Tagged

(at least one version of being tagged)

8 Shows I watch:
1) Attack of the Show
2) Simpsons
3) Family Guy
4) Futurama
5) South Park
6) Heroes
7) Girls Next Door
8) Star Trek: TNG

8 things I did yesterday:
1) Bought 7 movies
2) Watched V:the mini series
3) Watched Stand By Me
4) Helped purchase chicken
5) Had Tithing settlement
6) Slept
7) Got M&Ms thrown at me whilst I slept
8) Made $24,000,000

8 places I like to eat:
1) In-n-Out Burger
2) RA
3) Outback
4) Steph & Lisa's
5) Del Taco
6) Harkins Theaters
7) Heart Attack Grill (pending)
8) Alice Cooper's Town (pending)

8 things I am looking forward to:
1) Make level 50 on myspace Mafia Wars
2) Moving in with Derek
3) Getting an iTouch/PSP
4) Turning 29...again
5) Getting my laundry done
6) Sleep
7) Eating at Alice Cooper's Town
8) Eating at Heart Attack Grill

8 things on my wish list:
1) a new car (sorry Jane)
2) a MacBook Pro (thank goodness for my employee discount)
3) an iTouch or PSP
4) Billy Mays off tv FOREVER
5) also that dumb Glade commercial mom off tv too (OMG, they SUCK !!!!)
6) my ACL back
7) a Blu-Ray player
8) find my heiress wife

8 people I tag: (do i even know 8 people???)
1) Marc
2) eSpencer
3) Janna
4) Micaela Ray
5) Lisa
6) Crystal
7) President-elect Obama
8) Bender Bending Rodríguez

Be of Good Cheer

Befriend a Geek from White October on Vimeo.

Tis the season

You heard it here 2nd

Well, the time has come for viruses to hit the Apple Environment. Just today in iMac training we were using a small program to crash our computers and try to figure out how to fix it. But on the wider scale, Apple has released a support page encouraging the use of Anti-Virus software (multiple softwares even) to protect against the growing threat of Malware.

Mac OS: Antivirus Utilities support page.

Funny thing is, we in the tech industry knew this day would come for a while. Just yesterday, someone in class remarked how easy it would be to crash an entire Mac system with a simple bash script, since we all know the Mac OS is built on the Unix OS.

This brings up 2 interesting points:
1) Regardless of how you feel about the whole Mac vs. PC contention, PCs have had years of experience of dealing with Malware and the current defenses have been tuned to adjust to the growing number of Malware in existence and under development/soon to be developed. You might say that the Mac world might almost have to thank PCs for developing such sophisticated softwares to fight against Malware, and changing a bit of coding in order to allow Macs to join the show already in progress.

2) Must see TV

So, if you own a Mac you might want to start investing the money you DIDN'T spend on Norton in years past into getting some Norton to protect your CPU. (Notice I said Norton, NOT McAFEE!!!)

And to answer your question, Yes, that actually IS what I do for Apple (for those that watched the entire episode).

I missed LOST for THIS?!?

It's election night and Barack Obama just won the presidency. I very much enjoyed the graceful speeches from both candidates:

John McCain
In his speech, he said all the right things. It was very diplomatic and well worded. The cynic in me was thinking the entire time, "How much of what he is saying does he REALLY believe?" And at the same time, it was slightly annoying at how his supporters were actually Boo-ing at the very mention of Obama's name. Classy.

Barack Obama
Needless to say, Historic. It was very inspiring, excellently contrasted past struggles and current mindsets, and it incorporated very well his chosen statement "Yes, We can". As the camera panned the crowd, it picked up the O and the Emperor of all Black people. At such time, I tended to think:
1) How much in the O's mind does she think that she won the election for Obama? (Source 1) (Source 2)
2) Does one really want the Emperor's support, now that he's been determined to be crazy? (Video 1)
(p.s.: as i just wrote the last line, Katie Couric was talking about JUST that same topic)
Regardless of these two supporters, Obama still won. Big middle fingers to those 2. .!.. ..!.

Now that the speeches are over. It was time to start surfing the News Networks to get all the Post-Game commentaries.

CNN
While trying to appear objective, I'm sure they were all thinking, "DAMMIT!!! LET'S GET A RECOUNT". Anderson Cooper looking dapper and Wolf Blitzer trying to say something historic for his collection of Wolf Blitzer Historic Soundbite Library.

NBC
Brian Williams did his best to keep the crowd watching and give the visiting guest ample time to talk. I watched the Obama's victory speech on this channel and did very well in their coverage. They are, to me, the Pepsi of News networks: for some reason, I always turn to them. Maybe because it was one of the few channels we got in clearly at my house growing up. Besides, the Today show always kicks Good Morning America's ass.

BBC America
Very interesting to watch their reactions to the new President. Mostly because they didn't really try to be Politically Correct. Rather than tire themselves with the mouthful statement "African-American", they always said, "Black": "First black President", "He's Black", etc. Understanding that most of the world never really had a Civil Rights movement in their respective countries, it was just an interesting contrast between other US news networks and the BBC.

Comedy Central
Sadly, I wasn't able to get John Stewart and Steven Colbert's take on the Presidential speeches. However, in my perusing of Comedy Central, there were playing the exact episode of South Park that I referenced earlier.

(Weird. I must be saying something relevant.)

Anyway, am I glad that Obama won? Yes. Cliche' as it may sound, it really is time for change.

Was this election really THAT important? Yes. I know this because my sister ACTUALLY cared about what was going on and ACTUALLY did something about it. She voted...at least, that's what she said she did. Proof positive that this election really did touch people on a personal level.

What happens now? I can sleep soundly now that all the regular TV programs and news networks will not need to cover ANY MORE ELECTION COVERAGE. Now it's on to try to avoid all Christmas music and continue to wonder when it will end, the early-putting-out-of-Christmas-paraphernalia-before-the-previous-holidays-are-actually-over.

Truth

I was gonna post an extremely long and extremely interesting post on the Large Hadron Collider and how it proves that there is a God.

But then i came across this:

How To Get The IT Department To Do Their Actual Job

It was much more entertaining and much more true.