teh blog of Jim

The Music industry is a scourge upon the world. Executives and talent agents pick a few slightly talented people with a possibility of looking good and then give them some lyrics to sing. The track is then sent into post-production where it’s doctored into something computer-generated and fake. The “artist” is given a makeover and a few lessons in “style” to make an appearence on TRL, where their music video is “voted” to the top by “fans” (Pronounced Myu-Sick Eck-sek-yu-tehv-s) with their Online votes (pronounced Lar`j ch`ecks). Those stupid and superficial enough to beleive that this is creativity and popular culture go home and load their Designer iPoods with the songs from iToons. Others who’s parents are “lame” (Pronounced nott Ri`ch) and dont have broadband go to WalMart and buy DRM laden CDs which are marked up Thousands of times their actual Face and IP value, in order for the executives to have more “votes” for the next “big thing” that will pop out of nowhere in a month, leaving this month’s super-star nothing but a dusty jewl case in the corner.

Real musical talent is supressed by the large Media companies. Linkin Park is in the process of producing a New CD, however lots of pressure from their label makes this hard for the band. One member, Mike Shinoda, has started a project “on the side” of Linkin Park named Fort Minor. Fort Minor is an excellent example of cookie-cutter style music: gangster music with a hint of sadness. Think My Chemical Romace meets 50 Cent. Shinoda, while in the Linkin Park scene often sports Earrings and a non-natural hair color (Blue, Fire Engine Red, Dark Black), while in FortMinor his look has been “cleaned up”: his natural Dark Brown/Light Black hair is on display or hidden beneith somesort of gangster hat.

I cant beleive anyone actually falls for this shit.

-jX

*blows nose* damn allergies.

I woke up today. “I feel like crap” I said, attempting to blow my highly congested nose. “Damn allergies”.

I took a shower, brushed my teeth with the regular minty toothpaste, and went downstairs to continue my daily routine. I opened up the kitchen cabinet in search of my Java Loves You Mug I received from Sun a while ago. I covered the bottom with sugar from the old diner-style sugar dispenser we keep next to the bowls, and I covered it with dark dominican coffee and WalMart’s Finest Half and Half. “Allergy medz should fix my damn allergies” I opened the cabinet to my left and pulled out my Zyrtec D 12 hour, knocking the DayQuil off of the shelf “Alas” I said sleepily. ‘Do I feel crappy enough to warrent a Vicks product?’ I thought ‘… yeah’. I popped my usual white capsule and fumbled with the consumer-proof wrapping of the DayQuil Capsules. several moments later, I had swallowed half of my coffee and both capsules of Vicks, the second one going down painfully sideways.

Later that day… in 8th period Biology, I had to make a graph of the mass of beans. Every 3 1cm x 1cm blocks equals 2 beans of mass X. I counted out the Y-Axis of the line graph, marking the values as I went. “Two, Four, Eight, Sixteen, Thirty-Two, Sixty-Four, One Twent– This isn’t right” I showed the graph to my project partner. He laughed, I chuckled. “Lets try this again” I said, as I erased the exponential values. “Two, Four…. ” I started. “Six…” my partner continued. “Right… Six… Eight, Ten, Twelve, Fourteen, Eighteen, Thirteen, Sixteen, Nineteen, Twenty. There. Done.” I showed the graph to my partner for approval.

“Uhhh… Jim… this is like… completely messed up.”
“Oh.” I said, as I looked down at my horrible work. “My sister was right… DayQuill will stone you out of your mind.”

I took one more try at making the graph… Third time’s the charm. (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20). The teacher collected the projects for the day. I leaned over by my partner….

“Hmm…”
“What?” He said.
“I wonder how I did on that first period geometry test.”
“Hahahahaha”
“This should be interesting…”

Update: I got a 28/40 on it. Sadly, I used pi to try and figure out the volume of a rectangular prism.

Today I called M$ to see how my return was going (this after a month of waiting, sheesh.) This is how the call went…

Me: Hi I’m calling to check on the status of my return
Her: Ok… can I have your customer Id number please
Me: I dont have one… my case had to be sent to escalations because I returned it out of the 45 day grace period.
Her: Ok… your last name please?
Me: ..
Her: Ok. It seems… that it was denied…. (Me: WTFUX?!)… because the SR number was invalid. It’s on its way back to you right now.
Me: It’s definately Valid. I have over a months worth of Email logs from ‘HelpfulGuy’ and they all have that number in it. Read me back what you have
Her: *reads number exactly*
Me: Thats exactly what I have.
Her: Ok… lemme check on something for you…
Me: (aggrivated) ….
Her: It appears that the number was typed in incorrectly. I’ll resubmit this to…
Me: w00t! *power up*
Her: … the returns center and we’ll have your refund out to you shortly.
Me: w00t!

Microsoft… hiring indian monkeys since before the GUI.

Dear Valued customer,

Recently we have noticed that your web site(s)is consuming a disproportionate amount of server resources. Due to this, we have had to move your account off of the shared hosting server to an auxilliary server host. We will now request that you consider purchasing a Managed or Dedicated Server in order to continue hosting services with 1&1 Internet.

Your account was moved based on a decision made by the system administrators in
order to improve the quality of service to the rest of our clients on the shared
hosting server you were previously hosted on. Your account’s resource needs
were exceeding the capacity of that server to capably host the other accounts,
thus it had to be moved to mitigate the server load. Though we could move your
site back to the original shared hosting server, it is not recommended. Your
account activity has showed that it deserves its own server to better suite its
performance needs.

Please visit 1and1.com to review the server products we offer. You will have
one(1) month to make a decision and migrate your account over to 1&1 server
or another host provider. You can choose to return your account back to the
shared server systems if you wish, provided that you take steps to reduce the
load generated by your websites. If the account has to be moved off the
shared server system again you will only have the option of purchasing a
dedicated server account to continue hosting with 1&1 Internet.

Thank you for your compliance in this matter.

This is the Email I received from my Webhoast at 5:47pm EST On 4/7/2006. Naturally, this is not a good thing,so I downloaded the logs from my server. I found that there were thousands of hits coming from Iran To the proxies . These hits ranged from Internet Explorer to Mozilla-style browsers on Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux. Iran is one of the countries in the world that censors the internet at the national scale. Although I want to help these depribed people, I can’t afford the banwidth so I had to move the proxies to undisclosed locations on the internet. I expect a friendly visit from my Local G-Man any day now, and I will be posting the logs on my server at a later time. I will be posting instructions on how to use the Tor Network in the places where the proxies used to be.

Hopefully, my hoast will take pity on me and not charge me the $10k I owe them in bandwidth. If they do, Iran owes me a college education.

-jX

UPDATE: Yeah… guess what they were surfing. … Yup. Porn.

Here we see that President Bush’s iPod contains songs by the Beatles; since no Beatles songs have been licensed for the iTunes Music Store yet, these must have come from ripped CDs. Remember last February, when the RIAA told a federal agency that ripping CDs is illegal? I wonder if they’ll bring charges.

I hope they do… then finally people will realise how absolutely retarded these suits are.

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