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"Everyone knows standardized tests are fundamentally racist."

My Panasonic Blu-Ray player is the worst.

When it plays through the special features, it hangs. Nothing. Usually, it should return you to the special features menu. It doesn't. I have yet to figure out how to get it back. I usually restart the machine, and when I say restart I mean a hard shutdown pulling the plug with a restart. Remind me to never play a special feature through.

It's also slow to respond to user input. I have no idea when I press the on button when it will actually respond. So you press it two or three times and now you may have shut it off.

There is no navigation back to the main menu. It's a little pop-up which doesn't seem to show everything. Is this Blu-Ray? Can they get software developers on this?

Labels: NewsRadio quote, surly

Posted by: SoNSo1 | 7:52:00 PM

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The War on Fat: 202.8

I despise that number.

On the first of the month, it's 202.8. On the thirtieth, it's 202.8. In between, it was up, and down. It never got below 201, and on a few days it was above 206 -- those were the days that went unrecorded. But, ultimately, it returned back to 202.8. June was a cruel month.

So, I cheated. I don't record those bad days. If I put it in, the trend line points up steeply. And when I return back to 202.8 the trend line barely point down. At this rate, I will hit my target goal in December. Of 2014!

I have put in the time on the rowing machine. I pushed 150 K this month, the second highest of the year. Still it's only 202.8.

I have a theory. Perhaps I've already explained it in a previous post. I've looked at my historical data on weight and noticed that I don't loose weight in the summer. I gain it. My theory is that this is part of evolution. Humans over the course would gorge themselves in times of plenty to be ready for the lean times. Summer is filled with foody delights. Eat before winter sets in when there is nothing to eat. I'm gaining weight because of evolution. Also, cookouts, ice cream, and beer. Good things to eat when times are plenty.

Maybe the fall, I'll finally start losing the weight.

Labels: fat war, get off your butt, surly

Posted by: SoNSo1 | 10:08:00 PM

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Your Cart Is Empty

Received an email from Zappos this morning that they had 1 pair of shoes that I wanted in stock. So I clicked the link to purchase. When I put it into my shopping cart, it said that they did not have it in stock any more. Yet, it still said that there was a pair in my size left. Ha!

So here they are mocking me. Making me want to reach into my iPad and straggle them. Come on. If it's there it's there. But don't tell me it is when it isn't. I mean you're computer could've stopped and told me there was none left before I tried to add it to the cart.

Computers can calculate a lot of things.

Labels: commerce, oops, surly

Posted by: SoNSo1 | 9:00:00 PM

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Marching the Hate Machines

And only because I recognized the tune right from the start...

Labels: get me out of here, surly, time sink

Posted by: SoNSo1 | 1:10:00 AM

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This blog sucks

This is page views for BrowserMetrics for the last 365 days. As you can see it's trending down this year, and it hasn't been as good as it was the same time last year. After completing my Year of links and quotes, I've stopped blogging. I don't know why. I don't know what to say. I've basically just been doing things that only I am interested in. K-ON! Hatsukoi Limited! Cross Game! I'm the only one who likes it.

I"m wondering if there is anything left to say.

Sorry, I'll try better.

Labels: meta, surly

Posted by: SoNSo1 | 9:00:00 PM

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Quote of the Day [8.28.08]

"We don't have a moment to lose or a vote to spare. Nothing less than the fate of our nation and the future of our children hang in the balance."

Hilary Clinton @ the Democratic National Convention 8.26.08

Labels: qotd, surly, winners

Posted by: SoNSo1 | 8:59:00 AM

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Quote of the Day [8.04.08]

"Because it's there."

Sir Edmund Hillary when asked why climb Mt. Everest

Labels: brevity, qotd, surly

Posted by: SoNSo1 | 8:23:00 AM

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Quote of the Day [6.19.08]

"The computer is a moron."

Peter Drucker

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Posted by: SoNSo1 | 9:20:00 AM

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Quote of the Day [6.18.08]

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."

Pablo Picasso

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Posted by: SoNSo1 | 9:21:00 AM

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Chinese Spam Engine

I always wondered how spammers filled their spam email with snippets of text. You've read it. It defeats your spam blocker with the random text, and when you read it it almost makes sense. Almost.

So now my Annie Hall review is infamous. It's probably clogging up the internet pipes as we speak. More interesting is if I ever receive it back.

Can anyone decode the unicode text and tell me what it means?

Here it is in full: (with additional line breaks added by me)
Beijing China
211.145.113.234
/C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/%u675C%u76C8/%u684C%u9762/
%u7535%u5F71%u4E0E%u65F6%u5C1A/
%u8D44%u6599%u5206%u7C7B/AN/BrowserMetrics%20Annie%20Hall.htm

Labels: ha ha, meta, oops, surly

Posted by: SoNSo1 | 7:34:00 PM

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Quote of the Day [6.07.08]

"You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life."

Henry Cabot Lodge

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Posted by: SoNSo1 | 8:29:00 AM

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Quote of the Day [5.31.08]

“History appears poised to confirm what most Americans today have decided: that the decision to invade Iraq was a serious strategic blunder. No one, including me, can know with absolute certainty how the war will be viewed decades from now when we can more fully understand its impact. What I do know is that war should only be waged when necessary, and the Iraq war was not necessary.”

Scott McClellan, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception

Labels: qotd, surly, wankers

Posted by: SoNSo1 | 8:00:00 AM

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Quote of the Day [5.27.08]

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

Roy Batty, Blade Runner

Labels: movies, qotd, surly

Posted by: SoNSo1 | 8:05:00 AM

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Get out the vote

Hillary Clinton wins in West Virginia and she argues that only she can beat McClown in the general elections. She is getting in the way of the chance to destroy the Republican party and muddling up the picture.

The goal of this year's elections is to destroy the quaint notion that the Republican party and current conservative thinking are the best way to producing a great nation. The Democrats should be hammering this meme everywhere, every day, every time. They need to discredit their opponents, so that the nation can understand that the destructiveness of the selfishness-inspiring Republican thought was what directly contributed to the worst eight years of the US.

Yet, Clinton is still in it. Her presence now gets in the way of presenting the American citizens that the Democrats can lead the nation to greatness again. With her there, the Democrats can't even lead their own party to greatness. It makes the message hard to decipher.

The nation is looking for kicking out the Republicans from office from state to national seats. Yet, the Democrats can't capitalize at the most significant post, the president. Why should the nation replace incompetent and corrupt Republicans, if the alternative is just as incompetent? And Clinton still in the race makes the Democrats look it.

Just get out of our way, so that we can start kicking some Republican ass.

Labels: surly, wishing for a pony

Posted by: SoNSo1 | 8:52:00 AM

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Quote of the Day [4.21.08]

"Plan to throw one away, you will anyhow."
Fred Brooks

Labels: qotd, software development, surly

Posted by: SoNSo1 | 9:00:00 PM

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Seen from this morning

If you notice the time stamp of the previous post, you'll see a time around 4 AM.

I don't know why I was up.

Actually, I do. I acted the fool this morning. Have you ever been amped to get up? Or knew you had the get up that you slept lightly? I had to rise early to be in work by 8 for a training class plus also I am trying to condition myself to get up earlier so that Jorge Cruise can motivate me. So I was somewhat awake and groggy around 3:30. I thought it was 6:30. The lack of sunlight seemed normal for winter at that time.

I could've actually looked at my alarm clock, but I rushed to take a shower. I didn't feel tired, but underneath the warm water I had a hunch that I didn't sleep the full six hours I normally do.

I didn't. My iPhone told me what the actual time was.

I pondered if I should go back to bed, stay awake and go to work around 5:30, or get breakfast. So I posted that notice about TCM running some fine movies, and went back to sleep shortly thereafter.

I didn't miss getting up. The alarm sounded at the normal time.

Labels: oops, surly

Posted by: SoNSo1 | 9:25:00 PM

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National Pastime

You know, baseball is much better watched in the middle of the day.
Especially if that day is in the middle of the work week.

The Baltimore Orioles always have a day game on Sunday, yet very few on
a weekday. They have the home opener March 31 at 3:00, then a few more
day games in May: Tampa Bay on the 1st, Boston on the 14th, and the
hated Yankees on the 26th. For the rest of the season, nada.

It would seem to me to be better to have these day games in the summer
rather than the spring. You can sit in the hot sun hot dog in hand and
a cold, cold beer better in the summer than the spring. You never know
what the weather's going to be in May. In July, it's going to be sunny
and hot with scattered thunderstorms in the late afternoon. Perfect
weather, if the game starts at 1:05.

That's what's wrong with baseball. No day games to escape from work
when needed.

Labels: sports, surly

Posted by: SoNSo1 | 9:14:00 AM

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Enchanted

Marge at the FishTank has apologized for dragging the Seed and me to this flick, but there's really nothing to be apologetic about it. If she could get the other critics to issue a personal apology to me that would be awesome. Some of these critics raved about Amy Adams. I personally couldn't care less. I was like the old hag wanting to push her down a well. http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6959836

Enchanted

2 of 5 stars

Labels: movies, review, surly

Posted by: SoNSo1 | 7:52:00 PM

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