Jeepney Accident

I was driving from Los Banos this morning on my way to work when I saw this. Two jeepneys look to be in a serious accident. The second is obscured behind the first; I couldn't get another shot off my camera because the police were urging me to go faster. The second jeep's rear chassis was kinda ripped out.

MoA Marching Band

Mall of Asia's marching band. Happened upon them when I exited Fully Booked. Saw "In The Name Of The King" afterward. The fight scenes rocked. The story was meh. The directing was awful. How the hell did Uwe Boll get the job?

13 things that do not make sense

I am fascinated by scientific mumbo jumbo. I love logic and reasoning and then finding stuff that contradict them. Here are thirteen contradictions presented by NewScientist.

From bash.org

#832919 +(1730)- [X]

CDSBIGSBY: at work, on the like, 'keyboard' for the cash registers, there are two buttons that don't do anything
CDSBIGSBY: and it's like, the button, a little slip of paper that says what the button does, and a plastic cover that holds the paper in
CDSBIGSBY: and this dude at work figured that out, 'cause he popped the plastic cover off
CDSBIGSBY: and so we made labels for the two 'empty' buttons on the registers we were on that day
CDSBIGSBY: he didn't utilize the full potential of the opportunity though, as one of his buttons is a happy face and the other a sad face
CDSBIGSBY: but i feel i did mine justice.
CDSBIGSBY: Lane 14 at Meijer's has a Self-Destruct button and a Bat Signal button.

CloverField; No Country For Old Men

Cloverfield was AWESOME. No Country For Old Men was AWESOME.

If you watch both films, you can understand why it brought to my mind Stephen King's answer to the question "Why do bad things happen to good people?" His answer was:

"Because they can."

Wings

My Dream Home

... according to http://www.directhomefind.com/dream-home. Discovered on necramirez.blogspot.com.

Your home is a Gamer's Hideout Your kitchen is stocked with chips, dips, and assorted caffeinated beverages. There's a pantry with emergency backup caffeinated beverages. You also have some breakfast cereals in there, but you haven't had breakfast since last Spring. Your master bedroom has blankets printed with images of Mario and Link. Your study includes unread copies of various gamer magazines, each purchased for the free demo CDs. One of your garages houses your Hummer, and others contain your H2, and H3... with room for an H4, if they ever invent one. Your home also includes a roost for griffons. You've never actually seen a griffon, but you keep the roost ready anyway. Your guests enjoy your collection of every console and associated game ever made. Except the Intellivision -- those controllers drive them NUTS. Outside is the moat that protects your home from goblin invaders and extended family. Below is a snippet of the blueprints:

Find YOUR Dream House!

Vista Sucks

I have a new workstation at the office and it came pre-installed with Windows Vista. It was working fine for a few days but now I've seen what a stupid piece of flaming shit vista is. I had 75 Gb of free space last night. Today, I have 1.55Gb free. I used FreeCommander's nifty feature of displaying the folder sizes so I could easily track where the culprit was. Lo and behold. It's in

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Projects\SystemIndex\SystemIndex.Crwl14.gthr

The little bugger needs 70Gb to index a 160Gb drive? Useless. When I finish my current critical tasks, I'm going to have to go back to XP and maybe Linux.

Carillion. UPLB.

Heath Ledger Dead

Why.

Cracked's 8 Celeb's You Didn't Know Were Geeks

Cracked's 8 Celebrities You Didn't Know Were Geeks

Now, I already knew about Vin Diesel's Dungeon and Dragons hobby but I never knew he was behind the studios that created Escape From Butcher Bay. I played that game and kicked-my-ass. I loved that freaking game. The story, voice acting, and small details you'd never expect from a game based on a movie topped almost any game I've ever played.

Dolph Lundgren. Who'd knew?

"So, really, to play a superhuman machine of destruction in Rocky IV, he still had to tone it down quite a bit. Hell, this man had to tone it down to play He-Man."

Link also contains Kate Beckinsale and Natalie Portman goodness.

Arthur C Clarke's "Star"

http://lucis.net/stuff/clarke/star_clarke.html

Clickety-click on the link before you read what I have to say.

Sigh. I read this short story from a small sci-fi anthology book I found in a discount store. I've never believed in the preachings of my church but I've always kept a small corner of my heart open for belief in the divine. This story got to me like no other story before. I know it's just a story but, to me, it's already truer than what I've read in the bible. Those stories where Noah builds an ark and Jesus feeds the multitude is a lot less real than the imagery I've seen from reading "Star."

Now, it's not all about how I saw the story as I read it. After I finished it, I was already so sad and crushed why God did this and how he let it happen. Ah... if I could write a story like that.

Hot Singer/Programmer Girl

This is just an idea... a hope... a dream. I hope that I can see in the near future a hot girl who sings songs about programming. Now, I don't have the artistic skills to write comic strips like XKCD so let me just write it out for you. She'll be like Kari Byron and she'll be singing songs titled "It's A Big Oh N log N" or "Perl Scripts Make Me Quiver." Sigh.