Just my thoughts

2007-08-24T07:39:00.000-05:00

Alright, gotta stop right now. No more, I'll do this ish some other time lol. Peep this!

Which Programming Language are You?

Which OS are you / is best for you?

2007-08-24T07:26:00.000-05:00

I'm really proud of this! I called it, before I even started, when I saw what the possible outcomes were. It's an oldie but an apparent goodie! I originally thought it was supposed to calculate which OS is best for you.. but after reading the outcome, it's more like it describes you as an OS. Either way, it came out how I wanted lol. I guess I am the OS that I enjoy using... I've always like people similar to me hehehe

Which OS are You?

For those that don't know, debian is the core of ubuntu, the OS I've been using primarily for the past two years :D

Making the Apple Switch....

2007-05-15T06:10:00.000-05:00

With all the wonderful Macs coming out… just about all of the time, along with a large population of the technology world screaming “Apple”, who can ignore the urge to jump on the Apple boat in 2007? Apple’s now can run Windows & OS X at the same time, at separate times on different partitions, have been able to run Linux forever, have supposedly screaming fast Intel Core Duo II Processors, come with video cams built into them, are as skinny and lightweight as ever, offer beautiful glossy screens now… and yet, why am I still feeling ripped off?!?!?!

They’re beautiful, and the OS has been wonderful for some years now. The urge to use an OS built on top of a variant of FreeBSD is awesome… I just can’t ignore the stats. I venture over to Apple.com to look at the MacBooks available, to spec & price one out, there’s a whole four options. I guess Apple likes to keep it simple. They’re customizable to a degree anyway, so I’m trying to ignore that. I’m looking at the pics… the website is set up awesome as always… and one can’t ignore all the catchy phrasing and advertising that Apple has put into it, but I’m not seeing anything to that speaks to the tech in me. Where’s the power? How much RAM? How much space am I getting? Etc., etc., etc. I continue to click around, act if as I’m ready to buy one, and finally get to what I’m looking for; the breakdown of what actually is in this thing.

There’s MacBook & then there’s MacBook Pro. At first, there’s no clear discretion between the two. At closer glance, one determining factor is what screen size do you want? MacBook is available in 13” white and black, whereas MacBook Pro is available in 15” && 17”. If you already know which size screen you want, that basically makes up your mind right there. I on the other hand, happened to see the black (now I guess it was a MacBook) in person, and was basically drooling over how gorgeous it looked. At this point, I’m irritated. I would never want a screen any smaller than 15”. Why am I limited to 13” if I want a black MacBook??? Why can’t I get the 15” or 17” in black if I want to? Why in the world would this restriction ever be placed on me? It seems soo meaningless to make that type of restriction on the customer and the only reason I can think of would have to be Apple’s advantage in marketing down the road and maximizing their sales over time. Imagine, in some small amount of months from now, now Apple wants to sale MacBook Pro’s in black. Now for all the filthy rich people out there, who bought black MacBooks because they cared more about their color & uniqueness than performance, they go out and RE-buy MacBook Pro’s in black. Now Apple has gotten you coming and going, sold more laptops, and is basically a very very evil company. Trust me, they are.

Going on, I want 15”! Bump that, black isn’t worth getting a tiny tiny little screen. Now I’ve got two choices, it appears. The way the site is designed you don’t see any customization options until the end. When looking at the 15” model, there’s two options, one for $1,999 and the next one for $2,499. First impression… these comps had better have some awesome stats! For $2,500, this laptop had better fly away and come back with the printed morning paper every morning! I’m reading the stats, and sorry to say they’re ordinary. For Apple’s prearranged higher model 15” model MacBook Pro, for $500 more than the lower one, I’m getting a gig more RAM, and the same d@mn video card but with a different amount of built on RAM, and a different processor – which in my opinion is the same d@mn one as well (clocks at 2.33 instead of 2.16 WOMP WOMP)! That’s it! That’s the only differences written here. I can’t believe it.

I can not believe Apple is still ripping people off with these things. I thought it was finally time to jump on the boat… I want one, I do, but I can’t waste my money like that. The fact remains, only way I’d buy one of these new was if I had money laying around which I absolutely didn’t need (fact is I don’t!). $2,500 is more than any other laptop manufacturer you can find without absolutely looking for it, and those stats are just barely higher than normal. It’s ridiculous, and that’s not even the 17” model! Can you believe it costs $2,799?!?!? Same damn stats again, but with 40 more gigs on the hard drive, … and 2x more speed on the DVD-burner. Unbelievable… I’m done. Apple, you lose, you get no recommendations from me.

Hiatus

2007-02-19T17:04:00.000-05:00

Obviously it's been a while. I pose a question.. what's the true benefit to blogging. I shy away from it, and then after a while, somehow feel left out of something that I should be participating in. At the same time, when I'm doing it, while swamped in work and opportunties, I feel as though I might be wasting my time and energy. For anyone that's reading this, please help a brother out!

Awesome media player

2006-12-18T09:10:00.000-05:00

I will be trying this out! It's name is Songbird. The player, like Firefox, is cross platform, meaning it plays on all operating systems :D . It features RSS feeds for media files, web playing, playlists, iTunes like interface, Skins called Feathers, built in search for various combinations of desktop & web search, and loads of other goodness! It looks quite nice! Take a look!

Preview Songbird!

Right here for LOW quality. The above link for HIGH quality.

Catch-Phrase:

"In a world gone mad, there is a media player that stands alone.... It's name.... is SONGBIRD ....."

Chin Check

2006-11-29T14:50:00.000-05:00

Yet another song where Howard U is mentioned. It's a bit old; I had never heard this before. On the "Next Friday" soundtrack, N.W.A. - "Chin Check". I just had to take note, cause supposedly during the 90%, everyone, not just that one damn Biggie song (and that recent Luda one), was rapping about Howard.

[Ice Cube]
I'm a Nigga Wit an Attitude thanks to y'all
And I don't give a fuck I keep it gangsta y'all
I'ma ride for my side in the C.P.T.
God bless the memory of Eazy-E
If it wadn't for me where the fuck you'd be?
Rappin like the Treacherous Three, fuckin cowards
I'd have seen Dre rockin parties for hours
And I'd have seen Ren fuckin bitches from Howard
And I'd have seen Snoop give away Eddie Bauer's
So fuck Jerry Heller and the white superpowers

BERYL !!!!!!

2006-11-29T05:05:00.000-05:00

I am SOOO pleased with this. It's just WORKED! Like "out-the-box" worked! Literally a few commands like what's described @ the quite awesome BioDesign howTo and it was up! I love these guys. There's been much raving about how the guys at beryl (try http://wiki.beryl-project.org/ for now) may be inexperienced, but are quite hard-headed and have some awesome ideas. From reading blog reviews, it appears that Beryl is literally kicking some Compiz butt around these days. The results with AIGLX & Beryl as compared to XGL & Compiz are typically a lot faster and less demanding on resources.

Well you know I gotta throw my screen shots around all over the net, everywhere that I possibly can. It just so happens that I was very pleased with my new edgy eft layout, and had done some "before" snapshots already (sunday). Here are three. I had changed the icons and border to get a better look.

Unfortunately, I'm not running with mass amounts of RAM and processing power, so creating the live demonstration video like the original one that Novell did isn't all that possible for me. All I can really do is provide a still shot of what the new theme looks like. Just trust that I got all my wigley windows and screen flips and all that too!

Just to recap from the last post real quick, their site did go down Sunday as currently described at http://beryl-project.org/

Server hard drive disk failed on Sunday, and we're currently trying to rescue it even though it does not look good at all. Apologies.

I'm sure I wasn't the only one to notice. The wiki has reappeared as of yesterday, but the repositories are still not up, as well as whatever was on the default www page before. Luckily there are several people that made mirrors of the repositories. I didn't have any success with http://beryl-mirror.lupine.me.uk/ , but the second one suggested by the wiki, http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb , came through. Add the line
"deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb edgy beryl-svn" to your sources file for Edgy EFt, get the key using
"wget http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/DD800CD9.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - ", and then 'sudo apt-get update' in order to be able to install the proper packages.

one step closer

2006-11-27T02:53:00.000-05:00

/me just got the Second Life Alpha to install and play on my desktop (Ubuntu !!!). Alpha Software! I soo didn't think that was going to work. I successfully got hardware 3D acceleration working by downloading the i386 kernel for Ubuntu source (instead of the generic that I mistakenly installed last week), compiling it, and then compiling the NVidia kernel interface with the new kernel. I had tried this a couple of days ago, with linux-kernel-2.6.17-10-generic, and that ish just wasn't working out....

Now I'm a hoop, skip, and a jump away from getting a XGL config finally running.... and tell me why... the damn http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org/ site was down ALLL night, and now it comes up as I'm writing this post...

Installing the propietary 3D drivers is the hardest point (now conquered). NVidia & ATI half-ass the hell out of them, to simply say they have linux support, but its like they put no effort into them. I know I've had problems with NVidia drivers for Windows before as well, but their linux drivers are just ridiculous.

... I was soo about to finally jump in the bed. I've got to try this new beryl howTo real quick now to see if it pops off!

btw, for anyone looking to do the same thing, from what I understand, and read to be confirmed more often than not online, there are two alternative technologies for this, XGL & AIGLX. Even though I say "XGL" (becuase it's more commonly known as that), what I'll actually try is AIGLX with Beryl as the Compositor Manager. This combination seems to be what runs the fastest for most people experimenting around with this right now. Even though this link is to a message board thread, it cleared up what I wanted to know about the conflicting options.

Daily Boondocks in your inbox

2006-11-15T00:03:00.000-05:00

I have to say I really love this comic. It's really the first comic that has received any direct attention from me. This one particularly made me laugh in the morning.

Click photo to enlarge

Every morning, you can get the new Boondocks in your inbox at GoComics.com

Any Given Sunday | Anybody can get it!

2006-11-13T09:26:00.000-05:00

Wanksta

2006-11-11T16:58:00.000-05:00

Urban dictionary is nothing new. Over a year ago it started coming as a default bookmark with firefox. Still, there's probably a lot of people that don't know about it.

Listening to a Nas mixtape, I happened to hear the word "Wanksta" and wondered what the actual word means. Hence, Urban Dictionary comes in perfect use.

1. Wanksta
A "wanksta" is a very basic word meaning a person who acts/looks like a gangster or thug, but has never done anything gangster or thug-like besides acting or looking like one. It can be towards any race or ethnicity. The word does NOT imply a WHITE guy acting black.

Al Capone is a GANGSTA - white guy
Ja Rule is a WANKSTA - black guy

Being the #1 definition, it's the user accepted definition of "Wanksta"... simply for anyone that may have been wondering what the word meant.

Great Month for Linux !!! | Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft REVIEW

2006-11-10T13:56:00.000-05:00

From (word for word) Linux.com (with added links :D )

If you're a Linux enthusiast you probably noticed what a great month we've had. Slackware 11.0 was released on the 3rd. Mandriva 2007 was released the same day and showed us how integrated XGL, Compiz and AIGLX could be. Fedora Core 6 was released on the 24th and brought us an amazing Gnome 2.16 desktop with fabulous artwork. Ubuntu 6.10 came on the 26th and we couldn't wait to review it!

Del.icio.us Feed

2006-11-10T12:12:00.000-05:00

It's an oldie but a goodie. It's the Del.icio.us Feed! lol. Yeah, finally added it to the sidebar of this blog; you can see my bookmarks as I add them; you can even subscribe if you want. Have fun!

SLAM for Windows Mobile

2006-10-14T16:31:00.000-05:00

Now Playing:

Ludacris - Release Therapy (2006)

Very interesting! More of a review to come once I can get to my laptop to install this on my phone...

http://msmobiles.com/news.php/5659.html

" When you send a message in Slam, it is automatically sent to everyone in the group to which you sent it. For smartphone users that have the Slam client installed, their phone will buzz and they will have an indication on their phone's home screen that there is a new message. "

" Scenarios for Slam

Real-time Coordination: Out on a Friday night? No need to decide on a place and time to meet in advance, just send a message to your friends when you're ready to go and see where everybody is. Some people may be at a restaurant, others on the move, but everybody can send messages and coordinate immediately. Imagine coordinating a ski trip this way, too.
Instant Group Photo Sharing: You are always seeing beautiful and interesting things, but it's too hard to send pictures to people with your cameraphone. Use Slam to take a picture and send it to a group of friends with only a few clicks. Try forming a "celebrity sightings" cameraphone group or share pictures with your family throughout your day.
Broadcast communication: Need a babysitter? Send a message to your "babysitters" group saying "Can someone come over for a few hours right now?" All your potential sitters get the message right when you send it, wherever they are.

To learn more about Slam, or to download it, click here."

Sometimes It Be's Like That

2006-10-12T15:39:00.001-05:00

Sometimes It Be's Like That

"Once upon a time at Howard, a young man mustered up all the courage he could to ask a special young lady on a date.

Without second thought, the young lady rejected him, because of course he’d always be there."

I stopped right there. Don't even know what this article is about yet... even this second. I'm floored by that. Is that really how it is? It's "No" simply because he actually cares and means what he says?! If he was bullshitting... then he would get a yes?! I'm floored. I've actually been reading about this type of thing... and everything I read actually says just that. Me being me, I'm still in denial... things CAN'T be that way! That can't be how life is... if so... who wants such a life? How can people live that way? It ain't worth it if that's really "how it be".

Alright... so I read the article. Amber English goes on to criticize the situation. Basically, rushed situations can turn sour, being too patient can leave you "in the shoes of the special young lady in the opening of this piece", and so on.. in conclusion; it's a game of balance.

On the other hand, away from people doing the rejecting, there are the people that are afraid of being rejected. I personally think this aspect is far underestimated. For all those people that play games such as the one displayed above, they are taking for granted what many a desirable man is not yet capable of. I believe it takes far more to spill one's guts than women give it credit for. Often you hear women complain of the wrong type of people approaching them, but out of the few righteous men actually about something, they shun away with thoughts like "they'll always be around". That type of activity is not cohesive to being asked out by more respectable men.

The article closes with stating that missed opportunities aren't the end of the world. Simply straighten up and be prepared for the next chance at finding Mr./Mrs. Right. I was at first disturbed, but I think it’s evident that some people indeed do think that way. May god keep those people away from me.

Sometimes It Be's Like That

2006-10-12T15:39:00.000-05:00

Sometimes It Be's Like That

On the other hand, away from people doing the rejecting, there are the people that are afraid of being rejected. I personally think this aspect is far underestimated. For all those people that play games such as the one displayed above, they are taking for granted what many a desireable man is not yet capable of. I believe it takes far more to spill one's guts than women give it credit for. Often you hear women complain of the wrong type of people approaching them, but out of the few righteous men actually about something, they shun away with thoughts like "they'll always be around". That type of activity is not cohesive to being asked out by more respectable men.

The article closes with stating that missed opportunities aren't the end of the world. Simply straighten up and be prepared for the next chance at finding Mr./Mrs. Right. I was at first disturbed, but I think its evident that some people indeed do think that way. May god keep those people away from me.

HU !!!

2006-10-11T06:01:00.000-05:00

Only at Howard. Only at Howard can we pull these kind of acts. Only here can we get these ppl DIRT CHEAP, cause you know Howard ain't paying 'em anything. Amazing.

Only here can we pull big names for Damian Marley to perform at our selfish little homecoming and charge a lonely $35 dollars for it... AND guest performer Fay Ann Lyons. Only here do we get acts like Xzibit, Eminem, Young Guns, Trick Daddy, & etc. to perform absolutely free at yardfest, just so that they can be part of OUR homecoming. It's quite wild when you think about it. I dont know any other university getting that type of attention for their homecoming. If HU is good at nothing else, I guess you can say they do at least one thing to its full potential... and that's party!

Comedy Show '06: Steve Harvey

... didn't know that Steve Harvey had a morning show in WHUR... perhaps I should start paying attention to that station.

Cocoa Brown:
“When I realized you guys had a network, I sent out a blog asking you guys to tell me about what goes on”
What exactly does "sent out a blog" mean? I'm sorry.. is blog synonymous with e-mail now? ... somebody let me know.

Dodgeball

2006-10-10T03:26:00.000-05:00

Interesting little site. A good way to skyrocket your text messaging bill... and your friends' too while you're at it.

Dodgeball.com

Toldja So!

2006-10-08T01:53:00.000-05:00

It's my time to say I told you so. This was about 9 months ago that I blogged about this. Now LifeHacker is just now getting on top of it.

This is why I don't watch television. This is why I'm completely uncompatiable with commercials at this point. This is why comcast can kiss my ass.

Democracy Player

BLAH! II

2006-10-04T11:46:00.000-05:00

Now Playing:

The Roots - Things Fall Apart (1999)

It's been some time since the ground-breaking "BLAH!!!" post.. (may it never happen again).

I feel like I owe some type of explanation. I'd prefer to act like it didn't happen. At least I can say all that frustration is gone, and has been for a while. It was a bad state to be in.

Of course there's more to it, but I feel that's all I owe the www. I'm no longer in that "sharing everything" mood. For those of you that know me, you know how to ask.

Ubuntu...

2006-09-27T05:40:00.000-05:00

Now Playing:

Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere (2006)

...is my current infatuation. I have quite the server in the making. http://brandontrussell.com is making a return (:8800 for http), in addition I'll be running several other services.

As I run into barriers and problems, all the cool apps, advice, and generally good links are being recorded. The link is http://del.icio.us/brandont for those of you that don't know, but I'll be working on getting that posted up here automatically soon enough. More to come!

Cup of Ubuntu

2006-09-27T05:34:00.000-05:00

Now Playing:

Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liquor

Thanks to Ubuntu Blog, I woke up at Six AM today, and I'm sooo geeked about it. Long time since I been able to do this. In addition to not having a loud enough alarm clock since my XP crashed on the 18th, my phone all of a sudden seems to have no effect on me in the morning. Ubuntu to the rescue!!

Yessir. If I can start a day this early, everyday, I think some get stuff can happen from it. Next up; not sitting on the computer for god-knows-how-long every morning when I wake up

Fucking "A"

2006-09-06T11:06:00.000-05:00

Gotta run to class... can't even talk right now... but here's what's up!

It may fit as a niche device... but its still looking nice. Check out the SONY - MYLO™ !@!@!@!@!

BLAH!

2006-09-04T20:08:00.000-05:00

MANNN... I got so much on my mind... Shockingly!... as much as this one issue is bothering me, as much brainpower that I'm putting into it... there's still stacks of other ish that I'm thinking about.

I've got so much I want to say without saying it... to a certain person that I can't say it to...

This really has never been a personal blog before, and as close to starting as I am right now... I don't think it's going to happen. If I could just squeeze out a few key notes... OK.. #1! ...

Fukkit. Women don't know what they want and neither do men. There! I said it (in a way). Sad to say, I feel like I'm being dragged around like a dog on a leash. Literally being played with, by someone I never thought would do that to me. Is that what makes it so hard to walk away? Never thought it'd happen like that. Always thought that it could go so far. In reality, it's gone absolutely nowhere. It's literally been months... months of being dragged around. Expectation here... promise there... delay... pause... delay... standstill... and silence. The type of ish that if you say it outloud, its fucking embarassing.

From what hollywood usually portrays, this type of ish usually happens to women. I'd say I feel like a bitch right now... but common sense tells me I'm not the only dude. Something tells me women everywhere are doing this type of ish.

There. I vented a little bit. More later on a resolution... perhaps. I'm trying to be as fair as possible. This new period of waiting really is still early in its phase, but shit just ain't looking good is all. There appears to little to no attempt at all on a resolution (from the opposition lol). I mean... everything about it just says "I don't give a fuck". Still... still I wait.. trying to be as fair as possible. And by the way, if you think I'm waiting around to get laid... you're far mistaken... you wouldn't believe the lame shit that I'm still waiting on an answer (not just words either.. by show of actions) to!

Morning Orange Juice

2006-09-04T06:22:00.000-05:00

Again... Here's something that simply caught my eye early in the morning... nothing more.

Early Monday Morning

2006-08-07T08:48:00.000-05:00

Perhaps this isn't worth a post. Anyway, it made me say "cool" on this early Monday morning in the Windy City. Meebo Map!

Meebo is my "away-from-my-computer" instant messenger of choice. They support just about anything, including independent jabber networks. Meebo Map is something one of their interns cooked up ::wishes it was me:: that matches cleints' ip addresses to the location of their isp, and then displays then on a global maps, with varing intensity based on how many IMs are sent in that area. Not like it's rocket science, but it still made me say 'cool'.

You act XXX old.

2006-08-06T17:48:00.000-05:00

How do I act older than Ola? Well, I guess I am older than Ola... Just that in my mind, I act younger than some people.

You Are 24 Years Old

Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What Age Do You Act?

LOVE

2006-08-05T14:14:00.000-05:00

This is awesome, the photo gallery is off the chain. Really makes you proud. Overall the site is really well done. That music that plays during the photo gallery is right on point, setting the mood for the type of culture and honor that is involved with the subject matter. I want to give praise to Morehouse, it's a great accomplishment. 2006, the up-to-date largest class ever graduated from Morehouse College!

July Sweet July...... June?

2006-07-18T09:28:00.000-05:00

Boy oh boy. No apologies. It's been an even longer time, but oh well. I'm living the good life. Home sweet home, no sweaty summers, no crowded ass narrow ass streets, no where near as many bums...just the lake, the lights, the 'L', the 'show', and good eating.

I really need to be taking some pictures. I've got one more month before I have to head back to DC, I figure that's some good time. Except for the fact I should really be getting on this internship grind for the last month as well. . . . Somehow Imma try to do both. We'll see what happened, especially since the demonic W.O.W. is now large and in charge; back in my life...

So much of my daily rituals I gave up in order to actually get an outside life. There's been no Naruto in damn near 6 months, no Smallville in longer, no downloading as a whole (I was about to start buying CDs!), no "Black and White", no Real Talk, no TV as a whole. . . . I even gave up computers for a while. CRAZY!!!! That's right, no AIM, no gTalk, no Gmail, no Google Reader, shit was crazy alright. As you can obviously see, there was damn sure no Blogging. Nothing but Giordano's, Showplace, my nephews-bro-and dad, Rush Street, Lucky Strike, Rock Bottom, the Marriott, the AMC (Chicago knows what I'm talking about), and Second City. I could explore this city for decades!

Yall already know my opinion about all of that... no need saying so.

In other news, worldly news, Tom Joyner keeps announcing that it's WWWIII every morning on the TJMS show, and it's starting to get to me. Does he just seriously not know what he's talking about like what I've been told.. is he taking what Madeleine Albright said way too serious... or is all the clought that this man have actually mean something? It's kind of the reason I got back on the comp, had to check the news to find what wtf I've been missing. All I can say on that is Lord Help Us...

Also involving the far east from here, Indian seems to be taking the Chine route and censoring the hell out of the Internet.

"The Great Indian Mutiny"

... explains that ...

India's Department of Telecommunications (DoT) passed an order to ISPs Friday to block several websites. The list is confidential. Indian ISPs have been slowly coming into compliance. SpectraNet, MTNL, Reliance, and as of Monday afternoon, Airtel. State-backed BSNL and VSNL have not started yet but likely will soon. The known list of blocked domains is *.blogspot.com, *.typepad.com and geocities.com/*.

So far to me, it's really up in the air what this is really about. With all the fighting and bomb shooting that's been going on over there, it could actually be a measure to fight terrorism, as the "Indian intelligence service" claims that is. It could also be a Tyrant administration finding a reason in worldly problems to do what they've wanted to do all along. Who really knows...

Peace, I've typed enough. There may be more posts today... perhaps more frequent... but who knows the answer to that either.

Update

2006-05-20T16:47:00.000-05:00

So yeah, I haven't given a real post in a very long time (except the pix the other day). I have been extremely busy, and nothing is really different right now. I'm in a rush to get things sent up for the summer, plus trying to stay in touch with folks and have a shitload of fun at the same time. If only I had someone to share it all with. . .

The phone is broke! Dont try to call or text it, it wont answer... I'm in a rush right now to get that corrected too. I still have to get vzw to switch the account to my name, so I can do such things as have the phone changed. Here's what I plan (as of right now) to replace it with. (my mind changes like the wind. don't count on it.)

I bought a new camera last Saturday. There's gonna be a lot more where the pictures are coming from. I took a quarter of a gig in pix already, here are the various links.

http://bubbleshare.com/album/33678.399900911a1/
http://bubbleshare.com/album/33684.fd6a70f6193/
http://bubbleshare.com/album/33962.fdc2bbdaa80/

Keep your eyes open, I'll try to provide a show.

DC & Miami

2006-05-18T07:09:00.000-05:00

Just an excert of what my past 7 days have been like.

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Biscuit is European for Cookie

2006-05-03T10:55:00.000-05:00

Make your own!

The decisions are the hardest part

2006-05-03T05:14:00.000-05:00

The battle of what's good for me, versus what I want. I have way too much time before graduation for me to have to make life guiding and altering decisions like what are being forced on me now. Why do I have to choose between the city I love and a (basically) sure thing in a region I'd have to train to love? Damnit, Damnit, Damnit.

Choose between low real estate, awesome food, the lake and skyline in the best city in the world, versus a garenteed job for forty years and a (chance!) to end up back to DC. Between open roads and low congestion versus a piece of cake job, boredom, a 401K, and a pension. Government versus private.. Money versus security.. DONT NOBODY GOT NO ANSWERS FOR ME?!

Fulbright Scholarship

2006-05-01T10:29:00.000-05:00

Big ups to Chicagoland. Full story here.

Full Schedule

2006-05-01T08:13:00.000-05:00

Now Playing:

Mobb Deep - Blood Money (2006)

No, I'm not a late adopter. I was on top of this about two hours after it was made public. Just that I haven't got around to doing this yet. This is close to what the full usability of Google Calendar was meant for. Multiple subscriptions, multiple personal calendars, reminders, being able to switch back and forward between views, its pretty sweet.

For local events, like stuff in certain metros, hit up upcoming.org where they have webcal subscriptions set up for all their metro areas. Also, all of Mac's iCal websites are good because they provide for an assortment of other stuff, all in the same open formats.

http://del.icio.us/brandont/iCalendar

About the 'Now playing..' album, yeah, its not up to par with my usual, meaningful taste, but its the new M.O.B.B. (on a new label) and I had to see what it's about. Sorry. Track two, four, and nine are pretty nice and I haven't even heard the whole thing yet.

The complete Duke Lacrosse Information Article

2006-04-26T19:17:00.001-05:00

What really Happened at Duke?

This is the tell-all article of all articles that I have read about this topic. Whether you have followed very little about this case, or you think you know most of everything that happened, trust me, YOU DON'T. EVERYTHING is described in great detail and laid out in this article. All the evidence, the timeline, the quotes, the lawyer bios... This case doesn't nothing but get more cryptic, juicy, and interesting by the second. There's scandal everywhere, and NEWSWEEK just about sums it all up right here.

There is a lot of information in this article that Newsweek picked up which I have not seen before, ie specifics of who did what parts of the alleged attack, etc. Very thorough article by Newsweek here.
- ASong4Assata

Kim Roberts, the second dancer, gives a detailed interview to NewsWeek and the AP. There's also much information that NewsWeek dug up, involving the accused previous criminal records, just how rich these mofos really are, quoted descriptions from the people they associate with as to their personalities and characteristics. Shocking info. There's about 10 tens more info than I can describe here so all I can say is read the freaking article!

Automatic Fx Updates

2006-04-14T05:28:00.000-05:00

Firefox is flipping hot! Telling me why I'm sitting here right, not even using firefox (of course its open), and I get a new pop-up that tells me "Firefox has finished downloading an updated new version: 1.5.02" and that it wants to know if it should restart.

That's just awesome. I had read about the update already but I was sure it was gonna erase my browser history from SessionSaver, losing everything that I was looking at, and I wasn't ready for that yet. Lucky me that Firefox has taken care of all of that already. All I had to do was click restart! Fx ran its lil compatibility manager upon reopening, updated my extensions, and I was right back where I left off. Thumbs up to mozilla for that one.

btw, I'm still waiting on v2.0 to come out so Fx can stop eating up my memory and clock speed the way it has been in recent months.

It's about time

2006-04-13T12:42:00.000-05:00

It's about time

Official Google Blog

My Views

2006-04-10T02:46:00.000-05:00

You are a
Social Liberal
(76% permissive)

and an...
Economic Liberal
(26% permissive)

You are best described as a:

Strong Democrat

Link: The Politics Test on OkCupid Free Online Dating
Also: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

Modern, Cool Nerd

2006-04-08T19:27:00.000-05:00

I happen to be very proud of this result, was afraid it wasn't gonna come back the way I think things are lol.

Modern, Cool Nerd
52 % Nerd, 52% Geek, 21% Dork

For The Record:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
You scored better than half in Nerd and Geek, earning you the title of: Modern, Cool Nerd.

Nerds didn't use to be cool, but in the 90's that all changed. It used to be that, if you were a computer expert, you had to wear plaid or a pocket protector or suspenders or something that announced to the world that you couldn't quite fit in. Not anymore. Now, the intelligent and geeky have eked out for themselves a modicum of respect at the very least, and "geek is chic." The Modern, Cool Nerd is intelligent, knowledgable and always the person to call in a crisis (needing computer advice/an arcane bit of trivia knowledge). They are the one you want as your lifeline in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (or the one up there, winning the million bucks)!

Congratulations!

Also, you might want to check out some of my other tests if you're interested in any of the following:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Professional Wrestling

Love & Sexuality

America/Politics

Thanks Again! -- THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 47% on nerdiness
You scored higher than 77% on geekosity
You scored higher than 23% on dork points

Link: The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test written by donathos on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Song 4 Assata

2006-04-04T12:49:00.000-05:00

This blog has all the updates on the investigation case going on with the Duke University Lacrose team. Check it out to see what's happening.
http://justice4twosisters.blogspot.com/

I believe it | DISGUSTED

2006-04-04T09:22:00.000-05:00

Story here.

I've been seeing it on TV for over a week now. As the typical skeptic that I am, I don’t always pay attention to whatever the news is preaching. I can now say that I've read the public statements and details about the event, and it’s obvious to see what happened.

Figures. I should have believed it right away, but there are liars out there too. There's a mountain of evidence as well, including ~~the carving of the word 'nigger' into the skin,~~ bruises and hospitalization from the beating, eye-witness Jason Bissey, and a time-frame that lines up like clock-work. I’m not even that upset about the incident as it may appear. People do dumb shit all the time; point taken. The manner in which Duke University and Durham Police Department are handing this is appalling! It’s one thing for some individuals to do something racist and ignorant, but when the authorities and agencies which govern us ENDORSE this kind of activity, something has to be done.

I'd like to say that only in the south can the town police act with such irresponsibility; I'd be wrong though. This type of injustice happens everywhere. This incident happened on the 13th of March, and just last week did the news finally start to run with it. The police haven't arrested a single person, took two days to even search the house, and for the most part are guarding these kids' privacy like [white] Hollywood celebrities. It wasn’t until the daily protests started that Duke U finally suspended the team’s season! When charges dropped on R. Kelly, they couldn't wait to get the cuffs on him, slam his head into the back of a car, all with the media conveniently there to broadcast the scene across the country. I’m not saying that R. Kelly is/was/isn’t innocent in the least, but can we have SOME kind of equality?

Jason Bissey was smoking a cigarette on the front porch next door and said he heard some of the party demand a refund. He heard one shout, "Hey @!$%#! (NIGGER) Thank your grandpa for my nice cotton shirt."

Someone from the house apologized and coaxed the women back inside. It was then, the woman says, that she was dragged into a bathroom and raped, beaten and choked for a half hour.

Police say medical evidence is consistent with a sexual assault. Officers recovered the woman's makeup bag, cell phone and identification from the house — as well as four red-polished fingernails she says were broken off during the struggle.

- Allen G. Breed (AP)

Both the Durham News & Observer and NCCU Campus Echo have the very descriptive accounts from the anonymous victim. When they say “…evidence is consistent with sexual assault”, that seems pretty clear to me. There are clear and present signs of rape. You mean to tell me there have been NO arrests?! The victim stated that she scratched her attackers, losing nails in the process; and they haven’t examined anyone?! How much more evidence do you need? They have everything except the finished DNA report, a confessional, and a flipping rape tape of these silver-spoon-feed brats in action and they’re still fucking walking around.

Depending on how this plays out, some more may very well be necessary. I can say that I’m happy the rallies and protests have already started. The Durham DA states that no arrest will occur until the DNA tests are back. I don’t think 46 white boys would all agree to give samples, then announce in public that the results would clear them, if they weren’t pretty sure that they would. The way I see it, the prosecution is trying to use this test as a way out. Under any other circumstances, the mountain of evidence established already would be enough to haul some asses to jail. This is bullshit.

"I don't want to rush into this," Nifong said. "I keep hoping some of these kids will have an attack of courage and conscience."

Bullshit. Racist ass cops. Corrupt system. Why are they still being treated like good samaritans? Where is the harassment and face in the cement that we get?! All these people crying about the fairness of the now somewhat-outraged media coverage piss me off. You don’t hear any of that when it’s a black defendant. According to the police department spokeswoman, it took TWO DAYS to interview the victim (at most a two hour venture), and establish probable cause (RAPE!-one second, I’m done).

I’ll say it again, the racism in this country NEVER ceases shock and amaze me.

Some questioned why no arrests had been made and why District Attorney Mike Nifong announced he planned to take a vacation while the investigation was under way.

"If it was the basketball team here and the victim was a student at Duke, the guys here would already be locked up," said Henry Johnson, an NCCU graduate student.

P990i

2006-04-02T13:38:00.000-05:00

Maybe my new fantasy. Oh yes! Video link here.

XGL

2006-04-02T12:45:00.000-05:00

Now Playing:

Akir - Legacy (2006)

I read this on Theresa's blog, a project called Xgl that takes an X server, throws Gentoo on it, and uses hardware acceleration and a custom windows manager to do some awesome desktop effects.

Makes me wanna throw Gentoo on the lappie right now. Seeing that they did the vid on a X server though, I might have to build a desktop for this. OHH, Priorities, Priorities... What shall I do?

lol, I'm basically stealing the whole post. All props to Theresa. Too bad blogger has no Trackback. Here are a few screen shots. The video at the end is the real kicker though, a real must see.

I watched the video and my jaw dropped a few times.

Femcee

2006-04-02T11:53:00.000-05:00

Now Playing:

Jean Grae - This Week (2004)

A comment about this album that I found to be right on point.

Like Bahamadia before her, Jean Grae carries the burden of being way too clever a "femcee" for the music business to behold. (For dumbed-down rhymes, go to Gangsta Boo.) When Grae's in battle-rap mode, her vocal clarity and lyrical dexterity remind one of Jay-Z. However, the relationship-focused confessionals elicit an even greater response because they're so darn honest. "Give It Up" or "P.S." sound like profound Emily Dickinson love poems read with a contemporary New York 'hood twist...

Yeah, she's hot. Can rap on just about anything. Dont wanna see her in a battle-rap either (See "Brooklyn Academy - Academics" for reference).

Worst example of white animosity that I've seen

2006-03-31T02:41:00.000-05:00

Tulsa Race Riot - by the time I got to the section entitled Attack by Air, I couldn't believe what I was reading. I had to stop right where I was at and come write this up.

I've got a few of these type of articles listed up on my facebook page but.. I guess it had been a while since I read one like this. It never seezes to surprise me the blatant examples of true hatred, disrespect, racism, cruelty, and inhumanity that the white race has shown in the past. Yeah I said it... no one can even deny this shit.

New Look

2006-03-19T00:34:00.000-05:00

Does this blog look a little 'ugly' to anyone else? It needs a new look, this ish looks straight outta '98 or something. [Post basically to see what this looks like on the template]

How To Download And Save Youtube Videos

2006-03-06T22:37:00.000-05:00

Just saw this on Digg.com. Finally, I will be able to save all those wonderful videos that I see on there, then cry when I realize I may never find again.

Such videos as "Dave chapelle on Oprah", "Juggernaut Bitch!", and all my Naruto favorites. Oh Lordie me. Definitely a good find! Someone remind me to add http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/ to my rss feed list.

hmm..

2006-03-01T00:45:00.000-05:00

Currently listening to:

Nas - It Was Written (1996)

I'm really liking this...

I listen to so much ish, I finally get to let folks know what's good as far as real music, not that crap that gets broadcasted all across the country.

new stuff

2006-02-27T00:55:00.000-05:00

I'm trying out some code from my friend Jason. I was too lazy to do it myself. (just sad)

Currently listening to:

Mos Def - Black on Both Sides - 6/4/2002

Last.fm

2006-02-26T23:41:00.000-05:00

If you've talked to me a bit in the last couple of weeks, I've probably mentioned Last.fm. It's not for everyone, but I sure as hell like it. The site takes the music tracks that you listen to, categorizes them, and matches them with the thousands of other users that it has. You get to mark tracks that you really like and "tag" what genre they belong too. Those are the options when you're playing your own music.

Last.fm is free music. Literally. There are no commercials, no ads, no bullshit (not yet). You have the option of never playing any of your own music, and simply just playing their web station all day. As a free user, you can play music in various different ways. You can play music tagged as certain genres, such as 'hip-hop', 'rap', 'acid rock', 'pop', whatever... It's incredibly accurate when it comes to that, because of how it matches genres (the matching of thousands of taggers). You can also tell it to play music similar to x..y..z.. The first artist name that I put in was 'Wu Tang Clan' and I was soon attacked with all types of thought provoking artists that I had never heard of before. The third way is called "neighbor radio" where it plays the songs that your neighbors are listening to.

That is one of Last.fm's best features. When you go to play music from the site, the playlist is created by matching with your 'neighbors' on the site who have the most similar taste in music as you. It wouldn't be that great if it only spit the songs that you played right back at you. Instead, you hear music that people with your taste would love. Basically it learns who you are and what you like, and plays songs that you haven't heard before to match that. It takes the music you love, and educates you about everything new that is going on in that genre. Whatever new your neighbors find out about, you find out about also.

It's really a community too. The site recommends all types of things to you based on your statistics, including groups of people with the same taste as you. In these groups, people write journal entries about their musical happenings, concerts, new albums, et cetera. From there, and from your neighbors page, you can click the profiles of everyone you come across. See the music they're currently listening (its all in real time) and all types of charts categorizing their listening. Weekly, Monthy, Most played artist, Most played track, et cetera. You get to view the same type of stats for yourself also of course. Here is my profile page, give the site a try, you might like it. (No, I am not on the Last.fm payroll. Just My Thoughts)

Dave Chappelle On Oprah 02/03/06

2006-02-20T17:04:00.000-05:00

I finally got to see it. OH THANK GOD I SAW IT! He's just about my favorite man in show business right now, completely keeping his cool while under pressure on Oprah. Spills his guts and tells his side of the story. Here is "Dave Chappelle On The Oprah Winfrey Show 2.3.06".

Google Hacks - Fascinating:Robots.txt

2006-02-17T14:38:00.000-05:00

RSS Reading at work as usual, and I came across this. It really caught my attention and stuck out as something I think I’ll be doing regularly now.

Go to Google and search "robots.txt" at any domain that you want (sites:domain). Robots.txt is a file on a web server that defines what you’re not allowed to see. Too bad you still have access to the file to read it. It’s very interesting to try this one.. robots.txt site:whitehouse.gov.

Read this at Digg: Google Screenshots. At the bottom of the article is the stuff about robots.txt, but all of it is interesting. Best thing is, the site linked to Ultimate Online Resource for Google Hacking! The site is currently down due to very high traffic volume, try back later.

gTalk - The Universal Chat Client

2006-02-17T14:26:00.000-05:00

Thanks to Lateef for the heads up. Google has opened its Google Talk gates to other jabber servers, and therefore to other IM services. Use gTalk to communicate to users on AIM, MSN, and Yahoo. Instructions can be found here.

Calendar first impression

2006-02-17T14:08:00.000-05:00

About a year ago, it appears that among the web trend-watchers out there, a consensus was met that there was a real opportunity in the market of a web calendar. The previous standard was Yahoo’s calendar, but no one thought of it as an awesome product, it was simply what was available. Google and Yahoo started looking for great web calendar start-ups to buy, and starts-ups started trying to fill those shoes.

According to Joel on Software, these folks made the mistake of trying to be bought instead of trying to make a great product. Instead of making something that can stand on its own, its obvious that these calendars have been created for the sole purpose of being bought. After reading about, and trying out some of these calendars, I realize, WOW, I do want a great web calendar where I can keep all my info (for the time being).

Right now, 30Boxes is the one I like the most. It might not be the most professional looking (definitely is cool looking), or even have the most features (calendar ones at least), but its interface is awesome to use (AJAX), and it has the potential to create a huge web community behind it. You can link calendars with friends, allow others to add events to your calendar, and establish a detailed profile that ties all of your activities on upcoming.org, flickr.com, your blog feeds, and even your local weather into not only your calendar, but everyone that can see yours. It has great potential to be useful, but also is just a lot of fun.

Around the same time last year, one of the first groups to participate in The Summer Founder Program groups had the same idea. The result is Kiko, another great AJAX calendar that has big dreams of being purchased. Its got some features that 30boxes doesn't have, but you can check it out for yourself.

I loved it!

2006-02-11T15:39:00.000-05:00

I'm in an internet stage right now. The last few days I've been all over the web - blogs, news, gadgest, all that good ish. Free-time is permitting right now. Like all things, we'll see how long it lasts.

I have started to put ish I like from the web into a collection. Del.icio.us. I had saw it a while ago on the firefox extension homepage but didn't pay it any attention, until recently being suggested to it by a friend. It's pretty tite, like digg, all the good ish seems to filter up to the top. Might be speeding a good amount of time on there.

I ran across this site, http://youtube.com. I like it, similar to http://wastedpage.com and Google Video, its good for when my eyes start twitching from reading off this screen so much. Here is a video I saw there that I thought was cool.

Update

2006-02-11T15:29:00.000-05:00

So yeah, my web publishing ran out... and I didn't update it. I saw no reason to, I can host my own ish. Of course, a lazy guy like myself hasn't really gone about doing that yet.

I'm not in a position to right now. I'm separated away from my cable connection and dont really have dependable home internet up in New Jersey. I went back to hosting the blog back on blogspot (actually never did before), so until I update everything, some of the links from previous posts wont work. Later

Bush Don't Care Music Video

2005-11-13T15:42:00.000-05:00

Yup, That's right! Some Fool made a music video and song to the Kanye West coined catch phrase "George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People".

11-12-05

2005-11-13T14:38:00.000-05:00

Yesterday was the programming competition. We completely owned! At the site that we went to, George Washington University was there, George Mason was there, Marymount University was there, Hood College (whoever they are), we owned all of 'em! Bison1 got 2 balloons, Bison2 had 3 balloons, and Bison4 got 2 balloons. We walked in there 12 deep and rolled out with 7 balloons, more than any other school. Not simply because we brought the most teams either, but because of our 3 teams that got at least 2 balloons, were 3 out of 5 or 6 teams that were there that got 2 balloons. The standings were nice, even though they're not up yet. Bison2 was second place out of the whole site, and I believe Bison1 was third place. Bison 4 was at least fifth place. Considering the schools that were there, that was real nice.

The problems yesterday were rough. There was no really easy problem this year. Even though VA Tech got problem A out in 20 minutes, it took us a while til we got it right(will not disclose that information). There weren't many balloons all around, but yet Howard U brought home more balloons than we ever had before. This was the first year a team brought home 3 balloons, and that more than one team at a team brought home at least 2.

4th Anniversary of 9-11-01

2005-11-10T21:37:00.000-05:00

Yeah, it appears that I'm only getting increasingly more angry at the government of this country. I see that corruption is too easy to come by under our current constitution and regulations. It seems that there weren't enough checks and balances put into the original constitution for the executive branch. I find myself reading more of this stuff...

Found at MichaelMoore.com. It's a good one. I was gonna edit it to only the good parts but I didn't feel like going over it again. READ ON!

To All My Fellow Americans Who Voted for George W. Bush:

On this, the fourth anniversary of 9/11, I'm just curious, how does it feel?

How does it feel to know that the man you elected to lead us after we were attacked went ahead and put a guy in charge of FEMA whose main qualification was that he ran horse shows?

That's right. Horse shows.

I want you to put aside your self-affixed label of Republican/conservative/born-again/capitalist/ditto-head/right-winger and just talk to me as an American, on the common ground we both call America.

Are we safer now than before 9/11? When you learn that behind the horse show runner, the #2 and #3 men in charge of emergency preparedness have zero experience in emergency preparedness, do you think we are safer?

When you look at Michael Chertoff, the head of Homeland Security, a man with little experience in national security, do you feel secure?

When men who never served in the military and have never seen young men die in battle send our young people off to war, do you think they know how to conduct a war? Do they know what it means to have your legs blown off for a threat that was never there?

Do you really believe that turning over important government services to private corporations has resulted in better services for the people?

Why do you hate our federal government so much? You have voted for politicians for the past 25 years whose main goal has been to de-fund the federal government. Do you think that cutting federal programs like FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers has been good or bad for America? GOOD OR BAD?

With the nation's debt at an all-time high, do you think tax cuts for the rich are still a good idea? Will you give yours back so hundreds of thousands of homeless in New Orleans can have a home?

Do you believe in Jesus? Really? Didn't he say that we would be judged by how we treat the least among us? Hurricane Katrina came in and blew off the facade that we were a nation with liberty and justice for all. The wind howled and the water rose and what was revealed was that the poor in America shall be left to suffer and die while the President of the United States fiddles and tells them to eat cake.

That's not a joke. The day the hurricane hit and the levees broke, Mr. Bush, John McCain and their rich pals were stuffing themselves with cake. A full day after the levees broke (the same levees whose repair funding he had cut), Mr. Bush was playing a guitar some country singer gave him. All this while New Orleans sank under water.

It would take ANOTHER day before the President would do a flyover in his jumbo jet, peeking out the window at the misery 2500 feet below him as he flew back to his second home in DC. It would then be TWO MORE DAYS before a trickle of federal aid and troops would arrive. This was no seven minutes in a sitting trance while children read "My Pet Goat" to him. This was FOUR DAYS of doing nothing other than saying "Brownie (FEMA director Michael Brown), you're doing a heck of a job!"

My Republican friends, does it bother you that we are the laughing stock of the world?

Our vulnerability is not just about dealing with terrorists or natural disasters. We are vulnerable and unsafe because we allow one in eight Americans to live in horrible poverty. We accept an education system where one in six children never graduate and most of those who do can't string a coherent sentence together. The middle class can't pay the mortgage or the hospital bills and 45 million have no health coverage whatsoever.

I know you know better. You gave the country and the world a man who wasn't up for the job and all he does is hire people who aren't up for the job. You did this to us, to the world, to the people of New Orleans. Please fix it. Bush is yours. And you know, for our peace and safety and security, this has to be fixed. What do you propose?

I have an idea, and it isn't a horse show.

Yours,

Michael Moore

One of them nights

2005-11-09T02:35:00.000-05:00

It's another one of them nights. If you dont know, its getting to the point where I rarely go home. Like I pay rent for nothing.

We got cool project in Large Scale Programs. Program 1 is to build something like Google Maps or MapQuest but only for Howard's campus, so it would be like "Bison Maps". That's fun, just that its really large and we have to do it in groups, and the junior class isn't working together as well as I'd expect it. Perhaps more on that later.

There's always Systems Engineering I. This the world wide web, so I'm not going to say all that I want to about this class, let's just say that its too time consuming, too much tedious work, and boring as all hell (believe me, I had more to say).

I'm supposed to be working. Until later, Peace!

Back?!

2005-11-01T23:01:00.000-05:00

Damn, it's been a long time since an update. As yall know, I'm still not sure if I wanna do this ish. If only there was an easier way of getting it done. In order to get the page to look the way I want it, I have to do all this html crap. Very little, but the lil html I know I do know is deprecated and its hella tedious. Anyway, I'll be trying the email method, even though it prolly won't turn out the way I want it to. I'll be writing stuff in notepad too when I get chances so that I'll remeber for later.

I read a lot more tech news now (YAY!) and I happen to be very pissed off at the government right now, so it should be a bit more interesting. Until later...

Wish me luck, it could be a while til you see me again.

Good Times

2005-04-10T19:07:00.000-05:00

I have to say, I think the party was a big success. I think it was hella long. Went on from 10:30 to about 3:00. It was long in my mind. I was ready for people to go by the end of it. I don't believe that I mentioned that I was planing one, but yeah, that finally happened. The apartment is still in one piece, even though it wasn't immediately after the party. The white walls were black from people grinding on them. Most of that came out, luckily. The only thing still around is the alcohol stained kitchen floor that has yet to be mopped. More on that in another post.

I'd say about 100 people come through throughout the night. Food started off the night to keep people busy until stuff starting kicking off. People ended up getting so drunk that by the end of the night, people either only wanted to hear the same shit over and over again, or they would jump up and juke to anything. Kirk Franklin, the electric slide, all that shit. $200 worth of boos contributed to that, thanx to Toni that I still have to pay her back for. All the drinks were just sitting out, people drinking to their content, and that shit still lasted all night. That's a lot of alcohol.

Everyone can thank Alisha and Miya for starting the craziness, really happy that they came. Crazy ass people also include Dia, Diana, Mike, Shemia, Rainie, Tiffani, and Carie. In a few months, my refrigerator should be giving birth to Dia and Mike babies. Diana displayed some of the best Detroit/Chicago skills that I've ever seen. Tiffani, and later on Tim, was just a hyper animal. Shemie and Rainie were tag teaming guys in the living room, and I saw more out of Carey than I ever would have expected. Tim was in my room working his ass off for about 3 hours mixing music at the beginning. After I saw how much work he was going through, I wanted to give him something for it. No one else was really talking about it, so that fell through.

Niggers!! That's all I got to say. The party was awesome, I can see that, but I certainly didn't have fun during it. Niggers!! Niggers will be invited over yo crib, and jake up yo shit, like either they own it, or it just don't matter that they breaking shit. I saw niggers kicking my walls, pounding on the walls, screaming at the top of their lungs, and having yelling contests, all like they weren't inside of an apartment building. The music is BLASTING, don't open the doors so that the neighbors can hear the shit better than they can already hear it. Dumbasses. People don't think. These are the same people that would have been cursing and complaining had the shit been shut down. The only thing that saved their dumbasses, and mine, is the fact that we live in a building that is as ghetto as it is. So ghetto, that the fucking guards that continued to get complaint after complaint about the party, fucking came up in the party to get drinks and stare at the girls shaking their asses. The most obsurd stuff that I have ever seen. God oh God oh mighty. Basically, I had to police the shit all by myself, or kiss my apartment good-bye. Niggers spilling drinks all over the kitchen. Garbage flowing everywhere, spilling all over the kitchen floor. Niggers jumping up and down trying to create more noise than they already are. Not to mention trying to keep the music as low as possible, ridiculous.

Once I get the time, I'mma scan all the pix that Toni took and post them ALL OVER THE INTERNET. lol, yeah, put them on here, and some type of photo gallery on here or on yahoo. All Takes time that I really don't have to give, that I know I will give.

The previous post about all the work that I had to do, very little of that got done. I don't really know what to do about all this. I don't see stuff getting any better. What's really bad is that none of this (academic stuff) actually reflects on my major (computer) knowledge. I'm one of the most knowledgeable people I know when it comes to what I do. School definitely measures capabilities incorrectly. I seem to just have a problem with the school work. When it comes to actually doing that stuff, I'm top of the game.

I've been trying to improve that stuff for a time. Doesn't seem like much is changing, so what it looks like it'll end up getting, is me edging along in these classes the best I can, and just aiming for graduation day. Then, perhaps in the real world, what I am will truly shine through. I only real obstacle I see with that method is, financing school until then. Grades ain't too good right now, and I'm going to need to pay for school some way. Only time will tell, and you don't know til you try, so the ony thing that I can think to do is hope it all works out. I've been lucky my whole live when it comes to stuff like this, so I'mma continue to use it til it fails me miserablly. . .

Deeper into the Rabbit Hole

2005-04-06T20:22:00.000-05:00

     I broke this horrible story into two posts. I noticed that it was getting long. The incident happened in front of the building to the left of Douglas Hall (looking from the yard) on Sixth Street. The drain that the phone dropped down was right next to some yellow cones and a big yellow contruction diamond sign, that stood on top of a steel plate in the street. I asked the police guard at the gate when the contruction workers worked on the site, and he said that they come every night at 6, but that sometimes they work one block up the street at Cramton Auditorium.

    I guess I'm a positive person until I'm positive that I'm stuck in a bad situation. Remember, I didn't hear a splash when it fell, I could even see ground when I looked through th e drain, not too far down, but too far for me to grab. I heard that it is supposed to rain tomorrow, so I'm hoping that these guys work today, and that they'll help me out. If they don't want to help, I'm willing to chalk up some money to get my phone back. It's only about 5, so I go back to CLDC and chill, and wait for the workers.

    (I'm getting tired of writing)It's about 8, and I figure they should be up there, even though I can't see them from the window in CLDC. I actually think I missed them. I walk up there to check, and sure nuff, they're up the street, working on something in front of Cramton. The Mexican boss buy was actually really nice and told one of his guys to go down the street with me and see if it was still there (hadn't fell into the water drain that's down there). He confirmed that there is a ledge down there, where stuff can safely on.

    We open up this man-hole, and the fucking phone is under water, I can see it. FUCK!! Damn, I want it anyway, maybe somehow it'll still work after its dried, or maybe the data can be taken out of it. He has this axe that he used to open the man-hole that has a flat end on it. He leans through the hole, and tries to scoop the phone onto the axe, to get it out. Don't work, now dirt has been kicked up from the bottom, and I can't see the phone anymore. He says he can see it, but keeps trying, and can't get the phone on the axe. He says that it's not going to work, and that someone is going to have to pick it out. I say I'll do it, since it's mine, and this ain't even his job. I put on this tiny glove he gives me (no help whatsoever). The water is hella deep, so my arms is getting soaked anyway, so whatever is down there is touching my skin regardless.

    I can't even feel the bottom of this thing. AFter a while, I think I feel it, and then its gone, I don't feel it anymore. I must have moved it, it was right on the underwater ledge too. He gave me a helmet to extend my reach, and I combed the entire bottom of that thing, but it was gone. It feel down on the deep end where the water drains, and the guy said that from there, it goes to the nearest treatment plant.

    On a side note, while I'm walking back to engineering depressed, while I left Tiffani in the server room by herself, I see Carey. I stop to say hi and whatnot, and she's looking at me kind of weird. (I had just got out of a sewer drain) I noticed I was scatching a lot, and stopped, and went on. When I got inside, in the light of the hallways, I noticed that I was covered in dirt, head to toe. I looked like I'd just rolled in some wet sand or something. Wow, that's what she was looking at. Oh well, now you know what I had been through Carey.

   In conclusion, I need everyone who I know to have their number sent to me some way or another. If there is someone that you know that I knew, send their number(s) to me, that means house, cell, work, etc. When I get my new phone, hopefully soon, you can call or text the numbers to me, or e-mail them to me. If you have multiple numbers that I had, send them to me also.

Right back in the hole

2005-04-06T15:51:00.001-05:00

     The very second when I'm starting to come out of the hole financially, this shit happens. I get a surprise refund check from the school, that I had forgot I was supposed to get, and the very next day, I lose something very valuable that's going to cost me just about the same amount of money. This would happen on the warmest day of the year so far too, right when everyone was out on the yard having the time of their lives.

    I'm out on the yard, class is out, walking around talking to people, living it up. It's about 77 degrees out, the wind is blowing, and girls are dressed like they lost their minds. I'm walking back to the engineering building, going to play some CS in the air conditioning, and decide to call my grandma back from the message she had left me earlier. Turns out instead of trying to mail me the refund check Howard sent, she's wants my account number so that she can deposit it directly in (instant money, $431).

    After I give it to her, and am just chatting at this point, Dwayne walks up and needs a 20 dollar bill. I look, while holding my phone to my head with my shoulder, and see I don't have a 20, but I do have a lot of bills.
Dwayne: Well, do you have 20 dollars?
BT: Lemme see. . . . I got 18.
Dwayne: I'll take that. . . .
Right fucking there, I slip trying to pull the bills out of my wallet, and my phone hits the street ground in front of my feet (I'm stand on the curb, Dwayne is in front of me in the street). Bounces once, then back towards me, but I'm on the curb, so this bitch falls in the water drain that I'm standing on top of. No splash, no nothing.

    I'm fucking shocked. I can't believe this shit just happened. Why? Why fucking me? I don't even care about having to get a new phone either, cause I wanted one, but not now. My party is fucking Saturday, I have yet to invite people, AND ALL MY FUCKING NUMBERS ARE GONE. Not only that, but I had numbers in there from High School, all the Carver folk from last year, all of my friends' friends. People that I have no other way of getting in contact with, that I'll never see again. I had friends of relative's numbers, parents of friends numbers. Plus, I had just got out the hole. Now I'm right back in it.

How nerdy are you?

2005-04-01T21:42:00.000-05:00

So called Spring Break

2005-03-15T05:18:00.000-05:00

I just got those pictures to format right one the page, so I'm feeling like there is some hope for me as a web dev.

Since this shite is on the web, I figure I could use it to somewhat organize all the stuff that I have to do, or should be doing. Basically, I don't have a spring break this year. Not supposed to anyway. I have a blue whale long list of stuff to do, and if I actually do that stuff, I won't even be finish before break is over.

First up, school work that was due already. Number one is the Calc III homework. Even if I do it, I know this man ain't going to want to give me credit for it, and I have no way of getting it to him. I think I might as well scratch that one off the list right now.

When I wake up, I should finish the sp2 installation going on my bro's computer so that I don't hear any biatching when the fam gets back in the afternoon. I have to put some antivirus on there (will use the norton 2004 that ma gramz actually purchased), I ain't doing a firewall, have to clean it of spyware, set up the auto updates on sp2, then give him admin access and if he breaks it, I don't care. I planned on setting up remote access with a dynamic dns, but I don't want him bothering me everytime he wants to install something. I'm available like that. Now that I think about it, I can use the windows firewall and call it a day. I want to install that new MS spyware software too. It might be nice. I gotta reset the password on my gramz account too.

I'll clean up a lil bit after that, eat, and then I'll get my timesheets up to date (one month behind now, and running hella low on money). Yes, I even procrastinate about getting paid. I should see someone about that. Then there's that OOP stuff that I have to do. I think I want to do OOP in web services. I don't know of anyone that did that topic, so I'll do that. That's going to be so much work, I could cry. Have to find hella sources, then type friggin' 15 pages. Can you say bullshit?

That'll be my day right there. With all the distractions that I'm sure to run into, and my own pracrastination, I'll be shocked if I make a good dent in that OOP paper. Stuff that has to be finished up also this week is my status with INROADS. I have to get in touch with them, see if they still like me. I have a fucking new calc III assignment due Monday... and I'm sure some shit that I can't think of right now. I'm starting to get sleepy, and that's a good thing (check the time). Maybe I can start my day sometime not too far after noon tomorrow. Peash.

More funny shit

2005-03-15T04:16:00.000-05:00

Naruto!!!

Dipset!!!

Funniest shit ever!!!

2005-03-15T02:43:00.000-05:00

http://movies.collegehumor.com/media/movies/ko.asx

Delays

2005-02-21T16:23:00.001-05:00

I'm in a slight state of procrastination right now, so I figured that this would be a good time to get a much needed and delayed post in. I haven't posted in forever. I'm supposed to be fixing Leslie computer that I've had forever. I'm coming close to finishing it. I need to reinstall the OS, but her BIOS has a password on it, so I can't set the computer to boot from CD. I'm about to clear the harddrive, and then see if it'll boot from CD. If it doesn't, I'll install the OS from a computer that can boot from CD, and then just put the hd back in her computer.

In my state of procrastination, I'm looking for something to entertain my while I do my work. Looking for something to listen to. I go to wgci.com to put on the web broadcast, and I see Mayor Daley of Chicago has declared Feb. 27th official Kanye West day. That's pretty fucking amazing, never would have saw it coming. It's all because of the fact that he won 3 Grammy's at the Grammies (or Grammys). It's amazing to me because even though I guess a lot of his listeners are white, I didn't think enough of them knew of him, or liked him enough to declare a day of the year after him.

I'm procrastinating working on this CLDC project also. All of the computer are supposed to be formatted and brought but up. That would take days of non-stop work if it wasn't for automation. The thing about automation, is that everything has to be step up just so, before anything can be done. I have to make sure all the software packages are set up correctly and that there isn't anything important on the computers' hard drives that might get lost. The operators store all their games on the hard drives and I don't want to become a nuisance to anyone (don't know if I spelled that right).

I'm out of here, time to do some stuff. . . .

Tsunami

2005-01-03T18:32:00.000-05:00

Found this great link with tons of info. link. It's on the nytimes site. It's all done in flash. It has a graphic sim of the tsunami moving over the first 7 hour span, hour by hour, with timeline events. Has ton of photos from the most affected countries based on the damage, relieve effort, and 'before and after' satellite photos. Ton's of other stuff too that I can't all remember.

Web Site

2004-12-30T02:26:00.000-05:00

I made a new post on the bastard child of a web site that I have. Check it out SITE!!! lol, crappy ass site. Um. . yeah, if you read that last post on there (Dec. 27th), I've got some ideas. I really want a legit domain name too tho. I ain't saying what, cause someone might buy it. The main question about that is, where can I get the best deal, and would I be able to change where it points to regularly like I would be able to with some free shit. I'll think about that one. I don't think I'm ready to buy the web space yet cause I can't put it to too good of use yet,and it costs money. Wanna get better til I do that. It'd be really fast, but there'd be bandwidth limits (for ridiculous money) and there's no limit to what I can do on my own slow connection.

. . .

2004-12-28T04:16:00.000-05:00

Nope, didn't work, I'm still trying to think of something.

Troubleshooting Blogger

2004-12-28T03:56:00.000-05:00

I've already found out that this service is far from perfect. I originally had it set to upload the blog to my free site Blario.0catch.com. I had forgot that there's ads all over this thing and that it'd be better to host on www.blario.blogspot.com. Seemingly, because I chose exterior hosting originally, it never credited my account(or web space) at blogspot and does not have any intention in doing so. When I try to change the setting to host at blario.blogspot.com, it gets a login error everytime, as if my account isn't there. For the time being, I'm stuck on the ad riddled 0catch.com. It seems I've lost all chances to blog at blario.blogspot.com and that the only way for me to host anywhere on blogspot.com would be to register another account. Note to all bloggers and potential bloggers using Blogger.com, choose the on site hosting first, then switch later is you so desire. I also tried to change the url to the blog at my site from blario.0catch.com/blog.html to blario.0catch.com/blog.htm. . . It has yet to change that on the ftp, just that now when I click 'view blog' it tries to access the blog.htm and fails because it doesn't exists. As a matter of fact, the whole purpose of this particular blog(this instant, don't know the proper word yet) is to see if making a post will force it to change that or not, and also so that I remember all that is wrong with this software. I ain't one for formatting, never had neat handwriting. Still lacking that formatting on this page, but I'll try to incorporate some of that later. There's still a question of how often I'm going to be updating this thing. Is it going to be one of those, ever 5 min. type blogs or one of those once about every two weeks to a monty type blogs.

P.S. : I've had more issues than that with this www.blogger.com already, just that I ain't sure about where to put all of that right now, and I ain't even been through have the options yet.

'The Beginning'

2004-12-28T02:10:00.000-05:00

I sometime wonder about that stereotype about males saying that they have a problem with commitment. I seem to have a problem commiting to things like this. Only time will tell if I actually update this thing. Usually, I'd be doing this first post with the full intent of coming back, but I don't even feel that this time, and it wasn't working before. I like that you can put pix on here. I hope that keeps my coming back. I don't know nothing about how to format this stuff yet, but I just saw the little 'Edit HTML' tab up on the right. . . . interesting. . .