Fun videos

Hopefully ya'll like Carl Sagan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgg2tpUVbXQ

Read the story, look at the pictures, and tell me you aren't thinking it too

I don't mean to sound like we've grown ourselves some sort of dystopia, but I'll be damned if this isn't some Minority Report shit right here. It just seems wrong to me that intent is somehow a punishable offense, particularly when it's thinly veiled intent that no one with a real education would agree with.

And people wonder why I say that things like "To Catch a Predator" are a joke and a threat to our rights as citizens. Next step? Government controlled locks on our doors and chips in our heads set to alert the authorities at any indication of a thought gone sinister.

The war is lost? We're defeated?

How do you lose a war that's supposed to have nothing to do with you? Isn't that kind of like the referee losing a football game? Is there any way to not lose something like that? What exactly defines success here? Do we win when they're all wiped from the planet? I have a quick and easy solution to this problem if that's how we're going to go about it.

Vulnerable person?

Is this the new PC term for retarded person? I read a local story that sounded an awful lot like it was about a retarded person yet they kept referring to them as vulnerable. Are they retarded when they manage to stay at work and then vulnerable when they somehow wander off?

Anyway, my rant for today is about how I remember when gas was <$1 a gallon.

Immortal: Ad Vitam

Pretty cool flick visually. The storyline coulda used a bit more but one can't expect too much from this type of film. The surprising part is that most of the human actors had their voices dubbed in English. I'm not saying I got the dubbed version of the film, I'm saying this is how the film was made. It actually adds a bit to the film in that it makes the real actors part of the not so real rest of the film. Either that or it let them put a hot chick that only speaks French into an English movie (that just so happens to be French produced... wtf??). Worth checking out either way.

Well said

Pretty good response I say.

No that's not lame

Okay, so that was kind of funner than I thought it would be. I came up with a few more breakdowns I liked:

1996-2000 - High school (yeah no fun name for that one)
late 2000 - Kuna days and the beginning of ignorance
2001-2002 - The forgotten times, aka the era of wtf was my mom thinking marrying that guy?
2002-2003 - The anime/techtv era
early 2004 - The time of awakening
mid 2004 - The greatest summer
late 2004 - The time of ignorance
late 2004-early 2005 - The winter of destruction

If you've known me for a while, you can probably figure out why we have a time of awakening and a time of ignorance in the same year. The forgotten times are funny in that I actually have a really hard time remember anything about them. I think that's a defense mechanism of the brain to keep it from stabbing itself in the third eye.

Anyway, I dunno why that was funny to me but it was. I'll probably wake up tomorrow and realize how rtarded it actually is. And yeah, I put rtarded there.

10 years? 6 years? 3 years? Who now?

I dunno how it happened, really. I think it was the few days our office network was down and I had to do some work at home on my laptop. Old code called to me and I knew it was time to set the toys down and pick up the hammer. It's been a pretty good effort overall, as small as it's been. Things compile and some of the libraries run decently. A bit of debugging should put the fruit of the labor back on good ground.

One of the things I'd started doing back in the day was tagging source with the year it was written. It was supposed to be like a copyright thing but it's more or less become a timeline for me to look back on (note to self, always have a changelog so you don't look so much the fool). The oldest code I have in there is 6 years old. The most common source was written 3 years ago. If I look as far back as I can, I still have code from 10 years ago in my repository. There's a clear, half-assed attempt at fixing things up in 2005.

What's really interesting is that I can stick important periods in my personal timeline into those dates. Code written in 2004 came during the greatest summer (it serves as a reminder of why it was also the loneliest summer, or the summer of many books), which is why there was so much. The half-assed attempt of 2005 came during the winter of destruction. Anything from 2001-2003 was written during the time of great confusion. Code from pre-2001 is all from the time of learning. I wonder how I'm going to tag all this 2007 code when time has passed and I'm able to look back on it. The time of being too old to give a shit anymore? The time of the great move? It's too early to tell I think. It'll probably just be the time of great half-assedness redux.

I like to think that the greater story is told during the times of code, but it's always the periods of code drought in-between that keep me up at night. I think that if Rekal were ever to become real, I'd take a trip back to the greatest summer. As rough as parts of it were, it's the only memory I have so far that I'd like to hold on to. So much productivity, so much fun, so much learned. I know the exact times that I'd take the trip for also. Maybe not the exact dates, but the general times.

I should end this with something funny, so here goes: Dr. Phil is a tool of the most commercial type. I hope he finds a special place in the dankest pits of hell, alongside Jack Thompson, for the way he chose to demean the victims of the VT tragedy.

Time for a new a blog post thing

I'ma be a homeowner, aka indebted for life, soon. I think I just threw up my colon. From my mouth. That shouldn't be possible, right?

So it goes

One of the greatest losses of our time.

Uwe Boll looks to make bank on 9/11

I dunno man... I'm torn here. I hate people going on about this stuff, but this is the first time I haven't felt like rolling my eyes and walking away. At the same time I'm slightly mortified and left with a feeling of "did he really just do that?". I hate the guy and refuse to watch any of the filth he spews forth, don't doubt that, but this pushes the American sensibility knob all the way to 11 here. I guess this blog should really just be me asking if I'm a bad person for chuckling at the end.