So this weekend I went out with the bestest of friends. One of the topics discussed over delicious seafood combined with a crisp, mineral white was the topic of my birthday. It is coming up, and I will very shortly be 26.
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TrackbackRecently I thought I was in the market for a new car, or an upgrade to say the least. Specifically I was thinking about upgrading my Z4M to an M5. Used M5’s, and BMW M cars in general depreciate faster than a brick falling into a black hole. As such I was able to find a wonderful M5 with less than 20k miles on carmax for ~$45k. This is around half of the asking price at a dealer for a new model.
Anyways, I went down the the Carmax dealership that had this particular car to go for a test drive. Lucily for me, the person I was set up with was under the impression that this was “5 Series BMW”. A few days earlier I had test drove a brand new 2010 M5 at a proper BMW dealership and they neutered the car with only 400hp. I had no problems putting the car into sport mode and then use all 500 hp.
Now after I explained to the sales woman that I was going to drive this car aggressively and that if she had any issue with this that she could politely ask me to slow down, she agreed and I nailed it and left 2 black stripes 1st gear long.
Comments rss TrackbackAs you may have read prior here. I attended a training seminar hosted by Certfirst / SaiFirst – a company that among other things, trains in PostgreSQL. I posted a full, and accurate review of the course prior on my site, which can be located here:
http://obstinate.org/computing/full-review-of-postgresql-certfirst-training-course/
http://obstinate.org/technology/certfirst-postgresql-training-course-avoid-at-all-costs/
The company I was working for was in negotiations with Certfirst in order to organize a refund. Certfirst located my original posting and demanded that what I had said was libelous and insisted on me removing my posting of my personal opinion, on my personal website, in order for them to agree to a refund on a failure to deliver services.
Certfirst and the company I was working for agreed, and asked me politely to take down my posting. In the effort of avoiding drama. I did such that.
However, I no longer work at said company and I am no longer obligated to keep my opinions off of the internets. As such – let this be a reminder to avoid the usage of Certfirst in any engagement at all costs. They failed to deliver on expectations set. So again, avoid doing business with them at all costs!
Comments rss TrackbackWhat are your motives? Are they pure? How would one even know? One thing that I have always tried to do with my life is to do the right thing, whatever that is. Sure, I have made mistakes – lots of them. I take solace in the fact that I think I have done my fellow humans well by always doing the right thing with the information I have had at the time. I am not one to take revenge or to execute furious retribution, despite the fact that I may have good reason.
Comments rss TrackbackI happen to think that there are two modes of thought “all the way” or “not at all”, and half assed is just a way of up-selling the latter. Lets give some relevant examples. If you are sitting and enjoying some TiVO and decide that you would like a glass of wine, are you really wanting a glass of wine? or 17? If you are like me, a glass of wine does nothing to you, and instead you need to pull out 4 bottles in order for it to make the impact on your life you are hoping for. As such there is no point in having one glass, or even 2 or 3, it’s either 17 or nothing, balancing in the middle only ends up with getting fatter and no buzz.
Comments rss TrackbackIn the past few days, rumors have been flying that Verizon has been in talks with Apple to distribute the iPhone on Verizon’s CDMA network. While this is something that I support, as I happen to despise AT&T’s service and coverage – I am skeptical of such reports. The Apple Marketing Machine is no less than genius, any tiny changes in the entire product line, or even rumors as such puts the media into a frenzy.
Lets take a look at the angle each of the 3 companies would have in the rumored deal between Apple and Verizon with a CDMA iPhone:
Comments rss TrackbackPeople make excuses. It is natural, and something that I think is a part of the human condition. One cannot help that some part or another of anything is inadequate. It is just the tendency of people to be unable to accept it, and such come up with a string of items that somehow explain these inadequacies. The problem is that invariably it almost never makes up for it. In fact, some people crank out excuses with such vigor that they are hurled into everything that they do or interact with as if they have the self image that they can do no wrong.
She was so nice, the sex was great, always had a great time, it was fantastic… except she had a beard.
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Comments rss TrackbackSomebody made a mistake, a big mistake and accidentally ordered 4 billion pairs of Piloti racing shoes. As a result they are now coming out of Ross’s ears to the tune of $19.99.
These shoes are normally in the $100ish range and are quite difficult to locate, they aren’t the sort of shoes you would expect to find at Nordies or wherever. Additionally, they are fabulously hideous. No matter.
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Comments rss TrackbackHere’s the deal. I know funny, I look in the mirror every day. It is hilarious.
Movie executives on the other hand, have no idea. They think funny is watching Ben Stiller or Aston Kutcher getting themselves into awkward social situations with to-be in laws is funny. It’s not, no really. But it does make money, indeed. You see, movie studios are in the business of making money, not say – making a good movie. They take enormous risk to produce and market a hit movie, and they would be silly for them to not make another romantic comedy full of embarrassing moments.
The great thing is, there are countries where there aren’t movie executives – and here we can find some truly hilarious things.
Comments rss TrackbackHere’s the deal, I don’t understand people. Over the past few months the world has been riddled with examples of people demonstrating total savagery. Austie and I had over and over again realized that the vast majority of humanity has this overwhelming urge to totally screw over everyone else.
The first example of this that I can remember making the conclusion about was the story about the giant oil tanker that was stolen by Somali Pirates a few months back. Now, the piracy itself is pretty ruthless – but it has a very clear goal. The dudes want some sweet moola, and uncle rico ain’t giving it up without a fight, hence the kidnapping of uncle rico’s sweet crude. What really interested me about the piracy was the fact that the Muslim community in Mogadishu decided to attack the pirates. One would think that the reason that they would risk thier lives would be so they could get in on some of the sweet crude. That way they could sell it to the white man and buy his 13 wifes and 4 children a few bowls of rice.