Pedestrian safety

Too many people are dying on our streets and I intend to educate people on how to stop it.

I am a caring, compassionate person, that actually gives a damn if you live or die, my area of expertise is driving knowledge and pedestrians are a major factor.

In recent weeks we have had 14 deaths in the Greater Toronto Area. It needs to stop.

People, as pedestrians are not looking, and people in cars are not either.

Please go to www.johnrossharvey.com and read in detail what I have to say.
The Vaughan Citizen newspaper has reprinted it, yesterday's (January 28 2010) paper page 8.

Thank you, the life you can save may be your own.

On Michael Schumacher's Aversion to Even Numbers

Go to James Allen's F1 Blog in the link provided in the title
Or here http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2010/01/whats-in-a-number/#comment-45283

Clearly have a fan base among racing fans

Shorty Awards

On Twitter they have Shorty Awards

Please vote @acronymr for comedy so It can pass @billengvall

Thanks!

Networking with Twitter

In the old days a network was done by snail mail and telephone
Sometimes even the fax
Now most networking happens via electronic media
It could be standard email
Or it could be Myspace, Facebook, or Twitter
The latter is by far the quickest and most direct way
To network yourself
The more people you connect to
The more will connect back
Every connection helps your network
Just how or when is the only question
If in the case of Sarah Fisher @SarahFisher67
Trying to get Ellen @Theellenshow to the Indy 500
Using the @ellen2indy500 address
Twitter for some reason suspended @ellen2indy for
Likely overuse
However, I see no difference between this use
And David Letterman's multiple mentions of Oprah
To make her come on his show
Frankly I think @sarahfisher67 will get @ellen2indy
Because what could be more fun for @theellenshow than
Riding around the Indy at 190mph
Help @sarahfisher67 out
Tell @twitter to give @ellen2indy back
Tell @theellenshow that she should answer
She's not Danica, she owns her team, Danica only drives.
You'd be surprised how many Twitters are actually me

New Webpage

From time to time I will post something here
But it is more likely I will post from my new website
www.JohnRossHarvey.com

All the links are better organized and accessible there

There should be some more news soon, so stay tuned.

For now, go take a look at www.JohnRossHarvey.com

Thanks!

My take on Chris Brogan's Three Words

I am not an internet marketing self empowerment guru
Nor am I an author that sells in great quantity ... yet.
I am not a celebrity that needs to do nothing to get 1 million Twitter followers
Nor am I a news agency telling you about events.

Chris Brogan (@chrisbrogan) picked three words (his twitter in link above as well)
For his purposes, those words mean something to him.

I am John Ross Harvey, father, draftsman, writer.

Are those my three words?
No.

Focus: Not only is it my car, it is a great method of dealing with tasks.

Commit: I've been married for 14 years, I've been writing book material for 5, and been published during last 3. I will commit to write more even if I have to be as many as 4 or 5 other people to get noticed.

Twitter: To some this is a non-sensical place full of celebs and news, but many are missing how great a network you can create, the more connections you can make to people that can help you reach your goals the better off you will be.

There they are, Focus, Commit, Twitter.

What are yours?

Royalties, Pledge, and Charity

Since I make hardly anything on my royalties anyway
I will pledge $1 per all books sold at link in title
In either e-book form or print form
(E-book is faster if the gift is needed immediately)
To Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation http://www.cbcf.org/
Until the end of December
OK so that's only 7 days you say
If lots of you order, I will continue it for January
And I will tell you how much is going to CBCF
At the end of each month.
For less than a movie, do some good.

Traffic Rant

TRAFFIC RANT
By John Ross Harvey

My name is John
I know how to drive
I’m from Canada
Where most people think
It snows 365 days a year
It’s less actually
More like 165 days
I know what a snowbrush is
How it works
And how to use it
I’ve seen an ice scraper before
I know how that works too
Impaired motorists are not just
Inebriated by alcohol
They are also lazy bums that don’t have a clue
How to operate a snowbrush.
I’ve never parked in a fire lane
Because I possess a brain
Capable of READING!
I’ve never confused my vehicle
With a fire truck
I’m not an ignorant illiterate schmuck!
Green does not mean go
When there is no room on the other side
Of the intersection
Blocking the intersection
Proves a lack of brain function
Green does not mean Go
It means Proceed If and When the Way is Clear
If it’s not CLEAR it’s not When you PROCEED!
I’ve never confused a side street
With a parking space for idiots
Traffic does actually move in opposite directions to your
Maniacal ego!
Escape lanes are for people to ENTER traffic
Not for LOSERS to pass traffic
A lack of geometry skill is proof
A two year old is smarter than you are
They can at least identify shapes
A diamond shaped road sign
Informing you your Rectangular vehicle
Will no longer proceed into a Triangular lane!
I’ve never driven in lanes
Occupied by parked cars
In order to pass people
I’ve never confused a Parked Car
With one that is Actually Moving!
If you do any of these moronic activities
You are NOT a driver!
Only a Moronic Motorist
Thinks they are more important than
The rest of the Universe!
While they pass from behind parked cars
While they park in Fire Lanes
While they enter escape lanes
While they confuse roadways with parking spaces
All in order to prove their geometry skill
Is less than that of a two year old
While never clearing their vehicle
Of IMPAIRING snow and frost
Because they cannot master the SKILL
Of using a Snowbrush or Ice Scraper
Because they’d rather prove their stupidity
By operating a vehicle they
Cannot see out of!
Yet more proof that
HELL IS FROZEN

Proper Safety Awareness by Tim Horton's as displayed on thier Holiday Cups

I must congratulate you for the very appropriate image on the holiday (christmas) cups.

You have a father using a snowbrush for teh family van.

THIS I APPLAUD!

Much better than Canadian Tire selling wiper blades to clean snow off your window, or have a man with a snow covered van claiming he needs winter tires to stop faster.

Tim's Cup image is a much more responsible, much more correct and safe preparation for a snowy environment.

Snow Impairs, I think a group should be created to inform the masses that Snow impairs as much as Alcohol, simply by not being proactive enough to use a Snowbrush or an Ice Scraper.
If you cannot see out of it, don't drive it.
Snow Impairment's Not Safe (SINS)

You should be commended for an excellent use of your product to promote road safety.

I'm putting this message on my Blog at
http://threeforcesofevil.blogspot.com

Thank you for being a responsible corporation!

SNOW

SNOW
Originally posted Dec. 18 2005 at www.threeforcesofevil.typepad.com
and reprinted Feb.7 2006 here

SNOW
By John Ross Harvey

If you’ve read this blog a few times
You’ll know where its title comes from
Snow covered motorists
The Three Forces of Evil

Mobile Snowbanks
Defroster Dunces and the
Wipers Only Brigade

You should not drive a snowbank
Defroster Lines have limited vision
Wipers don’t clean your car
Snow on rooves annoy motorists behind
Snow on hoods (bonnets) annoy yourself
Due to continuous spray
Snow on windows and mirrors
Prevent visibility
Snow on wiper controls prevent
The ability to wash your windows
Snow on grilles prevent air from
Cooling your overheated engine
Snow on tires and wheel wells
Prevent good traction and accurate steering
Transport trucks, vans, and SUV’s
Must clean rooves
Giant chunks of icy snow from
Rooves of taller vehicles
Is Deadly
And it’s equally so on Cars too

So I ask the question
Do you drive this poorly?
If so, why?
Are you a snow dwelling life form?
With limited need for vision and safety
Or are you just an unsafe driver

The world will be a better place
If these snow dwellers cease to exist.

I have one word for them

SNOWBRUSH

Snow
Not
On
Windows
Brush
Remainder
Unbelievably
Simple
Huh?

A Meat Lover's Dream

How could you beat a Turkey?
Easy have a Turkducken, Turkey, duck & chicken
How can you beat a Turducken?
Turbaconduken!

Yes, bacon wrapped Turducken.

This is almost as mouth watering as the bacon roll
Shown on Good Morning America where overlapped bacon strips
Wrapped around ground sausage
Were baked into a better tasting Meatloaf

I have not tried these yet, but I aim to.

Its the O+ blood in me.

I crave meat, and this is craving!

Check the link above.

JOB OFFER

Strangely I responded to a Twitter feed by a Celeb
A Celeb in the Comic Book industry hired some Artists off Twitter
I asked if he wanted Writers
He DM'd me to get in contact
Since he doesn't follow me
I cannot DM him back
I sent info via a form on his website
Hopefully the message gets relayed
If not
There was a glimmer of hope
I could be writing for comic books
Perhaps its still glimmering
I await a response via email
Provided the webmaster got the info to him.
This blog would likely turn into a diary
If this job happens.

Country 95.3 packs it in

Corus Entertainment apparently doesn't believe country music is alive.
They changed formats to Oldie's 60's 70's 80's and renamed it NEW95.3
That alone is an Oxymoron, or like a previous posting, an OPPOSITE!
Clearly the marketing people are not carrying a full deck of cards.
As yet there were no identifiable DJs present in the morning but I have tuned out.
Slightly further up the dial in the GTA was 95.9 KX96
They also have a cottage country repeat siganl at 89.9
They've been playing country for 15 years and they just gained just about every listener 95.3 has lost.
They also don't respond with form letters that do not address the complaints being sent.

Have fun losing ratings.

OPPOSITES

OPPOSITES
By John Ross Harvey

Good Bad
Hot Cold
Up Down
Right Left
Light Dark
Cooked Raw
Human Inhuman
Meat Vegetable
Sugar Salt
Skinny Fat
Democrat Republican
Liberal Conservative
Free Oppressed
Surplus Debt
Legal Criminal
Sun Rain
Summer Winter
Thawed Frozen
Heaven Hell

Batracer

Batracer is a free to play, or pay once for life to play, racing driver simulation.
The car graphics are merely for listing drivers and team standings
The car graphics are user created from archive photos and artwork and are generally in reverse of the true images they were derived from.

There are Formula 1 sets for 1986, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
all of which have Ferrari
There is LeMans which has many Ferraris
There is a Ferrari Challenge which strangely contains more Ferraris

Most other sets, and indeed there are many, do not contain any Ferrari.

As of yesterday, visiting www.batracer.com has displayed this message:



BATracer Unavailable Until Further Notice

BATracer is presently unavailable due to legal issues following receipt of a letter this morning (2nd November 2009) concerning user-submitted Ferrari content within BATracer. Efforts are being made to resolve this issue and to restore the site at the earliest opportunity following changes.

The ability to further upload user-submitted content for inclusion in the game has been disabled until further notice.

BATracer.com



Statement Concerning Infringement of Trademarks and Designs of
Ferrari S.p.A. "Ferrari" of Maranello

The inclusion of Ferrari material into BATracer was not authorised by Ferrari, and the activity of BATracer and user contributions was not in any way related to Ferrari.

All Ferrari content will be removed from the game, and all user-carset projects involving Ferrari content will also be removed.


Far be it for me to explain how free advertising of your product is an infingement of copyright, user images are not taken from Ferrari, they were created to resemble Ferrari.

You had several fans on this site willing to support the Ferrari duo of Massa and Alonso, now they won't.

Is bullying a minor gaming site like Batracer really what a multimillion dollar conglomerate like Ferrari needs to do?

I've been told they don't even own their image. Bernie Ecclestone does.
I don't see him suing Batracer for image copyright.

Why would Ferrari willingly attack its very own fanbase over a picture they see perhaps 10% of the time while playing?

I fail to see the logic of this rediculous attack by Ferrari, but I am a Bilingual Vulcan.

Batracer may run on say $2 million over 4 years, where as 10 cars sold at Ferrari probably equal that much, I'm sure it takes less than 4 years to sell them.

I doubt they even have that much, not all players have opted to pay for better control features, or sponsoring to get them. Most of the players actually pay nothing. So maybe $2 million is way beyond what they've actually taken in from paying players. That money pays for server rentals, maintenance, advertising, development and anything else a gaming site needs to spend money on. That amount of money is not a liquid pile of $ they put on display. It's spent most likely.

My $2 million figure is if 100,000 players bought the $20 one time only fee for better controls called Kool tools.

Do they have that many? I doubt it.

Can they possibly meet Ferrari's demands? I doubt it.

So why is Ferrari insistant on bullying the little guy?
Because that's all bullies do. They care nothing about anyone but themselves.

Many of their hard core fans have the same attitude.

I have not been a fan since Berger/Alesi years, I was planning to return next year with the Alonso/Massa lineup, now....probably not.

Support Batracer, and tell Ferrari to take a hike.

Hallowe'en

HALLOWE’EN
By John Ross Harvey
3rd annual posting

All Hallow’s Eve
Hallow’s Evening
Hallowe’en
Not Halloween as many may write
This was not a Christian celebration
But a Celtic observation of the end of summer
Reaping of the final harvest
Beginning of winter
Where Samhain, Lord of Dead, gathers souls
In animals, and decides what other animals
They will reside in next
On the Eve of this Day
Barriers between Natural and
Supernatural worlds are Broken
Faeries were considered hostile
People would imitate Faeries
And ask for Treats, or the household
Would be tricked
Hence modern day trick-or-treating
These imitators would carry turnips
Carved with faces
Much like the modern day Jack-o-lantern
This festival became observed here
In North America after the Irish
Potato famine made many emigrate
From Ireland and bring their folklore with them.

But let’s face reality here
There is but one reason Hallowe’en exists today
Commercialism
An incentive to buy products
Second only to Christmas
At least for now
Until the next MUST HAVE candy comes around
Hallowe’en will then be #1
In the pockets of Commercial Enterprise
Too bad the Irish don’t run them.

विन्डोज़ 7

WINDOWS 7
By John Ross Harvey

Like most people that converted from DOS to Windows
It was Windows 3.1
So now we have Windows 7
So where was Windows 4,5,&6?
Windows 95 is 4
Windows 98 is 5
Windows 2000 is 6
Windows XP is 7?
Windows Vista is 8?
Windows 7 is 9!

Hitchhikers Guide Math there
6x9=42

Only if the 9 is Windows 7

Photocopiers that Suck

Crap
Always
Not
Operating
Now

I will never be your spokesperson

Money Grows On Trees

MONEY GROWS ON TREES
By John Ross Harvey


Money is paper
Paper is made from Wood
Wood is Trees
Money comes from Trees

Now you Know!

Can that stupid slogan go away?!

Organic

ORGANIC

By John Ross Harvey

First off let’s get this straight
Everything on Earth is Organic
All items on Earth are Animal, Vegetable (plants, fruit incl.), or Mineral
The steel on your car is mineral, created from a rock of Iron ore
The rubber on your tires is from a plant
The gasoline in your vehicle is from long dead animals
(CARS the movie had it right with Dinoco)
The bricks on your house are clay from the riverbanks
The glass in your windows is from sand in a desert or beach
Claiming something isn’t organic is a fallacy
Everything on Earth is organic.
The CN tower 400 years ago may have been rocks and salt somewhere else
Before being repositioned as a 1815ft tall tower.
Everything on Earth is from this earth.
The food your parents ate became you.
Some potato from the Irish famine may now be blog writer.
To be inorganic, it must not be from this world.

So are you?