http://www.dailyherald.com/story/print/?id=216969

Good call with Billie Jean and Roxanne!

My runners up are Ave Maria- Bach/Gounod, To Ramona- Bob Dylan, Sweet Caroline- Neil Diamond

“Hell is Chrome” – Wilco (Jeff Tweedy, 2:50) It’s a spastic gem.

This time it is my actual blog.. lol

dont laugh…
What it takes- Aerosmith (Joe Perry, 2:37)

Dominic can’t wait. It’s one of his favorite bedtime stories.

Awesome… Salsa Cookies.

His golf swing is quite possibly the worst I’ve ever seen my life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5chdYDbYQAA

i kid

And I’m diggin the new template.

Baseball is not any different now that he’s on top, nor is it going to change. IMO, it’s already dead. Step down, Selig.

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I think it would surprise you though how many people know about, and regularly surf, Wikipedia.

Microsoft obviously produces a decent product, I’m not going to debate that point. But beyond that, their company just seems to be stagnant and out of juice in terms of innovation and ambitious spirit in general that Apple is suffused with now.

Who the hell put that up there?

They SAY use 1gb-2gb but I ran Vista with a score of 2.9 out of 5 on my 4 year old home PC because I have a 256mb video card in there.

I look at it from a different perspective. Sure, M$ is copying technology, no doubt about it… but why are they doing so? They aren’t making some of these features the core of their operating system; rather they are including them into the OS so that people who might be swayed by the new-hotness of a owning a MAC can make the transition to a Vista seamlessly.

I’m not one to argue if a Mac or a PC is better… it’s like getting in a fight for Ford vs. Chevy. No one is ever going to win. All I’m saying is don’t beat up on the smart kid in school just because he’s found a way for everyone to pay him to do their homework.

I’m a fan of Vista because of it’s administrator capability case in point.

Each OS does serve a purpose. And it is very much political. Perhaps moreso than we realize right now, and will only experience down the road.

miss ya’ll. are there going to be ski trip photos? I saw some through facebook…Middaaaaaw had some up. The more the merrier!

I have a mac, and I’m excited about Vista…
I am especially excited for those who can afford to run it the way they advertise… haha, just kidding john!

I think it touches on why I love Linux, yet never realized it until seeing it in text. For the record, I don’t like using Linux unless I have to anymore…or if I feel like going on an IRC binge. I love “idling” on Linux, but in Window’s defense, it does everything that I need right now.

back to Linux….

…my appeal is the social implications that it reflects. There are no worries about piracy, or illegal sharing (is that being redundant?). The entire idea of linux and/or freeware begins with the open source approach that everyone is ENCOURAGED to share and collaborate. Certainly, you can dog on the whole “ripping off from those who deserve credit”, but – as a whole – the open source community is getting much better about organization, and the idea that the reward comes from an entirely different, non-$ facet…and it may be different for every individual.

I think it’s a healthy representation of what many arts should be about: getting together, sharing ideas, spurring creativity, and spawning productivity.

all-together now: aaaaawwwwwwww

Having said all that, the linux gaming community licks a big, ugly, donkey chode and is light years away from Windows.

If could make some kind of hybrid OS, I would create a computer system with the corporate support of MS, the open-source ideology of Linux, and the wonderful ease-of-use and cleanliness of a Mac OS. I say all that knowing that it will never happen.

My own, personal perception of this (hardware related)…and I think this will relate to a lot of other end-users as well:

The base system requirements are ridiculous. Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t it require at a bare minimum a ridiculous amount of RAM?

Well, I guess that’s the biggie for me, that and v-card power….

…as much as I bitch about my comp being old, there are SHIT loads of people out there with far more ancient architecture out there than this piece of shit on my right.

It’s going to already boil down to having to buy another system. 4K for a new Mac? I doubt it, unless you’re referring to the latest, top-of-the-line shit. Same could be argued for the latest PC.

A friend of mine over here is a die-hard Mac fan and has been trying to sell me over to them for the last 2 years. I tire of it and will put off this a decision until it has to be made. But I’ve noticed a glaring weakness about her that has raised my brow, per se (and this doesn’t necessarily reflect all Mac users *cough* Tyler *cough*):

she knows know JACK SHIT about what computers are about.

“Turning off” a program?…what’s that? She just shuts her Powerbook and reopens it.

“backing up” data? wtf is that? “I just got a new Powerbook and lost my entire mp3 collection.

….it goes beyond this. But it’s made me question this: You cannot deny the many conveniences that a Mac has to offer, but is it worth the cost of ignorance? I think her own [ignorance] is dangerous.

I’ve wondered in, out, and around the point here. I really don’t know what side I’m on about Mac vs. Vista, but because of its demands, I’m going to have to wait this out for another year or two and get a complete overhaul anyways.

1. What you’re talking about is Virtual memory, not readyboost.

2. I don’t see how empowering an ignorant customer with the ability to make a concrete decision that and eMachine rates lower than a Dell is not going to make an impact. There are a lot of stupid end users out there and the way the rating scale works in Vista is that it’s final rating is not an average, but rather the rating is determined by the lowest grade component in the computer. That way you can’t soup up the processor and leave the memory to shiz.

3. Vista isn’t “joining the party”. You mis-interpret. Vista allows you restrict use of all commands even into a PE environment.

4. Neither will you in Vista.

5. The purpose isn’t to prevent someone from stealing your computer. It’s to prevent someone for capturing your data once they steal your computer. And if you’re too big of an idiot to lose your USB stick or TSB code, then don’t use it.

6. OSX defrags with… wait for it…. another addon!

7. Very useful even to the end user. It can let them know the date something might have been going wrong and the exact action they might have done to cause it.

8. To the end user, no more navigating UNC pathnames or “neighborhoods”. It’s all right there on a topographical map.

9. Great. Go spend $4k on a mac.

And as far as the the features I listed? They’re all available on Home basic edition (the cheapest) except for tablet support.

Oh and who can beat the fact that my xbox360 has now become more powerful than any multimedia center ever… wirelessly.

I may seem biased, but it’s only because I’ve done the Vista Certification from MicroSoft and I’m educated on some of the greats and flaws of this OS.

Vista Footnotes

2. Experience Rating – I don’t see any benefit to the customer. That and I don’t see how a computer manufactures can use this data. Also I remember a lot of people being up in arms about programs like this that “call home,” I foresee a patch in the future that disables this.

3. Command line function security – Windows finally joins the party.

4. Pen & input devices – Not only does OSX do this, but you don’t need to install drivers for a varity of peripherals (ie Camera, Camcorders, printers, ect).

5. Bitlocker – This is cool, up until you loose you USB stick or the person who stole your computer reformats the hard drive. Apple might already do this with keychain.

6. Defrag – OSX does this.

7. Reliability monitor – I guess that this would be helpful to system admins. (But if it is windows, I don’t see the reliability going very high above Zero. lol)

8. Network & Sharing – I can see this being helpful to a network administrator, but not the average user. Plus there are programs like nmap that network admins use.

Shadow Copy – OSX Leopard does this. It is called Time Machine.

I just don’t see Vista living up to the hype. I can see how some of these tools are build with the system admin in mind, but I still think that it is a far from what microsoft wants people to believe. The only thing that it had going for it was WinFS and they dropped it.

1. Readyboost – simply add a thumbdrive to your computer (say it’s a 2GB jumpdrive) and you automatically have added 2GB of RAM to your computer.

2. Experience Rating – gives a scale from 1.0 to 5.0 that will analyze your computer to give you a rating of performance your computer will experience with computers. This will give manufacturers of computers to ability to list this raiting when selling a computer in the future, and puts more power in the buyer.

3. Command line function security – you can set security permissions for command line functions

4. Pen & input devices – now your stylus or pen or whatever will auto-load if you are using a tablet PC or writeable monitor or touchscreen. Nothing else required.

5. Bitlocker – drive encryption that can encrypt the entire drive (remember this feature is built in and it’s not 3rd party software) that requires you to have a TBM key or USB drive in order for you to unlock the computer. Example where it’s good? Your computer is stolen and it is completely useless unless they have the TBM key or a usb drive.

6. Defrag – now runs automatically and intuitively when it detects that it needs to, and only when disk use is low, making disk life last longer.

7. Reliability monitor – graphs events and event ID’s in a graph format with a line graph showing performace and most importantly, reliability.

8. Network & Sharing – now there is a “visio” view of sorts that shows all network topology and allows you to create connections with other computers on your network and view their shares. No more UNC pathnames if you don’t want to use them, because this gives you a nice pretty picture.

Sorry to say this, but the guy who wrote the review doesn’t even know where to begin when doing a Vista review and IMO and hasn’t even used the great functions of it, and well… is an idiot.

That’s one thing that M$ will always have over the market, they have designed a product that is capable of large deployments that has the administrator in mind. That’s something any other operating system is never going to do, or even do well IMO… at least not in the next 30 years.

There are videos of the interface on youtube. That thing looks so freakin’ cool.

“The founders of the Rainbow Coalition are also rumored to be from Graham; notably Thomas Nathan Allen, Justin “Gordy” Armstrong, and one other individual known only as “the donkey.”

was the letter real?

I bet it looks like chinese fingerpaint on the inside it’s so black.

hehehe

Musician autobiographies blow my mind. They truely are one of my favorite genres to read. I wish I had more time for them.

WE HAVE OUR DREAMS…

… ACROSS THE A-HEY-GEZ

dum de dum de dum de
dum de dum de dum de

I am now complete. good night.

The smell was quite interesting.

http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1488149/20040603/creed.jhtml?headlines=true&_requestid=345929

Congrats bro.

…show’s off sinfonie’s 2 best looking. =)

And no one out there but my brother can make a rib-eye as good as me.

BOW!

Get the RotK EE when it comes out in November if it’s that important to you to see more. I have not seen The Last Samurai so I won’t comment on how RotK just completely owned it.

BAD FUCKING ASS.

We’ll be sure to give the old grill a proper funeral and burial when we both get back.

I think you’ve surpassed me in the longest post ever.

ahahahahaha I don’t know why, but that right there made me laugh out loud.

Please. Shut. The. Fuck. Up.

You have an untrained ear, and when you say, “my listening selection ranges from mostly classical to Led Zeppellin to Pantera…”, basically, you’re being ignorant yourself.

Music spans broad horizons OTHER than rock n’ roll. Pop in some Stravinsky or some non-western music, then come to me, and tell me what you think.

THEN and ONLY THEN will I respect anything you have to say about Music. Who are YOU to critique a subject you know nothing about? Even if you do THINK you know alot about music, i guarantee you know nothing close to what Huff and I do. So please, save your whinny shit for someone who cares, or rather someone who’s as ignorant as yourself.

Any normal person that has a love for music and thoroughly understands it could have easily listened to Huff’s piece and realized the work that it took. By you saying you didn’t know if a 5 year old wrote it or not, you are admitting your own self-demise.

Am I a huge fan of this type of “music?” Hell no. I can however respect the time and effort put into it. This piece was most definitely not meant for everyone, and if it was, the word NAIVE comes to mind.

The stereo effect on my PC was ear candy to the fullest. Not what I would consider it appealing music (to me), but cool none the less. And it will remain in my music files for one sole reason… Huff wrote it. SFL.

The effort put into a piece means EVERYTHING. Not what YOU think it should be. No one on this planet is enlightened enough to tell others what to think, or what art to produce. I think you are indeed closed-minded if you insist that art has to fit into the status quo in order to be acceptable. Here’s some terms that I think you should do some objective research on: Emotion, intuition, feeling, superego.

FUCK I’m so dissapointed in the human race.

Done and done.

And yes, that is coming from a guy that got his undergrad at UNT, AND is a brother.

And yes, I think it’s bullshit.

Like Job said:

“Dost though still retain thine integrity? cuse God, and die.
But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? Shall we recieve good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?”
Job 1:9-10

If God plans on dealing me a crappy hand like he has… i can only hope that one day it’ll all be worth it.

I had a great time. SFL

Good season. GG bro.

PINKY!!!!

Alpha Phis do not drink, do not drink.
Alpha Phis do not drink, do not drink.
We may smoke, we may chew, we may go to bed with you,
Alpha Phis do not drink,
WE CHUG!!!

I shit you not. Tre heard it too. We just shook our head and smiled.

“Dust.” *sprinkles dirt from his hand*

“Wind.” *blows off remaining dirt and jiggles fingers*

“Dude.” *points at Socrates*

-Ted, from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure

Dust in the Wind by Kansas, as sung by Will Ferrell in Old School.

huffypuffman direct connection is closed (7:45:10 PM).
huffypuffman (7:45:18 PM): what are u doing
me (7:45:41 PM): h4x you =) Mr. 12.239.98.28
me (7:45:45 PM): FLower mound, TX
me (7:45:47 PM): you dumbshit

(he signs off, then we fuck with his computer quite a bit, you know the usual flip the screen sideways, send text message boxes on his screen, the normal things…)

huffypuffman has signed on (7:48:52 PM).
me (7:49:00 PM): So tell me Mr. l337 h4×0r, how does it feel to be hacked?
him (7:49:09 PM): ummm not good
me (7:49:17 PM): So how about giving the password back to this screename?
him (7:49:26 PM): Yes Sir.
him (7:49:40 PM): Hold on sir, please don’t do anything else to my computer i have to get the pw from my friend he gave me this sn to pley wit
me (7:49:59 PM): you have 2 minutes buddy.
him (7:50:36 PM): Ok, sir, its **password***
me (7:50:42 PM): If this doesn’t work, i’m going to fucking REAK HAVOK AND UNHOLY GOD ONTO YOUR COMPUTER.
him (7:50:58 PM): I Promise thats what he tolda me if it dudnt work i dontknow what is the PW!!! PLEASE dont do anything else.
me (7:51:12 PM): next time don’t be such a fucking n00b. I’m smarter than you, you little fuck.
him (7:51:22 PM): I know i promise i wont ever do nething that like it again. I know your smarter i figured that out. Please dont do nething.
me (7:51:31 PM): n00b.

And thus concluded the alleged conversersation with the accused. Forever he will be in fear of his computer, so all goes well… bad guys get caught, and I save the day. n00bs.