Can Summer End Already?

July 19, 2010

Rants

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I fucking hate summer. All I do is go to work in hot ass buildings, come home, pass out, wake up and repeat. Guess what? I can do that when it’s 40 degrees out just as well, minus sweating balls. Seriously. I don’t live near a beach, so I’m not at the beach. I don’t go to pools much. No one goes on vacation (and if I did, I’m dead serious I’d go on an Alaska cruise). I don’t do the stereotypical summer outdoor activities. I’m home in my AC, and it’s boring as hell. And it needs to end now.

No one seems to understand that if it’s cold, you can always bundle up, snuggle, put more clothes on etc. But if it’s hot and there’s no AC, there’s nothing you can do.

Also, the good part of summer is already over. For me, summer is only tolerable until July 4th. The beginning of summer is always fun because you just get out of school and you have the whole entire summer to look forward to. I like seasons, so I need a little summer, but I’ll take 1-2 weeks max before I hate it to death. But after July 4th, it drags on, nothing else is fun and all I used to do was count down days to school so I can have a[n unhealthy] life again. Although I’m done with school so…

There are so many good things coming up this fall/winter, I just want to hibernate until its 65 degrees or below outside. Then I’ll come out and enjoy these:

  • September 14, 2010 (technically still summer but close enough) – New Linkin Park Album. It better not be whiny and annoying. If it’s like anything prior to 2003, (and 1-2 songs from Minutes to Midnight), it’ll be good.
  • September 19, 2010 – HBO’s Boardwalk Empire series premier. Scorsese? Atlantic City mob scene in the 1920s. Sick. It’s HBO, so it’s guaranteed to be good.
  • September 21, 2010 – Autumn. It better start cooling the hell off soon
  • September 26, 2010 – Season 5 Premier of Dexter. That show is the shit.
  • December 25, 2010 – Christmas
  • December 29, 2010 – The Machine is at BB King’s in NYC. Who’s coming with?
  • Q4 2010 / Q1 2011 – Android 3.0 Gingerbread. Yummy!
  • 2011 sometime – New Red Hot Chili Peppers Album. Not much details are known. Might be different without Frusciante.
  • Winter 2011 – I need to visit D-Porpz in that state where old people live and everyone else vacations at.
  • March 2011 – Round up college friends (or whoever the hell wants to go with me) and book spring break while pretending to still be college students, not an old unemployed, fat, lazy bum. Anyway, yatta yatta yatta college girls yatta yatta. This is to make up for the fact that I didn’t get a chance to go away on spring break while I was in college (what a waste). It’s also an attempt for me to step away from reality and stop crying that my life sucks now that I graduated.

See? There’s a lot of good shit coming up, and it’s not during summer. Mec – 1. Summer – 0.

RIM Just Bitched out Apple

July 18, 2010

Computer/ Tech Related

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In Apple’s press conference about their piece of shit iPhone 4 antenna, they pretty much denied that there was an issue, yet offered a solution anyway (free case anyone?). Feeling gulity much? Apple also ripped on RIM, Nokia and HTC that all these smartphones have antenna problems. That is bullshit. They’re just trying to make themselves look bad.

As much as I hate Blackberries and think Droids are better, I hate Apple more. So I applaud RIM’s statement, which pretty much says in a nice way: “Hey Apple, you fucked up. Don’t drag us into this and tell people all phones with internal antennas have this issue – our antennas are fine”

The statement:

Apple’s attempt to draw RIM into Apple’s self-made debacle is unacceptable. Apple’s claims about RIM products appear to be deliberate attempts to distort the public’s understanding of an antenna design issue and to deflect attention from Apple’s difficult situation. RIM is a global leader in antenna design and has been successfully designing industry-leading wireless data products with efficient and effective radio performance for over 20 years. During that time, RIM has avoided designs like the one Apple used in the iPhone 4 and instead has used innovative designs which reduce the risk for dropped calls, especially in areas of lower coverage. One thing is for certain, RIM’s customers don’t need to use a case for their BlackBerry smartphone to maintain proper connectivity. Apple clearly made certain design decisions and it should take responsibility for these decisions rather than trying to draw RIM and others into a situation that relates specifically to Apple.

Saturday’s Song of the Week: Stu’s Song

July 17, 2010

Music

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nH9u_kf-Vc

Yes, I am dead serious. This song has been stuck in my head all week long. As you all know, The Hangover is the shit. I’ve been learning the shit out of it and anyone who lives with me is sick of hearing it. Here, have the sheet music (guitar tabs are included there, if you like guitar better).

P.S – There were numerous occasions last school year where I expected to find a tiger when I woke up the next mor… afternoon. It was my running joke of the year: “where’s the tiger?”

Then you’re shit out of luck.

Random News Stories From Around The Web With Commentary (7/15/2010)

July 15, 2010

Useless Update

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18th Century Ship Exhumed at World Trade Center Site – So workers found an 18th century ship buried underground? Let me get this straight. Why didn’t they find this in the early 1970s when they dug the foundation on the World Trade Center?

Google Spent $100 Million Defending YouTube Against Viacom – Fuck Viacom and anyone who wants to sue for intellectual property damage these days. First off, Goolgle fully complies with takedown requests, so what the hell is the issue. Half the time I go to watch a Youtube video, it’s pulled down for Christ’s sake. Secondly, Viacom employees probably uploaded copyrighted videos on purpose to plant false evidence. Scumbag company. Wait a sec… $100 million on a lawsuit just to get it dismissed? Jeez! Must be nice when you turn a $3.6 billion profit in 3 months.

I Want this Fucking Thermostat – Is this thing badass, or am I just a geek? Basically you put solar panels on your roof and this thing controls everything, plus you can manage your thermostat and see power usage/ how much power your solar cells generated from anywhere on the internets. My house is facing south and bakes in the sun nonstop from 9am to 5PM, so I roast balls all day if the AC isn’t on. Really, tell the government to pay for me to install this system (they spend money out of control anyway on useless shit, so I might as well get free handouts). I’m green, bitches.

I was going to post more links but then I stopped caring.

Shut Up About the iPhone 4’s Antenna Issues Already

July 15, 2010

Computer/ Tech Related, Rants

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ATTENTION TV, NEWS and INTERNET: STOP COVERING THIS STORY ALREADY

If you haven’t heard that this phone is a fuckin shitpile by now, you are either Hellen Keller, dead or living here. There have been 300 articles per minute on my newsreader since June 24th about how the antenna is shitty. We get the point.

Now Steve Jobs felt the need to call an emergency press conference today at 10AM PST with less than a day notice so he can address these issues. Anything other than “I fucked up” or “We are not as amazing as everyone thinks because we have obsessed, blind followers” is a downright lie.

Here’s my problem with Apple. No matter how good or bad they are, people are obsessed. And any time there is news, it’s all the rage.

Ok people? Got it? It has an antenna problem, Jobs was warned, and he was a dick with PR about it. What more is there to analyze? So with that, no one cover this any more, I’m tired of reading it.