Whistler = Whistle + r
Skiing was so fun! Haven’t had this much wild adventure in a year.
Unfortunately, the purpose of this entry is for me to complain about how crappy the snow was. A third of the entire area of the routes either had very little or no snow at all or was so slushy that a donkey would have mistaken it for grass.
But I’m going back skiing during spring break, to Cypress this time, where the snow is (or should be) much better.
Satirical Laughs
Today I heard the most satirical laugh a satirical laugh can get. It was undeniably the stupidest thing I’ve heard and also the dumbest thing to watch on a 20-year-old guy’s face.
Let me make this hypothetical.
Two people are talking about what good books should have and stuff. The Hobbit comes up. One says, “Maybe I’m dumb or something, but I thought Middle Earth is a time period.” Now, that person is about 30. The other, being 20, jumps up 30 meters into the air, comes down, opens his jaw up so big that China would have heard it hitting the ground, and starts screaming high-pitched blabberish while laughing as if he saw a ponderosa cake eating a rat. The other person tries to act mature but really can’t hold in the curiosity and discretion.
“Are you okay?”
The End.
Nice Knife Rack
Haha.
Telus: The Future Sucks.
I cannot believe what I’ve been going through - a month of on and off internet connection problems.
Ever since this greedy evil company took over my computer and phone, I’ve been lazy to change it to Shaw or something.
Now, half of the times, all HTTP websites don’t work, if accessed by browsers. Firefox spends 5 minutes “Looking up yankee-doodle.com” and comes up with an error message of “Blahblah.com can’t be found. Please check the name again and try again”, meaning “your internet provider sucks; switch now or be retarded forever”. Internet Explorer doesn’t even take the time to find websites, but just spits out the default “Cannot find server” page. Opera shuts down when urls are entered into the address bar.
The other half of the time when my internet does work, most images / styles on a web page are blocked. MSN works, which kind of pisses me off because MSN is usually the one that doesn’t work - can’t blame MS for its crappy programming this time.
P.S. The only reason I didn’t edit that logo of Telus so that it says “We are here to dominate your life and give you the crappiest dial-up speed an ADSL connection can offer” is because by the time I finish opening, erasing, typing and saving up the new file, the internet connection will be broken.
P.P.S. The only thing I like about Telus is its letter-arrangement on the keyboard - it’s so easy and fast to type it up. But then again, what’s the use of typing it when nothing works, other than complaining.. And the Telus TV commercial style really beats Apple’s. I don’t like the animals, but the combination of some 70’s song, duplicates of one lizard, and a white background really draws my attention. Nah forget I said that. Telus does suck completely.
Another Flash Header
Horray! Half Way to 30.
12 more months until I will be able to drive!
This year, I’m gonna get an Ipod, just like everybody else - but I’m waiting for the 5th generation to come out until I waste a good amount of money.
Many thanks go to my lovely friends who dearly remembered this day and gave me what I’ve always wanted - a box. Inside that box was what I’ve always wanted more - a graphics card. ATI Radeon 9200 - pwn!
Everything has a purpose. The 800mb file of Splinter Cell I’ve saved since day 1 is now in combat!
Book Review: Frankenstein
It sucked.
Work: Politics In Alabama
Politics In Alabama - a personal blog about.. well, the politics in Alabama.
I have been working on this project for the past few days. Design was directed by the client; coding was swiftly covered. I haven’t had this much fun since the last time I had this much fun. Making a custom design, coding it with standard xhtml and css, and applying it to WordPress are a set of work that not only amazes myself, but also closes me in on my new Ipod. =)
I’ll add this to the portfolio section in a bit.
A Parent’s Primer to Computer Slang
In order to make friendly connections to the adults out there, Microsoft decided to make a list of kid-slangs parents should know.
Leet Speek
- Numbers are often used as letters. The term “leet” could be written as “1337,” with “1″ replacing the letter L, “3″ posing as a backwards letter E, and “7″ resembling the letter T. “0″ (zero) will typically replace the letter “O.”
- Characters of similar appearance can be used to replace the letters they resemble. For example, “5″ or even “$” can replace the letter S. Applying this style, the word “leetspeek” can be written as “133t5p33k” or even “!337$p34k,” with “4″ replacing the letter A.
- Letters can be substituted for other letters that may sound alike. Using “Z” for a final letter S, and “X” for words ending in the letters C or K is common. For example, leetspeekers might refer to their computer “5×1llz” (skills).
- Rules of grammar are rarely obeyed. Many leetspeekers will capitalize every letter except for vowels (LiKe THiS) and otherwise reject conventional English style and grammar.
- Mistakes are often uncorrected. Common typing misspellings (or typos) such as “teh” instead of “the” are left uncorrected and may be adopted to replace the correct spelling.
- Non-alphanumeric characters may be combined to form letters. For example, using slashes to create “//” can substitute for the letter M, and two pipes combined with a hyphen to form “|-|” is often used in place of the letter H. Thus, the word “ham” could be written as “|-|4//.”
Leet words possibly indicating illegal activity
- “warez” or “w4r3z”: Illegally copied software available for download.
- “h4x”: Read as “hacks,” or what a computer hacker does.
- “sploitz” (short for exploits): Vulnerabilities in computer software used by hackers.
- “pwn”: A typo-deliberate version of own, a slang term that means to dominate. This could also be spelled “0//n3d” or “pwn3d,” among other variations. Online video game bullies or “griefers” often use this term.
Other common leet words:
- “kewl”: A common derivation of “cool.”
- “m4d sk1llz” or “mad skills”: Refers to one’s own talent. “m4d” itself is often used for emphasis.
- “n00b,” “noob,” “newbie,” or “newb”: Combinations synonymous with new user. Some leetspeekers view “n00b” as an insult and “newbie” as an affectionate term for new users.
- “w00t” or the smiley character o/: A common interjection, analogous to “woohoo!”
- “rox0rs” Used in place of “rocks,” typically to describe something impressive.
- “d00d”: Replaces the greeting or addressing someone as a “dude.”
- “joo” and “u”: Used instead of “you.” This is also commonly written as “j00″ or “_|00.”
- “ph”: often replaces “f,” as in “phear” for “fear” (as in “ph34r my l33t skillz”) and vice versa, such as spelling “phonetic” as “f0||371(.”
Bill Gates is desperate.
Toothbrushes Suck
Is it just me or do the brushes on the toothbrushes split open a week after it was first used?
I have an Oral B toothbrush (I think). First of all that is a retarded name. Secondly, the little brushes seem to be pulled apart or something so that they split open. This annoys me cause each time I move it, I have to take a look at where exactly the brush is so I can aim at certain tooth.
Other than all its incompetents, toothbrush is good for spinning with hands. Its weight is evenly distributed along the entire length of the plastic thingie, unlike those pens with gigantic grips on one side.