MySpace July 6, 2007
Posted by Bobby in humor, myspace, social networking, social scene, technology.3 comments
I am 27 years old. I work full time as an assistant manager at Wendy’s in Oak Hill. I have a fairly large family, and many friends who are always there when I need them. I have 2 wonderful cats their names are Lily and Lulu, they are my joy. Life has dealt me some hard times, but the way I see it God doesn’t give us more than what we can handle, and what we can’t handle he takes the weight for us. I love having a good time and hanging out with my friends, but in the same sense I know when to be serious and act like a grown up. I am single, but not by choice I just haven’t found the right one for me.
I also love blinking gifs and annoying HTML.
PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!!
ShOuTz t0 mY GGGGGGRRRRRRRLLZZZZZZZZZZ********
Are you a good girl or a bad girl?
What does your birth date mean?
SONG HAS BEEN
Deleted by the Artist
The Muppet Personality Test
Kara has 943 friends (12 of which are real)
Top 36!
WARNING!
Tattoos make me horny!
Pour Some Sugar on Me
What Song Should You Strip To?!?
Status: Single
Orientation: Straight
Body Type: 5′5 – More to Love!
Religion: Taoist, or whatever other Eastern Philosophies come to mind
Zodiac Sign: Aries
Smoke/Drink: No/Yes
Children: I hate kids
Occupation: having fun!
Income: More than 500,000/year
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Summary of MySpace:
It used to be avoided by anyone that wears colored clothing. Now it’s like the local shopping center when you were 14: You know it’s shit, but all your friends hang there.
Allegedly is involved somehow with music (to be confirmed)
Gives college football coaches an easy way to talk to prospects without violating rules by writing nonstop on users’ comment walls.
Photoshopping for Free February 19, 2007
Posted by Bobby in college, technology.add a comment
Remember the awesome days of FILM? Taking pictures used to consist of snapping 30-40 candids, then delivering them to the corner store to be developed. There weren’t any previews; you were pretty much stuck with whatever the soft-spoken employee whipped out from the darkroom. Made people think twice about the scenes they shot.
Scanners were awesome, too. Mere mortals could not upload pics on a computer without one of those things. For some unknown reason my parents NEVER bought a scanner. I now own my first one at age 18, and I don’t even need it now. I don’t really take pictures, and digital cameras have rendered scanners somewhat unneccesarry for the common individual.
For my work, I need to deal with tons of pictures from various UCSB athletic events. Something you’ll catch me doing quite often is uploading pictures from CDs and media archives onto the athletics website. It has made me realize that even professional photographers take some really shitty photos every once in awhile. When there’s a good action shot with bad quality, there’s only one thing to do: Photoshop. Bobby the intern gets to fix Mr. Associated Press Photographer’s mess.
I kinda wish this program didn’t exist. Nowadays people take pictures, and the first thing they think is “whoaaaa i gotzta digitally enchance this shizz and put it on myspizzle.” Facebook is a little different, since other people are allowed to put pictures THEY took of YOU up. Adds a little accountability. None of this stuff existed before Photoshop and digital cameras.
Eventually someone needs to explain to me what the difference between “crop” and “trim” is. I usually use crop, since it’s more fun to say “I cropped a Cal Poly player out of this,” as opposed to “I trimmed a Cal Poly player out of this.” Other typical Photoshop shenanigans include re-sizing images to 150 pixels (or whatever pixelation you so desire), sharpening, and optimizing. All this makes me wonder what people had to do before Photoshop existed. Is there some way to digitally optimize a standard negative?
Even more ridiculous is Adobe’s price tag…. Photoshop CS2 (the version I’m using/learing to use) costs $649! Sure, it’s a pretty powerful program…. but having a suggested retail price of over $600 for a computer program is somewhat ridiculous, especially since it’s pretty easy to pirate a just-as-effective spin-off version for free.
Every once in awhile, there is some fun to be found screwing around with pictures. If you’re reading this, you probably know I’m a pretty big hockey fan. Check out the horrendous new logos the Buffalo Sabres are using this year:
Pretty ridiculous, right? I’m convinced that the Sabres franchise is guilty of copyright infringement. The logo was clearly stolen from the archives of Hanna-Barbera:
Photoshop, I commend thee
I Can’t Find the “Log” Button February 14, 2007
Posted by Bobby in college, math & relationships, romance, technology.3 comments
Who here likes Calculus? Yeah, didn’t think so. People who like calculus usually can’t speak (much less read) English, so even if one of those creatures happens to stumble upon this, they’ll have no idea what the hell is going on. Plus (pun intended), they won’t be able to interpolate in order to get an “accurate guess” of what I’m saying, either. No formulas, no shortcuts, no factoring-out the difference of two squares to simplify… only rock-solid reading comprehension skills will work out in this neck of the woods.
When I’m having personal problems, I have one best friend. Her name is TI-89 Titanium Edition, and I treat her with care and respect. In return, she provides me with all the answers I need. She’s always been there for me.
I was going to ask her to be my Valentine, but I was afraid I’d be rejected. This is my 18th year in a row without a Valentine, and I’m 18 years old. There’s no way she likes me; she’d rather hang out with the mechanical engineering guys. Supposedly those fellows always know the right buttons to push. I’m a little sloppy sometimes. Occasionally, my boo gets a tad frustrated when I cause a few too many syntax errors in one session. She’ll respond by giving me scientific notation, when what I really wanted was normal exponential format. Sometimes she won’t do anything at all, and, in desperation, I resort to using imaginary numbers. Alone.
Today was especially bad. When TI-90 and I got together, I quickly realized that her angle settings were in degrees instead of radians for some reason. I suspect foul play. I saw some strange biochem major screwing around with her f(x) settings earlier today. Some pretty weird graphs showed up during our time together. I’m not soo0o0o0 protective that I would care about f(x) settings…even friends mess around with those sometimes… but I can’t help but think that more was going on.
Plus, the curve in calculus courses is ridiculous, so I want everyone except for me to be stuck with a measley TI-83. I love unfair advantages. Screw you all.
Now I think I’ve had the final straw. I really need to have a chat with TI-89. This past evening, I started tackling some fairly basic logarithmic equations. This is stuff that even a below-silver edition piece of rubbish could easily accomplish. I barely even get started, when BAM! I realize that my calculator has no log key!
I began where one must always begin. EVERYONE loves doing this: I look at all the keys, and see no log. I look at all the blue “2nd” functions printed above the keys, and see no log. Next come the alpha functions, the “math” menu, various programs, etc. NOTHING! So it comes down to the last resort- manually scanning through the catalog of EVERY function the calculator is capable of performing.
I scan through the catalog and find a function entitled “logistic.” I know that this probably won’t work, but I try to put in “logisitc 7.”
“ERROR: too few arguments”
Who the hell likes to argue? “Escape” -> back to the catalog. This one looks better, it’s called “logbase” and it has an open parentheses right after. That means you’re supposed to put numbers in there. This is looking good.
I put two-and-two together (not literally) and reason that the “logbase” function requires you to enter the logbase, then a factor. Since I’m only using logs with bases of 10, I enter “logbase(10)(7)”
“ERROR: syntax”
Words straight from the devil’s mouth. Syntax errors are located in the 7th circle, right above the place where the demons throw people into tar pits. I think that was mentioned in the Fourth Canto.
Now I’m pissed and kinda wishing I had just stuck with the TI-83, since I know how to use one of those unbelievably well. Just ask my Algebra II teacher; he hated me since I would always show the dumb kids easy ways to solve problems using the hidden features of Texas Instruments. Math sucks, but calculator-skills are undoubtedly an art form. “Doing it in your head” should be reserved for other areas of life. I’m not deleting that last sentence. Hollister probably needs some more lewd t-shirt expressions, anyway.
So to everyone out there, Happy Valentine’s Day. Someone please find me a log table and a slide-ruler.
