Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Scoobie snacks taste like schnozberries




So I wanted to talk about torrenting and the best way to secure your connections. After having experience in the torrent world and understanding the more complex fundamentals of this service, I wanted to let you know how I do mine. And hopefully you will follow in my steps. First you have to understand the basics of torrents. Think of it this way: Take a apple, cut that apple into 10 different parts. Now give those apple slices to 10 different people. So after a while you want this apple back. You will have to retrieve all of those slices to make the apple whole again. This is the same concept; You are getting bits of information from different locations to complete your file. You can learn more here.
That is the basic idea. So next question. Whats the best most secure way of getting torrents on the internet. Well, one you have to download bittorrent. This is a free and very light program. Thats step number 1. Now here is the hard part. People typically use public torrent sites. These sites include: piratebay, mininova, isohunt, etc.... Basically sites that dont require you to log in. These are bad, this is basically jumping into a public pool that no one likes to clean up. The reason why people get caught downloading files is that the recording industries hire companies to put out fake torrent and following those leechers to there public IP addresses and using very simple basic internet tools can find out your ISP, address, sometimes phone numbers. This is the worst way you can download a torrent. The best thing to do is find a private site.
Private sites require you to do certain things in order to obtain access to there site. This includes like previous share ratios and/or experience in certain codecs and setups or configuration, and some experience. And your wondering "how do i get to a site like this without no previous information to prove, this is my first site." Well, buddy your in luck. See torrent sites will have public opening to sign up. Basically this mean they are trying to get more users to join to expand there universe of file sharing. Usually the number one rule on private sites is that you have to upload (the seeder) and have people download from you (leecher) This is what builds your ratio up and keeps you on the site and some sites will upgrade your profile to get you more access to certain parts of the sites. This site is one of the best to find open sign-ups. Click here.
Always remember to read the rules on each site.
This is pretty much the very basics of getting onto private sites. Now as securing your connection, the best thing that I use is VPN's. VPN is called virtual private network, basically this connects from your current home/office connection/network to a secured internet connection at another site. VPN's have very high encryption and makes it very difficult for anyone to track or find out any information about you. This is best for torrent sites and downloading since you never really know where your information is coming from. There are many sites out there but here is a couple I tried and currently using http://btguard.com/  This is very good service for basic anonymous torrenting. Very easy to use and setup. Click here for a full article.

Now done with that. I heard this amazing band. "El Ten Eleven" is a post-rock, ambient, indie band from LA. The band has great beats and tone. Including of experimenting in different sounds and melodies.
The latest album "Every Direction is North" is there best album I think.
Pick it up, download it, buy it. Its worth it. They are coming to Tuscon so if anyone is interested into wanting to go let me know. But worth checking out.
Official Site page 
Wikipedia 

So I ordered some new wall decals anyone wanna help me put them up?
Have a day!

Monday, August 23, 2010

Scubadubalingling

To start off, I will miss my friend Peter. Peter good luck in New York, I will come and visit when I can, and we will all go together to the NYCC together.

On a another announcement. Happy Birthday Tahko. May your Faygo's come true. :)

So besides being busy as always with everything, I finally decided to sell my current comics and use the money (heh, if I get any) and buy more  golden, age, silver age, bronze age, and key issues. You wonder why Im doing this? Well there are many reasons why. First off, the newer more modern age comics seem to not have strong story lines as its predecessors; Now don't get me wrong there are really good story lines out there, and Deadpool seems to be at the top at the moment, and with Avengers Academy as well.  But other than that everything seemed to have a good story going (Dark Rein, Blackest Night, etc...) But then just dropped like a bowling ball from a tall building. Since we got out of the "Dark Ages" of comics and now into the "Heroic Age" I feel like this is just re-hashed characters who have a new story. More on that in a bit.
Second reason was that the newer comics are not worth anything and not big at all in the market. If you look at the difference between the new stuff and the older stuff there is a huge difference. For instance I tried getting rid of my Cable Vol. 2 and only got 50 cents less than the actual cover price. The only things that helped was the variants. Modern Variants are the only ones that actually have something that will grow in value over time, and that depends on the series.
Third reason, all golden, silver, and bronze age comics are highly sought after. When looking around on ebay and doing some research these comics are more likely to sell, and from what I found out why is well, they don't make them anymore. The art is simple yet catchy, a old world feel. I feel like when I get these comics I wonder who's hands they been in and the stories and history it survived through.  And with classics like Kirby, Lee, Kubert, etc... And you look at these people and how much they had to sacrifice and how much hard work they put in to bring us what we have now.
As for comics I recently got Fantastic Four # 49

I will be adding this baby to my collection. That and a bunch of Silver Age "Flash" 
But some new stuff, with that trade of Cable Vol.2 I was able to get the black and white statue of Catwoman.  Click here for a image, but its a really beautiful and detailed statue. It will sit fine with the other black and white stuff. 
On another note. So my friend Nikki and I went to the Yucca on Friday night. Just to hang out and do something fun, it was great night. Good bands and unfortunately I couldn't drink since I had to take something for my back pains oi! But once we got back to my house and Nikki left, I get a phone call in the morning. Explaining someone took a actual grocery bag and filled it with salsa. Now here is the interesting part. Someone took that bag of salsa and apparently slammed it on top of her car. This is probably the oddest thing I heard for a long time to vandalize someone's property with salsa.... But anyways the idiot who did this wasted more money on his laugh to get back at someone. And that was a lot of salsa. I mean like 7 - 10 dollar gallon jug of salsa in a plastic bag. Man, if your gonna go that pussy way of doing it, why not just pour the salsa all over with a bag? What, you didn't want your hands dirty? Then the jokes on you sir. On you.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

A new day

Hey everyone who sees this. I had problems with nakedmoses.com so I created this instead. I hope you will come back time to time and check out the site. Hopefully I will keep up with this more often. There is no specific theme to the site or anything.
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call "The Ian Zone".

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