I'm better now....

Don't worry, I didn't take my Schick Quattro to my wrist last night. I feel much better.

Now, on with your regular blog. :)

Until next time... I'm out

A dead end

man i've really be on the downers lately. it seems everything is going wrong. everybody makes fun of me. i know i make fun of people, but i usually do it lightly until they make fun of me. school is all going wrong and i'm having problems at home. everybody calls me fat and girls ignore me

this isn't a joke post. i'm serious

i don't know what i'll do.

until next time, i'm out

Suicide

Nothing makes me feel more suicidal then breaking something expensive (I'm recovered from severe clinical depression disorder, by the way).

Christmas 2005, my mom got me a beautiful digital camera, HP Photomark M407. It was amazing, but I didn't use it that much.

Now I found it, the little shutter thing is broken sideways, and turning it on shows the HP logo for a few seconds before going gray, before shutting down. I called and told my mom.

"WHAT? That camera cost $300... etc. etc. etc." and now she's really mad. I feel so sick to my stomach. Its a good thing we don't have guns...

Until next time, I'm out.

PS: By the way, I'm working on some essay type stuff to put here, you know, like stuff I'll do research on. A really blogger, perhaps.

I've got a timebomb on my hands.

No, don't call homeland security. This timebomb isn't physically dangerous.

I got a YouTube account a few weeks ago. YouTube is a free web service that allows users to upload their homemade movies and share with others. Copyrighted material is banned, but to take copyrighted material down, YouTube's staff has to see the video, and then take it down. YouTube is a small Web 2.0 startup, they only have 60 on staff, it takes a while.

I uploaded clips from the movie, Pirates of Silicon Valley, a unofficial movie about the rise of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. My clips got a few hits in the beginning, but are now starting to gain traction, and lots of it.

I recently got 4 honors on my videos. Honors are automatic little awards that you get for "Most Watched" or what not. One of my clips from the movie is "#89 Most Watch This Week for Technology videos."

Ok, not really impressive, but, it does mean I'll get more and more views, and maybe even, a YouTube staffmember. Then, they'll take all my videos down, and maybe ban my IP. Then where shall I look for videos of idiots talking infront of a webcam pretending to be a celebrity, or people putting mentos into diet coke or a cat on a little wheel or a car crash from a F1 race in 1983.

Well, I'll keep you updated. In the mean time, call the bomb squad.

Until next time, I'm out.

Dr. Maclove

Or How I Learned how to stop being a bigot and love the Mac....

My my my... how times have changed. Two years ago, I was a full-blown Microsoft fanboy. Didn't matter if it was a Playstation 2, a iPod, or Linux, I hated EVERYTHING that wasn't made by the mighty M$. What changed? Ever since the release of iTunes 7, and Steve Jobs' special event, I've been going nutty about Apple products.

What in the hell happened? Honestly, I have no idea. It all started two weeks ago when we had to use iMacs in my graphic arts class. Typically, I didn't even know how to turn it on, and I saved embarrsement by pretending that I had forgotten something at my desk, and quickly abandoned the quest (as usual, there was some good looking girls in the next iMac over, lest I show I don't know how to turn the computer on infront of them!)

Well, I knew somewhat about Mac OS X, and what I had seen was really impressive, but I didn't know much. Then, sitting next to me two freshmen started cursing the Mac because they couldn't right-click to copy and paste a picture they needed.

Now, I knew it was control + click to right-click, but he didn't care. His anti-Apple rant made by blood boil, and I started to think... I may be a Apple fanyboy. I went home and started thinking about my own PC I'm going to build (see previous blog entries, I know I haven't written a clear cut entry on it yet) and I think, Maybe after I build this PC (when I should save up for a car) maybe I'll get a MacBook... ya know... just because I could use a laptop.

Well, then Steve Jobs' thingie came where he announced movies on iTunes (the iTunes name is slowly and slowly becoming more and more improper, CNET's Buzz Out Loud podcast said it should be called iUnes... hahaha) and now I want to get an iPod....

Well, I figure I'll still get my Core 2 Duo PC system... then who knows? I have no idea whats next, but I'm punchdrunk-in-love with Apple. The Mac is my god, and Steve Jobs is my savior.

Until next time, I'm out.

"I learned to type before I learned how to write cursive"

How true. Those words, spoken by Cory Doctorow, ring very true for me. Doctorow is a science-fiction writer and tech world journalist (and a socialist.... *gag*), and he was a guest on this week's edition of "This Week in Tech".

There has been a computer in my house since I was five years old (since I was born if you count my dad's Commodore 64 in the basement). I've always feel completely comfortable with a computer, and like Doctorow, I could type on a QWERTY keyboard before I could write curvisve.

Doctorow went on to say that he finds writing with pen and paper "painful". Well, I wouldn't say that writting with a pen (or more often, pencil) "painful" I do find it... unconfortable, maybe even difficult, but not painful, not yet anyway. I do find writting a list or something on paper unconvenent ("What do you mean I can't copy and paste?")

This makes me ponder... in the far, far future, will standard writing be replaced by everybody typing? Computers and becoming more and more common in schools, will writing be replaced forever? Just some things to ponder.

Until next time, I'm out.

Post-script: and the funny thing is, you can tell I depenant on word processors. Look at all thoes spelling mistakes. ;) Until next time...

Post-post-script: coming soon is my review of the newest verison of Apple's iTunes, which if you use that program, you'll notice she bothered you to update. I stopped listening to music for 10 minutes and let her update, this on the day of Apple's new world-wide annoucment. Am I surprised, no. Stay tuned to this channel for more information. Until the next time... (or the next post-script)

God Bless America

God bless all those who lost their lives (and their families) on 9/11. Never forgive, never forget.

I was home 'sick' the day of 9/11, and I was watching CNN when the second plane hit live. (And for you assholes, yes I was positive it wasn't a replay) and it is an image that will live with me for the rest of my life.

Until next time, I'm out.