BMXer, Laptop Configurer, and One Hell of a Model American. (rant alert)
All Iz gotta say is. It’s been real.
Me homies and me have been kickin’ it fresher-than-da-mornin style at Broome Skate Park with our disco-fly bmx bikes and I gots to be sayin, it beatz dyin’.
She’s on Googlemaps. Check it out. FYI: Street View works there too, if you’re keen to see it from street view.
I’m writing this post on my, uh… OUR new laptop. I’ll post it when I get home, in range of a wifi con. I’ve dragged all 1kg of it down to the bike hire trailer, so I’m very tempted to tell you about the YUPPIE SCUMBAGS who were asking about my bikes, then asked me, almost accusingly if “it’s always like this” in Broome.
They’re referring to the first overcast day in 6 months and are like “oooh, typical!” when they heard that their extremely important asses came to Broome when it’s overcast. IT’S 30 DEGREES AT 9:30AM YOU FUCKHEADS! It’s fucking paradise. I nearly smacked her when she said with this grimace on her face “It’s like Cairns!”. Yeah, how awful for you. Cable Beach Club wankers.
I’m jolly happy to be back on Linux as I’m a glutton for punishment and conflicting dependencies. The Acer Aspire One (Let’s just call it AAO from now on, even though an AAO search on google will only yield Americas Army Online, but that’s another story. Guess they didn’t want to refer to their game as “AA” for mildly obvious reasons.) runs on – wow, that was a big bracketed section – Linpus, which seems to be a lite distroy, um, distro, of Fedeora Core 7 or 8, most probably 8.
It has a couple of minor bugs which can be fixed using the updater, which itself has a few bugs which fixed themselves after I tried to fix them and failed. The updater has a problem, where it won’t update. Ok, I’m going to bore most of you on this rant but I thought the linux people, and people who like teasing linux will get a kick out of it.
I go to run Pidgin (multiple network messaging client, aim, msn, yahoo etc) and it tells me “Our network protocol is not supported on the server”. Hmm, I think. Fuck, I say. I like how it brings ME in on this as well like we’re all in it together with the use of the word “we”. Using personal Pronouns in “oops, I’ve fucked up” messages doesn’t make me feel special, nor does it bond me with the computer. I’ll have it to use them at work. “Hey Dundee, We’ve accidentally burned the trailor down when we were playing with matches near the INOX”. Nice.
I do a litte epic search on a search engine. You know, those things you use to search the internet with, to which there are many many many, not just the one search engine? Remember they days when people had their FAVOURITE search engine? Mine was Infoseek because it let you ’search within your results’. Remember when Yahoo! search was cool because it was a stupid word and displayed a little spunk? Remember? It wasn’t a major sellout take over your anus corporation? Remember when Google was just ONE of the search engines, which you used for certain things?
You know WHEN google became massive? Remember? You people out there who were using the internet to breathe before it became cool with fucking FACEBOOK and MySpace and all that useless shit? You’ll all remember! Back in the days where the INTERNET WAS FOR REAL GEEKS and “Networking Solutions” had something to do with Cat5 cable, and not having the ability to find out if someone’s been hanging with someone and to piss on peoples walls etc? WHEN IT ACTUALLY MEANT SOMETHING, AND WAS COOL IF YOU HAD YOUR OWN WEBSITE???? AAAAHH!!!!!!!!111eleventyone111!!! BACK IN THE DAY WHEN I ONCE SAW A DUDE WEARING A TSHIRT WITH “: )” ON IT AND I THOUGHT “WHOAH! ANOTHER mIRC USER! I WONDER IF HE USES AUSTNET!) AND I HAD TO EXPLAIN TO THE PEOPLE I WAS SITTING WITH WHAT THE FUCK IT MEANT! BACK IN =THOOOSSE= DAYS? HELLO? AM I GOING FUCKING MENTAL? AM I THE ONLY COOL PERSON LEFT IN THIS WORLD? WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THE REAL COOL KIDS? GEOCITIES? SUNSET STRIP? STUDIO? RINGING ANY BELLS? WhEn TyPinG lIke tHis waS coOolL?
REMEMBER WHEN GOOGLE BECAME MASSIVE? =IMAGE= =SEARCH=.
That’s right, when Google released one of their first, and coolest search engine upgrades, which now it has hundreds probably, the Image Search made it a cut above the rest. Why?
=PORNOGRAPHY=
Yes! You could go to Image Search, turn off Moderate Safe Search and search for “SSBBW” or “Tranny Half n Half” or “Emily18″, “Tiffany Teen”, “Stephanie Swift”, “Next Door Nikki”, “lil laura”, “Jill Brighton” or any more I don’t care to list knowing about off the top of my head and get reams and reams of FREE PORN! (Man, my hits are going to go through the roof this month LOL!)
So when you pseudo intellectual WANKERS, thinking you’re clever for saying “Google me!”, know you’re a scumbag, floating in a congieled fatty crust on the pond where a fucking awesome place once stood.
But I digress… Where was I?
Ooh yes. I do a little search on HotBot, or was that MetaCrawler? I can’t remember which, actually, I think it was Google. Yes, it was google. I do a little search on google to locate the cause of this problem, which aparantly, running the AAO’s live update would fix the problem as MSN changed the protocol after the AAO was released and therefore, the Pidgin client wouldn’t log on without an update.
Cool, but what’s this? The updater isn’t working? Hrmm. Looks like ACER changed their LiveUpdate method from FTP to HTTP and since my LiveUpdate was trying to open an FTP connection, that fudged my bucket right up my chute for getting an update to fix this.
Hours later, after visiting many a website, then even going as low as to visit the ACER website, it fixed itself and downloaded an update for the updater, by itself. W00T!
All is fair in love and linux. And now, the AAO is running smoothly and all updated in it’s happy little self. Shit, I’m sobering up from my rant now and I think I maybe went too far but in true Beat Generation (argueably, there was no actual Generation, or a Beat ‘movement’ even, but it’s the recognised nomenclature for Kerouac and his merry men… arguably not men either. Hello? Ginsberg? A ringin any bells?… Wait fuck. I digressed again.) as I was saying, but in true Beat Generation fashion, no editing will be allowed.
Adios amigas. Will have some pics of the laptop coming up as soon as I can be bothered. Which means probably Saturday. Alternatively, you can go to google, click “Image Search” and search for Acer Aspire One. Shit, I’m redundant now-a-days anyway. Infact, instead of me posting any more photos, just fukn ‘google’ whereever we are and then search “The Red Baron” and “Handsome Gentleman” and boom, you get the gist of it. I quit.
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