meaningless shit
Monday, May 12th, 2008
by badr
So in the up and down, left and right of my last two days of moving stuff, (this past friday and saturday), We got the rest of the things from Amikolle, and our bed. Then we cleaned up the boxes and other shit we had in the apartment, and in that process I lost my ID card from work, a smarttrip card from the Md. Metro with $50 in “fare money” and my 4Gb Cruzer USB Key. The usb key had all my tools for work. It looked like the encryption key in “Iron Man”… well kind of.
So I realize I haven’t seen the thingy with the ID, Smarttrip card and USB Key, so I tell Amikolle, I am going to look for it. I literally turned the house upside down, then I asked her to look for it and she did. No where to be found, my id, my smarttrip card and my usb key are gone, forever. Shit Happens.
So today, I approach the security office, and I explain the dude, “Listen I lost my ID Card, this weekend because I was moving and I must have lost it in the moving in and out…”, so the guy looks at me and tells me, “Well you got to pay for it in admissions… there is a fee for making a new one.”, so I look at the guy and ask him how much it would cost (here I am thinking it will be $5.00, my bank charges $7 for a lost credit/debit card and they’ll make it on the fly.), and the dude tells me, “ummm I think its going to be like $20 bucks”.
(this is where I flip out)
“$20 bucks, are you out of your fucking mind???” (well i didnt say fucking to him, but I included it for the sake of drama). “What does the new ID card has that is made out of freaking platinum or gold?”, or does it have fucking RFID components?
Fucking shit. Not only I loose $50 bucks, my usb key and my work ID and now I got to add fucking $20 for a freaking ID Card.
Fuck!
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
by badr
The only thing I have to say is, iWish.
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
by badr
1. Drink:
You will of course say that this is meant to be funny, or that I am being sensational for the purposes of getting traffic and the mindboggling sums of money this website rakes in. I am not. If you plan it right, you can drink for decades without becoming a complete alcoholic. It gives you something to look forward to at the end of a day, and it allows you to not give a fuck about how annoying other people are. It gives you a barrier between you and the rest of humanity, a force-field that they cannot breach. It takes the sting from your fuck-ups, the bitterness from your defeats, the shame from your failures.
a. People have problems, they have passions, they die. Kids get born, they have problems and passions too, they also die.
2. Analyze:
Look closely at almost any situation and you will realize how pointless and futile caring about it is. Caring comes as a result of you not thinking and letting your emotions do all the work. Emotions are a disease, reason is your mind�s only defense against them. You let them take over and you become a completely useless person, incapable of getting anything done. Scrutiny is a part of reason, and very little in life stands up to it.
3. People are shit, and there are a lot of them:
They are not worth the effort. They are dumb fuckers who make their own beds and fully deserve to lie in them. No exceptions. There is nobody anywhere who is not to some extent deserving of their fate. Life only looks unfair when you are the one in trouble, to everybody else it�s actually kind of funny.
4. Arguments are dishonest:
Pretty much all of them. It�s rare that anybody thinks anything all the way through lest they be proven wrong and have to back down from previously-held positions. So rare that I am going to say that it never happens. People mostly argue from self-interest, not from any desire to promote �truth�. Anything you believe, you believe because it is convenient, not because it�s right. You believe one thing over another because it suits you, it conforms to your desires, not because it�s the right thing.
5. Recognize that life is short:
Life is like the internet, a handful of important things floating in an ocean of liquid feces and used condoms. You have a short time to swim through it all so choose wisely what you let matter. You can get bogged down for decades in shit that just looks important.
6. Nothing is new:
People have problems, they have passions, they die. Kids get born, they have problems and passions too, they also die. Nothing in your life is new. It�s been done. Nothing you think or feel is special or world-changing. You are one of billions, each of whom thinks they are unique, walking in the footsteps of the billions who have lived and died before you. If someone murdered you right now, what would set you apart from all the murder-victims in history? If somebody grieved for you after your death what would set them apart from the billions who have grieved since people started dying?
“Murphy was a pessimist. Remember that.”
Monday, April 21st, 2008
by badr
I got a lot of friends. Some are in the PC side and others are in the Mac side. Some love PC’s because they can mod them to their heart content, others love macs because of the security, their thoughtful designs or because the OS is very very slick. I have friends that are PC Fanboys and friends that are Mac Fanboys. I got friends that love the PS3 and others love the xbox360.
I like to say that for tastes there are colors, and my friends are cool no matter what is their preference.
This morning I was having my typical conversation with Darksoul. We were talking about banks, the weather in texas (he is moving over there soonish), and I was telling him how I got offered in my job a macbook air and I turned it down for a lenovo x300. Frankly I think the Macbook Air, could be better designed, but i wouldnt dunk $1700 on it. Id rather buy a Macbook Pro like I will in November 2008, when Nehelem comes out.
Darksoul is a very passionate nerd. Well we are all geeks and fandom goes in different ways, I think windows sucks, and the only product Microsoft has made that is really good is the 360. Well anyways, recently he has begun the changes of de-borginisation. He recently switched… from being a Microsoft Lover to being an Ubuntu embracer. I was telling him this is very good. Its a good step to head into the light. Every geek knows Linux is king, and windows is used for solitaire. And Vista Sucks. OSX is a refined Linux, tied to a framework called Cocoa, which is why its not free, but OSX and linux are the same thing.
So the thing is that Darkie since he cannot argue about the software, because lets me honest, he is still in a transition period. He went to argue about something he knows best… The Hardware. So we argued about the hardware and this is when you know, that when you cannot keep in a debate the best weapon you can do is shutting up. But Darkie insisted that the mac hardware is not superior to PC hardware. I personally beg to differ. After owning a PowerPC G5 and a 8Core Mac Pro, I can say that the hardware on Mac’s is superior because the OS is tailored to it. Darkie in the heat of the arguement said something that its very difficult to achive, and quoting him, “I can build a better 8-Core Workstation with half the price of what your Mac Pro cost you”.
Knowing this is nearly as impossible as Vista being impervious to viruses, I offered him a challenge…
“If you can build an 8 Core PC with the same specs my Mac Pro has, and in half the price it cost me, I will admit defeat… and I’ll admit it in a video in youtube, but if you can’t you must do the same from the PC stand point…” Yeah I know its kind of a bit childish, but then again it proves a point… If you are so sure of your prowess, I am pretty sure you can best me and shut me up…
I gave him my specs, and although my Mac Pro, cost me around $600 cheaper because I bought it under a Government discount, that we would run the challenge not applying any discounts:
* Two 3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon (8-core)
* 4GB (4 x 1GB)
* 500GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
* NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB (Two dual-link DVI)
* One 16x SuperDrive
* Apple Keyboard
* Logitech MX Revolution
Total including Maryland Tax: $4567.97 (it cost me $4,001.00 with the discounts and tax).
Darkie having no point to prove his boistering relied to keep silent, say how he couldnt afford a mahcine like that in the present etc. etc. I didnt really pretended him to go buy it, I just wanted him to show me, that he could build a PC with the specs of my Mac Pro, cheaper by 50%.
Bottom Line?
He couldn’t.
I out of curiosity did some research. The only machine I found that offered a Dual Quad Core combination was Hewlett Packard, it goes like this:
HPxw8600 Workstation
* Intel xeon X5472 3.0Ghz 12/M1600 QC cPU x2
* 4Gb Ram DDR2-667 ECC FBD Ram
* Nvidia Quadro FX1700 512Mb PCIe
* HP 500GB SATA 3Gb/s NCQ 7200
* HP 16X DVD+-RW Super Multi Sata
* Keyboard + Mouse
System price:$6,976.00
This is a difference of $2408.03 This is pretty much the cost of another “gaming” rig or a 24″ iMac or the more expensive of the MacBook Pro’s, or simply put a shitload of money.
Darkie’s response? Well he closed up he Messenger and bitched that mac sucks.
The only thing I have to say to him is, that everyone has a preference, but if you are going to make a remark that is going to draw a challenge at least be honest enough to know that you were just bullshitting and you didnt know what you were talking in the first place.
Darkie: You know I consider you a good friend and I know you are an aggitator… But if I shut you up at least be a man about it and admit it… its not going to hurt… 
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