If you have not yet watched the last episode of Season 3 of Battlestar Galactica then this won’t make much sense to you. But this image I think epitomizes the essence of your bog-standard WTF moment.
If you haven’t gotten to Season 3 in your watching yet then I highly recommend you catch up because Season 3 goes out on a fucking BANG!
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, well I think this says quite a bit more then that
So the Iraq, the Attorney General scandal and Iran stories are all more important about autopsy results for a dead model best known for being a human trainwreck with a nice rack.
What the hell is wrong with this country? Is this what CNN thinks American’s want to be informed about? Or is this what American’s have told CNN they want to see on their “news network”? I wonder what course is possible that could change this for the better with the populace in general.
Hey everyone just wanted to let everyone know that my photos from Aaron’s party this last Saturday are now up at:
http://www.nonmundane.org/gallery2/v/aarons_party_032407/
Below is a sample of what you people missed out on. Basically a ton of fun plus Downright did some songs and generally kicked ass so hard we got a visit from the cops.
Downright doing their thing, go A-Train!
A-Train will have no part of the hot lesbo action. For shame!
Hope everyone had as fun a time there as I did. Lord knows you missed out on some funny shit, including me doing a sommersault. Damn that was hilarious.
UPDATE: Fixed the bands name, sorry guys! Thats what I get for writing at early AM with little sleep. Also, the guys will be playing on April 14th at 8:30PM at Di Piazza’s
5205 E. Pacific Coast Highway
Long Beach, CA 90804
That’s right, I’ve got 41 tabs open in Firefox right now and that’s just for stories and other interesting bits of information I haven’t gotten around to posting in the past week and a half because I’ve been busy with finals or work to some degree. Mind you, I have more than 41 tabs open in Firefox in total right now; the total number is something closer to about 60 something. Having that many web pages open is using 243.7MB of RAM on the system right now so I thought I’d finally dump these suckers into a post so I can clear the cruft out of my tabs.
Dead whale explodes in Taiwan, without the help of explosives:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4096586
Recent analysis of just how fucked we are if a nuclear attack happens in a major US city:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=522
Sony UK boss thinks Americans are “cheap”:
http://www.playfuls.com/news_06695_Sony_UK_Boss_Calls
_the_US_a_Land_of_Cheap_People_to_Justify_PS3_Price.html
An MIT acceptance letter and its resulting response:
http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/hell/Bestof/mit-letter.html
Tim O’Reilly and Doc Searls seem to think they know how to save newspapers, I’m not so sure:
http://doc.weblogs.com/2007/03/24
10 things about software development that had to be learned on the job:
http://www.taylor.se/blog/2007/03/22/top-ten-things-ten-years-of-
professional-software-development-has-taught-me/
The CG Society’s EON film trailer challenge winners, some very impressive work indeed!
http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=3987&page=2
A list of things that will take you 50 years to learn, or you could just read it here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/3716/ebookebook-16-things-it-takes-most-of-us-50-years-to-learn
Human brain is a poor judge of risk….hmmm, sounds like a certain administration I know:
http://www.wired.com/news/columns/1,73047-0.html
Do you like heavy metal music? Then you might be smarter than you think potentially:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2007/03/21/nmetal21.xml
Some good information on Google AdSense ads and how to use them effectively:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/03/22/google-adsense-facts-faqs-and-tools/
New X-ray imagery of the Sun reveals previously thought impossible acts:
http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11432&feedId=online-news_rss20
MoveOn pokes a little fun at Stephen Colbert with this parody:
http://falsiness.org/
Tony Snow once abdicated against Executive privilege with regards to subpoenaed testimony of White House staffers:
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2007/03/tony-snow-says-president-must-let-his.html
White House offers up Rove for testimony…just without a transcript, or under oath. Talk about insulting our intelligence!
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Conyers_Sanchez_to_seek_subpoenas_of_0320.html
The world’s first blue rose, pretty wild if you ask me:
http://www.thestreaming.info/development_crossing/2007/03/the_worlds_only.html
A gated community in Tennessee thinks it has the right to revoke the 2nd Amendment under its community rules:
http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=6242822
A Republican from Texas who claims he would “reinstate the Constitution” if elected, sounds interesting to me:
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/GOP_Presidential_candidate_would_restore_Constitution_0321.html
Tech hits wrong key in Alaska and wipes out 38 BILLION dollar fund, hope they had backups:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-03-20-alaska-data_N.htm?csp=34
NFL tried to take copyright and DMCA too far with Superbowl and now faces breaking DMCA itself:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070320-nfl-fumbles-dmca-takedown-battle-could-face-sanctions.html
Why I love NPR more than ever now that the CPR is trying to kill off Internet radio for the RIAA. Et al:
http://consumerist.com/consumer/riaa/npr-vs-the-riaa-244318.php
Not only do they not have enough armor, but our troops don’t even have the best carbine in their hands. Truly maddening:
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/02/atCarbine070219/
Using Bluetooth as a proximity sensor to lock/unlock your OS X laptop:
http://www.technocrat.ca/?p=44
The AppleTV system is looking to be a worthy replacement for aging XBOX Media Center softmod systems:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2391956&perpage=40&pagenumber=9
Free speech case for high school students goes to Supreme Court, looks to divide Bush and his religious right base:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/washington/18scotus.html?ei=5124&en=9751776d478fdf0f&ex=1331870400&partner=digg&exprod=digg&pagewanted=print
How to not let your IT department become like Dilbert (good luck):
http://www.eweek.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=203343,00.asp
So last week marked that 10 week annual festival for me known as finals week, or 10 ways to get sleep deprivation on the cheap while chugging Red Bull like it was going out of style. This time the assailants were statistics, operating systems theory, human computer interaction and networking. Overall I feel like I did okay on some of these, I probably could have done better on the statistics and HCI class but I just sort of let myself get swamped around midterm’s time and it took a while to get things back in order after that. This being said, I now have just three more quarters left at UC Irvine Spring, Summer, and Fall 2007 after which point I graduate provided nothing horrible happens.
Of course, today is now officially my 3rd day of “Spring Break™” and I have the following to do:
There would have been an additional item on that list for me to have a phone interview with Apple so their engineers could see if they wanted me for something to do with the company. This is actually now the second time that Apple has emailed me and said that they wished to interview me on the phone. Of course when I get these kinds of emails I am very polite and thank them for the interest and inform then that:
I have to admit it is somewhat frustrating to have to append this information to recruiters and HR people constantly. My resume clearly states my expected graduation date. Even more frustrating is the fact that the Apple recruiter that was on campus for the engineering jobs fair that I gave my resume to is what caused these last two interests at Apple to be generated. I specifically told them that I was not available for internships and was interested in full-time opportunities after graduation. I guess it just goes to show what a hard job recruiters and HR people have these days if they don’t have the time to read my resume. I’ve considered modifying my current resume so at the top it reads “NOT AVAILABLE FOR INTERNSHIPS” followed by “NOT AVAILABLE FOR FULL-TIME WORK TIL FEB 2008″. I’d probably put it in blinking text too if I could find a way to do it in a PDF just to make me point clearer.
In any case, Spring 2007 quarter is going to be a bear for me. I will be taking two senior project classes, one in networking and the other in HCI, along with an artificial intelligence class and the first of three world history classes. Hopefully I will manage them decently. I already have a reading assignment for my history class if I want to get a head start on things. Heck, they are even going to have the discussion section meet on the first day of class which I almost never see happen these days.
This brings me to the topic of Spring Break. Spring Break has been turned into this mythical time where students go somewhere sunny and beach-like, or perhaps a large lake. Whatever the case, someplace where multiple people also on Spring Break go and congregate and frolic, imbibe excessive amounts of alcohol and generally engage in casual sex.
Damn I sound like a bitter old man there.
What can I say, the few times I’ve happened across MTV while they were broadcasting whichever particular incantation of Spring Break in <INSERT HOPPING PLACE HERE> it almost seems like an event wholly fabricated from cloth.
Granted, I’m probably not the most hip person I know of, but I tend to at least have a decent grasp of what is going on around me. And the Spring Break of MTV and movies just doesn’t seem to happen with anyone I know of or am friends with. There is a part of me that wonders if I am missing out on something worthwhile, some kind of bonding with friends or whatnot. I don’t know. Of course, being nearly broke during ones massive week long vacation doesn’t really help either.
So this post is being written inside of Word 2007 using its ability to talk to WordPress in an attempt to see how this works out. Overall I have to say that so far it seems not all that bad. If I had to fault it for anything it would be a lack of SFTP support.
Of course it remains to be seen how one would go about using extensions to the WordPress TinyMCE web editor within Word 2007 itself. Perhaps via way of custom Word macros perhaps? I’m not sure yet.
Daniel Spisak was born from the fiery depths of fusion and now roams the pale blue dot known as Earth. I obtained my bachelors degree in Computer Science from UC Irvine at the end of 2007.
I am also involved in technology & security consulting firms as well as being a freelance technology writer. I also contribute to Jerry Pournelle's website and Chaos Manor Reviews. Additionally I am also a freelance photographer as well and you can find my photos either on my own personal gallery or up at my Flickr account or on Zivity.
This blog is one of the main locations where I do my writing, which is then automatically sent to my LiveJournal, VOX, and MySpace accounts. I can also be found on a variety of social networking and microblogging sites like Pownce, Twitter, Brightkite, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
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