Wezzul.com - It's the Dinglez

No Iggy and the Stooges, but Madonna? Rock and Roll? Come again? What a load of horse shit. Until The Stooges (and the MC5, for that matter) are inducted into this, it's not even real. The Stooges and Fun House are two of the greatest records of all time. And I mean, come on, they put the fucking Sex Pistols in there, and the Stooges are at least as important as they are in the grand scheme of things...

Meh. I don't get it.

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So I'm sitting here watching Snoop Dogg's Fatherhood (I don't know why I started watching it, and it's pretty apparently scripted, but Snoop is funny, so it's worthwhile), and every other commercial is for a movie called "How She Move", which I guess is a movie about "stepping". I've gotta wonder how stupid a person has to be to lap up this mindless drivel? This is the most formulaic of movies. Take an underprivileged lower class inner city youth that has aspirations of dancing/cheerleading/drumming/singing, and tell their story about their rise from the streets of Los Angeles/New York to gain acceptance through doing their activity at a high level. It is in this youth's struggle and success that the audience gains a warm feeling inside, no matter how cheap, and cliched it is.

Chance are, the people that are going to see this movie have also seen all the other movies that follow this exact same story arc. They are the stupidest sons of bitches on the planet. They are the same ones that buy "album by cute boys in a band" and "album by pretty young girl". There is a reason that the record companies and movie companies put out the same shit over and over again. It's because there are so many goddamn idiots that will buy the shit with their parents expendable income. This movie is going to be all the rage on Michigan State's campus in the very near future.

This would not be "grinding my gears" if it wasn't for the fact that the commercial is on so goddamn much during one of the five shows I actually like. It is no wonder that this is an MTV film. They have been suckering stupid kids into watching awful rubbish for 20 years.

On a more happy note, I have a laptop now. Thinkpad Z61t. It's great. I'm really digging it.

Edit: Seems there is another movie called "Step Up 2" coming out soon also. I can't even begin to describe how stupid this up (start with the '2')

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I figured I would post this since I only found one place that ever talked about it. I was doing includes in PHP with query string on them. This necessitates including the file with the full URL (http://domain.tld/script.php?foo=foo1&bar=bar1). However, when including something with the full URL, sessions in the included file do not work anymore. This gave me fits for about two days before I found this out. I got around it by passing the variables into the included file another way (due to the way I am doing my templating), but you could probably just include the file after setting the variables, as the included file will read those variables from the including file.

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Ok, I finally worked out my top ten for the year.

1 (tie). Streetlight Manifesto - Somewhere in the Between
1 (tie). Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
3. The Snake the Cross the Crown - Cotton Teeth
4. Guilty Simpson - Stray Bullets (mixed by DJ Rhettmatic)
5. Blue Scholars - Bayani
6. Ghostface Killah - Hidden Darts Special Edition
7. Sundowner - Four One Five Two
8. Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
9. Various Artists - Chrome Children v.2
10. The Good Life - Help Wanted Nights

Biggest disappointments:

Bright Eyes - Casadaga
The Stooges - The Weirdness
Ghostface Killah - The Big Doe Rehab

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One of the best things I've ever seen. Just fantastic. I'm not even really a Letterman fan, but fuck, is this good shit.

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Today is my last day at my current job. On one hand, I'm excited to be leaving, and for my new job. It's going to be a good challenge, and it should be enjoyable. On the other hand, there are a lot of good people here that I'm going to miss working with. My boss was easily the best boss I've ever had, and I've become friends with him. I will absolutely keep in touch with him and will still go to Camp Losey as often as I can.

I wrote a letter to the staff today thanking them for the opportunity to work here, and got a lot of nice responses from them. I'm pretty happy that I am valued by this place, and hope that at my new job, I am equally as valued. Some lyrics:

"So now I try to keep up, I've been exchanging my currency
While a million objects pass through my periphery
Now I'm rubbing my eyes, cause they're starting to bother me
I've been staring too long at the screen
But where was it when I first heard that sweet sound of humility?
It came to my ears in the goddamn loveliest melody
How grateful I was then to be part of the mystery
To love and to be loved
Let's just hope that is enough"

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So I started posting some of my tech related crap over at Chainsaw Hands . It's a site a couple of buddies of mine started and asked me to put some stuff on. Check it out, it should get a fair amount of diversified information.

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So I finally broke down and wrote something that will accept images sent from a phone, put them in the gallery, and display a random one on the sidebar. Cool I guess...

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Really Dell? No IDE controller? No PS/2 ports? Sheesh, really skimping these days.

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1. Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
2. The Snake, the Cross, the Crown - Cotton Teeth
3. Sundowner - Four One Five Two
4. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
5. Blue Scholars - Bayani
6. Brother Ali - The Undisputed Truth
7. Feist - The Reminder
8. Various Artists - Chrome Children v2
9. Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
10. Lifetime - Lifetime

After the first two albums, it's a huge drop off to me. I've gotten 42 albums released this year, so I didn't have very many to pick from.

Current Music: Shellac - End of Radio

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Check this guys story out. What customer service!

Comcast Sucks

Really sucks

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Ok, so I'm only posting this because I had problems with booting Linux from a flash drive on some of the Dells around here (most notable a GX270 and a Precision 650). I could boot Slax and DSL just fine on most machines, but on the Dells, I got the error "Unable to load operating system". The fix for this was found on the DSL Wiki, and it dictates that you have to overwrite the MBR of the flash drive with something called ms-sys . I did this, and booting on those problem Dells became easy.

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In the project I am currently working on, I have to take data from a form field and generate images from it. These images need to have a transparent background. Here is the way I did that:



Done!

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This one took me a minute to figure out, but I'm happy I did. To create a new skin from the filesystem, and add your own layers to it (or in this case, add the layers from Plone Default), do the following:



Pretty straight forward, right? In any case, it is helping me immensely with the current project.

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