Friday, August 8, 2008
I think I'll make this brief, and semi-chronological from the last post.
Act .5
I forgot to put in here that my bike got stolen. 200 bucks. Gone. Some asshole just had to cut the lock. The funny thing is, I had taken off my seat in fear of that being stolen. I also had a flat front tire I had been meaning to fix. How desperate can a bike-stealer be? Assholes.
Act I
I started moving. We are now living in a place a little further away from campus, but much nicer in my opinion. It isn't that the place is nicer (as I would rate it about the same) but the area is much more peaceful. Call me a hippie at heart, or whatnot, but I sometimes enjoy outside smells and non-loud-drunk-people. As soon as I get this place together, I'll probably post some pictures.
Act II
My car, the '92 Saturn SL2, took a turn for the worse. The AC pump seized up on me while I was driving, thus producing some metal on metal smells along with a lot of heat. With the heat came the breaking of my serpentine belt and lots of smoke. It was quite the spectacle. So right now I am driving our Ford Aerostar, a pimpin' half minivan/half conversion van. This weekend I'll be changing it back out for a self-fixed Saturn. Sadly, the old car won't have AC anymore since I'm just replacing the pump with a pulley so I can get the thing to work. Fuckin' cars.
Act III
Summer is almost over. No vacation. Nothing awesome to brag about. Not even a lot of money to show for it. I guess my pool skills got better, which is a plus. I need to get my classes straightened out soon since school starts on the 25th. 12 credit hours, baby. Should be nice.
All in all, nothing terribly eventful has taken place. Hopefully I get out of this bad-luck-rut that has been taking place soon.
Act .5
I forgot to put in here that my bike got stolen. 200 bucks. Gone. Some asshole just had to cut the lock. The funny thing is, I had taken off my seat in fear of that being stolen. I also had a flat front tire I had been meaning to fix. How desperate can a bike-stealer be? Assholes.
Act I
I started moving. We are now living in a place a little further away from campus, but much nicer in my opinion. It isn't that the place is nicer (as I would rate it about the same) but the area is much more peaceful. Call me a hippie at heart, or whatnot, but I sometimes enjoy outside smells and non-loud-drunk-people. As soon as I get this place together, I'll probably post some pictures.
Act II
My car, the '92 Saturn SL2, took a turn for the worse. The AC pump seized up on me while I was driving, thus producing some metal on metal smells along with a lot of heat. With the heat came the breaking of my serpentine belt and lots of smoke. It was quite the spectacle. So right now I am driving our Ford Aerostar, a pimpin' half minivan/half conversion van. This weekend I'll be changing it back out for a self-fixed Saturn. Sadly, the old car won't have AC anymore since I'm just replacing the pump with a pulley so I can get the thing to work. Fuckin' cars.
Act III
Summer is almost over. No vacation. Nothing awesome to brag about. Not even a lot of money to show for it. I guess my pool skills got better, which is a plus. I need to get my classes straightened out soon since school starts on the 25th. 12 credit hours, baby. Should be nice.
All in all, nothing terribly eventful has taken place. Hopefully I get out of this bad-luck-rut that has been taking place soon.
Monday, July 21, 2008
First and foremost, I heard the song Dear Kanye by Ben Sollee on the radio the other day. For those who do not know, Kanye made quite the ruckus at Bonnaroo by being very late for his show and then not appologizing. Also, for those who don't know, Kanye is a douche. I enjoy his music, but as a person, lets get serious.
So here is the Ben Sollee song addressing Kanye and his crazy antics:
I thought the song was amazing. A cellist records a song on his laptop microphone telling Kanye to straighten up. Epic.
In other news, my tooth hurts. Read: nasty headaches have been taking place. I have a dentist appointment for tomorrow. In the meantime, the secretary recommended that I take 800mg of Motrin for the pain. All I wanted was some Tylenol3 (codein has never failed me with pain), but no, this is what I get. Oh well.
So here is the Ben Sollee song addressing Kanye and his crazy antics:
I thought the song was amazing. A cellist records a song on his laptop microphone telling Kanye to straighten up. Epic.
In other news, my tooth hurts. Read: nasty headaches have been taking place. I have a dentist appointment for tomorrow. In the meantime, the secretary recommended that I take 800mg of Motrin for the pain. All I wanted was some Tylenol3 (codein has never failed me with pain), but no, this is what I get. Oh well.
Friday, July 18, 2008
I haven't updated for a few days, but for good reason. My hard drive decided to crash on me last Saturday night. Basically, I went out, came home, went to sleep, woke up, woke up the computer from the screensaver, and things were freezing. When trying to plug in my dying HDD to a Windows box, explorer would freeze. Ubuntu wouldn't even force mount it.
So now I had to call Dell. Luckily they weren't too bad. I explained that my HDD was failing, and, after about 30 minutes of run around, the tech sent me out a replacement drive.
Now I was worried about lost data. I found a nice liveCD that had solid ntfs support and would force mount to this failing partition. Its a handy, very simple, liveCD called SystemRescueCD. I recommend it for file moving in situations like this.
However, I was not able to find my outlook pst file and firefox profile. For some reason all my AppData couldn't be read. :(
Now I get the fun times of trying to remember my bookmarks and passwords that were stored in firefox. Sigh.
I'm going to cut this one short though on account of being busy trying to get my computer set back up and get some files moved around. But, I think I'll use the words of one of the better cartoon stars out there:
So now I had to call Dell. Luckily they weren't too bad. I explained that my HDD was failing, and, after about 30 minutes of run around, the tech sent me out a replacement drive.
Now I was worried about lost data. I found a nice liveCD that had solid ntfs support and would force mount to this failing partition. Its a handy, very simple, liveCD called SystemRescueCD. I recommend it for file moving in situations like this.
However, I was not able to find my outlook pst file and firefox profile. For some reason all my AppData couldn't be read. :(
Now I get the fun times of trying to remember my bookmarks and passwords that were stored in firefox. Sigh.
I'm going to cut this one short though on account of being busy trying to get my computer set back up and get some files moved around. But, I think I'll use the words of one of the better cartoon stars out there:
I'm back, baby!
Saturday, July 12, 2008
As you've probably seen, there is a new video on par with Star Wars Kid -- Halo Kid. If you haven't, here is the video:
All I can say is wow. He takes the cake for time spent on doing nothing. And there is one thing that really makes me wonder about him. There is a perfectly good pool table next to him being used as a shelf for his cardboard guns. Now, lets look at the pros and cons of the pool table and his cardboard artillery:
| Develop a skill. | Develop a personality problem. |
| Play against friends. | Friends? What friends? Even if you had them, they don't have sweet cardboard guns, so they are definitely not good enough for you. |
| Use developed skills later in life. | Be lonely when you go to the bar or hang out with yourself. |
| Perfect hand-eye coordination. | Become a master at building houses and forts out of refrigerator boxes. |
That is a fairly short list, but I personally find it amazing a kid when through that much trouble to recreate things just for fun. Granted, I don't know how hold he is, and my judge of age is rough. (I would guess he is like, what, 14 or something?) If my judgment is right, he should be chasin' girls and trying to befriend people who can drive.
Then again, what do I know?
Then again, what do I know?
Friday, July 11, 2008
Thursday, July 10, 2008
I just ran across an article saying how Apple has finally opened their "App store" where a user can download things such as games (at a price) or iTunes plug-ins apps. One of these apps is the remote application where you can control iTunes from your iPod touch or iPhone. This little bit got me thinking... Apple really has a way of controlling what you use for what purposes and with what certain hardware. Is this not a monopoly forming viz a viz the Microsoft anti-trust ruling?
They have an obvious monopoly based solely on the three aforementioned things. Is this wrong? Not by legal standards. But, from a consumer-welfare standpoint there are problems.
Apple works like any business: make more money than you spend. It is working well for them, and so far they are still innovating to bring more customers. However, as we have learned in the past, innovation does not happen as well without competition. As Apple eats up more of the consumer market share, it is quite easy to see them taking the same route as Microsoft with their anti-trust case.
Just as an example, take a look at how Apple was bundling Safari as a software update even when users did not have it preinstalled on their system. Seems fishy, no?
Just my two cents.
- Apple software (OSX) on Apple hardware only.
- They control 80%+ of the digital music market with their hardware.
- Their music hardware (iPod) typically dictates the music software (iTunes) people will use.
They have an obvious monopoly based solely on the three aforementioned things. Is this wrong? Not by legal standards. But, from a consumer-welfare standpoint there are problems.
Apple works like any business: make more money than you spend. It is working well for them, and so far they are still innovating to bring more customers. However, as we have learned in the past, innovation does not happen as well without competition. As Apple eats up more of the consumer market share, it is quite easy to see them taking the same route as Microsoft with their anti-trust case.
Just as an example, take a look at how Apple was bundling Safari as a software update even when users did not have it preinstalled on their system. Seems fishy, no?
Just my two cents.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Manpris, i.e. capri pants for men, i.e. long shorts/short pants, have been a hot topic lately in my discussions with friends. First, this is what they look like:
They look like long shorts, but aren't as baggy. Some may think "that's pretty gay," but let me address some issues here.
- Most manpris have a drawstring waist. This allows for maximum comfort/flexibility in times of overeating (manly) or having to urinate or crap while on a long road trip, but not wanting to stop (also, manly). No longer must a man undo the belt and button on the pants (keeping the lady friends around happy).
- Baggy clothes allow for more air to be trapped between the clothing and the skin. This air is heated by the body. Long shorts are generally heat-traps. Manpris solve this by keeping a slimmed down approach to the long shorts -- thus allowing maximum ventallation with minimum overheating.
- I'm a big lover of vaginas and breasts. A "that's pretty gay" comment cannot really touch that. So really, even if it seems a bit homosexual to wear manpris, a straight-vagina-breast-lovin-man would be able to take them back. (See: How lesbians stole Portia de Rossi from men.)
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