Month: October 2011

Wireless woes absolved, so now what?

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Recently, I dropped a little over $200 in computer parts to turn my cougar machine into something a little better equipped to watch movies and television shows. I felt a good deal of accomplishment in sorting through the hardware, and swapping out the guts of the cougar machine for some faster and stronger components. Just when I thought everything was going to transition seamlessly, it turns out that my really old wireless card simply did not work with one, Windows 7, or two, any 64-bit systems to begin with.

Begrudgingly, I dropped a little bit more money on a new wireless card additionally, and now the cougar is up and running again, and ready for the next steps in becoming an efficiently functioning media box.  So far, I am pleased with the performance out of it, and in fact, it kind of sucks because now all of my older media files that were acquired in the ages when 380-480p were acceptable resolutions, look putrid on my new setup now. Regardless, this is a project that is complete in the meantime.

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This store really exists

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I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by this.  When it was still in business, the Borders in this mall was notorious for having a bunch of teenage otaku losers loitering in the manga aisles, sitting around, not buying anything, and reading all the manga they wanted like a free all-you-can-eat buffet.  With the departure of Borders, it would seem appropriate that these weeaboos would need an outlet for their fixation with all things anime and manga related.

But man, talk about a lack of effort in some regards.  A nondescript black sign with the most weeaboo word in the entire fucking weeaboo dictionary in all-caps Lucida Console?  That just screams “quick, let’s get a store together, name it something really attractive to weeaboos, and fill it with popular anime and Hello Kitty shit, as soon as humanly possible and sell it at marked up prices.“

I’ll give this place until April at the latest, before it goes under.  Remember, I used to work at an anime store in a shopping mall.  And I can’t imagine this place having as much distributor connections as the place I once worked too, so that means higher costs to the consumers.  So in other words, this place could very well become a show room for the many anime crap retailers across the country, and very well be gone by April.

But seriously, “Kawaii?”  I’m still kind of surprised it’s taken this long before this to actually come to fruition.

A commercial I kinda liked

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I saw this commercial in the theater before Moneyball. Sneaky how they let the plot and story go for about two minutes before the company is even revealed. But there’s something about this commercial, that kinda makes me like it as a whole. Whether it’s the Willie Nelson, or the simplistic nature of the stop-motion style, or even the message that provokes thought, I found myself enjoying the commercial in the end.

It’s kind of funny how things work out, because farmer gets paid, selling out to mass produce, and take part in the driving force of consumerism and the fast food nation. But then farmer gets paid again, capitalizing on the modern wave of putting importance on locally-grown, organic/drug-free food production. It seems like the only hitting bottom that this farmer actually endured was on an emotional, self-inflicted manner, but at no point in the process does his wallet probably hurt.

No matter. Tip of the cap to Chipotle for a good commercial, but I’d still prefer Willy’s. But it’s not like Jen exercises her “turn” right, and we eat Chipotle instead, but I’ll keep this in mind to enjoy the food rather than wish I were eating Willy’s instead.

Random writing

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I was driving through Georgia Tech campus the other day.  It’s a route that is a monumental pain in the ass, but compared to the alternative routes to get on the other side of the connector sometimes, it really is the sad lesser of evils, as opposed to trying to traverse across North, Tenth, or Fourteenth streets.  What makes it such a pain in the ass though, is mostly the fact that all across campus, pedestrians have the eternal right of way, and since they’re all a bunch of college fucktards, they’re slow footed, and spaced perfectly apart to where drivers are merciless to stop them from clogging up the roads, allowing buildups of automotive congestion to build up.

This most recent story however, is a little bit of just desserts for the sadistic.  I was two cars removed from the front of the long line of cars waiting to get through a three-way intersection, before the next wave of pedestrians began crossing the street to clog up the road a bit longer.  Tailing them all was a typical douchebag* looking bicyclist, who smugly pedaled across the intersection, and then suddenly, he stopped.  He bent over, and I couldn’t see what he was doing, other than stalling in the middle of the intersection, and making us cars have to wait even longer.  Expletives flew from my lips, before I saw him walking his bicycle onto the sidewalk, where it was revealed that one of his bike pedals had inexplicably fallen off.

Hahahahaha.  What a loser.   That’s what he gets for being a bicycle douche.

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Photos: Scarecrows in the Botanical Gardens

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Jen recently made a scarecrow for the Atlanta Botanical Gardens’ fall something-or-other whatever festival/occasion. With a twitter theme, Madame de Tweet was easily one of the better scarecrows at the garden.  Some of them weren’t even scarecrows, as much as it looked like some people were phoning in their designs, but hey, not everyone can be somewhat artistic either.

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