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Taken at one of the Sonoma State laundry rooms.

Fail Post

Christopher Beam, a writer for Slate has recently written a heavily researched article looking back into the history of the word "fail." Often used by nerds, geeks and freaks alike, he traces it's usage back as far as anyone in their right mind would care to know. The point of the article? No fucking clue, but it does seem to touch on some interesting notions.

Now when you're at the local bar is Second Life, you'll have a witty conversation starter.

Evga Scout Arena Tournament

Since I know most of you are primarily interested in the prizes, here they are:

1. GTX 280
2. 790i FTW Digital
3. GTX 260 Core 216

BoNK.

Newegg Gamers Special!

Raptor hard drives, 24 inch monitors and 4870's all on sale.

500gb Hard Drive ~ $65

For a limited time on Newegg with the following promo code:
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My bad

MMO Bullshit

Is there a reason that it takes over a day to fully install an MMO game from scratch? A good one? Because atm I cannot find one but I still have to deal with this ridiculous crap all of the two times I have installed an MMO.

Last night I downloaded the World of Warcraft trial (~4.5gb) and it took 4 hours over my Comcast 6mb connection. Today I went to install the game and it had to download numerous other patches. Other than the fact that the initial installer I downloaded should have incorporated the latest patches eliminating the need for this, this shit is taking wayy too fucking long.

I spent about 45 minutes downloading the first few patches and then i hit 2.4.3-3.0 (~2.3gb) and it said another 5 hours. Now you can blame this on my internet connection which was completely idle, or another problem but thats simply wrong.

The only problem there was is that the WoW downloader piece of shit reqauires ports to be forwarded which I did but my router (like most routers) is a piece of shit and keeps spitting at me that services are conflicting when their not.

Thank god we have websites like filefront where I can avoid this stupid bullshit and download it at a half decent rate in 50 minutes.

WoW can save a shit ton of bandwidth let alone 3 day installation frusturation among its users if they would include a fast track download service that was not deceptively simple piece of flying fucking crap.

Oh did I mention it took around 5 hours to install Age of Conan for the same reason?

I guess the lesson is don't play shitty fee inducing MMO games, thank god im doing this for school or id be piece the fuck out a long time ago..

Airport Security - looking good while doing nothing

Dated: I found an stunning article circulating the blogosphere about a man who has successfully snuck everything from knives to liquid to jihad pamphlets into planes, well past airport security cehckpoints. Doing so with fake boarding passes that are really not hard to make, it is definitely worth a read if you had even an inkling that those TSA officials were making America a safer place.

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Fail Blog

I'm sure I'm behind the curve, but this blog I discovered recently while reading up on the history of the word "fail" is fucking hilarious. I recommend you checkout a couple of the fails.

epic.

Kowloon Walled City: Wow...Just Look at this Place! [PIC]

The Kowloon Walled City was a tiny Chinese enclave in the middle of British Hong Kong for decades. It was torn down in 1993. Over the years, many filmmakers, gaming designers and other artists have used the Walled City as an inspiration when they wanted to convey a sense of oppressive urbanization or centers of unfettered criminality.

read more | digg story

"Meet McCain’s Slaves! Well, descendants of John McCain’s Great-Great-Grandfather’s slaves."

"Growing up in Mississippi on what was once the plantation land of Sen. John McCain’s great-great-grandfather, the sisters always knew their family had descended from slaves belonging to the McCain family."

Saw this posted on Dvorak Uncensored lol

8.0 MP portable camera - $120

 

Weekend Sale on Newegg, chkitout

Skippy's resignation from CAL

TinyEye

"TinEye is an image search engine built by Idée currently in beta. Give it an image and it will tell you where the image appears on the web."

Hmmmm, I'm seeing some dangerous things happen with this tool. o_0

1.5TB hd for $180, free shipping

Newegg is having a 24 hour sale, included is the Seagate 1.5 Terabyte drive for $180 w/ free shipping. Only 3 months ago I bought a Terabyte drive for $160.. on sale. Grab it while its hot!!

Check the release here, promo code EMCBABEBG

My Headphone Roundup

It has FINALLY been posted,

Norm changed a lot of stuff and there's some grammar messups, but I can't change it cuz my access has been restricted.

Check it out! and if you would be so kind please, digg it!

Digg account banned

It seems I am being banned from everywhere. The latest addition to this list:

Thanks for getting in touch with us at Digg.com regarding your account.

Your account was reported to us for abusive activity in comments. Specifically, "can i count the amount of bullshit she just streamed from not only her tits (digg shirt) but her words, even if we asked the "right" questions, there is no way her network wouldn't censor them.. digg users are not that fucking ignorant..."

As explicitly stated in the Digg.com Terms of Service located at http://digg.com/tos section 5.1 USER CONDUCT:

5.1 By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree not to use the Services: to abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate other Digg users;
Also, note that in our Terms of Service, we reserve the right to, “Digg may remove any Content and Digg accounts at any time for any reason (including, but not limited to, upon receipt of claims or allegations from third parties or authorities relating to such Content), or for no reason at all.”

We are willing to unban your account once we receive notification from you that you have reviewed the Digg.com Terms of Service and re-affirm your agreement to those terms.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us should you have any further questions.

Thanks,

---Digg Support

Now I don't remember exactly the digg I was commenting on, I believe it was about a video of a news reporter for msnbc or something asking so called "hard hitting" questions to somebody.

The only question I have is exactly who contacted them, 3rd party or user?

roff.

Filefront.... BANNED

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Your account has been locked, because it contained illegal content.

Email I got from filefront after hosting the dark knight on their servers.

Think before you speak, no really..

I write to you today as a former victim of teenage culture. Long before I had become aware of it, I was tarnished by a deadly disease; the very same disease that’s affecting millions of college students across the nation. One that most are unaware they harbor, until it’s too late. As one of the former infected, it is my high hope that I can spread awareness about this deadly contamination and help to liberate the truly ambitious amongst you.

We do not know its exact origins, but we do know that it manifests itself in the minds of young adults and is currently ruining reputations around the world. It feeds on the unintelligent and takes form during the pauses in our speech. The bastard child of “uhh”, this infection has sadly become a stigma for college students all over.

What is this terrible disease? The like, abuse of the word “like.”

This verbal contaminant is common to both Norcal and Socal students and spoken in every day conversation more often than the word “change” amongst Obama’s PR representatives. The troubling difference is that while they’re aware of their words usage, we are not.

Actually, we often don’t become aware of our plight until it’s too late. It’s only when we really begin listening to ourselves during job interviews, or hear ourselves speak in oral presentations, that we realize how ridiculous we really do sound.

Some people (myself included), use the word when they feel nervous in front of the class, some use it because they have the vocabulary of an 8^th grade teen. Whatever the case, college students need to make a concerted effort to ‘chill the f*** out’ with the word because its making us ALL look like complete tools.

Now don’t get me wrong, I am all for college slang and have great time making Southern California girls cry when saying ‘hella tight,’ but this disease has become just like, kinda like, out of control. Realizing the way you sound is only the beginning, after you do this it becomes even harder -- and mildly depressing -- to try and stop. Which is exactly what it is time to do.

While many of you can flip it on and off like a switch, some people can’t turn it off so easily; if at all. You will have to put in a massive amount of effort in order to change. Doctors recommend the following treatments to aid in the healing process:

1. Stop hanging out with and/or being a stoner.


2. Read.


3. Think more. Perhaps even before or when you speak words.

I seriously challenge you reading this to try to listen to yourself during conversation and really think about the words you articulate and how you sound. Hopefully the day will come when I can attend class and not feel the need to count how many times some girl says “like,” just to make sure I’m not going insane. I am not saying everyone reading this “word salad“ uses the word to death, but to quote Obama its “It’s time for motherf***** Change."

An Update

Hey guys, so if anyone is wondering wtf ive been doing outside of updating my blog, the answer is a LOT.

Since my internship with MaximumPC I haven't had time to do free writing at all hardly. I am designing a sociological research project about video game addiction, a field research project meaning I will be playing WoW for a couple months taking notes @_@, yes unfortunatley I have to play the vile disgusting game.

I am also now running the Sonoma State Star website now, and doing quite well actually hits are up across the board and we had an all time high last week. I am working on doing an editor podcast too.

All this with 16 units and the usual amounts of alcohol and estrogen. Hopefully I will be able to upkeep this blog once again, once I do you will be the first to know ; )