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Name: Chris
Country: United States
Gender: Male
Interests: Digital Music Production, Cinematography, Photography, Unreal Tournament, Electronica
Expertise: Electrical Engineering, Photography, Philosophy
Occupation: Engineering
Industry: Computers (Hardware)
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Member Since:
10/19/2003
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| Speaking in variables.
"When someone says something to you, and you know that that thing which
you heard could be socially crippling to someone else, should you keep
in what you heard or should you tell the person targeted?"
This is what we call a roundabout statement. Usually, it is intended to
be understood only by those in the know, or sometimes it can be used to
indirectly answer questions. True, it makes sense, but basically, it's
passive, boring-ass blogging. Therefore, let me redesign the above
statement to be more readable.
"My friend just told me something really bad about a close pal of mine.
Man was it rotten! I'm torn between keeping it a secret or letting my
close friend know. What do you think I should do?"
This is the exact same statement. It is easier to read and is more
inviting. Agreed? Good, knew you would. I despise it when people "speak
in variables." It's like they want to get your answer without asking
you the question. It rips away your vote of confidence in them because
it's like "dude i can't actually tell you anything because i don't trust that you'll answer right if i do." Yuck. SO, here's another juicy example:
"If you are a very close friend of someone, and that someone starts to do something that is more or less societally unacceptable, would you still support that friend or would you try to make him or her change, or would you just disown that friend"
Once you hear someone say that, you've got like 10 things running through your head.
-"who the hell is this someone? YOU???"
-"what the hell is this societally unnaceptable crap?"
-"are you hiding something?"
-"you really thought this one out didn't you."
-"how am I supposed to know?"
-"it depends what you mean..."
-and four more things.
Now, let's say that someone is your close friend Bob. He just asked you the very same question, except here's how he said it:
"Chris, man, my friend Jill just smoked a joint last night. I don't know what to do... i think she's cool and all but i'm just not sure how to handle this."
And... bingo. I can answer this question a little more accurately than
before. You know why? Yeah you guessed it... ALL THE VARIABLES HAVE
VALUES!! Now, let's really look at this mathematically (you can go do
something else now if you like, but this is interesting to me). We're
going to refer to the pre-Bob form.
"If Z a very close friend of X, and X starts to
do activity Y that is more or less BAD, the solution is A, B, or C" >>> F(X,Y,Z)=A or B or C.
if you're given X, Y, and Z, you can pretty much know the answer. So:
Z = Chris
X = Jill
Y = smoke a joint
and the answer would clearly be B (arbitrarily chosen). clearly you're
wondering why Z would be anyone other than yourself. The answer
is: knowing the questioner speaks in variables, he or she may or
may not want you to answer the problem using someone else's thinking.
but if you still have X, Y, and Z as variables, well you pretty much
have no freaking clue what the hell the answer is. In speaking, even 1
variable left undefined can pretty much make it impossible to answer a
question (or know that is going on).
SO to all of you people out there who "speak in variables" (X), you
need to go do something (Y) to yourself with a sharp object (Z). And
call me when you get back, I love our little visits. Ta ta!
x = leafers
y = fornicate
z = iron stick
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| Found this one on stephanie's livejournal...
How to make a fucktard
Ingredients:
5 parts stupidity
1 part crazyiness
8 parts microsoft
Method:
Layer ingredientes in a shot glass. Add a little cocktail umbrella and a dash of emotion | | |
| - Answer Lies WithinWho the heck uses this thing? I'll tell ya who. Lots of people. And so,
to impress you geeks out there, here is a techical readout of my
computer's guts:
3.46 GHz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition (512k L2, 2mb L3, 1066mhz FSB)
2 GB DDR2 PC4200 RAM (4-4-4-8, dual channel)
ATI Radeon X800XL 256MB
Intel 925XECV2 Motherboard (1066 FSB, 4 SATA, PCI-express, crazy other good shit)
MGE Quantum case (a very nice black case, looks kinda like a subwoofer)
21.3" Samsung SyncMaster 213T
Logitech MX Duo
Harman-Kardon SoundSticks
Some crazy DVD burner with dual layer and rewritable capabilities
And a couple dinky 120 GB hard drives.
Things I'm gonna get someday:
SoundBlaster Audigy 4 Pro
Klipsch ProMedia Ultra 5.1 speakers
Three WD Raptors (74 GB, 10000 rpm)
Raid 10 controller
engagement ring
wedding ring
diapers
cradle
lots more diapers
oh wait, a house
a job?
hee hee
any suggestions?
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| Xanga is such an ancient tool. But blessed is he who fears not the technological abyss that is xanga. A gem for all who browse... or not! | | |
| Apparently I have a pretty "hot" eye, according to some random girl on that big website "TheFacebook". I must say that I have to respectfully disagree, since Carol has eyes that are way hotter than mine  . Just for fun, I've put a picture of my eye here so that you can make your own judgements regarding my aqueous humor.
From December 11 to January 16th is my Christmas break. I'm nearing the end of it, but I'm still having all sorts of fun. Many wonderful things have happened to me, along with some not-so-wonderful things (well just one thing really), but for the most part, I gotta say this has been the best break ever, and I anticipate that future breaks will be equally if not more exciting.
I am assuming that you probably are just dying to hear about what I got for christmas. There is a slim chance that you do not know what I recieved, since I have been loudly proclaiming this stuff obnoxiously to everyone i know... or not? Anywhoo, I got a new lens for my Digital Rebel. 75-300mm zoom telephoto. It's like looking through a telescope - its ridiculously fun. I also got DDR MAX 2, one of my fave ddr games. On the 4th birthday of my first power mac, I bought myself an iPod Photo 60GB, which i completely think is the best mp3 player in the entire world, bar none. The most amazing gift i recieved, though, was from my uncle who works at intel. I recieved a cardboard box. I just loved the texture. This box was filled with packing peanuts. Man I love those. Inside the box was a small box. mmmm so cool. and there was a bigger box with writing on it. Loved the colors. But what was contained in these smaller boxes is what really rocked. I got an intel 925XE motherboard (that's the best motherboard intel makes for high performance gaming) and a pentium 4 extreme edition cpu running at 3.46 GHz (that's the most powerful gaming cpu that intel makes). WOW. my computer flies through cpu-intensive tasks at this point. for example, I can complete a SETI@Home work unit in about 2 hours, which is ridiculously fast.
Presents don't really make the break, though they do tend to amplify it. The real treasure is in hanging out with all those people you never see while you're at college. I have spent almost every waking hour hanging out with somebody. And I've spent a lot of time hanging out with my dearest Carol, just having all kinds of good fun. I've also spend a lot of time being tired from not sleeping right. whoops.
I need to reorganize my brain, since I'm going mad at this moment. And break isn't ever really over! bwahahaha. "What do I look like?" "Don't worry, I'm a doctor." "Did you hear that?" "Let's not go there" "BUMPS!" | | |
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