Tape on wall next to whiteboard - comments(0)
Friday September 9, 2005 - 12:13PM EDT
Damn my head is empty at the moment. Listening to some old japanese pop. Old being like 3 years ago. I didn't get done everything on my list yesterday but I almost did, which is better than what I usually get done. I made progress and that is what matters. So today I have made another list and hopefully I'll get it all done today. Tomorrow is Rutgers villanova game. Good, I can get wasted. Going to the gym later this evening. Didn't bring lunch today so I will either go home or get something for less than $4. $20 a week for lunch that is the maximum now. This whole week I have not been lazy. In other words I go to work, go home do what I have to, get some website stuff done then go to bed. No long mid evening or late evening napping, it is not productive. I figure I'll gradually become more effecient and before you know it all the web projects will be steady and I'll be able to support myself through freelancing without having to take full-time on-site contracts. Setup Basecamp finally to organize projects. The software is actually pretty basic. It is not much more complex then the software I whipped together over a weekend. It is however much more refined and polished in presentation and layout. I figure I'll use the free trial for a bit and if it helps with things upgrade to one of the pay packages. I have this urge to speak spanish or at least interact in spanish. Weird, I thought it would kind of go away, but no, it doesn't. I was just thinking of Yahoo Serious, ha. I have to buy some tuna. Don't have any. That is always clutch for lunch. The size of the IPOD nano is perfect. It should be a cell phone and a camera in the same device. Along with GPS reciever and internet terminal. It does have a notes, calendar and contact storage function. Which might be useful to some. It also has games. What they should have done is make it so you can download directions. There is some software out there that does it but maybe they should have made it built in somehow.
Friday September 9, 2005 - 10:57AM EDT
I really still can't believe music companies are still wasting money trying to shutdown P2P networks. It is not going to happen. It really is quite comical how serious they are about trying to shut it down. Speaking of music companies, I got the new IPOD nano and loaded it up with almost all my music. I only have like 1200 songs so they almost all fit. Most of the songs are ill-gotten although about two hundred or so come from CDs I bought.
Very boring Friday and I finished the Internet so this is one of those stream of consciousness days for the blog. Let's begin shall we.
Thursday September 8, 2005 - 3:59PM EDT
So, in order to get a handle on what I have to do I usually make these short list of things. They can be long term or just for the day things. When I say long term I am referring to website projects I am working on. Not when I should paint my room or some dumb shit like that. So I am sitting here at work with a tad of down time and I decide to make a list of what I need to do the rest of the day. The long term list is at home. Load of landry is on it. Trying to take things in small chunks. Even website work. Seems like I get more done if I plan things to do on websites in smaller chunks. Get IPOD nano 4GB (black) is also on it. Fuck I just looked at my amex bill. No more going to restaurants for a month at least. So many of my website projects are mired in some kind of mid-level limbo. I've gotten them all of the ground but am stuck in the middle. Middle meaning no kind of steady organized profitability. Fuck. Anyway, I think I have a good amount of things on the list for today. If I do everything on it I will feel respectable about how a spent my time today.
Thursday September 8, 2005 - 2:34PM EDT
Today is good for two reasons. And only these two reasons. Season Premiere of The O.C. and the start of the NFL season. Other than that, you can catch me drinking screwdrivers in my room for the rest of the day (after work).
Thursday September 8, 2005 - 11:26AM EDT
I was reading the article a few days ago and it commented on being in your 20s and make the cruel offensive comments that make fun of someone elses pathetic situation. I was wondering if it is just a 20s thing he meant of more of a generational thing. I think I am going to start calling everyone refugees to make fun of them. Like if you can't decide on a place to eat lunch with your coworkers. You say "stop being a refugee and lets just go to [insert restaurant of choice here]". I've discovered that as I age my comments become less juvenille and more cleverly cruel.
Thursday September 8, 2005 - 9:35AM EDT
The quality of internet news stories is apalling. Some of my blog posts are more informed, more complete and more coherent then some of this trash from the "pros". This is not just a few sites, it is widespread and no news website is safe no matter how big and "reputable". Maybe it has always been that way, I never read the newspaper all that much.
Tuesday September 6, 2005 - 7:39PM EDT
I am going to update the design of the blog soon. It is kind of plain. It needs a little something else.
Tuesday September 6, 2005 - 4:33PM EDT
Its funny how fast I could have this current project done that I am working on at work right now. I looked it over in detail and it is rather simple in many respects. It could be done in about 2 weeks. But it won't be. Not because I don't want to, but because...exactly there is no good reason. There never seems to be for inefficiency. Besides incompetance of course. But no one wants to admit that. At least I'll have plenty of time to make posts and surf the net the next 2 months.
I wish this place was more interesting. Everyone is so freaking boring here. At least I get to listen to my MP3 player all day. I'd go beserk if I couldn't. Speaking of MP3. Why do the record companies and RIAA think they are going to win. They are blowing millions of dollars on worthless lawsuits that do nothing to curb downloading. It is quite pathetic. They shut down one network and another pops up in its place. What is even more ludicrous are these crotchety judges that make such "rulings" they are even more clueless than the record companies. Why are they wasting the justice systems time with this crap? I thought they would have learned by now. They reduced themselves to suing little kids. How pathetic is that? And artists need to get over it too. As if this is the first time in history their music has been traded illegally.
Venezuela's government is starting with more dirty tricks and chicanery. First there is the required government officials in private banks and now this "cheap oil" initiative. Chavez is like a fucking drug dealer. Using oil to ply poor countries into who knows what. He thinks government can control everything to even out inequities in life. First of all, Cuba and former USSR should be shining examples of how that works out. Not to mention China and its dirty secrets. He is so sure of himself it is disgusting.
Tuesday September 6, 2005 - 3:14PM EDT
Took a look at some new features and screenshots of the new version of Windows that is coming out. It is now called Windows Vista instead of Longhorn. Based on the early pics the interface looks much better than some earlier Longhorn pics I saw and finnally may be almost as good looking as MacOSX. In fact I think that when is all said an done the GUI look may be comparable. Usability is another different story. Not that MacOSx doesn't have its flaws, especially when it comes to customization and power users trying to go through the GUI. That is a minor gripe I have with MacOSX. The GUI oversimplifies a lot of things and you can't customize as much as Windows or LinuX. Also Finder is a piece of garbage. 2.5 hours of the work day left.
More girlie man purchases - comments(0)
Monday September 5, 2005 - 11:44PM EDT
Went to the supermarket tonight. Bought fat-free lactose free milk, reduced sugar sunny delight, two bars of lever 2000 with aloe and some oatmeal. I guess when I look at it, it is really not girlie manish at all. Mainly because they didn't have the glycolic acid overnight facial treatment I was looking for. I am going to pick some of that up un Wednesday when I get my facial.
Monday September 5, 2005 - 3:54PM EDT
I could get rid of my constant nervousness. There are very few occasions when I am calm. I get so much more done and am so much more level headed when I am calm but I am almost never calm. There is always this constant taughtness in my mood, I don't like it but never been able to get rid of it. It only disappears for split seconds every once in a while.
Monday September 5, 2005 - 1:05AM EDT
The movies that came out this weekend looked horrendous and were all reviewed even worse. Some of the ripping done in the reviews is quite funny. I can't remember a weekend when 3 movies this bad looking came out. There is usually something salvageble. Not this weekend. So I went and saw Wedding Crashers again and again laughed my ass off. Vince Vaughn really should get oscar consideration. If you've seen other movies he has been in you'll see that Crashers is his best stuff. The performance was so utterly natural and played so well off of Luke Wilson's simmering comedy.
When I sit for extended periods of time (read more than 1.5 minutes) I bounce my legs. It is funny though because they bounce out of step and what happens is every couple of seconds when the come into step and the same frequency it makes my whole body shake for a half second then stops when they go out of step.
I have this grand vision of my life.
Sunday September 4, 2005 - 6:52PM EDT
I know I said I had no more comments but here is one last one. I'm glad for the outpouring of support from everyone. Giving money to help restore hurricane disaster victims to their formerly glorious lives. Thats real compassion. The kind that can make a grown man cry.
Saturday September 3, 2005 - 10:56PM EDT
Getting colder. Feels like sophmore and junior year of college. Man those years sucked. All the years sucked, but those sucked even more. I'm depressed. So I rented Sin City and Constantine. I'll watch while I drink vodka until I pass out.
Some really awful movies came out this weekend. Every review I've read has given them half or no stars. They look terrible. I thought The Cave was bad but this recent crap looks even worse. I don't know if anything can top Boogeyman. That movie was the worse movie I have ever seen. Every single person involved should be ashamed of themselves.
Saturday September 3, 2005 - 2:34PM EDT
I'm out of things to say. I'm glad some people can hold concerts when a hurricane hits. But they can buy bling and bentleys the rest of the year. I'm glad people can finally say something about the state of society, when people are dying among mounds of feces. Yet talk about the bottom line when citizens barely have enough money to pay for insulin. I'm glad people can feel good about themselves by tossing nickels to the poor folk.
Philadelphia school system is crap. Philadelphia wants to lower crime. I wonder how much you could lower crime by upgrading the school system? I'm not talking about 50 raggedy-ass donated computers in some nasty basement in a crappy school. I'm talking about remodeling every school in Philadelphia and filling them with all new books and computers and bringing in teachers who actually have some decent education themselves. How could that not be beneficial to the city? More benificial than any hotel, stadium or casino. You do that shit and in 10-15 years I guarantee you'd have enough money in the city to build 50 stadiums. No one thinks on this type of scale. It is always small time stuff that eventually erodes under the constant pounding of pathetic everyday life. Let's have a concert, let's start some rinky dink foundation, a community center here bookmobile there free clinic over there. Never, lets pour $10 billion into state of the art schools and make sure every child in this city always has a place to be educated. Last time I checked most educated people have decent jobs and PAY TAXES.
I don't know about you, but when it is hot as a mofo in the summertime an air conditioned school might not be that bad a place for those little bastards to be. There has to be a fundamental change in the way people try and solve these issues, because what they're doing ain't working. They can pretend like it is working, but last time I heard the percentage of poor has gone up in the last century. Socialism, what a joke, Chavez is as much an idiot as our pres, so it is funny how they hate each other. How in the hell is Castro still buying into his own bullshit, when is the last time that fucker left Cuba to see a car made after 1955? If I hear another left-wing hipster ask me to give to charity I swear I will stab them in the throat. If I hear another right-wing dufus champion the gears of bureaucracy and a system that is helping people I swear I will stab them in the throat too. If I hear another moderate windbang make half-assed efforts and debilitating compromises they also get the throat stab. I guess I did have more to say. But now I'm done. I got no more.
Saturday September 3, 2005 - 10:09AM EDT
In addition to Guard help, the federal government could have activated, but did not, a major air support plan under a pre-existing contract with airlines. The program, called Civilian Reserve Air Fleet, lets the government quickly put private cargo and passenger planes into service.
The CRAF provision has been activated twice, once for the Persian
Gulf War and again for the Iraq war. - full article
Just read the whole article.
Still can't get a break - comments(0)
Saturday September 3, 2005 - 9:55AM EDT
At one point Friday, the evacuation was interrupted briefly when school buses pulled up so some 700 guests and employees from the Hyatt Hotel could move to the head of the evacuation line — much to the amazement of those who had been crammed in the Superdome since last Sunday.
"How does this work? They (are) clean, they are dry, they get out ahead of us?" exclaimed Howard Blue, 22, who tried to get in their line. The National Guard blocked him as other guardsmen helped the well-dressed guests with their luggage.
The 700 had been trapped in the hotel, near the Superdome, but conditions were considerably cleaner, even without running water, than the unsanitary crush inside the dome. The Hyatt was severely damaged by the storm. Every pane of glass on the riverside wall was blown out.
- full article
Don't know whether this is true but if it is it is disgusting. I don't even know what to say about that crap.
Fist of the North Star - comments(0)
Saturday September 3, 2005 - 12:31AM EDT
Fist of the North Star is this ultra violent anime in a post apocolyptuc world where bands of thugs go around killing people in the most horrific ways for no reason at all. The violence in it is astonishing by any standards, although I am quite desensitized after watching it many times over. The violence and vision of the world is so outrageous that you think that it is crazy and it would never happen on earth no matter what. I was wrong. Newt G. was quoted today as saying something along the lines of, if this is the response to something we knew was coming a week in advance how do we think we are prepared for a nuclear or biological disaster. Which consequently a Naval chemical expert mentioned to me a few years back, we aren't and when that happens the best thing to do is to bend over and kiss your ass goodbye.
Saturday September 3, 2005 - 12:13AM EDT
I guess that is why they call it the Department of Defense. You still here non-stop defensive repsonses from those accused of being lax in the response. You even hear just downright lying about what went on when the video shows something else. Those government officials shouldn't be saying anything but I'm sorry, bowing their heads and working like slaves. They are after all tending to most of the slaves' children.
Friday September 2, 2005 - 2:30PM EDT
“We’ve been sleeping on the ... ground like rats,” Levy said. “I say burn this whole ... city down.” - full article
I hope those elipses in the snippet above contained "muthafucka". Because that would just be a hilarious line. Like in Harold and Kumar when they are at the drive through and Anythony Edwards says "let's burn this motherfucker down."