Froyd's Rants

I just found out that APPARENTLY the universe and solar system don’t belong to anyone.

I call dibs on owning the Universe, the Solar system, and everything in it.

You all have 30 days to find a new universe to live in, I’m renovating this one.

I have noticed a disturbing trend on these interwebs of ours over the last few months. It seems like someone decided to let cultural ignoramuses loose upon the grammar of the internet.

Look, I forgive lolcats. I forgive 1337 speak. I even forgive txt language. What I refuse to forgive is the destruction of one or more syllables and replacing them with s. I call this Retrobraining. It happens when instead of coming up with a relatively new grammar (lolspeak or 1337 speak) or coming up with new names for the common sphere of idiocy that confounds the politicians (interwebs, internet, internetosphere, etc.), the brain of specific people seems to retrograde back to the brain size of other humanoid species on this planet (Apes, chimps, Valley girls). This retrobraining is stupid. For example:
Super + Retrobraining = Supes.
Totally + Retrobraining = Tots.

and the list can go on.

It’s time to stop the retrobraining habits people. It’s blatantly stupid. Or if it’s too late for that last phrase to make sense, it’s blats stupid. Damnit. Now I need to go play chess for five hours to make up for that example.

after having this netbook for over a week, I gotta say I love working on it. I’m listening to tunes, working on Kaplan stuff, have used it at school the last few days to get class and student situations figured out (this thing is much better to work on than the Ventura Office computer they gave us), and honestly, now that I’m used to both the keyboard and the smaller screen, I can’t say there’s a huge difference in working on this vs. my desktop.

Well, a difference in what it’s being used for: teaching. I did load a few games on this thing (Hey, I gots to be me), but those are mostly games from the good ol’ days. Battlechess, Cribbage, and Magic The Gathering.

Interesting story about Magic: The Gathering…the old mid 90′s version has the complete 4th edition on it, and I got the expansion pack that was released for it. I recall that the deal was that I’d help out around the house more often than I had been doing if my mother purchased the game. I cannot recall if I fulfilled that promise or not.

Anyways, this computer is actually a joy to work on. It doesn’t get too hot on my lap (like my old laptop), the fan isn’t loud and annoying, it is extremely portable, and it does everything with minimal difficulty.

Satisfied with it? So far so good. The way I figure it is that my last laptop was $2000, but this one has it beat in hard drive size, memory installed (still going to up it to 2 gigs in the future). Not quite a 1.7ghz processor, but at 1.6ghz for what I’m using it for, it does the job. Just shared memory for video, no complaints there. So this one cost $260 vs. $2000.

If anything goes wrong with this after 3 months, I figure it’s as large an investment as I made on my previous laptop.

I really have no reason to complain. I (heart) moore’s law.

it’s been one of those days.

finally helped my parents fix their webcam issues. w00t for registry editing!

The Conservative Bible Project aims to rewrite the bible by removing liberal bias.

This is sickening. I believe the bible is the God-breathed written witness to the acts of my God throughout the history of mankind.

To make the assumption that there is a “liberal” lean to a translation is heresy. If it is God-breathed in the original, it is, ipso facto, God breathed in the translation. There is a reason why everything is in there, and to assume that God would allow His word to be mis-aligned in translation is to assume that He really isn’t that worried about presenting the Truth.

These people make me sick to my stomach. They are giving conservatives a bad name.

We’ve settled on a defense date of November 14th, at 5PM. I’ll have info up here next week sometime re: a web conference should you be interested in observing.