Category: Weblog

Yes, I actually attended my first XFL game. I had a great time.

No, it wasn’t the greatest football game of all time, but it was MY TEAM out there. For once, I had a sense of belonging while watching a sports team. Of the many sports out there, I enjoy baseball and football. I can appreciate an occasional game of basketball or hockey. I’ll even watch rugby, soccer, or luberjacking of ESPN if it is interesting. But I’m kinda partial to baseball and football.

I went to a small engineering college in upstate New York. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute was the first engineering college in the country and is one of America’s top 50 universities. However, you will never hear the RPI Engineers mentioned on ESPN highlights. Yes, the hockey team is Division 1, but the rest of the sports are Division 3. As a result, I have no college team to root for that I truly call my own.

In professional sports I am similarly screwed. In Los Angeles, my beloved Dodgers are owned by the anti-christ himself, Rupert Murdoch. He’s not even an American! His management team has driven the team so full of talent into the ground at light speed.

Los Angeles has no NFL team. The fine city council is so caught up on paying back their big money donors that they can’t agree on who should get the rights to even approach the NFL about a team. Morons.

Lakers, Kings, yah yah yah. Well, I dig me some Shaq, he got the kinda style I like, but without my beloved Dennis Rodman, it’s fairly dull. When the Lakers are in the championship series, I’ll tune in like any good bandwagon fan, but I still won’t know the players… Nope, Lakers and Kings aren’t really my teams.

So along come the Los Angeles Xtreme of the XFL. They are my team. Their quaterback, Tommy Maddox, went to UCLA. They play in the Coliseum. They have hottie cheerleaders. And best of all, they are top of their division and headed for “The Big Game at the End” for a chance at the $1,000,000 bonus.

They even have a sense of humor. Even my lunkhead brother knows of “He Hate Me”, the phrase emblazoned on the jersy of Vegas Outlaw running back, Rod Smart. For Saturday’s game, a LA player had his jersey reworked to “We Hate He”. The crowd loved it and we chanted it over and over. When was the last time the prima donna athletes of the NFL showed an ounce of wit or humor? I think Tagliabue has specifically disallowed humor in the antiseptic NFL.

So I’m happy. I went, I drank beers, I at peanuts and tacos (we’re in LA for chris’sakes), I oogled the cheerleaders, and cheered for my winning team.

Unfortunately, I won’t be at the next game. Yep, I’ll attend 1 of 5 games this season. It seems my wife has arranged for us to fly to Cincinnati during the same weekend as the Xtreme’s last game. My lunkhead brother is laughing outloud at this point, but I don’t care. There’s still the playoffs baby!

I, unlike many of you Gen Y types, read two newspapers every morning. In this morning’s paper, deep inside, I found this item:

While I am sorry about Ms. Lawrence’s death, this still baffles me.

Why was she paying someone to ENLARGE her buttocks? I have never heard of such a thing. Wouldn’t a steady diet of donuts and Coca-Cola have the same effect?

Someone please explain this to me, I’m completely at a loss.

For some reason I was wandering on MP3.com Don’t ask why. While I was surfing, the internet wave pushed be there.

I looked into spoken word and saw a guy named angry genius boy and his rant about Why Macintosh Users Are Dumb. I luaghed and then I laughed some more. Mockery of this sort is tasty and addicting.

I looked around the page and saw a link to Why angry genius boy is dumb by three guys called Barrel o’ Monkeys . Now, the only thing better than mockery is mockery of mockery. Go listen to the first link, then go listen to the second link. Do it now. Don’t worry, you have this site bookmarked…

Done? OK, good. Now that’s some good shit eh? Now go listen to all the Barrel of Monkeys stuff and help push their MP3 earnings over the mystical $50 mark.

Since so few people read this site, I’ll charge a few people by name to go listen. Joe, James, Lucas, Matt, I’m talking to you no-kid-having slackers with plenty of spare time types.

OK. I’m going to play games now.

Aimless rambling:

I missed the XFL game. AGAIN!

I’ve listening to a band called Ween now. Haven’t decided whether they belong on the pantheon with Cake & Green Day yet. You can check out the music at https://www.weenradio.com/. Imagine that, a band letting people hear their music.

Sorpranos: Dr. Melfi shoudl have told Tony. The scene of Tony taking revenge would have been ultra-sweet.

MLP:
The power supply I don’t need, but do want.
https://www.theshining.uklinux.net/
Council on Foreign Relations
Bushites fire mapmaker

Yes, I’ve slacked on updates.

For now you will have to enjoy my current desktop.

I just read that Apple’s Mac OS X is being released with a few serious features missing.

Now remember, the Mac is touted as the platform for creative video development. Final Cut Pro and all that, ya know.

OS X:

1) Has no DVD support at all. Can’t read them or play them.
2) Has no support for analog video input. Unless it’s on firewire, OS X won’t work with video in
3) No new video card drivers until summer
4) The entire Adobe suite will run emulated and therefore slower than under OS 9.1

Supposedly, Apple is planning to release another version of OS X in the Summer called Puma that has these features.

So I ask the simple question, “Why release OS X now?”

Answer: Because Steve Jobs and Apple are greedy bastards that are trying to suck every last penny out the Mac Cultists to meet quarterly expectations.

After getting a bit feed up with Napster, I d/l LimeWire. Sweeter than a box of Red Vines!

Gotta go, this is slowing down my connection. Limewire demands my bandwidth!

One more note. Kozmo has stopped renting games, they still rent movies and other stuff. This internet bubble bursting is starting to affect me now.

It’s all Geo. W.’s fault.

My Mom read this weblog for the first time today. She called me to tell me she emailed me a complaint.

How Dare You put your criticism of AOL in print!!!
Your Mom!

Heaven help me. A True Believer in the AOL/TimeWarner/Borg Collective in my own family.

Further good news from Mom is that my Dad read Lucas’s reply about Macs and is now refusing to buy a PC. Me and my dumb ass weblog. More years of supporting damn Macs…

And finally, it’s still pouring rain here in LA, so it looks like I won’t be attending the XFL game for the second time in a row. Fuck me, I think I spun the karma wheel in the wrong direction.

In my last post, I posted about Macs. This leads inevitably to the Angry Mac User email.

Lucas of Dioxidized (Don’t link if pictures of dead people turn your stomach), sent me this note.

you’re doing it again, and i don’t like it!

Needing to use outlook is one of the most cheesy reasons to need to switch to a PC. You can just buy outlook 8.2 for the Mac. Works fine.

You can even download the outlook 2001 beta for the Mac for free, works fine again. I know this because i’m the sole mac user at my workplace and i have no issues whatsoever with emails or file exchange (thanks to DAVE, a netbios program for macs). The only issue is ODBC access to MS-SQL Server 7.0 databases, thanks to microsoft not releasing drivers as they had for 6.5 and earlier…

So go, tell your dad before he buys a PC, to go to microsoft.com/mac/ and download the outlook client… works like a charm…

Really, if you ask me, unless you do database development, Win32 programing, or play games, there really isn’t much difference between the capabilities of Mac’s and PC’s…

Sorry, just had to let it out (again) since you’re such the mac-basher… 🙂

Lucas

Let me leave my comments simply:

Single Button Mouse
High Hardware Price
Mac OS becomes BSD in March
Flowers on the case. WTF?
Limited Games
Steve Jobs

My father was one of the first people in line to buy the original Apple Macintosh. You know, the original 128K version.

For years, he has stuck by Apple, buying Mac after Mac. Resisting the Siren’s Call of Windows, he sat upon the shrinking Mac Fortress with other fanatics, as he watched his sons eagerly embrace the dark side.

Today I recieved a phone call:

Me: Hello?
Dad: Hi, I’m in Costco. Can I ask you a question?
Me: Sure, what’s up?
Dad: I’m looking at a HP Pavilions PC. I think I’m going to have to switch over to the dark side.
Me: You’re switching to Windows?
Dad: Well, I’ll have to hold my nose and use it because of Outlook.

We went on to discuss the fact that his office is all PC and that they want to get the Outlook/Exchange thing up and running. It’s the right move, and he knows it. He doesn’t like it, but he can read the writing on the wall.

Steve Jobs needs to be afraid, very afraid. When you start losing customers that have been buying your products for 15 years, you have some problems.

While the new Flower Power iMac may look purty, my Dad really doesn’t give a fuck about cutsy, retro design scheme. What he cares about is a computer that works with the office. Apple can’t supply that, so they lose yet another customer.