Year: 2010

Yankee Problems

June 17, 2010

Sports

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I hate when we lose to teams who have bloated, ugly fans who puke on people. It’s unacceptable to lose to a team that you beat in the World Series the previous year. And a team that only had 9 or so wins in their last 20 games. The fucking Mets are better than the Phillies.

Problems:

  • Never hold fuckin boxing matches at the Yankee Stadium. Do you see the outfield grass? It looks diseased. Gardener slipped on the half assed turf they put down it and it cost us a run. Fire that grounds crew!
  • Yes Network needs to stop playing this stupid fucking commercial. The song is awful and reminds me of a preschool tune. Plus, I don’t want to look at 1980s Hondas. Cars in the 80s look like tiny, tin boxes of shit.
  • Fuck Jose Contraras. He sucked in 2003-4 when he played for us, and now he shuts us down. Go back to Cuba.
  • Andy Pettite should urinate all over the starting lineup and bullpen, because the poor guy worked hard and everyone didn’t care.
  • Paul O’Neill – get out of the YES broadcast booth and start throwing water coolers at the players. It’ll motivate them.
  • Placido Pollanco can suck it. I have is Philly ass on my fantasy team. If the Phillies are going to unload runs on the Yankees, I should at least getfantasy points out of it. But he’s like 1-9 in the series
  • Joba, Marte and the rest of the bullpen sucks my fucking balls. Especially Joba – I haven’t seen him pitch well since last season.
  • It’s a requirement that MLB umpires are blind, because they can’t make calls for shit. Fuckin David Patterson would make a better umpire than these jokers.
  • Tampa Bay lost again. The Yankees could have taken first place solo. But no…
  • Someone bring me a cheese steak. It’s the only good thing that comes out of that garbage city.
  • Stop texting me. My phone just DROID’ed 6 times in the past 10 seconds.

If the Yankees don’t slaughter Los Mets in the next three days, I will not be happy

WordPress 3 Is Out; Blog Might Be Broken a Little

June 17, 2010

Website Related

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I just upgraded this blog to WordPress 3.0. I’m not here to review it. As expected, it’s pretty sweet. A lot of shit broke, so bear with me for a while while I figure out what’s messed up.

This Blog Needs Repetitive, Weekly Segments

June 17, 2010

Website Related

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I’m thinking about adding weekly segments to this blog. I’m going for a little consistency and routine. Here’s the lineup so far:

Wednesday: Android App of the week – I will highlight a (maybe) useful Android app you should download or try (I might actually rip apart popular ones). Sorry iPhone bitches, no love to you. The iPhone 4 is cool and shit, but AT&T blows too much. Plus Android’s better anyway.

Saturday’s song of the week: I post a YouTube video of whatever is on my mind at the time/is new/is good/is annoying me, etc.

I’ll start with two for now. Have ideas? Use my comments.

Random ramble you don’t have to read: I didn’t sit through that social media conference for journalists last summer in Minneapolis for nothing. (I’m not a journalist, I just wanted a free trip paid for by these folks). One session was all about what makes a blog good and what makes it bad. If you read any of this blog prior to a few months ago, I was doing everything wrong because I didn’t care. Few updates, no weekly repetitive content, few images or media. I’ve changed (kind of) Don’t get me wrong, I’m not looking for thousands of readers. If you read this, good for you, I try. If not, I really don’t care.

Does this Sound Unreasonable?

June 16, 2010

Useless Update

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Let me know if this sounds unreasonable. I am absolutely useless right now. All I do all day is sleep, eat and watch Entourage and I’m sick of it. I’m tired of the same crap all over. Since this is what a fucking four year IS and Management degree gets you these days, here’s an idea:

I want an all expenses paid volunteer trip to somewhere in the Gulf for a few months. I’m not asking for any salary or hourly wages. BP just needs to cover my airfare, lodging, training, food and so on – and it doesn’t have to be fancy.

Level 3 (Wildlife Recovery and Rehabilitation) – This person would be a trained Wildlife Recovery & Rehabilitation volunteer, who will be helping with the clean-up of wildlife. It is a graded certification course. OSHA reviewed the Level 3 training package from PEC Premier and give special support for BP to use this training package, specifically for this incident. For this first wave of level 3 training, we are giving priority to the wildlife specialists and BP contractors.

F priority to wildlife specialists and BP contractors – bring it on. I can do it. Get me that level 3 training! And I don’t want to be one of those bogus Level 1 people who deliver supplies all day and knock on doors asking for money. I’m talking Level 3, all out OSHA training, wading in sludge in a hazmat suit scrubbing fucking pelicans with Dawn and a toothbrush so they live. Level 1 is for little bitches who don’t want to see oil. Guess what? I’m in New York, so I don’t see oil anyway (it’s not Jersey here).

Someone hook that shit up for me and I’ll be down there yesterday!

Firefox is Going Down the Tubes

June 16, 2010

Computer/ Tech Related

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Oh Firefox, how you disappoint thee. It was once the perfect, most amazing browser. But the browser war taken a vast toll on you. At the turn of the decade, I wrote a detailed post explaining why I was disappointed with Firefox. I still use Firefox as my main browser, but why? It’s clear that Safari and Chrome support better HTML5 and CSS3 standards. Now IE9 (GASP) and Opera are catching up. Opera?! What a joke. Not really. I just saw a new beta screenshot and specs for Opera and it was the reason for this ramble.

Let me tell you something: Firefox 4 better be amazing when it’s released by the end of the year, because Firefox 3.6 quickly turning into the worst browser out of the major HTML5/CSS3 enabled ones. (IE is automatically excluded). Not only is Javascript speed abysmal, but it’s GUI is clunky.

I always frowned upon Opera because it seemed like a waste to compete with Firefox. Its old version looked like a mess. But now, that looks similar to Firefox 3.6. Once Google Chrome came out with its simplistic UI and fast JS engine, I was impressed. Now it looks like Opera has added HTML5 goodies, speed and a sweet new UI that shares a resemblance with Google Chrome.

Unless Firefox 4 looks like this (which I assure you it doesn’t based on the nightly releases), and they fix their horrid javascript performance (compared with Safari, Chrome and now Opera), they have zero bragging rights.

Unless you’re using IE, you’re still fine by me, but Mozilla really is going to the birds right now. It’s kind of disappointing how these newcomers just run away with performance and features, and something that I’ve been using since 2004, that has always been the leader, is fading.

I’m expecting Firefox 4 to be a quality release that is competitive with Google Chrome and any other new browser still in development. God forbid IE9 outperforms Firefox – I’ll kill 4 kittens.

PS – this is random, but there’s just something about Safari that pisses me off. I don’t know why. Maybe I just hate Apple.