Optimus awesome-us

It’s Latin for optimal awesomeness, and it
describes what I’d like to do in college and beyond.
As mentioned on my “About” page, I want to go to MIT. Not mentioned in my about page (until now, just updated) is that I also want to work at Google.

Why Google?
Location
For one, their offices in Cambridge are less than [...]

Firefox is screwed up…

It seems a lot of people have had this problem.
Firefox, the worlds best browser has been screwed up. Mozilla released 2.0.0.6. My add-ons are screwed up.
For you Opera, Safari, and Flock users (and the IE suckers), what is happening is that Fox is saying that the add-on will be installed (I already installed it!) and [...]

The Most Random Thought I’ve Ever Had

I want to get enough money to get made
diamond-encrusted gold glasses in the most nerdy shape possible.
I’d then get two rings of 1,024 karat gold. Printed on them are the words “on” and “rails” in rubies.
I’d get a solid-diamond necklace. It’d be in the shape of a keyboard. And it’d be a functional keyboard (PS/2 [...]

The XML power of CSS

Over at Tizag Tutorials, I
was fooling around with CSS and figured something out. It’s probably well-known, but CSS can allow you to declare your own tags.
Example: highlighted text has a yellow background. So,
highlight { background-color: yellow; }
Then <highlight> and </highlight> are how you use the tag. Incorporate that into a template stylesheet and BOOM! semi-xml! [...]

I never thought I’d see the day. God help us all.

What have they done?!?!
I’ve played videogames where I checked email, yeah. But not email where I had to play a videogame!
Imagine this exchange:
Bob: Hey, Bill, did you get my message? We changed the time of the bowling game.
Bill: Yeah, I played your message. It was a half-naked girl in a [...]

Want to see something

My stats lean to that
people actually visit my blog! Egad!
If you’re visiting regularly, tell me where you found out, why you like my blog, and whether or not you’re subscribed to my RSS feed.
Short post, I know. But I’m real curious.
Please comment or email me.
Thanks for reading!
Sam

The right way to install Vista

Fastest installation I’ve seen…

Whoo! That’s a nice system. B-e-a-utiful!
In all seriousness: don’t buy Vista! Linux is the best PC OS and so many distros to choose from.
Linux DistroWatch
Sincerely,
Sam

Alyson Stoner, what have you done? A star in serious need of a good nerd.

 
IT BURNS! Alyson Stoner’s website is a site
to make sore eyes. Using a remotely hosted blogging platform (who uses Blogger on their site anyway?) and too much Flash (not even a Low-Fi version available) and little to no scripting, it makes a mockery of a website….but, I don’t blame her.
I blame the de-de-de behind the [...]

It’s nerdy, it’s a video, it’s a must-see

Dell is putting Linux in, yes I knew that, but

You really have to be a Linux geek to understand.
Firstly, there’s penguins everywhere. Tux the penguin is the mascot for the Linux kernel.
People are waddling around like penguins. First one is guy behind Debian waddling in right doors.
Some people are wearing black [...]

Chester Cheeto, you piece of crap racist!

I just saw a newish Cheeto commercial and man
am I mad! It’s so racist!
First of all, people listening to Spanish music. This is freaking America! I find that offensive, but not racist, per se.
My problem is with the two floors this idiot goes to next (after burning holes in floors from eating … cheetos?). He [...]