Category: Rants
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No Patience for Stupidity
I woke up this morning after a 2 hour, disturbed sleep (because I have way too much on my mind this week) to go to a class. I have a few spare minutes before I head out so I throw on some TV and Fox 61 news. Being from around New York (where we have legitimate news broadcasts), I usually don’t have access to this inferior Fox feed.
So the meteorologist comes on to do the weather and he’s recapping the 2008 hurricane season, stating that it’s officially over and gave some general information about it. Then he goes on to make a fool out of himself and says (I quote directly, no bull) “Well hurricane season is over. Meteorologically speaking, today’s the first day of winter.” Okay buddy, I don’t know where you got your degree from, but since when is December 1st the first day of winter? I think it’s common knowledge (and anyone in an 8th grade earth science class can back me up on this) that the winter solstice does not begin until December 21st. Actually I lied, people are generally ignorant with science. That’s fine. But you are a meteorologist, probably have a degree in this area and are on television. Get your facts right. I have no patience for this stupidity to be broadcast on the air. This is why the majority of people in this country are stupid. This was an absolute outrage and set me into a sour mood learning that these so called “professionals” have no idea what they are talking about and are spewing ignorance to the public.
So this other time, I’m in Bridgeport picking up some food and some other stupid moron is like. “Man I can’t wait until January 1st until we gots our new president.” Go pick your brain out of your teef, put it back in your head and learn something about the country you live in. I just have no comment. I bet there are morons out there who, if you go around asking who the president is, will reply “Obama.” I’ll be moving to my own island nation soon. Women (smart ones) and a high speed internet connection will be readily available, there will be no copyright law and we secede from the United States of Ignorance.
Ian Kennedy Sucks; Yankees Doomed
A few days ago, I get a call from someone at home asking me to chill Friday night. At first I didn’t want to, being that the Yankees were heading out west to take on the best team in baseball. But, it started at 10PM EST and I figured that. Meanwhile, we get sidetracked in Jersey, visiting some friends while we’re in the area. Well, good thing I didn’t rush home for the game, because I almost puked all over our waitress when I glimpsed at a TV in the 8th inning. (At least there was something decent there to look at besides the game.)
I have lost all respect for Ian Kennedy (0-4 8.97 ERA) following what he said after his abysmal pitching performance (yet again)… Let’s analyze:
“It’s the first bad outing I’ve had since the All-Star break, so I’m not going to look too much into it. I felt like I made some good pitches. I’m not too upset about it. What was it, a bunch of singles and three doubles? I’m just not real upset about it. I’m just going to move on and I’ve already done that.”
- First bad outing since the All-Star break? More like first outing since the All Star break, idiot (minor leagues don’t count here, sorry).
- You made no good pitches, shut up.
- Not going to look too much into it? Well that means you won’t be correcting your problems. Leave.
- You give up 5 runs in less than 2 innings, you’re not upset about it? What’s worse is that you are consistently a terrible player. You think that after so many terrible starts, you’d be disgusted already. We don’t take kindly to players who aren’t passionate to win. I am willing to bet that any starting pitcher on the 1998 Yankees would have been upset with themselves giving up 2-3 runs in a game and losing.
- “I’m just going to move on and I’ve already done that.” No you haven’t. You pitched like crap your entire career and you are exactly the same. Just because you’re good in the minors doesn’t mean you will be any good in the big leagues.
- Just a bunch of singles and three doubles? Doesn’t sound good to me. Maybe, just maybe, it would be okay if spread out over 8 innings with 2-3 runs… But lasting 2 innings and giving that up is nothing to belittle.
- Go ahead and move on…. To a different team. (I heard the Mets need and/or already have people like you in their bullpen.)
- Dan Giese and Darryl Rasner aren’t spectacular, but they really have a work ethic and show they care, in times when the Yankees are in dire need of starters. Often times it’s been rewarding. I am a fan of Giese, one of his outings was great and he got little run support.
- 5 runs should be enough to win a game. Weaver wasn’t too sharp.
One last comment on Kennedy: Go work in Wendy’s or something. You stupid fucking idiot, you gave up more hits than recorded outs, what are you smoking to think you didn’t pitch badly. But he’s a young kid, and everyone wants to give him 32 more losses, I mean chances. Here’s the Portfolioso.com solution to the Ian Kennedy problem: DESIGNATED FOR ASSIGNMENT. Harsh, yes. Potential loss of someone who will be good at some point? (cough 5+ years), yes. Why not send him back to the minors? Because after saying what you just said, I don’t want you on my team if you don’t care. Even Sidney Ponson (who had some great starts and helped our pitching fiasco) but generally isn’t seen as reliable, gets annoyed when he gives up runs. You can see him smacking his head after giving up a home run, which was only 1 of 3 earned runs and he got the win. That’s called effort, realizing you made a mistake, and keeping your head in the game to improve. Not “Oh yeah I’m not concerned. It’s cool guys. I have a blunt over here.”
The battered, tender and injury-prone Yankees are done. Better luck next season. This is something I have been saying since April, and everyone gave me shit for it, but I saw this coming. The Yankees usually start slowly and come to life After the All Star Break (no one expected it last year either, but it happened – and people relied on this to happen this year.) Well bad news folks, ain’t happening. Yast year, the Yanks were well on the road to recovery. This year, they start pitchers who don’t seen to care about the game. The post All Star Break jokeshow hotstreak of theirs was good while it lasted – or let me rephrase that – as they played crappy teams below .500. As expected, the Yankees fell back towards their usual ways. And it won’t be resolved until people like Kennedy are… Dealt with.
Hitting issues: Can someone seriously give me a dollar for every time a Yankee hits into a double play, and 50 cents when an out is made with runners in scoring position? This would nicely defray the cost of my college textbook bill. A-Rod is good, but not when the Yankees really need him. All Jeter does is make Ford commercials. Abreu’s hot. Nady started slow since coming here, but has been hot lately. Melky… Melky should have been gone months ago and in a deal for someone good. Since acquiring Nady, Girardi had Melky out of the lineup for 4 straight games. First, Girardi claimed to be resting him, but we later found out he needed to make “adjustments” since Nady came along. Sure, it doesn’t help when you’re hitting .220 and your on base percentage is less than .300. Suddenly, right bench is looking more useful for the team.
Second problem: Injuries. The Yankee organization downright lies about everyone’s injuries. There is way too much optimism. No one likes to hear the news that the Yankees just lost 8 of their last 13 games, so lets downplay the injury report. Everyone who ended up on the 15 day disabled list is out for months. I am scared for Joba, because the reports are that rotator cuff tendonitis will only sidetrack him a few weeks. Well let me kindly remind you that Jorge Posada was diagnosed with the same exact thing, which eventually led to season ending shoulder surgery (after he was stubborn, played on a bad shoulder, and couldn’t through out my grandpa if he tried to steal second). Joba is gone for the year. Wang is gone for the year. Posada is gone for the year. We go and get Pudge, and he needs to miss a few games because he got run over. Jeeeeeeeeeez.
I will stick by this team no matter what happens – it’s the job of real fans (yeah, we hate the bandwagon jumpers who only care when the Yankees actually win). Hopefully, this blog post will be dead wrong and we can make a wild card run, but they cannot be using assholes like Ian Kennedy to do that. The AL East is too strong for us this year. Let me conclude with two things to ponder. “Better luck next season” and “Who is jinxing the team that everyone’s getting hurt?”
CNS Needs to Get Their Shit Together
Computing and Network Services really needs to get their shit together. We are sick and tired of having terrible internet on campus. The wireless has been intermittent (or intermittent, as they incorrectly spell it in the email to students – shown below) since last Friday, and no one has figured it out yet. Are you serious? Yes, I understand that configuring such equipment is very complicated, I work in IT, but don’t they have backup configuration files to take the system back to the time when it was working? Seriously…
Here is what is wrong with the wireless network. It doesn’t take a CCNP to figure it out.
- The wireless installation was rushed and done half-assed over the summer. They were more concerned with actually rolling it out (for good press with our school paper) rather than doing it properly.
- It is unencrypted, unprotected and completely insecure. Anyone’s mother on a laptop can connect to it (when it actually works).
- The signal is too weak to penetrate the cinderblock walls in the residence halls. Either spend more money on more access points, or increase the transmit power.
- Why was the wireless configured to use a different subnet (255.255.0.0) and operate blindly from the wired network which has a subnet of (255.255.255.0)? In English, the wireless network cannot communicate with the wired network. Again in English, if you’re playing multiplayer games on wireless, you can’t connect to people who are on the wired network. This is also why there was a problem connecting to Eidos from the wireless network in the beginning of the year, because the traffic was not routed properly (It took them weeks to figure that one out) What should have been done: Set up a separate VLAN for the wireless on the same subnet, such as 10.xxx.7.xxx. This way, we know that 10.XXX.6.XXX include the wired VLANs and 10.XXX.7.XXX include the wireless VLANs.
- This connectivity problem on the CAMPUS wireless network (where the DHCP server does not give out an IP Address) has happened before with a few students. I looked at these laptops and they were configured properly. CNS looked at them and said there were no problems with the CAMPUS wireless network, because other people were connecting and it must be the laptop. When the student took the laptop home, or used the the outdoor wireless (FFLDU), it connected fine. You don’t have to be too smart to realize that there is a misconfiguration with CAMPUS. And instead of looking into it when 3 people couldn’t connect, they waited until it snowballed and no one can connect. Nice management!
- Dear CNS, This will solve your problems. Now read this article from your friends at Cisco (blog readers need not click that link – only CNS people who need to fix the network.
Also, here is the joke email sent, for the second time, reminding us that the wireless sucks:
Their solution? Go to the bookstore and buy an ethernet cable and use the wired network instead. I am not a fan of wireless, so I always use the wired, but even that is not reliable. Students need to register before their connection gets activated, and many times, that will get stuck in a loop and say you already registered, even though it still asks you to.
As of right now, I am connected to CAMPUS at a whopping 2MBPS and Very Low signal, but this drops on and off throughout the day. Maybe they’ll get to fix it before next fall. Oh, and there is a very good possibility that CNS people will read this, I know how much they love me over there. Ok, I’m done ranting. Have a good one.
Happy New Year
January 1, 2009
Rants, Useless Update
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Portfolioso
Happy New Year! So the earth’s rotation slowed so another second was added to 2008 to adjust for this. Ew. We don’t want another second added to 2008. 2008 sucked.
The Good: Giants Superbowl victory, The Dark Knight, New music (Metallica & AC/DC), Firefox 3, I’m still alive and doing okay since it could always be worse. Otherwise, I got nothing else for ya.
The bad: Stock indexes posted the worst yearly losses since 1931, a failing economy, George Carlin died, The Yankees sucked and missed the playoffs for the first time since 1994, a reporter dude had bad aim and missed Bush’s head with a shoe and other personal failures of my own which I will not mention here (because I’m not really open in general, but I especially won’t post it online). But that can be easily solved in a new year, so it’s insignificant.
So in the words of me “2008 can go take a crap” (Jon gets a kick out of that). Here’s to 2009! Fresh start and time to do some exiting new things, for the better. Sidenote: things won’t instantaneously get better – it’s not like a magic switch was thrown and the shit veil lifted, but hopefully things can start rolling and I won’t actually complain at this time next year.
Holiday