The place was filled with Vietnamese people, and every one of them used these Ikea food cart to load trays full of crawfish. Now, there is nothing wrong with them wanting crawfish, because it was all you can eat, but its classless and shameless when there is a huge ass line behind them and they just stood there piling their cart like nothing.

I was one of the first few people in line, so I was able to get myself two plates of crawfish. But by the time I was back in line for a second serving, these shameless people had already taken all of the 50 boxes of crawfish Ikea had for the event.

A lot of people ended up not getting any crawfish that day. It was truly a sad moment in history.

Ikea did offer to let us in to the regular food line and get whatever food we wanted. That was alright, but a swedish meatball just does not compare to a crawfish.

Anyways, my point is, I find it distasteful for my people to be so rude and classless. Just because its an all you can eat, does not mean you have to stand there and load up your cart like you are back in Vietnam. I would understand it more if it was a bunch of old Vietnamese people doing this, because people like my parents lived through starvation and war, but these young Vietnamese people should know better.

I love my crawfish and all, but you’ll never see me piling a cart full of crawfish while others are waiting in line behind me.

Maybe I am just bitter they took all my crawfish…

Check out this amazingly tall sprite they use for their emoticon.

It’s always interesting to me to learn how Google does their HTML. I am guessing they did a test and figured out this was more efficient and useful than using an animated GIF?

1. Because of a budget deficit, the crooks at the capitol decides to slash school funding
2. At schools, teachers are laid off, and programs are cut — beginning with non-essential classes like Music and PE.
3. Now the PE and Music teachers are out of a job. But because of seniority rules and the teachers’ union, they get to keep their jobs
4. So regardless of merit or credentials, the last teacher hired, is fired, to make room for the newly available PE and Music teacher

Now I don’t want to make any judgements or sweeping statement about merit or credentials, but give this a thought:

Someone who has taught Music or PE for the last 10 to 20 years will now come in to teach a 3rd grade multiple-subject class?

Here is also something else to think about: Because of school budget cuts, the school day is shorten. That means parents now have the responsibility of caring for those extra hours.

Cut back on work hours? Hire a private tutor? Send your kids to after school programs? Let them roam the streets?

All of those options will cost you, or even worse, society in the end.

Eat that.

But then I started dreaming about Mark Zuckerberg (the facebook guy) and how he is a self-made multi-billionaire in his twenties, and I couldn’t sleep anymore.

Now… I am not saying that making a lot of money is the only measure of success, because you can obviously be very successful in many other ways. I am also not saying that waking up early is a path to success, because I know plenty of late risers who are extremely smart and efficient. But for me personally, today, on my 27th birthday, I cannot sleep knowing that I am not yet successful — therefore I have failed.

Ok, before you get all riled up, I know that in virtually all other aspects of my life, I have been very successful and lucky. I have a beautiful and intelligent wife, a great family, good friends, a beautiful home, luxury vehicles, and so forth…

But here’s the thing. I like to set very high expectations for myself. When I look in the mirror, I don’t see any reason why Larry Page, and Sergey Brin are on the Forbes list, revolutionized the world, and I haven’t. I don’t need to be as successful as they are, but I have to be successful by own my measures. And as of today, on my 27th birthday, I am not.

This is not a post about self-pity, or taking for granted all the blessings in my life. It’s just a reminder to myself that every time a birthday comes, I have failed myself for one more year.

Well no worries. I will try to make my millions by this time next year.

Anyways, to the point of the story.

This person showed up on my search result as an OkCupid profile. So I was looking at their profile, pics, etc, when I noticed on the side it had “Similar Users”, and under one of the recommended girl’s profile, it said she was “more desiring of sex”.

Ok, I admit this is the 21st century, and we are supposed to be open and in touch with our sexually, and what not, but that caught me off guard.

From my previous reading on the OkCupid business model, I always thought they were a clean and fun dating site, but this “more desiring of sex” label made them seem just a tad bit like adultfriendfinder…

But who am I to question OkCupid. They are obviously a pioneer in their industry, and this may in fact be an awesome marketing/customer engagement plan. I am guessing its part of the analysis they make from all the answers people give them.

Anywho, I am writing about this because it doesn’t seem like there is a lot of mention on this topic via Google. If anyone has more information on this please share. I am especially interested if anyone knows if this is an effective marketing slogan, or useful in finding potential matches.

1. While this still works, visit: http://www.jailbreakme.com on your iPhone. Follow the instructions and jailbreak your iPhone
2. Once your phone has been jailbroken, open the “Cydia” app and search for “ultrasnow”. Install the ultrasnow app, which will unlock your iPhone.
3. Also in Cydia look for “MyWi” and install “MyWi 4.0″ – Sign up for MyWi, which will give you a 9 day free trial. MyWi will also install Rock app – ignore it for now. Note: Installing MyWi will reboot/crash a couple times — don’t panic, that’s just how it is.
4. Go back in Cydia –> manage –> packages –> MyWi and “remove” it.
5. Once MyWi is removed, go Cydia –> manage -> sources –> edit –> add and enter ‘http://elpelle6.com/repo’
6. Now search for “MyWi’ again, but this time, find the one that comes from ‘elpelle6′ and install that
7. Once MyWi – elpelle6 version has been installed, go back in Cydia and remove Rock App, the same way you removed MyWi earlier.
8. Hard Reboot your iPhone by holding down the button top of the iphone
9. You now have MyWi 4 – which you can use to create wireless connection to your computer for free internet tethering.

I know very little about iPhone exploits, so it has been small, tiny, baby steps for me.

So far, all I got is a parsed PDF file, with what seems like shellcode to exploit the PDF vulnerability:

http://gist.github.com/raw/505836/e96fcd42dee3cbc0da43054b1e910c04906053ad/gistfile1.txt

I’ve been reading a lot of articles about PDF exploits, including one to launch arbitrary programs, but this specific exploit involving an embedded PDF Type1c font, has not been documented on the internet. My goal, at the very least, is to figure out how to modify the affected PDF to show custom messages that I input.

I was up until 4am hammering at this, so if anyone out there has any links, tutorials, or suggestions let me know.

Can you please fix the damn site. That shit is always lagging, or down. You are making want to go to Home Depot!

Great site, solid features, but damn, just about every time I’ve wanted to browse your sites for products, it is dragging, or displaying system errors. Come on guys.

Sincerely,

Incompetent DIYer.

Unlike my wife, who insists on hoarding tons of heavy furniture and knick-knacks, I hate owning anything that I can not pick up with my bare hands (and trust me, I can’t pick up alot ).

I find it absurdly annoying that people, especially in offices, desire to have heavy wooden furniture that barely fits through doors, let alone carry down the stairs or shove into an elevator.

What is the benefit of owning big heavy furniture? Why can’t you just put your crap into a box so it would be easily portable?

Also, with the invention of computer technology, cloud storage, etc… why do we even need to keep files and folders around?

Having furniture to store shit is an archaic practice and we should stop going down that road.

“I hope I won’t regret eating this X day old Y”.

Replace X with an expiration time frame, and Y with a food item.

I just don’t get it.

If you are forcing yourself to eat old/expired food because you are on some sort quest to rid the world of hunger, I’ve got news for you… You, stuffing your face with spoiled Y (replace with food item), does not mean some poor kid in Africa will suddenly be full.

Same goes for people who forces themselves to finish a large quantity of food because their parents told them “not to waste food”. Once again, you, stuffing that last slice of pizza down your throat, is not going to help anyone. In fact, it’ll probably just end up as a health problem for you later down the road.

I guess it counts if, instead of buying a new Y (replace with food item), you eat the expired one to save yourself money, carbon foodprint, etc… then that’s a noble action. But then again, the noblest of action is just not to purchase that huge quantity in the first place?

Disclaimer: My wife will surely comment on how I am the biggest waster of food, and how I am hypocrite and I should shut up. Blah blah blah. Yes, I am a waster of food. But that’s not my point. My point is, people should not force themselves to eat spoiled food. It does not do anyone, any good.