Techno-Student

New Direction! Law School!

2009-08-11T02:14:00.001-07:00

Yes, I know I haven't posted in the longest time, and so I am sure my fans have been in dire straits, but fear not! I'm back! Though I am now going to be taking this blog in a new direction. No longer will I be focusing solely on issues related to technology. Yes, I know it is a sad day for those of you who worshiped my great ability to discuss technology, but please, cheer up, because from now on I will be chronicling my life, the life of a college graduate intent on getting into law school.

Yes, this geek is going to law school! . . . hopefully that is. Now, none of you should know this, but I attended an undergraduate program that is very rare in this country, one of only three or so that meet certain similarities. One of the aspects of this program that isn't so rare is that for the majority of my classes, I received narrative evaluations in place of numerical grades. In fact I personally only took one class for a grade, and that was only because the professor was an idiot. So with one class, my average undergraduate GPA is a 3.00! Another aspect of this program that I participated in that is much more unique than receiving evaluations instead of grads is that I was able to design my own degree and title it.

So right now I have a self titled B.A. from a small liberal art's college, and a bunch of mediocre evaluations. Yeah, I wasn't the greatest fucking student. Why not? Why the hell would an intelligent student planning on going to law school let himself do shitty in college? Ah, now we get to the route of the problem. For the first two and a half years of college I had no idea what the hell I wanted to do. I only tentatively decided upon law school sometime during my junior year and finalized my decision during the first part of senior year.

So I'm working on upping my LSAT score, currently around a 158

Save Now, by attending a prep course by The Princeton Review. More on that in the next post. Eventually I plan on having posts chronicling my days and all of the mediocrity that that entails.

I'm back!

2008-06-13T16:18:00.000-07:00

Hello all you crazy people out there! I'm back to writing again, was really busy with school and couldn't find the energy to write something not for a class. Currently looking for a summer job. I had a job canvasing for two days but hated it, and was going to quit at the end of my second day when they told me they were going to let me go, so I told them that was ok because I was going to quit anyway. Their reason for letting me go was BS, I didn't bring in enough money but I was put in dry spot's where the two veterans I was with didn't bring in the amount of money I needed to bring in to get hired anyway. Oh well, the job was horrible, never, ever do canvasing. Everyone hates you even if your cause is a good one.

I just got a call from Office Depot and have an interview with them Monday morning. I would really rather have a job at Gamestop but Office Depot will do, especially if I get to work in their electronics department or something. Both businesses have stores here at home and at school which is ideal because I want a part time job next school year. Well, wish me luck!

Bored

2008-01-02T01:39:00.000-08:00

Its weird how the days seem to go by so slowly because I'm so bored but then I wonder where they went the next day. I guess when you don't really do anything day after day it feels like the days didn't really happen. Friday got a message from a detective in Salem, Oregon. Said they had found my laptop. It got stolen this summer. I've already replaced it but it would be nice to have it back, I could experiment with Linux. Hope the year starts off good for all you people out there, well except the bad people, I hope your days are shitty.

More Realistic Wish List

2007-12-18T00:07:00.001-08:00

A computer geeks semi-realistic wish list.

1. New watch
2. Firefly DVD Set and Serenity DVD
3. The new Blade Runner
4. Handmade watered steel Samurai sword set (ok not so realistic)

More to come

Another Nea Quote

2007-12-14T16:32:00.000-08:00

Nea: "Freedom: What Americans say they have."

Nea Quote

2007-12-14T16:29:00.000-08:00

Talking over AIM about stupid people:

Nea: "No I agree that stupid people make decisions that combat awareness."

I love that, combat awareness!

Wish List

2007-12-14T10:54:00.000-08:00

This is the first of many wish lists. It will include both the more practical wishes, to the far flung, fanciful wishes wishing for things that don't even exist yet. This list isn't in any particular order.
1. New Car. Preferably a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution-I love speed and I love all wheel drive-but really a manual transmission car made after 2000 would work, or an old sweet car like a 1997 Toyota Supra or a 1967 Ford Mustang.
2. Top of the line Alienware gaming desktop.
3. Top of the line Alienware gaming notebook.
4. Top of the line Alienware extremely portable notebook.
5. Top of the line Alienware home entertainment computer and top of the line HDTV, sound etc.
6. Top of the line server
7. Logitech 505 Watt THX certified 5.1 surround sound speakers -old ones were stolen from my school's storage over the summer.
8. iPhone like phone built on open hardware and software.
9. Many more computer games.
10. Playstation 3
11. The ability to play a guitar, or at least the patients to learn.
12. The ability to write my final paper.
13. More to come, because I'm the kind of guy that wants a lot of things. Yeah, my life is all about possessions, yay go me.

PS. Having Google Adsense actually display ads related to my blog content would be good too.

Idiot Asshole Tries to Trademark an Acronym

2007-12-10T02:02:00.000-08:00

Drew Curtis is trying to trademark the acronym NSFW (not safe for work) with his company Fark. I seriously doubt he will succeed, seeing at NSFW is a general acronym already used by thousands, if not millions, and wasn't created by him. I don't even understand why he tried. Seems like a colossal waste of time for everyone. Maybe thats just his goal: to waste other people's time. I sometimes wonder if what many people call idiots are just assholes trying to waste everyone else's time. For more go to Gizmodo.

Yay!

2007-12-09T01:20:00.000-08:00

The shitty computer store chain CompUSA sold all its stores to a liquidator and will be closing all of its store sometime after the holiday season. That place really sucked.

Superbad Gets Pulled From Shelves

2007-12-08T22:25:00.000-08:00

The special edition of the Superbad DVD has been pulled from Wal-Mart shelves in Hawaii because it includes a fake ID made after the one McLovin used to purchase alcohol. Really? They pull a really great comedy because it includes a fake, fake ID? How dumb can Wal-Mart get?! It has a freaking hologram on it that alternates between Fogell and McLovin.

Courtesy of Gizmodo

Internet Connectivity Frustration

2007-11-30T21:36:00.000-08:00

So I am a student at the University of Redlands, in Redlands, CA. My parents and I pay over $35,000 a year for tuition and room and board. That is after $12,000 a year in scholarships. With around $9,000 of that going to pay for my dorm room, one might expect decent internet. Not so at the University of Redlands. The download speeds are very inconsistent. The pings in online games such as Counter Strike: Source frequently jump to 400ms and up making the game impossible to play. The time the ping stays so high has been increasing everyday. Keep in mind that a normal ping is from 20-40ms. I complained last year and no one responded, and I just complained again today. Hopefully someone will respond this time. The problem is most people don't use the internet for gaming and don't notice how crappy the internet speeds really are. More posts on th is topic to come.

Hitman

2007-11-26T00:33:00.000-08:00

So, just got back from the Hitman movie starring Timothy Olyphant. It was as I expected: pretty bad. Don't get me wrong, I had fun watching it, I just laughed at it and got mad when they fucked the story up. Not only did the story not fully match the Hitman games' story line (in the movie Agent 47 wasn't even a clone!), the editing wasn't very good. In one scene there was a medium range shot of a Russian General talking but his mouth wasn't moving for part of it, then when it zoomed in the sound didn't match up with the video. This problem happened several times throughout the movie. There were some continuity problems as well throughout the film, which is a very common problem in film and TV.

Overall I'd give this movie around 6.5-7 stars out of 10.

p.s. if your wondering why I am posting this review in a techblog, its because its a movie based on a video game.

Sweet Deal on Steam

2007-11-25T17:55:00.000-08:00

If you have Steam and want to get Bioshock, Quake Wars, or both, you can get them on Steam for 20% off through Monday November 26th. That means they are both $39.95 instead of $50!

Holiday Shopping Etiquette

2007-11-25T00:58:00.000-08:00

Avoid long periods of shopping with children old enough to walk as much as possible. If you can afford it, get a babysitter, unless you are there to make them try on clotthes, etc. which I don't recommend. Don't get your kids clothes for Christmas or other holidays, or at least not too much, unless of course they love clothes, then do get them clothes.

DO NOT BRING children that require strollers of any kind. There is no reason to bring this children to the store other than save on not having a baby sitter, to be near them a lot, put them in excess danger of being kidnapped, and annoy the hell out of all the other shoppers that like to travel faster than two feet per minute. If you dare say that you can't afford a babysitter, than don't buy so much stupid over priced, yes overpriced even though its Black Wednesday, clothing and other consumerist bullshit that you don't need, like the overpriced cell phone accessories that are hawked throughout entire malls. Don't buy DVD for your self unless you know you are going to watch that movie at least three times after you get it, if not, rent the fucking thing at Blockbusters or NetFlix. Not sure why I don't use NetFlix, but it really is a good service.

Again, limit the amount of children in shopping malls as much as you can parents. It makes your shopping more stressful and it makes others nearly homicidal rages-you really don't want to watch while little bobby and sally get their heads smashed into the concrete repeatedly do you?

First Post

2007-11-15T14:58:00.000-08:00

Hello to any and all that are reading this. This is the first of hopefully many posts. This will be a gadget and technology blog styled after my personal favorite tech blog Gizmodo. I can't promise I will be as funny, though I'll do my best, and I can't say that there will be nearly as many posts per day because I am a full time college student at the University of Redlands and do not have anyone working with me, though perhaps someday I might. Please check in often, I hope to have at least one new post a day to start out with.