tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154960149520579039Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:37:10 +0000rantramblingaccidentcrashfrustrationiphonelongboardpoliticsquestiontechnologyamericaanti-socialapplebarsbushcafeengadgetgirlsgoogle apple iphone industrygovernmentharry pottermusicpowncequotereligionsoccerwasted timeworkhttp://musingcynic.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Musing cynic)Blogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154960149520579039.post-1811386960361839889Sun, 19 Aug 2007 07:55:00 +00002007-08-19T01:17:58.640-07:00powncetechnologyIn light of a post i just made on Wil Harris' blog, here is a quick blog about Pownce - oh, and this is me at Pownce. Since i'm already on the subject, here are some of my thoughts on Pownce:If you ask me, Pownce is a pretty good idea with one big problem: its 2 or 3 years too late. If this had hit the web before Twittr or Jaiku both became large, it could have / would have been huge - but it http://musingcynic.blogspot.com/2007/08/pownce.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Musing cynic)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154960149520579039.post-5449455250723204064Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:44:00 +00002007-08-10T20:06:48.326-07:00girlsquestionramblingworkI recently started a dead end job at a restaurant. It's not a terrible job (like others i've held) and it's not an amazing job like the wilderness therapy one i used to have; it's just some dumb college student job.For the last two years i've gotten very little action, be it random play or potential girlfriends -- but prior to these two years you could say that i had maybe a bit more than my http://musingcynic.blogspot.com/2007/08/who-is-taking-advantage-of-who.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Musing cynic)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154960149520579039.post-5158339886988783149Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:23:00 +00002007-08-02T23:48:29.413-07:00anti-socialmusicrantEveryones seen them: the girl or guy, walking down the street with the headphone cord snaking out of the pocket or the backpack and plugging into the almost irregularly large headphones. Good chance this persons also wearing sunglasses -- regardless of whether the sun is out -- too. Sometimes if you're lucky you can even see this same person rocking out to their music: singing, gesturing, and http://musingcynic.blogspot.com/2007/08/respect-anti-social-signs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Musing cynic)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154960149520579039.post-6593469779118626808Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:36:00 +00002007-07-28T16:51:45.927-07:00ramblingrantIt really is quite amazing how much random stuff you can come across on the internet when you are trying to get something done. In a 30 second break from working on a project, you can find yourself reading about Boby Dylan and some things he did. Or easily just as easily end up looking at pictures of why pimpin' ain't easy. Or reading about "muffin top" girls.But none of these things help you http://musingcynic.blogspot.com/2007/07/efficiency-and-internet.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Musing cynic)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154960149520579039.post-3761883510872358894Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:16:00 +00002007-07-26T21:28:21.544-07:00questionramblingWhy is it that we put such small things on such big pedestals sometimes?The inspiration for this post was a small thing that didn't really matter at all -- but it left me on my way home feeling really disappointed nonetheless. I think that whether or not we mean to, we often invest a lot more than we should in small things, and often find ourselves disappointed.Everyone does it, whether they http://musingcynic.blogspot.com/2007/07/searching-out-disappointment.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Musing cynic)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154960149520579039.post-5431056711755002811Sun, 22 Jul 2007 05:31:00 +00002007-07-21T22:56:54.001-07:00frustrationharry potterrantFirst of all, yes i have read the Harry Potter books, and yes i did enjoy them. But no, i did not wait in line to read any of them. Actually, come to think of it i didn't actually buy any of them, but instead borrowed them. And i didn't see any of the movies in the theatre, let alone buy a VHS or DVD -- and i don't plan on changing that anytime soon.Regardless of whether or not i enjoyed them http://musingcynic.blogspot.com/2007/07/harry-fucking-potter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Musing cynic)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154960149520579039.post-2255392164712260210Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:54:00 +00002007-07-20T17:03:53.257-07:00frustrationgovernmentpoliticsrantWhere is our society going? We've got a government that is quickly turning into a police state with checks and balances disappearing faster than i go through gallons of milk. It seems like 7 out of 10 people you pass on the street either completely ignore you just because, or have headphones on and pay you no attention anyhow. Sitting in a cafe everyone is engrossed in their own personal taskshttp://musingcynic.blogspot.com/2007/07/society-governments-and-couch-potatoes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Musing cynic)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154960149520579039.post-2855681813261368529Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:59:00 +00002007-07-16T19:09:37.365-07:00quoterantI just got back from having a snack at the food co-op before doing some shopping and coming home. Now, most of the time i'm content to listen to a podcast or mp3's while eating and not do much of anything else.. but there is something about eating / hanging out in the co-op that makes me feel obligated to come back to the reality of the world around me. So i took out my headphones and grabbed ahttp://musingcynic.blogspot.com/2007/07/i-anonymous-pig-fucker.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Musing cynic)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154960149520579039.post-7314222070500858846Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:05:00 +00002007-07-15T11:24:39.822-07:00americabushpoliticsrantSo there's a practical genocide happening in Darfur, America is still looking for a reason to attack Iran, we're still in Iraq and Afghanistan -- even though a definite majority of the country no longer thinks we should be in either, and now we've angered Russia enough that they have pulled out of a treaty established quite some time ago.Now i'm sure that at some point in almost everyone's life, http://musingcynic.blogspot.com/2007/07/state-of-world-state-of-america.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Musing cynic)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154960149520579039.post-707622830394707257Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:19:00 +00002007-07-11T22:34:47.352-07:00accidentcrashlongboardSince i posted about falling yesterday, i thought i'd include some quick details about my day today, which also involved falling.In an effort to keep a potentially long story short, i'll cut right to the chase: On my longboard today, i got "doored". And for those of you not familiar with the term, getting "doored" means that you get hit when some unsuspecting spectator with no bad intentions http://musingcynic.blogspot.com/2007/07/just-quick-follow-up.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Musing cynic)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154960149520579039.post-2429489960151228413Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:25:00 +00002007-07-11T00:39:44.932-07:00accidentcrashlongboardI've talked to a lot of people who firmly believe that it is best when they fall completely out of sight of other people. They explain to me that it's embarrassing when people see you fall, and how dumb they feel afterwards.But i've laughed heartily alongside these same people when we see a candid of someone tripping and falling, and the sheepish look they cast around wondering how many people -http://musingcynic.blogspot.com/2007/07/falling-is-fun.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Musing cynic)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154960149520579039.post-414800029356348159Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:54:00 +00002007-07-08T17:07:04.806-07:00rantreligionDisclaimer: I'm doing a paper on the Christian religion infringing upon other (specifically Eastern) religions. This topic tends to bother me, but then again so do most things about religion._________________________________________________This website i just came across while working on a project is downright appalling if you ask me. Why is it that Christians feel such a strong need to http://musingcynic.blogspot.com/2007/07/die-hard-christians.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Musing cynic)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154960149520579039.post-166882678216949149Sat, 07 Jul 2007 09:35:00 +00002007-07-07T03:05:02.309-07:00barscaferantsoccerwasted timeSomehow i was convinced to go out and do things with my day that i didn't need to do. Don't get me wrong, i enjoyed myself -- but i didn't accomplish very much.It all started with going to a local cafe to work on a paper for one class, and a program for another. I managed to get almost all of the program finished (and very little writing on the paper!) when a buddy called me up. I told him we http://musingcynic.blogspot.com/2007/07/successful-waste-of-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Musing cynic)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154960149520579039.post-6744074131661720237Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:52:00 +00002007-07-06T01:00:43.372-07:00appleiphoneIt all really comes back to the iPhone this week, doesn't it? With plentiful jokes made about the line waiters, newly spawned ideas, and even musicals about the phone itself, it's finally out. And of course, so are plenty of reviews.There are people making claims all over the board: waitingforiphone.com is claiming an insider told them that over 1 million iphones were sold, while the Wall http://musingcynic.blogspot.com/2007/07/iphone-ibust-or-not.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Musing cynic)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154960149520579039.post-5032149001244312553Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:24:00 +00002007-07-05T16:27:54.969-07:00Okay, so i've been trying to get things all set for this and my Tumblr blog so they are ready to really be used. One of those things is signing up for a Technorati account.And to be honest, Technorati is the whole reason for this post: i needed to "claim" my blog :)http://musingcynic.blogspot.com/2007/07/some-links.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Musing cynic)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154960149520579039.post-6174571065746174858Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:50:00 +00002007-07-05T01:55:54.175-07:00google apple iphone industryThis day in age, i can pretty safely say that you can't walk down any street in America and meet anyone over the age of 12 who hasn't heard of Google. For a company not even 20 years old, that's pretty damn impressive - consider: Google.com was still 'beta' in late '99! Initially, they were exclusively a web search engine -- a really good one at that. Then they started to spread out, first http://musingcynic.blogspot.com/2007/07/where-is-google-going-next.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Musing cynic)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154960149520579039.post-4807160276478059958Wed, 04 Jul 2007 19:38:00 +00002007-07-04T13:31:27.070-07:00engadgetiphonetechnologyWith all the hype about the iPhone's release, i think that most of the world was really expecting the cellular phone industry to have some drastic changes after the release. But somewhere it seems that Apple went wrong. Even before the release, we had iPhone wallpapers , applications, and even articles about the security threat that the iPhone poses for enterprises -- and how it's lacking in http://musingcynic.blogspot.com/2007/07/iphone-anyone.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Musing cynic)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154960149520579039.post-7835780624386516425Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:03:00 +00002007-07-04T01:10:57.801-07:00Okay, so i've been out and about. I just got back from Southeast Asia not all that long ago -- which was amazing -- and have been too busy to do much of anything since return beyond getting an apartment, school, and looking for a job.But on the brighter side, i did somehow find the time to start a tumblr account. So, for more frequent and much smaller blogs, check that out herehttp://musingcynic.blogspot.com/2007/07/relocated-lost-huh.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Musing cynic)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154960149520579039.post-3614139536183516838Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:56:00 +00002007-01-30T23:12:10.555-08:00This past month has really been hell for me.It all started out on the 9th of January, when my car and i became the centerpiece of a three car (well, 2 car and 1 truck) accident. Hanging out with a friend, we decided to meet back at his place, but since he had a donut on his car, he had to take city streets instead of the faster highway route. Telling him i would see him there in just a bit, we http://musingcynic.blogspot.com/2007/01/message-to-no-one-in-particular.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Musing cynic)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154960149520579039.post-8525714042560309561Mon, 29 Jan 2007 06:44:00 +00002007-01-28T22:52:00.434-08:00 So i've finally given in and like millions of other people, started to blog. Not that i know what i'll blog about, but i guess i'll just have to figure that out as i go. It's funny, at this point i have read so many other blogs that i feel some sort of obligation to have something interesting and / or worthy of blogging about... and yet i find myself not having anything that fits that http://musingcynic.blogspot.com/2007/01/wow-my-own-blog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Musing cynic)0