Another cold and balmy day. Decided to just sit in and enjoy some Coconut chai. Played a bit more of Borderlands 1. Going to have part 2 of my hair done tonight. Then sometime in a day or two I might post a picture.
Finally made one!
A small You Can’t Do That On XBox! Now with some SFM.
Finally made a small episode with the help of Source Filmmaker. I’m going to start showcasing mods and maps again (and maybe even create some myself).
If you liked the map I reviewed go download it here: http://forums.tf2maps.net/downloads.php?do=file&id=5280
Today is all about me.
Going to take a nice shower, then get my hair dyed in nice blue streaks. I also chillaxed in bed with my laptop. Ahhhhh…
It’s ok to outsource jobs, unless you’re an employee outsourcing your own job.
So get this. Some guy gets a job and pays a couple Chinese dudes to do the work for him. He sits at home and collects the rest of his money. The companies find out and get angry at the employee for outsourcing.
A DEVELOPER in the US was caught outsourcing his own job to China so he could spend his time watching cat videos on the internet, reports a case study from Verizon.
No, this isn’t a joke. A developer for an anonymous critical infrastructure company, referred to as ‘Bob,’ was actually caught outsourcing his own work to China so he could spend all day browsing the web, something that Verizon noticed after it was alerted to odd activity on the firm’s VPN logs.
Another case of do as you’re told and not as we do. 😛
Windows 8 animated.
Another video by the same person that did the internet cap one. It’s long but it’s truthful, hilarious, and insightful.
We have the best health care system ever!
January has turned out to be a banner month for fans of American exceptionalism. As documented in voluminous detail in a 404-page report released last week by the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine, Americans lead shorter lives than Western Europeans, Australians, Japanese and Canadians. Of the 17 countries measured, the United States placed dead last in life expectancy, even though we lead the planet in the amount we spend on health care (17.6 percent of gross domestic product in 2010 vs. 11.6 percent each for France and Germany). We get radically less bang for the buck than comparable nations. If that’s not exceptionalism, I don’t know what is.
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But a funny thing happens to Americans’ life expectancy when they age. The U.S. mortality rate is the highest of the 17 nations until Americans hit 50 and the second-highest until they hit 70. Then our mortality ranking precipitously shifts: By the time American seniors hit 80, they have some of the longest life expectancies in the world.
What gives? Have seniors discovered the Fountain of Youth? Do U.S. geriatricians outpace all our other physicians?
Part of the answer is Darwinian: Those Americans who have been less able to access reliable medical care, maintain good diets and live in neighborhoods that are not prey to gun violence have disproportionately died off before age 80. That isn’t natural selection but social selection — the survival of the economically fittest in a nation that rations longevity by wealth.
But the larger part of the answer is that at age 65, Americans enter a health-care system that ceases to be exceptional when compared with the systems in the other 16 nations studied. They leave behind the private provision of medical coverage, forsake the genius of the market and avail themselves of universal medical insurance. For the first time, they are beneficiaries of the same kind of social policy that their counterparts in other lands enjoy. And presto, change-o: Their life expectancy catches up with and eventually surpasses those of the French, Germans, Britons and Canadians.
It’s funny how quite a few of the people who whine and complain about healthcare for all happen to be in the elderly bracket. Another case if IGMFY.
What will facebook come up with next? A fucking motherboard design!
And it’s called group hug. O_o
“Group Hug” board: Facebook is contributing a new common slot architecture specification for motherboards. This specification — which we’ve nicknamed “Group Hug” — can be used to produce boards that are completely vendor-neutral and will last through multiple processor generations. The specification uses a simple PCIe x8 connector to link the SOCs to the board.
One of my favorite series is making a return.
New addition of Ghost In The Shell will be airing in 2013 as a reboot. Which should be interesting. I wonder if they’ll be going closer to the manga’s storyline? Here’s Motoko’s new look.
Should be interesting.
Do you ever feel guilty about all the time you spend online? I don’t.
I was asked recently by one of my elder co-workers how much time I spend online a day. One or two hours they guessed? Hah! I honestly couldn’t tell them (nor would I want to).
It’s kind of difficult to explain to some people that a computer is for more than just gaming or surfing social networking sites. You can easily look at my Steam stats and see what games/apps I’ve been playing and how much time I spend in them. But that’s not all that I do when I’m on here. I do a lot of things that can’t be done in just “one or two hours”.
If you couldn’t tell by reading my blog I follow a lot of things. Sometimes technical, political or whatever stupid thing happens to be taking place (making fun of Facebook like every other day). I have a lot of interests. I follow a lot of sites (RSS or not). I enjoy playing with HTML when I’m in the mood (phpBB would even fall under this category), I also like making movies in Source Filmmaker and Adobe products. I can easily spend several hours doing those alone! That and of course gaming. But even then that can be divided up too. Since I like looking at things from the gamers perspective and the server side perspective depending on the game. For example I like playing with and putting together servers because 1, it’s fun and 2, it’s a learning experience.
I also like looking at modifications and addons. One of the reasons why I liked doing You Can’t Do That On XBox was because I enjoy looking at what people create. Be it good or bad. People are always reviewing new games that are coming out or what game or DLC the companies will be releasing next, which is fine and good. But you don’t really get to see what people mod for PC games (although platforms like Steam have been doing a good job showing these things off in their own right). I’ve shown an interest in this stuff since the early days of DOOM. I still have some old custom WAD files on Floppy discs somewhere around here.
I can do all of this and still manage to go to work, go out partying, or any other real life obligations. So I’m pretty sure my digital polymath antics are not getting in the way of anything. Find your balance.
The First Bookless Public Library… In Texas!
The library of the future. Based in the nads of the United States.
It sounds like an oxymoron, but come the fall of 2013, San Antonio’s Bexar County is going to be home to the BiblioTech, the country’s first book-less public library. Of course, there will be books — just e-books, not physical books.
I get it. So THAT’S what the book burnings were for. Making room for e-books. 😀