Year: 2005

If Your Forum Handle is “buffguns” You’re Uncool

June 17, 2005

Useless Update

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It’s late and I was bored and I was looking through my site access log and noticed that my picture of the popped collar was hyperlinked to some forum. Please refer to my archived post about how popped collars suck to refresh your memory. Anyway, I decided to investigate why my retarded looking popped collar was on some forum. And this is what I found:

 

The Forums are located here (removed dead link). Go to the page and use Firefox (or the Evil IE) to search for a user named buffguns. You will notice that this person linked to my image of a popped collar (but the link is dead because it wasn’t done properly). Then this “buffguns” had the nerve to say that the popped collar looked hot! How dare you! Popped collars are dumb.

I just found this rather interesting and wanted to dedicate a post to everyone to publicly humiliate this person! I would like to kindly remind everyone that popped collars are not cool

Spell Checker Added

June 14, 2005

Website Related

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I am trying to be more professional with my postings and not have spelling errors in them, so I found a nice WordPress plugin that checks spelling. I was too lazy to keep copying and pasting my posts into MS Word, then pasting them back here.

I also modified my comments.php file to access the same spell checking script I use when I post things, so you people can check the spelling in your comments. Not that anyone leaves comments anyway, and the two people that do don’t care about spelling and use abbreviations – so it really doesn’t matter. But it’s there and I use it, so that’s all that counts. And only I can add words to the custom dictionary 😀

G4TV Sucks

June 12, 2005

Rants

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This is not new news, but I’m going back in time to prove my point. About a year and a half ago, there were two networks: TechTV and G4 TV. TechTV was more focused in on technology and computers, while G4 was devoted to gaming. Last year, they merged and formed G4Tech TV. G4 was getting bad ratings and was not being carried by many cable operators, so to get around this the two networks agreed to merge. Ok no big deal – it was about half TechTV Content and half G4 content. So for tech geeks like me, this was a shame, but was bearable. Some good shows liek Call for Help with Leo Laporte were cancelled to make room for crappy gaming shows. But here’s the kicker. Within the past few months, the last original TechTv show remaining on G4TechTv was cancelled – The Screensavers. So I was watching the network recently and looked at the logo and almost puked – the network recognizes itself as G4Tv. So therefore, any association with TechTV is being ignored. It is complete bs that the two networks merge and in the end, it is solely for the benefit of G4TV. It basically goes like this – G4 is uncool so the enter the cool crowd, become cool and then get rid of the original cool people in the group – leaving themselves (former uncool people) to be cool. Ok I’m going overboard with analogies… The completely used a popular network and I have no respect for anyone who watches this channel, so if you do, don’t talk to me. I think cable and satellite operators should not sign a contract to carry this piece of crap network because of this clever scheme they pulled.

So in geek speak, G4 took a TechTV particle and an Anti TechTV particle and crashed them into one another, annihilating TechTV and leaving G4 behind (this is why I win physics geek awards). This is a complete disgrace and aggravated the crap out of me. 😡

No one cares about a 24/7 channel about gaming. It’s completely boring. If you like games, there’s nothing wrong with it. Ok maybe a show or two reviewing new games is okay, but you don’t need game walkthrough shows. There are books for that.

Last Day of School!

June 11, 2005

School Related

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Today was a fun last day of classes. I’ll run through my day (don’t mind the simple sentences – it’s sort of like a list.) First period, I had English and did nothing. Second Period I had a free. Third period we actually reviewed math. Fourth was Gym and 6 people showed up. Steve and I were talking to Waters about how bad the Yankees are.

Physics gets its own section! First off, I got extra credit for handing in the same teacher autographed copy of the reference tables (handed out in September). This was great because I lost them once and feared I wouldn’t get credit. As soon as I found them, I copied them and taped the original to my wall. Then the awards were given out. Poor Steve got last place in the Physics Olympics, but got a cool potato growing thingy. First place was given Mets tickets and second place was given a gift certificate to Coldstone. And then awards were handed out for memorable moments in class. I got “Closet Physics Geek” for calculating the speed of sound from fireworks and other geeky physics things I did. I also won the tight T-shirt competition (because I was dared to wear one) and finally, class webmaster. I’m not mentioning all of the awards people won, but Dannyrob won most likely to pelt Joey the Cat with an egg (after yesterday’s incident after the rocket launches). Lee won the quantum physics award for being obsessed with photons all year. He also won the Emperor Palpatine award (because he shot bolts of lightning at people from his fingers while using the Van De Graf Generator)

After that I skipped lunch and stayed in Physics to watch the rocket launch videos from both classes. Then I went to the Library when it was done. Seventh period was Chorus and we practiced two things for graduation and then went to an air conditioned room. Eighth was Business Law and we also did nothing. And finally, ninth was History and we did a course feedback sheet, handed in a final essay and attempted to watch Chapelle but our über computer restrictions wouldn’t let us launch a dvd player. (Rumor has it that Period 6 History was blasting it in the library!) So we left 10 minutes before the bell rang and I was outside. I didn’t even hear the last bell of the year…

And then I walked to Dannyrob’s and was there until about 5, ate dinner, picked up Marc from some horrific party, walked to Borders, then came home.

So that’s my day. And that’s the school year. Senior next year! I usually don’t post news about me, but today was fun, so this is an interesting change.

Physics Rocket Competition

June 9, 2005

School Related

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Today was launch day and it was fun. This is whole reason why I took physics (well, not really). Steve and I worked on this last Friday and last Sunday.

We got to class, made the final preparations and then went outside to launch. Unfortunately, Gone Phishing (our rocket) did not do too well. It launched nicely, but the nose cone got stuck and the parachute did not deploy. It was in the air for a little over 5 seconds (sounds like a short time, but it was launched vertically at 90 degrees) before crashing into the ground (nose cone first). The egg did not survive. Bottle rockets are bulky and unstable. I’d rather use real model rockets with real engines – those are even more fun! I have to admit, some rockets were designed very nicely. We came in 5th place, but that’s okay – NASA alwasy blows up rockets…It was a fun experience, anyway.

I then went out to see the other Physics class launch but had to leave at 1:00 for another class, so after setting up and such, I only saw three launches. It was all a big party. People who weren’t in the class were out there watching.

Images of building and launching the rockets are up here. Check it.