Dumali

Why do some people perpetually screw off, then the second, months later when they finally make up their mind to do something, they need YOU to do it NOW.

I have family like that, now I am asked to paint a house in the winter. But I asked about it since spring. Suddenly its an emergency to do it now.

Makes no sense, it has been one of these things that was to be done in April and there is still hee hawing about it.  Makes no sense. Sink or swim. I basically said “I dont care anymore, apparently noone is being serious”

See the most valuable thing is life is time. Its why we give it to people we love, our kids, our wives. We spend *time* because its more precious than gold and diamonds. You cant earn time, or buy time. Once its spent its gone. We do not know how much time we have, but some of us give it, and most people waste it.

I hate wasting time.

The damn Japanese invented karaoke as a way to make us suffer because we dropped a atomic bomb on them

But I somehow think  they got the softer deal.

Karaoke sucks, and as I write this my brother and 5 of his friends are squealing along to Madonna. I want to kill them all. Its horrid, they sound like a half frozen cat being cut with a table saw.

Look, some people can sing (not you Ozzie) and most cant, its why most of you dont have a recording contract and instead go to your crummy jobs everyday. Dont think becasue you somehow managaed to pull together enough money for the crappy electronics to make seom digital noise you can grind your crusty voice along, that somehow you are some sort of rockstar.

So do me a favor, save the planet by letting the ones that can sing remain doing so and just politely nod your head to the beat when a good song comes on the radio, but please stop attempting to sing.

As a kid I loved Legos, I wish that simple toys were still cool. Now its all high end electronics and cell phones. Internet and video games.

But I would make trucks and aircraft and little buildings.

Then I would spend time driving my little creations. If there was an accident, i could alter the vehicle to reflect the damage.

Simpler times, I think better ones too. Certainly cheaper.

On a related topic, int he Minnesota Mall of America they have lego creations on display, when I was last there I remember this huge White House made of legos.

Ever wonder why God hung out with Adam and Eve, like walked around chatting with them, and I cant even get an email?

I am pretty ticked off about the whole thing. Its like, I cant get any respect because I took the time to put clothes on? And what gets me more is like you can kick it and chat with God and then like blow off his ideas. God says Yeah don’t eat from that tree, cause if you do I will get all pissy and kick you out my cool place with the trees.

I wonder if they made jokes when he wasn’t around…

I mean, why make a tree that you don’t want touched?! God whispers to Jesus, “LOL Watch me screw with these two!” Why make the tree you don’t want them to have?! Why be all selfish like that?!

Theres just too many problems with that story to be acceptable.

How do you got a God of love who plays serious practical jokes on people like that?

It is amazing to me how Americans take the new government invasion of privacy so calmly. I figured when the day came that the hillbillies would come flooding out of the hills, with shotguns and hounds by their side to set things right.

In specific, I am speaking about how the President and the NSA have openly said, yeah we copy your email and tap your phones without a warrant and we don’t care if you like it or not.

Fascinating.

But I assumed someone would get upset. Nope, we rolled over as a nation and said “Rub my belly” and in a sense they do. Things like Hollywood and Cable TV, and now the internet are lil toys we are given to keep us from being focused on political matters.

Its working.

The old sleight of hand works too. Everyone is focused on this invisible enemy and misses the ones in front of their face.

Maybe you disagree, but take the time to compare the Nazi SS and the Department of Homeland Security.

I learn more from small children than I do from all the manual I read.

Whats more, the stuff kids teach me is the important stuff. Kids don’t hate, we teach them to do that. Kids give everything from the bottom of their hearts.

Take the neighbor’s kid. He spends his time collecting “beautiful rocks”. To him, they are rare and hard sought gems. He is very very proud of his stones and if you allow him he will show you his prized gems.

If you are indeed impressed and he notices, then he will shine up his most favorite, and with no expectations from you it is yours. to keep, and yet it is apparent it is dear to him, yet he has no thoughts of selfishness believing that his rock will make you as happy as it did him.

That is a deep and powerful lesson  right there alone. You cant learn that in a book.

i am known for making fun of Microsoft, so while I am doign that, I am also making a valid point.

This is a photo of the people that came to be Microsoft. Now the largest most powerful corporation in the world.

Who knew? I mean, if these folks approached you and asked you to invest in this coporation, would you? Most wouldnt. But even more, these folks for all their lack of fashion, were also pitching the idea of building machines that could send mail without paper, and putting user friendly computers in every home in America.

I wonder how often they were scoffed?

And now, how far they have come! It boggles my mind, and it goes to show you cannot judge a book by its cover. As much as I dislike Microsoft, my hats  off to these guys, not only are they ridiculously wealthy, they changed the world.

Bear in mind the person you next speak to in 10 years could be president, or some wealthy influential person.

This piece of sexiness is the Alienware Area-51 m9750! Hot huh?

For example, it has TWO 512 mb Nvidia graphics cards.  TWO hard drives TWO processors. A 17 inch High Def screen.

The hard drives are 250GB each. It comes stock with 2 gigs of DDR ram. That and the vid cards make serious gaming a reality on a portable machine.

It has a DVD burner with Bluray.

Admit it, you want one too.

If you are a Mac user, and you need to access your Mac from a remote location this is the tool for you.

You connect to your machine remotely, and in a secure fashion using ssh, which means all your communication is encrypted.

You can move files easily and transfer them via a “drag and drop” system. Truly fantastic, as usually ssh means tedious command line typing. Not so here. Ease of use is the flavor of the day.

“Angry IP scanner” is program that watches ports, and can scan IP addresses. It can be configured to scan a given range and and a selection of ports, or you can turn it loose and see what it finds.

By comparison, the binary is small when you also examine port scanners, which is nice if you are working from a machine with low resources. The scanner pings the IP addresses you tell it to and upon a response will gather information, port scans, MAC addresses, hostnames. There are plugins available to gather even more information.

It can even tell you who is logged in on a remote machine. You can save the results to any number of formats from HTML to CSV.

It is Open Source so anyone who can code can further extend its functionality.