Because sometimes thinking hurts…
This website has gone through many revisions since college but always maintained a spirit of fun. This is where I get to speak my mind, as a child would, spilling my thoughts without filtering them. I'm not likely to say anything profound or moving, but hopefully someone gets some entertainment value out of my ramblings.
There has been a lot of talk about GTD. It’s a thought process on how to manage tasks efficiently. There have been many different tweaks to this idea and lots of software written to put the practice on the computer. I’ve found yet another task management flowchart that might be useful to you guys.
As I type this from my work laptop, I realize that a lot of us would love to use our Macs 100% of the time, but unfortunately the sad truth is that Microsoft has a pretty good hold of the corporate market. So while you’re stuck on your Windows machines for work, you can make the best of it with a few applications I’ve come across.
Every time you take your hands off the keyboard to use your mouse or track pad, you are losing efficiency. Keeping your hands in one spot allows you to be more productive, whether it’s actual work you’re doing or chatting. I’ve talked about one keyboard launcher before, but here is another one. Qliner hotkeys is an application launcher, but it goes a step further than most other application launchers. Rather than being text-based, it has a very simple visual interface so you can keep track of your shortcut key binds.
Hundreds of thousands of people raced. I ended up in 25th place with my ranking going to 11th place at times. Still, I am a loser, not because I didn’t plast first. It was more the fact that I wasted a week of time playing this game that I knew I had no chance of winning. I even drafted my cousin, who is on summer break, to pick up on flying when I was at work and sleeping.
My ranking keeps dropping every minute. I have no idea how to fly my balloon. As long as I am not last, I am satisfied. Surely there is someone out there that isn’t even playing and is stuck at the finish line.
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When surfing the Internet, I’ve always been free to use up as much bandwidth as I wish, because my parents just check email and browse text websites with a few images. Recently my parents have been discovering the awesomeness that is Internet. Now we fight over the bandwidth. My mom is constantly uploading her photos to her web album while watching violin concerts on YouTube. My dad has recently found out how to stream National Geographic documentaries. On top of having cell phones that use our Internet connection, things have slowed to a crawl. This is not good at all. How am I supposed to use the Internet as it was intended, to download porn? I think I’ll have to throttle my parents bandwidth at the router. Then they’ll be none the wiser.
Well, if you have been reading any news lately, you know that five undersea cables are out of commission in the world, all surrounding the Middle East. There are reports of limited to no connectivity in some areas. Fortunately it does not affect the United States. At first people thought that the cables were cut by boats dragging anchors, but there were no boats in the area, according to officials. Plus, you’d have to have some super boat to drag an anchor from the Mediterranean Sea, to the Persian Gulf, and finally to Malaysia. Something fishy is going on here. Some are speculating that someone is trying to isolate Iran from the world, but that’s all conspiracy theory at this time. Can you imagine how crippling this is to economies that rely on the Internet? No one would be getting technical support from India!
While this doesn’t affect us in the states, I began thinking what this would do to us if the United States had its cables cut. Most of the services we use are hosted in the states as well, but I’m sure some are outsourced to other countries. After I realized my web server is hosted in the United States, I stopped worrying. You would all still be able to get to my website. Plus we could finally say racist things about those people that live you know where.
When the Internet first came around it was designed for communication. Email was the first big innovation. With email you could send information to anywhere in the world instantly. After email came instant messaging, popular with the younger generation. New ways to communicate with people were faster and cheaper.
Half a decade later the big push was commerce. Online stores popped up everywhere, and deal and coupon sites followed. They were going to allow consumers to purchase from their chairs at home for no additional cost. Convenience of a department store from the comfort of your home was what was advertised. Unfortunately, this doesn’t work all the time and people overextended their businesses. Everyone was so caught up in the hype that they never stopped to figure out how to ship a single 50 lb. bag of dog food for free. In the end, only a few major players survived the crash.
Remember back in the day when being sick at home was boring? All you could do is stare out the window. Now instead of staring at a window, you can stare into a computer screen and see the the entire world. Here is a quick view from my little window.
I ran across this website, which tests your typing skills. Based on countless visits to this site I type around seventy words per minute with an average of one or two mistakes. I’m not sure why some of the things it has you type are not words, but it’s a good way to kill some time. Some other goodies that I have found while sick are the USB Pole Dancer, Darth Vader vs. Japanese Police, and Who Says Crime Doesn’t Pay?
While I don’t believe in true anonymity on the Internet, I do my best to hide certain things about myself in the online world. Some people think it’s ridiculous that I do this, but I have a story to show how the idea of remaining unidentified online is far fetched. I will also do my best to tell this story to hide anyone involved.
Back in college, there was this girl in one of my classes. The only thing I knew about her was her name was ______. I thought she was cute, but because of my work schedule, I was always late to class, sat in the back, and I left class early to get back to work, so there was little time for me to approach her. Well there was that and the fact that I am a coward.
