Author: Portfolioso
Cheese Nips
The contents of this post are under review, but what I was trying to say was that Cheese Nips are gross and Cheese Its are the real deal. I’ll fix the post later.
Edit – Actually I won’t update this because I don’t care at this point. But when I wrote it, I really seemed to care.
Ludaaaaaaaaa
Updated 2/22/08! You should reread it because I added a lot of things and corrected my 5AM lack of grammar.
On Friday, Ludacris came to my school for a concert and I only went because the school paid for me to stand around and do nothing work with security, otherwise I absolutely would not have spent a dime on this trash. (Actually, I expect to be paid back with a usurious amount of interest on that $30 – if you haven’t noticed, the economy has gone to shit and I need money, and FUSA has a habit of not paying concert workers back until around May). In economics terms, the opportunity cost would be forgoing my usual Friday night activities for a free ticket (Mineskies would be so proud that I used EC11 material on my blog). Well let me tell you, it pretty much spoiled my night. Not only did Luda show up excessively late (yes, I understand concerts are usually not on time – that’s normal, but this was extreme), his performance lasted a whopping 55 minutes to an hour. You know what else is crap? The school paid $85,000 out of their $33,000 concert budget to pay for an asshole to throw the microphone down after less than an hour, insult the audience (many of whom enjoyed it and cheered) and run out to go to the NBA all star game. I wasn’t even paying attention to the concert that much because it was so much more entertaining to watch drunk, scantily-clad freshmen trip down the bleachers and puke in garbage cans. All of a sudden, I looked up and wondered why people were storming towards the exits. Someone from Bridgeport did not pull out an automatic and shot the place up, as we all assumed, but Luda ended the concert so nonchalantly, I did not notice. Compare that to the pyrotechnic finale at a Trans-Siberian Orchestra Concert… JEEEEZ.
The concert was one of the most pointless, stupidest things I have ever seen in my life. Ludacris used like 4 words/ phrases the entire time. All he did was call all of the girls there hos (many of whom probably are, but that’s beside the point). The fact that the whole place was screaming every time he called them hos was sickening. Some key phrases of the night included: “You’s a ho” and “Where all my weed smokers at,” “hold up yo lighters,” “fuck dat side,” and “when I move you move.” Let me tell you something? I don’t give a shit when you move, I’ll move when I damn well please, not when you tell me to. Okay, maybe I’m being just a bit too harsh – it’s only a song spoken, DJ’d talentless piece of crap.
This guy is so full of shit it’s not even funny. First he asks the crowd who is broke, and most people (being college students in need of money) scream. A few minutes later, he continues on with some lyrics “If you ain’t got no money take your broke ass home.” Well, everyone should have just walked out, because that was just pointless. But apparently, in order to get anywhere in this society, you need status and money. It’s so awful. This is why there are very few good people left because of this trash.
NY Giants: Superbowl XLII Champions
Congratulations to the New York Giants for doing the unthinkable and spoiling the Pat’s perfect season. What a ride, and a very very close game to the end. That’s all I have to say. If you want analysis, go to a sports website, I am just going to talk about how I will never forget this moment: Sophomore year, and the complete craziness after it was over. I was so tense during the game, I absolutely wrecked a water bottle by squeezing it and throwing it – now I have a souvenir.
New England and Boston teams have had enough glory the past few years, so it’s about time New York is celebrating. Now, if only I had my voice back from all that screaming. D’OH!!
Cool New Music
Another Animal. Most likely you never heard of them, but I was home last weekend and heard one of the songs on a Music Choice channel and something just clicked. It sounded like Godsmack and had some Alice in Chains elements in it. Not very original, but still good music. To explain this easier, I’ll quote wikipedia:
During the writing sessions of IV by Godsmack, lead singer Sully Erna encountered writer’s block so Tony Rombola, Shannon Larkin, and Robbie Merill (the musical section of the band) went to the studio and recorded music. After writing almost 40 songs, only 14 were used (Two being bonus songs). The left-over songs were then recycled by the members after they recruited Whitfield Crane of Ugly Kid Joe and Another Animal was born
So I get a copy of the album and listen to it. Some songs aren’t that great and some are average, but I have three below that are just awesome. The songs have are the most morbid and depressing lyrics that I’ve heard in a long time, and sadly they kind of apply to my life. Listen:
EDIT: Music and Player removed. Go listen somewhere else.
Broken Again is the main single that was released and sounds exactly like Godsmack with one Alice In Chains type guitar solo. Left Behind also has miserable lyrics and an even more distinctive Alice In Chains copying guitar solo. I like it better than Broken Again. Fade away is the most mild of these three. The guitar solo is acoustic and kind of sounds like it could be Weather Chanel music if it were played on a piano or some brass instrument. There are some other good songs that were on the album but I’m not going to post them all.
I’m done blabbering. Sorry if this post sucked, I’m not a professional music review writer.
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
March 6, 2008
Computer/ Tech Related, Rants
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Portfolioso
Whaaaaa? Microsuck just released IE7 and you mean to tell me there already is a public beta for 8? Yep, and I have the “privilege” (rolls eyes) of
ruining my computer bytesting it. I will give you a full review of it below. Warning: while I try to post in plain English, I may use some terms unfamiliar to you non-techies such as CSS, XHTML, Acid2 etc. Use Google and learn something.What’s the deal with IE 8? Let’s start with the graphical interface. Microsoft did not really do anything with it. Everything looks just like IE7. the only thing I noticed is that it looks like they finally got favicon support right. Also, i. There is also a bug where there is no text select cursor and you only get an arrow. For a complete listing of features according to these morons, go here.
And here is the part where I simply slap my head in shame. IE8 was claimed to be released to pass the Acid2 test and be standards compliant. Yes, IE8 does pass Acid2, but that is not the point. What good is passing a stupid CSS test, if it renders many other pages WORSE than IE6 does. That’s right folks, they broke it big time. Let me put it nicely. The developers pissed, shit and puked on the page rendering engine before slapping it in a browser and hastily releasing it to the public. Portfolioso.com’s main page (not the blog) is XHTML strict and renders properly in Firefox (1,1.5,2,3), Safari, Opera, IE6 (kind of – no transparent PNG support), IE7 and probably other browsers – yet looks like ass in IE8. Once again, Microsoft added support for web standards, and we have a website using valid CSS and valid XHTML Strict, still displaying improperly. “Oh but cut them some slack, it’s just a beta.” NO! They don’t get any slack. This is a rich company that has been working on this for months. They should do a half decent job before releasing it to the public.
I have a couple of screenshots of how poorly webpages look in IE8.
The quick and dirty: This is a very poor release and Microsoft should be ashamed of themselves. Ever with the exception of Windows XP, every product released after that is pure garbage, and IE8 is living up to those standards. I’m assuming these rendering problems will be fixed in future IE8 beta releases, but we shall see. Firefox 3 (I test betas of that, too) is kicking serious ass. Firefox 3 is amazing – I cannot say enough about it. When it is finally released, everyone NEEDS to get it for many reasons (another post). The only thing Firefox 3 lacks that IE7 has is a thumbnail view of all tabs. But that’s just eye candy. When it comes down to solid performance, Firefox wins.
Internet Explorer