Toasty!

It's my birthday today.

Celebrate damn you!




Actually, today, the 25th, the day of my birthday, I get to be at school all damn day. That's right. 17 hours of school just for me!

Awesome.

So.

Why in gods fucking name can I not buy a cell phone and have it just ring like a normal phone?

I know, I know. Ringtones of songs and such are all the rage nowadays, but I want just a phone that sounds like it's ringing. Why? That's how I hear the fuckers.

I had to get a new cell phone because frankly, my old one wasn't in good condition. At all. The fact I couldn't tilt my head even the slightest bit sideways without losing my call was enough to force me to buy a new one.

So I bought this new one that's a "Flip phone", you know, folds over and it's cleverly named the "Oyster". This is actually good because I can't seem to have a phone in my pocket without pressing some buttons. So I move along normally, setting it up and all of that. My phone rings after I call it to ensure all is working, ew, some shitty pre-programmed ringtone. So I go and cycle through the other ringtones and realize something;

I DON'T HAVE A FUCKING RINGTONE THAT SOUNDS LIKE AN ACTUAL PHONE.

Why?

Why in fucks name would they do such a retarded thing? Why would I want to go buy a ringtone that sounds like a phone when I JUST BOUGHT A FUCKING PHONE?

That's like selling a fire alarm without the actual alarm bell. You have to buy it separately unless you want to stick with the default, "Tiny Dancer" by Elton John ring it has with it.

Beat Crusaders

Best band ever.

Google the name and find some downloadables if you can.

When you combine...
1.73 GHz Intel Pentium M Processor
133 MHz FSB
504 MB RAM with capability to hold 2 GB
Intel 915GM/GMS,910GML Express Chipset Video With 128 MB of Memory
CD-RW/DVD CDROM Drive

You get my new laptop.

Bow before me. For I am awesome.

Ok, ok ok. So it only has 40 GB of storage, it's not an extremely impressive machine, and it's lacking a DVD burner, but hell. It was cheap, tacked on to my student loans, and outclasses my desktop PC in every aspect.

Now to just get that extra gig and a half of RAM.

Anybody got some spare?

The Theory


Slackers are actually the ultimate working force.

The Proof


So I have my Capstone class this quarter. For those of you who don't know, basically the entire class separates into groups of two. We only have six people in the class, so there were three groups. The people in each group were picked at random. The odds I thought were against me, because while I am a slacker, I do some decent work when paired with someone who knows what they're doing.

So I get paired up with the other slacker of the class. It may sound bad, me calling the both of us slackers, but to be honest, we do probably earn out the least amount of extremely hard work, but regardless...

At first we kind of joked about it, saying how bad our project would be or how far behind we were going to be and just having fun with it. We both knew it was going to be hard, everyone else kind of knew what situation we were in as well. But suddenly an idea popped into my head.

What does a slacker do? I guess the best term to use would be procrastinator. The two fit hand in hand, really, but basically on our own, we do the least amount required and bust ass at the last minute to get large scale things done. But what if we're in a team...?

So here's how it went. We were still joking around, waiting for the instructor to get back with our program specs we were supposed to use. I came up with the idea of, "Ok, so our group is composed of two slackers, right? Each of us is going to go into this project with the mindset that the other isn't going to do a damn thing. Thus, each will work twice as hard to pick up the slack." Of course at first I was meaning this to be a joke, but it quickly donned on me that it was true.

Going on week four and our group is about to have our second revision of our documentation, two being the minimum required before a meeting, and assuming our documentation was typed properly we would be able to have our "client meeting" with the instructor to get basic stuff to start coding with. What do the others have? As far as I know, one group has yet to, or just did turn in their first revision of documentation. The last group I have no idea, but as far as I can tell, they have none in so far.

The Result?


Slackers, while in the right environment and when paired with the right amount of opposing slackers, can and will get a project done on or even before deadline.

And this concludes my post. Jesus I'm fucking bored.

Why are people so fucking dumb?

I'm an administrator at the forum over at Anime-Refuge(now The Anime Fan) and I go through and regularly delete posts that are spam.

On the forums there is this little... RPG set up, when you post more, you get experience and gold to get your RPG character items and levels and whatnot. Obviously this will influence a lot of spam, but some is within reasonable lines.

But some is fucking worthless and contributes nothing, or is completely off the topic being discussed.

So I made a post to differentiate between spam, and not spam, yet sometimes people still seem angry and ask, "WHY DID MY POST COUNT GO DOWN!?"

Well it might relate to this bullshit(Things circled in red)



Hmm... that might not look bad except when you consider we have over 5,000 members.

Jesus.

Why can't people just... stop being dumb?

McDonalds fails to be an awesome employer.

They suck and I wish to quit my job.

Sadly I have no other job to fall back on.

Sure I'm living at home, don't have bills to pay, ect ect.

But I need money damnit. And I need a job that's not going to leave me flipping burgers when I fucking graduate.

But in order to do that I need to get someone to FUCKING HIRE ME.

Yeah.

Getting a job sucks.