Hard Drive is Fine. Hard Drive and Chipset Don't Get Along.

http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/index.php?t8171.html

Rock Bottom Slots!

I wrote this at 7:50AM this past Wednesday or Thursday morning. I do not remember which. Probably Wednesday. Let's get started:

I am watching what might be the worst infomercial I have ever seen. I've never seen a person sell a slot machien on television until now. I'm still in a state of disbelief. This is real.

"You're serious? Wow, that's amazing!" (An actor hired to look like a consumer, speaking in regards to the price of this great slot machine.)

The way they have it set up , they have a bunch of attractive, well-dressed people standing around playing slots with these salesmen. Television salesmen.

"Nothing like this has ever been done before!"

"Look at the mesmerizing lightshow! Listen to the riot of electronic sound!" (Real quote)

"A $3500 value for 5 payments of $99, no 4 payments of $99 with 100 tokens (a $50 value!), absolutely free!
Since the new year is coming around, and we want everyone to be able to afford this great offer, we're taking it down to 3 easy payments of $99 and an extra 100 tokens for a total of 200 free tokens. This ridiculous rock bottom offer can't last! So buy now!"

How do they come up with the ideas for the commercials they use to peddle this shit?

Check out the awesome website.

Things Are Going On

Bad hard drive. Sending it in for a warranty. This will take a while. Exam in 1.5 hours. Work tonight, and the next two nights.

None of these things will stop me from keeping the updates coming, though.

Computers

I'm formatting my hard drive, making a few partitions, installing Ubuntu, and reinstalling Windows.

Hope this helps with the fucking shenanigans my computer keeps pulling.

Salmon update soon. Wanted to do it today, but I did not have as much time as I thought I did.
Also there was Chinese food.

An Idea: Task Elimination Solutions

Today I had an interesting idea. This idea, will allow myself and others to serve our community actively, fight boredom, and win friends. This idea, is errand running; a task elimination solution. I propose to stand somewhere in a heavily trafficked area, like on the sidewalk of South College Avenue, with a large sign which will say "We Will Run Your Errands For Free." We will have at least two people here, one to manage the errands in queue, and another to actually run the errands. Real running will be involved: sorry, non-runners. You are not invited. Until we implement large-scale service using cars and / or dune buggies. The idea is that we fight our boredom by doing these menial tasks, like getting groceries, running books to the library, getting books from homes for classes (of course these patrons will trust us, because we're just good people), and assisting with other small, odd tasks. These people are freed of the burden of doing these tasks, and they get the pleasure of seeing us do them at top speed, and total devotion to the task at hand. I am seriously thinking about doing this. It's getting cold though. Maybe when the weather starts to get warm again. We would gain a lot of social wealth by doing this. We'd be kings. Kings without material riches.

Fuck! Whoa! Hello!

Hi there. It's been a long time since I posted like this. I've been keeping pretty busy with classes and work, and Everquest, of all things. Oh, Everquest. I guess I had too much free time on my hands one day a week ago and decided to reinstall it. It has been fun, and I haven't become a slave to it. I'm not sure if I can keep this up though, or if I even want to. I mean Everquest caused me some trouble in the past. Actually it caused me about four years of trouble, took away four years of productivity that I can never get back, and basically devoured my high school social life. But hey, sometimes you have to give up your high school social life for a silly fucking massively multiplayer online role playing game where you are a bard who runs around with a lot of losers and slays dragons, right? Right?

Right?

Oh. Well anyhow I started playing again. The game is a lot more beautiful than it was in the past. Enough about that fucking game, let me speak on things that matter.

What matters is matter, folks. We are all made up of matter, presumably. I'd hate to see some weird non-matter based being browsing the internet and finding my website because frankly I'm racist against those kinds of motherfuckers. They need to stay the hell away from my family. They need to keep to their own kind. It's just not natural, otherwise.

A quick word or two about The Facebook: ok cool (see that was two words pretty concise huh).
Seriously, The Facebook is kind of cool. I used to hate on it pretty indiscriminately, but I'm finding a use for it now. I have fun being "internet sociable" and posting things on other people's walls, even if I am not exactly tight with these people, because hey, it's the internet, and it shouldn't be taken seriously. I have come into contact with people from my past who I am so glad still exist, and seem to be doing well, just older, hairier versions of themselves. In the end, becoming hairier is a crucial part of aging, up until you get old. Some people also become more mature and learn more about the world, but certainly not everyone. Mostly, people just get hairier with age. Not wiser. But then, I wonder, when you get really old, do you still continue to get hairier? Some would argue that no you don't, you start to lose hair. But some people start to grow hair out of their ears, and I don't know what the fuck that's about. I've heard people say that the hair is sucked from the top of your head and it comes out of your ears. That is a cute idea in my opinion. The Facebook is largely a bunch of self-serving, ego boosting, masturbatory bullshit, but it does have it's uses. Thanks for existing on the internet, Facebook.

I'd like to get back into programming and study it independently but I wouldn't know where to start. See, I'd like to make programs for myself and others that are useful, but it seems like most of that shit has already been done. I cannot think of anything I need done that I cannot find a use for. It's kind of a bummer, because I want to do programming, because I've found it fun in the past. Automation of a process is always fun. I guess I'll just wait until I find something I want to automate and then fool around with it. For now, I'll just learn more about web design and be more attentive to this blog so I can flesh this site out and make it useful and interesting, or should I say, internesting. I realize that if I ever want to really make this website into something respectable, I will have to get off of Blogger, get my own domain, and use one of the blog publishing programs available. For now though, I'm just content and happy with the fact that I designed this web page myself, and will continue to add design elements to it until it's "done" (you can never really be done). As for the programming thing, it will undoubtedly lead to me doing something with a service that is provided on the web, like linking up two things or downloading some content to my desktop in an attractive way. There are a lot of APIs out there for services available on the web. I'd love to interact with one or more of them in an important and useful way.

Let us talk about internesting, the word I created above. What a word, huh? Internesting. It makes me think of a nest on the internet. Which would of course mean there is some kind of internet animal, like a bird, or an insect. God, insect nests are a bothersome idea for my mind. Nests. Headnests! Rat nests! Nests! Nest is a weird word. The internet is weird too. I kind of wish there were animals that lived on the internet. Please do not say that a software virus is kind of like an animal, because this is not what I am talking about.

OkCupid: Kind of a hilarious site. I joined it a month ago or something. Totally worthless so far. But hey, look at this girl!



Hey, this is what my desktop looks like. I originally took this image to fix a problem with Blogger I Was having getting it to show images correctly but now I see that the problem was the option I was selecting, not my template. Holla.

Swords And Robes

Swords and robes are cool so fucking cooooooooooooooooool hey yeah what is cooler than a sword and / or a robe blish blash fag fucking bullshit can't do what needs to be done just add more weight pull the trigger man just get off this planet without any kind of ballast you need to check yourself

Next on To-do List:

Rounded borders.

Because really, I have to make this site identical to every bullshit web 2.0 style website out there, I already have one of the most used fonts.

So now I need to implement AJAX, add some rounded borders, a few color gradient banners, and provide some retarded fucking social networking service that is "new" and "exciting" and in beta, or some shit.

Web 2.0 here we come!

I HAVE A LOT TO PROVE

People are ridiculous

Everyone makes mistakes.

I make mistakes.

I waste time and money on things.

Sometimes we get ahead of ourselves and we act without thinking.

These things happen.

I Fixed Some Long-Standing Gripes

Except for that minor positioning blemish in IE, this design is now functional, in my opinion.

Glad to be here, folks. Just glad to be here.

Bear vs. Shark

Bear vs. Shark is a fucking awesome band.

Thank you for being awesome, Bear vs. Shark!

The Doors - The Wasp

I wanna tell you 'bout Texas Radio and the Big Beat
Comes out of the Virginia swamps
Cool and slow with plenty of precision
With a back beat narrow and hard to master

Some call it heavenly in it's brilliance
Others, mean and rueful of the Western dream
I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft
We have constructed pyramids in honor of our escaping
This is the land where the Pharaoh died

The Negroes in the forest brightly feathered
They are saying, "Forget the night.
Live with us in forests of azure.
Out here on the perimeter there are no stars
Out here we is stoned - immaculate."

Listen to this, and I'll tell you 'bout the heartache
I'll tell you 'bout the heartache and the lose of God
I'll tell you 'bout the hopeless night
The meager food for souls forgot
I'll tell you 'bout the maiden with wrought iron soul

I'll tell you this
No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn

I'll tell you 'bout Texas Radio and the Big Beat
Soft drivin', slow and mad, like some new language

Now, listen to this, and I'll tell you 'bout the Texas
I'll tell you 'bout the Texas Radio
I'll tell you 'bout the hopeless night
Wandering the Western dream
Tell you 'bout the maiden with wrought iron soul

Exam Week

Give me time.

I won't let you down, folks.

Flock is pretty cool

It's a new browser. www.flock.com

I am going to eat that salmon sometime soon too

Finished

Sometimes we laugh

Inappropriately

Sometimes we smile

When we cry

Another Nightmare Last Night

In this "episode," America was taken over by some fascist religious regime, and Useff and I are not really going for it. We're too free. The leader of said regime also agrees that we are too free, and decides to have us killed. We are hunted down. Along the way, we meet some men and women who believe in our cause and decide to run with us, and be with us. Eventually, we are all caught, and we are executed while holding hands after writing letters to the people we always loved and never told how we realy felt.

A Brand New Interview With Matthew Lesko!

http://www.blacktable.com/going050929.htm

Question marks obviously symbolize inquiry, but why did you choose them over dollar signs?

Never even thought about money signs. It's all philosophical. I'd wear this outfit if I were an accountant. It has nothing to do with my business. I wear it on a regular basis.

What's up with blasts rocking Bali?

It seems like whenever there are explosives detonated in Bali, journalists describe Bali as being rocked. Being rocked by explosives can be taken a number of ways. Personally, I like the idea of Bali being rocked to sleep by a series of gentle explosions that made the landscape sway gently.