stupid shit

Fuck you India Auto

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:27:20 GMT

I have been in India for about a week now. I just had a very rough night. I was out with a friend and I was feeling tired and wanted to head back home. My friend flagged an "Auto" for me, a yellow three-wheeled scooter with a bench to sit, and top. He negotiated the price down to 130 rupees, and I headed off from his area in Guampali to Kondapur where I am staying.

Ok, so I should have known, we should have known, but I took the cab anyway. Even as the cab arrived I had an ominous feeling. It was painted in some kind of festive/pagan looking figures and had tinted windows. The Auto looked rougher than most I'd taken the time to examine. 130 ruppees seemed like a pretty good deal to get from one side of town to the other for an American anyway.

The driver had a passenger, they seemed like good friends with each other. They laughed and giggled like school kids. They were kids. My driver was a child. A crazy rebellious child. U American? the friend says. Yes.

It started out driving on the wrong side of the road, they sped down the wrong side of the road, moved into the right lane.   This kid was fast. I started by compaining, you guys are driving crazy, I giggle. Then the driver's friend says giggle, Yes, he is very fast! giggle. Fast! Pats his friend on the back. His name is dolagara. What's your name? Steven What's your name? Rolda. What's your name? Ralph!, I say realizing he made up the names. I am joking he giggles.   The engine stops, they start it back up.

Ok, they continue, the kid shuts off his engine while riding down the road, effectively reducing his breaking power. The car slides down the hill, he continues to slide. I'm like, no break? A chorus of giggles. U American? 5 buck! giggle. 5 buck!! I say, You guys are full of shit. Pull over I say. They ignore me, and continue the descent.

They continue the rampage, now the driver swerve's toward people and swerve's away, several times this happens. These children are taunting death.   Now I begin to really complain, what is wrong with you, you are driving crazy! giggle giggle.

They start and stop the engine several times, there car sometimes goes excessively slow and other times very fast downhill in neutral with the engine off. I begin to wonder if we are running out of gas.

The death cruise sweeps down the hill further, at this point I am losing my shit. I say pull over, pull over, over here, left, left, over here, pull over, pull over, Pull over now! Fucking pull over. What the fuck is wrong with you!!! You cannot drive like this! Pull the fuck over!!!! FUCKING PULL OVER!! AARGGH!!! PULL OVER!! They turn around look scared, and finally pull over. My screaming freaked them out. These are little kids after all. Reality hits them, this is fucking scary what the hell did they think they were trying to do.

Ok, they finally pull over. I get out.   They look perplexed. I walk away. They follow in the cab. Sir let's go, get back in the Auto. FUCK YOU! Do you understand? FUCK YOU!   STOP FUCKING FOLLOWING ME. I walk against traffic. They follow me against traffic. The friend gets out of the car, and tries to grab me and put me in the car. I call my friend, immediately start telling him the number of the cab. I hang up accidentally, I call back, and explain what's happening. He's worried for me. I'm not exactly sure where I am I tell him, now he's really worried. The kids keep following me backwards forwards. Now they start saying SORRY SORRY SORRY WE ARE SORRY.. SORRY SORRY SORRY.   Please get in. Yes, I understand you are just kids, you are young and crazy you want to go crazy and drive crazy that's up to you, but me, I'm not interested in being part of that. So you go do that on your own. They continue to follow, now I keep repeating their cab # on the phone, and the friend realizes it, and covers up the cab # with his hand. But I already have it memorized. I would be amused if I wasn't so upset. Then I say, I am going to report you, and walk away. They do not follow me. Maybe they had problems starting their car. I'm trying to get my bearings and walk down the street to find a place I can tell my friend I'm at. Finally I get to Barista, a coffee shop, and walk inside, ask them where I am, and tell my friend. He's on his way. I order a Chai Masala and Chocolate cake, and go to sit down and wait for it (they heat up cake in India so it will take a while), and who's there entering the store. Those damn kids! They convince the gaurd to let them pass, and make their case to the people at the shop. Now I have to defend my case. Back and forth we go. I then report them to the staff. Then one of the Barrista employees mediates. Whole thing repeats, I try not to curse or get upset. Be cool, the Barrista employee says. They want me to pay the 130 rupees. I refuse. Back and forth we go. The kids go around the shop, people feel bad for them, I mean after all they are just children. One of them says this, they have no future, they are just kids. Now it dawns on me, I am so stupid, I should have known not to let a child drive me to my place. What was I thinking? I still refuse, these kids are fucking stupid, they need a lesson. The mediator says pls obey them. I say no way! Be cool he says. The kids ask to talk to my friend, they say, they know he is coming, so when he comes we'll talk to him. They claim that they don't know any English, and that was the cause for confusion. Now at this I have a laugh. I say, how did the kids know my friend was coming, if they don't understand any English. The mediator asks them this, and they stumble. I say if the kids want their money they should call the police. They do know English, at least they know it well enough to know when someone asks them to slow down. Most Auto drivers know it well enough for that. The mediator asks that I pay them 30 to 50 ruppees and they will go away. I say no, but I'm getting worried, theses kids are not going away, and I am afraid that when my friend comes the whole scene will repeat. I agree to pay them 30 and extend the money, they say no 50!, I pull away, and then they accept. Good for them. Then they apologize in Hindi, they had said SORRY so many times. I am not interested, but am pressured into accepting their apology, so I shake the driver's hand. Then the friend shakes my hand and tries to do a secret handshake. What a crazy kid! I laugh. These kids are something else.

Hyderabad, specifically.

i'm purple!

Mon, 11 Oct 2004 10:54:30 GMT

You are purple. What a romantic person you are.
You're sentimental and forward-looking (those
are opposites.). You're a sophisticated and
refined--with a refind taste for chocolates and
wine (yum...). Tempermental and moody, you let
people know when you're angry. But other
times, you just sit and sulk. Alone. When
around people, you're a generous person, with
insatiable needs. You're a starving artist,
basically. You're enjoy getting into debates
over politics and religion with people of the
same intelligence of you. But you know they
can never convince you otherwise, you stubborn
person, you. As a unique person you are (not
to mention just a tad bit eccentric...), you're
well-liked by either a few people, or too many
people...

What color are you? (Amazingly detailed & accurate--with pics!)
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Top 5 Possessions

Mon, 04 Oct 2004 09:46:01 GMT

The top 5 things I want are:

1. BMW M4
2. Tempurpedic King Size Bed
3. Asus Laptop
4. Aeron Chair + Scientist's Desk
5. a full T3 line for 3 years

what is the cost of all this? i dunno but i think it's under $200k.

sealand

Sun, 03 Oct 2004 02:45:34 GMT

i was setting up an e-gold (http://www.e-gold.com) account today, and remembered sealand for some reason.

looks like havenco (http://www.havenco.com) called it quits last year.

I always thought sealand was a real island, but it is actually a tower that is built upon a purposefully sunken ship by the english.

it is the size of a basketball court and it is ugly as fuck.

i guess anyone who can build a tower in the sea in international waters, can have their own country.

here are some pictures...

http://kim.nyclondon.com/sealand.html

havenco was actually located in one of the pillars.

here's the guy who founded sealand and left: http://www.venona.com/rdl/

hmm

Sat, 02 Oct 2004 01:52:25 GMT

just got back from the baking co.

after spending time incubating and developing the order management system for toydalwave.

J came by with a check today; good thing too, The rent is due. J has gone to Cali to pick up a new car.

saw J4 again, he's really into free software!

later on saw a group of "cool boys." these boys were pretty hot shit. it looked like an http://www.urbn.com catalog. this made me sad and self-hating.

realized i could embed the cms into the cms for multi-table edits by making the cms class (which generally exists for each table) detect whether it is being commanded and also for it to detect whether it should call _super_main( ) or _embed_main( ) from main( ).

i suppose i will be implementing this tonight; some friday night? eh?

attractive women with drugs are welcome to swing by tonight

met a cool kid

Thu, 30 Sep 2004 04:25:14 GMT

i met a really cool kid today; another J over at pyramid.

funny how you meet someone. i was just walking out to our outdoor table with my falafel and he was standing out leaning against a pillar; for seemingly no reason (probably to say bye to Z). anyway, he is a big fan of pyramid too.

it started off slow.. oh do you want wireless here? um, yea; do you work hjere? no, but i setup the wireless at the baking co. oh, are you- yeah, i set it up and i could probably get him to put it here; though there's not as much room. so you built computers in bread boxes? yeah, it just kind of happened; it's funny; we started a linux users group (do you know what gnu/lin- yea!) at the baking co. and they were so nice to us, we decided to give them wireless. somehow we progressed to speaking about RMS and how they invited stallman to their LUG but how they pretended they were a GLUG to get him to come, but how after he came the LUG members felt like they should be a real GLUG. so, now they run a real glug. so i guess the thursday glug has finally caught up with me and i will be attending next thursday. J is implementing cool security shit; i like J. but he likes debian; which makes me sad. i asked him if the gentoo founder attends or if he knows him; no on both counts. we must find the gentoo creator and bring him to our Glug! though; i'm guessing he lives in ALBQ.

this was kind of funny. somehow, meeting him didn't feel like deja vu. too often when i meet people it feels like that, and it scares me.

i found a very intesting blog last night while in a daze... http://www.egobsd.org. this chick is pretty cool. i think i will regularly read her blog. it's a blog about a sys admin. somehow i feel like reading her blog and meeting J were related.

J1 and J4 exchanged business cards. so hopefully J4 will bring us work.

all this geeking has made me want to rebrand our co (currently http://www.mayam.org).

here are some designs.. http://ossix.net/page.html and http://ossix.net/page2.html.

page2 is better.

here was an inspiration: http://www.segpub.com.au

scatter brain

Sun, 26 Sep 2004 03:59:54 GMT

so today, i checked out the new $5 Fallafel Buffet at Pyramid Cafe. Egyptian food rules!

Then I headed to Las Vegas (, New Mexico) with H and we found a town that was made out of brick during the Great Mercantile Age. Though somewhat deterioriated, the town has kept a certain splendor by maintaining the structures of old (such as the old soda fountain place or movie theatre).

Still Las Vegas is mostly a boring town, and we didn't stay there long. ALthough we did run into a C|H|A-user who apparently thought I looked (almnost typed loved here..) like Salveter the loony toon character.

Anyway, after that we returned to Santa Fe, and further appreciated the facist pueblo-ness of the town.

I am now working on the toy site content management system. It's coming along pretty smooth. J wants to use JS with XML-RPC for future programming, but I'm a little hesitant. I just created enuf inertia to start writing in PHP and not in language X; it's going to take some convincing to sway somewhere else since I already have a codebase that I don't want to port; especially not in JS (that woudl be difficult)! Though the JS core is a better lang than PHP core. In fact its a lot like python's core. But there are no libraries for JS. So it would be necessary to use a second language as well for certain operations.

But I do see the advantage, JS/XML-RPC could be (or at least feel) much more responsive.

got paid

Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:33:53 GMT

i jsut received a check from a client. they paid me $200 more than they had to.

i'm just giving them a credit for future work.

it's funny to because on their invoice i gave them a dicount, so really they paid $250 more than they had to.

yay. i may be able to pay my huge credit card bill and my rent.

though i may not even have to pay my rent since i was out of gas (stove,shower,heat) for 3 weeks.

skiiing time

Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:15:22 GMT

shit it's almost skiing time in santa fe and taos.. give it a month or two...

i hope i have the money to buy a season pass and a set of skis or maybe a snowboard and oh yea health insurance

anyway, i encourage everyone to donate to my cause.

my paypal id is ossix@ossix.net!

go crazy! the kill steve donation project is underway.

i promise to take pictures of me skiiing and post them on the this site; and maybe provide audio too.

hell maybe even video if yur lucky! video crash ski cam possibly..

to (make a) hack or not to hack

Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:56:30 GMT

i have a solid way of doing something versus a hacked way.

which is better?

the hacked way is finished and is proven to work

the unhacked way will take up more time and is unknown; though theoretically sound and simple and practically achievable. the unhacked way will most likely be faster.

the project will not pay much.

is theory overrated?

what am i doing?

well, there is an sql table called Pagerank which allows me to rank all entries from another particular table so that when the entries are printed on a particular page they show in a user-defined order.

Pagerank consists of 3 columns: id, rank, and page.

Basically the Pagerank table can link to any table in the database with an id field. This is a violation of referential integrity. The content of the page column is used to discover what table to link to. Page is a varchar(255).

The proper way to do this is to have a seperate table for each rank relation, but this will take far more application efforts. I.e. create a table called CategoryRank with columns: id, rank, parent_id. This then references columns id and parent_id of table Category to determine how rank should be applied (i.e. you wanna order all the children; so a rank col sequence applies to all ids with the same parent_id.

To do this with my hack-method. you basically set the page variable to "Category ," which accomplishes the samething without referential integrity but also with out a whole lot of different rank tables. See page is generic, type and table flexible, where as using specific Rank Tables results in a table with a col of parent_id or a col of type and gender. With Pagerank I can just say "Alpacas Suri Male" and then give all ids with that page designation a sequential rank. I do enforce the integrity of the rank sequences, and of course, this is what's really important.

tea time

Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:32:03 GMT

just got back from oasis after some jasmine tea, miso soup, and grilled cheese w/ tomato.

at oasis, i read parts of plato's republic since plato gives me a hard-on.

what is it to be just? does being just make you happy?

being just IMO is the practice of diciphering and choosing what is good.

what is good? good is the purpose of something.

for instance the good of eyes is that they see, the good of ears is that they hear.

so being just is having the ability to dichipher that eyes are good for seeing or that ears are good for hearing. or that monicka lewinsky is good for sucking dick. but seriously, to get a little metaphysical, an unjust person would not know what eyes were for and would go blind; maybe he would eat someone elses ear for dinner and then stare at his own penis for 10 hours straight. maybe.., then he would stop being able to hear.

still does having justice mayke one happy? that is hard to say. i believe that there is no reason to say that this is so; rather, it is more likely an independent law for humans that it is one case or the other. i believe that a human's purpose is to find purpose.. i believe that emotion is a guide to achieve purpose, and so dichpering what a human's purpose is (i.e. finding and defining one's own purpose) will make one happy.

this is not as easy as it sounds. humans come with an extraordinary amount of celluloidal purpose-less bagage that cannot be simply ignored or killed. finding purpose is a systematic and yet blurry series of commands one must invoke to achieve it; and then the next goal is keeping purpose; and possibly refinding it again. perhaps the more times (i.e. the more full happy lifetimes you can achieve the better).

but still, perhaps happiness and justice are more intertwined than that. leave that to book iii and additional tea times.

InnoDB issue with MySQL and Gentoo Fixed

Thu, 23 Sep 2004 22:37:00 GMT

I was playing around with mysql-administrator today, and I discovered that it wouldn't set my tables to InnoDB. InnoDB is a lovely storage engine which supports row-based locking and rollback/commit. This is very useful, when making more than one query to a database when the queries end up modfifying the table and when the queries are dependent on each other. When I write web applications and there are multiple queries being made in one http request, I check to see if there are any errors with any queries, and if there are then I don't commit.

Anyway, I realized that Gentoo doesn't by default turn on InnoDB support on the MySQL 4.0.20 ebuild. Anyway I had to say "USE=innodb emerge mysql" and remerge mysql into the system. Oh well, who knew? So, I'm doing that right now.

new news

Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:53:55 GMT

okay, so here i am... first order of business is politics:

* an interesting interview with norman mailer on the eve of the gop convention: http://www.bopnews.com/archives/001381.html

according to mailer kerry is a wind surfer and bush will win because he is stupid and so stupid people relate to him. stupid people, say in an okie acent, "bush is a good ma'; i like him; he likes one of us."

i believe that kerry is conducting a secret campaign. that is to say, he expects all the bush haters to show up for him, and he expects them to understand that he is reaching for the swing voters; but once elected he will invoke the rath of the libral!

anyway, bush is obviously going to win. so i'm making plans on moving to a new facist state: italy. i believe that italy is the most suitable state for linux development. linux->italy ... ixnlu

so hopefully G will be back in town soon so we can get some work. but i spoke to J3 and he said that he'll get us so much work we'll be fucked. so he advised me to find programmers. i know of one: namely dijjnn, but no others.

right now i'm working on a toy web site, i just finished a mortgage calculator [http://www.ossix.net/mortgage] and an alpaca editor [http://www.iradik.is-a-geek.org/www.sagebrushalpacas.com/cms].

they are both pretty cool. but none of these projects are bringing in a lot of money; i'm just breaking even really.. barely at that; especially with yozo's operation.

anyway, i don't care; i did get a cool carrie ann moss action figure today from the person i am making the toy web site for [see: http://www.spawn.com/features/matrix2/trinity2.photo.03.html]. its got bullet time and everything.. it's sitting on my fridge next to my dead plant. tiny sunflower plant. all my plants are dying. i've been really lazy lately; bordering on depression. if i snap to it and get busy working again... maybe i'll snap out of it again. but, work is only so interesting..

yozo is sleeping here next to me.

i've read a number of good books about programming lately:

the mythical man month, the clue train manifesto, more eric meyer on css, the elements of user experience, [OO] design patterns by the gang of four. all of the things in those books seemed obvious but reconfirmed my intuition about programming. i guess my favorite book was design patterns (that shit i didnt intuitively know); although it is really more of a reference. but since i quit my job i dont have acces to the book. the mythical man month is also excellent; the idea that there will be no new no silver bullets in programming after 1985 was very interesting.

stds

Sat, 17 Jul 2004 05:27:41 GMT

Seems to me if people would just have sex with people their own age, the likelyhood of getting an std would go down dramatically.

If we start with one year olds and assume that none of them have ever had sex, then none of them should have stds. Anyone born with an std should be killed of course.

Anyway, when those one year olds become 12 and start having sex, they only have sex with other 12 year olds, up to the time they are 80, there shouldn't be any stds.

Master of the Flying Guillotine

Sat, 31 Jan 2004 08:58:42 GMT

Okay I just saw this movie over at The Music Box. Fucking-A, this shit is awesome. Thank heavens for the positive review in the Reader, and my gut feeling that I should go see some movie somewhere at midnight.

The movie is about a grey wizard-looking blind man who is able to wield a lassoing guillotine (it looks like a long rope attatched to a hat which contains inside it many retractible circular saw blades capable of decapitating anyone who is lassoed by the hat) whose quest is to a kill a reveered kung-fu legend known as the one-armed boxer. This guy is ridiculous looking, he is wizened and has grey hair with a buzzcut and the bushiest eighbrows ever, and at his neck there drapes a red flag ensigned by a golden swastika. Mix in an ambiguous view of good and evil, some classical Indian and Tibetan music, and a psychotic dose of industrial machine rock to the sound track, along with an only tangentially positioned kung-fu death-match tournament, and you have a fucking genius movie!

The Tibetan character was my favorite. This guy made me think of Brad Pitt for some reason; I think it was something about his candor and confidence, and also the way he spit blood, and of course his face. But this guy was teamed up with the guillotine master trying to kill the one-armed boxer, who is really the most honorable fighter of the bunch. I'm pretty sure the Tibetan was a hired gun; along with the Indian. Foreign men with a much looser moral code or something. But the Tibetan was awesome; he danced before every fight to the buddah hooka music and then had traces of Muhammad Ali in the eight round or Cool Hand Luke fighting in the dirt. Just a spectacular supporting character. Or maybe it was just Seven Years In Tibet.

Yu Wang is a fucking genius! As The Reader pointed out, this is the fellow who Quintenn Tarantino is obsessed with.

leocrotta

Wed, 03 Dec 2003 09:16:31 GMT

106458 salyari-Wiz-Elf-Mal-Cha died in The Dungeons of Doom on level 9 [max 10]. Killed by a leocrotta. - [123] never try to take a leocrotta head on unless you have an AC less than or equal to -3 i tried with an AC of 4 and a strength of 18 with magicbane combined with some sleep attacks the leocrotta took 43 hit points in one turn, all i needed to take from him were 11 and even though i hit him and he was stunned it didn't work. too bad too cuz i happened to have a magic lamp waiting to wish for a blessed amulet of unchanging so that i could rise in level as a vampire lord, maybe next time... oh well. i even found 3 polymorph traps, already had teleport control, and found the inventory of 3 ghosts, all i needed was some holy water to make the conversion. then it would have been cake to take the leocrotta head on even with no armor. why you ask? because vampire lords have an intrisic AC of -1. plus they get two attacks for the price of one. and they auto regenerate. :(

inventions

Fri, 12 Sep 2003 05:25:59 GMT

why do toilets women's bathrooms have the whole seat thing goin on?

vomiting, transexuals, fetish? no good christian reason and the toilet was invented by a christian.

so what the hell?

is there a company that makes a toilet with no attatchments?

i don't know if people understand what i mean by this... so i will clarify, like rather than having a huge toilet mouth with a seat that goes on top. the mouth should just be the size of the seat. women don't need the hinge lever capability of the seat.

while i am updating this entry i will add my other inventions which i seem to forgot to enter: a firewalled credit card and a dual screened laptop (i.e. a tabletop). the tabletop would have the same form factor as a laptop except the keyboard/mouse part of the laptop would be a touch screen with a software keyboard and track pad. this should be apple's entry into the tablet pc market. i really would like to patent this idea, but oh well, don't think i ever will. it'd probably take a few breakthroughs like thermal sensitive lcds, but maybe they have that already. anyway, i'd buy one.