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About me and my site
My alias is Wheels, and these are some things that for one reason or another I thought worth posting on the net. I eat meat regularly and am not a communist, a pornstar, a rubber fetishist, or an American.
It would only take a few minutes to work out my real identity online, but although I stand behind every thing on this site 100%, it doesn't pay the bills, and so as not to offend actual paying customers, I've gone for an alias instead of plastering my name over everything and finding out later that someone doesn't deal with me because I said bollocks too often....
My aim with most of this site is to present some complex issues in a way that is easier to understand than some of the sources of my information were. It's also a place were I can be up front and not have to hold back to avoid offending people. If anything on this site offends you, it's probably because you are a misinformed cretin...
Photo by Bongwater
Robert Anton Wilson once said: "My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalised agnosticism, not about God alone but agnosticism about everything" - and I think maybe that's a goal I aspire to as well.
I realise that many of things on this site are viewpoints that would cause the indoctrinated citizen some stress if they seriously entertained the idea that they were in any way true. And focusing on what we don't want does tend to make those things come about. So be chill.
Rather than getting worked up, my hope is that someone somewhere will go away and check my arguments and/or assertions for themselves - and who knows what might happen.
Copyright - Yeah right!
This is the internet - do what you like with it. I'm a firm believer in the motto "information wants to be free" Once something is posted on the net it's like tossing a bottle in the sea - who knows where it will end up...
So feel free to recycle anything on this site - some of it may even be original and a credit to www.sift.co.nz would be much appreciated. Wherever possible I have left in credits for the sources of the material I have ripped off, and that to me is all cool - I realise not everyone agrees with that, but as I am often trying to show on this website, there are usually two sides to most arguments. (And the other side is generally wrong)
A lot of people will avoid reading about this stuff like their sanity depends on it. And for many people it does, so in those cases it's probably better that they avoid reading this site all together.
I really admire anyone who can take this stuff on board, but not freak out about it, and who can see the big picture, and undaunted, go on to make a difference in their own way!
Here are some people doing just that right here: Concious Media Network
Photos/Cameras
Many of the photos in my galleries were taken with my old 2002 Canon Ixus 330 (1.9 megapixel) digicam. It fitted in my pocket and was built like a small metal brick. I just wanted to mention that, because too much talk of overkill camera gear gives me the droop. On this site the pics are mostly resized 600x450, but if you would like a full size 1600x1200 copy just ask me nice and send some nekid pichers ov yerself in exchange.
OK I have to admit that after five years and over 10 000 photos taken on the Ixus 330, I got something more bling - a Canon Ixus 960 Titanium, and I absolutely love it - it's much faster, has huge ability to zoom, and takes unbelievably crisp photos. 12 Megapixel is total overkill, but it's the bomb for zooming and cropping later. (Now I sound like a nerdy camera geek myself...)
My take on photography is that the camera makes stuff all difference, what matters is always having it in my pocket ready for action, and being able to use it rapidly without having to look at it. Taking shit loads of photos also helps to get some good ones. And every picture is raw material for the almost unlimited enhancements available in Photoshop. (Photoshop 7 is my favorite version, because while the CS versions are more advanced, personally I think 7 was better designed)
Most of the other artwork is my doing as well, and includes paintings, drawings, and photoshopped graphics - and if you rip any of it off I will track it down using embedded watermarks and sue you for $500,000 per item... yeah right.
Arse
It just wouldn't be the same without some arse now would it? Wear your arse with pride, and remember that every time you replace the word ass on the internet with the word arse, an American somewhere gets confused and forgets to shoot someone. This is how the world changes.
Arguing is retarded
Sometimes people email me to say that they don't believe a word I say, so I must be a moron, or that they would like to have an argument - I usually just send them back this pic:
"One man's floor is another man's ceiling" - The Beastie Boys
“No matter how paranoid you are, what they’re actually doing is worse than you can possibly imagine!” . . . Ralph Gleason
