Mozilla Firefox is amazing. It's fast, it's free. It's accessible. It's cool. It's customizable.
Unlike Internet Explorer, which asks for confirmation for every bloody action you take, apart from being soo slow and annoying and unchangeable. And since it is integrated into the Windows operating system, it is also a greater computer security risk.
Firefox is also open-source, which means people are allowed to copy its source code and redesign it in their own ways (provided that they say they did so, as stated in the GNU GPL).
So I love Mozilla Firefox 3.
Some pretty fun geek-stuff can be found at ThinkGeek, and I've already got like 50 items on my wishlist, including this snazzy piece of engineering.
I need a life.
I miss my home.
I miss my friend(s).
I'm bored.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
All Hail Free Software.
We all know that torrents are cool. Hell, since I learned to use them, I don't know what I would do without them. The ultimate way to get your hacked software and pirated movies/TV series (and, of course, the ever-important porn).
However, thanks to some good friends I made here in the U.S., I've discovered major online repositories of vintage and current movies and TV series, and I think that saving computer disk space is much easier when we don't have to depend on torrent-ing to get what we want.
Hail to free (i.e. open-source) software! =D Check out SourceForge for some pretty amazing free stuff. Also, if you're a person who moves around a lot, consider: PortableApps and MojoPac. 5 stars to PortableApps for the effort and everything else about it; 6 stars to MojoPac for the idea, but 2 stars for its current version.
*w00t* yes, I know I sound like a geek. I'm happy (in some ways). Are you?
lol.
However, thanks to some good friends I made here in the U.S., I've discovered major online repositories of vintage and current movies and TV series, and I think that saving computer disk space is much easier when we don't have to depend on torrent-ing to get what we want.
Hail to free (i.e. open-source) software! =D Check out SourceForge for some pretty amazing free stuff. Also, if you're a person who moves around a lot, consider: PortableApps and MojoPac. 5 stars to PortableApps for the effort and everything else about it; 6 stars to MojoPac for the idea, but 2 stars for its current version.
*w00t* yes, I know I sound like a geek. I'm happy (in some ways). Are you?
lol.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Frisbee can be dangerous. Too bad I'm not Jackie Chan or Jet Li.
It should be noted, I hardly ever take risks, so I hardly ever get hurt.
A boring life, one would assume, and one would be right in some ways.
But apparently there are risks in frisbee, which caused me to twist my ankle a couple of days back when I jumped to catch that little green flying disc. Oh well. Might as well put that prescription of Vicodin to good use, whether or not my leg hurts. *wink*
On a side note which is related to my previous few sentences in a way depending on your point of view, The Forbidden Kingdom was awesome, and martial arts is d@ sh1t, y0! Jackie Chan and Jet Li in the same movie!
Did you know that virtually no insurance company is willing to cover Jackie Chan's stunts? Currently most of his stunts are choreographed by the Jackie Chan Stunt Team, but I don't care whether they are planned or ad-libbed, they are pretty much awesome. He holds the Guinness World Record for 'Most Stunts by a Living Actor'. Gonna be a hard record for some sucker to beat.
Perhaps my first sentence in this post offers me an inadvertent insight into my own life, coming, as it did, half out of nowhere.
Peace out, yo. \m/
A boring life, one would assume, and one would be right in some ways.
But apparently there are risks in frisbee, which caused me to twist my ankle a couple of days back when I jumped to catch that little green flying disc. Oh well. Might as well put that prescription of Vicodin to good use, whether or not my leg hurts. *wink*
On a side note which is related to my previous few sentences in a way depending on your point of view, The Forbidden Kingdom was awesome, and martial arts is d@ sh1t, y0! Jackie Chan and Jet Li in the same movie!
Did you know that virtually no insurance company is willing to cover Jackie Chan's stunts? Currently most of his stunts are choreographed by the Jackie Chan Stunt Team, but I don't care whether they are planned or ad-libbed, they are pretty much awesome. He holds the Guinness World Record for 'Most Stunts by a Living Actor'. Gonna be a hard record for some sucker to beat.
Perhaps my first sentence in this post offers me an inadvertent insight into my own life, coming, as it did, half out of nowhere.
Peace out, yo. \m/
Friday, June 6, 2008
A Mask on Reality
Ahh, reality. So utterly definable and absolutely irrefutable, yet totally subject to change and completely open to interpretation.
Something I can probably ponder better after I've masticated. No, I did not say 'masticate' as a thinly-veiled synonym for 'masturbate'. What are you, a pervert or something? Go look in the bloody dictionary. Or learn to play Scrabble. In which case you'll have to look in the dictionary a hell of a lot of times.
So, my loyalty to science remains unshaken, although I've no idea as to how or why it would be shaken in the first place. We have so much to thank it for.
And my childhood infatuation with space is only partly diminished with age.
A joke I absolutely must share (best understood if you've done calculus in some form):
In calculus class we do alot of mathematical problems that involve the principle of integration (well, of course - that's the fundamental heart of calculus).
So, quite often, you'll hear our professor saying something like, "We'll need to integrate that ..." or "What's the integral of ..." or "There are many ways to do this integral ..." or "It takes a bit of experience to do this integral ..." or "You might recognize this integral ..." .. and so on and so forth.
Only problem is, when he says the word 'integral' ... his accent makes it sound like .. 'intergirl'. Now replace that in every sentence and you may or may not see what I mean. I don't think our professor realizes it at all, he looks, like, 60 years old or something.
Thus for me the fun in Calc II class may never end. Whoo.
Further (approximate) quotes:
"... now, when you look at this improper integral, it's kind of obvious ..."
"To solve [problem so-and-so], you'll need to check the limits of this integral ..."
*prize quote* :-P "As you can see, this particular integral doesn't have any limits ..."
Life, hast thou plans for me?
Ahh, forget it, I need to get a real one before I make anything of it.
Something I can probably ponder better after I've masticated. No, I did not say 'masticate' as a thinly-veiled synonym for 'masturbate'. What are you, a pervert or something? Go look in the bloody dictionary. Or learn to play Scrabble. In which case you'll have to look in the dictionary a hell of a lot of times.
So, my loyalty to science remains unshaken, although I've no idea as to how or why it would be shaken in the first place. We have so much to thank it for.
And my childhood infatuation with space is only partly diminished with age.
A joke I absolutely must share (best understood if you've done calculus in some form):
In calculus class we do alot of mathematical problems that involve the principle of integration (well, of course - that's the fundamental heart of calculus).
So, quite often, you'll hear our professor saying something like, "We'll need to integrate that ..." or "What's the integral of ..." or "There are many ways to do this integral ..." or "It takes a bit of experience to do this integral ..." or "You might recognize this integral ..." .. and so on and so forth.
Only problem is, when he says the word 'integral' ... his accent makes it sound like .. 'intergirl'. Now replace that in every sentence and you may or may not see what I mean. I don't think our professor realizes it at all, he looks, like, 60 years old or something.
Thus for me the fun in Calc II class may never end. Whoo.
Further (approximate) quotes:
"... now, when you look at this improper integral, it's kind of obvious ..."
"To solve [problem so-and-so], you'll need to check the limits of this integral ..."
*prize quote* :-P "As you can see, this particular integral doesn't have any limits ..."
Life, hast thou plans for me?
Ahh, forget it, I need to get a real one before I make anything of it.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
What if ... hmm ...
Ya gotta love Futurama's "Anthology of Interest". Professor Farnsworth's 'What If ..' Machine takes the cake for a dreamer's wildest dream.
(Borrowing a little from my friend's blog) I've spent so much time pondering it that it's almost lost all meaning ... what if I were to live my life over again?
Would I be willing to change anything?
Would I gain anything?
Would I lose anything?
What if, what if, what if, WHAT IF, ... ?!
Even one word that I might have said or neglected to say may have changed so much. :-/
And there's barely a day I don't ponder it, sometimes even just vaguely in the back of my mind ...
But enough of that boring introspection. I do waaay too much of it anyways.
Unfortunately, my laptop has been delayed an entire month :-| so there's nothing for it except to depend on the university computers and anticipate until it kills me. lol.
In the meantime, the search for companionship continues ... *search search* ... while I ponder yet again about her.
(Borrowing a little from my friend's blog) I've spent so much time pondering it that it's almost lost all meaning ... what if I were to live my life over again?
Would I be willing to change anything?
Would I gain anything?
Would I lose anything?
What if, what if, what if, WHAT IF, ... ?!
Even one word that I might have said or neglected to say may have changed so much. :-/
And there's barely a day I don't ponder it, sometimes even just vaguely in the back of my mind ...
But enough of that boring introspection. I do waaay too much of it anyways.
Unfortunately, my laptop has been delayed an entire month :-| so there's nothing for it except to depend on the university computers and anticipate until it kills me. lol.
In the meantime, the search for companionship continues ... *search search* ... while I ponder yet again about her.
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