Red LED on my optical mouse - comments(0)
Monday June 13, 2005 - 4:39AM EDT
So it is 4am and for some reason I am still awake. I got a burst of energy around 12am and started working on website stuff. I got a bunch done so it was good. I still have that business of finishing that Flash website. I have it all planned out I just need to do it. Two more weeks of work until I leave. I don't even know whether to go to sleep, I have to wake up in about 3 hours anyway. Fuck my life is pathetic. What am I doing with myself? This is garbage. I am hungry. What do I get for lunch tomorrow? I've done the sushi and curry thing too many times I need somethin different. But those two things are so good. Some new italian place opened up, maybe I will try that. Or maybe I should make an effort to eat at every single restaurant in the area. I need that tripod for my meals pics. No I don't I'll start tomorrow. Finally I will deliver what was promised. Everything I eat this week I will take a picture of. Now the question is, do you want to see the pics as I take them or at the end of the week all at once? It really doesn't matter what the answer is since I am going to do whatever anyway. Damn I am hungry. I didn't eat enough today. Sometimes I'll get hungry and just neglect to eat for no reason at all. I'll just be doing something else. Fuck I need some sleep.
Monday June 13, 2005 - 3:43AM EDT
"We don't care so much about that," Chen said of the astrological intricacies, although he added that some older members of his fiance's family had expressed some concern.
"If you want to get married, you just get married," Zheng said. - full article
Clearly I am beating a dead horse with this crap but I've remarked earlier on human society forming a central dominant world culture while the fractured cultures of the world we know today will become secondary. Well that article is about that stuff happening.
Monday June 13, 2005 - 2:20AM EDT
I think I will spend sometime on a little tropical island somewhere building little droid. First off is a GarboDroid. It is a droid designed to collect garbage on the beach. Eventually to collect garbage anywhere, but I will start with beach first. I will begin by building little kit robots and working my way up. I have the programming background to at least start doing some robot programming. I'll start with these Robotkits. I'll build GarbaDroids. There is a sci-fi robot classification system or something where differet types of robots are called different things. Droids for example are a certain type then there are some other garbage.
Micro Center bags full of comics by the bookcase - comments(0)
Sunday June 12, 2005 - 6:45PM EDT
Went to the beach today. Sandy Hook, NJ. Nothing much happened except some ass-clown trying to catch waves on his board 20 feet from shore. Did I mention that there were no waves? Ass-clown. Have a couple of website things to finish up. Expecting some decent pay this week though from website work. I am getting through the projects, albeit slowly. I just need a few weeks off from work to work through some stuff and catch up. I'll get that soon.
Saturday June 11, 2005 - 1:19AM EDT
My favorite lip balm is Chapstick with SPF 15. It comes in little dark blue tubes. I've used all different brands and types of lip balm and that one is the best by far. Having SPF 15 is key, because the sun really dries out your skin fast. I don't like the medicated stuff with menthol that smell is just for show. Only in extreme cases when you have really bad bleeding is it worth it. I've also heard good things about Burt's Bees but that is one of the few brands I haven't tried. I'll give it a whirl someday.
Friday June 10, 2005 - 5:55PM EDT
With all the recent hub-bub over "African Debt Relief" I just have to make the truth known, so that morons with no knowledge of history can realize what is going on. First off it is ludicrous that these rich nations are promoting "African Debt Relief" as if it is some kind of altruistic act. Not only that but promoting debt relief as a pathway to relieving the issues of the nations of Africa. Debt relief is a sham and will do absolutely nothing to relieve the problems there. It will just make the rich nations feel good about themselves with the following subtext, "hey, we plundered your resources freely for the last few centuries and we will still continue to do so, but now you don't have to pay us for it". First off, whether they cancel african debt or not, african nations aren't going to pay a freaking cent to them. Mainly because they can't. What I want to see is those countries wise up and give the collective finger to the so called creditors and tell those bitches "hey, since you plundered our resources freely for the past few centuries we don't owe you a cent, in fact you owe us double what we supposedly owe you". That is what I want to see. It is sad to see decent people get wrapped up in this debt relief sham and not see the real problems. Somone has painted them a distorted picture and that is all they can see.
Let's take the example of the royal dutch shell company. Basically they have been pludering Nigerian oil since the 50's when oil was discovered in Nigeria. How is it that, Nigerian oil reserves are controlled by foreign companies that export most of the profits elsewhere? That is bogus. I don't see anyone plundering Alaskan oil and exporting it to Russia (there are numerous reasons for that but you get my point). My point is they let that shit go on in Nigeria and then want to talk about debt relief. Damn fools.
Furthermore, as echoed by some, although some of what he has to say is irrelevant nonsense, one unintentional subtext of African Debt relief is that we are better than you. It is not something that anyone says or anyone is even subversively trying to get across it is merely residual re-inforcement of a heirarchy. The stance should not be one of debt relief, it implies some type of inadaquency on the part of the debtor. In the world forum, implying such inadaquecy is an idealogical blow to the people and their leaders. Inadaquacies exists for sure, but they are more concrete inadaquacies, more tangible things. Not inadaquecies in an idealogical sense. Implying that somehow these contries lack the compentency to understand debt and repayment. What they lack is the concrete resources. So African bebt relief is improper avenue to address their problems.
Some might say that, the numbers say this and the numbers say that. That african nations have real debt and there are mounds of records to back it up. Well I say phooey. The current system was designed at the advantage of those in power. Not purposefully, it was more of a natural development. People simply did what was best for themselves as we all are taught and we all have done since man walked upright. Besides disregarding the concrete numbers gives governments and companies a chance to do what they do best, fudge numbers and break rules.
The organizer of Live8 has faced criticism over the concert for many reasons. However, criticising him is a fairly empty prospect. The influence of the concert in real world politics is infinitesimal and so is the money raised by the concert. The real criticism should be heaped upon Bush and Blair's recent announcements about African debt cancellation. These people are supposed to be leading the world and they have not a clue, or if they do they hide it. That is what the media should be covering, not Live8 criticisms. Besides the organizer of Live8 is doing the only thing he knows how, promote concerts, so although he may be off-base at least he is giving some kind of effort. The audacity that Bush and Blair have to suggest cancellation of "debt" is disgusting. They have to know better than that. Even with the covert and overt shenanigans of world leaders you wish in the back of you mind that they know what is going on and will someday make a smart move when it counts. So far, all have disappointed.
I am reminded of a news story I read a while back about Nigerian women protesting the local Chevron refinery by staging sit ins at the factory. They wanted the company to provide more money for local development. It was a small example of someone standing up but and realizing what is going on.
Crush them immediately - comments(0)
Friday June 10, 2005 - 4:40PM EDT
I can't believe I am hearing this bullshit. It is not like american car companies are facing hard times because of general harships. They fucked up and they suck at making cars. People don't want their cars. No one buys american cars anywhere except america because they know they suck ass. I say the rest of the world's car companies should buy up the remaining american car companies like they did with american electronics companies. Everyone knows you can't buy a TV or DVD player that is made by an american company. They just don't exist anymore. Even the the TVs Dell makes are put together using foreign made parts, they just slap their name on it.
Once again I want to voice my disgust with humans working in factories. Building cars and sewing jeans are the tasks of droids and other robots. Only to be supervised by human overseers.
Thursday June 9, 2005 - 2:30PM EDT
In case you didn't know already. The ending to the #1 arcade smash Bad Dudes from Data East ends with you, the hero, having a hamburger with the president of the united states after rescuing him from ninja. Got damn that is a satisfying ending to a video game. In other news I had sushi today, again. I also took half hour of my lunch to sit in the car and listen to a No Doubt CD (Rocksteady). Umm....I don't know, work is boring as usual. Sure I have things to do, but they are fairly mundane. I do have to learn a few new things here and there but nothing too complex. I need to go to the bank and deposit money on Tuesday of next week. Should be like a grand or so, sorely needed, it is from freelance work that I finally got paid for. Another couple hundred should come in the following week or so. One of our substitute teachers in high school held the world record for 100m dash for those 80yrs old and above. He had a gold medal from the olympics where he ran it. It was insanely fast like 11 seconds or something. His name was Mr. Hills.
Damn I'm bored. Trying to strecth out the tasks they give me so I don't run out of things to do. According to a report just published .01% of the world's population control about 25% of its resources. Damn I'm bored, I want to sleep right now for like an hour. I'm counting the seconds until it is time to go home. I've read all the Dilbert.com comic archives for the past 30 days already. Those thing are hilarious. Damn I wish I could merge all the best features of the major operating systems into one. Whoa almost feel asleep just now. Almost feel asleep again. I don't like those live strong bracelets, they have become just a stupid fashion statement and reprsentative of someone's "good guy" status. I'll start wearing the servered heads of infant bunnies around my wrist to affirm "bad guy" status. Oh yeah. I am going to try and do a sleep study when I get back from Venezuela. 13 days for like $1500. There are a couple of studies though. I think I want to try the sleep deprevation study. That would be hilarious. 2.5 hours left in the work day.
Disc sitting in the corner near the fan - comments(7)
Thursday June 9, 2005 - 12:57AM EDT
I was just thinking that it is funny when you see people drinking liquids out of a cup in a situation that is purely focuses on drinking liquids. I am not talking about alcohol. I am talking about a thirsty person guzzling some water or kool-aid. Man I haven't had kool-aid in years. I used to drink that stuff all the time when I was a kid.
It's funny that I think this considering I hang out with people like this (active church members and young Christians) but I can't fathom how young people today become involved in the crackpottery that is religious belief. Whether it be one of the major 5 (Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism) or some other new age nonsense, I would have thought modern education would have taught them better. I don't understand what they find in that stuff. Personally I just think they are scared and don't want to face the rawness of the real world. That they need a crutch to help them deal with everything that goes on and don't want to take the burden upon themselves completely. So they offload responsibility or reasoning to these imaginary machinations that have been built up over hundreds of years instead of just accepting total confusion and chaos in their minds. I don't think any one of those people could give me a reasonable explanation for their beliefs. It all comes down to this crackpottery they like to call faith and that has the same potency as anything I can come up with on the spot. Maybe they just seek answers. But define answers first. Maybe they define answers as something that stops the asking of questions. Really that is what an answer is, right? When you have the answer your question has been solved. I take a stance that my question will never have an answer. And that the answers I seek are simply pathways to more questions and that is what I want. That final causality that philosophers are forever searching for I don't even bother with.
Oh yeah, what is the deal with people STILL treating science as a monolithic dogmatic teaching akin to religion. What the fuck is wrong with people. Science is simply how humans naturally think and process things, it isn't to be treated as some seperate field where one can choose to accept it precepts or not. Damn fools.
I was supposed to meet people from work for some goodby dinner for people who are leaving. Well it was at 7pm and basically I slept until 8pm today so I missed it. Ah well.
I am also trying to figure out why in the hell modern nations continue military build up. I don't understand it sometimes. All of the land on planet earth has been discovered and divided up. The average person can pretty much travel freely to any place in the world. So why do governments still view each other as enemies on this planet. The average person clearly does not see that dude in running the coffee shop in China as an enemy or even the woman who runs the fruit stand in Iran is not an enemy. Are governments serving as proxies for feelings we don't dare voice or do they create animosity out of nowhere because they feel they have to as the entity is it. Your neighboor down the street didn't want to go attack Iraq because it came into his house and broke his wife's knick knacks. A couple of crazies who indentify themselves with a certain group and suddenly that whole group gets a bad rep. I imagine that human society must eventually form a unified culture and the many fractured cultural groups of today may still exist but as less important sub-cultures. The unified culutre is being lead by American youth and media as the #1 exporter of culture but the final product may resemble something completely different. I freaking hate the idea of humans performing repetitive tasks like manufacturing. When I hear people lament the loss of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. I say good riddence. Humans don't need to be fastening a screw 1000 times a day that is ludicrous. Even as those jobs move oversease, I wish that those people there too didn't have to do that kind of crappy work. Droids. All manufacturing in the future should be done by robots. Its is slowly transitioning today but not nearly fast enough for my taste. America, every country should be trying its best to get rid of manufacturing jobs and replacing humans with droids in those jobs. Humans are much better at more complex and abstract tasks. Not sewing 40 pairs of jeans a day. I would wager there is some factory worker in China somewhere that has an idea to sew jeans or whatever using a machine or robot for a fraction of the cost and 10 times the quality. This worker probably thinks about building this machine everyday. Let's call him Hen Kuai Shou. In 30 years textilies manufacturing droids will bear the label HKS.
I wait for the day that nation states will not be recognized as the major political boundaries. It will simply be one planet and the current nation state divisions will be relegated as history lessons for school children. Much like the provincial divisions of medieval Japan came to mean nothing except in a historical context. Although today there are prefectural units, they are not based on the original provincial divisions of the Shoutoku Taishi revolution. I think for the most part people are ready and would welcome the abolition of current nation state boundaries. There might be a few ultra-nationalistic holdouts but I think they are rare. The main hurdle right now is leveling off the standard of living for the planet. Because of the idea that removing boundaries would make people stream into the most prosperous areas of the world and deplete resources. It is a psychological issue more than anything. People just need to get over their fucked up nationalistic pride. I can't remember a time I didn't like nationlistic pride. In today's world on today's earth nationalistic pride is a completely egotistical concept. The divisions are imaginary and serve to comfort fragile egos. I suppose they serve some economic or political purpose but no one is trying to eliminate them out of some kind of fear. Maybe it is not time yet, but hopefully the time will come eventually.
I am already thinking about what to eat for lunch tomorrow. I want more southeast asian or japanese type cusine.
You know who I hate? Liberals and conservatives. Conservatives for supporting the clearly awful status quo and liberals for complaing about it and doing nothing or doing such stupid retarded bullshit that would never work in the first place. I hate that bullshit. Sometimes I just want to kick people who ask me to donate to charity. Charity is fucking bullshit, nobody wants charity and nobody wants to give to charity so give it up already, stop trying to make your self feel better and trying to reconcile your intrinsically parasitic lifestyles.
I was just thinking today that I hold in no high regard any standard of society as something to be followed in itself. I take anything I learn and consider it my own, whether it belongs or originated as a standard of soceity is of no consequence to me. I always reserve the right to manipulate and change anything that is considered a standard to fit my own needs. I'm tired. What am I going to eat for lunch tomorrow. I think sushi will do the trick.
Wednesday June 8, 2005 - 2:05PM EDT
I decided to go with the curry again for lunch today. I had the same thing yesterday. Today's was really spicy which was fine but I'd prefer very slightly less spicy. I don't know what it is about eating curry or spicy foods recently but after I finish eating I get a slight feeling of euphoria. I am going to use wild speculation here and say that the curry contains certain chemicals that affects certain neurotransmitters in certain people's brains. So I decided to look up some info on curry and other spices. Curry is a mixture of different spices which I never really paid attention to when I buy little bottles of curry powder. On the lable it usually says what spices are in it. I also found this little tidbit on curry. When I read things like that I always think that there is no kind of unified study of diet among the different cultures of the world. Seems like there is much to learn from what people eat. I am particularly frustrated by the lack of scientific study into traditional medicines and diet. So when I keep hearing about how we have discovered that some kind of plant or certain foods have these new found benefits but have been used by certain people for hundreds or thousands of years I am excited but disappointed at the same time because they neglected it for so long.
Wednesday June 8, 2005 - 12:31PM EDT
Toyota chief fears GM, Ford demise. Ford actually turned a profit but GM fucked up big time losing over 1 billion dollars recently. I'd love to see both of those crap factories get put out of business. Their reputation for making quality automobiles is pathetic during my lifetime and they don't show any signs of improving. Get all of those fucking crap-ass cars of the road I say. They do make good pickup trucks though, that is about the only thing they do well. Although the newer Japanese pickups are starting to catch up a bit. One of the last few strongholds of american manufacuturing may collapse (although they make a ton of cars in Mexico anyway) and I would welcome it. I'm hungry. I've already had curry and sushi. Maybe sushi again? Curry was good yesterday, that would be clutch again. Fuck I don't know what to get.
Wednesday June 8, 2005 - 4:09AM EDT
Right at this moment I am watching an infomercial for something called LightRelief. Apparently blinking lights from right and blue LEDs cure pain. If your confused don't be. My brain rolled out of the back of my head 5 minutes ago. This looks ridiculous. This hand held device with blinking lights that you hold near the pain spots is supposed to relieve pain. I honestly cannot believe what I am watching. This is the most ridiculous informercial I have ever seen. They keep mentioning that it provides warms. Basically this thing is about as effective as a hot rag. The funniest part is how they try to make LEDs seem like some type of technological breakthrough. Maybe I am missing something here, but damn.
Wednesday June 8, 2005 - 3:57AM EDT
I was just thinking that having such a loser for president of the country is symbolic of the crappy leadership that infects the majority of high ranking positions. I was also thinking that I am sometimes scared that when I turn on the light somonewhere in the house late at night I'll discover a rotting corpse that is still alive. Like a cripled zombie.
Wednesday June 8, 2005 - 2:13AM EDT
I am granting myself the rank of master-jedi of unsteady employment. I can turn down and quit jobs faster than they could even think of firing me. Best of all is that I turn down and quit jobs where I do a good job and they want me to stay and battle droids all day. I tell them I deal with the sith on my own time screw your little droid problems.
Grapevine Leaves on a mug near my desk - comments(0)
Tuesday June 7, 2005 - 2:56PM EDT
Finally found out about the job offer. Basically they can't meet my price. And I thought I was going to have to buckle down and get a real job. Dodged a bullet there, like a fucking freelance master jedi of unsteady employment. Dude there is no way I am lowering my price to stay at this place. It is not even close to worth it. I'll stil do some contract work for a bit. But I will be looking for other things and of course my never ending "projects". I am actually aproaching finishing the project they originally had me doing. So when I do leave everything should be complete, kinda. I'll have built up a nice money stash to last a few months after I leave and maybe I'll be able to find something on the West Coast by then or a project will start to bring in some money.
I guess I am kind of excited to go back to working full-time on my projects. The progress has really slowed lately and I have some things I want to try out and follow up on. There is also that business of making a movie. I guess working for a year and saving up to make a movie might be a good idea. Next year, I still need to see these projects to some kind of conclusion or at least give them a bit more time and effort. Listening to Stevie Wonder right now. Now Dave Matthews. I think I figured out a wicked awesome new way to organize a site I am redesigning. Should make it turbo awesome and turbo easy to administer. I had some turbo hot curry for lunch. It was great. Hot a spicy so I started to sweat a little when eating it. Sitting here...damn I want to make a movie. Fuck, I will get there soon enough.
Ocassionaly I'll go back and read a post. Then I'll think sometimes, damn that is loony or that is not what I meant. Ah well, beans and disease. Every few seconds for the past few minutes I've been attempting to balance a banana on the bridge of my nose and my head. It actually serves as quite an amusing diversion for a few seconds. I wish I was somewhere else right now. Don't know where. Tropical island somewhere on the beach with the charming sounds of calypso music in the background. Yo Remo you want to help me make a version of the software for Windows/Mac OSX. It would be wicked awesome right click functionality. I guess things out there do it already but we will talk.
Back to my new web-based php application organization method. It is similar to Apache Cocoon but using php. It also allows for maximun designer flexibility when setting up pages. Which can often be a problem with some frameworks as the intrude on the design side too much. If XML XSLT was supported more on client platforms then this new thing would be even easier. I don't like those PHP template engines. They add way too much overhead and are too complex for simple things. My thing is not really a framework but just the new way I am going to organize my web-based apps in php. It will make things a whole lot simpler for designing and keeping code together. It is based on the way I organized the blogging software but slightly better with less files and less duplication of function. Basically everything is built around a codebase or toolbox. One folder(with many subfolders) holds the base program for generating pages. You simply need to a add a single reference to a php file to access the toolbox from a page. A config file loads to proper tools for a page based on the path. Then you design the page using php echo tags that dump data into your page. The tools can be very small discrete pieces or larger mechanisms. So it is like building with legos. Designer of the page has ultamite control without having to worry about code. This approach is going to work well with some of my other projects to keep things organized. What the fuck am I blogging about this crap for.
I want to go home now. I'm bored. Need to work on a website.
Tuesday June 7, 2005 - 12:06AM EDT
Big ups to Marrone and his sniffing out of the Tylenol dosage confusion story before any of the mainstream media even had a scent. He has discovered that concerned mothers always deliver in the clutch. Bigs ups to myself for saying a while back that Apple should make OSX for Intel x86 architecture to try and dent Microsoft's market share. It still remains to be seen how they exactly are going to make this change but it looks like they have been planning this since OSX's inception they were just waiting for the right moment to strike the deal. With Tiger generating more buzz about Macs than anything in a long time and they finnally starting to get some market share back, what better time to announce it. Big ups to me again for selling my speakers on ebay. I have another pair up for sale now here
My fucking TV is broken. I don't know whether it is good or bad. I can't watch TV so I think I get more work done. But then again I can't concentrate sometimes without background chatter.
I am thinking that they are not going to offer me the job at the salary I want. I'd just wish they'd tell me soon so I can know what I'll be doing for the rest of the summer.
I ate sushi for lunch today. A lot of it. It was good. If you eat enough you fill full but since it isn't greasy you don't feel like rolling over to die. I wanted curry for diner but I got lazy and am eating this horrible pot pie. Its not horrible but it contains 90% runny cheese. The chicken and vegetables in it actually have a pretty good flavor for something frozen and soaked in liquid cheese. I wish there was a 24 hour curry take-out joint around here. I should be called "Curry Out" and it would have different style of curry from different regions of the world.
Fuck this whole day was wasted. I didn't get nearly enough done. Had to take my car back in for repairs and that took a huge chunk out of my day. What a got damn waste of day. I have shit to do.
Monday June 6, 2005 - 4:42PM EDT
Actually had work to do today. So posting was put on hold. But I'm basically done any work for the day now so post I will. Damn that was a pathetic start. I love the hot weather. It is turbo awesome.
Sunday June 5, 2005 - 6:55PM EDT
My Dell LCD TV is acting funny. Sometimes when I press the on button it won't turn on. Damn shit. I've transferred all my data to the laptop and desktop. The last thing I need to do is transfer some important emails. I should have never stored email locally. Because it is a pain in the ass to trasnfer emails between mail programs. There is no standardization. I wish they all just used XML storage mechanisms.
My fucking car is acting weird again. So I have to take it back to the mechanic for the third time. Fucking car is a piece of shit. I don't know how Mercedes-Benz got any type of reputation for making quality cars. I'm never buying any other car brand except Toyota. Or even most other Japanese brands. Japanese cars are so much better than the crap the rest of the world produces.
I have a few website things to finish up. Three important sites to work on, then a crapload of other ones.
Saturday June 4, 2005 - 2:08AM EDT
I just took a piece of floss I had just finished using out of the trash can in my room and used it again in my mouth because I thought I missed a piece of food between my teeth. My website design is pathetic compared to some stuff I've seen out there. Fuck I can't even do that shit well. Got some ideas for AJAXing up this site. I probably won't get to them for months though as I have loads of other things to do first with other websites. New laptop is great. I just hope it is as durable as my Toshibas were. Then again they weren't that durable. I'm just happy to have a fast computer to work on and not have to worry about slowdown every 10 seconds. Really want to change the software to GPL soon. Maybe more people will use it then. Fuck, I need to change this garbage. Fuck this blog posting bullshit all the time. This shit is getting me nowhere.
I hope Windows Longhorn manages memory better than XP. No version of Windows has ever done a good job of memory managment. No matter how fast or how much ram your computer has you will experience slowdown in the oddest places on Windows. They better fix that shit with Longhorn. I think continual legacy support in Windows hurts them. They could just do away with most of the legacy support and it wouldn't hurt them. In fact I would say it would help them and everyone else. I am sort of tired but I can't fall asleep. I feel like I have too many things to do, but I am not even doing them. I don't want to sleep but I want to.
Friday June 3, 2005 - 11:21PM EDT
By popular request. I have added an RSS 2.0 feed to my blog. Now you can view my blog using your favorite RSS reader. Any requests for RSS feed enhancments will be taken under consideration. In other words, I am a loser with nothing else to do and I'll add whatever info you want to the RSS feed.