Samurai command line life

Paranoia

2007-03-08T10:43:00Z

A picture with a few words tells more than a lot more words.

Dear people

2007-01-09T16:44:35Z

1. Dear entitlement-oriented person : You are not that special. I don't care. You are not entitled to anything just because you are you. You are a number for the society, just like everyone else. Read the instructions and don't guess. Fill in the paper as the instructions say.
2. Dear person who loves to be sick : I don't care. Be sick all you want but don't make a big deal out of it. You remind of the people my mum used to hang with.. the people born in 1940s who would talk about their blood pressure and ulcers as if it was their kids going to college. Your health odysseus reminds me of those people. I don't care of your Xanax adventures.
3. Dear addict : learn your limits. You know you have absolutely no limits. Please do not involve my life around your incapacity of dealing with yours. I don't care if your addiction is sports, internet, gambling, painkillers, prescription or other drugs, booze or anything else. You have the full responsibility about your life. Not me.
4. Dear religious person : the fact that you go to a church regularly or pray or meditate makes you as religious as going to a garage makes one a mechanic. And take those plastic junk out of your sanctuary, you know your fashionably selected religion does not need any junk. Or any praying for that matter.
5. Dear fashionably sexually oriented person : I will be curious to see what you will be in 5 or 10 years when the reproductional instincts, also called as 'biological clock' by the breeders, of your fellow trendy-bis will kick in. Will you become a breeder-dahd or a baby machine because that will be the fashion then?
6. Dear person without any patience : get a job and keep it for a while. If you don't like the job you have, change it - if you can't, change your attitude. If you can't be happy today, you will never be happy. Life may be shiitake right here and right now, what exactly makes you think when you are on the other side of the planet you will be happy? You will be as happy as you want to be. As happy as you were in the jobs that you didn't want to keep.
7. Dear breeder : don't bring your bratlings to work. I try to work. So do most of the people at any workplace.
8. Dear car bleh bleh : if I pay for 40 % of the car ownership, would you explain me again why I have driven the car twice in over a year? Shouldn't that be me using the car at least twice a week to get to work and back?
9. Dear stupid country : I am tired of the leeching on all levels. I'm tired of having the rent raised by 10 % just because you can raise it by 10 %. I'm tired of getting a stupid paper version of driver's license just because paper copies are still fashionable in this country. I'm tired of paying 60 euros to see a doctor every time I need one, and to see a doctor just because I am sick ... causing me to strike not surprisingly to work until you drop mood.
10. Dear paperwork things : you make me think that the worldwide visas, policies and applications for visas and work permits exist for the sole purpose of pissing people off. And to make suffer. I wish you making these policies will have to go thru them too. Live as two adults on one income for at least half a year just because the bureaucracy dictates so, in a country where the salary and the living expenses aren't hand in hand. Share your room with the spouse, and the house with a bunch of people, animals and uncalled for animals just because you can't afford a house or anything else meanwhile...
11. Dear super professional blogger, cook, photographer etc : just because you brag constantly in your blog about how great you are does not really make you any difference. Get your photo or blog skills in use by working for a newspaper, or try to work as a cook etc.
12. Dear parents : ... now the fact that you live where you chose to live is my fault?
13. Dear good planner : the next time you say you do something, DO IT. And when you say you do it. If you say doing something takes an hour and you spend three, it's worse than estimating it once properly to take three hours. If you say you will do xyz in zyx time, do it. Or it will count as one more lie, one more promise you made to yourself or someone else and didn't keep. If you don't know how fast you'll be able to do it, it is one thing, guessing the estimate to make your plan look good is another.
14. Dear pathological liar : Sometimes I wonder if you believe in your stories even yourself.
15. Dear whiner : keep on whining about your sucky life, your past bad this and that experience. Go on. I think I have had more than enough of people with way too much bad energy around me. Sometimes enough is enough.

Finland hits Yahoo first page

2006-12-11T15:36:00Z

Leading killer in Finland? Alcohol. made Yahoo first page today.

By MATTI HUUHTANEN, Associated Press Writer Sat Dec 9, 3:53 AM ET
HELSINKI, Finland - Alcohol is now the leading killer of Finnish adults, with consumption reaching an all-time high last year in the Nordic nation, officials said Friday.

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More than 2,000 people between the ages of 15 and 64 were killed by alcohol poisoning or illnesses caused by alcohol consumption last year, the government's leading welfare and health agency said. Nearly 1,000 people died in accidents or violent incidents caused by alcohol.

"This is truly a worrying trend," said Kristiina Kuussaari of the National Research and Development Center for Welfare and Health. "The serious negative effects will continue to grow for years to come."

Alcohol was responsible for 17 percent of all deaths among 15- to 64-year-old men, surpassing heart disease for the first time, the agency said. Alcohol also caused more than 10.5 percent of all deaths in adult women, alongside breast cancer, for the first time.

Since 2003, the cost of treating alcohol-related illnesses has grown by 14 percent, peaking at $1.1 billion last year in this nation of 5.2 million known for heavy drinking.

The government has traditionally kept a tight control on alcohol consumption with high prices in its Alko monopoly retail outlets, and supermarkets do not sell beer with higher alcohol content.

However, in March 2004 it slashed alcohol taxes by more than 40 percent to discourage growing "booze cruises" to Russia and neighboring Estonia, where alcohol is much cheaper.

The move caused an outcry from health officials who warned of negative health effects, and police who reported a rise in public drunkenness and anti-social behavior.

Officials reported a 10 percent growth in binge drinking among 17-year-olds in the first six months after the tax cut, and general consumption began to grow, reaching new records.

Last year, Finns drank the equivalent of 14.5 million gallons of pure grain alcohol — a 14 percent increase from 2003, just before the alcohol taxes were slashed. Drunk#sses.

Things that annoy, II

2006-10-04T11:53:05Z

1. The whole security thing seems to be getting or have got out of control. Enough to be suspicious and be removed from the aircraft if you are not white enough, and would speak a wrong language and so on. Well how about include this whole paranoia to include white mums which act suspiciously and coo with their kids? Why is that not suspicious? This whole security paranoia reminds of the witch hunts, and KKK, and any similar activity by any nation or group where they base their elimination based on some group's ethnicity, skin color, language, religion, sexual orientation and all other BS.

2. This week going up - religion. This fortified by the item # 1 on the list, and by the hideous statue of Virgin Mary having a holy ... at least the statue looks like she's having a big crashdump.

3. The other nazism. So the terrorism nazis (as point 1), the nazi pope (included in point 2), the boob nazis (no, breastfeeding will not make your kids smart), aux nazis (the ones who do not do any work), ... ashkenazis why we are at the listing all kind of nazis. It is kind of ironic though that a subtype of Jews contain the word nazi.

4. Waiting for news, and waiting for anything to happen ... patience sucks when one does not have some / any / enough.

These on top of the last week's annoyances.

The top 12 of the bovine excrement in life of this week

2006-09-30T16:55:52Z

Things that pissed me off this week :

1. The Finnish people. As if that was anything new, but still. It reached a new level let's say. And let me define this: there may be single individuals that do like to work, but that is not the norm. The suburban legend Finnish people are workaholics, if from the end of the WWII, when the Finnish people were the Polish - who emigrated to Sweden, USA, you name it, and did not speak any or at least any comprehensible English. They had to work back then. They were less lazy back then - or I can imagine them volunteering for working overtime, and for getting actually some responsibilities at work.

This annoyance with them for sure got worse this week.
How likely do you think they take it at work that you are sick when you were seen the last time 7 hours prior in a pub with two pints in your hands? Dream on anime hairs, whiners who go to Finland to get an abortion on your sick leave, who get a tennis elbow from using a mouse (anyone mind to explain me how this medical miracle occurred?), the painkiller addicts, habitual drunks who at their best take a normal day off on a Friday...).
It would not have been bad by itself, but with the added factors of having one other person sick, and one who knows where in holidays made it sort of a hell for the others.
Not liking the French seems to be more allowed than this dislike. Then again, there are probably way more people who work with the French than with the Finns.

2. The trees. They cut the trees behind our back yard. This has unfortunately had the effect of turning me to a a NIMFBY monster (not in my f-ing back yard). I definitely dislike seeing other detached houses instead of those huge trees there. Also, the trees nicely hid the cemetery. Now instead the grave stones are visible from kitchen door, and a huge bloody virgin mary statue. I don't care for the religious parts but that REALLY annoys me.
Having cut down the trees also annoys me since now the yard monkeys scream louder, and they have an urge to climb over our fence. Maybe it makes their screaming instincts louder, since last night they were screaming on top of their lungs all evening, so had to sleep the window closed for that.
Also the cats are gone, and in this neighborhood I can't be sure they are safe and enjoying their life indoors somewhere.
And it makes me suburbia-phobic. I hate the suburbia, any suburbia, and seeing the bloody virgin mary statue and lots of new houses does not make it any better. If only this was an old neighborhood ...

3. The yard apes. Not only for the reason mentioned above, but also as all of them seemed to have an urge to scream more than a monkey would ever have balls to do when we were downtown. I don't hate people of certain age, it's just any age people screaming - especially babies, toddlers, kids, teenagers, late teenagers, adults, and old people that scream.

4. The weather. Enough of this bovine excrement also what comes to the weather. To be mentally ok, I should live in a tropical island.

5. Relatives. Mum calling to ask "when do you guys think of coming to live in ....?" Ahem, over my dead body. Other relatives - let them bloody live, and let me live my life. I do NOT care.

6. Someone gave me really a creepy feel this week. Something of a really low, bad kind of energy. My sub-ego made me want to run away, stay as far as possible of that person.

7. My MacBook, and the previous shutdown cause -72. I need to work on it, dangit.

8. The gross incompetency and laziness of some people.

9. The ice cream cars. I don't want to hear them when it's cold and raining outside.

10. The room. Way too much junk around. I need less things to have a balance.

11. The suburbia. Suburbia is the place of evil SUV driving breeders.

12. Everything when it's an overdose. Especially work.

And now that I have added all these annoyances in a list of top 12 in some order, I feel way more kawasaki-ish and professional about my rants. Wo-hoo.

Previous shutdown cause -72 is turning me nuts

2006-09-30T16:24:41Z

The things I have started to hate seeing these last days in my console:

localhost kernel[0]: display: Not usable
localhost kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: -72
localhost kernel[0]: HFS: Removed 27 orphaned unlinked files
localhost kernel[0]: Started CPU 01

My MacBook shuts down 10 times a day when I use it, and it's not being used for all day either - only before and after work. It shuts down 3 times only in a morning if I'm lucky, 10 times if unlucky, and it's getting really on my nerves.

I disabled the other processor with CHUD. Since that it has stayed up and running - except after waking up from sleep it did enable the processor core 2, and then it did shut down, so again the resetting PRAMs and PMUs it got up and running again .... now testing for a few days how well CHUD and disabling the other processor core keeps it up and running.

Every shutdown this computer has done - excluding only Mac OS X 10.4.7 system update, and installing Aperture and Final Cut, has been this previous shutdown cause -72. Every previous shutdown cause that I have bothered to look at my console, has had the line Started CPU 01 on the exact second it died.

I will follow this to see if it dies at all with the second processor core disabled.

Good read... musing on the future...

2006-05-20T00:57:21Z

It's not often that public posts will happen, but I found this to be a very good read:

http://clubofamsterdam.blogspot.com/2006/05/europe-in-2020-towards-new-golden.html

As an american who in 3 days is moving to Ireland part and parcel after being laid off from a multimational company where my wife works as well, this is a very ... topical... read.

I do think that the concept of a nomadic workforce is where the future begins. Many people I know professionally and a large number of friends are this type. These are the European friends.

American friends are different. They're more of a. get married, b. have children, c. settle down type, rather than take risks or be willing/able to introduce an aspect of risk into their lives.

Ultimately, I think it will be an interesting 15-500 years in Europe. I'm damn happy I have the perfect company to spend it with and contribute.

M. - Cowboy Poet and Alpha Geek

So, friends only...

2005-01-09T23:41:51Z

Some original mumbling here about how this is a private entries mostly page, and how you'll need to comment something like to bed added to the friends page, like.

So who are I ...

2004-12-04T18:36:50Z

A new journal. The first post .. a sudden fear of white paper gets a hold on me.
This journal is to be something different from our past, and something different of everything else. If for nothing else, we are two persons.

Two persons, one mind. I get confused all the time about which of us wrote something.. we are far too similar. To a degree the siamese twins seem more separate of each other mentally...

We are extremely geeks, left-handed, work for a nice computer company, like Japanese food, chocolate that is at least 84% dark (or 67% if Green&Blacks), wake up 6,52 AM and apperiate our sports star geek neighbors toilet signatures...