My yearly heat index rant.
Yup. There is it. The super complex formula for finding out what it “feels like” when you don’t actually want to go outside. Or instead of taking Calc you could just grow a pair and walk out side and decide for your self what it feels like.
According to weather.com it feels like 105*F outside right now. Well I’m here to tell you I was just outside and it feels like friggin’ 120*F. Who the hell is some meteorologist with a green screen and a little clicker to tell me what I’m going to feel like when I go outside? He can’t even figure out when it’s going to rain, and that’s an indisputable fact. If you go outside and it’s raining, it feels like it’s raining. You go outside when it’s 102, and it feels like you just walked into Arby’s and you’re the roast beef.
So heat index can GTFO as far as I’m concerned.
ucom …
you suck … ok now that is out of my system.
I’ve been with out internet for almost 12 hours now and i guess it wasn’t what i thought at first. i thought they had shut me off, but come to find out mom and dad were having the exact problems i was. the problem is we cant authenticate with the PPPoE server. therefore rendering our connection useless. then at 8:17am the morning mom let me know that both ingalls and cimarron are both without internet service
EDIT: internet services have been restored. so ftp/web servers should be back online
plus I’m still having troubles with my website. Thanks to my awesome host over at www.hostrocket.com they were able to back everything up I’ve come to the conclusion it’s a wordpress plugin that causing the problem. i thought i had had it fixed once, but yesterday i went to login again and another error so I’m going to have to go through ton of code to fix this problem so biebsworld may be crippled for awhile
06.13.07It might be about time to switch to Opera.
Thanks to a friggin Firefox exploit I got a virus last night. Not sure how I got it. I was only browsing my regular sites, but I guess you never know. I know that it’s Firefox’s fault because that’s the classification that the virus scan called it.
It said it couldn’t quarantine it or delete it, but it “moved” it. Oh thanks! Just move that virus around on my hard drive. So hopefully it’s moved far enough away that it doesn’t cause a problem. But according to www.secunia.com Firefox has the largest number of known security exploits next to Internet Explorer.
Exploits:
Firefox — 43
Safari — 6
Opera — 6
I love Firefox and everything, but it’s starting to fall victim to the same thing that plauges Internet Explorer. Mainstream use. It doesn’t matter how secure you claim something is. If there’s a large enough group of people using it, idiots are going to spend time trying to figure out how to exploit it. So I think it’s Opera time. Until that catches on then I guess I’ll have to go to something else.
05.29.07SW Kansas Here We Come!
Welp, we’re heading off to SW Kansas this weekend. We’re dropping off the cat at Matt’s mom’s place so she can catsit for us for a while. We’re definitely moving out of our apartment, can’t stand living in a creek flood zone. So, they’re going to start showing off our apartment coming up in June, since we have to put in our 60 day notice on the first.
Searching for a new place has been kind of difficult. It has almost wore me out, even though it’s only been a few weeks since we’ve started looking. 😛 Matt says that it will take time. I believe him, but I wish it wasn’t so hard around here. I was looking on rent.com for places in Wichita, just for fun, and came across a lot of places that were a hell of a lot cheaper than around here. I found a two bedroom apartment for about $425/mo down there that would cost us around $700/mo around here. It’s just ridiculous.
Anyways, I’m excited to see the other half of the family. I didn’t get to go with Matt the last two times he went down there. So, I hope everybody else is excited to see me!
05.22.07Renting Sucks
I try not to worry about too much that I can’t control, and usually I’m pretty good about it. Not today though.
Tonight Andrea and I went to look at a house for rent in a small town north of Ft. Riley. It’s a cute little 2 bedroom house with a 2 car garage. $500 a month, and not too bad of a drive for either of us. I really like it. The first problem with it is though, that it’s available in June, so we’d have to double up on rent for two months. I have some money saved up, but doing that will take a decent chunk of it. And also it doesn’t accept pets, so we’d have to get rid of Nala.
It’s such a great house though! But the combination of spending all that money and having to say goodbye to Nala makes me really apprehensive. She said she’s got several great applicants so far and that her decision was going to be pretty hard. So we might not even get the place. It’s just got me kinda shaken up. I’d be giving up alot, but I’d be getting alot as well. *sigh* It’s life, eh?
The last straw.
As you may or may not know. Our cat has had issues remembering where her litterbox is. Now…I don’t completely fault her. Sometimes my lazy ass puts off cleaning the box out for too long, and I can’t blame her for pissing somewhere else. Imagine if you didn’t flush your toilet for a week. Yeah, I’d whizz on the bed too!
Well I awoke at 6:30 this morning to a cat pawing at my leg. At first I thought that she was being a little brat and though that she needed fed a couple hours earlier than usual. But no! Apparently she had just finished crawling up between Andrea and I to take a piss! That was pretty much it. It’s one thing to do it while I’m gone and come home and find it, but it’s quite another when you crawl ON ME to do your business. I was seriously ready to haul her off back to the animal shelter where we got her.
But after I cooled down abit, Andrea and I decided that we’re just going to have to keep her out of the bedroom. She’s got her scent on the bed (from several occasions) so it’s hard to keep her from doing it. And we’re going to start scooping out the litter box daily. All the things we do for a freakin’ cat! But if she finds a new place to call a toilet, I’m afraid poor Nala is going to have to find another home.
Stupid cute cat.
02.13.07Legal doesn’t seem worth it.
I’ll be the first to admit I don’t have much experience with DRM (Digital Rights Management). However, in my limited experience, it’s done nothing but make one wish they’d just pirated the media anyway. It’s the reason I never really wanted to buy music, a movie, or a TV show on anything other than a tangible CD or DVD disc. At least with that I have limited freedom of what I do with it. I can take the disc to a friends house and watch it on their (usually more awesome) home theater setup if I want, or I can rip it to my computer or mp3 player and create playlists and compilations. I can listen or watch the content I paid for how I wish.
The latest headache isn’t really my headache at all. Andrea’s mom, Belinda, was wanting to know where to get mp3s for her new mp3 player. Of course she can buy CDs and rip them to mp3 easily enough, but the thought of being able to go online and pick just the songs you like and pay less than a buck a piece is alluring. Since her player isn’t an iPod I didn’t recommend iTunes, I instead mentioned Wal-Mart’s music distribution service that has songs for 88 cents a piece. She finds a few of her favorites and $4.00 later, she has her songs. However, trying to play the songs only resulted in the “Blue Screen of Death” and that was that. None of the driver updates or codec packs could solve the issue. I didn’t have the time to really dive in deep and see what other solutions people had tried. But the point is, you shouldn’t have to mess with drivers or BSODs. DRM in this case is just a deterrent to legitimately obtaining the product.
It’s often been said that all these DRM measures are hurting honest paying customers more than the internet pirates. In the case above this seems to be true. But if you ask me the future of DRM is more than preventing piracy, it’s taking advantage of honest paying customers. DRM doesn’t just keep you from copying your song and giving it to your friend. I mean, that’s bad, and you wouldn’t do that anyway right? The capabilities go far beyond that. Imagine buying a movie to watch on your TV, then when you want to watch that movie again in your bedroom, it won’t work because it’s locked to the hardware that’s in your living room. You’re forced to either buy the movie again, or only ever watch it in your living room. Then buy it again for your portable video player in your car, and so on and so on. Or imagine not being able to record a tv show that you’re going to miss, because the publisher doesn’t want you to have all of the episodes recorded before the boxed set comes out. Digital distribution is the future, and your ability to actually use the products you pay for is quietly being whittled away.
Steve Jobs is lobbying for music companies to strip the DRM for their online catalog of music. However, given the music industry’s track record, I’m skeptical at best. I agree that publishers should have some means to protect themselves from unauthorized distribution of their products. At the same time, there needs to be a way to keep these guys in check. You can’t keep selling me the same product time and time again, just because a new format came out, or I got a new TV. And when I do buy that Weird Al anthology, it had better be compatible, and “just work”. Other wise, I have friends in low places than can get the job done easier, and unfortunately for you…for free.
01.15.07Oh SNAP!
As you’ve probably noticed, WordPress added this “Snap!” feature to the blogs that lets you preview links without clicking on them. I don’t know about anyone else but I find it incredibly annoying, mostly useless, and a little too much like adware. Personally I disabled it by clicking on options in the bubble. It’s cookie based though which means if you switch computers, or you clear out your cookies you’re going to have to disable it again.
That said, I can disable it in the options. But if you guys liking having it around I can just leave it enabled and keep it turned off on my end. Discuss.
Every candidate has officially annoyed me out of voting for them.
I am so ready for election time to be over. When it’s not local politicians coming into record commercials at the radio station, acting like total a-holes, it’s friggin’ regional ones calling your phone interrupting your life. I’m so sick of the negative ads, and even the worst, “I’m disappointed my opponent would run a negative at about me. I would never run negative ad just to get more votes.” Uhh…you sure about that? AARRGH!
I’m officially out of people to vote for.
I’ve been robbed!
Robbed of 88 minutes of my life. Andrea’s a big Jennifer Anniston fan right? And coming from someone who was obsessed with Helen Hunt back in the day, I’m fine with that. I’m sure I have seen my fair share of terrible movies just because Helen Hunt was in them. But the movie I saw last night was by far the worst movie I’ve ever seen in my life. At least it was ONLY 88 minutes!
If you haven’t seen the movie “Friends With Money” then you’ve already enjoyed it more than I have. From what I can surmise it’s about a bunch of people who know each other. They all have various levels of income from poor, to more money than they know what to do with, and they’re all friggin’ miserable. Great movie so far right!? Well after 30 minutes it was reavealed to me that this movie had no plot, and was not moving anywhere. All it was, was these characters in various stages of being pissed off and dissapointed about various random happenings. So I think…all right, at the end of this movie, something good must happen to all these people to make them realize that life doesn’t suck. Then, it’s over. Credits are rolling. Life still sucks. That’s it. End of movie.
This is the reason I think I don’t like movies.