January 2012
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SOPA & PIPA Set to destroy the internet as we know...
Today a large majority of sites are protesting two proposed bills SOPA and PIPA. These two bills are designed with the idea in mind to stop online piracy. When everyone screams that this is not a problem, so what, or that this is the internet it falls on deaf ears in congress.
Piracy is a problem for the movie industry, mainly because its forcing them to innovate and provide means that give us...
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HAL became operational 14 yrs ago today
HAL became operational on 12 January 1997, at the HAL Laboratories in Urbana, Illinois, as production number 3; in the film 2001 the activation year was 1992, and 1991 in earlier screenplays. In addition to maintaining the Discovery One spacecraft systems during the interplanetary mission to Jupiter, HAL is capable of speech, speech recognition, facial recognition, natural language processing,...
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Education is simply that Important
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My Backpack/messenger bag obsession
I’ve developed an unhealthy obsession with carrying a bag everywhere I go. Not just because of my need to have my laptop every where, but just to have something… almost like a woman needs a purse.
Most of the time though its full of some geeky gadgets like my kindle, a charger, or even my TI graphing calculator. I also get kinda artsy carrying my moleskin notebook, a hardcover...
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15 People you'll see at every videogame/comic/nerd...
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How would you like your Graphic Design
From time to time I get someone to ask me to design them something, whether its a sales flyer or a complete web site. About 90% of the time I tell them to take a hike 30 seconds into their sales pitch trying to convince me to do it. Its never about the money, I could always use the money… it’s that I always seem to have someone wanting me to redesign the wheel for them at a rate...
December 2011
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My Recommended Android Apps
My girlfriend recently got an Android phone and I’m in the process of telling her which apps I think are best. I figured while I’m at it I would make my list a little more formal and share it with the world. These are only my personal recommendations and I’m only experienced with the Samsung Infuse 4G. If you have anything you feel belongs on this list, let me know in the...
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History Repeats Itself - Stonewall Museum Art...
This was an essay done for my humanities class where I had to visit a museum, find a painting, and critique and evaluate it. I am told that I ventured off from the topic requested slightly but I still received a perfect score of 200/200 points she liked it that much. Below on the left is the painting by Charles Philippe Larivière and the right is Sandow Birk.
Three years ago I walked into...
November 2011
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The single most badass self-portrait ever taken
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October 2011
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VA mental health is the reason I need a mental...
My brain is stuck on over drive the past couple months and is making it nearly impossible to focus. From what I can Google, its possibly some form of ADHD, but that’s the best guess I got going for me right now. Simplest way to explain it is my mind just wants to zone out, and go on vacation to some distant dreamland.
So since I’m an Army veteran with health care through the VA, I...
September 2011
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Why do you hate me C++?!?
I’m going to be bald by the end of the week from stressing over this C++ class I am taking. I am assigned the following question and told to write a program for it… except I have no clue how since I’m not sure what this program is suppose to do. It’s not exactly clear what the output is supposed to be and I’m not allowed to use “cin” restricting any user...
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Playing prerequisite musical chairs
I’m seriously heated right now. I’m only 4 credits away from recieving my computer science degree, which would have been done next semester… or so that’s what I though until I got a phone call 20 minutes ago.
The school has decided to change the prerequisite requirements in order to get my degree, after I have started my degree. So instead I am being kicked out of a class...
August 2011
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Problems with Kindergarten
One of the worse places to live in Sacramento as far as crime and poverty rates is most likely the Natomas area in the Northwest portion of Sacramento County. I’ve even heard people on the radio jest about a stolen car “Natomas? Well no wonder”. There are two sides to Natomas though, North & South. I live in North Natomas, a newly developed suburban community. Everything you might have heard...
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Writing is my blessed curse
Before I go off I want to make it clear that I’m drunk and have no clue why I am even here. Other than the fact that my incessant posting on twitter is likely pissing some people off and I’m sane (not necessarily sober) enough to know that I should be here instead of there. Or at least long enough for this buzz to subside for that rational thinking portion of my brain to regain...
July 2011
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Freedom is simply that important
My English professor (who is also anti-war) asked me to write something about my experience in the Army, as a side project for a poetry thing she does. I gave her this:
I arrived in Korea straight out of my Army training, and wanting to explore this new world, I ventured out on my own and easily got lost my first week there. Trying to find my way back to familiar civilization an old man likely...
June 2011
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Off to the ER, Looking like a balloon
From everything that I have read online, past experience, and some slight observation I thought my poison ivy was getting better. Severe cases I’ve seen have included large boils and my lesions were starting to subside. Yesterday morning changed all that when I woke up at about 3am with my entire face swollen to the point that I could barely see. I had only gone to bed a few hours early so...
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Poison Ivy Sucks
Over the Memorial Day weekend I took the family camping. For my daughter it was her first camping trip, while the wife says she went camping in Korea with the girl scouts, I’m claiming this is her first camping trip as well. Other than dealing with some douchebag driver on the way there. It went rather smoothly.
My daughter carried around a bag of marshmallows the entire time and...
May 2011
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My personal views on religion
With all recent claims of the coming of Christ I’ve been a little more cynical than usual about my views on religion. Since one of the places I unintentionally started to debate was on a random Facebook post by my cousin, I decided to end it and take my conversion elsewhere out of respect for her. This has now led to multiple conversations about my views all over Facebook and e-mail. So to try...
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Neighbor from hell
Life has been good recently. If you follow this blog you may have noticed its been pretty dry as I usually use it as a means to complain and vent about what bothers me. Since I am blogging here now, and you’ve probably already caught the title of this post you can probably guess that’s changed.
It hasn’t changed in a sense where I am terribly troubled, but that’s mostly...
April 2011
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I’m at Starbucks (Sacramento, CA)
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February 2011
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Angry old French men battle with lightsabre's...
Someone took this old video from 2007 and turned the sticks they were battling with into lightsaber’s! They are speaking french so I have no clue what the arguement is even about but its got lightsaber’s so who cares!!
aaaaah, the red wine is strong in this one!
Old Men Lightsaber Duel (Return Of The Geriatric)
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Shadow Samurai
This just has awesome written all over it on a number of levels. The concept isn’t new, but they way they incorporated it into this piece you would think that it was.
I’m not much for the whole weeaboo Japanese scene, but this video did blow my mind. The audio does bother me a little, and wish they had put the camera closer to the projector which would have made the 1080p worth...
April 2010
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Making bibimbap
I have tried a few Korean dishes in the past and most are pretty simple so not much of a challenge. Today I will be making bibimbap (비 빔밥), translation - mix rice. The recipe I will be following will be the one in the video below.
Text version here: http://www.maangchi.com/recipe/bibimbap
Those that want to know more about what bibimbap is, here is the wikipedia on it. (With a few revisions of...
August 2009
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