Author: Portfolioso
Facebook’s New Chat Sidebar Sucks
Image jacked from Gizmodo.
This Giz article sums it up better than I can (and it may or may not be funnier than me, too)
I was going to blog about this new dumb ass Facebook chat bar, which is ugly, awkward, garbage and a waste of space. However, I was upstate all weekend on 56k, so I got lazy. Just read the article. I’m too lazy to blog. That being said:
I NEVER used Facebook chat. When it first started, there was a stupid ass bug where your cursor would lose focus even if you were in another browser tab as soon as an IM came in. OK so that’s been fixed. But I don’t need people creeping me when I’m online. It’s pathetic. I’ve been a Google Chat man since 2006. Nuff said
Barack Obama’s Women’s World Cup Tweet is Some Bullshit
Obama’s Tweet About Women’s Soccer Losing the World Cup-Couldn’t be prouder of the women of#USWNTafter a hard-fought game. Congratulations to Japan, Women’s World Cup Champions.
I’ve been away all weekend with less than 56k 3G internet, so forgive me for being behind the times posting this. God damn it Barack! Proud? Proud of what? Your country’s team just lost the World Cup to Japan. That’s not proud. That’s upsetting (pending you care about women’s sports teams, which I don’t). Japan is better at the USA at everything except nuclear disasters (too soon?). Why the hell are you proud?
George Steinbrenner would have never made such aludicrous statement. To him, anything other than winning is unacceptable. That’s how you build a team that wins 28 championships. Can’t win 28 championships saying “well, you fought hard.” Nope. Fighting hard and losing is failing. Fight harder and maybe you would have won.I mean shit… I was all lined up to win my card game and then screwed it up. I fought hard all game. No reason to be proud of me. Can’t say I tried. If I tried, I wouldn’t have been careless and lost like an asshole.
PS – I have another Women’s soccer related post coming up in a bit after this one. I wrote all of these in the middle of the night when the internets went from 56k to 200k. They’re all scheduled. Shit’s not even real. They’re pre-written. What a scam.
3G In Upstate NY Is Utterly Useless
I’m up in the boonies for the weekend and the 3G is borderline useless. I can’t load a damn thing because the cell tower is on top of the friggin othermountain. Welp… What can ya do?
You know what enrages me even more ? Verizon has some nerve saying I have a 3G connection with full bars. How dare they. There should be an asterisk that means “Yes, you’re technically on 3G, but because your in middle of hick-ass-ville, you will probably get like 28.8 baud. (For you non old times out there, baud was the old way of measuring internet speed. 28.8 baud is 28.8kbps. which is 0.02 MBPS. For a comparison, Cable goes between 3-15MBPS down, FiOS goes from 15-30MBPS down.
F-? Grades that low even exist? I would have given it a G- if G’s didn’t have a positive yet gangster connotation. Damn right my connection is a fuckin F- I couldn’t load a God damn webpage all weekend.
I can’t even compare it to the dial up days, because back then, at least pages were all text. Now, I try to load friggin Google and I’m pulling down a meg of javascript. Duh, my pages don’t load.
I Just Choked Like the NY Mets Playing Cards Tonight
I just did a stupid thing. I had quite the epic battle going on with the mover in a tight game of rummy. There were about 3 lead changes and we went into the final round 5 points off. I go into the final round pumped, ready to win (since I lost yesterday).
I was killing the guy in the final round. I had all these points on board and was all set to make more and put the game to bed. BUT…. I threw a card out that I needed for myself but didn’t see it. He took it and ended the game with it. That stupid ass card could have given me more points, but because I was blind and tossed it, he took it and I ended up losing ALL of my points that round. And I lost the game.
Straight up reminded me of the time ARod hit a routine fly ball out which would have lost the game and Castillo dropped it like an asshole. Except I’m the Mets this time. Karma’s a bitch, isn’t it…
MG Siegler Is Fucktarded+ (And Random Apple Rants)
July 22, 2011
Computer/ Tech Related, Rants
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Portfolioso
Fuck this dude MG Siegler. If you don’t know him, he’s a jackass Apple fanboy writer for TechCrunch. I wish I can ban this guy’s articles from my news feed, because they piss me off forever. This guy solely exists at TechCrunch to write three types of articles:
When Facebook launched, it was nothing but a wall and a profile, limited to people with .edu addresses. You have to start somewhere. Obviously they will be building brand pages soon. Fucking relax. Christ. I actually admire Google for keeping it simple at first. Test it out, see how it is perceived. Make sure it’s not a complete disaster like Wave or Buzz. Once it’s borderline successful, then add an API. Then add business pages. Then add apps. If you do too much at once, it will all be shitty.
PS – there’s rumor on the internets that Chinese bros are running knockoff Apple stores. Whatever. The Chinese pirate fucking everything. If it exists, the Chinese can will pirate it. I wouldn’t be surprised if they hacked Google, mirrored all their servers and named it Baidu. Did you ever see screenshots of Baidu mail? It’s like Gmail 2.0.