Tastefully Odd Blog Entries

Well, after almost two months of waiting, filling out non degree application, and then getting departmental permission to take the class Luda and I wanted to take even though we weren’t in the college, Luda and I have been admitted to the CS graduate program at WSU. We’re even registered for the class we want to take!

apparently some cats don’t hate technology

I guess this lawyer didn’t want his email posted on the recipient’s blog. Oops, that not for posting notice had just the opposite effect, didn’t it? Guess it was pretty useless.

please, you send me cease and deist legalese. preference erotic. Why not? I like. Is nice.

I decided to pass on the treadmill this Sunday and ran around the neighborhood as it was cool out. Big mistake. My body is still sore from going up and down hills. I’ll try a new route tonight that should minimize the elevation changing. Hopefully that works because the treadmill is too boring and has no wind to help cool me off.

Also, the diet’s hit a bit of a plateau, I’m afraid. The new low is 183, but I’ve been around 185 for the past two weeks. My bmi goal may slide a bit until I can take this diet to the next level.

groin still intact

I was watching football on espn the other night and saw this commercial propaganda from the NCTA during the commercials. As one of the tags to this post implies, it got under my skin.

They want me to make me think those multi-billion dollar silicon valley companies are the bad guys? Ha! They can’t hold a candle to the amount of hatred I have for cable companies. They can’t hope to compete with communications companies for the scum bags of the year award. For one thing, they earned their billions by offering useful services on a neutral internet. Unlike cable and telephone companies who are able to sit on their territorial monopolies and treat their customers like serfs in their fiefdom, these internet companies could lose their position at any time to an newcomer with a better service. I’ll pay more for their services with net neutrality? What? Net neutrality means the internet stays the way it is. The content/service providers pay for their bandwidth and I pay for mine and the networks inbetween handle the data the same regardless of whether it’s for a big corporate website or a small blog. The companies against net neutrality want to set up tiered access and discriminate against those who don’t pay their fee. Either google would pay isp’s to ensure a higher quality of service (higher in comparison to sites that don’t pay this extortion fee; this premium service would likely be close to how fast/reliable it currently is today as I don’t see how they would be able to improve it vastly) or isp’s would charge users more to access certain sites (kinda like premium channels except it doesn’t cost the isp more to access certain sites whereas HBO charges cable companies more to show its content) or both. Right now, anyone can visit my blog and access it as fast as the network will allow. If isp’s are allowed to discriminate, it’s likely that people won’t be able to access my site reliably or possibly not at all. The next google/amazon/etc. would never be able to get off the ground because it would be inferior in speed to the established sites who can afford to pay the extortion money. Google, amazon, et. al. could side with the cable companies and (big) baby bells and shut out potential future competitors, but they don’t. And although their stance could partly be for other selfish reasons I think it’s important to point this out as it is in stark contrast to NCTA’s propaganda.

So no, google, amazon, et. al. don’t want to subsidize their customers’ connections because cable and phone companies sold bandwidth they didn’t have for less than it costs them to increase the size of their customer base. You got it into people’s heads that they can get broadband for dirt cheap and now you’ve got to live with the hemmoraging until your costs go down or man up and find a price point where you’re making money.

using the bandwidth that I paid for… ain’t I a stinker?

As I’ve mentioned previously… wait, I thought I had mentioned this here already, but searching though the archives doesn’t show anything. Well this may be completely new for some of you. Way back at the beginning of the year we began planning what we call “Operation Master Disaster”. Me, Luda, Ty (Luda’s boss) and Coovoo were going to start on our masters degrees this fall at WSU. Sadly Ty and Coovoo have gone AWOL since we started planning, and Luda’s resolve is waining when we’re trying to surmount our second major obstacle, admission to the school of graduate studies. (The first one was getting BATC’s approval.)

Luda and I submitted our applications back on July 12, and for the past month our applications have sat at the college of engineering and computer science. I thought that since Luda and I both graduated from WSU with good grades it’d be a simple rubber stamp. Nope, they have to hold a meeting. And they don’t know when they’ll have it. My application was supposed to be processed within six weeks, and tomorrow will be six weeks after I turned it in so they’ve got 24 hours to be on time and the secretaries weren’t sure if they’d even meet this week. Classes start in two weeks. I’m feeling kinda nervous.

got the disaster part right

I’ve been meaning to update all week… Every day I bring up the write post page and fail to come up with something to blog about. So here I am blogging about my inability to blog. I’d apologize but I don’t think anyone has come here regularly for quite some time. I will write about something besides my lack of writing though.
I got my new razr phone from verizon yesterday. Yay! I picked it after reading in several different places that bitpim supported it. Either those reports are all lies, or verizon (may they drown in a pool of lava) has locked this phone down even tighter since people got it working with bitpim. I spent 6 hours last night reading documentation on the web and plugging my phone in and out of usb ports to no avail. I could have copied over my whole address book of close to 70 numbers over manually in that amount of time. Ringtones or Wallpaper? Forget about it. Is it so wrong for me to want to put video game midi’s on my phone?

hate them so much