another sign of the apocalypse

yea, we're doomed.


"if you buy food, because of the hack celebrity tie in... you might be a redneck"
and dont tell me this is more proof that the glass is half empty.

Glass contains 50% of its capacity (part 2)

rita chimed in on the subject, but with a little bit of PMS.
rita: Your glass theory doesn't hold water
me: heh
rita: the whole point of the "glass half full/empty" is to determine one's outlook on life
me: but its flawed because you shouldnt be able to say it is or isnt.
rita: you dont always have more information, but you must always make determination regardless
me: my answer is "i dont know"
rita: No, your constant answer is half empty
me: i guess its kind of an analogy on faith.
rita: because you are pessimistic. just like we like you to be
me: no its not, i'd like it to be half full, but i just cant say.
rita: You don't get my meaning. Every day, through your words and actions, you proclaim loudly that the glass is half empty... it is a metaphor
me: im not denying that im pessemistic, im just saying that a glass of water isnt a way to determine that
rita: arrgh
me: im pessemistic about the whole analogy
rita: it is only an an idiom. that is what I mean to say
me: i dont believe in idioms
rita: it doesnt matter whether you believe in them or not, they exist
me: dont ask me a question for which there is no answer.
me: stop calling me an idiom
diaryadiva: LOL Good Lord
me: look, i "Get it" i just dont like it. and yes, im being difficult
rita: and that is why you are a glass half full guy... you dont like anything
rita: well, wait. except Wierd Al and Funyuns
me: look either way it sucks to NOT have a full glass of water.
rita: and because you think it sucks EITHER WAY. that is further evidence of your "glass half full"abilty
me: but that throws the whole "idium's" validity out of the, pardon, water.
rita: Look . . the point of the idiom is . . . even in something as inocuous as a glass of water, you would see the downside. it has NOTHING to do with your ability to verify how the water got ther. it has nothing to do with your lack of additional information. it is a commentary on your general outlook
me: my point is, there IS ONLY a downside to see. regardless.
rita: and THAT is why it is an idiom
me: there is still half the maximum capacity. there is no more or less positive connotation to the glass being half full or half empty. the whole idium, anaology whatever.. is bullshit
rita: again, you are concentrating on the theory of the presence of the water.
me: what Ms. Oracle?
rita: LOL.... you are dodging the unavoidable fact that you are a pessimist by shitting all over the idiom
me: im not denying the fact that i am a pessemist. im using my pessemism as a reason i dont buy the glass analogy.
rita: no, your pessimism doesn't discount the idiom
me: im saying, that i AM a pessemist, but dont use the glass idium as a way to define it. because the glass is bullshit.
rita: that is why peole USE idioms. its a lot faster way of saying that you are a pessimist. otherwise, they'd have to have these long pointless discussions
me: lol... why is a glass half full an optimism? its still only got 50% water in it... im just sayin'
rita: (sigh) Jesus
me: there is nothing good about a glass that has 50% water in it. even if you call it half full. its still HALF.
me: why are you arguing with me!?
rita: cause I dont have the strength to continue... perhaps this would be a good followup blog
me: im already on it sister
rita: and Im on the rag, remember

further more, i still stand by my opinion on the matter. I stand by science and logic.
What is better? a glass full of water or a glass that is half full of water? A full glass of course. Now, how can you differentiate that half full glass into a negative or positive thing? half full or half empty its the same thing. By definition (mine) if you pour 50% of the water out its half empty. if you pour 50% of the water into the glass its half full.
Niether is better or worse, its still the same amount of water.

I know its an idiom and youre supposed to feel better about a glass thats half full, but half of something is always a lesser value and referring to the nectar of life, water. its a bad thing to have less of.

just in case http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom

The glass contains half the amount of its capacity.

Me: ...I'm always pissed at something
jimbo: yea, I know this. You hate the world
me: only select parts of it. You could say my world is peppered with hate
jimbo: heavily peppered?
me: regularly peppered but with fresh, ground pepper from a grinder. Big chunks
jimbo: lol big chucks of hatred.
me: I'm not that bad, am I?
jimbo: lol, not always. But I think you might view life through tainted lenses.
me: yea I'm a pessimist
jimbo: but that's ok it makes you funny
me: I'm such a pessimist I hate the glass half empty analogy.. The glass being half full or empty is relative to how it got to that state.. If you fill a glass halfway, its half full. If you pour water out, its half empty.
jimbo: this is true
me: so when someone asks me if the is glass half empty, I say it depends. I cant make an assumption without further information. So people that just say it is half empty or half full aren't pessimists or optimists, they're just guessers.
jimbo: good point. I never looked at it that way
me: no one does.

Furthermore, if you really wanted to analize it, you could say that the glass being half empty is the result of you just taking a drink and replenishing yourself. since you've just quenched your thirst, you are in a positive state and therefor being optimistic about the glass. I think the whole "glass half empty" analogy is just too full of holes to be accepted so widely.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pessimism

Hollywood Chainsaw Massacre

as you know I'm sick of remakes. and I am sick of horror movies that rip off Texas Chainsaw Massacre. remember this old blog?

"if i see another "students go into rural area and get cut up by some psycho, family, mutant, imbreds etc" i will fucking shoot someone. How many movies can get away with blatantly ripping off Texas Chainsaw Massacre? this movie, House of 1000 corpses, that one Wrong Turn or whatever about the kids in the forest. and probably a hundred others i've luckily never seen."

While I'm excited that the latest horror movie they are starting to market down my throat isnt a Texas Chainsaw Massacre rip of perse, but Jeebus Haettenschweiler Christensen George Effing Lucas, Batman! A fucking prequil to the remake of a movie from the 70's that had like 4 sequels already. Texas Chainsaw Massacre 'The Beginning' ??? hey, uhm, yea. it "began" in 1974 assholes. get a new idea! Not to mention ...When will filmmakers realise that sex and the cutting up of young people with power tools doesnt make you unique or shocking anymore?

We have Netflix and I've been having a hard time finding anything to rent. The new release section has been a bust for like 6 months now. We end up getting Carry Grant and Audry Hepburn movies. And wait for Rocky 6 to come out.

candy heaven

Megs dad called unexpectedly on saturday saying he's in town on business and wanted to hang out. He and his girlfriend met us up in Old Sacramento. if you dont know what that is its the OLD part of sac. they've tried to keep it all old timey. its on the sacramento river and theres a ton of novelty shops and stuff. its pretty cool actually. anyway, when you get there theres these hoodlum lookin kids handing out "free candy sample" fliers for this place called candy heaven. we took note and met her dad for drinks near by. He was all gung-ho about doing something really "old sacrament0ie" so he bought tickets to ride the river otter. its a litte water taxi that runs up and down the old sac area of the river. we took it to a seafood resturant that looked like a school portable classroom on pontoons. they had this sign up in the outdoor patio we ate at.
It says "NO SMOKING DURING BREAKFAST LUNCH OR DINNER" I'm definatly not coming back there for brunch, the smoke is irritating. since the whole place floated it had an old airport jetway that connected the front door to the land. we didnt use the jetway since we came by river. The Otter guide kept pointing out that during the floods of last year the water was like 20 feet higher than it is now. the jetway was underwater. the Otter picked us up after dinner and took us back to old sac. here's a pic of the sun setting on the river.
(thats the Virgin Sturgeon resturant on the right. 4 big hardcore looking gangstas rolled up in that boat. something you dont see everyday.)

there was a mentally challenged kid on the boatride back. by kid i mean probably 32 but acted 10. he kept sayin "hi" and "how are you?" he tapped my shoulder as we got off the boat and said "bye" he tapped megs niece too but she snubbed him. we saw him later in town and he tapped megs neice again. this time she turned and he gave a little wave and said "bye" damn, i wonder if he can help me cheat in Vegas?

Next we wander the wooden sidewalks of old sac. we see a handpainted wooden sign that reads "Candy Heaven" Celeste freaks, since she's had this "free candy" coupon burning a hole in her pocket all evening. we go in and its got big barrels of all kinds of hard candy, gummy and chewies. Another, but older hoodlum looking guy sees us come in and tells us we can sample any candy from certain barrels, as many as we want inside the store. then i saw it.

The wall of PEZ! the whole eastern wall of this place was PEZ PEZ PEZ. unfortunatly i had most of em.. everyone in our party helped me scour for ones i didnt have.. "you got this one?" yea "what about him" ooh no. rad thanks. I ended up spending like $20 on freakin PEZ dispensers. fucking score tho. I'll take pictures of my collection one day for you all. anyhoo, I also saw this. once i saw it i knew i had to get it.
It was an almost actual size gummy marshmello cheeseburger! it tasted kind of like ass but it was funny. speaking of funny, we found a halloween shop in old sac. It was a pretty rad one. I got the beginnings of my Halloween costume there. all i can say is Lederhosen.

fewtewshop and dumping

ok so I had my photoshop class again last night. I could have slept through it this time. I dont know if she's holding out on shit because its a beginner class but I'm constantly asking her questions about shit i know and then her saying "thats a really good point kirk" as if i reminded her of something important she forgot about and then tells the class. I swear i think i could teach this class. at least at the level she is anyway. (mcdonalds coffee got way better by the way. mmm) She showed everyones homework on the projector and when they got to mine everyone ooohh'd and aaahhh'd. It was pretty validating. I got grilled with questions on my technique but it was hard. It was like trying to describe grade A prime rib to 5yr olds that like nuggets and hot dogs.

The first part of the homework was the hourglass thing from before. the second part was something we had to come up with our own source images. I used these.




I made this out of them.
next week's homework is basicly the same thing but most of the class will be using some new things they learned last night. things like text and layer effects. gey. We touched on filters because some people used them in last weeks assignment. she said she wasnt going to even teach filters in the class. I can understand why because they can be really cheesy and obvious if you dont know what youre doing. She said we're gonna talk more about em in the advanced class. cant wait.

speaking of computers and pictures on the screen of computers... i saw this while i got gas this morning.
anyone need a free monitor that might not work? Its at the Valero station on Alhambra Ave off Hwy 4 in Martinez.

spam.

sorry for the spam... this is a test message for the google group subscription thing. i changed the group email addy so we stop getting spammed.

remember, if youre not into getting spam (by that i mean lame blogs in your email) you can have it fed into your home page or RSS reader. just put this into your reader thing. http://kirknoggins.blogspot.com/atom.xml

if you dont know what that is forget it, youre stuck with email until you can figure out feeds.

thanks.

snack machine update

last night i went to the snack machine mentioned in my last post (below). This time i wanted Ruffles. mmm cheddar & sour cream. anyway, I put in my money.. punched in the code. clunk clunk... sweet, change! then the ruffles fell.. nice! then i looked up at the Funyuns and remeniced about our last encounter. as i looked i noticed that it looked like someone else had been taken by the funyuns in the snack machine slot machine. It was hanging there by the skin of its green bag. Whoever got ripped off obviously didnt want them bad enough. All it took was a couple of shakes and a slam to the glass and, plop, there it was. FREE FUNYUNS!! hell freakin yea.

take that snack machine!!

on a side note, I asked my friend Jer if he wanted some of my free Funyuns and he declined respectivly stating "no, thanks, I havnet smoked any weed today"

take that, snack machine!

I put my money into the snack machine at school to get some Funyuns. I'm already apprehensive because this machine never gives change. It's like DVC is paying for thier new Book Store 15 cents at a time. fuckers... anyway, since i was paying attention to the change thing, I was excited to hear the "plop plop" of my nickel and dime. but then realized i didnt hear the sound of my chips falling into the bay at the bottom. as i look my Funyuns are hanging by a thread up in the dispenser. I yell loudly, "You gotta be kidding me!" scaring the freshman girl getting a soda. I slammed and shook the machine thinking to myself, the one time i get my change, they still fuck me by not giving me my chips. I hit and shake violently some more. the girl next to me is getting nervous. I say "what the fuck? damnit!" then as if God heard me or something, a bag falls. but its not my chips its lame ass pretzels.. as i've blogged before, no one likes pretzels. so then i shake some more and i can see my Funyuns wriggling from thier coily springloaded grasp... clunk! HA! sweet retribution! not only did i get my change, i got my Funyuns and FREE pretzels! even tho i hate pretzels, I enjoyed those damn salty sonsa bitches like they were the best pretzels i ever ate!

That warm onion flavored breeze you felt graze your nose last night at around 7:00pm pst. was the wind of justice for everyone who's ever been ripped off by a snack machine.

It's Official!!!

It's Official! PC World put out thier Top 25 Worst Websites and guess who made number one?

thats fucking right...

Worst Sites #1 - Myspace.com

thanks Kara for having such a shitty myspace i could use it as my example

"Graphically, many MySpace pages look like a teenager's bedroom after a tornado--a swirl of clashing backgrounds, boxes stacked inside other boxes, massive photos, and sonic disturbance. Try loading a few of those pages at once and watch what happens to your CPU. Watch out for spyware, too, since it turns out that MySpace has become a popular distribution vector for drive-by downloads and other exploits. And in a place where "U are soooooooo hot!!!" passes for wit, MySpace isn't doing much to elevate the level of social discourse."

Thanks PC World!
Top 25 Worst Websites