The Liquor Cabinet

So I’ve had the same 17inch HP laptop for going on 5 years now.  It’s been a solid piece of machinery but is well past its expiration date.  I’ve been debating on switching to a mac this past year.  Thing is, the thought of paying the premium price for the same (or usually less) hardware simply because it’s so damn pretty always felt like a kick in the balls.  Problem is I was hacking away on my sister’s macbook while we were in FLorida for a few days and fell in love with it.

So after 365 days of mental masturbation over this laptop purchase, I make my way to Best Buy.  It is now time to pull the trigger and I want to be ABSOLUTLEY certain that I shoudn’t stick with Windows.  Hell, Windows has been with me my whole life, do I really want to jump ship?

So I enter Best Buy and head down the main hallway.  Dead ahead is the PC/laptop area, with the Apple display off to the right.  As I hit the PC section, I get hit with a sign from God.

I stop just long enough to snap this shot with my phone and immediately head to the mac display with a new found confidence  about my decision.

*This post has been written on my  new aluminum macbook and I couldn’t be happier with the choice.

I guess when you’re getting fired soon you dont care WHAT the hell you do.  And if you’re President Bush, that includes flashing the shocker with a bunch of your staff.  We found this directly on the White House website, so yeah it’s definitely real.

Link for the non-believers

For many years all across the lands, we toasted one another to good health.  Those indulging may not have realized the true potential of the cold refreshing beverage. Now, after a century of studies, scientists have confirmed there are realized benefits of a nice cold beer.  So in the spirit of Octoberfest, we give you…

Ten Reasons You Should Be Drinking A Beer Right Now

Go ahead, go get one right now before you read on.  We’ll wait.

“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”

-Benjamin Franklin

1.   Reduces General Heart Disease – Vitamin B6, found in beer,  prevents the build-up of homocysteine, an amino acid which has been linked to heart disease.  Higher levels of homocysteine in our bodies can make us more susceptible to vascular and heart diseases.

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It seems as if one of the requirements for being in college is publishing your entire life’s details on Facebook. That guy Jenny met for a brief five minutes at the party last weekend, your partner on a class paper, even your local bartender. If you’ve been around them in life, chances are you’ve looked them up. But do you know the origins of Facebook? How exactly did Mark Zuckerberg come up with the idea? The answer might not be what you think.

The base of the idea for Facebook was thought of on October 28th, 2003. It was a Tuesday night and Zuckerberg was sitting at his computer, apparently drunk, writing in his blog. He was looking at various students photos posted on the schools network, amazed at just how ugly some of the kids at Harvard were.

I’m a little intoxicated, not gonna lie. So what if it’s not even 10pm and it’s a Tuesday night? What? The Kirkland facebook is open on my computer desktop and some of these people have pretty horrendous facebook pics. I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of farm animals and have people vote on which is more attractive. It’s not such a great idea and probably not even funny, but Billy comes up with the idea of comparing two people from the facebook, and only sometimes putting a farm animal in there. Good call Mr. Olson! I think he’s onto something.

So amazed at this fact, he wanted to compare all the students to farm animals. Thats right. The very social network you’re a part of was originally rooted in an application to compare you to a horses ass. From here Zuckerberg proceeded to scan and download every publicly available student photo from the network to begin coding his application.

Eventually, this application would evolve into something called ‘FaceMatch’. This program would put two peoples pictures side by side, and let you click on which one was more attractive. It would then aggregate all the data and rank each person from most attractive to least attractive.

This application got Zuckerberg in a bit of hot water with the administration at Harvard. In the eyes of Harvard, Zuckerberg didnt have legal permission to use everyones photos. Since Harvard’s network was technically private, the ‘Ad Board’ at Harvard did the next worst thing to being expelled.

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I dont really know what to say about this one. Apparently after a ‘four day drug spree’ this girl decides to go crazy in the Quad at Santa Cruz. You know what this girl needs that there is plenty of in California? Sun. I thought everyone in California was tan? Oh well, college is about experimentation and finding yourself, right?

A couple of us were out there talking to her earlier but she was too messed up and crazy so we let her be.
and the songs she was listening to were satisfaction and ecstasy.