Monday, March 05, 2007
How lame is Kanye West... ordering in from England... thats lame not cool...
Kanye... your rich... your powerful... but your not thinking...
You talk about George W Bush and his dependancy on oil and the war in Iraq etc... but do you know how much oil you have just burned by ordering in from England? Or how about how much carbon dioxide you just released into the environment? I understand that the plane was going to fly all ready but the idea behind setting a precedent of flying food in because it shows how powerful and rich you are... yuck!!!
Please buy some carbon credits to offset this... spend the 3K on educating kids... that would be a powerful statement...
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=entertainment&id=5093083
Kanye... your rich... your powerful... but your not thinking...
You talk about George W Bush and his dependancy on oil and the war in Iraq etc... but do you know how much oil you have just burned by ordering in from England? Or how about how much carbon dioxide you just released into the environment? I understand that the plane was going to fly all ready but the idea behind setting a precedent of flying food in because it shows how powerful and rich you are... yuck!!!
Please buy some carbon credits to offset this... spend the 3K on educating kids... that would be a powerful statement...
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=entertainment&id=5093083
Labels: Kanye west orders in from England - how lame
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Animal Collective...
all right this morning... I am drinking a lot of coffee and have decided to build a new blog... zzax.blogspot.com - where I will post fun info about DHTML, javascript, html, xml, css etc... AJAX... because everyone else is...
but in the meantime.. I am listening to this really great band... Animal Collective... I must say its great... fantastico... also this week.. I heard some good Forro music... more on that later... but for now... listen to Animal Collective... it will make your ears excited...
zzach
all right this morning... I am drinking a lot of coffee and have decided to build a new blog... zzax.blogspot.com - where I will post fun info about DHTML, javascript, html, xml, css etc... AJAX... because everyone else is...
but in the meantime.. I am listening to this really great band... Animal Collective... I must say its great... fantastico... also this week.. I heard some good Forro music... more on that later... but for now... listen to Animal Collective... it will make your ears excited...
zzach
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Status Anxiety - why do I care so much of what others think about me?
This evening I happened across a book at Strand Bookstore... happening across a book at Strand that you recognize happens more than happening across a book that you are looking for... they invented impulse buying - the retailing idea of putting product in front of a captive audience... like the magazines and candy in the checkout aisles at the supermarket... sorry I digressed,a few months ago I was reading the NYTimes weekend Book Review (is it only available on weekends?)... well my first purchase from that weekend was "the emperor's children" which I am struggling to finish... and my second purchase occured tonight... "reading like a writer - a guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them"... mind you I dont believe I will ever be a good writer... and would never have the arrogance to write a novel... I have flirted with writing a "technical" book... but i do not believe the author, Francine Prose, had the technician in mind when she and her editors/agents/marketers came up with this tagline... i want to be a writer much like becoming a musician, painter, sculptor, professional athlete... but I need to recommend this book... I am only into the second chapter and I am in love with this book... i have been wanting to describe my feelings of arrogance, feeling of guilt, inadequacy, (crap the word escapes me... but I will try and describe it... the critics of Al Gore and his "An Inconvenient Truth" have called him a XXXXX, for not buying low carbon sources of energy... ugh - btw I have changed my purchasing habits here)... so why do I feel these emotions... well I drive a hybrid, I live in a green building in nyc... I give money to the arts... I give money to under-priveliged kids... well... i am feeling like I live in excess... I drive that hybrid from nyc each day out and back from new jersey... about the 26.2 miles I am going to be running in the NYC marathon next Sunday (so scared, cant sleep)... also when I read about Paul J Farmer in Mountains beyond Mountains... I feel like I could live in a smaller apt... my apt might be green... with energy efficient appliances, low flush toilets, efficient heating and freaking amazing windows... but... do I really need to live in a 2 bedroom apt... should I have a roommate... or even roommates... there are people are walking by or living across the street... these families live in apts as big as one of the rooms in my apt... and I like to eat good food... I dont really like to eat... unless the food s good... so probably spend too much money by eating out... I like to buy nice clothes... be it nice shoes, jeans, shirts, sweaters... why.. because they make me feel good... some mornings, when its freezing cold) and evenings (when I am stuck in traffic) I long for my comfortable Audi S4... with heated, comfortable seats, with a great stereo system... so yes I am struggling with this...
k so back to the book... so far I have found 2 things I want to quote... or bring light to...
page 19 - describing what you can find by recognizing word choice - which words were and were not chosen, by sentence structure, voice etc... - in a passage from Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard To Find"
"And her apparently unlikely fantasy of encountering The Misfit may cause us to reflect on the peculiar egocentrism and narcissim of those people who are constantly convinced that, however miniscule the odds, the stray bullet will somehow find them."
So my conundrum (ugh I dont like that word)... am I narscistic to be scared of flying? yes I am a worrier... and i am struggling with living due to this worry... i feel like I am missing out because I am worrying...
and another excerpt from earlier in the book
while trying to convince you as a reader to explore more than just the latest "rising star" of current literature...
"I'm only pointing out that they represent the dot at the end of the long, glorious, complex sentence in which literature has been written."
a great sentence... why do we feel so inferior to the greats of yester-year? by no means am I trying to discount the artists, authors, programmers, geniuses, of yester year.. but there might be an argument that their works are stepping stones for future genisues... its like comparing Bill Russell with Lebron James or Jordan... they are from completely ages of the game... Lebron is rediculously good... an amazing athlete... so fast, so strong, and he is so young and leading the hapless cavs to the playoffs... Jordan the same... the guys russell played with, were great... why do we discount the geniuses of the future because of the nostalgia of past stars, authors, etc... these guys are doing it now... they are excelling compared to their contemporaries... how about we just focus on being part of the never ending story... rather than the punctuation mark at the end of the sentence...
sorry and finally... an anecdote from my life and and my egotistical effort to relate my life to a book I finished a few weeks back...
A few weeks ago I was struggling with a girls choice to stop seeing me... maybe we werent meant for each other... as earlier that week hung out watching a baseball game... but she described her feeling alive when she was going fast in a boat... on a lake at her summer house... I wasnt able to recognize the label of boat she mentioned... but I imagine one of those wooden boats with an onboard engine... that you see cruising around the shores/inlets of marthas vineyard... usually with a small flag flapping in the wind, as a show of patriotism on the 4th of July... we then proceeded to talk about the car I drive... since its a Honda Civic hybrid... I found myself apologetic and stating that i used to have an Audi S4...
Mountains beyond Mountains... a wonderfully inspiring story... k... so the point to this madness... Paul J Farmer talking about his lifes work with the author... and how he is able to spend the time... sleepless nights etc... taking care of patients with TB and Aids and setting up clinics... etc.. etc.. etc..
well his response... he almost feels selfish as he feels most alive helping others...
all right... i gotta get back to reading or studying calc... or working on some code... goodness why do I find myself spending less and less time codeing?
This evening I happened across a book at Strand Bookstore... happening across a book at Strand that you recognize happens more than happening across a book that you are looking for... they invented impulse buying - the retailing idea of putting product in front of a captive audience... like the magazines and candy in the checkout aisles at the supermarket... sorry I digressed,a few months ago I was reading the NYTimes weekend Book Review (is it only available on weekends?)... well my first purchase from that weekend was "the emperor's children" which I am struggling to finish... and my second purchase occured tonight... "reading like a writer - a guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them"... mind you I dont believe I will ever be a good writer... and would never have the arrogance to write a novel... I have flirted with writing a "technical" book... but i do not believe the author, Francine Prose, had the technician in mind when she and her editors/agents/marketers came up with this tagline... i want to be a writer much like becoming a musician, painter, sculptor, professional athlete... but I need to recommend this book... I am only into the second chapter and I am in love with this book... i have been wanting to describe my feelings of arrogance, feeling of guilt, inadequacy, (crap the word escapes me... but I will try and describe it... the critics of Al Gore and his "An Inconvenient Truth" have called him a XXXXX, for not buying low carbon sources of energy... ugh - btw I have changed my purchasing habits here)... so why do I feel these emotions... well I drive a hybrid, I live in a green building in nyc... I give money to the arts... I give money to under-priveliged kids... well... i am feeling like I live in excess... I drive that hybrid from nyc each day out and back from new jersey... about the 26.2 miles I am going to be running in the NYC marathon next Sunday (so scared, cant sleep)... also when I read about Paul J Farmer in Mountains beyond Mountains... I feel like I could live in a smaller apt... my apt might be green... with energy efficient appliances, low flush toilets, efficient heating and freaking amazing windows... but... do I really need to live in a 2 bedroom apt... should I have a roommate... or even roommates... there are people are walking by or living across the street... these families live in apts as big as one of the rooms in my apt... and I like to eat good food... I dont really like to eat... unless the food s good... so probably spend too much money by eating out... I like to buy nice clothes... be it nice shoes, jeans, shirts, sweaters... why.. because they make me feel good... some mornings, when its freezing cold) and evenings (when I am stuck in traffic) I long for my comfortable Audi S4... with heated, comfortable seats, with a great stereo system... so yes I am struggling with this...
k so back to the book... so far I have found 2 things I want to quote... or bring light to...
page 19 - describing what you can find by recognizing word choice - which words were and were not chosen, by sentence structure, voice etc... - in a passage from Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard To Find"
"And her apparently unlikely fantasy of encountering The Misfit may cause us to reflect on the peculiar egocentrism and narcissim of those people who are constantly convinced that, however miniscule the odds, the stray bullet will somehow find them."
So my conundrum (ugh I dont like that word)... am I narscistic to be scared of flying? yes I am a worrier... and i am struggling with living due to this worry... i feel like I am missing out because I am worrying...
and another excerpt from earlier in the book
while trying to convince you as a reader to explore more than just the latest "rising star" of current literature...
"I'm only pointing out that they represent the dot at the end of the long, glorious, complex sentence in which literature has been written."
a great sentence... why do we feel so inferior to the greats of yester-year? by no means am I trying to discount the artists, authors, programmers, geniuses, of yester year.. but there might be an argument that their works are stepping stones for future genisues... its like comparing Bill Russell with Lebron James or Jordan... they are from completely ages of the game... Lebron is rediculously good... an amazing athlete... so fast, so strong, and he is so young and leading the hapless cavs to the playoffs... Jordan the same... the guys russell played with, were great... why do we discount the geniuses of the future because of the nostalgia of past stars, authors, etc... these guys are doing it now... they are excelling compared to their contemporaries... how about we just focus on being part of the never ending story... rather than the punctuation mark at the end of the sentence...
sorry and finally... an anecdote from my life and and my egotistical effort to relate my life to a book I finished a few weeks back...
A few weeks ago I was struggling with a girls choice to stop seeing me... maybe we werent meant for each other... as earlier that week hung out watching a baseball game... but she described her feeling alive when she was going fast in a boat... on a lake at her summer house... I wasnt able to recognize the label of boat she mentioned... but I imagine one of those wooden boats with an onboard engine... that you see cruising around the shores/inlets of marthas vineyard... usually with a small flag flapping in the wind, as a show of patriotism on the 4th of July... we then proceeded to talk about the car I drive... since its a Honda Civic hybrid... I found myself apologetic and stating that i used to have an Audi S4...
Mountains beyond Mountains... a wonderfully inspiring story... k... so the point to this madness... Paul J Farmer talking about his lifes work with the author... and how he is able to spend the time... sleepless nights etc... taking care of patients with TB and Aids and setting up clinics... etc.. etc.. etc..
well his response... he almost feels selfish as he feels most alive helping others...
all right... i gotta get back to reading or studying calc... or working on some code... goodness why do I find myself spending less and less time codeing?
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
This past weekend... I was emailed about a peculiar slowdown on a production website for the company I work for... the company name is not important... but what is interesting is the symptom/problem...
A particular webpage was taking a little over 1 minute to load in Mozilla Firefox... weird... as it was loading in less than 3 seconds in IE/netscape etc... so the blame game began... it was the webserver, it was a specific stylesheet hack that was used, it was our backend servers... it was the code... the same old same old...
I tried to pull the page up in my normal http(s) transmission tracing program... and low and behold... the software cannot attach to firefox... weird... so I did a 2 min google search/identification and download of a replacement tool... tamper data... it allows you to track and also decide to make each http request... you can change the params... as well as time each...
come to find out... when you refer to stylesheets that dont exist (ie.. 404) the browser seems to wait 30 seconds before it can make the next request... its like the browser doesnt know how to handle a 404 well... and gets into some sort of hanged state...
A particular webpage was taking a little over 1 minute to load in Mozilla Firefox... weird... as it was loading in less than 3 seconds in IE/netscape etc... so the blame game began... it was the webserver, it was a specific stylesheet hack that was used, it was our backend servers... it was the code... the same old same old...
I tried to pull the page up in my normal http(s) transmission tracing program... and low and behold... the software cannot attach to firefox... weird... so I did a 2 min google search/identification and download of a replacement tool... tamper data... it allows you to track and also decide to make each http request... you can change the params... as well as time each...
come to find out... when you refer to stylesheets that dont exist (ie.. 404) the browser seems to wait 30 seconds before it can make the next request... its like the browser doesnt know how to handle a 404 well... and gets into some sort of hanged state...
Thursday, November 03, 2005
If you loved me... Apple - Power Mac G5
Monday, August 08, 2005
Friday, December 17, 2004
Its been real.
Its been fun.
But, it has not been real fun.
Is it suppose to be really fun? shannon says yes...
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/adverbs.html
Adverbs can modify adjectives, adverbs and verbs... hmmmm...
real - adverb or noun
fun - noun? adjective?
thanks for the help - zach
Its been fun.
But, it has not been real fun.
Is it suppose to be really fun? shannon says yes...
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/adverbs.html
Adverbs can modify adjectives, adverbs and verbs... hmmmm...
real - adverb or noun
fun - noun? adjective?
thanks for the help - zach
