Archive for the 'Rants' Category
Justification (a long one)
What is open mindedness? If you’re open minded, can you oppose others’ opinions? I’m trying to look at things openly and see truth, but when my own personal beliefs are called into question, I cannot just accept. Either I fight, or I push the opposing opinion away.
I’m sick of fighting.
I know and understand why people [...]
Posted on February 21, 2008 Filed Under Rants | Leave a Comment
it doesn’t feel the same
I’ve realized that the buildings are the same. The same red brick, white columns and windows, black roofs. The light posts are the same. The same black wrought iron curving in a swan neck at the top. The weather is the same. The same drizzling rain, heavy snow and fierce winds.
What’s different is everything else.
I [...]
Posted on February 18, 2008 Filed Under Rants | Leave a Comment
File Sharing Will Not Stop
It’s something the entertainment industry is going to need to learn really quickly. File sharing is not going to go away, no matter what they try to do about it. The ease at which a file can be shared is phenomenal. All it takes is one person to buy the CD, and [...]
Posted on January 28, 2008 Filed Under Rants | Leave a Comment
Open Source is Not Like a Wiki
I’ve met a few people who seem to have this sort of misconception about open source software. Basically, they think that because anyone can look at the source code for a program, then anyone can edit it, and insert potentially malicious or harmful code.
I can understand where this misconception comes from, but it’s completely [...]
Posted on January 23, 2008 Filed Under Rants | Leave a Comment
fuck UNH (schedule troubles)
okay, so as we all know, i’m leaving UNH (or trying hard) next fall. still, i have a semester to go and i want it to be as painless as possible for me. i.e. i’m not going to worry about fulfilling UNH’s gen-ed requirements because if i get into the U of R, none of [...]
Posted on January 5, 2008 Filed Under Rants | Leave a Comment
Christmas Time (Bah Humbug)
Work was torture today. There is nothing in the world worse than working retail during the holiday rush.
It also made me think a little bit about how diluted the idea of Christmas has become. I hate how it’s almost mandatory to go and spend yourself into debt in order to…I’m actually not [...]
Posted on December 23, 2007 Filed Under Rants | Leave a Comment
writer’s strike
Let’s be rational.
If you spend the first 20 something years of your life trying to get the knowledge necessary to make a living, you might expect to receive compensation for the good or service you give back to society in return for the thousands of dollars you spent those first 20 something years. You [...]
Posted on November 29, 2007 Filed Under Rants | Leave a Comment
