On black friday, i got a hella good deal on an Acer 17" LCD Flatpanel monitor. its usually $189, but i got it at the register for 149 bucks and I just mailed in the rebate for 60 bucks. After the rebate comes in, I will have basically gotten this awesome monitor for 89 bucks. KICKASS.
The best part is that i didnt have to wait at like 6am to get it. I got it 30 minutes before i got off of work (about 9pm). I feel awesome.
It was funny, some dolt asked me at the register about some harddrive or sumfin, "hey if i buy this harddrive today and then find out it goes on sale for black friday can i get a price match? :>"
"uhm, no." I mean come on, if we did that there would basically be no black friday. The point of black friday is that there are awesome deals on everything, but in order to get them, you gotta be there and you gotta deal with the crowds. If you can handle that, your patience will be rewarded with awesome savings on things you want.
Anyway, I was scared shitless about 6 days ago. I did 3 of my finals for school but i realized i had misread the final schedule and missed my english final. I panick'd. HARD. I got my grades back from the teacher and the grade was a D. I then realized that he forgot to grade a paper that was worth 10% of my grade, so it showed a zero on my report card. I scanned the graded paper and sent him a copy via email. That paper had a C- grade on it, but i still got a 72% (C) grade after he graded it. I thought my gpa would still be fucked and my mom was really upset about it. I don't blame her, any less than a 3.0 gpa means no financial aid for college.
Well it turns out he didnt factor in the grade for another paper, my argument essay (worth 15% of my grade D:) so he factored that in and that raised my grade from a 72 to a 73 (it didnt raise as much because at first the essay wasn't even listed in the report card.) I thought i had exhausted all hope, but i went to my instructor anyway to get some papers. I had mentioned that i got a C or something and he was like "uhm no you made a B in the class."
Thats right, during the semester, the extra credit i did added like 6.11 percentage points to my grade, which raised my grade to a 79.somethingsomething. It was enough to make my grade a borderline case, so my teacher bumped my grade from a 79 to an 80, giving me a B in the class and a 3.0 GPA for all my classes.
I'm fucking amazing.
12/21/2007
11/18/2007
Awesome
So yesterday I just got my desktop back. Why did I not have it? Well I'd tell ya why but the reason involves me whining about how my parents are gay and take shit away from me. It was gone for about a month, so I used my laptop to do my everyday Internet surfing. By "everyday Internet surfing", I mean secondlife. Playing secondlife on a laptop that has vista with no graphics card and 1 gigabyte of ram, and getting 2 frames per second at any given time is my exact idea of fun. Seriously, I'd do it every day if i had the opportunity. So when i got my desktop back, which has a graphics card and is a bit faster, i was getting like 20fps in the game. Fuck yes.
About vista. Of course you're probably saying "yeah vista sucks ass why would anyone ever use it >:|" Well buddy, that's where you're wrong. Vista's actually pretty damn good, it's just the laptop I use for it is a piece of shit. Seriously I was talking to this one dude on secondlife and he's all "Well windows anything sucks balls. I installed linux on my computer and I get 50fps at any given time." and i was like "well what's the specs?" "well I got 3 Gigabytes of ram with a [some really nice ass processor i forgot the name] and a 500 gigabyte harddrive." Well SHIT no wonder you're getting 50 frames per second. You've just got one nice motherfucking computer.
So what if vista's kinda slow? If you have trouble running vista on your computer, you need to turn all the shit off on it. This includes that Aero theme, some graphics effects, a bunch of services, and using msconfig.exe to kill some startup programs. That's it, if you just do those 4 things and if you have at least 1 gigabyte of ram, you should be running vista like BUTTAH. If you still can't run it right, you should consider buying a new computer. Don't bitch about how vista is a resource hog or how microsoft makes too much money off of bloaty software. If you can't properly run an optimized vista, your computer sucks. It also pisses me off when people say "OH THIS GAME REQUIRES VISTA BUT VISTA IS A RESOURCE HOG SO IT'LL MAKE THE GAME GO ALOT SLOWER." If you are playing a computer game and its being slowed down by the operating system on your computer, then why are you playing games on the computer? Your computer should be doing things it was built to do, such as read and write .txt files, run DOS executables, or perhaps read data from 5 1/4" Floppy Diskettes.
Anyway, enough about vista. I got a trackball mouse the other day, and quite frankly I love it to bits. It fits my hand like a glove and its good for my severely cramped desk. It's funny though, I bought a much shittier one at Computer Direct outlet for about 30 bucks. It was one of those ones from logitech that looked sort of like an ugly tumor with a dotty red ball on top. So i get this thing and head to CompUSA. When i get to the mice isle of compusa, i see the exact same trackball mouse for $19.99, and a much nicer mouse for $34.99. While i was looking at this mouse, a sales guy was handling a customer behind me. He saw that i was looking for a mouse, so he did what any good sales rep would do: he took a horribly overpriced mouse, shoved it in my face and went back to his customer. The mouse was a basic wireless optical two button mouse with a scroll wheel. BAM! FIFTY BUCKS! Why so expensive? I can get a wireless opty mouse for half that price. Well this fifty dollar mouse has 1800DPI resolution!!! 8O and the sales guy said that i can "adjust the sensitivity on it! yknow, like make it go across the screen faster or slower" and he made a hand motion as if i was too goddamn stupid to understand what he was talking about. I was like lolno. So i returned the shitty mouse, got the nice one, and now it's on my desk. i wub it.
That was my awesome week(s). im gonna go to bed now im tired
night
About vista. Of course you're probably saying "yeah vista sucks ass why would anyone ever use it >:|" Well buddy, that's where you're wrong. Vista's actually pretty damn good, it's just the laptop I use for it is a piece of shit. Seriously I was talking to this one dude on secondlife and he's all "Well windows anything sucks balls. I installed linux on my computer and I get 50fps at any given time." and i was like "well what's the specs?" "well I got 3 Gigabytes of ram with a [some really nice ass processor i forgot the name] and a 500 gigabyte harddrive." Well SHIT no wonder you're getting 50 frames per second. You've just got one nice motherfucking computer.
So what if vista's kinda slow? If you have trouble running vista on your computer, you need to turn all the shit off on it. This includes that Aero theme, some graphics effects, a bunch of services, and using msconfig.exe to kill some startup programs. That's it, if you just do those 4 things and if you have at least 1 gigabyte of ram, you should be running vista like BUTTAH. If you still can't run it right, you should consider buying a new computer. Don't bitch about how vista is a resource hog or how microsoft makes too much money off of bloaty software. If you can't properly run an optimized vista, your computer sucks. It also pisses me off when people say "OH THIS GAME REQUIRES VISTA BUT VISTA IS A RESOURCE HOG SO IT'LL MAKE THE GAME GO ALOT SLOWER." If you are playing a computer game and its being slowed down by the operating system on your computer, then why are you playing games on the computer? Your computer should be doing things it was built to do, such as read and write .txt files, run DOS executables, or perhaps read data from 5 1/4" Floppy Diskettes.
Anyway, enough about vista. I got a trackball mouse the other day, and quite frankly I love it to bits. It fits my hand like a glove and its good for my severely cramped desk. It's funny though, I bought a much shittier one at Computer Direct outlet for about 30 bucks. It was one of those ones from logitech that looked sort of like an ugly tumor with a dotty red ball on top. So i get this thing and head to CompUSA. When i get to the mice isle of compusa, i see the exact same trackball mouse for $19.99, and a much nicer mouse for $34.99. While i was looking at this mouse, a sales guy was handling a customer behind me. He saw that i was looking for a mouse, so he did what any good sales rep would do: he took a horribly overpriced mouse, shoved it in my face and went back to his customer. The mouse was a basic wireless optical two button mouse with a scroll wheel. BAM! FIFTY BUCKS! Why so expensive? I can get a wireless opty mouse for half that price. Well this fifty dollar mouse has 1800DPI resolution!!! 8O and the sales guy said that i can "adjust the sensitivity on it! yknow, like make it go across the screen faster or slower" and he made a hand motion as if i was too goddamn stupid to understand what he was talking about. I was like lolno. So i returned the shitty mouse, got the nice one, and now it's on my desk. i wub it.
That was my awesome week(s). im gonna go to bed now im tired
night
10/08/2007
Helo thar
Well I woke up at 1am after a wonderful two and a half hours of sleep and its about 12:30pm right now. I hope to God that I don't get called in to work today. I probably wont, but with how nicely understaffed my office supplies store is at any given time, anything is possible. At least I used my 11 hours of free time usefully, as I now have all the materials for the rough draft of an english paper done. That took me about two hours, so I spent another 30 minutes studying what I needed to finish my music appreciation paper that is due tomorrow. I just screwed around for the other eight and a half hours. So basically when I get home, I've got to move stuff out of my room and finish my english paper. Lots of shit to do on 3 hours of sleep.
Oh well, I've done it under worse circumstances before.
Oh well, I've done it under worse circumstances before.
9/17/2007
You know what I hate?
I hate $100 dollar bills. Seriously, why the hell do they even exist anymore? I mean having a $100 dollar bill may be cool but when you have to take them at the cash register, you've got to check to make sure they're not counterfeit, give the person mountains of change, and exceed your allowed cash drawer total so you have to call a manager to get it taken care of.
What I hate the most about them is that most people who have them don't get them with big purchases. People usually just buy like 5 cents worth of shit and they give you a $100 dollar bill to pay for it. Assholes, just go to the bank and ask them to break it for you. Why the hell are you carrying a $100 dollar bill on you? Or better yet, why the hell are you carrying $100 dollars on you IN CASH? Carrying that much cash isn't safe, it's stupid! If you're looking to purchase something worth more than a $100 dollars, then just get a goddamn debit card or a check. It's not that hard and its a lot safer than carrying that much cash on you at any given time.
Why do $100 dollar bills even exist anymore? They're just nothing but trouble. someone ban plz.
What I hate the most about them is that most people who have them don't get them with big purchases. People usually just buy like 5 cents worth of shit and they give you a $100 dollar bill to pay for it. Assholes, just go to the bank and ask them to break it for you. Why the hell are you carrying a $100 dollar bill on you? Or better yet, why the hell are you carrying $100 dollars on you IN CASH? Carrying that much cash isn't safe, it's stupid! If you're looking to purchase something worth more than a $100 dollars, then just get a goddamn debit card or a check. It's not that hard and its a lot safer than carrying that much cash on you at any given time.
Why do $100 dollar bills even exist anymore? They're just nothing but trouble. someone ban plz.
8/27/2007
Links
You know what I find highly annoying? Like, really really really annoying? So annoying that every time someone does it I just want to tear a portal into the internet and reach my arm into the irc server/forum/ect. that they're in and stab them in the face with a compass? I hate people who lurk about an irc server/forum/whatever and whenever you even think about posting a link thats even the slightest bit ambiguous, they're like "<retard> LOL NO FUCK THAT SHIT IM NOT CLICKING THAT!"
Well I'm not annoyed that people dont click my links, I'm annoyed that they don't click them and they ANNOUNCE it to everyone on the server/forum/whatever like they're the king of links and that you should not go to any link on the internet before consulting him first.
k gotta go to work now bye
Well I'm not annoyed that people dont click my links, I'm annoyed that they don't click them and they ANNOUNCE it to everyone on the server/forum/whatever like they're the king of links and that you should not go to any link on the internet before consulting him first.
k gotta go to work now bye
7/08/2007
I've never been too terribly fond of Myspace. Its annoying and browser-crashy, but if you've used it or have friends who have it, you already know that. I would go into greater detail but that would just be beating a dead horse. So anyway, because of Myspace's annoyingness, I flocked to facebook. I always liked how every facebook I saw didn't have so much shit on it. In fact, most of them just had contact info, info about themselves, a profile picture, and a spot for comments. Clean and simple, just how I like it. It was just a nice quiet place to socialize with all the people who I knew and loved, and everything was relatively private.
Then something absolutely horrible happened, and that is that facebook allowed people to create these "applications" to put in people's profiles. I guess this wouldn't bother me so fucking much if there weren't so many of them and they each at least did something useful. At least the myspace music thing plays music! ( facebook has a lastfm thingy, but I think you have to be signed up for lastfm to listen to it. bullshit.) Most of these applications are stupid shit which fills up your page and annoys all your friends, for example, free gifts. This isn't the regular gifts which you can waste 1 dollar each on that facebook provides, oh no. It's a completely different application which has a separate box in your profile. So if you want it in your profile, you have to have the gifts and the LOL FREE gifts, and to my knowledge, there's no way to delete the old gifts! The free gifts are also annoying because you can get spammed with all these crappy "gifts" which are really just pictures of smiley faces or pairs of panties or other things like that. Then you've got other ones like SUPERPOKE. No, this isn't a modification you can just slap onto your regular poke thing, this is a SUPERPOKE. In a superpoke, you can hug, kiss, slap, pwn, or do other stupid shit like that to everyone else who has bothered to add this to their profile. So if you have it, guess what? You have the regular poke and the SUPER POKE. God, do we really need more than just one poke application? What the hell was wrong with the poke thing that came pre-packaged with facebook? Why can't they just make it a modification of the regular poke? I don't know.
I guess I can tolerate things like that, but what really fucking annoys me is that every time someone gets it and invite you to get it as well. That requests module on your home page when you first log in, which used to just tell you friend and group requests, is now full of stupid shit like invitations to a SUPERPOKE or QUOTES OF THE DAY INVITATIONS or ZOMBIE GAME INVITATIONS. Can they at least put all that shit in a separate box so i could at least ignore it? No. You have to sift through all this bullshit to get to your friend requests, group requests, and other important things. If you have a lot of friends on facebook, then your requests page is probably loaded with all kinds of crap like this. I don't know about you, but quite frankly, I do believe that facebook, once the nice quiet place to socialize, has not only become annoying, but MORE annoying than Myspace. That's a bold statement, I know, but quite frankly, I can't hardly even look at facebook anymore. At least myspace doesn't have SUPERPOKES or FREE GIFTS or ZOMBIE CHUMP BITING (lol) or TYPICAL STUPID ANNOYING FACEBOOK APPLICATION WHICH YOU HAVE TO HAVE RIGHT NOW.
Oh well. I guess I'll just have to go back to xanga. Cya :)
Then something absolutely horrible happened, and that is that facebook allowed people to create these "applications" to put in people's profiles. I guess this wouldn't bother me so fucking much if there weren't so many of them and they each at least did something useful. At least the myspace music thing plays music! ( facebook has a lastfm thingy, but I think you have to be signed up for lastfm to listen to it. bullshit.) Most of these applications are stupid shit which fills up your page and annoys all your friends, for example, free gifts. This isn't the regular gifts which you can waste 1 dollar each on that facebook provides, oh no. It's a completely different application which has a separate box in your profile. So if you want it in your profile, you have to have the gifts and the LOL FREE gifts, and to my knowledge, there's no way to delete the old gifts! The free gifts are also annoying because you can get spammed with all these crappy "gifts" which are really just pictures of smiley faces or pairs of panties or other things like that. Then you've got other ones like SUPERPOKE. No, this isn't a modification you can just slap onto your regular poke thing, this is a SUPERPOKE. In a superpoke, you can hug, kiss, slap, pwn, or do other stupid shit like that to everyone else who has bothered to add this to their profile. So if you have it, guess what? You have the regular poke and the SUPER POKE. God, do we really need more than just one poke application? What the hell was wrong with the poke thing that came pre-packaged with facebook? Why can't they just make it a modification of the regular poke? I don't know.
I guess I can tolerate things like that, but what really fucking annoys me is that every time someone gets it and invite you to get it as well. That requests module on your home page when you first log in, which used to just tell you friend and group requests, is now full of stupid shit like invitations to a SUPERPOKE or QUOTES OF THE DAY INVITATIONS or ZOMBIE GAME INVITATIONS. Can they at least put all that shit in a separate box so i could at least ignore it? No. You have to sift through all this bullshit to get to your friend requests, group requests, and other important things. If you have a lot of friends on facebook, then your requests page is probably loaded with all kinds of crap like this. I don't know about you, but quite frankly, I do believe that facebook, once the nice quiet place to socialize, has not only become annoying, but MORE annoying than Myspace. That's a bold statement, I know, but quite frankly, I can't hardly even look at facebook anymore. At least myspace doesn't have SUPERPOKES or FREE GIFTS or ZOMBIE CHUMP BITING (lol) or TYPICAL STUPID ANNOYING FACEBOOK APPLICATION WHICH YOU HAVE TO HAVE RIGHT NOW.
Oh well. I guess I'll just have to go back to xanga. Cya :)
7/06/2007
I just broke the little clamp that went on the bag to the pork rhinds
...and now I have no way to close it :(
7/02/2007
DYARGLERBLARGH
I had fun on the trip and lots of lulz with my fonkle (ILU ZEEKEY) and my family members blah blah that was like 400 years ago anyway so nobody cares.
Anyway, lately I've gotten tarped by one of the internets's biggest tarps which is tarping more and more of the internets every day. This tarp just so happens to be called Second Life. Call me a faggot, but Jesus Christ that "game" is like really fun. I like being able to build shit and actually get it to work. However, the most fun I have in the game is, of course, spamming the hell out of it. For example, one time I had this C4 weapon, which when detonated, would orbit (blow people 400 feet in the air or just out of the sim [piece of land] which usually results in B&s and lols) everyone within about 20 feet away from it. With this weapon, I marched into various virtual sex clubs where people where up to all sorts of 3-D polygonal, textured, animated and unprotected sexual hijinks, planted it in places where people were either doing it, dancing, or just standing around, and /5 boom'd them all the way into the next sim. One guy threatened to kill my avatar afterwards. How so very very intimidating. Also the account I used got banned because APPARENTLY a name such as Beardick Jacobus is considered innapropriate in the world of Second Life! What a bitch.
Anyway, besides falling for the tarp, I also got an irl job at an store. I don't really feel like going into detail about that right now but I go into training sometime this week. ogods. My managers seem like cool guys though, and that's good. My fellow new hires seem pretty nice too, though I can only really socialize with about 3 of them so far because I met other new hires yesterday and i couldn't talk to them at all. I mean I had nothing against them but the whole time I was with them, there was an awkward silence, and it was so annoying. I also got to do lots of training assessments. I was at the store for five hours doing the assessments. I still didn't get them all done :)
My manager seems okay with it though as long as i complete everything within a couple of days.
Hopefully next monday, we can get my college application sent in. We haven't been able to do it the past couple of times because the admissions place was closed both times. What a bitch :(
kthxbai
Anyway, lately I've gotten tarped by one of the internets's biggest tarps which is tarping more and more of the internets every day. This tarp just so happens to be called Second Life. Call me a faggot, but Jesus Christ that "game" is like really fun. I like being able to build shit and actually get it to work. However, the most fun I have in the game is, of course, spamming the hell out of it. For example, one time I had this C4 weapon, which when detonated, would orbit (blow people 400 feet in the air or just out of the sim [piece of land] which usually results in B&s and lols) everyone within about 20 feet away from it. With this weapon, I marched into various virtual sex clubs where people where up to all sorts of 3-D polygonal, textured, animated and unprotected sexual hijinks, planted it in places where people were either doing it, dancing, or just standing around, and /5 boom'd them all the way into the next sim. One guy threatened to kill my avatar afterwards. How so very very intimidating. Also the account I used got banned because APPARENTLY a name such as Beardick Jacobus is considered innapropriate in the world of Second Life! What a bitch.
Anyway, besides falling for the tarp, I also got an irl job at an store. I don't really feel like going into detail about that right now but I go into training sometime this week. ogods. My managers seem like cool guys though, and that's good. My fellow new hires seem pretty nice too, though I can only really socialize with about 3 of them so far because I met other new hires yesterday and i couldn't talk to them at all. I mean I had nothing against them but the whole time I was with them, there was an awkward silence, and it was so annoying. I also got to do lots of training assessments. I was at the store for five hours doing the assessments. I still didn't get them all done :)
My manager seems okay with it though as long as i complete everything within a couple of days.
Hopefully next monday, we can get my college application sent in. We haven't been able to do it the past couple of times because the admissions place was closed both times. What a bitch :(
kthxbai
6/08/2007
trip
Later today, I'm going with mom and dad to Flat River, Missouri for a family reunion. It's quite possibly the most boring town to live in, I mean the whole town probably consists of 3 people and a bunch of old, abandoned buildings. Oh well, I'll have my Zune and my phone to keep me from going insane from boredom. It's going to suck.
Well actually, there is really one thing to look forward to, and that's a trip to the town I used to live in in Kansas, which is also where my current dating interest of the female species lives :D I get to spend at least 2 full days in Kansas. Surely one of them will be with my girlfriend.
God, that word "girlfriend". It just dawned on me how much I hate that word. This has absolutely nothing to do with my current relationship, don't get me wrong, but Jesus Christ, I hate that word. Every time I hear it, I want to find the nearest toilet plunger and use its power of suction to damage my eardrums beyond all recognition. I guess the reason I hate it is because it sounds so generic and it could really mean a bunch of things. Technically, I have like a ton of girlfriends, but how many am I dating? Just one. Come to think of it, I actually only hate having to use it to describe the person I'm dating, but I wouldn't mind using it to describe my friends that are girls, because I hate having to stumble around all these words just to get one concept across. Seriously, it annoys the hell out of me. I cringe a bit inside when I'm forced to use terms like "female friend" to avoid annoying childish jokes from a few of my developmentally challenged peers. Anyway...
So yeah, we're going to drive to Missouri. That's right, we're making the 12 hour drive from here to Missouri. Right now as I am typing this, I haven't slept in about 24 hours because I stayed up all night last night and I also woke up at like 3am the day before. I'd care more about this, but Jesus, do I really want to be awake for 12 hours sitting in a minivan cramped full of luggage? Not really. I may have to help mom and dad with luggage and things like that, but by the time I start to feel the effect of this all-nighter, I'll most likely be in the car on the boring-ass way to the boring-ass town of boring-assery. Anyway, gonna tell mom that I couldn't sleep. She'll be pissed off :)
Cya in ten days.
Well actually, there is really one thing to look forward to, and that's a trip to the town I used to live in in Kansas, which is also where my current dating interest of the female species lives :D I get to spend at least 2 full days in Kansas. Surely one of them will be with my girlfriend.
God, that word "girlfriend". It just dawned on me how much I hate that word. This has absolutely nothing to do with my current relationship, don't get me wrong, but Jesus Christ, I hate that word. Every time I hear it, I want to find the nearest toilet plunger and use its power of suction to damage my eardrums beyond all recognition. I guess the reason I hate it is because it sounds so generic and it could really mean a bunch of things. Technically, I have like a ton of girlfriends, but how many am I dating? Just one. Come to think of it, I actually only hate having to use it to describe the person I'm dating, but I wouldn't mind using it to describe my friends that are girls, because I hate having to stumble around all these words just to get one concept across. Seriously, it annoys the hell out of me. I cringe a bit inside when I'm forced to use terms like "female friend" to avoid annoying childish jokes from a few of my developmentally challenged peers. Anyway...
So yeah, we're going to drive to Missouri. That's right, we're making the 12 hour drive from here to Missouri. Right now as I am typing this, I haven't slept in about 24 hours because I stayed up all night last night and I also woke up at like 3am the day before. I'd care more about this, but Jesus, do I really want to be awake for 12 hours sitting in a minivan cramped full of luggage? Not really. I may have to help mom and dad with luggage and things like that, but by the time I start to feel the effect of this all-nighter, I'll most likely be in the car on the boring-ass way to the boring-ass town of boring-assery. Anyway, gonna tell mom that I couldn't sleep. She'll be pissed off :)
Cya in ten days.
6/06/2007
ohi
I started another blog since I got tired of my old one at my old website. It's not like anyone cares anyway, lol.
So yesterday, I created my first imagemap on a webpage on one of my websites, which I choose not to link right at this moment (it really isn't that much to see anyway). Thanks to my web editing software (openoffice.org), it was actually much less of a pain in the ass than I thought it would be. I also was able to embed some audio on the webpage. Sure, it still looks like ass, but I made it a bit nicer and I figured out how to make it look less like shit, so that's good.
That's really all that I've done with web editing lately. Hopefully I'll get better at it as I figure out how to do more with html.
Well that's all I have for today, so I'm going to leave you with a photoshop I did a week or so ago.
I <3 Counter-Strike.
So yesterday, I created my first imagemap on a webpage on one of my websites, which I choose not to link right at this moment (it really isn't that much to see anyway). Thanks to my web editing software (openoffice.org), it was actually much less of a pain in the ass than I thought it would be. I also was able to embed some audio on the webpage. Sure, it still looks like ass, but I made it a bit nicer and I figured out how to make it look less like shit, so that's good.
That's really all that I've done with web editing lately. Hopefully I'll get better at it as I figure out how to do more with html.
Well that's all I have for today, so I'm going to leave you with a photoshop I did a week or so ago.
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