The Big Four

I saw the Big Four at the theatre the other night (June 22nd 2010) and it was amazing. The big four includes the following who played in this order: Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer and Metallica. I was really there to go see Megadeth and Slayer, but Anthrax was pretty awesome. I thought Metallica sucked and they pretty much have too much popularity for very little talent. I don't really consider Metallica metal now, as they play very soft music too often now.

Unprofessionalism

So this week Tuesda (06/01/10) a co-worker became an ex-co-worker and now a much hated person. This fuckass took our training courses last week, all week, then fled early on Friday to avoid us. He didn't even fill out the evaluation for the course which was much needed by the professor. This asshole didn't show up this Tuesday, we called and we didn't recieve a reply. Wednesday he didn't show up, we got a call back from his wife who apparently is more of a man than he is, she told us that he is having "issues", so Today my manager gets a half assed email from his indicating that he just can't handle the heat. Fucking pussy bitch, at least put in your 2 weeks!

That is the lowest thing I have ever seen someone do in a work environment is not put in their two weeks. I could care less if someone quits, but not putting in your 2 weeks is total shit. He was a worthless, whiney, old, developer. He was no more a programmer than I am a mechanical engineer. That mother fucker couldn't DEBUG code and had the audacity to use WYSWYG tools as if it was a viable option for the work we were doing. Then he had the nerve to make it seem as if we were the ones who were lame, like we didn't have our shit together. He acted as if he was better than all of us just because a segment of our system is not written well.

I would release his name, but it is too easy to tie it all together.

Fuck you CM. You are a worthless piece of crap and I wish I could have told you this to your face.

Fuck you pussy.

Burst Posting

If you are wondering (not that anyone actually reads my posts anyhow) the reason a lot of my posts show up on the same day sometimes is because I load my GPhone up with them, then I sit down and post all of them at the same time while utilizing spell check etc...

The key to successful innovation

I have realized that the key to successful innovation is to have one main break through and then not have a day job. I have come to realize that people who have discovered amazing things or invented something equally as amazing usually were well off or rich. They had the time and leisure to sit around and think about things all day. They had the time to ponder, experiment and build expensive prototypes. The common person doesn't normally have this kind of opportunity. If they were to try this, they would need a grant or loan to get started. This usually means giving up your day job.

The other ways to be successful in innovation is if you are developing something that deals with your daily work. Or if you are a business owner. Or just a rich bastard. If you are coming up with ideas during your work period, then you are lucky. If you are a business owner, then chances are at one point you can probably sit down and think about how to do something. If you are a rich bastard, then you have all the time in the world to do what ever. If you don't have any of those opportunities, then you are screwed.

Diabetes, air car.

New Horizons Training

I am thoroughly impressed with the courses that the company I work for graciously got for us (I didn't sign anything). It all depends on your instructor of course, the one we had, he knows his shit to the max. He is an consultant for other companies and he does amazing work. Very impressed with him. Not a single power point slide, all practical work. I am pleased to know that most of my practices in code are indeed best practices.

The Power to Threaten

What gives a person, group or entity the power to threaten you? I have been wondering this for a long time now. For example why do entities have the power to threaten your credit or impose nasty fees or bloated rates on you? Where does the government get the power to command you pay taxes or fines? Why can FIU fuck up your financial aid package then demand you give money back after a whole semester has gone by, while threatening you that if you don't pay them you will not be able to sign up for classes or graduate. FIU did that to me twice, they fucked up my financial aid, then asked me to give them 96 dollars back one semester and then 400 dollars back another semester. Fuck Florida International University, fuck it in the retarded sterile golden panther ass.

The answer I have come to realize is all due to the fact that you need them and their services, not the other way around.

I think this is not fair in some cases though. Credit cards and banks for example that they have some stupid ass policies that I think are unfair. For example if you make more than 6 online transfers per month, you get fined 10 dollars. This is a Federal Law, but still I called up my bank and said wtf? They told me I made more than 6 transfers and I told them the usual, "I didn't know, know I know, can you remove that charge?" To which the answer was no always. Not cool. So I thought, why can't I charge them an asshole charge? Why can' I send them a stupid notice that basically says, "I am charging you 10 bucks for being an asshole." Obviously the answer is, I need them, not the other way around.

Stupid Car Design

The kind of car I will not buy is the car that is stupidly put together. So before I even test drive it or look at its body, I pop the hood and inspect the engine. Cars that have hard to locate or to get to parts I would not recommend buying. For example any car where I cannot locate its spark plugs easily is a poorly designed car, if you hide the spark plugs under another car part you have fucked up the design. If I have to cut my knuckles or use a mirror to change a common part, you fucked up the design. If I have to almost remove a tire to change an oil filter, this too is a stupid design.

The main parts I want to be able to get to easily and change are:

Oil filter

Oil pan

Oil cap

Radiator cap

Radiator drain

Spark plugs

Spark plug wires

Air filter

Brak fluid reseviour

Power steering reseviour

I don't think this is asking too much. I have seen cars that let you easily get to these parts. Then there are cars that stupidly fail:

1995 VW Jetta - engine block is held up by its starter motor... stupid idea.

2000 Chevy Lumina - 3 of the spark plugs are almost impossible to get to, you need a mirror to change the plugs and you need to be on top of the engine to do it. You will cut your hands easily.

You need to blindly insert the plugs, this is nerve racking.

Changing the oil on this car is fairly easy, but the oil spills all over the goddamn chassi, as the oil filter is located just above a frame bar. Good job retards.

1997 Murcury (Ford) Grand Marquis - to change the starter on this car you are requires to have child hands and to be a contortionist. It was very very hard to do, it was located deep inside the chassi and had to be done under neath the car. Changing the oil filter required moving the wheel all the way to the right (or was it left?). Its a ford, of course it sucked.

199x Ford Focus LX - fuck this car. Such a small car requires such a giant crappy 4 cylinder engine? Changing the serpentine belt was a mission and nearly impossible. It required dissassembling the goddamn mud gaurd at the bottom of the car. No room for adult male hands to do this. No easy way to relax the belt tensioner! Fuck ford.

1997 Kia Sportage 4 cylinder - changing the belts on this car is not so simple, you need to get under the car to loosen a tensioner. You need to remove nearly the entire air intake system in order to change the spark plugs. The car is flimsy in every sense of the word. The lock cylinders suck, you can force them open. The door handles might as well be made of paper mache.

The New Plan

This new found energy and freedom from not living in hell anymore aka Kendall is very awesome. I plan on having fun with it and I think I am going to either take on drawing or learning something new on my own. I have not drawn a single thing in over a year. I had so many ideas and motivations and I never got to act on any of them. I am excited about the free time I have now, I have been wasting a lot of it on gaming, which truly is a waste of time, but has been a lot of fun.

Things to Point Out

I sometimes think about certain things that don't fit a pattern and I dwell on them untill I find the pattern, here are some:

All people are selfish and act out of selfishness no matter the intended action.

No baby ever choses to be born.

Americans use the weight dimension instead of the mass dimension to measure an object's weight/mass. Europeans use the mass dimension instead of the weight dimension.

American- W in pounds force (lbf) and m in slugs

European- W in Newtons and m in kilograms

People are incorrectly taught what multiplication is when they are learning it for the first time in school. If you think the correct symbol for the multiplication operation between two numbers is an "x" then you are wrong. It is actually a dot that floats above the line. I will use an asterix to demonstrate: *

The dot represents scalar multiplication, where as the "x" represents cross multiplication. They are different.

People who live alone hardly open their mouths.

Disabled Sympathy

I never understood the error behind using the over sized stall in the bathroom for people in wheel chairs when the stall is vacant. However, this has only happened to me twice where all the stalls are in use and the only one available is the over sized stall, so I use it. Two times a person in a wheel chair comes over and tries to open the door, then grunts "this is a handicapped stall, you don't have a wheel chair." The first time it happened I was so shocked I didn't say anything and I hurried up and got out. The second time I said "I need to shit too, this was the only open stall, wait your turn."

The point is, someone who is disabled can make you look like a monster when you least expect it. And you don't deserve it either.

I was in NY once and I was taking the LIRR, I happened to sit in the back of the train car and I didn't realize that is where disabled people sit. A blind man got on the train and sat on me, which didn't bother me, I moved over and I tried helping him. Next thing I know two blond bimbos get on the train and the blind dude's walking stick was blocking the walk way, so the bimbos started barking like bitches and the blind dude wouldn't know any better cause he is BLIND. So I told them, give him a break he is blind, I then told the blind man to please move his walking stick as two blond bimbos are trying to get by. Since he was only blind and not deaf, I think he didn't liked how I mentioned that he was blind. He got agitated. Again, not my fault, I called it as I saw it, I will admit, not the most sensitive, but in the span of 5 seconds that was the best I could come up with. I was only trying to help.

I worked at a university once for 3 years in their media department, we would lend out equipment to students and faculty. The rule for scheduled equipment was, if you want it, you need to come get it or your student needs to come get it. When it comes to disabled people, they were the exception, we needed to deliver it for them, but we would ask that they send a student to come get it. One day, my luck, I get a retard who somehow is faculty. When I say retard though, I mean retarded, he walked weirdly, he had a crutch in both hands, his legs were crippled, he was a weird black version of Jimmy from South Park, except he told no jokes and he was an asshole. This tard asked for equipment, no problem, he then demanded I deliver it for him, my boss told me to tell him he needed to tell a student to come pick it up. So I did, he then tells me in a tard voice "cAn'T yoou c tha I ayM deesAbuLed?" I guess he thought I was telling him to come get the equipment himself. So I explain to him again, (he is very slow...) that he needs to ask a student to come get the equipment for him. He then gets mad and proceeds to leave. Later we get a nasty email from his tard department telling us I was rude to him and I told him he needs to pick up the equipment himself. Obviously not true... fucking retard liar.

The Mentally Disabled

 

The position I have on the disabled is very simple and I honestly think everyone should have the same feelings as me about this. The mentally disabled are a burden on society, some worse than others, those who are high functioning with just a small screw loose aren't the issue, those who are completely useless however are worthless and often enough don't even know what is going on around them. I am not saying we should kill retards, I am saying however that people that knowingly have bad genes should be barred from having children as they will only bring burden to society with their selfishness. I think it is a crime to have children when you know the chances of you having a broken child is very real. It is not fair for society to deal with it and isn't fair for the child. Children don't choose to be born; parents make the choice and are very selfish about it too.

Michael Trent Reznor

I don’t usually obsess over other people (unless it is my fiancé), but I can seriously say I have only a handful of people that I am just disgustingly impressed with. The number one person that I wish I could meet and speak to because we both had the same ideas and ideals is George Carlin, but he died before that thought could ever come to fruition. Makes me sad, but then again the chances of my meeting and or speaking to him never would have happened anyhow. The same goes for Trent Reznor, who is a lyrical genius and musical visionary. I like how he has shaped his music, realistically speaking I can’t say everything he has released has been up to his initial standards, but that is okay it is just a fact of life with musicians for some reason. For example, when an artist does his best work while being drugged, leave him alone and let him produce otherwise you get crappy music like after Everclear cleaned up their drug habits, absolutely terrible music after they cleaned up. Let’s not forget Stone Temple Pilots and their whole clean up, blech… Now this excludes Reznor as far as I can tell, he had a drug problem too and was suffering from depression like the rest of us have and still do, but I don’t think those addictions made it into his music. I think his lessons made it into the music, what he learned etc. but I don’t think it was a driving factor. His depression on the other hand I could definitely hear in his music. His music, the lyrics, drove me growing up from high school all the way to now. I went to my first NIN concert recently about a year ago, a few months right after an Iron Maiden concert and I have to say I was disappointed; it was good I got to see Reznor perform in person, but it was missing something. I don’t feel like his heart was totally into it. I saw him at the NinJa concert; they had the Street Sweeper Social Club as the warm up band, quite damn good by the way, then Nine Inch Nails and lastly Janes Addiction. I don’t like Janes Addiction at all, they had 3 good songs and that is about it. I love NIN though, my favourite songs are Hersey, Metal and Only. He recently decided that this is his last tour for a while and he is putting NIN to bed for now. He has started a new band with his new Hot Asian Wife and I hope they make beautiful music together (pun intended?).

His music moves me in ways I can’t describe, I feel like the words he speaks are always so spot on and he never strays from the mark. Not that he is infallible, but his music is close to the most perfect I can find. I love it all… I can’t wait to get that first “How to Destroy Angels” album… which apparently is free for download at the moment, which is fucking awesome. Ever since Reznor broke it off with his initial douche bag label he has been releasing some free albums here and there. So far I got “The Slip”, “Ghosts” and “How to Destroy Angels” for free all thanks to Trent. I will literally buy anything he releases (except for certain remixes of songs I have heard millions of times) and I say he, because if he is involved I want in. I can’t wait for them to go on tour.