i took this video a couple weeks ago when i was invited to watch a building get dropped like a sack of potatoes. it was the last of hl&p. while there are anecdotal pictures up on flickr of the outing, this is the whole monkey. from start to finish witness some raw boomage. href=”http://youtube.com/watch?v=jXfqo0h_tyk
i have noticed lately that the web is starting to become some peoples dirty secret. so a lot of people will pull back and not use a computer or the web or blogs or email to sort of diminish their online presence as a knee jerk solution to something. in fact i read somewhere that a large percentage of the blogs to date will be nixed in the coming year as people realize they dont really give a shit about posting things online and probably also due to the fact that they were losers to begin with and blogging about their loserdom was too depressing. i think its interesting. mainly because although i sometimes am not social on the internet i am constantly utilizing it and my v persona is usually intact. in other words i have never seen it as a bad thing to immediately consult wikipedia google elsevier medline or anything else for that matter that gets me information i need. that includes people i know. it also means i doubt i will stop blogging or flicking or emailing simply because people stop replying. it only makes sense. i may change the mode but the impetus will still be intact. when i see other people who are online quite a bit as well who all but kill their online persona off briefly i wonder what prompts them to do that. i have recently noted that given the nearly infinite photo storage on flickr that my memory has become strongly associative with events that i post online, including the accompanying meta data. so if i was to simply eliminate that i guess my brain would adapt but it would be like working out a lot and feeling good about it and then deciding time to go back to eating a shitload of fast food and pork all the time. not really a move forward. i dont really know what prompted this. could be plastikman in the background.
well i am pretty sure there are many of you (galibea, sanka) who are in the position to tell me i told you so but i have to say, damn. im now running ubuntu using the gnome environment, with the beryl window manager. everything is awesome. i should say though that i tried to get compiz running and i couldnt get it to work. well it worked partially. but something went kaplerky at some point and so the fancy cube fx and menu shading was nonexistant. beryl however was an apt-get and a script someone wrote to do the rest for me. it took about 30 seconds and a restart of the window environment. i am going to offer up a more comprehensive pros and cons list of my experience so far. i am doing this in an effort to bore the living shit out of my readership. all -3 of you. this being the absolute first time anyone has ever seen linux and beryl and ubuntu ever, i guess it will be groundbreaking. insert snarky i told you so and you are good. in other worthless news i bought a file cabinet and i “borrowed” aarons ds9 season 4. in other even more worthless news i hate the fact that i have a 930am class on tuesdays and thursdays. in relatively important news this is me going to sleep 4 hours before i usually end up calling it quits. heres to zzzzzzz!
i saw it coming i just thought that you should know im feeling better every day im only waiting if you stay so dont feel bad faith was an illusion and youre as loyal as your faith will let you be your expectation its not hard to live without im feeling better every day and emptiness still leaves a space so dont feel bad here lies all your emotion and may you find all your relations will keep you free a careless word is complicated and emptiness still leaves a space –au revoir simone
i was a little angry last night and the hatred for inconsiderate drivers overwhelmed me. i guess instead of road rage i got some blog rage. anyhow it was pretty hostile and it has been quelled. if you are a shitty driver then be that way. at least its easier to identify assholes if they blatantly drive like crap. back to austin life!
im slowly uploading pictures from over the last few weeks. im trying to doctor shots up now so that fewer look like bull dung. anyhow my other gripe is with flickr lately. going on my second year and there are still glaringly stupid facets to their service. one is you cannot have saved dynamic queries or nested sets. this is really stupid. this fosters bad organization. when people are stupid and do this on their computer at home it means there are a shitload of files in one folder and they cant ever find anything. it doesnt matter if you have a macbook pro or a bsd based monster with a core 2 duo, youll spend 30 minutes looking for that little word document ‘judy’ typed that you saved god knows where. another gripe i have is the layout of the photostream. why cant you adjust the size of the thumbnail link? why cant you have ’sticky’ photos that are always on the main page? it keeps going. im always annoyed by the fact that there is still no general movement toward a synchronization scheme. so that you just click a button and you have locally the exact same files as online. why? because i dont want redundant organization methods that i have to implement twice, once locally and once for the server. that is a waste of time. and why would i care if i have a sync’ed local copy? well its really stupid if you cant view all of your pictures offline. right now i save everything the way i did pre-flickr but i would prefer not to. whatever i guess its cheap to store all these images and thats the bottom line for most. i moved to flickr for the metadata though. and if they dont get off their ass i hope google does because if anyone knows metadata its google.
i dont really have any this 2007. these things are intact: my mom dad and sister continue to be top of the pops my friends continue to rock like granite school rolls on im still not really motivated by anything in particular in life buying clothes continues to prove more arduous for me than typical gigantor americans these things are new: although i dont know what the point of doing anything is what i am curious about over the last few weeks is what it is that great people have/had driving them. this is new because in the past i was curious historically. now i have a vested interest in determining what fueled their passions. part of that process is in determining whether i actually classify anyone as great or not great as i cannot shake this obsession with the idea that everything is absolutely arbitrary from good to bad right to wrong ethical unethical etc and people align themselves socially simply out of early conditioning that it is maladaptive to be on one end of the spectrum. i will be making an even more concerted effort to intensify my labors in both my degree in petroleum engineering and my interests outside my degree. lately that is digital media and the art that comes of it. arrogant as it is for me to say it this is not the trend among many of my colleagues, who value professional sports, loose sexual behavior, shiny muscle cars that arent as nice as a ferrari by a longshot, and ‘trips to europe’ where are all they remember is ‘we got drunk.’ so i wont be approaching any erdos numbers any time soon. i will attempt to not buy brewed coffee and i never did buy brewed tea. i have a new tiny bullet shaped thermos. bet your ass im carrying tea with me everywhere. going to try pc-bsd. it looks good based on what i have read. although there is something about ubuntu i cant seem to get over i dont know what it is and many attempts later pc-bsd is the runner up. either way i will be dual booting xp and some nix. vista will not enter the picture nor will/can osx. i will try to go snowboarding this year in the fall. i will try to eat more basil. i will give up all sugary soda completely as vehemently as some people mistakenly give up alcohol, cigarettes, profanity, healthy disdain for belief in a supreme being, love of m$, gaming, calling their friends, and nudity. heres to you having your own soapbox this year so i can listen to you lecture me about such things. campai!
Monthly Archives: January 2007