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October 16, 2009.

Apple versus Windows.

This is the battle that must be waged for what will be my next laptop computing machine. There are many arguments for each:

Apple: Fancy OS, Less viruses, Beautiful screens and graphics

PC: Better programs, Practical for business school (down the line), Already know how to kick ass on one

With this new Confider virus popping up on April 1 (look it up), it's just another example of how PC's will always be the first target. And also reinforces my half-baked desire to develop the most crippling Apple virus EVER to take down those pretentious effers.

I say that, but there are 6 Macs and 2 PC's in the house and they are pretty fancy. But in the end, I think I will go the way of Evil and stay with the PC... mostly because a comparable laptop is about $800 cheaper if it doesn't have that that stupid half-eaten apple on the cover.

But then again...

It's here, but I suggest clicking the link instead and watching it full screen in high quality. It's about 26 minutes, so settle in for something visually unique and fresh.

The following one sentence description will either inspire you to watch it, or inspire you to gloss over the rest of this post: "Nominated for an Oscar and for a BAFTA award, Jasper Morello is a short feature made in a unique style of silhouette animation developed by director Anthony Lucas and inspired by the work of authors Edgar Alan Poe and Jules Verne. "

Enjoy. The Mysterious Explorations of Jasper Morello

I just spent 4 hours trying to find a better Blogger template...

... and realized that I:

a) know nothing about coding
b) don't have the patience to learn how to do coding or programming
c) found out that XML and HTML are very different and not very compatible
d) need to spend more time doing things not on a computer.

Damnit.

So... lately I've just been getting dumb. Can't think of the word I wanna use, phrases just... don't make sense, can't convey myself. It's most likely a combination of not writing on this thing and not picking up a book in quite sometime. Well, I did pick up one book...

... and that would be the textbook for the Essentials of Business class. This was a fucking joke. I have never been more bored in a class and learned so little. The thing that made it so frustrating is that I actually spent money on this class, so that I can attempt to get into a MBA program down the line. INSTEAD, there was a midterm that ended up being a take home, a paper I had to dumbdown to get to the page maximum and a final that was catered by delivery pizza and non-cumulative. Fantastic. And now that it's over, I've reached this point in class schedule that the only options available are online. And Statistics or Microeconmics taken through an online course probably isn't gonna cut it for the whole learning thing. And learning about business leads me into...

... AIG bailout money. This is extremely frustrating to me. Why? Not because I think "taxpayer bailout money shouldn't be paid to those crooks" or whatever knee jerk reaction some tool on CNN says. But because Andrew Cuomo is trying to write his political ticket on making those "AIG bastards" give back there bonuses. But let's see here, why are they getting bonuses? Well, because THEY HAVE CONTRACTS. It's not the situation that cable news stations are trying to paint where the CEO of AIG aka Nazi Mussolini is giving the stolen piggy bank of little Timmy to his Finance minions of Hell for a job well down extorting and stealing money from Grandma Beatrice who was saving up that money to make an afghan for her daughter-in-law. Instead, you know what it is? A FUCKING CONTRACT. And if the government can just start voiding contracts (regardless of where the money came from), then this leads to a slippery slope (sorry for the philosophy term) of the government canceling anything they don't agree with down the line. There's a great New York Times article about this here: The Case for Paying out Bonuses at A.I.G. Pull-out quote: