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Last night the check engine light on my 2001 Acura Integra came on. I googled a couple of things here and there and I found some people suggested using a paperclip to read the code. My car is relatively old so I didn’t want to bother with a DIY project. I dropped it off at… Continue reading Expensive lesson in vehicle maintenance – check the gas cap

I’ve been trying to help my mom with her medicare and this shit is damn confusing. You’d think since it’s made for seniors, they’d make it as simple as possible. But it’s not. The worst part is, most people who are supposed to be knowledgeable to help seniors with this stuff cannot answers the questions… Continue reading Medicare is confusing

First off, I find it ridiculous some people are just NOW complaining about the government spying on them. This shit is so old news, Jesus was alive when it happened. PBS has been running documentaries on it for years now and everyone knows there is an entire ATT building in San Francisco dedicated to spying… Continue reading NSA TSA and NRA

The other day while playing around with my AWS RDS account, I realized that I left an RDS-large instance running for about 6 months. It had nothing in it, but it was turned on. It was costing me about $500 a month, but I had no idea because I pay my amazon account automatically, and… Continue reading Amazon Web Services is awesome

A long time ago I interviewed for a programming job, they gave me a programming task to complete. Here was my implementation: http://rover.heroku.com/ They didn’t offer me the job. My feelings were hurt.

Watching a documentary on this very interesting place. Don’t want to forget it. Beautiful tropical island you say? Let’s blow it up with a nuclear bomb…

I finally bit the bullet and bought an ATV3 after nearly a year of holding out and trying other media players (Google TV, WD, Roku). I finally caved and bought the ATV3 because of how seamlessly it is integrated into all the other Apple products: iPhone, iPad. Surprisingly, the one thing that the ATV3 does… Continue reading How to play any video format with the AppleTV 3 from the command line

Wow. This documentary really opened my eyes to the faultiness of witness experts and forensic science. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/real-csi/

Move over Gavin Newsome. Suck it Mayor Bloomberg. I have solved the homeless problem. No this is not some fancy scheme that involves communes and co-ops or other hippy ideas, and no, we are not going to call in the Orkin man and have them exterminated as much as Vinhboy would advocate for that. In… Continue reading My Solution to the Homeless Problem (sorta)

Does anyone ever feel that what they write in their blog is too controversial and might get them in trouble? I do… That’s why I don’t write in my blog that much anymore. Almost every time I sit down to write something, I end up deleting it because I get scared that what I just… Continue reading I am afriad of blogging