Holy fuck that show was all kinds of awesome. The crowd was absolutely rabid. Sebastien was talking a lot of shit to the kids in the audience who were saying things. His caustic wit was hilarious. Like, someone was complaining about the bass, and he was like "Well you're in the fucking mosh pit, if you want it to sound good go stand in the middle like everyone else." (That is not exactly what he said, but it was pretty similar.) There was a lot of other stuff that happened, and all of it was cool. All of the other bands were pretty good but Controller.Controller was really awesome as well. When you have 5 people on stage rocking out, it is generally awesome. I want to hear more of them, and I want them to put out a full length album (they had an EP on sale at the show that I did not pick up but would like to hear very much).
It was memorable to say the least.
Saturday, April 30, 2005
Friday, April 29, 2005
Something beautiful happened in the church house, but it didn't have to do with God
I saw Q And Not U last night and it was an amazing and fun show. There were a lot of good people there, I had a great time. I spent about 45 minutes trying to find parking, and it was such a fucking bummer I almost gave up and went back home. A decent spot magically appeared on Market Street though, so I stayed in Philadelphia. No, seriously, it was like 45 minutes.
In any case, I went into the show and I missed some of Horses' performance. What I saw was really pretty good though. Manhunter was next, and they showed the crowd a good time. People danced, Manhunter danced, fun was had by all. Then there was this hip-hop act, Food For Animals. I did not like it very much, and I am a gigantic hip-hop fan. I really dug the noise, but the rapping was lackluster, although there were a few good punchlines. I felt it was more like some guys on stage jamming, and a fat bearded guy just enjoying himself doing some rapping on the stage, and not really giving a shit about the crowd, or his flow. Actually, that's EXACTLY what it was. The crowd was bored. We were all bored, but they were enjoying themselves pretty hard. It was like they were just all up there masturbating, and we were waiting for them to finish up. Q And Not U though: Damn they were amazing. It was so much fun. I don't usually shake my ass, I am a pretty rigid person, or at least I was until then. Last night I shook my ass. I shook it for quite a while and enjoyed it.
In any case, I went into the show and I missed some of Horses' performance. What I saw was really pretty good though. Manhunter was next, and they showed the crowd a good time. People danced, Manhunter danced, fun was had by all. Then there was this hip-hop act, Food For Animals. I did not like it very much, and I am a gigantic hip-hop fan. I really dug the noise, but the rapping was lackluster, although there were a few good punchlines. I felt it was more like some guys on stage jamming, and a fat bearded guy just enjoying himself doing some rapping on the stage, and not really giving a shit about the crowd, or his flow. Actually, that's EXACTLY what it was. The crowd was bored. We were all bored, but they were enjoying themselves pretty hard. It was like they were just all up there masturbating, and we were waiting for them to finish up. Q And Not U though: Damn they were amazing. It was so much fun. I don't usually shake my ass, I am a pretty rigid person, or at least I was until then. Last night I shook my ass. I shook it for quite a while and enjoyed it.
Hitler: The Pathology of Evil
A few days ago I finished this book, Hitler: The Pathology of Evil, by George Victor. I don't normally get down with non-fiction books, but my next book just might be another history book. It was extremely interesting to me. This book was excellent. Basically, it is a breakdown of Hitler's life, but less of a biography and more of an analysis of what specific events had on Hitler's psyche, and then once his personality had taken root, how it affected the decisions he made in life. It does a pretty good job of explaining why he did some of the extremely irrational things he did during his life; so many of his actions are contradictory. Many, perhaps even most of the decisions Hitler made while he was in power are based on extremely personal things in his life. He really used the National Socialist Party to carry out a personal agenda, none of it good. He really did loathe himself, and if one were to read this book it would be obvious. This book has changed me a little. I have read and seen things about the Holocaust and World War II era-Germany before, but those things did not make the issues real for me. After all, I was born 40 years after it all ended. What made this book significant for me was the idea it put in my head: the idea that if one terrible person, just a single tainted soul takes a position of great power, they can command the deaths of so many innocent people. Hitler himself is the only one who can be blamed for the unfathomable number of lives lost back then. He committed what are undoubtedly the most evil acts in history. No one belonging to any particular ethnic group, or nationality, or religion should be put to death simply because they belong to a certain group. The man's ideas were terribly flawed all around, not just regarding racial purity. The truth of this matter reveals itself in his command of the military and his personal life, especially. Anyhow, I recommend the book.
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does?
I saw Blade Runner for the first time tonight. I think I have seen all the films based on Philip K. Dick novels now. It was good, but it was not a bright film. It is one of the darkest films I've ever seen. God bless the 80s. I think Useff summed it up pretty well when he said, "This movie is a toilet."
Monday, April 25, 2005
Broomball or Broom Hockey; Either Way, It Was Rough
Today I wanted to take some pictures of things in my room and write about them. The camera I use is out of batteries though, and besides: fuck that camera. It is old and bad. I want a new camera that is good (much better than this one).
Instead, I will tell you about Friday night's Broomball experience.
First of all, I should tell you a little bit about the game. I do not know very much about it to tell the truth. Friday was my first time ever playing it, and I had not heard very much about it prior to last week. It is a game played on an ice rink with sticks that resemble hockey sticks. Instead of having a blade at the bottom, there is a triangular stopper. This tool is called a broom. I assume it is called a broom because it resembles one. We played with a large ball which is about 1/2 the side of a soccer ball if I remember correctly. We wore our sneakers on the ice. The way we played it may not have been very correct according to the official rules, but let me tell you about it. It was like a game of hockey, but with less rules. We could use our hands to swat the ball out of the air, and we could also kick the ball if we desired.
So Pat Ruff asked Useff and I to come join him for a Broomball tournament that the university was having on Friday night. We met him and a student from the dorm where he is an RA at one of the indoor ice rinks on campus. This student, Emilio, would be our goalie. There, we were not sure what we were doing because we basically just showed up. A co-ordinator told us that we had to have eight people on the team, so he gave us four total strangers. Their names were Lei, Kelly, Brad, and Brian. I am not sure if those names are spelled correctly, because I never saw them in writing and had never spoken to these people before the tournament, and I have not seen or spoken to them since. Anyhow, we got all ready to play, which really didn't involve anything. Some of us wore helmets, some did not. We went to another rink to play against our first opponents, and the rink was really slippery. I fell and busted my ass a lot, and for the next two days I was basically just one big bruise because of all this falling. A lot of people were falling. I am still sore in some places. We beat this team 2-0 and we were very proud of ourselves. I was proud that I performed so well in a sport that I did not even know existed. Our next opponents were not so easy. They called themselves an intimidating name which I cannot remember. I gave our team the name The Eggs, which was not very intimidating, but I tried to convince my teammates that it was. Against this second team we played our hearts out, and I gave it all I had, but we lost 0-2. The good thing was that the rink was not nearly as slippery as the first one. The other team was extremely aggressive though, and a few of them were actual hockey players so they knew what they were doing. I didn't realize just how fucking sore I was until the next day when I had trouble climbing a set of steps. Even in spite of our loss and injury (No one really walked away without being hurt), I am still proud of our team The Eggs. We played like champions.
If you want to read more about Broomball, here is a link to the wikipedia entry on it. After reading that article I realize we were playing with eight players, and you are supposed to have only six in an official game. This is okay though.
Instead, I will tell you about Friday night's Broomball experience.
First of all, I should tell you a little bit about the game. I do not know very much about it to tell the truth. Friday was my first time ever playing it, and I had not heard very much about it prior to last week. It is a game played on an ice rink with sticks that resemble hockey sticks. Instead of having a blade at the bottom, there is a triangular stopper. This tool is called a broom. I assume it is called a broom because it resembles one. We played with a large ball which is about 1/2 the side of a soccer ball if I remember correctly. We wore our sneakers on the ice. The way we played it may not have been very correct according to the official rules, but let me tell you about it. It was like a game of hockey, but with less rules. We could use our hands to swat the ball out of the air, and we could also kick the ball if we desired.
So Pat Ruff asked Useff and I to come join him for a Broomball tournament that the university was having on Friday night. We met him and a student from the dorm where he is an RA at one of the indoor ice rinks on campus. This student, Emilio, would be our goalie. There, we were not sure what we were doing because we basically just showed up. A co-ordinator told us that we had to have eight people on the team, so he gave us four total strangers. Their names were Lei, Kelly, Brad, and Brian. I am not sure if those names are spelled correctly, because I never saw them in writing and had never spoken to these people before the tournament, and I have not seen or spoken to them since. Anyhow, we got all ready to play, which really didn't involve anything. Some of us wore helmets, some did not. We went to another rink to play against our first opponents, and the rink was really slippery. I fell and busted my ass a lot, and for the next two days I was basically just one big bruise because of all this falling. A lot of people were falling. I am still sore in some places. We beat this team 2-0 and we were very proud of ourselves. I was proud that I performed so well in a sport that I did not even know existed. Our next opponents were not so easy. They called themselves an intimidating name which I cannot remember. I gave our team the name The Eggs, which was not very intimidating, but I tried to convince my teammates that it was. Against this second team we played our hearts out, and I gave it all I had, but we lost 0-2. The good thing was that the rink was not nearly as slippery as the first one. The other team was extremely aggressive though, and a few of them were actual hockey players so they knew what they were doing. I didn't realize just how fucking sore I was until the next day when I had trouble climbing a set of steps. Even in spite of our loss and injury (No one really walked away without being hurt), I am still proud of our team The Eggs. We played like champions.
If you want to read more about Broomball, here is a link to the wikipedia entry on it. After reading that article I realize we were playing with eight players, and you are supposed to have only six in an official game. This is okay though.
I know this is not new, however:
I have taken to folding all of my shirts in the "new" method that took the internet by storm last year. Scroll to the bottom of this page to see a diagram of what to do. The rest of the page is mostly commentary by various "Laundry Experts" on this method.
I woke up today and I knew the first thing I must do was:
Listen to "Stars and Sons" on the Broken Social Scene album You Forgot It In People
Sunday, April 24, 2005
I watched two movies today
In the morning, I saw Training Day, and finished it around 10. In the evening, I saw i heart huckabees, and finished it around 10.
Training Day was brutal, that was pretty much the feeling I got from the movie. This world is a brutal place with a lot of "wolves" in it. I'm very glad I watched it. Denzel Washington played an awesome character. A lot of blacks were upset that he was nominated and received an Academy Award for playing a villainous character. They say, "Denzel Washington has been in so many other amazing roles, why did he have to win for being a bad guy?" I say they need to look past that and see that this was one of the best roles anyone has ever played in a film, in my opinion. Alonzo Harris was just such a great character, and I think the award going to him had very little to do with him being black. Perhaps I am being overly optimistic though.
i heart huckabees was pretty good. I mean, it wasn't great, but it had memorable things about it. It is basically about existentialism vs. nihilism, and the whole movie is done in a kind of slapstick humor fashion. There are pretty well defined agents of existentialism and nihilism who are trying to win the different characters in the movie over and guide them along their paths. One thing I found interesting was that most of the scenes with the existentialists were EXTREMELY chaotic, while the main agent of nihilism appears in scenes that are more serene, with fewer people trying to talk over each other and less wacky stuff going on. Anyhow, if you've seen the movie you may want to explore it a little bit more and see how my observation makes you feel about it. There are definitely some messages in there far beneath what can be gathered from the film and screenplay.
Training Day was brutal, that was pretty much the feeling I got from the movie. This world is a brutal place with a lot of "wolves" in it. I'm very glad I watched it. Denzel Washington played an awesome character. A lot of blacks were upset that he was nominated and received an Academy Award for playing a villainous character. They say, "Denzel Washington has been in so many other amazing roles, why did he have to win for being a bad guy?" I say they need to look past that and see that this was one of the best roles anyone has ever played in a film, in my opinion. Alonzo Harris was just such a great character, and I think the award going to him had very little to do with him being black. Perhaps I am being overly optimistic though.
i heart huckabees was pretty good. I mean, it wasn't great, but it had memorable things about it. It is basically about existentialism vs. nihilism, and the whole movie is done in a kind of slapstick humor fashion. There are pretty well defined agents of existentialism and nihilism who are trying to win the different characters in the movie over and guide them along their paths. One thing I found interesting was that most of the scenes with the existentialists were EXTREMELY chaotic, while the main agent of nihilism appears in scenes that are more serene, with fewer people trying to talk over each other and less wacky stuff going on. Anyhow, if you've seen the movie you may want to explore it a little bit more and see how my observation makes you feel about it. There are definitely some messages in there far beneath what can be gathered from the film and screenplay.
A Dream
This afternoon, I dreamed that myself and a friend were in a strange urban environment, at the center of which was a summer camp or kindergarden. I am not sure which, but it had aspects of both; there were free meals, but lots of playing and very little intellectual stimulation. Somehow wine and Wellbutrin were involved too. I think a third friend was getting sloppy with the wine (from a box, probably, but I do not remember) prior to our trek into the child's camp, and we each decided to help ourselves to a couple of glasses of the red stuff. I cannot be certain as the details are fading away, but we may have been posing as kindergarden children. We were fucking getting away with it, too. We had an advantage: The caretakers were all old black cracked out ghetto bitches, like the ones that may or may not have been YOUR lunch ladies, depending on where you went to school. Let's say for all intents and purposes that they were not all black, but they were still like, you know..."Lunch Ladies." Anyhow, it was like we walked into the middle of some kind of festival, or recess, or something. We were just hanging out and having a good time, and things started to get weird. My attitude and perception of things were both a little bit skewed, as if reality did not have its usual effect. I attributed this to the Wellbutrin and the alcoholic spirits which I had forgotten about imbibing. Anyhow, there were some guys hanging around the friend I brought, and one of them was grabbing her in such a way that would imply they were together. I said to her, aside, "Is that your boyfriend?" or something to that effect. She replied "No, and this is creeping me out." Then, we did the logical thing to deter any further advances from this undesirable element: we made out, and it was a good time. The guys left of course, and I was left with a feeling for the friend that seemed new, but it may have just been lying dormant for a while. Anyhow, things are a bit blurry after that, and we may have gotten sort of physical again, but I do not remember. The important thing that happened next was dinner. It was being served! It was kind of difficult to get our dinners because a lot of people were slipping in front of us and we were too polite to stop them. So we had to wait a while, and then I totally fucked things up and made the lunch ladies mad. I think I knocked over something small and it caused some sort of domino effect that knocked over one of their overly large and cumbersome serving trays. They served me though. I remember having issues picking a place to sit, but I do not remember the food, or how it tasted. I think it was some kind of peppered fish and bread, which is strange since I no longer eat fish. This story is about to come to a close. I think we just talked about things we didn't have, and then we either a) walked off into the sunset, or b) I just woke up so the dream never really ended.
I am still one large bruise from Friday's broom hockey game. Maybe I'll write about that later today, or tomorrow.
Maybe I won't write about it.
I am still one large bruise from Friday's broom hockey game. Maybe I'll write about that later today, or tomorrow.
Maybe I won't write about it.
Saturday, April 23, 2005
I Suppose My G is Just Too Futuristic For Some Cats
So, in the previous entry I mentioned Sarah Tonin. I talked to someone about this, and apparently it was not too clear that I was not referring to a real person, but rather a neurotransmitter in the brain.
Friday, April 22, 2005
It feels like I'm being washed over by goodness
Anyhow, it's nice to be hanging out with Sarah Tonin again.
None of the following information is really important nor is it correct, but you already know that. I just think it's nice to see. Wow, it looks especially off-target this week.
None of the following information is really important nor is it correct, but you already know that. I just think it's nice to see. Wow, it looks especially off-target this week.
Weekly Artist ChartWeek prior to Apr 17, 2005, 08:00 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Zombies | |
| 2 | Sufjan Stevens | |
| 3 | The Black Keys | |
| 4 | Aesop Rock | |
| 5 | Q and Not U | |
| 6 | Fleetwood Mac | |
| 7 | El-P | |
| 7 | Super Furry Animals | |
| 9 | Supergrass | |
| 9 | Foreigner | |
Weekly Track ChartWeek prior to Apr 17, 2005, 08:00 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sufjan Stevens - Size Too Small | |
| 2 | Sufjan Stevens - A Good Man Is Hard To Find | |
| 2 | Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans | |
| 2 | Sufjan Stevens - Sister | |
| 5 | Sufjan Stevens - We Won't Need Legs To Stand | |
| 5 | The Zombies - I'll Call You Mine | |
| 5 | Supergrass - Alright | |
| 5 | Sufjan Stevens - The Transfiguration | |
| 5 | Sufjan Stevens - He Woke Me Up Again | |
| 5 | The Zombies - A Rose For Emily | |
This is some sinister shit.
About diamonds. More specifically, the De Beers Group. This makes one wonder. Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debeers
Thursday, April 21, 2005
Short Notification:
Japanese youth sub-cultures are far weirder than American youth sub-cultures.
I will not back this statement up on this blog right now.
Just trust me.
I will not back this statement up on this blog right now.
Just trust me.
Monday, April 18, 2005
Today,
I revisit Frances The Mute and ponder some things, like how my bank account is rapidly approaching $0, and how to correct this pressing issue.
Also some biking will happen.
Also some biking will happen.
Sunday, April 17, 2005
Friday, April 15, 2005
Like-Minded Individuals
I appreciate people who think like me. If you're anything like me, you groan and cringe every time there's a minor accident and people question whether or not it is terror related. We are people who see colors more vivid than the rest of the world is capable of comprehending, I swear this.
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Comcast: Fucking Up My Internet Experience One Packet At A Time
I'm not sure what's going on, but I do not have access to a lot of web pages and whoever's fault it is, I feel like blaming Comcast. (It is probably Comcast anyway). I saw a Def Jux show last night and it was probably the best hip hop show I've ever been to. Of course, there were assholes there, and of course it seemed like the vast majority of them were around me (No really, I DO think they were mostly around me.) There was one guy from Virginia who brought his fucking license plate in. The plate read "DEF JUX." I guess he thought it was cool or something (it was the very antithesis of cool to be honest). I am running quite low on money.
Friday, April 08, 2005
Foiled Again
Hey, Blogger seems to keep dumping my posts today. I did not have a whole lot to say for this entry, except to recommend Super Furry Animals to "cats" who are "sleeping" and to say that this is the first nice weekend of Spring, and I plan to enjoy it on my own terms. This will be the third time I have tried to post this entry, and it has changed a little, but it is mostly the same. Here are some audioscrobbler stats for no reason at all.
Weekly Artist ChartWeek prior to Apr 3, 2005, 08:00 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Decemberists | |
| 2 | Prefuse 73 | |
| 3 | Canibus | |
| 4 | Nellie Mckay | |
| 5 | Neil Young | |
| 6 | Weezer | |
| 7 | Ghostface | |
| 8 | Q and Not U | |
| 9 | Sufjan Stevens | |
| 10 | Daft Punk | |
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
More On Keeping Your Computer Super Operational
As I was thinking about this I stumbled upon this link at http://del.icio.us/popular/ : http://killspyware.shorturl.com/ . It explains everything I was stressing in the other post about this, and then some. Today I am going to tell you about my add/remove programs function, and tell you all the programs that are in it. I know what every single one does. You too should know what all of your programs do, and why they are there. It's a pretty good way to decide what is spyware and what is not, if you are having a problem.
Action Replay XBOX 1.31: This is something I used to soft mod my Xbox. I don't really need it any more, but I haven't uninstalled it. As you can see, I haven't used it in more than a month. The last time it was used was to mod a friend's Xbox.
Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional: Adobe's program to read / make PDF files
Adobe Photoshop CS: Adobe's excellent image editing software. Note: I suck with this program.
AOL Instant Messenger: lol
Audioscrobbler Component for Foobar 2000: This is what gives me those audioscrobbler statistics I have blogged about in the past. It is a plugin that reads what songs are playing and sends information to the audioscrobbler website (http://www.audioscrobbler.com)
BitComet: I have blogged about this. It's a pretty good Bittorrent client.
CCleaner: This was discussed in the previous entry.
CDex Audio Extraction: A great and free program that allows you to rip CDs and encode them into different compressed format, most notably MP3. Lots of other formats supported as well though.
Copernic Desktop Search: I don't use this too much, but desktop search programs are pretty cool for us Windows users. It's just a way of searching files that is faster and works better than the built in Windows Search.
Craxtion4: I use this to extract Xbox ISOs.
DAEMON Tools: I use this to mount disc images to virtual drives.
DeadAIM: An addon for AIM that gives me tabbed browsing among other things. The tabs are most important though.
DefilerPak 1.19: A package of video / audio codecs that let me view most of the popular formats out there.
FlashFXP v3: File Transfer Protocol client.
Foobar2000: This is an amazing and highly configurable audio player for Windows.
GetDiz 3.0: NFO text format viewer.
Google Gmail Notifier: Gmail icon in my system tray to alert me to new mail.
Hello: Chat (rarely used) and Blogger image uploader.
IconPackager: Handy software that allows me to change default icons.
iPod for Windows 2005-01-11: Software for iPod.
J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 1: This is like Java or something lol
Ok, enough of this. By now you get the picture. If you're really interested in knowing EVERYTHING I have installed, email me and I'll be happy to tell you all about it.
The point is, I know what everything on my computer does. I can tell you off the top of my head, which is what I just did. I knew why I had those programs, and why they were useful to me.
Action Replay XBOX 1.31: This is something I used to soft mod my Xbox. I don't really need it any more, but I haven't uninstalled it. As you can see, I haven't used it in more than a month. The last time it was used was to mod a friend's Xbox.
Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional: Adobe's program to read / make PDF files
Adobe Photoshop CS: Adobe's excellent image editing software. Note: I suck with this program.
AOL Instant Messenger: lol
Audioscrobbler Component for Foobar 2000: This is what gives me those audioscrobbler statistics I have blogged about in the past. It is a plugin that reads what songs are playing and sends information to the audioscrobbler website (http://www.audioscrobbler.com)
BitComet: I have blogged about this. It's a pretty good Bittorrent client.
CCleaner: This was discussed in the previous entry.
CDex Audio Extraction: A great and free program that allows you to rip CDs and encode them into different compressed format, most notably MP3. Lots of other formats supported as well though.
Copernic Desktop Search: I don't use this too much, but desktop search programs are pretty cool for us Windows users. It's just a way of searching files that is faster and works better than the built in Windows Search.
Craxtion4: I use this to extract Xbox ISOs.
DAEMON Tools: I use this to mount disc images to virtual drives.
DeadAIM: An addon for AIM that gives me tabbed browsing among other things. The tabs are most important though.
DefilerPak 1.19: A package of video / audio codecs that let me view most of the popular formats out there.
FlashFXP v3: File Transfer Protocol client.
Foobar2000: This is an amazing and highly configurable audio player for Windows.
GetDiz 3.0: NFO text format viewer.
Google Gmail Notifier: Gmail icon in my system tray to alert me to new mail.
Hello: Chat (rarely used) and Blogger image uploader.
IconPackager: Handy software that allows me to change default icons.
iPod for Windows 2005-01-11: Software for iPod.
J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 1: This is like Java or something lol
Ok, enough of this. By now you get the picture. If you're really interested in knowing EVERYTHING I have installed, email me and I'll be happy to tell you all about it.
The point is, I know what everything on my computer does. I can tell you off the top of my head, which is what I just did. I knew why I had those programs, and why they were useful to me.
- If you are the sole user of a computer, try to know what everything does.
- If you are unsure about a program, try to do a google search on its name and find out if it's a malicious program or something you need to keep.
- Try not to have more than one program that does the same exact thing.
- Try to use a program that suits your needs and your style well without giving you too much grief.
Saturday, April 02, 2005
To Dampen The Preceding Post
Peace to Sufjan Stevens.
Some links:
http://www.philb.com/whichengine.htm - "Which search engine to use?"
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~john/procrastination.html - "Structured Procrastination"
Okay, fuck links for now.
I'd like to discuss people and computers and their computers being in a constant state of disrepair: WHY AND HOW THE FUCK DOES THIS HAPPEN? I download more than anyone I know. I am on the internet more than almost anyone I know. Useff and I together do more on the internet in a day than most people do in a week, I would imagine. I get deep into the underbelly of this inter-net, and I stay uninfected with anything. How in the fuck...
Just how in the fuck do people manage to have computers that are absolutely crippled by spyware, adware, viruses and other shit?
Let me show you all what I use to keep my computer clean and safe:
I'm done bitching (for now). I'm sure what is written above this is hard to read. I was really in a frenzy. Anyhow, I will write more about the applications I use on a daily basis in later posts. I will also give more insight into how people seem to be ending up with spyware invariably no matter what web browser their using. It's a real headache of a problem, especially when I see it happening all around me but not happening to me directly.
Some links:
http://www.philb.com/whichengine.htm - "Which search engine to use?"
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~john/procrastination.html - "Structured Procrastination"
Okay, fuck links for now.
I'd like to discuss people and computers and their computers being in a constant state of disrepair: WHY AND HOW THE FUCK DOES THIS HAPPEN? I download more than anyone I know. I am on the internet more than almost anyone I know. Useff and I together do more on the internet in a day than most people do in a week, I would imagine. I get deep into the underbelly of this inter-net, and I stay uninfected with anything. How in the fuck...
Just how in the fuck do people manage to have computers that are absolutely crippled by spyware, adware, viruses and other shit?
Let me show you all what I use to keep my computer clean and safe:
- FIREFOX, A WEB BROWSER: http://www.getfirefox.com/. This is the first and simplest step (MOST NECESSARY STEP AS WELL) to keeping your computer free of bullshit. It doesn't have the same vulnerabilities as Internet Explorer, and is pretty frequently updated by folks who care about web browsing. It's free.
- CCLEANER, APTLY TITLED SO FOR BEING A "CRAP CLEANER": http://www.ccleaner.com/. I only discovered this program a few months ago, but it is already priceless to me. It cleans out temporary file folders and a lot of the shit you don't need in web browsers and whatnot, and allows them to run faster and gets rid of information that does not need to be lying around. Also, it can fix some registry problems which will also make your computer run faster.
- SPYBOT: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html. FREE FUCKING SPYWARE REMOVER. SIMPLE TOO! I never need to use it, because I never find myself getting spyware.
I'm done bitching (for now). I'm sure what is written above this is hard to read. I was really in a frenzy. Anyhow, I will write more about the applications I use on a daily basis in later posts. I will also give more insight into how people seem to be ending up with spyware invariably no matter what web browser their using. It's a real headache of a problem, especially when I see it happening all around me but not happening to me directly.
I have not posted a blog entry in a long time
I was just thinking about some things. The Pope totally died today, and that's ok I guess. I'm not at all religious, nor do I agree with Catholicism. Also, I think Jesus was a crazy crazy man, and not really the son of God. Immaculate conception doesn't hold up today, and it wouldn't hold up back then either. Anyhow, back to the Pope. I wonder how his last hours were. Did he lose faith in God? Was he able to think about such things as his faith, and question whether or not he would arrive in Heaven? If he did not believe in God or the afterlife, how would he feel knowing that he was pushing ideas he didn't even believe on so many followers around the world?
There have been a lot of famous deaths this week. This is a great week for Death! This has been my spring break too, and most of it has been moist. Not moist like a delicious cake, moist like uncomfortably wet outside.
I did not learn as much as I wanted to learn this week. However, I did learn and do some things. Above all, the most interesting part of the week was getting my bike working again and riding it; White Clay Creek State Park is right behind my house, and there are a lot of trails. I cold bruised my ass on the bike seat, and it hurts still. It is now Saturday. I have not gone biking the last couple days because of the wetness. The wetness on the ground.
Sometimes I think about people and things that may or may not exist, and wish they did. Mostly people. I know some good people, yes I do. Sometimes I wonder if there are other good people in the world aside from the relatively few that I know. Often times I assume that a good person is rare. I do question this though. Sometimes I think that I limit a person's potential goodness or quality if you will by being cold and focusing on things about them that I dislike. It is at once disheartening and inspiring to consider the old saying that everyone is the same on the inside, and has the same needs and whatnot. I often think of myself as more or less than most others, depending on the situation. More or less able to feel things, or understand things, or consider things. By being this rigid person who refuses to loosen up, and in some cases cannot do so, I probably limit the quality of my own interations with people. On the other hand though, when I see people interacting in a loose manner, I do not always feel comfortable picturing myself engaging in identical or similar activities. From this, I must wonder if that is what people like about me; if I altered this aspect of my being somehow, would this garner more positive or negative feelings from those around me? I feel like I do not have a firm grasp on others. I've said enough about this.
And now, onto current developments on the arts & entertainment side of things in my life:
I've been listening to the new Decemberists album a whole lot. It's very good, and I feel like every song is my favorite song. But of course that's not all I've been listening to. I heard some Nellie McKay songs that I enjoyed. I am very excited about the collaboration between Ghostface and MF Doom. Wow, that will be exciting. The new Prefuse 73 album is also a good time. Then of course there are staples that I love, and always play. I need to add something to my to do list. This thing I need to add is as follows: I must find something better than audioscrobbler that will show me my music listening statistics and habits. I am curious about such things. On the internet / computing front, nothing is really new around here. Xbox is an amazing piece of hardware that does pretty much everything. PS2 is still cool and Useff and I were discussing how Xbox games do not have the personality of PS2 / Gamecube games, but that is something we can save for another time.
There have been a lot of famous deaths this week. This is a great week for Death! This has been my spring break too, and most of it has been moist. Not moist like a delicious cake, moist like uncomfortably wet outside.
I did not learn as much as I wanted to learn this week. However, I did learn and do some things. Above all, the most interesting part of the week was getting my bike working again and riding it; White Clay Creek State Park is right behind my house, and there are a lot of trails. I cold bruised my ass on the bike seat, and it hurts still. It is now Saturday. I have not gone biking the last couple days because of the wetness. The wetness on the ground.
Sometimes I think about people and things that may or may not exist, and wish they did. Mostly people. I know some good people, yes I do. Sometimes I wonder if there are other good people in the world aside from the relatively few that I know. Often times I assume that a good person is rare. I do question this though. Sometimes I think that I limit a person's potential goodness or quality if you will by being cold and focusing on things about them that I dislike. It is at once disheartening and inspiring to consider the old saying that everyone is the same on the inside, and has the same needs and whatnot. I often think of myself as more or less than most others, depending on the situation. More or less able to feel things, or understand things, or consider things. By being this rigid person who refuses to loosen up, and in some cases cannot do so, I probably limit the quality of my own interations with people. On the other hand though, when I see people interacting in a loose manner, I do not always feel comfortable picturing myself engaging in identical or similar activities. From this, I must wonder if that is what people like about me; if I altered this aspect of my being somehow, would this garner more positive or negative feelings from those around me? I feel like I do not have a firm grasp on others. I've said enough about this.
And now, onto current developments on the arts & entertainment side of things in my life:
I've been listening to the new Decemberists album a whole lot. It's very good, and I feel like every song is my favorite song. But of course that's not all I've been listening to. I heard some Nellie McKay songs that I enjoyed. I am very excited about the collaboration between Ghostface and MF Doom. Wow, that will be exciting. The new Prefuse 73 album is also a good time. Then of course there are staples that I love, and always play. I need to add something to my to do list. This thing I need to add is as follows: I must find something better than audioscrobbler that will show me my music listening statistics and habits. I am curious about such things. On the internet / computing front, nothing is really new around here. Xbox is an amazing piece of hardware that does pretty much everything. PS2 is still cool and Useff and I were discussing how Xbox games do not have the personality of PS2 / Gamecube games, but that is something we can save for another time.
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