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We could buy the name and move our blog there lol. redherring.com

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Japanese cute chick vs. Korean cute chick ;D

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What real life bad habits has programming given you? - Stack Overflow: "One thing I've noticed lately is that many engineers in different fields (EE, ME) don't try to simplify and automate things as much as software people do. I'm not sure why that is, or even if it's true in general. After all, the sample size I'm basing this on isn't very big (a couple dozen engineers I've worked with).

It may be cliche, but it seems that people who get good at writing software are motivated by laziness. If everyone was as constructively lazy as a good programmer is, the whole world would be more efficient."

What real life bad habits has programming given you? - Stack Overflow: "Always being on the lookout for bugs in programs, or things that just don't look right, I find bugs in everything, especially TV shows. My wife LOVES it when I rewind a show ten or fifteen seconds to point out something that's not right. She would give me so much crap about it that I escalated and started keeping a laser pointer next to my chair so I could pause the show and 'circle' the offending item with the laser.

Funny, the laser disappeared one day while I was at work... curious."

LMAO!

What real life bad habits has programming given you? - Stack Overflow

Don't let the title fool you, some of them appeal to the general computer-user (Ben) >.>

Funny exam answers

It strikes me that there is a universe out there, somewhere in reality, where everything is the same as this one, except that there's a group of people who always refer to the main characters of "Wayne's World" as Wumbley and Grant, even having seen the movie several times. Nobody notices, and everyone continues as normal when someone talks about that scene in "Wumbley's World" where Grant and Wumbley have a falling out.

Yeah, it's stupid, shut up. I know that's not quite how it works, in stupid theoretical physics land. GUH theoretical physics is so stupid. Dumb math bullcrap. Don't tell me they don't pull that out of their asses, 'cause seriously.

It's another good program you guys should try out, especially if you've ever gotten tired of Adobe's crap. It load's quickly, works flawlessly, and almost makes up for the inherent flaws in the PDF format with lots of tools to edit and view a document pretty much however you like. Plus it's got a clean interface, which is always a plus when viewing any kind of media files, as much as Vista and other modern shiny-mongers might have you think otherwise.

I think I've elaborated to most everyone involved with this blog as to why I dislike the vast majority of Quentin Tarantino movies, but I'll review, just in case. The main reason is that he thinks it's cool when people are too cool to realize that their situation is cool, even as the cool stuff is happening. Like Reservoir Dogs or Kill Bill 1 (I actually liked 2 quite a bit) or Pulp Fiction (Which I really never understood the appeal of), where the main characters are these super badasses that are completely calm and collected when shit starts to go down, and much ado seems to be made of little things like demeanor and poise in a situation when nobody is watching. It's like they're always posing for the camera, very aware of the audience. Breaking the fourth wall without the director being self-aware enough to relize he's doing it, or having enough humor to joke about it in any but the most macho, "Yeah I'm doing X but I could still kick your ass" way.

This unrealism leads me to the new reason I hate Quentin Tarantino movies, which is that NOBODY TALKS LIKE A HUMAN BEING. Seriously. I was watching Grindhouse earlier, for the first time, and there's a scene where these women are in a car planning their day. They talk like every syllable they enunciate is specifically tailored to be as cool as is humanly possible. Like they choreographed the conversation beforehand. When you think about it, of COURSE they choreographed it, it was written months earlier and they'd probably gone over it dozens of times! It's just so nonsensical that the usual goal of making dialogue believable is completely tossed out the window so the director can get his jollies. And you know that Tarantino is aware of this, thinks it's the coolest thing ever, is also aware that some people like it, AND THINKS THAT HE'S COOL FOR TURNING A CONVENTION ON ITS HEAD! eGAD but that man drives me insane!

The thing is, he would probably be fun to have as a friend. He's just a normal dude who had no ear for dialogue, like most of us. The difference is that this is his GOAL, his STYLE! Most people don't become directors because they would make dialogue sound like Quentin Tarantino, were they to direct a film. I guess there's something to be said for being that self-confident.

Just one more thing: The reason I think I liked Kill Bill 2 is that people FREAKED OUT when stuff happened! When that one woman killed that dude, he was all like SHIT SHIT SHIT! Then she got her eye poked out, and she was like "I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!" But were it a normal Tarantino movie, the man would, upon being bitten by the snake, turn to his antagonist and say something to the effect of "...You fucking cunt..." before dropping dead. And the woman would immediately regain her composure and be all cool as a cucumber after LOSING HER EYE. Granted, the last confrontation was kind of lame in that way, but I felt he got away from his signature style for a good portion of the movie, which was commendable.

I think I found our project:

Sentry Paintball Gun

Build the Ultimate USB Thumb Drive Toolbox - Page 1 | Maximum PC

I need to take copies of the syllabus to my physics counselor. To get credit for the introduction to thermodynamics class. So I email Dr. Morris, and he very promptly sent my copies of all the syllibi, as well as copies of the lab syllibi. I open the email attachments, and much to my chagrin they were in a .cwk format. Which is like a secret Appleworks (Old Apple Suite) format. You can't even get a windows viewer (belive me I tried). I think to myself, "Well I have 2 Macs, I'll just open it on one of them." Neither of them can open the files. Uh-oh, Dr. Morris said he would send me hard copies if I need them, which is very nice of him. But I'm upset at the format, and need to open these files. I research for a few hours, even polling apple users in my house. Eventually I read on the appleworks wiki that appleworks kindof turnes into the iWork suite. So I download the free trial of iWork'09 and sure enough pages can open this kind of doc. I then "register" iWork so this wont happen again. Its now 2am, and I triumphantally print the syllibi. I then noticed that I had iLife '08. Bah I say, I scoff at anything thats 3 weeks old software wise. So I look for a "trial" of iLife 09 like iWork, and cant find one. However I did find out that I am elligible to upgrade to iLife'09 for $10 since they started bundleing it with macs a few weeks after I bought mine. I paid the 10 bucks, and am waiting for my software in the mail. epic win.

btw pages (word) and numbers(excel) in iWork are really good. I'm thinking of changing from MS office to iWork.

is there some sort of free web storage a la yahoo briefcases that i can use?

Centurions just finished, Yeeah! Look forward to some hard-rockin' '80s cartoon action when you get back from school, Ender!

Dude this was in my arechive....classic

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Sam Ganim" <sam.ganim@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 6, 2008 8:02 PM
Subject: Chat with Sam Ganim
To: <ender2010@gmail.com>

7:50 PM Sam: lol

 me: i was really bummed out when she wasent in physics

 Sam: lol, is she hot? ive only known her sister

7:51 PM me: i think shes cute way better looking than her sis'

 Sam: good, cause we used to call her "ugly-bitch"

7:52 PM me: i know we called her that in like 3rd grade

 Sam: lol

7:53 PM me: so is he gonna give us a complier, or do we need to get one on our own?

7:54 PM Sam: well he didnt give us one for java, so he tried to point us to one on the net (yeah right, it was a text editor) but then in the last 3 weeks i found out that there was one on the computer

  but seeing that he is using microsoft visual studio, we may have it

7:55 PM me: so can we get that for home, is it free

 Sam: is anything from microsoft free? but we don't need it, we can get something better

7:56 PM me: ok and its all the same, like are we gonna be able to program here if we learn on something elese

 Sam: of course, the language is the same everywhere and they all compile the same, its just easier to use one that is a gui rather than one that is a text

7:57 PM next week, we are getting sparks

7:58 PM makes the class MUCH better

 me: ctrl shift n

 Sam: sparks

 me: gunnis

7:59 PM Sam: guinness smells

  sparks doesnt

 me: sparks tastes like ass

  i hate engery drinks

  balieys and coffee

8:00 PM Sam: agreed

  or a tropical aura with cap morgan

 me: agreeed

 Sam: next week we are getting FUCKED in class then

8:01 PM me: i dont want to get bellergient

 Sam: awww.. come on.... it could be fun

8:02 PM me: i can so save it to something that is not c:\

 Sam: his flash drive wouldnt work on our computers O.o

 me: so were making a game about guessing numbers

8:03 PM Sam: yep, like talking to a 4 year old

 me: you dont give 4 yearolds enough credit

 Sam: i still dont know how old kids are supposed to be when they walk and talk

8:04 PM me: i think like 2

  brendan just had his son, robyn asked how it is he said "big, he gained 9 oz in 3 days"

  lol

 Sam: i gain 9oz in 2 hours lol

8:05 PM 9-shots

 me: lollerskates

 Sam: lolcat

  you can has it

Sam I finally figured out that video card power problem there is pci-e power molex. and a spot on the back of the card for it. Found it problems solved after more than one year.

Sam I cant find the web page to down load cat mouse could you please link me?

It's a firefox extension that allows you, with a single click, to TinyURL your current position, search within a website, and go UP a directory level in a website! I especially like the TinyURL feature, as it automatically copies it to your clipboard, ready for pasting, in a single click. One problem is that I don't think there are any keyboard shortcuts involved, which is sort of a bummer. Nonetheless, a very, very convenient add-on.

It is the dawn of a new era today. That's right I switched to Vista. My PC can run it just fine, and its pretty. I got tired of using my Mac at my desk just because it was prettier. Also my new keyboard came in I changed from an MS Bluetooth Elite Pro, to an MS Basic Keyboard 1.0A I kid you not.