Critical Mass

Wow, I don't know what I should focus on for this one. First off, bikers in the city are totally lame. Now, of course there are the ones who ride properly and don't blatantly ignore traffic laws, but that is not the majority of bikers. Critical mass is the mass (duh) gathering of bikers who act like jerks, block countless amounts of traffic, and disrupt the normal flow of things. Why do they do this? To show that bikes are just as important as cars, and that they're not an inconvenience to people. Seriously? I would elaborate more on this topic, but you all know how terrible critical mass is.

School Contests

My college is currently having a contest online, to see who can define what Columbia College of Chicago looks like when it's at its best. So many people wrote so many ridiculous, haughty, over the top idiotic nonsensical responses. This one guy went on and on about it being a fillet Mignon. Seriously? So many people tried being so artsy about it, saying things like "it's such an enriching bastion for creativity and change". Give me a break. Here's what I entered for the contest.

Columbia at its' best is a very odd term to try and understand. What is Columbia, other than a motley assortment of partly rundown buildings strung throughout the south loop, furnished with some top of the line equipment? That is of course besides the Macs, because macs are terrible. If we look at Columbia as a collection of people, there is no doubt that it is a collection of skilled and talented minds, that is of course when we strictly view the faculty in charge of teaching. When we look at Columbia as a collection of students, however, we see an entirely different world. We see students who go out at least twice a week, get high and get wasted, and then recant their stories of drunk driving, intoxicated sex, and other shenanigans, and display pride in themselves for this behavior. They wear mismatched clothing articles that would never go together and call it style. They act like their style is individualistic and new, even though every person around them is doing exactly the same thing. They speak of bands and musicians that are so "underground" and fresh, and that they've been a fan from the start, even though tons of people have heard of that band and they've been a fan from the start too, that or the band is terrible and it's no wonder why nobody has ever heard of them. You find a group of liberal thinkers who say that they are ahead of the curve, and that they are so forward in their ways, even though they are more bigoted then those they claim to be. They speak out against the government and others in charge, and they know nothing of what they say. When you look at the students of Columbia at its' best, you find a muddled pile of confused and obtuse individuals who have no direction or pull over their own person or life. Columbia, a soulless shell of a haven for every misunderstood artist under the sun.

Let's hope honesty goes rewarded here.

Dane Cook

MACS ARE WORTHLESS

Why Macs are worthless
A simple technological explanation as to why Macintosh computers are nothing more than overpriced paperweights.

Let’s first start with the fact that the price of an iMac is 1,500 dollars, base. That’s with no upgrades, installed programs, or extra features or accessories. Let’s take a closer look though, at why they are completely worthless merely for the fact that you can get a better PC for far less.
To do this we are simply going to post a parts list for a different PC build with nearly the same parts such as ram speed and processor type, with the only difference being the amount of ram and speed of the processor, and different parts obviously. The main factor is that it is still an intel core 2 duo LGA 775 socket system. Let’s begin shall we?

ASUS P5E3 WS PRO LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX Intel Motherboard - $200

Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 Wolfdale 3.33GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor - $270

Kingston HyperX 8GB (4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 Desktop Memory - $210

Thermaltake W0116RU 750W Modular Power Supply Unit - $120

Sony Optiarc DVD Burner with LightScribe Black SATA Model LightScribe Support - $34

Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - $100

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - $90

XFX HD-577A-ZNFC Radeon HD 5770 (Juniper XT) Video Card – $175

Hanns·G HG-281DPB Black 28" 3ms Widescreen LCD HDMI Monitor - $310

Logitech 920-000021 Black USB Standard Access Keyboard 600 - $25

Logitech M500 Tilt Wheel USB Corded Laser Mouse - $40

Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit 1-Pack for System Builders - $190

Total Cost: $1,764

iMac total cost: $2,249

That does of course reflect the cost of having a lower model graphics card with less ram on it and a 3” smaller screen than the one we have selected for our pc.

That part list is definitive proof that you can build a much better system AND get the input devices to go along with it at a much lower cost than it would be to simply buy an iMac.

Oh, I also forgot to mention one things that’s always bothered me about the iMac. You have to have an external amplifier to use the microphone input port. WTF? I have NEVER seen that in any computer in my entire life. What a worthless machine.

So there you have it folks, ultimate proof that unless you need to use ONE piece of video editing software that is only on Macs, they are completely worthless. They don’t magically perform any better than pcs simply because they’re Macs, they crash and freeze when working with memory and cpu intensive programs such as those in the adobe CS4 suite just as often as pcs do, if not more from what I’ve seen.

Also, if you were planning on spending 2,249 dollars on that iMac, and don’t mind spending the extra 485 dollars you’d save getting the pc part list I put together, you could throw in a pretty sweet sound card and/or a kick ass surround sound system to go along with it all.

Do note that I did leave shipping costs out of both of these equations as well.

So I really do hope I’ve provided more than enough information to prove to you my point.

Macs are worthless

Megan Fox is ugly

Megan Fox has a giant freaking madams apple. She has a stupid half open mouth constantly coupled with this blank horse face that just makes her look like an idiot. She is a horrible actor, and she has only one stupid tone that she uses every time she speaks. It's like trying to play a timpani part on a pair of bongos, it sounds terrible and doesn't work. This post has been long overdue, and I have only waited so long because I wanted the impact of how truly terrible transformers 2 was to fully sink in. That being said, I'm not done with Michael bay yet.

Transformers 2 SUCKED`

This has to be one of the worst pieces of cinematic garbage I have EVER had the misfortune of seeing at a midnight showing. Mind you, I went to the midnight showing of SNAKES ON A PLANE, and if forced to watch either Transformers 2 or SOAP? You'd better bet your butt I'd be less sick and tired of those snakes on that plane than those incomprehensible heaps of metal nonsense. My three main complaints, which I feel are also the biggest sour point in this film, are the incredibly base and lewd jokes and humor, the lack of connection to any characters, and the lack of any story telling. Actually, allow me to add a fourth, the horrible make you want to vomit diarrhea camera work that plagues this entire film. Not to mention that this movie is two and a half hours long although half way through it already feels like it's been three hours. I'm just gonna cut it off right there, this movie is terrible, I'm never going to watch either the first or the second ever again and I will not be seeing any more that they are going to inevitably make. Two thumbs down, no stars, do not go and see this film EVER.

Imposters and identity theft.

Impersonations are cool as long as they are done for comedic or satirical purposes, for the most part. There is a point however where these things cross over into the border of identity theft. It's like famous people who have a twitter account that's supposedly theirs, even though they have somebody else update it for them acting like them. Or that guy who claimed to be Kanye West and said something hilarious about something that was said about him, it was funny but it wasn't right. I think that people who do these sorts of things should be sent to jail. It's like me making a myspace page for George W. Bush and doing things on it that just mock him and make him look like a fool. Seriously though, if you see things like this you should be more concerned, because you never know when it's going to happen to you.