "for the game", ended up making some changes that we should have done anyways. Most of the ARGs that my wife plays/works on are mostly fantasy... this one was the first that really got me "playing". It wasn't an escape or diverstion this time. It was real. I ended up really making a website for my neighborhood, signing up for a CSA (community sustainable agriculture) share at a local organic farm, and learned a ton about electric cars, alternative energy, conservation... all things that are going to become increasingly important. In the process, I made a lot of local inquiries and pushed the utilities for green options. I found out what we are up against around here and what it will take to "get off the grid" here. So.. yeah... My name is Jim - and that's all was realy changed for "the game" which really wasn't a game at all - but a group brainstorm about what is coming anyways. I predict more "games" in this genre will take on actual issues and produce real movement. I think that is pretty cool.

Check out other videos we made for the game under Illiana Speedsters stuff. Also www.youtube.com/jmsender for an abundance of other stuff I admit I had something to do with. You may regret that. For those that have subscribed and befriended me, I hope you'll stick with me as this consciousness raising game has inspired me to keep on. Stay tuned.
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I know I know... I should have a blog. The fact is, since college, I hate writing... and reading... and avoid them whenever I can. Since I got my iMac with the cam built in - it's just way easier to flip it on and record video blog. So you are stuck with my face. I'm not sure how you found my email. I looked through all the settings and I don't think it was through here. It better not be. I try not to give it out to the spambots. Anyways. Yeah, I am really here. I probably shouldn't be   more...so invested in the internet, but it's my job. And for the time being, until the brownouts and blackouts start taking down major network peering points, the internet appears to be doing what it was intended to do - reroute itself as nodes flip on and off. I did notice quite a bit of packet loss the other day, but by the time I had some specific IPs to test with, it had rerouted. All major datacenters have backup generators that run diesel. Hopefully, it will be some time before we lose the net. It really has become critical infrastructure. When we had our power outage in our neighborhood, thanks to the shoddy default security on home wireless routers, I was able to walk my laptop down the street until I found a network - so I could at least check my gmail. Bleh Bleh. now you see why I don't write - It just keeps coming out of me... So, yeah - ok, is this a blog then? Are you happy?  less

Get your head wet. Random linkages that are making my head swim:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4017784a13.html

http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/354/C8115/

http://fuelfromh2o.com/

http://youtube.com/watch?v=c-ulOvJl46U&mode=related&search=

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7833758715853620146

http://www.befreetech.com/techpage.htm

http://www.savefuel.ca/oxy-hydrogen/index.php

http://www.waterforfuel.com/

http://www.freelectricity.com/FreeElectrOffer.html

http://www.preignitioncc.com/nrg/

http://www.myfavoriteclub.com/

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/waterfuel2007

http://waterfuelmuseum.com/

http://www.eagle-research.com/index.html

http://www.eagle-research.com/products.html

http://www.eagle-research.com/browngas/whatisbg/whatis2.html

http://www.fuel-from-water.com/installed-super-gen.html

http://byronnewenergy.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

http://www.savefuel.ca/index.php

Yeah woo. Is this myspace? Fantastic. I've really made it.