The author of last weeks TIME magazine article, Chris Farley is answering questions about his encounter with Dave on TIME’s Question of the Week Section; The question is: What’s Up With Dave Chappelle? and that page is here –> http://www.time.com/time/question/farley_question.html

My question is the second one on the page. (read below)

Did Dave mention either wanting to change, or being pressured to change his acts to be more Islamically compliant? Or did he mention which type of sketches he’s received flak for by other Muslims? One Muslim youth who met him at the mosque told him that he loves his show, and in response [Chappelle] told him “You shouldn’t be watching that”.
Azeem Khan
Brooklyn, N.Y.

According to this post on the Islamica website. Dave Chappelle was spotted making Jummah (friday prayers) at a mosque today in NYC. Although all over the web it was being said that he has gone AWOL and had checked himself into a mental health institution in South Africa in late April.

When I first heard the news I thought:
I hope he’s doing okay. The fact that he became Muslim shows that he is looking for solace in his life, trying to get away from the Madness of it all. He is being paid $50 million for Season 3 of his show…. he gets 3 times the ratings of Jon Stewart.. just to show you how popular he has become.

UPDATE: Dave spoke to time magazine, read the article. Here are some excerpts from it:

He turns to his faith for help in that regard. Says his friend Salim: “If he wants to talk religion, then I’m there as someone to talk to.”

Yet Chappelle is low-key about his beliefs: “I don’t normally talk about my religion publicly because I don’t want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is a beautiful religion if you learn it the right way. It’s a lifelong effort. Your religion is your standard,” he says. “I want to be well rounded, and the industry is a place of extremes.”

The show had been postponed in December. During that break, Chappelle, who developed an interest in Islam in high school and became a practicing Muslim in about 1998, tried to perform the hajj—the pilgrimage to Mecca. (He got only as far as Turkey, he says, because he couldn’t get a visa for Saudi Arabia.)

I also found the following quote on Kamran Riaz’s Xanga:

“A soft-spoken Muslim, Salim seems also to be something of a sounding board to Chappelle, who converted to Islam several years ago… The crux of his crisis seems to boil down to his almost obsessive need to “check my intentions.” He uses the phrase a few times during the interview and explains that it means really making sure that he’s doing what he’s doing for the right reasons.”

Google has created a [url=http://desktop.google.com]desktop search[/url]  application. When Asim first told me about it, he immediately warned me not to install it on my machine. And I asked him "why not". So he told me he ran some searches to see how good it was at revealing information like usernames and passwords. Unfortunately according to him it's really good.

I ran a search on Amazons A9 search engine on "Google Desktop Vulnerabilities" and I came across this article: [url=http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1730748,00.asp?kc=ewnws112904dtx1k0000599Bruce]Desktop Google Finds Holes[/url]. This article tries to disspell the security issues, but I'm not entirely convinced.

If you have documents where you store data like FTP info, client information, Receipts of online transactions (which might expose your credit card info) etc etc etc The list goes on and on. I guess if I knew more about exactly how the search engine indexes data I might be more comfortable with it.

I hate to be a fear mongerer, I don't do things like encrypt files, e-mails and things of that nature. But one has to protect their passwords, especially if they do online banking, or even have a paypal account. Of course common sense will take you a long way…(never e-mail sensitive information- ie passwords, CC info)  but if this application is logging key strokes and all text appearing on your screen… then how can you stop it from logging things you dont want it to log?

The only real benefit I see in this application is having a search feature which is superior to the Windows built in search which is slow as hell and crappy as hell. When I am desperate to find a file, that is the only time I use it. But if it was really quick and didn't slow my machine down at all I wouldn't mind using this google application. But logging instant messages you can do that anyway through your chat application.

Any ideas? Any google advocates, employees, or security experts want to comment?

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ok I know I had promised that I wouldn’t have back to back posts from the same category.. my last post was placed under wrastlin and nostalgia… but this one is going under ranting and raving, (and wrastlin ) Here it goes:After seeing my last post my buddy Ammar who goes to UCONN (University of Connecticut) hooked me up with a video of a recent visit which the Ultimate Warrior made to their campus. He was invited by the Republican club to give a talk on his beliefs on conservatism. In the beginning of his speech he started out giving a classic stay in school/a mind is a terrible thing to waste speech which you would expect from any celebrity turned orator. What seemed like sensible advice soon took a philosophical turn towards understanding the properties of morality. The Warrior quickly went on the offensive to denounce liberalism. Some hecklers in the crowd were harping on his comments and were waiting for the opportune moment to make a scene. The warrior provided them with a plethora of insulting comments in return.

The fireworks started when warrior said:
“Liberal thinking has created an abyss of moral relativity where everything is as legitimate as everything else…. the bum is as legitimate as the businessman … , that queers are as legitimate as heterosexuals…, that Kwanzaa is just as legitimate as Santa Claus and Christmas”

At one point one of the hecklers yelled out.. What the f- is wrong with homosexuality? and warrior says:
“queering doesn’t make the world work.” I thought he was hilarious. Remember this is the same guy who ran into the ring and shook the ropes like crazy. While he was getting mad he was stomping his foot. I mean in the ring stomping your foot has a different effect than doing it in a lecture hall. ha. It was crazy how he was taking the fight to the audience. He was asking some questions and in response some girl said the government should take care of its citizens. And he says to her “What country do you live in?… this is not a socialist country”

So after watching this video, I decide to run a search on some blog search engines to see what other people are saying about this incident. It turns out to be really hot news. The Republican club actually issued an apology for the things he said. So then the warrior denounced them on his website. He also issued a press release. If you think his website condemnation is funny wait till you read this….On the website http://www.somethingawful.com they have something called Awful link of the day. ultimatewarrior.com was featured as an awful link of the day. Much to the dismay of the warrior. So Ultimate decides to have an e-mail sent to their webmaster threatening to sue him for illegal usage of his copyrighted name. Btw Warrior beat WWF/WWE in court for the trademark on his name. And he legally changed his name to Warrior. So now here is the funny part. The exchange of emails between the webmaster for somethingawful.com and the communications director for the warrior is absolutely hilarious! This is something you must check out. Go to: http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2790 Make sure to click on the next page button to read the entire exchange.Amendment:I forgot to mention… He went on this rant about the founding fathers being the most amazing people who ever walked this earth (ha, someone yelled out- “what about slavery!”). And then he said that America has the superior culture and civilization to the world. Then he read the oath which every naturalized citizen has to read… and then he says… that every American even the ones born here should live up to this same oath.I thought some of his points were interesting. I agree with his stance on moral relativity (I would disagree on his source of morality which is the divine, in my view) but the problem is he has a biased application of his own stated principles. For example he thinks Santa Claus and Christmas is all well and good but kwanza is not. To me both holidays are equally preposterous. They are both man made and thus if condemned both should get the same flak. He is right about there being universal principles which all man is in tune with, In Islam we call that Fitra.Anyone can look at what the Warrior is preaching and say he is a racist, anti-immigrant, anti-world (beyond our borders), one-sided, Maniac. Although he would be offended because Hulk Hogan’s followers were Maniacs, thus given the name Hulkamaniacs. But Warrior was on a different trip, one which he dubbed as Warrior Wildness. Indeed.

Edit: Here’s the video!

Alot of people wonder why I like wrestling. I don’t think I’ve had much of a choice. As a little kid I grew up watching wrestling with my uncles, eating WWF Superstars Cereal, watching the WWF cartoon with Hulk Hogan and Junk Yard Dog. Man Wrestling was the best. My favorite singles wrestler was Hogan when I was little but then out of no where Ultimate Warrior arose. He had just as good of a body. And to little kids it was all about the muscles… well there was also his colorful wristbands,  cool outfits, and of course the face paint. His eccentric style blew away the classic Hulk Hogan style. And in Wrestlemania 6 they made hogan drop the Belt to the Warrior.

One thing I can vividly remember is that back in the day all wrestling matches (especially at PPVs) had live demos cut where the wrestlers would get in front of the camera and would just be making mean looking faces, while saying things to intimidate thier opponents. The funny thing was they would be staring at the camera and tallking as if they are looking at thier opponent. And it was so obvious that they were trying really hard to be tough. So they would be doing things like pacing around, and snarling, and trash talking. Man it was beautiful. Now what I am going to do is show you why a little kid is swept away by the raw machoism of it all.

CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO IVE COMPILED OF HULK/WARRIOR DEMOS!

I remember other Demos done by tag teams such as the Road Warriors, and Demolition. In my sisters Ameen video, me and my cousins walk in to the room where they are recording…. and we come in like the bushwackers, and while our moms want us to stand still (while they are making a video!) we are making faces like the demolition would during thier promos… we were so cool. If I find that tape, Im going to rip those segments and hopefully I can find some old demotion and bushwackers vids where I could blend them together hehe. Also me and my cousin were the rockers. I couldn’t beleive he threw me through a glass window on the barber shop…. well…. he did launch me via a slingshot into the open closet off the bed….. so I shoulda known. We used to also play tag  team matches and wrestle against pillows. We also used to make our own Championship belts with Construction paper, man they used to be so cool. My nephew/cousin recently told me that when he’s bored, some days he starts making Wrestling belts…hahaha! 15 years later! When I used to beat him fair and square he would lie and say it was only a two count, then he would start fighting me for real. And I would keep beating him over and over, and he would keep coming at me. Ha, someone should have told him… Wrestling is fake. But of course which little kid is going to believe you when you tell them that?

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