Author: Portfolioso
The MTA Can Suck It
Good Service my fucking ass
I get down to the platform to hop on the 6 at Grand Central this morning and I’m standing there for 10 minutes waiting for a train to show up. usually there’s a train every 2 minutes. Meanwhile like 8 express trains go by on the other track.
So finally, a 6 train appears and no one is getting on. Why? It’s skipping like 4 stops and it’s an express to 14th st. Fuuuuck that noise. If I would have known that, I would have not waited 10 minutes and just taken an express train and gotten off in the same spot to begin with. What is the point of it. It just passed 4 stops for no reason. Just strolled through the stations when it could have obviously stopped.
I wouldn’t mind walking an extra 7-8 blocks if it was 70 degrees and sunny, but don’t pull this shit in 37 degree rain. I was soaked. I guess this is how they treat people who fork over more money per month than a fucking car payment only to ride their broken down assed trains on filthy platforms.
Fucking MTA.
I’m Sick and Tired Of This Blog Being Slow. My Host Can Suck It So Hard.
I apologize to my 3 readers that this blog is slow. My host doesn’t give two shits about keeping server load down on a shared server, so I monitor it myself and send them snarky emails whenever the site runs like ass. They then proceed to fix it for about 5 minutes and it’s right back to shit. The excuse this time? “We’re replacing a backup drive and backups are running, along with the usual load.”
These load averages should be under 2 for optimal performance, and anything over 5 is shitty and causes lag. My stats show red consistently for two days straight. I’m about to drop the extra cash on a cloud server. I get a virtual instance of a server with just ME using it. With root. Shit would be legit. But for the 3 people that actually visit, it’s not worth spending 10x more.
Firefox 4 Pet Peeves
Firefox 4 is being released Tuesday and if you followed my blog for the past few months and ready my comments about the betas, I ripped it toshreds. That being said, they really cleaned it up by the time the Release Candidate hit and now I have to say I’m a fan. Sorry for being critical – it was for your own good. And for the most part, it’s decent. I will still use both browsers. But these things need some work:
- Why on earth are App Tabs deleted if history is cleared? I want to keep Gmail in its own app tab. But I also like clearing my history on close. Thisapparentlydeletes the app tab.The point of an App Tab is to be a static part of the browser. Chrome remembers them. They should not be stored in the session. That’s nonsense.
- The defaulttoolbar layoutis confusing as hell. Why is the refresh button to the right of the location bar and why is the home button and bookmarks button all the way on the right? Also, see that little dropdown arrow on the tab bar? No one knows what that does (it’s tab candy) (PS – ignore my FireBug button. That’s not there by default.
- Still not as fast as Chrome – They did an amazing job with the newJavaScriptengine. It benchmarks only about 50-100ms slower than Chrome’s V8. Which is pretty good considering that 3.6 is slower than shit and is 400-500ms slower.
- 97/100 on Acid 3. Where are the other 3 points?
Where is it better than Chrome?
- Hardware acceleration – On Microsoft’s FishIE Tank, Chrome runs like shit. Firefox is decent. I still think IE9 is faster though which is straight up pathetic.
- Printing – Google doesn’t seem to think it’s important to put printing options in the browser.
Overall, a very solid browser. I take back my previous rants about it.
This Professor’s Got Some Pair of Balls
Checked my school email for shits and giggles and found this floating in the inbox:
I admire this pompous man. Let me tell you something: I would completely rage if I got this email from a professor who sucked. But I think this ishilarious. Guy straight up batch emails all of his students and former students asking for our vote. Man’s got balls of steel. How confident is this guy – just dropping lines about his previous awards at other schools and how he believes he is a good teacher. Guy even gives you specific instructions on how to nominate him.
Seriously, isn’t the point of this award to be surprised and voted without asking? Cut the bullshit, Dr. Oz, we all know he’s just looking out for his own resume so he can move on to moreprestigiousschools. And you knwo what? I don’t blame the man. Nothing against him though, I actually had him and he was pretty decent, so I’d vote for him if I was still in school. Better than thatotherDrupal obsessed joker or 100% of the accounting professors up in that bitch. (Abusers, if you read this, I expect a full comment on this situation).
PS – Anyone who cancels their final exam and replaces it with a paper due on the last day of class is a winner in my book.
PS Again – You ever see this guy’s pictures? Guy’s a straight up baller. My fav is “Drink aggressively” TOUCHE!
This East Side Access Project Sounds Shitty to Me…
March 25, 2011
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Portfolioso
FUUUUUUCK THAT. Fucking MTA. Fucking Long Island. We don’t need these fuckers from Penn Station sending trains into Grand Central directly from Long Island. You know what that’s going to do? Clogging up Grand Central worse that I clogged the fucking toilet in my townhouse senior year. We all know Grand Central + Westchester is legit and Penn + Strong Island is a shithole. I don’t need trains connecting the two. Place is already amobbedmadhouse and impossible to get through and now we’re going to add 160,000 more people. FUCK. THAT. Use your heads.Terribleidea.