Not much to write tonight. Work was uneventful. Although I did talk to one of my coworkers who is interested in purchasing a laptop. That got me to thinking about upgrading too. Don’t get me wrong I love my laptop, but wouldn’t mind going Core 2 Quad or i5. Of course it isn’t too much of a priority since it still does a lot of what I need when I’m away from home.
Ramblings
Another reason why I’m not a fan of facebook.
Not that it would affect me in this particular situation.
Washington Facebook Voter Registration
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Facebook users in Washington state will have something else to brag about to their online friends: that they registered to vote on Facebook.
The secretary of state’s office said Tuesday it will have an application on its Facebook page that allows residents to register to vote and then “like” the application and recommend it to their friends. It’s expected to launch as early as next week.
I read about this and thought it was one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. Do any of these morons realize facebook keeps tabs on everything? Oh wait… We’re too fucking lazy to care.
I’m sorry. I’m not the kind of person that likes it when places like facebook or myspace keep tabs on everything that I do. Yes I understand that people use it also to find jobs or keep in touch with family. It’s just stupid that places like facebook use that sort of thing to exploit people into giving them their own personal information so that they may sell it for a profit. If anyone registers to vote via facebook they get whatever they deserve.
I’ll keep my blog and email thank you.
Open Thread
Grand majority of my vacation was foggy and damp. Now I get to go back to work and it’s expected to be sunny… I have a feeling after the 4th I’ll be in need of another vacation. Jeez, after 5 years I still don’t get the 4th off. Land of the free baby.
Say apple!
Tonight I came home to an interesting article about the human brain and apple products.
In a recently screened BBC documentary, UK neuroscientists suggested that the brains of Apple devotees are stimulated by Apple imagery in the same way that the brains of religious people are stimulated by religious imagery.
People have often talked about “the cult of Apple”, and if a recent BBC TV documentary is to be believed, there could be something in it.
My friend Yutram and I once did a goof off podcast together where we talked about the religious symbolism of digital products (Microsoft, Linux, Mac etc) and at the time I thought figured Apple represented purgatory. Why purgatory? Because Steve Jobs never wanted you to leave his walled garden.
Steve Jobs sure trued to get people to take a bite out of that apple too…
Open Thread
So, yesterday was Friday the 13th. I didn’t have a single thing go wrong for me. It would be like me to have Friday the 13th be my lucky day… lol
Guess it’s Saturday the 14th that will be a total bitch.
What to do…
Well, it’s the afternoon and my body is telling me to take a nap. I wonder how long I can prevent myself from passing out. I can’t concentrate on gaming. I’d like to work on one of my projects but don’t feel mentally up for it. Tidying up shop requires too much effort right now. Seems all I feel like doing is reading, blogging and listening to music. It’s cold and raining outside so I don’t exactly feel like going for a walk. Plus this is the part of the day where nothing really exciting happens. Damn, maybe I should take a nap after all.
“I AM A MAAN *punch*”
Did more rendering/animating tonight, then I wrote another script for my next project. One more and I’ll have the entire month of February covered episode-wise.
Aside from that I took breaks to do my traditional round of reading and came across this
The group he’s talking about have been the talk of the internet the last couple of days. Basically a group of HE-MEN have their own forum who are either fed up with women, swearing off of them completely due to one scorn after another, or insert homosexual joke here. In fact to be quite honest I thought I found the official Log Cabin Republican website. I wish that were a joke too, but what can one think when you see a bunch of dudes talking about how evil women are. Plus talking about liberal agendas and a thread or two about Ron Paul or Romney? But I digress.
Am I mad? Not really no. If anything it was a good laugh. What they’re doing is really no different from women who are anti men completely (the feminists that take it waaaaaay too far). As someone who has had my fair share in dealing with the public and having to shovel shit from both sides of the gender coin. I can tell you that stupidity and cruelty knows no gender.Both sides can be knuckle dragging neanderthals whenever they want to. But of course it’s easier to live with eyes closed. Should I hate all men because one grabbed me and shook me or slammed a door in my face and laughed? Of course! it makes perfect sense! 😉
Another thing I found funny reading that forum, women are the ones that want to get pregnant? Never the guy? Really? Then why is it that every other month I have some old guy getting mad at me whenever I tell them no I don’t have any children or no I have no interest in getting married. Is that really something for people to concern them self with? I suppose next they’ll use the argument that it’s the woman’s fault that she gets raped because she’s beautiful and makes guys aroused just by being in the same room not doing anything. Same argument, different era.
But then they do say they are done with women, right? Hmmmmm are those the guys I want to date or should I just continue doing my own thing? Tough call man, tough call…
Friday Morning Open Thread
Today I got rid of the errors on the forum. Next mission will be updating it. But in the meantime I goofed off more in TF2 tonight, chatted with the regular friends and even some others I haven’t heard from in awhile! I checked the mail and found I was excused from jury duty so overall it was a carefree day! No Black Friday for me thanks. I’ll stick to buying my gifts for everyone online. You won’t get trampled, peppersprayed or held at gunpoint… Seriously it seems to get more insane each year. It either needs to be rethought or dismissed entirely.
So now I’m sitting here enjoying some cherryberry green tea and getting ready to hit the rack.
Open Thread
I don’t have much to report. Work was ok today, and I’ve been working on the next YCDTOXB. I finally have my external hard drive online and have been pumping it with FRAPS footage ever since. My goal is to collect all kinds of project footage and stuff my external HD and dedicated AV Stripe with it. Kinda my version of storing nuts for a harsh winter, and believe me. Some of the campaigns I’ve played through are pretty nuts…
Early Morning Open Thread
Yesterday I was in a whole other world. I made some rice noodle soup and Bengal spiced chai for my sweet tooth, then 2 pots of flowering green jasmine. Then I spent the rest of my day working on half of the script for my next review. The review might not get done this week either,, this is pretty big and it has to be done right.
As for today I awoke to rain pouring down on the roof. In a way I hope it continues, coming home to nap would seem a lot easier.