Another one of my coworker’s whiteboards digitized. This one focuses on how QR codes are popping up everywhere. First it was restaurants and now they can be found in everything from grocery stores to hardware warehouses. Soon people will be placing QR codes on the backs of their cars instead of using long web addresses and maybe even panhandlers will now have Paypal accounts in order to collect their donations.

Smart phones and mobile computing sure have made our lives more connected.

Graciously borrowed from http://sheikyermami.com/

So Osama is dead… shot in the dome-piece as I heard on the radio this morning. I could hardly believe it when the stream first started coming over twitter. My first thoughts was how long have we been looking for that guy? and Ok now what.

Anyway with the flood of tweets to read about I got amped up and decided to post my favorite ten tweets of the event.

@DanaArikane:
"They should have captured Bin Laden alive and made him continually go through airport security for the rest of his life."

@rochellethestats:
"It’s like a Disney film… The Prince marries the Princess and the villain dies #justice"

@sickipediabot:
"So Osama Bin Laden is dead… Amazing what the Americans can do when the playstation network is down."

@Allwazerite:
"I bet Osama Bin Laden was killed after his personal information was leaked in the Playstation Network security breach."

@jesus:
"Sorry, you’re at the wrong gate, Osama."

@JediJunkie:
"Looks like Osama signed up for Foursquare on the wrong day."

@rudygay22:
"Ok so we killed Osama. Now all we have to do is find Wald and Carmen San Diego! Then I will be impressed!!!"

@unknown:
"Osama Bin Laden, Waldo, Carmen San Diego… #WorldHideAndSeekChampions" *

@NZAfro:
"R.I.P Osama Bin Laden – World Hide And Go Seek Champion (2001 – 2011)"

@davidbates:
"I bet Apple found Osama Bin Laden using that Remote Iphone Data… he was selling goats on ebay"

* I saw this one but could not find it again once I started writing this post… if your that person contact me on twitter.

Hope you enjoy National “We kicked his ass” day
David Bates

Above is another creation from Barbara Hullett her original artwork is on the right with my vectorization on the left.

This drawing was inspired by the recent weather events and modern times. The recent weather events are also known as the biggest let down in weather this century. Several counties around the triad called off school in anticipation of Snowmageddon and nothing showed up until well into the evening. Facebook and Twitter were both on fire with scowls of angry parents telling the school board and the weathermen that they had waisted their precious PTO.

I myself even got caught up in the hype staying home Monday and working remotely.

Hope all you stay warm and enjoy the imagery.
David Bates

I was recently shocked when I went through my news-feed to find that thousands of birds were falling out of the sky and thousands of fish near the same town were floating up on-shore. I couldn’t believe that they didn’t immediately issue a warning for the area asking people to stay indoors, or even a “Don’t touch the birds” broadcast. The clean up crews that entered the town wore total protective suits including air filters but left the regular townsfolk to fend for themselves. Almost like a scene directly from “The Crazies” where the whole town become infected because action wasn’t taken to separate the towns people and test them.

The conclusion that the birds died from stress due to fireworks is completely ridiculous. Especially given that fish died as well. I just am baffled how casual this whole situation was dealt with and thought I should jot it down.

Thanks for reading
David Bates

This was my first time clay shooting so I was kinda nervous especially since my father-in-law was letting me borrow is brand new mossberg. In fact I think I was more nervious about breaking something on his gun than anything else. We’ll anyway I did well for a beginner I got 6 out of 25. Including a couple off a wobble platform. If anything else I got to see a lot of nice people and eat some good hotdogs. But of course that is not all. I got to fire not only a .12 gauge but a .10 gauge and a steel cannon. Watch the video below.

And now that you have seen someone else light it here is me running away from it after I lit it

As I said great day, great food, and great fellowship.
David Bates

Experiment: To blow a balloon up with the cold stuff from a compressed air bottle.

Need:
Compressed Air bottle
Bowl of hot water
Balloon
Gloves or winterized fingers

How to do it:

You may say to yourself one day, “I seek help elevating my electronic promiscuity, so I paid astronomical dollars for a product as an idiotic higher echelon of retarded dimwits member.”

Fear not my friend, there are those of us willing to help.  But first, we need to break down your statement to better understand the complexity of your issues and to be able to give you the help you are so desperately crying out for!

“I seek help elevating my electronic promiscuity” – The solitary reason you buy Apple products is because everyone else has one, right?  You don’t want to seem “uncool” so you “just have to” buy one too.  Failure to do so will decrease your chances of being viewed as cool, which, when dealing with gadgets, seriously lowers your potential promiscuity.  This is known as an “iSheep” syndrome.

“I paid astronomical dollars” – $499 for the cheapest model, but did you stop at that?  Of course not.  You *need* that 32GB model, I mean after all, where are you going to store you movies, right?  You know, the ones you more than likely already own on DVD or Blu-Ray and enjoy watching through that 35″+ wide screen TV with sweet surround sound setup, but are about to forget all that to watch them on your beautiful 9.7″ LED with audio heard through the Built-in speaker.  Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of books that you, as an avid reader who somehow sidestepped purchasing a Kindle, are going to now purchase for your new device.  But, as said avid reader, at least you don’t have to toss out all your physical books, right?  I mean, you can’t toss what you didn’t purchase.  We call this the “iPad” syndrome.

“idiotic higher echelon of retarded dimwits” – The definition of insanity is sometimes thought of as “repeating the same process and expecting different results.”  Well, based on my observations, I can safely redefine the definition to state “when consumers buy first generation Apple products.”  The observations, you may wonder?  Simply put:  Apple releases a product and a consumer buys it.  One year later, Apple releases a second generation of the product with one or two more features, and the same consumer rushes out to purchase it.  Repeat a year later for the third generation.  It is with this third generation that the Apple product finally reaches that I would say is the “complete product” – yet the consumer isn’t asking why these mundane and basic features were left out in the first two generations, oh no.  They are to busy with their “shiny new innovative” toy to even stop and ponder the common sense questions.  This issue is collectively called the “iHerd” disorder.

An iSheep, buying an iPad to remain in the iHerd!  You, my friend, are a true and through, Apple fanboy!  But fret not, we have the cure!  Merely submit to us ten* payments starting with the forgettable amount of $0.99 and doubling every payment.  Before long, your disease will be gone and the light will have shown you the way!

*Some treatments may require twenty “doses” to be 100% effective, if you are in doubt, please do not take any chances!

This post was made by Inacurate a friend of mine I met on twitter. He is a great Nokia enthusiast and leader of the iSheep resistance.
Check out his blog here. His twitter profile reads: I am me. Learn to love me because I do everything in my power to always be right or hate me because you can’t see the effort and think I am arrogant.

Ducky has been pronounce dead at 6:00PM his departure from this world was a lot of fun for me. The wife shuttered when she saw the videos, it was great. If you don’t know the story that led me to kill Ducky you need to read this post first. Ducky died from gas and fire that was lit with a toilet paper fuse. I recorded the whole thing for your viewing pleasure and you can watch the videos below… BTW there is an explosion that made my wife shake when she knew I was the one holding the camera


Ducky’s Setup:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7It7LsozGx4

Ducky Demise Part 1 “Lighting the Fuse”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=94ObepCmLic

Ducky Get’s Blown Up!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pggpukL8hbY

From Flickr

I recently made a bold statement on twitter that may cost me my dignity in the near future. I said that if I got 500 people to retweet the following tweet I would panhandle holding this sign with all money going to GSO Urban Ministries. The 500 rt’s have to be made by midnight Sept the 19th. So if your interested copy and paste the following into twitter:

RT @davidbates: the deal: rt this and I will hold http://tinyurl.com/nv7h3u for charity donations to http://bit.ly/21Ysqj must get 500 rt’s

Below is an easy way to track the number of retweets so far. Please copy and past above text instead of using retweet buttons below. Thanks

Thank you
David Bates

Whoever wrote this gets a pat on the back in my opinion.
Now seriously Go Back!
David Bates