Big Drug bust in a city south of Milwaukee

The local paper here reported on the bust of 41 people involved in a gang-led drug ring. As I read thorough the article, I noticed the list of defendants on the left, complete with their nicknames.

I have some questions about these nicknames. I have to wonder if they were made up while they were being booked or if they actually walked around with these nicknames.

::::::::::::::FOR EXAMPLE:::::::::::::::

Nitty: Vice Lord Elliot, could you please pass the ketchup?

Vice Lord Elliot: Certainly. T-Cilla can you please pass this to Nitty?

T-Cilla: I don't mean to be rude and take on a pass, but I have been waiting for the ketchup for a while. Is it okay if I partake of the ketchup as well?

Nitty: By all means, T-Cilla.

T-Cilla: Thank you. I was a little concerned about not getting any ketchup when Will Kill was applying the ketchup to his mushroom and swiss cheesburger.

Here's the full list

The defendants, all from Racine, have been identified as:

• Starsius T. Barnes, also known as "Star," 32
• Brian T. Blair, a.k.a. "K.B.," 27
• Tyreese D. Burton, a.k.a. "T-streets," 20
• Elliot L. Campbell, a.k.a. "Vice Lord Elliot," 29
• Shavelle S. Campbell, a.k.a. "Snowman," 19
• Maceo T. Collins, a.k.a. "Boss Hog," 25
• Brandon C. Evans, a.k.a. "B-cool," 22
• Charles C. Famous, a.k.a. "Charley Wolly," 20
• Jarren D. Gardner, a.k.a. "Smizz"or "J.B.," 22
• Mark A. Geater, a.k.a. "Poke," 21
• Darrell D. Grandberry, a.k.a. "Nacho," 19
• Andre E. Hampton, a.k.a. "Jukie," 20
• Marquan T. Hill, a.k.a. "Shorty Quan," 26
• Darrick V. Holmes, a.k.a. "Lil' Debbie," 21
• Calvin D. Hunter, a.k.a. "Coo-coo," 26
• Javonte R. Hunter, a.k.a. "Vonte," 21
• Damion V. Jackson, a.k.a. "Zeus," 19
• Ramone L. Jones, a.k.a. "Mone," 32
• George E. Malone, III, a.k.a. "Juni," 18
• Tyrone Malone, a.k.a. "8-ball," 38
• Frank Mayweather, a.k.a. "Nitty," 29
• Ronnie McMorris, a.k.a. "Doughboy" 21
• Ryan R. McMorris, a.k.a. "Ry-U" or "Cake," 19
• Tywon C. Mills, a.k.a. "T-Real," 30
• Shelby Morris, a.k.a. "Cheese," 24
• Fayzell Mosley, a.k.a. "Rumble," 25
• Tyrann R. Mosley, a.k.a. "T-Cilla," 23
• Christopher D. Mullins, a.k.a. "Dub," 25
• Timothy T. Murry, a.k.a. "Slim," 19
• Dashon L. Neal, a.k.a. "Fuu," 20
• Ryon A. Perkins, a.k.a. "Perk," 20
• Clarence A. Price, a.k.a. "Slim," 25
• James J. Robbins, a.k.a. "J.R" or "J-Ewing," 22
• Damien T. Searcy, 26
• Jonathan W. Sparks, a.k.a. "J-Buck," 19
• Allen D. Sutton, a.k.a. "Fly Al," 27
• Skyler Thomas, a.k.a. "Scoop," 19
• Willie Ward, a.k.a. "Will Kill," 30
• Travenn L. Webster, a.k.a. "C-Ball" or "Tray," 19
• Christopher A. Williams, a.k.a. "Pudge," 36
• Daryll A. Winkler, a.k.a. "Big Wink," 32.

Google Wave - Extenstion List

10/18/2009 UPDATE:

Here is the constantly updating list of Google Wave gadgets, bots and extensions:

https://wave.google.com/wave/#minimized:nav,minimized:contact,minimized:search,restored:wave:googlewave.com!w%252BVD_TspnyA.1

It's run by Alexandro Jimenez

Best guide I've seen out there.

Check it out!!!

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hello all.

I have received an invite, and am now rocking with the new Google Wave product. I have decided that no one is keeping good track of the extensions that are becoming available. So, I have made a copy of the Google Wave extension list, which can be located here:

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dfht3t44_58pqspkd4

I will be updating the document at the above URL based on comments and e-mails that are sent to me. If you have an extension. Shoot me an e-mail about it, and I'll keep the list updated.

Here is the version as of 10/16/2009:

Google wave Extensions List

Table of Contents:

1. 
   Google wave Extensions List
   
   
   
   1. 
      Robots
      
      
      
      1. 
         Chatbots
         
      
      
      2. 
         Conversion
         
      
      
      3. 
         Games
         
      
      
      4. 
         Groups
         
      
      
      5. 
         Integration
         
      
      
      6. 
         Language
         
      
      
      7. 
         Polling
         
      
      
      8. 
         Search / Aggregation
         
      
      
      9. 
         Utilities
         
      
      
      10. 
          Wave Management
          
      
      
      
      
   
   
   2. 
      Gadgets
      
      
      
      1. 
         Utilities
         
      
      
      2. 
         Games
         
      
      
      3. 
         Hooks
         
      
      
      
      
   
   
   
   


2. 
   Browser Extensions for Google wave
   
   
   
   1. 
      Chrome Extensions
      
      
      
      1. 
         Appearance
         
      
      
      
      
   
   
   
   

Robots

(To use robots, add them as a contact, then add the robot-contact to a wave)

Chatbots

• 
  Eliza - ogenex@appspot.com - An implementation of the Eliza chatbot borrowed from the NLTK.
  


• 
  Elize - elizarobot@appspot.com - Is one of the first robots that was created by non Googler and is very useful if you are feeling alone in your Google Wave client.
  


• 
  Rude chatbot - notatory@appspot.com - An obnoxious chatbot borrowed from the Natural Language Processing Toolkit.
  


• 
  TooAngel Wave - In Progress - tooangel-wave@appspot.com - A self learning robot, that will respond to a reply in a more humanoid way
  

Conversion

• 
  BotURL - boturl@appspot.com - A URL Linker that replaces full URLs with hyperlinks.
  


• 
  Calcbot - calcbot@appspot.com - This bot will do in place calculations for simple mathematical expressions and allow you to use user defined variables.
  


• 
  Cartoony - cartoonybot@appspot.com - Replaces the text of every submitted blip with a cartoon balloon that contains the text instead. Colors the balloons based on username.
  


• 
  Dice Bot - dice-bot@appspot.com - Dice-rolling bot. Dice Bot will replace XdY (X is the number of dice; Y is the number of sides) with the results of those rolls.
  


• 
  Flippy - flippy-wave@appspot.com - Turns text upside-down.
  


• 
  Fnordlinky - fnordlinks@appspot.com - Replaces "PMID <number>" with article information from PubMed.
  


• 
  Hearty Emobot - hearty-emobot@appspot.com - Replaces ASCII art with wingding characters.
  


• 
  i-cron - i-cron@appspot.com - Evaluates Python expressions. Looks at blips in event, searches for CALC() macros and executes Python code using exec().
  


• 
  Insulty - megabytemb123@appspot.com - Information Needed
  


• 
  IPA Bot - ipa-bot@appspot.com - Changes normal letters into special characters used for phonetics.
  


• 
  Piratify - piratify@appspot.com - Turns whatever you type into "Pirate Speak" .. Arrrr.
  


• 
  Plotzie - plotzie@appspot.com - Plots sparklines from your data.
  


• 
  Shortee - Wish - Change “c u l8r” to “see you later” etc.
  


• 
  Swedish Chef - borkforceone@appspot.com - Changes english into Swedish-Chef Speak. Bork! Bork!
  


• 
  Syntaxy - kasyntaxy@appspot.com - Syntaxy does blip-by-blip syntax highlighting for a variety of languages including Python, Java, C, C++, html, css and javascript.
  


• 
  Watexy - watexy@appspot.com - Use LaTeX mathematical language in your Waves!
  


• 
  Wikify - wikifier@appspot.com - Replaces specific marked up text with a link to Wikipedia or a description relevant to the marked text.
  

Games

• 
  Hangman - wavehangman@appspot.com - Play Hangman.
  


• 
  Roshambo - roshambowave@appspot.com - Play Roshambo (Rock / Paper / Scissors).
  


• 
  Speedy - Wish - Track the words per minute of all participants, competitive typing!
  

Groups

• 
  Groupy - groupy-robot@appspot.com - Robot to manage groups.
  


• 
  Groupy - groupy-the-bot@appspot.com - Robot to manage groups.
  

Integration

• 
  drop.io - mikeswaverobot@appspot.com - Creates a drop and puts the info into the wave whenever the robot is added as a participant.


• 
  OpenAustrailia - In Progress - A robot to allow interaction with the OpenAustralia web site.
  


• 
  PlonieBot - In Progress - ploniebot@appspot.com - Brings wave document editing capabilities to the Plone CMS
  


• 
  Poppy - In Progress - poppywave@appspot.com - Helps bridge Google Wave conversations to email users outside the Wave.
  


• 
  Rssybot - rssybot@appspot.com - Turn google wave into an RSS reader!
  


• 
  Starify - starifybot@appspot.com - Lets you star waves, in sort of bookmarking style.
  


• 
  Tweety the Twitbot - tweety-wave@appspot.com - You can access your Twitter account.
  


• 
  Twiliobot - twiliobot@appspot.com - Transforms phone numbers into click-to-call links. If user clicks a link, a call is placed to his phone and to the number in the link. The call can be transcribed and inserted into the wave as text with a link to the audio.
  


• 
  Wave-Email - In Progress - wave-email@appspot.com - Provide an extension to Google Wave which will allow the integration of both sending and receiving emails.
  


• 
  Wave Live Messenger - wavelivemessenger@appspot.com - Allows you to chat to your windows live messenger contacts from inside a wave.
  

Language

• 
  PhilBot - Wish - A suggested solution to the problem of waves with languages you can’t read.
  


• 
  Rosy Etta - rosy@wavesandbox.com - Translator (40 Languages).
  

Polling

• 
  Polly the Pollster - polly-wave@appspot.com - Poll Bot.
  

Search / Aggregation

• 
  Dr Maps - dr-maps@appspot.com - Updates a wave by inserting a map associated to an address.
  


• 
  Dr Weather - shiny-sky@appspot.com - Gives the weather for a City
  


• 
  Embedded Search Results - wave-sandbox@appspot.com - Web and Image searches inline.
  


• 
  FML Blipper - fmlblipper@appspot.com - displays random FML story from www.fmylife.com
  


• 
  Grauniady - grauniady@appspot.com - Searches the latest items from The Guardian for a given phrase.
  


• 
  Stocky - stocky-wave@appspot.com - Detects stock symbols from a wave and updates it with the live stock price.
  


• 
  Wavethingy - wavethingy@appspot.com - Searches Amazon for DVDs and books, and gives the author a cut of any purchases made off the links.
  


• 
  Yelpy - yelpful@appspot.com - Searches Yelp with a user defined location and category.
  

Utilities

• AmazonBot - amazon-withwaves-com@appspot.com - Enables social product research and shopping on Amazon.com. Wave participants can share products & reviews with contacts in real-time thanks to automatic queries by the AmazonBot against conversation keywords. The AmazonBot gadget can detect products and return inline product links or a custom full product browser.
• 
  Bloggy - blog-wave@appspot.com - Information Needed
  


• 
  Bit.ly Bot - bitly-bot@appspot.com - Shortens the url using bitly.
  


• 
  Botty - Wish - Will automatically add a set of useful bots to a wave according to a collection of bots (so they don't have to individually be added when you use them all the time.
  


• 
  CountColon - countcolon@appspot.com - Adds text statistics to your blips (words, lines, etc.)
  


• 
  Companion Sphere - companionsphere@appspot.com - Collection of geek utils, first working verb is "lookup" for wikipedia/wiktionary one-line descriptions.
  


• 
  Databot - Wish - Will start as soon as the GData interface is published.
  


• 
  Emoticony - emoticonbot@appspot.com - Replaces text representations of emoticons with the relevant image.
  


• 
  JBREAKOUT BOT ADDED - jbreakout@appspot.com - Debug utility that reports event triggers.
  


• 
  Maison - maison@appspot.com - Makes blips public at http://maison.appspot.com.
  


• 
  Multi - multi-wave@appspot.com - A quote collector. Reply a blip you want to quote with ‘quote this’ and randomly display a quote with ‘quote <wave@account.com>’. The bot is still being under development but you can try playing with it.
  


• 
  Natural Language Processing - knowledge-books@appspot.com - Adds blips with NLP analysis.
  


• 
  Nokar - lab2market@appspot.com - Has many features such as translations, image insertion, insert last tweets etc.
  


• 
  Posterous-robot - posterous-robot@appspot.com - A robot for posterous.com user to post blog in Google Wave. Here is how to write a blog using Google Wave Robot for Posterous.
  


• 
  Publisher - wave-publisher@appspot.com - Information Needed
  


• 
  Skimmy - wave-skimmy@appspot.com - Converts text emoticons, from : ) to img. Has a bookmarklet which creates a popup menu to insert emoticons for which the code is unknown.
  


• 
  Smiley - smiley-bot@appspot.com - Changes the smiley symbols to smiley images.
  


• 
  Smiley - In Progress - smiley-robot@appspot.com - Changes the smiley symbols to smiley images.
  


• 
  Style Chart Robot - stylechart@appspot.com - Inserts a chart into a wave.
  

Wave Management

• 
  Bouncy - bouncy-wave@appspot.com - Allows you to remove robots from a wave. Doesn't seem to work on real people though, and laughs if you try to ask it to kick itself out. To get it to kick a bot out, type "bounce:name@domain.com"
  


• 
  Linear - Wish - Enforce all replies to be to the main wave. If a user replies to a reply, remove it and place it as a reply to the main wavelet.
  


• 
  Read Onlie - readonliebot@appspot.com - Records the original wave content. Whenever it's edited, the content is replaced with the original. Simple as that.
  


• 
  Seekdroid - seekdroid@appspot.com - You can list Robots, add them and find them out, easy to use. In continuous development. Website with all the information seekdroid.appspot.com.
  


• 
  Sweepy - sweepy-wave@appspot.com - Remove empty, whitespace-only blips.
  


• 
  Taggy - taggy-wave@appspot.com - Recognize #hashtags and add them as tags to the wave.
  


• 
  Tocgen - tocgen@appspot.com - Table of Contents auto-generated and updated based on the h1,h2,h3,h4 in a wave.
  


• 
  Twitusernames - twitusernames@appspot.com - Replaces all Twitter @username with links to the Twitter accounts.
  

Gadgets

(To use gadgets, once editing a blip, just click on the green puzzle piece, and enter the url into the bottom text box)

Utilities

• Ajax Animator Gadget - In Progress - http://antimatter15.com/ajaxanimator/wave/manifest.xml - A fully integrated multi-user web based vector graphic animation authoring environment.
• AmazonBot Gadgett - http://amazon-withwaves-com.appspot.com/gadgets/AmazonProductList.xml - The AmazonBot gadget can detect products and return inline product links or a custom full product browser.
• 
  Bidder - http://wave-api.appspot.com/public/gadgets/bidder.xml - Simple Auction.
  


• 
  Checky - http://wave-gadgets.appspot.com/checky.xml - Basecamp-like checklists with drag-and-drop.
  


• 
  Click me - http://wave-api.appspot.com/public/gadgets/hellowave.xml - Shows a button with a counter. Each time the button gets clicked, the counter is incremented by one. Shows off how the state interaction works.
  


• 
  HTML- http://wave-ide.appspot.com/html.xml - Embed any HTML into a wave.
  


• 
  <iframe> - http://wave-ide.appspot.com/iframe.xml - Embed any web page (as <iframe>) into a wave.
  


• 
  iWave - http://gadget.wave.to/iWave/iWave.xml - Allows you to create a profile on wave to make wave just a little more personal. Uses facebook connect to retrieve your details if you sign in.
  


• 
  Licensing - In Progress - http://wave-license.appspot.com/license_gadget.xml - Creative Commons RDF Embedding - Planning Stage.
  


• 
  Maps - http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/101415471413908368316/mappy.xml -Embed Google Map.
  


• 
  Napkin - http://my-wave-gadgets.appspot.com/wave/NapkinGadget.xml - Example of Flash/Flex Wave Gadget, similar to Whiteboard gadget above - source on Google Code.
  


• 
  QuakeBot - In Progress - Server information on the Quake 3 protocol.
  


• 
  Raffly - http://raffly.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/sandbox/raffly-xml1/raffly.xml - Insert this gadget to select a random participant from your wave to be the winner. The winner of what? Well that's up to you :-)
  


• 
  Ratings - http://google-wave-resources.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/extensions/gadgets/ratings/ratings.xml - Lets participants rate and review a topic (movie, restaurant, etc) in a wave and shows a tally of the result.
  


• 
  Slashdot Gadget - http://www.m1cr0sux0r.com/slashdot.xml - Loads latest Headlines from Slashdot.
  


• 
  Troco - An experimental peer-to-peer currency - http://troco.ourproject.org/gadget/org.ourproject.troco.client.TrocoWaveGadget.gadget.xml - Aims to provide a decentralized complementary community currency system, that is, a peer-to-peer currency system. Also you can see it as an IOU or promissory note based system. More info click here.
  


• 
  Vector Editor - http://jsvectoreditor.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/wave/vectoreditor.xml - A cross platform collaborative real time vector graphics editor.
  


• 
  Whiteboard gadget - http://vps.michaelrose.id.au/canvas.xml - Draw on a virtual whiteboard.
  


• 
  Who is Coming? - http://wave-api.appspot.com/public/gadgets/areyouin/gadget.xml -Show a list of all people that have said whether they will come or not.
  

Games

• 
  Backgammon - Wish - Remove all of one’s own checkers from the board before one’s opponent can do the same. [Wikipedia]
  


• 
  Battleship - Wish - Displays different board based on user.
  


• 
  Boxes - In Progress - Connect lines to make boxes and win.
  


• 
  Connect 4/Four-in-a-row - In Progress - sdunster@wavesandbox.com - http://www.sdunster.com/wave/four.xml - 2 users + observers, turn locking, just waiting to write win-detection code.
  


• 
  Floodit - http://gadget.wave.to/floodit/game.xml - 2 player race to fill a board with colors.
  


• 
  Magnetic Poetry - http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/107558585548952247431/fridge-11.xml - Re-arrange random words to form poetry.
  


• 
  Match them colors! - In Progress - Match 3 / gem matching game.
  


• 
  Othello - Wish - Play Reversi.
  


• 
  Sudoku - http://blah.appspot.com/wave/sudoku/sudoku.xml - Play Sudoku.
  


• 
  The Button - http://hyperthese.net/wave-gadgets/the-button.xml - A useless (I mean USELESS) game.
  

Hooks

• 
  CVS integration - Wish - CVS history can be converted into a wave with playback.
  


• 
  GIT integration - Wish - GIT history can be imported and played back (dffs).
  


• 
  SVN integration - Wish - SVN History can be converted into a wave with playback.
  

Browser Extensions for Google wave

Chrome Extensions

(To use Chrome Extension, switch to Developer Build, add --enable extensions to the shortcut's target link, and download the extension)

Appearance

• 
  Google Wave Scrollbars - http://www.uniformedopinion.com/google-wave-native-scrollbars-extension/google-wave.crx - Changes the wave scrollbars to the default system scrollbars.
  

Los Campesinos! at Turner Hall, Milwaukee

The show was great.  I'll post pictures as soon as I am able.

Los Campesinos! should have been on my best of '08.  I need to post an additional post because a few bands from '08 have leapt into my consciousness of late (ie Los Campesinos! and Ra Ra Riot).

There was much dancing at the show, which brought the energy level up, but beyond that it was cool to see the band's reaction to the crowds reaction.  You can tell that this band hasn't become calloused to the audience, or to put it differently, they haven't developed that hard-edged 'poker face' that surrounds most rockers I've seen.

You can tell they are enjoying themselves.  It almost seems as if they think they are getting away with something by playing in front of a ton of people.  Like, someone would suddenly stop the show and say, "Hey, you aren't really rock stars.  You are just normal like us."

And that adds a sincerity to the show.  It's like the person who becomes even more attractive because they don't realize they are attractive.

So...... Los Campesinos! is attractive?  Yes.

Here's a video for my favorite song by them:

"We are Beatiful / We are doomed"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyw-a81L9B0

"Death to Los Campesinos!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc4GethJnBg

"If you catch me with my hands in the till, I promise, SUGAR, I wasn't trying to steal..."

People Get Ready

The post title is People Get Ready.  That is an amazing song by the Frames.  So, I will post a link to that here:

http://www.youtube.com/v/hvzMSPzll4M&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6

But bigger than that is the trailer for Where the Wild Things Are is out now:

http://www.youtube.com/v/n495Tn7jn-w&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6

Have a good day!

Newark

So, I was browsing a travel site today and came across a list of destination cities. I think Newark may have some things to discuss with the person writing ad copy for them:
Newark, NJ: It's not what you think.

Best 20 Albums of 2008: #1 Thrice - The Alchemy Index, Vols. III & IV: Air and Earth

So, here are my top 20 albums of 2008. I hope you enjoy them.

20 Beck - Modern Guilt
19 Oxford Collapse - Bits
18 As Tall As Lions - Into the Flood EP
17 Ratatat - LP3
16 Brazilian Girls - New York City
15 Kings of Leon - New York City
14 Fleet Foxes - New York City
13 F@!k Buttons - Street Horrrsing EP
12 Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
11 Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
10 Plants and Animals - Parc Avenue
Recommended Tracks: Bye Bye Bye, A Good Friend, À L'orée Des Bois, Mercy
9 Sigur Ros - Með suð I eyrum við spilum endalaust
Recommended Tracks: Gobbledigook, Inní mér syngur vitleysingur
8 hitide.lotide - The Forest
Recommended Tracks: The Owl, The Tortoise, The Loon, The Hare
7 Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Recommended Tracks: Flume, Lump Sum, Skinny Love, The Wolves (Act I and II)
6 Death Cab - Narrow Stairs
Recommended Tracks: Long Division, The Ice is Getting Thinner, Talking Bird
5 Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
Recommended Tracks: Play Your Part (Pt. 1), Like This, What's It All About, Shut the Club Down
4 Nada Surf - Lucky
Recommended Tracks: See These Bones, Weightless, Beautiful Beat
3 Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
Recommended Tracks: Kissing the Beehive, Fine Young Cannibals, Language City
2 The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me
Recommended Tracks: The Good Lies, Where in this World, Gloomy Planets

1 Thrice - The Alchemy Index, Vols. III and IV: Air and Earth
Recommended Tracks: Come All You Weary, Song for Milly Michaelson, Child of DustSteve, the drummer I work with frequently, talked about Thrice for a long time. I thought they were pop-punk wretchedness. How wrong I was. This band is moving, and you need to know them. Their songs carry a quality with the depth rarely seen in the music world these days. I'll try to let their stuff speak for itself, but this album definitely deserves the top spot this year. Here are a few videos from Thrice.
"Come All You Weary"
http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/k2xkHZuunQjaOHBQao&related=18

"Song for Milly Michaelson" (Fan-made video):
http://www.youtube.com/v/-pXlIlShZA4&hl=en&fs=18

"Child of Dust" (Live)
http://www.youtube.com/v/HTAAO7oF9aI&hl=en&fs=18

Best 20 Albums of 2008: #2 The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me

3 The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me
Recommended Tracks: The Good Lies, Where in This World, Gloomy PlanetsI first heard of the Notwist while I was doing pizza delivery as a night job in Seattle. They are a German band, and I never actually heard the radio announcer play them. He would say things like, "The new Notwist record is really great. I've been spinning it a lot lately. Now, here's a track from the new Death Cab album…" They are really good, easy-on-the-ears indie rock. It's like music you would put while you look out the window at gently falling rain. Their song "Good Lies" is very catchy. Here's the video:

http://www.youtube.com/v/u95mK19-VI4&hl=en&fs=18