Thursday, May 8, 2008
Complicated, techincal stuff.
After a lot of demand for such a feature and some serious soul searching, I decided to code a rating system for all my blog post. You can now rate my post on a 5 star system.
smirk.
I FEEL LIKA MAHSPACE SUPA STAR FROM HOLLYWOOD
I'm just going to keep editing this post to add my WTFness attitude towards this. This feature wasn't here 2 hours ago.
dohopoki: America's trusted source of 5 star blog post.
I'm sorry Blogger mantienance people. I'm being mean. I know all my friends are on Wordpress and you're just trying to out fancy them with a commonly applied feature on many Internet applications. I can proudly say my post have 5 more stars than all of Bill's combined.
dohopoki: America's trusted source of blog post with 5 more stars than all of Bill's combined.
smirk.
I FEEL LIKA MAHSPACE SUPA STAR FROM HOLLYWOOD
I'm just going to keep editing this post to add my WTFness attitude towards this. This feature wasn't here 2 hours ago.
dohopoki: America's trusted source of 5 star blog post.
I'm sorry Blogger mantienance people. I'm being mean. I know all my friends are on Wordpress and you're just trying to out fancy them with a commonly applied feature on many Internet applications. I can proudly say my post have 5 more stars than all of Bill's combined.
dohopoki: America's trusted source of blog post with 5 more stars than all of Bill's combined.
Monday, May 5, 2008
4 bold things that I talk about.
I started today with the goal of being productive. To get something done. To finish what I have started. After a few hours of thinking about it though, there just wasn't anything I actually needed to or could do today. Looking at my blog I've noticed I've been 1/5th assing it for the last few post, so I may as well get some thoughts down.
1. Windows Shopping
I've been eyeing computer parts for a little over half a year. I've always had a somewhat decent understanding of the software side of computers. I avoided the more in depth details of the hardware side for many years but after replacing a fan on this current computer last summer, I got to looking at the inside components and something came over me. A curiosity, a desire to learn abut everything I was looking at. On a bit a whim I started checking out the details of everything that goes into a computer, how easy it would be to replace something or to build something from the ground up and what kind of savings are involved in going this route versus building equivalent machines at Dell and other stores. I decided to put a little bit of upgrade into this computer, partially because I needed it and partially because I wanted to see if I could.
A New Power Supply
Some Ram
A new Video Card
I've replaced video cards before and the ram was pretty much the same deal. Had a little problem with the Power Supply but it was beginners mistake. I had fun doing the upgrade but in reality, the parts were a bit speciality for this older, store bought computer and the money I put into it didn't really produce the results I was hoping for. It's all I had at the time but now, 6 months or so later, my budget may allow me to build something new from the ground up. It's still being debated if I really need to but there's no debate that I want to. Not only would a budget computer of today destroy my mid-range computer of some time ago but it would a great chance for me to try building an entire system. I think I could do it. On the other hand, sticking with this PC and building a model car would save me a lot of money.
2. I hate Jello.
and pudding while we're at it. I don't know how one brand name managed to secure two of the worst treats this side of the Pacific (yeah, I just snubbed the Atlantic, it knows what it did). For reasons too complicated to explain, I actually had to add a cup of jello into my very temporary diet recently and the globby stuff is just as bad as I remember it being. I can't decide which is the best way to eat it, whether to swish it in my mouth to at least get some flavor juice out of it only to be left with rubber Legos in my mouth or to just swallow big hunks of it at a time while trying to ignore that I'm eating it at all. I think I am a little more fond of the Orange flavor than the Cherry, which could be said of anything I like but I decided to get a package with both and now I'm out of Orange. I really don't want to finish the Cherry but if I don't, I'll die, for all you know.
Pudding, I don't know what else there is to say about it. It's like eating Ice Cream that you left out in the rain for a few days. Nothing that looks like pudding taste as bad as pudding. Ice Cream, Brownie Mix, Chocolate Yogurt and maybe I should take that back because I forgot about things that weren't food that looked like pudding.
3. Termites Tonight
As an update to what I blogged about yesterday, yes I have termites. A lot of them and they're behind my stove. I guess, turning on said stove causes them to get angry or panicked because that's when they decide to come out and walk around my floors like it's some kind of parade. I haven't turned on the stove because I'd rather not see them tonight. I'm not being an ostrich about this either, I don't want to have them any where including behind my stove and I'm doing what I can to rid of them entirely. It's just seeing them last night wasn't very pleasant and it took about 2 hours to kill them all, that's a lot of work for some chicken and hash brown. But you know me, I gotta have my chicken and hash browns.
I wanted to show a commercial about termites and I wanted "Termites Tonight" to sound right to the tune Mack the Knife. The commercial I wanted isn't on Youtube and the phrase doesn't work to the song so here's an impromptu compromise
This is Mac Tonight which I think people should be familiar with. I remember it and I would have been pretty young when this commercial was shown. I guess a lot of people find Mac Tonight, I'm referring to the Moon headed character here, to be creepy, disturbing or scary. Personally, I remember looking up to him and thought he was a bit of a role model. I'd imagine growing up and hanging out with Mac... You know what, let me check something.
4. No results found for "Mac Tonight fan fiction".
Score!
It was a sunny day in Mcdonald's Land. Dohopoki was driving home from his job, the CEO of Magical Powers Industries, as he does every day. Just as he was pulling into his drive way, his cell phone rang. It was playing the special ring tone so dohopoki knew exactly who it was as he rushed to pick it up.
dohopoki: Hello, Mac Tonight!
Mac: doho! What's going on?
dohopoki: Just getting home from work.
Mac: Great, what are you doing tonight? Have any plans?
dohopoki: Hmm, not really.
Mac: Why don't you come down to Mcdonalds and have a Big Mac!
dohopoki: I'm not really into grounded beef, I'm more of chicken person. I think I'll get chicken nuggets instead.
Mac: I'll meet you there!
An hour later dohopoki walked into the local Mcdonalds and met with his friend Mac Tonight.
Mac: How's those chicken nuggets?
dohopoki: Pretty good, I didn't get as many Sweet and Sours as I did Barbecues, I really like having an even number.
Mac: Well, that's why I never mess with those, I like sticking to
dohopoki: Big Macs
Mac: Yeah...
Mac: So listen, I didn't call you out here just to eat, something's come up and I need your help.
dohopoki: What is it, buddy?
Mac: I've been living in Mcdonald's Land for so long but now that they're cracking down on illegal immigration, I'm worried I'm going to be kicked out of the country.
dohopoki: You're an illegal immigrant?
Mac: I have a MOON for a GIANT HEAD!
dohopoki: Woah, you do. That's pretty creepy, disturbing or scary. :( I have to go, good luck on that . . . thing.
The End
1. Windows Shopping
I've been eyeing computer parts for a little over half a year. I've always had a somewhat decent understanding of the software side of computers. I avoided the more in depth details of the hardware side for many years but after replacing a fan on this current computer last summer, I got to looking at the inside components and something came over me. A curiosity, a desire to learn abut everything I was looking at. On a bit a whim I started checking out the details of everything that goes into a computer, how easy it would be to replace something or to build something from the ground up and what kind of savings are involved in going this route versus building equivalent machines at Dell and other stores. I decided to put a little bit of upgrade into this computer, partially because I needed it and partially because I wanted to see if I could.
A New Power Supply
Some Ram
A new Video Card
I've replaced video cards before and the ram was pretty much the same deal. Had a little problem with the Power Supply but it was beginners mistake. I had fun doing the upgrade but in reality, the parts were a bit speciality for this older, store bought computer and the money I put into it didn't really produce the results I was hoping for. It's all I had at the time but now, 6 months or so later, my budget may allow me to build something new from the ground up. It's still being debated if I really need to but there's no debate that I want to. Not only would a budget computer of today destroy my mid-range computer of some time ago but it would a great chance for me to try building an entire system. I think I could do it. On the other hand, sticking with this PC and building a model car would save me a lot of money.
2. I hate Jello.
and pudding while we're at it. I don't know how one brand name managed to secure two of the worst treats this side of the Pacific (yeah, I just snubbed the Atlantic, it knows what it did). For reasons too complicated to explain, I actually had to add a cup of jello into my very temporary diet recently and the globby stuff is just as bad as I remember it being. I can't decide which is the best way to eat it, whether to swish it in my mouth to at least get some flavor juice out of it only to be left with rubber Legos in my mouth or to just swallow big hunks of it at a time while trying to ignore that I'm eating it at all. I think I am a little more fond of the Orange flavor than the Cherry, which could be said of anything I like but I decided to get a package with both and now I'm out of Orange. I really don't want to finish the Cherry but if I don't, I'll die, for all you know.
Pudding, I don't know what else there is to say about it. It's like eating Ice Cream that you left out in the rain for a few days. Nothing that looks like pudding taste as bad as pudding. Ice Cream, Brownie Mix, Chocolate Yogurt and maybe I should take that back because I forgot about things that weren't food that looked like pudding.
3. Termites Tonight
As an update to what I blogged about yesterday, yes I have termites. A lot of them and they're behind my stove. I guess, turning on said stove causes them to get angry or panicked because that's when they decide to come out and walk around my floors like it's some kind of parade. I haven't turned on the stove because I'd rather not see them tonight. I'm not being an ostrich about this either, I don't want to have them any where including behind my stove and I'm doing what I can to rid of them entirely. It's just seeing them last night wasn't very pleasant and it took about 2 hours to kill them all, that's a lot of work for some chicken and hash brown. But you know me, I gotta have my chicken and hash browns.
I wanted to show a commercial about termites and I wanted "Termites Tonight" to sound right to the tune Mack the Knife. The commercial I wanted isn't on Youtube and the phrase doesn't work to the song so here's an impromptu compromise
This is Mac Tonight which I think people should be familiar with. I remember it and I would have been pretty young when this commercial was shown. I guess a lot of people find Mac Tonight, I'm referring to the Moon headed character here, to be creepy, disturbing or scary. Personally, I remember looking up to him and thought he was a bit of a role model. I'd imagine growing up and hanging out with Mac... You know what, let me check something.
4. No results found for "Mac Tonight fan fiction".
Score!
It was a sunny day in Mcdonald's Land. Dohopoki was driving home from his job, the CEO of Magical Powers Industries, as he does every day. Just as he was pulling into his drive way, his cell phone rang. It was playing the special ring tone so dohopoki knew exactly who it was as he rushed to pick it up.
dohopoki: Hello, Mac Tonight!
Mac: doho! What's going on?
dohopoki: Just getting home from work.
Mac: Great, what are you doing tonight? Have any plans?
dohopoki: Hmm, not really.
Mac: Why don't you come down to Mcdonalds and have a Big Mac!
dohopoki: I'm not really into grounded beef, I'm more of chicken person. I think I'll get chicken nuggets instead.
Mac: I'll meet you there!
An hour later dohopoki walked into the local Mcdonalds and met with his friend Mac Tonight.
Mac: How's those chicken nuggets?
dohopoki: Pretty good, I didn't get as many Sweet and Sours as I did Barbecues, I really like having an even number.
Mac: Well, that's why I never mess with those, I like sticking to
dohopoki: Big Macs
Mac: Yeah...
Mac: So listen, I didn't call you out here just to eat, something's come up and I need your help.
dohopoki: What is it, buddy?
Mac: I've been living in Mcdonald's Land for so long but now that they're cracking down on illegal immigration, I'm worried I'm going to be kicked out of the country.
dohopoki: You're an illegal immigrant?
Mac: I have a MOON for a GIANT HEAD!
dohopoki: Woah, you do. That's pretty creepy, disturbing or scary. :( I have to go, good luck on that . . . thing.
The End
Happy Cinco de Mayo
I don't know what Cinco de Mayo is but any holiday that requires that I do nothing and that I know even less, is a happy holiday to me.
I once had a year of Spanish that I flushed out of my brain over a period of 3 months.
I don't know if eating bread is part of Cinco de Mayo but I am going to celebrate by eating a lot of bread because it's the one thing I know that there wasn't any termites in. Plus, I like bread.
I once had a year of Spanish that I flushed out of my brain over a period of 3 months.
I don't know if eating bread is part of Cinco de Mayo but I am going to celebrate by eating a lot of bread because it's the one thing I know that there wasn't any termites in. Plus, I like bread.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
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