God dammit. God god dammit dammit.
For the record, I hate winter. I DESPISE winter. Winter is the season that mother nature should’ve used a coathanger to abort. Nothing good comes from winter, the roads are awful, people become whiny, holiday commercials flood the televisions, and there’s always that guy dressed as Santa outside your favorite retail store that you just want to punch because you think it’d be funny. Now, don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind Christmas a bit—I could use a new pair of pants and some extra cash to spend on uh, stuff. But seriously, winter is crap.
The only real positive side about winter is that it helps the PC repair business. People realize they’re doing nothing but sitting on their asses instead of having fun outside, so they bring their awful computers in so we can fix them. Great, good for you, bring them in and give us some money.
The problem with this of course is that said people are also in a terrible mood. And I really don’t blame them, it’s winter, it’s that depressing season where everything is dead and covered under a few inches of disgusting frozen water mixed in with pollution, dirt, urine, and donut sprinkles. But don’t expect me to be cheery. In fact, don’t expect anything, shut up and sit in the corner.
(Fyi: I’m in a great mood today, seriously. I’d hug a cat if it didn’t scratch me in the face and run off like a pussy. Get it? haahaha I’m a riot.)
Thanksgiving isn’t about having really great food, it’s about having above-standard leftovers. It’s about all those times you’re sitting at your computer, too lazy or busy to really take the time to cook something, and not in the mood for instant ramen or any various frozen foodproduct. At those times, you realize that there are thanksgiving leftovers in the fridge, and you rejoice. There is hope yet. There is stuff that actually tastes like food that can be microwaved in under 3 minutes, or eaten cold if you so desire.
That, my dear friends, is the true spirit of Thanksgiving.
Published by Dan on November 22, 2005
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Boy. Boy oh boy oh boy, it’s finally happened. The Xbox 360. Now this in itself doesn’t really interest me, in fact I couldn’t care less about the next console system, I haven’t played my Xbox in years. However, auctions such as this really catch my eye.
This is ridiculous. Are you people really that desperate for the next big gaming system? Most of the auctions on ebay right now are anywhere between $1000-$3000. And the worst part is, people are actually bidding on them! They’re selling like cocaine at a rehab clinic.
No thanks. I’ll just wait 6 months when they’re actually in stock at retail stores, and I can purchase them at $299 like regular people.
Published by Dan on November 17, 2005
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Holy shit.
This is it, right here. Proof that kids are becoming so stupid that they cannot comprehend the English language in a way that actually gets them to learn. Seriously. I can’t believe it’s to the point where we have to dumb down literary classics INTO FUCKING TEXT MESSAGES so that today’s students can actually comprehend them. It’s mind boggling.
Attention highschool students: YOU ARE FUCKING STUPID. My hats off to you, you have beaten the education system. I bet Japan is pointing and laughing right now.
I’ll be honest, I hate shorthand text messaging. It’s retarded. It’s less retarded than shorthand typing “ur mom / lol w/e” on a keyboard, but stupid nonetheless. The fact that you morons are now so stupid that you have to read Shakespeare as “2B? NT2B?=???” is not even laughable, it’s just terrible. I want to put emphasis on the fact that these people are the next generation. A generation of morons who can’t spell, let alone read.
Haha good luck. I’m moving to Europe, assholes.
Windows has finally pissed me off. Well, between that and my SECOND Western Digital 120gb SATA drive to die on me in the course of two months, I finally said to myself “okay… Microsoft is crap. let’s do it.”
So I installed Kubuntu, which is the KDE offshoot of Ubuntu. Aaaand I reinstalled OSX onto my other box, and mounted it into a really ugly (but nicer than the one I had) Compaq case.
Check it out—screenshots/linuxdesktop.jpgscreenshots/osxdesktop.jpg
Isn’t it pretty?
I don’t feel like rambling on one subject so I’ll throw a few out there.
- Movies have sucked lately – Yes, I realize this isn’t a technology-based point. Does it look like I care? No, no I don’t. But I have seen a fair amount of movies as of late, and just about all of them have been quite disappointing. The most recent of this bunch is Jarhead. Now, Jarhead is a great movie if you’re someone not expecting a lot of action in a war movie, and are looking for more of a dramatic, sensitive war movie. However, if I’m seeing a movie at 12:00 at night, I expect something a little more exciting than Donnie Darko’s ass to keep me awake. And really, there was a lot of ass.
- Ubuntu – What the fuck? Linux… user friendly? It’s like a dream come true! Integrated package management? Yep. A GUI that isn’t hacked to shit like Fedora Core’s? Yep! Well, it certainly passes my “non-shitty Linux distro” checklist.
- AOpen – Why are you guys still producing? Why? You make cheap, ugly shit. I was looking into the AOpen version of the NVidia 6600GT video card. Wow, what an undercooled piece of shit you guys made! Congratulations, you passed my “companies you really shouldn’t buy from but I guess you can if you’re a cheap bastard and you want computer parts assembled by small children fired from Nike sweatshops because they were too old but AOpen didn’t mind because they have absolutely no quality control anyway” checklist!
I actually had more but the nighttime medicine I took is kicking in. Instead, here’s a picture that Dave drew:
hey dan…i know why we get so many people bitching about the GPC site…they probably link off this site ;-)
we need to fix it…fast
Hold on I’m laughing…
Hold on.
Okay I’m done. I was reading through Slashdot today (forgive me, please) and came across this lovely story of a possible automated instant messaging worm attack. Ones that *gasp* don’t require a malacious link to click on.
That last sentence just makes me laugh. In fact, the entire concept of IM worms just makes me laugh. It’s pure genious! Set up a virus that embeds itself into your favorite instant messaging program because you were too retarded to not fully read the link your BEST BUDDY sent you, no matter how many wonderful file extensions are on the end. The bottom line is, these viruses prey on your stupidity. Why bother fighting it? Why not just sit back and let these viruses eliminate morons from instant messaging altogether! They should’ve come up with this years ago when people browsing DALnet constantly spamming whatever channel you were in with the promise of hot cyber sex was considered very annoying.
Pity.
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