Scientology

Is this for real?

Just another tuesday morning in Chicago

http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/laf/1865999502.html

i don't feel like linking it but please do the work yourself and follow it.

CPU problems discontinued

Ok so now the BSODs and a bunch of memory issues starting appearing and I went to test the memory and bam now the damn thing won't post to the bios. I am godammed RMAing the whole fucking thing now at this point.

Edit: Refund on both the motherboard and the memory, replacement for the cpu. I have to pay $35 for the refund, but it will be worth it. I think it should come in to be less than $80 for shipping the stuff plus this restocking fee. What a godammed wasted of time. I am going to try a different ram maker and a different mobo this time. Fuck my life.

Edit 2: I now get to use the packing peanuts that I have been saving in my closet for a while from all of the packages I have been receiving. Yay!

Computer Problems

So two weeks ago my desktop stopped booting all of a sudden. I would hit power and it would start spinning some fans, but it would not get into the bios. After researching and trying some things, I discovered that if I disconnected the power to the cpu itself, the computer would turn on and stay on leading me to believe that the cpu was bad. Not wanting to risk just buying another outdated cpu, I went ahead and ordered a new setup. My quad core Intel Q6600 went to an AMD Phenom II 1090t Black Edition hexa core processor and I added a motherboard and ram. I also bought a new case for fun. The rest of the old pc would be transferring. Now a week later, my stuff was on it's way. My stuff was supposed to be delivered last friday, but UPS wanted to fuck me and said no one was here and that they would try again on the next day (monday). I checked my tracking status at work and saw this and said "they are not going to fuck me" and left early and went home to diagnose the problem. I was able to work out an exchange between me and the driver at the UPS store two blocks from my apartment not long after so I was happy. I built the pc while watching the new Jason Lee vehicle "Memphis Beat" which deserves it's own post soon to follow and by the end of the night, the pc was built. I was waiting till the morning to install windows 7 because I thought why not? This is when the shit began to go down. Firstly, I could not get windows 7 to install. After trying nearly all day last Saturday, it finally installed. I thought all was well. It was not. Funny things started to happen. I am dual monitoring it up at the moment and my second monitor was flickering like mad. I would start to get random blue screens of death (BSOD) and I was frustrated. I began "stress testing" the cpu and the ram, but nothing was going on. I thought my HD was failing so I did checkdsik on it a bunch of times. No luck so far. It is about wednesday now and still weird shit going on. On thursday I read online that my new ram needs to have it's proper timings set in the bios. I check and indeed things were bad so I fix that. I still get some things going wrong, but a lot has been fixed at this point. I used to get BSODs telling me there was a ram issue, but now I was getting some other issues. I reinstalled the OS. I eventually find out that my printer driver hasn't been installed because windows update isn't turned on and the hardware conflict is causing BSODs and other errors. I install this and some more things are fixed. I start trying to play a game and I see a bunch of artifacts and the flickering is still there. I try an older driver and the flickering goes away, but the artifacts are still there. I eventually discover that I need to tweak the voltage to my graphics card in order to resolve the artifacts issue and sure enough it works. At the moment, I think everything is working and it only took me an entire week post build to fix all of the problems. Fuck my life.

This little girl has restored my faith in America

http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/chelsea-baker-one-of-little-league-s-best-pitchers-21046700

I pray that she can continue into hikes school and onto College. Bud Selig will roll over in his grave if she makes it into the mlb.

Check It Out!

The full Epic Season:

Episode 1 - Part 1: Food
Episode 1 - Part 2: Food

Episode 2 - Part 1: Relationships
Episode 2 - Part 2: Relationships

Episode 3 - Part 1: Family
Episode 3 - Part 2: Family

Episode 4 - Part 1: Health
Episode 4 - Part 2: Health

Episode 5 - Part 1: Fear
Episode 5 - Part 2: Fear

Episode 6 - Part 1: Friendship
Episode 6 - Part 2: Friendship

Electrolyte Breakfast

Due to intense Gatorade commercials I was led to believe in the magical powers of electrolytes, so I decided to see how much electrolytes I could shove into my body to make me more powerful.

I went here and found out the boring truth about electrolytes and learned that the best electrolytes are sodium, potassium, magnesium, chloride, and calcium.

I quickly realized from self nutritional data that this basically means table salt. Anyway, I found that the foods highest in potassium is rice bran, the foods highest in magnesium was coffee, and the highest foods in chloride, calcium, and sodium is table salt.

Quickly, one learns that the most pro-electrolyte way to start your day is to lick salt of your hand, then chug a heaping cup of coffee with a heaping spoonful or two of rice bran mixed in, then chase it with another taste of table salt.

I plan on doing this every morning for the rest of my life, as soon as I order rice bran and rice bran derivatives in bulk from this guys.

Remember, electrolytes are liquids that carry electricty. Therefore, electrolytes are power. For the most power, work coffee, rice bran, and table salt into every complete breakfast.

If you are on a diet, I strongly encourage you to blast the heat while you sleep in a track suit and watch horror movies before you go to bed. Remember, this is all you need for a complete breakfast.

That is, unless you believe these bananas:

Various hormones in the body help regulate intake of these electrolytes, and the kidneys filter electrolytes which reach excessive levels. Unhealthy levels of consumption of any or all of the body's necessary electrolytes can cause serious health issues.

Hamburgers

Notable Chicago Hamburgers that has been consumed by Capital_Prototype.

Villain's (Smothersburger)
Patty Burgers
Monk's Burgers
Epic Hamburgers
Five Guys and French Fries
White Castle

What do I still need to try?

Fishing Character

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lebron james

great job

Female disney characters reimagined

The url is hilarious 

http://www.joblo.com/disney-princesses-get-drawn-with-the-intention-of-giving-you-a-hard-on

Doors

baseball argument

I just got in an argument with a co-worker who claimed that the best stat to rate an offense is runs scored.

I said OPS(i have read money ball, he is a white sox fan).

But it lead me to thinking. If you had to choose 1 traditional stat to rate an offense, would it be runs scored?

Pick your one stat. I know OPS isn't traditional but I will count it because it doesn't have any sabermetric voodoo on it.

Music By Former Assistants

The Hunted

-Hunter

Smart Money on Spain

So I googled Yahoo this morning and when I got there I found this.

http://g.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/world-cup/blog/dirty-tackle/post/Paul-the-octopus-has-made-his-final-selections?urn=sow,254898

I was looking for food because I think you can draw an area on their map and it will find all the food in that area. And I don't want to walk very far.

I haven't found this magical yahoo food yet, but this story was worth my googling(sp?) yahoo.

Sambuca Drink

Sometime ago I, Capital_Prototype, and the Coffbird managed to create a drink that would make those type-2 diabetes having folk in Mississippi cringe at the thought of such sweetness, but we did it anway and it was delightful. The recipe is simple: 1 part sambuca and ice with 2-3 parts Dr. Pepper. You can't go wrong with such a simple combination. On the SAT they would ask "Rum is to Coke as what is to what?" and the answer would be "Sambuca is to DP". This brings me to my main point: the name. After all of these years we don't have a name for it. The best we called it was "Sambuca with Dr. Pepper". That just won't do. When I come up with names (and I do quite a bit), I like to become intimate with who or what I am giving a nickname to. After the coitus, I feel like I have some deeper understanding of the person/object and feel more confident in my naming. Anyway, Sambuca as a word just doesn't lend itself to being thrown into a cool name so that is out. Dr. Pepper is already cool and has many names. What does one do? If we think about what Sambuca is, we may get some ideas. Sambuca is an anise (think fennel seed) based liquor and I think that provides us with all we need for a name. I tossed around this the other day: "DP in my Anise". Of course, you may want to massage the pronunciation of anise a bit, but I thought it was funny. "Hey barkeep I want some DP in my Anise!". Anyway, do you have any better thoughts? The drink needs a name no doubt.

If you haven't seen Louie yet

you probably should. This scene is especially fantastic.

Havin' Cake

I learned what the expression "You can't have your cake and eat it too" means today.

Since the first time I heard this expression I was confused. I was all like, if you have a cake, then its yours, so why shouldn't you be able to eat it?

Apparently, they mean that when you eat it you can't have it anymore after that.

Honestly, how hard would it have been to say "You can't eat your cake and still have it."

-According to wikipedia this is the original version, "wolde you bothe eate your cake, and have your cake?"

F The All Star Game

There is so much wrong with the game it pisses me off to no end. The rosters are so bloated that practically everyone is an All Star these days. It is like giving kids a participation award so they won't feel like little wimps or wussies or whatever. The fan voting is always messed up because the fans are dumb and the vote is always geographically tilted. Perhaps the biggest mistake of all is letting the game decide homefield advantage in the world series. It used to switch back and forth between the leagues every year which made sense at least. This game is an exhibition game only and because of this newfound "meaning" to the game we get idiots like Charlie Manuel putting Omar Infante on the team just because he is a utility guy even though he isn't even an everyday player. Manuel even considered Steven Strasburg for the team!? He has only pitched a few games and has put up only decent numbers. Be real dude.

To fix the game do the following:
Limit the team to standard 25 man rosters
No fan voting
The game doesn't count for anything

I was wrong

Headline News on si.com

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/basketball/ncaa/06/30/illinois.state.hill.ap/index.html

Chatty Cathy

I've been chatting up this lady tonight on the good ol chatroulette.


This chick tried to convince me she was 16.


This chick "nexted" me twice but fate couldn't keep us apart.

Go-to beer ratings

 Straight from ratebeer.com. Scores are overall and then style. This pretty much confirms what we already knew: PBR rules.


Pabst Blue Ribbon___ 3    24
Schlitz_____________3    22
Coors Original_______1    12
Miller High Life______1    12
Miller Genunie Draft__1    10
Red Dog___________1    6
Budweiser__________0    4
Miller Lite__________0    3
Coors Light ________0    2
Bud Light__________0    1
Keystone Light______0     1
Natural Light________N/A    0