I hate it when

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She's better at golf than me... :(
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Awhile back I was on a business trip to Philadelphia and saw this.

See the EZpass is not so easy. You have to be able to aim well too.

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Domain or not to Domain

I guess its OK. It actually gave me a better way to manage my webpages.

Anyways. There's something I've been thinking about... between Freddy Kruger and Edward Scissorhands who would win in a fight?

Domains

Do I really need another domain?

Just because I want to make sure its mine! MINE MINE MINE! and no one will take it...

Whats the point?

When I got this domain I was like 17 or something. It was just the IN thing to do. Now I own 2 domains and I pay $19 a year for them. Error42 and mymomsattic. None of which have made me money as of yet.

Maybe error42 will. Maybe it wont. It's kinda just a pointless blog. If I pick up another domain, wont it just be another one of those needless things i pay for annually?

Stupid Inspection Sticker.

So NYS vehicles have to pass an emissions and safety inspection every year. You go to a licensed inspector and they check it out, if your car passes you get a sticker that you have to put on your windshield, Lower Left Corner (inside)

Yesterday morning I went to Pep-Boys to get my inspection sticker and oil change (PLAN A). Unfortunately my Check Engine Light was on. The reason it was on is because of a bad oxygen sensor in my car that I’ve been driving with for 3 years. The light goes on and off. They said they would need to do a diagnostic check ($9.99) and if they have to fix anything ($99/hour labor + parts) then the car may be able to pass inspection. I pleaded a little saying it is just a sensor that does nothing but all I got was a dumb look of confusion.

Eventually I said, don’t do the inspection, just change my oil.

After work I drove my car to flushing, thinking I can probably get a shady Asian Mechanic to pass my car ignoring the Check Engine Light (PLAN B). Unfortunately I got there too late and the guy was closing. So then I thought… “Gotta go to PLAN C”.

PLAN C.1: In flushing I looked up the nearest AUTOZONE. Autozone does free diagnostics checks. Mechanics charge anywhere from $9.99 to $49.99 for this diagnostics check. So I get to Autozone and the guy comes out to test the Check Engine Light (CEL). He reports that it is of course the Oxygen Sensor. So I say “Hey that’s great, can you reset the Check Engine light too?” To which he replies “We’re not suppose to do that…” So I say “Soooo can you do it anyway?” Eventually he gives up and says “Well we’re not suppose to but I guess its just an oxygen sensor”. He resets it and I’m on my way.

PLAN C.2: With the Check Engine Light now off, I rush over to R&S Strauss and ask them to inspect my car. It Passes! I get sticker and all is good in the world.

Thank You Autozone!

Rainy day asian

Just about 5 minutes ago I was walking from the apartment to the train station in the pouring rain.

As I reached the sidewalk staircase I began to close my umbrella. As I walked closing my umbrella I noticed a cute asian girl doing the same thing. In that single moment if noticing her my fingers slipped off of the canopy closing mechanism on my umbrella allowing the spring inside the metal shaft to shoot the canopy back open.

I was instantaneously red with embarrassment while at the same time, on the inside, laughing my ass off. As the canopy sprung open it launched all the rain on it in the direction of the girl, covering her in a shower of water. She turned to me in shock. All I could say was "I am so sorry, I am so so sorry". Without acknowledgment she just turned and walked down the staircase. As I walked behind her I couldn't help but smile and giggle.

Oh well. Maybe she'll go around and tell people how some Filipino guy got her wet this morning. Give something the office can talk about.


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Back in 2004

Back in 2004 I found it far more important to blog than I do today. Odd. This was just to help give 2009 a little bit of a bump.

Many days later

So after using the EEEPC 1005HA for about a month, I'd have to say I am very satisfied with the purchase.

Other than my, IPOD and Cell Phone, the EEEPC is the only device I have ever purchased that I have used every single day. Since the purchase of the EEEPC I have only used my desktop PC maybe once or twice. And each of those times was so I could install something onto my EEEPC. I am sure I am saving a good chuck of electricity by using the EEEPC over the desktop.

The portabity of it is just amazing.

The only major issue that I have run into was a few blue screens I received while opening Google Chrome. Though I do not know if the issue was caused by Google Chrome. Each time the EEE just restarted as normal. Never did I receive the blue screen in succession. I'd say there was at least a week between each of the ... 3 times. I'm thinking google chrome is a piece of crap that needs to be updated; but I still use it for hulu as it does take less resources to run it.

Apparently I have 50 days to play Diablo before my characters are automatically deleted.

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Frank Darabont circles zombies

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EEEPC 1005HA

It's been awhile since I last confessed.

I've been busy I suppose. Mentally dejected from wanting to think about what I was thinking about. But I thought today would be a good day to think about my thinking.

I finally got myself an EEEpc. It's the 1005HA model. Straight off the first shipment. I'm not usually an early adopter of tech, but I've been thinking about this for so long that I just needed to have it.

And now that I do, I'd have to say that I am pleasantly satisfied with the purchase.

Its so sleek and light. It's not a huge improvement over Andrea's 1000HA but it's exactly what I wanted. Once I get my novels transferred onto a thumb drive, I will start working on them all the time. I think my biggest problem with story writing is having to do it in front of my computer in my room. Can't be inspired by staring at my tiny bedroom with clothes strewn about. If I don't pump out at least one short story every 1-2 weeks I will be very upset with myself. This puppy has to earn me either money or experience to make it a justified purchase.

In other news...

Andrea's parents are going to be in town this week. It'll be interesting having them here. I hope I will be able to spend enough time with them. I want to take them out to dinner at least once or twice. I really hope they have a good time and get to see New York from a relaxed tourist point of view. I find that running around NYC going from one tourist trap to another can sometimes be exhausting. Hopefully they can do a lot and not be wiped out by the end of the trip. There's a beach day and BBQ planned somewhere in the mix so maybe that will be a good contrast to the whole crazyness.

Hmmmm I think I need a new bag for this EEE....

KOT

Ender's Game

This one is for you Val. It may be sometime until you read it though.

Today I finished reading "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card. Before I start to read online commentary about the book I wanted to get some of my thoughts down first.

Around the last chapter of the book I decided that I wanted to and needed to reread the book. It's one of those habits I picked up from a college English lit course. You can't really understand a book before you read it a second time. Picking up on everything you missed and understanding how all the subtle events at the start of the book lead to the major events at the end of the book.

My first reactions after reading the last word of the book was "I like it!". There were some parts that were obvious like the big reveal the main character receives towards the end of the book, but all in all I completely enjoyed the experience. A second reaction I thought of after finishing it was "I want to read Sun Tzu's ART OF WAR". I think I have a copy of it somewhere, but if I don't I think I'm going to try to find a version of it with commentary; like a Norton Anthology version of it. Though I don't know much about Tzu's work, I feel that Ender's Game employed a lot of important battle strategies that probably came from Tzu. There was also a good amount of concepts of psychological behavioral that were used throughout the book. I found all of it very interesting.

A third reaction I am having after reading this book, is the same reaction I always have after reading a book that I felt has improved my way of thinking; and that is "how can I use what I have learned to somehow improve upon my own life". Its an odd thing to come about from reading fiction. But its mostly related to liking the main character so much, that I want to be or emulate that character in real life somehow. I guess its akin to the way kids like to dress up like their superheroes. Only instead of dressing up, I want to behave and think like them.

There are few fictional characters that I've experienced as of late that I have come away feeling like this. The most recently notable are Ender Wiggin of Ender's Game, Joe Ledger of Patient Zero, and L of the Death Note series. All of them extremely talented strategists. Beings that have the ability to think in a multitude of ways always ten steps ahead of their opponent; although L is the only one who is eventually defeated.

So other than just simply enjoying a piece of fiction for the simple satisfaction of having read a good story, How can I use this experience to improve my life?

KOT

Media

I see it slowly unraveling itself. All the intricate words and weaves that the advertising industry has given itself are slowly falling apart. Ratings used as currency. More than 80% of all the people who use it as currency know that its really worthless. All a big scam to make money. Money over something imagined. Only because it is the best thing that we have to go on. Newspaper companies so huge that they have spent billions of dollars in circulating their articles around the world. And slowly its all falling apart.

This economic downturn is destroying the advertising and marketing facade. Millions of people are loosing their jobs because the upper level crust know just how meaningless they all were to begin with. And now, with technology coming to a point where it is slowly wearing away at that small grasp that advertising still holds on society, all the old ways are becoming more and more unprofitable.

The only people who will emerge victorious in the advertising industry are the ones who are able to move with technology and embrace it, understand it, manipulate it, and use it. Sorry print, you're just a few more steps away from extinction. Sorry old Television advertiser, you're about to be outdone by some crazy new interactive web 3.0 advertiser who has a better understanding of the psychological behavior of the new WebConsumer or HybridConsumer. Everything will be connected to the Internet soon. The bubble may have burst in the early days of the web craze, but it has evolved into something completely different. And will continue to evolve. Those who try to stay away are only clinging to the last vestiges of a life style that is no longer as profitable.

We are all outside. But we're only starting to realize that we are just inside an even bigger box now.

Uncle Patrick's Official Expand-Your-Mind Reading List

When I was in college, one of my Marketing professors gave me a list of books to read sometime in my lifetime. I lost this list sometime after college, but after digging up my Professor's email address I asked him for the list again. Here it is below. As of today I have read 0 of these books.

Uncle Patrick's Official Expand-Your-Mind Reading List

1. Benjamin Franklin, "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin"
2. Plato, "The Apology of Socrates"
3. Frederick Douglas, "The Life and Times of Frederick Douglas"
4. Albert Einstein, "Ideas and Opinions"
5. Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, "Why War?"
6. Confucius, "The Analects"
7. Booker T. Washington, "Up From Slavery"
8. Mohandas Gandhi, "The Story of My Experiment With Truth" (His
autobiography)
9. Mohandas Gandhi, "Gandhi on Non-Violence"
10. HG Wells, "The Outline of History" (read the interesting last
chapter)
11. R. Buckminster Fuller, "Critical Path"
12. The Dalai Lama, "The Art of Happiness"

Currently, the list contains the following, while other titles have come and gone.

15. James Lovelock, "Gaia: A new look at life on Earth"
16. Rachel Carson, "Silent Spring"

Keep safe,
Patrick Bishop

Patient Zero - Verdict: Awesome

So I finally Finished Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry and I am so glad I bought it.

It's funny how I came across this book too. Andrea and I were at Barnes and Noble one night and we were just going around looking at the genre tables. That’s when I came up with a fun game. “Find books we think the other person would enjoy”. And because I know how much Andrea enjoys bio-warfare / virus outbreak types of books, when I saw the title “Patient Zero” I thought that it would absolutely be the book for her. Of course when I picked it up and read the back cover to discover that it was a Zombie novel I realized that this was more my type of book. A few weeks later I finally gave in and bought it on Amazon.

Patient Zero, is probably one of my favorite takes on the Zombie genre, next to the Monster Trilogy by David Wellington. Unlike Monster Trilogy which uses a more paranormal ancient mystical origin, Patient Zero uses Terrorist Bio-warfare. A take on the zombie genre much different from the “gates of hell zombies just kinda happen” version of books. Patient Zero was much more reminiscent of Richard Preston’s Cobra Event and Hot Zone that dealt with engineered viruses created to terrorize the world; only without the science and history lesson chapters.

From beginning to end, the book had me anxious and fiending for more. There were a few items in the book that I wished were a little bit more obscure and mysterious rather than blatantly obvious, but they didn’t take too much away from the experience. Fight scenes and climaxes where done very well, so much so that my testosterone levels had me grunting in approval after every neck snap and bone crunch.

Although I love reading books like this, I think if this were ever to get picked up to be translated into a movie, it would be easily become one of the top zombie movies ever created.

Let me know if you want to borrow it.

Later.

Fear of epidemic causes loss of common sense

It seems that some people believe that the fear of epidemic has caused people to forget common sense and etiquette. These were posted around the building.

If "employees must wash their hands" hasn't worked for over a decade what good will these do?

They should post a sign that says "5 people Died in this building from swine flu. Cover your fucking mouth when you cough." That would probably work better. -insert pencil sketch of guy coughing blood and guts-

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Some blog guidelines

bored on the train...

1. Never talk about work negatively
2. Never talk about co workers negatively or ever at all
3. Avoid defamation of any kind
4. Don't say things like "Khris smells like a monkey's butt."
5. Don't say anything that would negatively effect your reputation
6. Remember, this is not a diary
7. If you blog during a work meeting/conference do not say that you are blogging during a work meeting/conference
8. Understand that there really is no reason for you to have this blog.
9. Blog knowing anyone can read it
10. Blog knowing no one is ever going to read it
11. Avoid copywrite infringement or plagiarism
12. If you are blogging because you have nothing better to do, then go find something better to do instead

-Keep on trucking
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Lina falling asleep while on the phone.

I caught Lina falling asleep while on my phone. When I checked the dialing history on my phone I found out that she had dialed a few 900 numbers for cat singles. I'm upset but not too upset.

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Sickness

I have a sore throat. And my body is tired and aching. All I want to do is sit in Air Conditioning, but I don't think we are going to install the air conditioner just yet.

Yesterday Andrea and I went for a long walk through Prospect Park. It was a bit of a hike and towards the end I was ready for a cold shower and long nap.

That night we went with Eff, to a Louisianan/Italian Restaurant that was amazing. Two Boots in Park Slope.

Now I'm sitting in my hot room sweating my sore throat away. I don't think its working. I fear that this will last for sometime now. I think I need to swallow some draino or something to kill the bacteria in my mouth. Or whatever it is.

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Played me some Survivor L4D this morning. Val was right, its quite fun. But I had nothing but noobs to play with so it was a bit annoying.

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I don't feel like going out, but i will probably end be being forced to.

Reblogged

I just finish reblogging my old blog to this blog.

Why you ask? because of my email address.

Does it stick? Will it stick? I dont know. Who knows. Time for the show! weee!

Sup Sun? How's it hanging?

Nothing much to report. Just thought I'd log in and put something up.

New laptop at work rocks.

Judy left to go back to Buffalo, and things are just chugging along.

KOT

Technite Future

I had a dream that Ethan and I were back at tech. But its not 1998, its the future, like near future. Anyways, we were on the 49th floor. Sort of just walking around. We were just leaving a computer class or something. Well eventually we get this idea that we should visit the old Aerospace classroom. So we head on down to this secret stair well that takes you right into the room. When we get there though, its super deserted. There are tons of rusty engines and engine parts. As we look around, this short black lady walks in and tells us what happened. I think she was our Biology teacher but I can't remember. Apparently sometime after we graduated the Aerospace major was cancelled. While she is telling us about how the place hasn't been used, we see this fuzzy hamster like creature with big eyes walking on this turbine. Its so cute! And it can roll up like a hedgehog; only it looks like a rock when it does. That's when I notice smaller rocks rolling all over the floor.

ComicCon Aftermath

So its the day after the comic con weekend. Kinda of weird weekend. It was different than the last. More people. Well more or less.

Did a lot of thinking about writing. Like I feel I really want to do something about it. Got to thinking about how I'm wired you know. Like for the longest I can remember, I've been a day dreaming. Staring out the windows of the J train, imagining dragons and deamons bursting through the clouds. Imagining worlds and peoples in my head all these years. Maybe thats how these writers see it. They see the world differently.

So I want to give it a shot. Put the pen to paper and see what I can create. It would be good to get some of my imaginings on paper. I've always wanted to look back on stuff. Especially stuff in my head. Would also keep me from rewriting and reimagining things.

So this here, this blog. This is my personal deal. My account on the days and the days thoughts. I really should keep to it. But I hate the idea of it being read. Like I need something private and something public.