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Wednesday, August 27, 2003

Tech Support Anybody?


ack.. i'm swamped by mass requests to fix computers! it seems that the world is coming to an end! everybodies computers are dying! I guess it's time for a change of things, heh. Some things i can fix, but i know that the ones that i can't are related to one thing and one thing only.. microsoft....
I've got bert's comp who runs 98, but when he added a cd-rw the system couldn't handle it, now it's some IDE interface crap that lags the whole system.. maybe the IDE cables are fried.. maybe..
I've got another whos on ME, and it won't update, first the modem doesn't wanna work. then it did.. then the motherboard dies, now the audio doesn't wanna work, and the windows update won't apply.. what is going on!!!
And third i have my masterpiece, i've gotta take pics of this puppy! heh.. it's running 98, but thats not the thing it's skitzo, in terms of not shutting down nor anything to that effect. But after i fix the hardware i've gotta take care of the software..
Roxanne suggested that i do this on the side n make some $$ outta it.. maybe.. maybe.. heh

This thing is Pimp! and it's been on for about a month or so.. heh! the full size motherboard won't fit the micro-ATX case.. Weak! so he wanted it to work until i found a cheap case, so this was the only solution.

update:
I installed that pimp 98 comp in it's case.. and it works beautifully, it's just that the line noise is making my buddy's AOL chats hard to get to.
The other one with the messed up OS, is returned and we ran to get a sound-card since the OS wasn't accepting any updates.. *how queer*.. hopefully with the new sound card it'll behave.. (yea right)
Berts Comp, i'm still thinking it's the IDE cables.. it's acting as if something is slowing windows into looking for a drive..
And as i got my back cracked i tried to help install a new ATi Radeon 9700 All-in-wonder.. but it has it's own powerplug *scary* and i don't think the PowerSouce wants to give up the juice to start it.. It also has some wierd problem with logging onto www.aol.com and checking it's webmail.. funny some of these things.
Oh ya i got a laptop to play with too.. how fun! the CD-RW drive is in pieces.. what in the world is going on..

Monday, August 25, 2003

How far does one affect you?


i've got a new theory that just zapped into my mind! of course i haven't thought of a name for it yet though.. But i realize that after talking to one of my 'clients' i've discovered something.
Closemindedness = Ignorance = Lack of Education = a small Circle of 'Your' World..

So in that theory, whats this whole circle of your world crap.. I guess the statement 'if you can't trust yourself you can't trust anybody' is true. But your world is how you make of it. It depends on your view on things. And that view affects your decisions.. Your Choice.. it's like mapquest when you look for directions you can see the street view or the city view, or even better the state view.. It works like that for people, and thats how it works for management. How do you see your world? is it you and your pet? You and your family? how about you and your neighborhood? Got someone irritating around your neighborhood? how about your city? State? Country? World?

I've noticed that alot of the uneducated only care for themselves.. they might care for a friend, but they wouldn't have second thoughts about their woman. Their view is of themselves only, they don't care for others, some don't even care for their parents or kids. And these are the people who are spawning?
A neighborhood is what the community makes of it, the ghettos are ghettos because nobody cares about their buildings, their area. The have renters mindset, 'it's a rental car let's trash it!' or 'screw it, it ain't mine..' If you posted a sign that says clean your own mess up, that sign would probably be shot off or graffitied on.

I've spoken to some of my 'clients' and they only know of their 6 block area, they've never been to the beach, or to a shopping mall, or maybe they have one mall but not the other. They are afraid to venture to the unknown, to see things that might open their eyes to things. Is that sad or what? Go roam around the world, learn about things. Oh wait i said learn.. nevermind..

I love it when one whose ignorant, uses the easiest trick on the book.. The racial one..
Of course this spawns a whole slew of stuff.. Racial profiling, discrimination, blahblahblah.. here take an example, if your a cop, it's night time and your lying in wait for red-light running.. and you see a car with all it's windows tinted run a red. You pull it over and then you realize it was an african american behind the wheel. Ok no problem, you ask for i.d., registration, the whole nine yards. You give the ticket and off you go. A few months later you get a letter stating that you were racial profiling, pulling over only african americans.. But you weren't pulling over certain people, you were only enforcing the traffic laws.. anyways, i digress..

Thursday, August 21, 2003

Do you have Direction?


Ok so off to today.. i'm pondering a theory on the evolution of the world due to the social changes in ones freedom of future choice.. It's sorta a twisted view on Choice Vs. Pre-determination..
I've wondered about it like this..
Say back in the day, oh let's go way back.. the 1600's and your grandfather was a shoemaker/leather worker.. therefore your father learned the trade from his father.. and most likely you will become a shoemaker / leather worker and so on and so forth. So thats sorta like pre-determination. 'cuz in the 1600's you couldn't be a upper-class unless your parents were.. and people couldn't switch around.. they weren't mobile until the industrial revolution..
So comes to oh.. 1940's. Your grandpa worked as a mechanic.. Your dad worked as a mechanic, and You CAN work as a mechanic, but since your now mobile, due to technology of movement.. trains, buses, roads, planes, cars, whatever. you can skip town and begin your own path, you can become a carpenter. Evolution of schools, and rise of education gave forth ideals and dreams for kids, Right? 'what do you wanna be when you grow up?' is the question for children nowadays.. But back in the 1940's it was ok to do your thing, go your place learn your trade, and the main reason (mostly) was that you want your children to live a better life, a more grandeur life. But i see some side effects of it..
Due to the fact that your parents or grandparents worked hard so that the future can have a comfortable life, the future becomes lax, the future becomes bourgeois. it's easy to see! The beginning of the spoiled children come.. especially this age and time.
As i've grown up, everybody is established, and nobody has to work 4-jobs to make ends meet. Everything is credit, pre-approved, 0% financing. Ya want it? sure, can't pay for it whole? we can slice n dice it so that you pay over time. And so, now your grandpa was a hard working carpenter, your dad becomes a hard working store owner, and you.. what do you do? Do you wanna run a store? maybe.. maybe not. You have a college degree, that maybe your parents never had the chance to get.. so you become a doctor or lawyer. you've accomplished your parents goal, to have a better life! congrats! so what if you don't? what if you did go for your college education, and in the midst of it you have one of them changes where you realize you don't wanna be in this major? what if somehow you see something that affects you so hard that you lose direction.. then what?
Your parents are established, they are semi-well off.. you can live with them.. but what are you gonna do? stay with them until you figure out your path? So does is a problem of Choice..
Heck.. it can even get worse! what if you're a slacker, who doesn't have the best environment but your parents are sorta established.. this is where i think society is going. youngins have been spoiled, why study, why work hard, why even attempt things when it might not work out or someone else might get it becomes the mentality. screw this! i'm gonna hang out with my friends, i'm gonna get in trouble 'cuz my parents won't give me attention because they are always at working trying to make a better life for me.. This way may turn into the spiraling downhill for ones life. it may be a phase where 'ok i've goofed off enough i'm gonna start acting my age.' it may not.. so is this pre-determined or is it choice?
Pre-determinted that the fact that your parents try to make it good for you but you take advantage of it and use it for all it's worth? or did you choose to go towards the downhill path because everything is the same, if i can do it, he can too, therefore why try? The world is turning to where you don't need skill to do things. I've got a B.S. (heh) degree in criminology, i've learned penal codes, search and seizure (2 semesters on ONLY the 4th and 5th Admendments!).. So i join the sheriffs dept.. what do i learn in the police academy? Penal Code, and search and seizure (in 1 week, each, MAX).. So what do i do? i don't study, why try, i've learned it before, i'm learning it again.
I can't wait until nanobots and fusion power come.. maybe there will be a utopia.. Whats your direction?

Freaky Events..


Anyways i wanted to scribble a little about last saturday (Aug16th) .. Here i am waking up at 5:45am.. get ready and get out of home on my bicycle at 6:10.. well i'd say 85-90% of the streetlights would either be 1)Red.. or 2) turn red as i rode up to it.. now is that wierd or what? i think it's psychological! heheSince it was a saturday it's an empty city, except for the joggers, they are up at the earliest they can go! whatta buncha freaks!
Another event happened yesterday Wed, Aug 20.. I was riding my bike to work and this guy rides up next to me and says.. 'nice bike..' i look at him and we have the same model '97 Specialized AIM Comps.. red, the components are different but he seemed to like my bike ALOT.. he thinks it's the best handling one of all his bicycle and would like to buy my bike.. because he hasn't seen anybody else with one.. (kinda strange eh?) well anyways he wants to buy, trade, whatever my bike for stuff.. hmmz what should i do..

Merp. i haven't posted in a while! well i've been trying to build one computer and fix another computer, which puts this computer offline to test out parts, yadda yadda.. i've actually transplanted stuff out of an Hewlett packard computer (eew).. actually the chasis is quite a menagerie to deal with! but as i suspected the motherboard was fried and needed a new one. The only problem i have now is the built-in sound that came with this Soyo KT400 Dragon Lite isn't working for me! WORK DANG IT!!
The other comp is even better it's a piece of art actually.. I upgraded a coworkers computer but both of these guys have the pre-fab, already made, cheap-as-i-can-get-type-of-computer.. Well it's MicroATX sized motherboards which are 1"+ smaller than the normal motherboards, and their chasis happens to EXACTLY fit the Micro ATX's.. so this guys computer is uh, 'open' it looks like it's guts are hanging out of the case.. The computer works but it's just not in one piece.. heh..

Thursday, August 14, 2003

Did I feel like I forgot Something: Not in the morning but at my Lunch Hour i felt like i did.. Did i actually forget anything? Cell Phone to Wake me up on my nap.. heh

So today i decided to ride my AIM to work, man, it feels faster, lighter and now i can feel the slight differences in the geometry of the frame! This bike i feel like i'm on top of it, but yet i feel forward and balanced. On the Gary Fisher the rear shock feels plush like a sofa, but the center of balance is *somewhere*.. I do track stands better on the AIM then the Gary Fisher.. maybe it's all that Genesis Geometry gaga thats messing it up. Like on some balance points i feel vague on the Gary Fisher, but the AIM i know where it'll go if i shift one way or the other. Scary, i am becoming ONE with the bicycle.. maybe i should go send in the One-of-a-kind AIM rear shock into ack.. i can't even think of that place that upgrades and rebuilds shocks!!

Currently i'm at that moment where i feel as if i should just shut down.. I'm not in the mood to do anything, i couldn't get to some sites, probably from the East Coast Blackout, or it's just being a butt.. Afterwards i try to go play some Online First Person Shooters.. the server i usually go isn't there anymore, this is getting weak! So i try to go and chat on THERE.com.. nobody was on, or people would appear n dissappear.. oh well.. I went onto some Precision Shooting Forums about reloading or match shooting, but theres so much reading that i can handle today.. maybe i will go to sleep early.. ick!
Too bad alot of the Matrix Theory webpages are slowing down, theres only so much you can talk about the hidden meanings of things. From Secret Cults, to Technological Advances, the last thing i read was scientists can actually make a human power a 100w light bulb.. Weeee! So if scientists turns your electricity to a light bulb, and THERE.com just started, i sense the matrix is going to become reality.. Especially with people trying to escape reality, through any means necessary.. Drugs.. Alcohol.. Online Chat.. 3-d Chat.. goodness, whos gonna be out there running the world?
The machines..
Machines are doing more work than ever, it's inevitible that they will get autonomy.. scary. If the industrial revolution made it where a company of 30 is now replaced by a few machines and robots, which reduces the size of skilled labors to 10-15.. Man these next few decades is gonna get interesting.. Obesity on the rise, people dying from more weight related issues.. and geez modern medicine is supposed to make longer living individuals.. I dunno, would you wanna be an obese longer living individual?

Did I feel like I forgot Something: Not in the morning but at my Lunch Hour i felt like i did.. Did i actually forget anything? Cell Phone to Wake me up on my nap.. heh

So today i decided to ride my AIM to work, man, it feels faster, lighter and now i can feel the slight differences in the geometry of the frame! This bike i feel like i'm on top of it, but yet i feel forward and balanced. I do track stands better on the AIM then the Gary Fisher.. maybe it's all that Genesis Geometry gaga thats messing it up. Like on some balance points i feel vague on the Gary Fisher, but the AIM i know where it'll go if i shift one way or the other. Scary, i am becoming ONE with the bicycle..

Currently i'm at that moment where i feel as if i should just shut down.. I'm not in the mood to do anything, i couldn't get to some sites, probably from the East Coast Blackout, or it's just being a butt.. Afterwards i try to go play some Online First Person Shooters.. the server i usually go isn't there anymore, this is getting weak! So i try to go and chat on THERE.com.. nobody was on, or people would appear n dissappear.. oh well.. I went onto some Precision Shooting Forums about reloading or match shooting, but theres so much reading that i can handle today.. maybe i will go to sleep early.. ick!
Too bad alot of the Matrix Theory webpages are slowing down, theres only so much you can talk about the hidden meanings of things. From Secret Cults, to Technological Advances, the last thing i read was scientists can actually make a human power a 100w light bulb.. Weeee! So if scientists turns your electricity to a light bulb, and THERE.com just started, i sense the matrix is going to become reality.. Especially with people trying to escape reality, through any means necessary.. Drugs.. Alcohol.. Online Chat.. 3-d Chat.. goodness, whos gonna be out there running the world?
The machines..

Wednesday, August 13, 2003

Did I feel like I forgot Something: Not today Did i actually forget anything? Negatory

Man.. i guess my new bike isn't all that... I'm riding to work at 6:20am, going down 14th street, when i reach mission. at the intersection was a red light, but no cross-traffic whatsoever except for this one car stopped at the line. For some unknown reason i decided to evade around it. The car wasn't moving, i realized that in my path it turned green as i went to evade, at that point i went around the car and proceeded to turn right. The ground was wet and in my mind i knew something was going to happen if i leaned in too far. On my AIM i remember those days when i leaned like mad and the tires gripped like mad.. It was like on a motorcycle, it must be the geometry or something, for the Gary Fisher had Specialized Team Control Comps on the front and some Semi-Slicks on the rear.. those semi-slicks have slipped out on me before, again on a crazy leaned cornering turn. Back to the story, i went around the car and tried to turn right, right then both tires slipped out under me and i ate it.. Pretty good quarter sized chunk out of my knee came off, ripped my pants. I have no idea how many pants i have left, the day before that my other pants got caught on my tool box and ripped a hole *lovely*.. this isn't going too well for my khakis.. I wonder if i should go put in new tires, or just not ride that bike for a bit.. it's comfy and the geometry is leaned slight forward, not like the AIM which felt like i was perched up. Ima gonna tool around with the AIM to work and see what happens.. hopefully not an event like that. Going to a smelly-not-so-clean environment like my workplace isn't cool for open wounds.. I went to the medical office and they got me patched up..
Lesson Learned: time to buy Neosporin stock..

Tuesday, August 12, 2003

Whoa, so manuevering myself to post posts is kinda befuddling. One of them Hit and Miss type of dealios.. So i find that i guess for it to be free theres gonna be Ads.. *ick* oh well, we'll survive, won't we?

The internet is a funny thing, blogging like webpages and such places like friendster are struck by luck and chance. Yet they are ways of letting youself be exposed to the world. My buddy andrew in Fresno was looking for D&D stuff in fresno, and he searched for it on yahoo (back in the day when yahoo owned all) and he got my first webpage.. scary no? i suppose it's human nature to want to be heard, to be of something, to be remembered. To leave your footprint in where someone ages n ages later can open a book or a webpage and find vestiges of ideas and thoughts on a vast and open world. it is true. Open your eyes and search for it, and you will find it, and your knowledge expands. Close your eyes and live within your bubble and you'll be content too, but when you reach the wall of the bubble, that is all your gonna know. I guess everybody has their view and is trained on it. I work in a world of evil, greed, hate, ALL the 7 deadly sins, yet i see things that others who work with me don't. One of my clients saw this in me too, and stated 'you have a college degree don't you..' what that extra knowledge did to me, affects everybody.
i call it my theory of scalar fear. i've talked with many and have seen alot of different people with alot of different stories. But it comes down to many things but alot of it has to do with Fear. The world is run by it, people afraid of 'the next step', 'what can happen' or 'possible outcomes.' The Cuban Missle crisis is the main example of it. Can you image in.. Two people deciding the fate of the world, and playing a very huge chess game. Fear goes from the world scale to the neighborhood scale. Afraid of what them punks across the street are doing? What do you do? Sit around? Do a Pre-emptive strike? Get down to their level and do the same? The latter creates a 'who cares about the neighborhood, it's all about me.' attitude.. As the page says.. the world is coming to an end..


Did I feel like I forgot Something: Not today Did i actually forget anything? nope


Let's see.. i've added a Little Messenger type dealio, scribble me with whatcha like!

The madness begins, in searching for auto insurance. I just want my own insurance for MYSELF, but since i'm in a 'household' i gotta give everybody's info since the beginning of dawn.. i think to get Top Secret Clearance in the military all you need is 15 years history.. Geez.. Anyways, got any good insurance peoples you can recommend?

Hmmz.. let's see if this puppy werks..

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